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Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1450 on: 07 October, 2016, 07:33:16 pm »
That a rubber hammer is still a hammer. Also that if your thumb is in the way (and you are slightly distracted) hitting your thumb with the hammer results in dizziness, nausea, shortness of breath, etc. etc.

Five hours later it still hurts like fuck. I can still move it but won't be fitting any tyres this weekend if I can help it.
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1451 on: 07 October, 2016, 07:49:13 pm »
Sorry. I hope you don't mind. I had to laugh at that. It sounds like quite a whack.
Rust never sleeps

ElyDave

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1452 on: 07 October, 2016, 09:26:57 pm »
I'm cringing at the thought, but also slightly chucking.

Ouch
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

mcshroom

  • Mushroom
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1453 on: 08 October, 2016, 10:13:36 am »
That there's a bunkhouse in Egremont. I've lived here for 7.5 years, at one point only about 200m from it and had no idea it was there. :-[
Climbs like a sprinter, sprints like a climber!

David Martin

  • Thats Dr Oi You thankyouverymuch
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1454 on: 08 October, 2016, 01:26:50 pm »
Caecilius est in domus. Domus electronic est.

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/house-caecilius-iucundus-pompeii-04248.html
Ooooh, did you have those Latin books?
Oh yes. Latin was the one O'Level I failed due to thinking that memorising set texts was not proper learning so I treated them as unseen.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1455 on: 09 October, 2016, 11:39:54 am »
The person who is the most cited author on Google Scholar with an H-Index of 333..

https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=qGuYgMsAAAAJ&hl=en

All those papers, but not a single one as First Named Author.
Quote from: tiermat
that's not science, it's semantics.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1456 on: 09 October, 2016, 07:03:01 pm »
That today is National Fungus Day.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1457 on: 09 October, 2016, 11:20:03 pm »
Does Fungus know this?
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Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1458 on: 09 October, 2016, 11:34:11 pm »
That "quax: (v)" means to do one's shopping by public transport, on foot or by bike.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1459 on: 09 October, 2016, 11:39:29 pm »
That there is a brewery in the West Bank making beer according to the Rheinheitsgebot. And it has the only female brewer in Palestine.

http://taybehbeer.com/activity/drink/

There's an outlet in Shibuya, so maybe I can try some next time I visit Tokyo.
"A woman on a bicycle has all the world before her where to choose; she can go where she will, no man hindering." The Type-Writer Girl, 1897

Feanor

  • It's mostly downhill from here.
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1460 on: 11 October, 2016, 10:34:05 am »
I have come across a headset design I've never seen before.
( The bike is a Canyon. )
There's nothing inside the steerer at all!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVHiQSnrq0o

A couple of observations:
1) The tiny screw which expands the doofer doesn't have any kind of locking mechanism on it.
2) The bike in question has a bunch of spacers on top of the stem ( he's not cut the steerer down because he wants to sell the bike on ).  Then, there's just a decorative push-on top cap.   This means the spacers above the stem are not under any pre-load compression at all, in fact they are quite loose and rattly.



Eccentrica Gallumbits

  • Rock 'n' roll and brew, rock 'n' roll and brew...
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1461 on: 11 October, 2016, 12:56:05 pm »
I did. Caecilius est pater.
Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
My feminist marxist dialectic brings all the boys to the yard.


Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1462 on: 11 October, 2016, 01:13:05 pm »
I did. Caecilius est pater.
Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.

Caesar adsum iam forte.
External Transparent Wall Inspection Operative & Mayor of Mortagne-au-Perche
Satisfying the Bloodlust of the Masses in Peacetime

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1463 on: 11 October, 2016, 01:15:46 pm »
I did. Caecilius est pater.
Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.

Carpe clunem.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Tim Hall

  • Victoria is my queen
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1464 on: 11 October, 2016, 02:02:23 pm »
There are two ways you can get exercise out of a bicycle: you can
"overhaul" it, or you can ride it.  (Jerome K Jerome)

Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1465 on: 11 October, 2016, 03:04:31 pm »
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fuzzy

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1466 on: 11 October, 2016, 03:08:28 pm »

clarion

  • Tyke
Getting there...

TheLurker

  • Goes well with magnolia.
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1468 on: 11 October, 2016, 07:26:21 pm »
Stale buns to many of you I daresay, but I've been on me hols for a fortnight.

Bernie Sanders  (yes the famous, or is that notorious? usanian leftwing firebrand* politician) has a brother, Larry. 

Larry is a member of the Green Party and is moreover intent on becoming the new MP for Witney.

Larry Sanders

*Or, depending on your point of view, the only sane usanian politico in existence.
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1469 on: 12 October, 2016, 12:41:28 pm »
Is he still played by Garry Shandling?
Getting there...

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1470 on: 12 October, 2016, 06:30:42 pm »
Cat litter contains elevated levels of thorium-232.

also..

Thorium-232 is now classified as carcinogenic.
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Pingu

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1471 on: 12 October, 2016, 06:51:07 pm »
Cat litter contains elevated levels of thorium-232.

also..

Thorium-232 is now classified as carcinogenic.

What sort of cat litter? Before or after use?

rogerzilla

  • When n+1 gets out of hand
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1472 on: 12 October, 2016, 08:17:34 pm »
I, for one, welcome our new mutant kitty overlords.
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1473 on: 12 October, 2016, 08:44:58 pm »
They might find your lack of hake disturbing! *

Not 100% about litter being radioactive but it certainly smells like that's what the cats are leaving in the tray . . .












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VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1474 on: 12 October, 2016, 09:47:46 pm »
Thanks to Svante Pääbo, I now know that very roughly half the Neanderthal genome has so far been found to be still floating around - in us. And the more people are tested, the more is found.

My mind is boggled.
"A woman on a bicycle has all the world before her where to choose; she can go where she will, no man hindering." The Type-Writer Girl, 1897