Author Topic: what I have learned today. (Read 857377 times)

Chris S · « **Reply #1000 on:** 26 April, 2016, 03:02:45 pm »

My van is rubbish on snowy roads

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Probably doesn't help that it's rear-wheel drive and usually empty. And it's automatic.

Downhill wasn't much better. I had to use the kerb as a brake

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Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1001 on:** 29 April, 2016, 10:13:40 am »

The word vaticinate.

T42 · « **Reply #1002 on:** 29 April, 2016, 10:18:26 am »

That makes two of us, now.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1003 on:** 29 April, 2016, 10:32:34 am »

I knew that would happen.

T42 · « **Reply #1004 on:** 29 April, 2016, 10:34:18 am »

HFH

Why was I expecting that?

Guy · « **Reply #1005 on:** 29 April, 2016, 10:47:27 am »

That the word Vaticinate doesn't appear in the 2001 edition of the Collins Concise Dictionary

(I didn't know what it meant, either. Thanks Webster's on-line, you've been most helpful)

Vince · « **Reply #1006 on:** 29 April, 2016, 04:24:16 pm »

~~Microsoft doesn't follow standards~~
Microsoft use outdated standards for ID3 tags in MP3 files, thus rendering all the useful information on the music library redundant

Feanor · « **Reply #1007 on:** 29 April, 2016, 07:43:29 pm »

Way back perhaps xp days, when windows explorer stopped being just a sensible file manager and started groping inside files in order to make thumbnail previews, it was much worse.

If it found exif tags in images it didn't understand, it deleted them!

Bledlow · « **Reply #1008 on:** 29 April, 2016, 10:32:11 pm »

There is a place named after some of my in-laws -

http://wikitravel.org/en/Onomichi
OK, maybe the name started with the place.

David Martin · « **Reply #1009 on:** 29 April, 2016, 11:28:35 pm »

Quote from: Feanor on 29 April, 2016, 07:43:29 pm

Way back perhaps xp days, when windows explorer stopped being just a sensible file manager and started groping inside files in order to make thumbnail previews, it was much worse.

If it found exif tags in images it didn't understand, it deleted them!

Microsoft's approach to respecting the data integrity of it's clients is questionable to say the least.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1010 on:** 30 April, 2016, 05:24:55 am »

Quote from: David Martin on 29 April, 2016, 11:28:35 pm

Microsoft's approach to respecting the data integrity of it's clients is questionable to say the least.

I'm picturing an animated paper clip popping up, asking "did you means its or it's" and then ignoring what you tell it

Any typos in this post are, needless to say, entirely the fault of iOS.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #1011 on:** 30 April, 2016, 03:46:50 pm »

To be fair to old Clippy, if you typed "fuck off!" he did take the hint and ask if you wanted to close the Office Assistant.

David Martin · « **Reply #1012 on:** 06 May, 2016, 12:42:16 pm »

That R will do maths in roman numerals.

PeteB99 · « **Reply #1013 on:** 09 May, 2016, 11:18:53 am »

That there is a plan to "turn off" Niagra falls for maintenance.

http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/niagara-falls/niagara-falls-is-going-to-go-dry-x2013-again-20160123

It was done before in 1969 apparently.

T42 · « **Reply #1014 on:** 09 May, 2016, 11:45:16 am »

Some fellow oh Twitter wrote that Garibaldi (presumably the bickies, not the bloke) was invented in 1849, but the current version dates from 1951. Gene Hunt take note.

ian · « **Reply #1015 on:** 09 May, 2016, 09:40:49 pm »

The other day (before it got warm enough to denecessitate knee high footwear) I discovered a woman can get stuck in her boot when the zipper gets caught up in the material inside. It then takes some explaining why you're dragging her around the living room floor by her heel while she loudly urges you to pull harder, it's nearly out. I suppose it was mildly better than trying to wriggle my hand inside. Which came next.

Bledlow · « **Reply #1016 on:** 10 May, 2016, 03:14:34 pm »

That the Minister of Education and Research of the Federal Republic of Germany is called Johanna Wanka.

She'll be giving a speech at a conference in Japan next week, & I'm tidying up the MC's script.

T42 · « **Reply #1017 on:** 10 May, 2016, 03:28:50 pm »

^^^I once stayed overnight in a German forest hut called the Wankhutte.

ian · « **Reply #1018 on:** 11 May, 2016, 04:18:26 pm »

A Bulgarian Lev comprises 100 Stotinki.

You can't say Stotinki without feeling happy. Try it.

Bledlow · « **Reply #1019 on:** 11 May, 2016, 10:56:03 pm »

I have a 5000 lev note from the 1990s, before the 1000:1 upgrade which put the lev on par with the deutschmark - not long before it was abolished. None of this stotinki nonsense then!

Unfortunately that note wasn't worth 5000 new lev when I went there at the beginning of this millennium.

But it was possible to use stotinki.

Ruthie · « **Reply #1020 on:** 12 May, 2016, 09:52:04 am »

There were stotinki in 1983 ...

T42 · « **Reply #1021 on:** 12 May, 2016, 09:59:12 am »

Stotinki sounds like a portmanteau'd malodorous infant.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1022 on:** 12 May, 2016, 10:13:49 am »

Quote from: Ruthie on 12 May, 2016, 09:52:04 am

There were stotinki in 1983 ...

I remember reading of the then-current stotinki circa 1978.

Legs · « **Reply #1023 on:** 12 May, 2016, 04:04:00 pm »

That Alison Moyet's nickname Alf pre-dates the US sitcom of the same name. For years I've been labouring under the misapprehension that it was because of her startling physical resemblance to the Alien Life Form.

Asterix, the former Gaul. · « **Reply #1024 on:** 12 May, 2016, 06:42:53 pm »

That it was Hugh Bonneville. I didn't need to know that.

Author Topic: what I have learned today. (Read 857377 times)

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