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Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1425 on: 30 September, 2016, 03:06:52 pm »
Wonder Woman is on the other bus

So who's going to be the first to go to Themyscrira and yell "Your all gay"?
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Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1426 on: 30 September, 2016, 03:20:41 pm »
Wonder Woman is on the other bus

I'm surprised that was even a question...

(Not a fan of bus metaphors for bisexuality.  It's just not cricket.)

T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1427 on: 01 October, 2016, 04:58:24 pm »
Hard to keep up with sexual metaphors when you're not immersed in the language.  A few years back I engendered on-line merriment by referring to our store-room as the office glory hole.

Meanwhile, what I have learnt today is that the real palaeolithic diet, as opposed to the Paleo diet, included wheat. Shove that up yr glory hole, faddists.
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Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1428 on: 01 October, 2016, 05:38:01 pm »
Hard to keep up with sexual metaphors when you're not immersed in the language.

Yeah, but this is YACF.

Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1429 on: 01 October, 2016, 06:41:39 pm »
Hard to keep up with sexual metaphors when you're not immersed in the language.  A few years back I engendered on-line merriment by referring to our store-room as the office glory hole.

If you've got one of these



in yr office I'm glad I never worked there ;D
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Satisfying the Bloodlust of the Masses in Peacetime

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1430 on: 01 October, 2016, 11:39:46 pm »
Please stop showing that. It makes me shudder, & not in a nice way.
"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

ElyDave

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1431 on: 02 October, 2016, 08:17:18 am »
I like that photo, the perfect calm of the lake, uniformity of the torus and a hint of what lies beneath

We need a house poet for photos like that.
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

rogerzilla

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1432 on: 02 October, 2016, 10:43:22 am »
The video is even scarier.
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Ruthie

  • Her Majester
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1433 on: 02 October, 2016, 10:51:31 am »
I like that photo, the perfect calm of the lake, uniformity of the torus and a hint of what lies beneath

We need a house poet for photos like that.

Me!  Me!

There was a big hole in da water
That frightened the fisherman's daughter
She fell off the front
Her face took the brunt
And she knew then she shouldn't have oughter

Do I win?
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Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1434 on: 02 October, 2016, 02:50:46 pm »
Being an uneducated oaf I had assumed, based entirely on listening to the Pink Floyd track of the same name, that Cymbeline was a woman.  Today I have found that this is not, in fact, the case.
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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1435 on: 02 October, 2016, 02:54:51 pm »
Hard to keep up with sexual metaphors when you're not immersed in the language.  A few years back I engendered on-line merriment by referring to our store-room as the office glory hole.

If you've got one of these



in yr office I'm glad I never worked there ;D

Now I'm jealous.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1436 on: 03 October, 2016, 12:57:14 pm »
That Euler's Seven Bridges of Konigsberg problem does have a solution; you just have to transfer it to the 43 bridges of Bristol! Apparently this is not cheating, because
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Then, just three years ago, German mathematician Dr Thila Gross, who teaches at the University of Bristol, noticed there were many similarities between Königsberg and Bristol. The cities are a similar size, the same distance from the sea and had the same number of islands. However, there was one catch, Bristol had 43 bridges instead of seven.
So he went on to devise a solution.
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“It's not easy - the fact that is is possible in Bristol is fairly unique,” said Gross. “Although in Bristol many things are possible which are not possible elsewhere.”
Like bumping into the Teutonic Knights on Wine Street?
http://www.bristol247.com/channel/news-comment/features/investigations/the-bristol-bridges-walk-challenge
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1437 on: 03 October, 2016, 01:35:19 pm »
Behold! National Grid Watch:

http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1438 on: 03 October, 2016, 01:57:40 pm »
There's a top-level domain for "People named Kim"

David Martin

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1439 on: 04 October, 2016, 11:00:03 pm »
That Euler's Seven Bridges of Konigsberg problem does have a solution; you just have to transfer it to the 43 bridges of Bristol! Apparently this is not cheating, because
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Then, just three years ago, German mathematician Dr Thila Gross, who teaches at the University of Bristol, noticed there were many similarities between Königsberg and Bristol. The cities are a similar size, the same distance from the sea and had the same number of islands. However, there was one catch, Bristol had 43 bridges instead of seven.
So he went on to devise a solution.
Quote
“It's not easy - the fact that is is possible in Bristol is fairly unique,” said Gross. “Although in Bristol many things are possible which are not possible elsewhere.”
Like bumping into the Teutonic Knights on Wine Street?
http://www.bristol247.com/channel/news-comment/features/investigations/the-bristol-bridges-walk-challenge
It is not a direct transfer because there are an odd number of bridges which do not connect two nodes but effectively just connect their ends. Topologically many of the bridges are not crossing an otherwise uncrossable river.
"By creating we think. By living we learn" - Patrick Geddes

T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1440 on: 05 October, 2016, 07:23:53 am »
There's a top-level domain for "People named Kim"

I heard that the displaced immigrants from Le Jungle are having a whip-round to buy that particular instance new baubles.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1441 on: 05 October, 2016, 01:58:28 pm »
There's a top-level domain for "People named Kim"

I heard that the displaced immigrants from Le Jungle are having a whip-round to buy that particular instance new baubles.
Spiritual discovery or people's democracy? Cannons by old forts?
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

lou boutin

  • Les chaussures sont ma vie.
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1442 on: 06 October, 2016, 05:32:14 pm »
I'm a complete dv. Despite my gut telling me not to, I ordered a (cheap) bracelet off the internet.  It was a teal heart with 'survivor' on it - teal relates to gynae cancers  - I liked the look of it and thought I'd treat myself. The company is fraudulent and is playing in the vulnerability of cancer survivors. I'm very annoyed with myself for not doing my research thoroughly enough.

Basil

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1443 on: 06 October, 2016, 06:38:28 pm »
That there was a murder in the house two doors down a couple of years ago.  Seems she killed her partner.  Don't know what happened to her.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

David Martin

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1444 on: 06 October, 2016, 10:00:48 pm »
"By creating we think. By living we learn" - Patrick Geddes

Guy

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1445 on: 07 October, 2016, 09:02:06 am »
A peak-time return ticket from Huntingdon to central That London costs more than half of the price of a return flight from Luton to Glasgow
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Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1446 on: 07 October, 2016, 12:34:15 pm »
That every six months Kindles re-index their contents which can lead to an inability to search books, a prematurely flat battery and, in all probability, a loss of memory when it comes to speaking to the Devil's Radio.
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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1447 on: 07 October, 2016, 01:35:24 pm »
That the word collimate originated as a misreading of the Latin collineare, meaning to bring into a straight line.  I must write to the Daily Mail about that.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1448 on: 07 October, 2016, 02:48:02 pm »
"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

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1449 on: 07 October, 2016, 03:19:39 pm »
I did. Caecilius est pater.
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