Author Topic: what I have learned today.  (Read 847160 times)

clarion

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #800 on: 13 November, 2015, 07:58:41 pm »
Two curious discoveries today: The Williams sisters are vegan, and that Darth Vader had an affair with John Peel's mum.
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« Reply #801 on: 14 November, 2015, 11:08:08 am »
That shaving with a straight razor is something that will require a lot of practice!    Not as smooth a result as my usual DE razor and a few nicks  :o

Keep watching the videos ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IGMcZjTWOw
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #802 on: 16 November, 2015, 11:05:05 am »
That shaving with a straight razor is something that will require a lot of practice!    Not as smooth a result as my usual DE razor and a few nicks  :o

Keep watching the videos ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IGMcZjTWOw

I could have told you that...... sage advice from a bloke who has bled buckets for the cause of straight razor use.

rogerzilla

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« Reply #803 on: 17 November, 2015, 08:01:32 pm »
Transplant corneas are very readily available in the USA but are in short supply in the UK.  Why is that? I asked my opthalmologist.  Without a second's hesitation, he replied, "Gunshot wounds".  Apparently it's true, and the tissue is usually very high quality because these are mostly younger people who could aim a firearm (although not quite well enough, it seems).  He says that the current ban on importing donor corneas from abroad is likely to be relaxed so we can start getting some of the beneficial by-products of their stupid gun laws.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #804 on: 18 November, 2015, 09:08:00 am »
Similarly, I've heard that certain transplant organs have become scarcer in UK due to falling road deaths.
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Basil

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #805 on: 20 November, 2015, 09:43:25 pm »
Not sure if I've learned this or not, as Wikipedia has no mention of it.
Bloke in the pub tonight works on Estates at BU.  He reckons that Old Joe used to double as a water tower.  Many years ago, obv.  But he told me that the old tank was only taken out a few years ago.  It had to be cut up to get it out.
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« Reply #806 on: 20 November, 2015, 11:46:34 pm »
Not sure if I've learned this or not, as Wikipedia has no mention of it.
Bloke in the pub tonight works on Estates at BU.  He reckons that Old Joe used to double as a water tower.  Many years ago, obv.  But he told me that the old tank was only taken out a few years ago.  It had to be cut up to get it out.

UoB page reckons he's wrong - but only WRT to the 'used to.'

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He’s not just a pretty face - Old Joe is also a water tower and services the University!

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #807 on: 25 November, 2015, 09:20:58 am »
"Fiesta Island Fun" is all about cycling, who would have guessed?

Mr Larrington

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« Reply #808 on: 25 November, 2015, 10:27:35 am »
"Fiesta Island Fun" is all about cycling, who would have guessed?

I would, coz some of my USAnian mates do TTs at Fiesta Island ;D
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Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #809 on: 26 November, 2015, 02:06:56 am »
That the aeroplane used in Mad Max 3 was an actual proper aeroplane and not something knocked up in a film company Sheds by some Outback grease monkey :o
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clarion

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #810 on: 26 November, 2015, 11:04:30 am »
Oh that!  Have you seen what it's based on (Bennett Airtruck)?
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« Reply #811 on: 26 November, 2015, 05:35:59 pm »
Oh that!  Have you seen what it's based on (Bennett Airtruck)?

By the miracle of Wikinaccurate, yes.  Is there something in the water Down There?
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Basil

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« Reply #812 on: 28 November, 2015, 12:43:30 am »
I suppose this is something I ought to have known.  But I didn't.

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=94483.msg1951425#msg1951425

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Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #813 on: 28 November, 2015, 11:07:27 am »
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that there are at least 95,000 topics and over 1.95 million posts on YACF...
VELOMANCER

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

Mr Larrington

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« Reply #814 on: 10 December, 2015, 07:31:20 pm »
That the "Susie" referred to in the lyrics of Van Def Graaf Generator's Refugees is actress Susan Penhaligon
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Andrij

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #815 on: 10 December, 2015, 07:53:01 pm »
This evening I learned what barn doors are (in relation to lighting).
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #816 on: 10 December, 2015, 08:24:03 pm »
This evening I learned what barn doors are (in relation to lighting).

Next lesson:  Tophats and Gobos.

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« Reply #817 on: 11 December, 2015, 03:32:07 pm »
This evening I learned what barn doors are (in relation to lighting).

Next lesson:  Tophats and Gobos.

Ahem. Ahem. I suspect Andrij would rather be booked into the redhead session.

rogerzilla

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #818 on: 11 December, 2015, 09:34:02 pm »
The cryptic lyrics to the Happy Mondays song "Russell" are actually, verbatim,  the back cover blurb of Russell Grant's book "Sun Signs".  Except that Shaun Ryder replaces "What Makes the Sign Tick" with "What Makes The Twat Tick"  ;D
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Andrij

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #819 on: 13 December, 2015, 06:45:28 pm »
London noses!!!  I've lived in this city 16 years and have only just learned about these. 

I must now find them all.
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

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« Reply #820 on: 14 December, 2015, 11:38:03 am »
London noses!!!  I've lived in this city 16 years and have only just learned about these. 

I must now find them all.
The tutor on my Art Foundation course used to make plaster of Paris noses. But his name was Ben.

Guy

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #821 on: 14 December, 2015, 12:50:06 pm »
Trinity House, the lighthouse people, received their first charter from Henry VIII in 1514.

The first Highway Act was intended to improve the state of England's roads and was passed in 1555. It didn't make any difference to the state of the roads, it just shifted responsibility for their upkeep from Manorial officials* to the Parochial Surveyors of Highways**.



*who weren't doing their job

**who didn't do theirs, either
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clarion

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #822 on: 14 December, 2015, 02:48:15 pm »
This evening I learned what barn doors are (in relation to lighting).

Next lesson:  Tophats and Gobos.

That might be awkward, as a TV lighting gobo is a different beast from a theatre one.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #823 on: 15 December, 2015, 05:00:39 pm »
I done learned that the Nazis were extracting oil from shale in Estonia during WW2.
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Basil

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« Reply #824 on: 17 December, 2015, 12:32:21 am »
That Japan is the only 'developed' country in the world where the law insists that married couples must have the same surname.  The law does not stipulate which partner makes the change.
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