what I have learned today.

[andytheflyer]

That the best way to get my waterbutts filled is to order a new barbequeueueueueueue on the interweb

[Cudzoziemiec]

That one of New Zealand's largest telcos provides a not-for-profit, subsidised broadband service in an attempt to close the "digital gap".
https://www.spark.co.nz/help/covid-19/helping-those-without-broadband/

[rafletcher]

That there existed “The Bristol Tattoo Club” in the 1960’s, to rehabilitate the tattoo in popular culture.

[Mrs Pingu]

How Jaffa Cakes are made
https://youtu.be/zYoVeJGkRRo

[Mr Larrington]

That following the assassination of Martin Luther King, James Earl Ray was arrested at Heathrow while attempting to board a flight to Brussels using a hooky Canadian passport.

[Kim]

How Jaffa Cakes are made
https://youtu.be/zYoVeJGkRRo

 

I never get tired of seeing these kind of videos.  So much random cleverness goes into even the simplest everyday items.

[robgul]

How Jaffa Cakes are made
https://youtu.be/zYoVeJGkRRo

 

I never get tired of seeing these kind of videos.  So much random cleverness goes into even the simplest everyday items.

You're obviously a fan of Inside the Factory - with the excitable Gregg "Cor, mate that's biggest nnn I've ever see" Wallace!     - yep, I enjoy those progs too.

[Cudzoziemiec]

"Jam station" is going to be word of the day.

[T42]

"Jam station" is going to be word of the day.

What is that - trains that won't work today but will tomorrow if we just have faith in the revolution?

[Paul]

How Jaffa Cakes are made
https://youtu.be/zYoVeJGkRRo

 

I never get tired of seeing these kind of videos.  So much random cleverness goes into even the simplest everyday items.

Whereas it made me wonder what happened to all the people.

[Vernon]

How Jaffa Cakes are made
https://youtu.be/zYoVeJGkRRo

 

I never get tired of seeing these kind of videos.  So much random cleverness goes into even the simplest everyday items.

Whereas it made me wonder what happened to all the people.

Soylent Orange is people!

[Mrs Pingu]

How Jaffa Cakes are made
https://youtu.be/zYoVeJGkRRo

 

I never get tired of seeing these kind of videos.  So much random cleverness goes into even the simplest everyday items.

Whereas it made me wonder what happened to all the people.

I thought that. Did the guy at the beginning not say they had 600 people working there?

[Cudzoziemiec]

"Jam station" is going to be word of the day.

What is that - trains that won't work today but will tomorrow if we just have faith in the revolution?

It's in the Jaffa cake factory video.

[T42]

"Jam station" is going to be word of the day.

What is that - trains that won't work today but will tomorrow if we just have faith in the revolution?

It's in the Jaffa cake factory video.

Oh good. I thought it was one of those cultural things I've missed out on in the last 40 years.

[Salvatore]

That in Ireland, "to cog" is to copy, plagiarise or crib.

Its original meaning in English was to cheat at dice (16th century), but the meaning was broadened to include cheating at cards and then any sort of deceitful behaviour, including 'to crib from another's book, as schoolboys often do. This is called "cogging over"' (1873 slang dictionary). The word with this sense all but died out, except for copying at school in Ireland, where it was still used (according to my correspondents) in the 1970s and 1980s. A glance at 21st century Irish newspapers suggests the term is alive and well, and even expanded its range of meaning.

2 examples:

Headline in the Irish Independent - Wednesday 07 March 2007


And

The chief examiner of the SEC said that the agricultural science exam had been undermined by the level of online cogging

[T42]

At school in NI, notes smuggled into an exam were called "cogs".

[rafletcher]

That Sappho was a poet (courtesy of my wife).

[ElyDave]

That there is such a thing as a AAAA battery, the active pen for my laptop requires one

[citoyen]

That Sappho was a poet (courtesy of my wife).

Yet all she's ever remembered for is... proof if ever it were needed that history is written by men.

The Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classic episode on Sappho is good:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08zd8gy

[nicknack]

That Sappho was a poet (courtesy of my wife).

Yet all she's ever remembered for is... proof if ever it were needed that history is written by men.

I dunno. If you'd asked me I'd have said "poet" first.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Some would take it as proof that history is written by angry, dungaree-wearing, skinheaded, second-wave feminists. Which must mean that second-wave feminism started 3,000 years ago.*


*Wild guess, I don't know when she lived, but I certainly knew she was a poet.

[Mr Larrington]

How Gay Was Sappho? – The New Yorker

[Polar Bear]

I have learned that there is a social media "thing" called nextdoor.  I have also learned that it is not worth my time and effort to join it due to the inane drivel and petty bickering that pervades it's pages.

Thank you YACF for saving me from this.   Are there any more of these social media dumpsters lurking that I should be aware of and carefully avoid please?    🙂

[T42]

Lord Lucan was once considered for the lead in early James Bond films.

[TheLurker]

Are there any more of these social media dumpsters lurking that I should be aware of and carefully avoid please?   

Hmmm, perhaps a much shorter and very much more useful list would be those sites that are worth peoples' time and effort?