Author Topic: what I have learned today. (Read 860895 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #125 on:** 30 December, 2011, 06:25:34 pm »

That the Syriac Church is not monophysistic but miaphysistic.

David Martin · « **Reply #126 on:** 30 December, 2011, 08:40:54 pm »

I learned the difference between a juvenile golden eagle and a red kite.

hellymedic · « **Reply #127 on:** 31 December, 2011, 01:23:27 am »

I learned that Lionel Bart died in the Hammersmith Hospital on 3 April 1999.
My grandmother died in the Hammersmith Hospital on 1 April 1999 and was buried on 4 April. They must have been in the same morgue together...

Basil · « **Reply #128 on:** 17 February, 2012, 09:13:29 pm »

I learned today that Kim has a homophobic phone!

Kim · « **Reply #129 on:** 17 February, 2012, 09:19:27 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 17 February, 2012, 09:13:29 pm

I learned today that Kim has a homophobic phone!

SwiftKey X for Android with the English (UK) dictionary, if you want to play along at home. While it has no problem with swearing and arbitrary neologisms, it seems to have a specific blind spot for perfectly reasonable words pertaining to teh ghey. Most odd...

Basil · « **Reply #130 on:** 06 April, 2012, 11:42:45 pm »

Thanks Kim.

More stuff learned today.

Andrij · « **Reply #131 on:** 20 August, 2012, 09:32:19 am »

I doubt anyone will find this surprising, but cycling jerseys make very poor towels.

In spite of the recent references to H²GT²G here guess what I forgot to pack before cycling to work this morning?

fuzzy · « **Reply #132 on:** 20 August, 2012, 10:07:17 am »

(Yesterday)

That when my HR hits 187- I don't go much further up hill without taking a breather

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #133 on:** 20 August, 2012, 11:12:48 am »

Jessica Ennis is the same dress size as Victoria Beckham.

Basil · « **Reply #134 on:** 20 August, 2012, 12:25:12 pm »

Wot a fatty.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #135 on:** 20 August, 2012, 12:30:30 pm »

It's a surprise, tbh. VB gets a lot of press for being 'anorexically thin', and JE is noted for being muscular. She looks very pretty and girly in a dress tho'.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #136 on:** 21 August, 2012, 09:06:41 pm »

The Madness farewell gigs in Finsbury Park in 1992 caused earth tremors reaching 5 on the Richter Scale.

CommuteTooFar · « **Reply #137 on:** 22 August, 2012, 01:20:26 pm »

I am not a unix programmer so today I discovered a memory leak in my program was caused by pthread_create. I now know I need to have a pthread_detach call so the system cleans it up after it finishes.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #138 on:** 22 August, 2012, 10:16:50 pm »

That Mavic is an acronym of Manufacture d'Articles Vélocopediques Idoux et Chanel. I love the word vélocopedique, which I admit is a new one to me, and I'm going to start using it straight away (but in English).

YACF is the best source of velocipedic knowledge, inspiration, debate and entertainment that I know of.

Kim · « **Reply #139 on:** 22 August, 2012, 10:40:45 pm »

To never trust the rainfall radar.

fuzzy · « **Reply #140 on:** 23 August, 2012, 09:54:47 am »

That sometimes I don't give a flying wossname if the Faerie visits.

Got one whilst exploring a new route to work this morning.

The ride was nice. The visitation a mere interlude.

tiermat · « **Reply #141 on:** 05 September, 2012, 11:38:32 am »

That riding a bike, fixed, with 4Kg of pork shoulder in a SQR slim is, errr, interesting....

fuzzy · « **Reply #142 on:** 05 September, 2012, 11:49:46 am »

Last night-

When going commando after putting my shreddies in the washing machine, moar care is needed when undoing my fly

jogler · « **Reply #143 on:** 05 September, 2012, 03:57:17 pm »

There is a bloke living locally who restores Lambrettas.I know this 'cause as I passed his gaff I stopped to admire an immaculate 1972 "Special" in all white apart from the crash bars,back rest,mirrors etc etc.
He obviously clocked me & came out* so we chewed the fat a bit about Mods & Wiggo

Took me right back to 1970 when we had a Lambretta SX225 with all the mirrors,crash bars etc etc.
Mods Ruke,O.K..

*I suspect he was making sure I was not going to nick it

jogler · « **Reply #144 on:** 06 September, 2012, 03:17:50 pm »

Reaching to the downtube to change gear achieves very little on a bike with STI

fuzzy · « **Reply #145 on:** 06 September, 2012, 03:21:41 pm »

Quote from: jogler on 06 September, 2012, 03:17:50 pm

Reaching to the downtube to change gear achieves very little on a bike with STI

Exactly as effective as trying to change gear using non sti brake levers

jogler · « **Reply #146 on:** 06 September, 2012, 03:28:37 pm »

That's one of the reasons I like riding fixed....the brake levers only do braking & there is NO gear changing to be poncing about with.I'd like to be fit enough to use it exclusively.

matthew · « **Reply #147 on:** 06 September, 2012, 07:07:52 pm »

That either scottish audaxers are as tough as the girders in iron bru or there must be a lot of dns / dnf when the weather turns bad. 30 kms was enough this afternoon (with camping kit) let alone 200.

Torslanda · « **Reply #148 on:** 06 September, 2012, 07:18:09 pm »

Shamelessly cribbed from Radio 2 where some parents e-mailed to say there 3 year old could spin continuously on the spot for 30 seconds without any ill effects at all.

Sadly for their carpets and furniture she had exceeded this margin by some 5 seconds . . .

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #149 on:** 06 September, 2012, 07:42:14 pm »

Fuzzy needs at least one more pair of undercrackers.

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