what I have learned today.

[The Family Cyclist]

Ant powder and wasp nest powder are (well certainly we're a few years back) the same product in different packaging. A few years ago working in a store that sold both hsd run out of wasp nest destroyer powder and had a pest controller show us the back of the packaging and indeed they were the same

[T42]

Wasps and ants are fairly closely related.

[ian]

Ant powder and wasp nest powder are (well certainly we're a few years back) the same product in different packaging. A few years ago working in a store that sold both hsd run out of wasp nest destroyer powder and had a pest controller show us the back of the packaging and indeed they were the same

I think they both are basically permethrin, a synthetic pyrethroid (a chemical produced by chrysanthemums). It's relatively safe for humans so generally most over the counter insecticides and repellants contain it.

It's extremely poisonous to cats and fish (there's a big issue with run-off, it toxic to about everything in aquatic environments).

[De Sisti]

What an adverb is.

[T42]

What an adverb is was.

FTFY. They're dying out.

[citoyen]

What an adverb is was.

FTFY. They're dying out.

Or rather, the traditional adverbs are being replaced by new ones that used to be adjectives.

[ian]

Surely every adjective dreams of being an adverb when it grows up.

[ElyDave]

That the Stranglers hit Golden Brown was about taking heroin

RIP Dave Greenfield

[ian]

All these years I thought it was a paean to demerara sugar.

That said, Perfect Day is a tale of when Lou Reed went to the post office and bank and there wasn't a queue at either and he found $5 on the sidewalk outside his apartment.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Coincidentally, my 'seen today' object was, between two parked cars on a side street, the following items: a round metal tin, such as contains biscuits or sweets, a mangled tea spoon and two hypodermic syringes. And I saw this after thinking to myself that the bloke two places ahead of me in the bakery queue looked like an homage to Lynnyrd Skynnyrd* (no actual connection between said bloke and aforesaid objects).

*Or however you spell that name.

[Mr Larrington]

That the full name of Tom Petty's keyboard player is Benjamin Montmorency Tench III, which thus beats Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV* for the title of Ponciest Name in Rock.

* aka Black Francis

[rafletcher]

Coincidentally, my 'seen today' object was, between two parked cars on a side street, the following items: a round metal tin, such as contains biscuits or sweets, a mangled tea spoon and two hypodermic syringes. And I saw this after thinking to myself that the bloke two places ahead of me in the bakery queue looked like an homage to Lynnyrd Skynnyrd* (no actual connection between said bloke and aforesaid objects).

*Or however you spell that name.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Needle and the Spoon.

[rafletcher]

That Mavic are based in Annecy, a place I spent a summer in about 1969.

[Regulator]

I'm not sure why ants would be bothered by acetic & citric acid given they produce formic...

And formic acid has a pleasantly citrus  flavour. Ants are used by Brazilian Indians as a way of flavouring fish

And by the Cambridge Distillery for making gin.   

https://cambridgedistillery.co.uk/collections/gin/products/anty-gin

[Paul]

I'm not sure why ants would be bothered by acetic & citric acid given they produce formic...

And formic acid has a pleasantly citrus  flavour. Ants are used by Brazilian Indians as a way of flavouring fish

And by the Cambridge Distillery for making gin.   

https://cambridgedistillery.co.uk/collections/gin/products/anty-gin

Talk about your defence back-firing!

[chrisbainbridge]

I'm not sure why ants would be bothered by acetic & citric acid given they produce formic...

And formic acid has a pleasantly citrus  flavour. Ants are used by Brazilian Indians as a way of flavouring fish

And by the Cambridge Distillery for making gin.   

https://cambridgedistillery.co.uk/collections/gin/products/anty-gin

Talk about your defence back-firing!

A bit expensive if you do not like it. £220!!!

[citoyen]

That the full name of Tom Petty's keyboard player is Benjamin Montmorency Tench III, which thus beats Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV* for the title of Ponciest Name in Rock.

* aka Black Francis

Surely that title goes to Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno?

[Regulator]

I'm not sure why ants would be bothered by acetic & citric acid given they produce formic...

And formic acid has a pleasantly citrus  flavour. Ants are used by Brazilian Indians as a way of flavouring fish

And by the Cambridge Distillery for making gin.   

https://cambridgedistillery.co.uk/collections/gin/products/anty-gin

Talk about your defence back-firing!

A bit expensive if you do not like it. £220!!!

It’s £7 a shot at the distillery bar.  Really nice!

Their most expensive gin is £2,000 a bottle:  https://cambridgedistillery.co.uk/collections/gin/products/watenshi

It used to be the world’s most expensive until a company in London dec8ded to make one at £4,000 a bottle.

I’ve had some Watenshi - it’s a sublime gin. 

[Basil]

Today, during a little hill dodging¹ pootle, I realised that cycling is not only legal outside exercise, it is also legal sunbathing.   

¹ So obviously quite little.   

[PaulF]

That the full name of Tom Petty's keyboard player is Benjamin Montmorency Tench III, which thus beats Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV* for the title of Ponciest Name in Rock.

* aka Black Francis

Surely that title goes to Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno?

Whose brother is the more mundane Roger Eugene. Although Brian was christened more simply Brian Peter George. The St. John le Baptiste de la Salle was added later.


EDIT. Was added on his confirmation.

[ElyDave]

I'm not sure why ants would be bothered by acetic & citric acid given they produce formic...

And formic acid has a pleasantly citrus  flavour. Ants are used by Brazilian Indians as a way of flavouring fish

And by the Cambridge Distillery for making gin.   

https://cambridgedistillery.co.uk/collections/gin/products/anty-gin

i already said that up there ^^^^

[citoyen]

The St. John le Baptiste de la Salle was added later.

EDIT. Was added on his confirmation.

I didn’t know that - thanks!

[rafletcher]

That I broke the law by cleaning out the abandoned bluetit nest from our nest box. I should have left it until July 31st.

[Cudzoziemiec]

That there is a real place called Skygate. Unfortunately, instead of being a portal into another dimension, it's an East Midlands warehouse for a group of tat-driven debt-mongers.
https://www.business-live.co.uk/retail-consumer/take-exclusive-look-inside-shop-17063309
https://theverygroup.jobs/locations/distribution-centres

[Wowbagger]

Today I learned that the world's first real-time online cash machine was installed at the Brentwood branch of the Natwest Bank in 1972. I know this because it's my good pal Felix's birthday and he and his wife went out there on their tandem as a birthday treat.