Author Topic: what I have learned today. (Read 859321 times)

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2275 on:** 15 February, 2018, 06:37:58 am »

Walt Disney isn't a frozen head.

Guy · « **Reply #2276 on:** 15 February, 2018, 01:29:13 pm »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 15 February, 2018, 06:37:58 am

Walt Disney isn't a frozen head.

Andrij · « **Reply #2277 on:** 15 February, 2018, 02:18:28 pm »

Quote from: Guy on 15 February, 2018, 01:29:13 pm

Quote from: rogerzilla on 15 February, 2018, 06:37:58 am
Walt Disney isn't a frozen head.

https://www.snopes.com/disney/waltdisn/frozen.asp

T42 · « **Reply #2278 on:** 17 February, 2018, 01:17:39 pm »

Yesterday I learnt that it is possible but not easy to remove knee-warmers worn inside bib tights.

rafletcher · « **Reply #2279 on:** 17 February, 2018, 05:20:17 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 17 February, 2018, 01:17:39 pm

Yesterday I learnt that it is possible but not easy to remove knee-warmers worn inside bib tights.

Why bothe4 removing them - for a bet?

geraldc · « **Reply #2280 on:** 18 February, 2018, 12:30:44 am »

So my nephew was born on Thursday night, so we thought he'd be a chicken (Chinese zodiac), as he was born before Chinese new year. However it turns out that the Chinese zodiac is solar not lunar, and the start date for the zodiac year is always the spring vernal equinox, which is 4th Feb every year. So my nephew's a dog. My wife and brother have been having a massive argument about this, and having done the reading, I'm not looking forward to telling my wife that she's wrong when she wakes up tomorrow.

Torslanda · « **Reply #2281 on:** 18 February, 2018, 04:05:46 am »

So don't.

Moleman76 · « **Reply #2282 on:** 18 February, 2018, 06:39:51 am »

that "Imbolc" is the name for the "cross-quarter day" which is halfway between the winter solstice and the vernal (spring) equinox.

T42 · « **Reply #2283 on:** 18 February, 2018, 08:46:36 am »

Quote from: rafletcher on 17 February, 2018, 05:20:17 pm

Quote from: T42 on 17 February, 2018, 01:17:39 pm
Yesterday I learnt that it is possible but not easy to remove knee-warmers worn inside bib tights.

Why bothe4 removing them - for a bet?

Should have added "without removing the tights".

Pulling on the tights rolled them up into tourniquets. CBA removing all my top layers so winkled them out via the distal ends, damn near broke a finger.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2284 on:** 18 February, 2018, 08:48:19 am »

Quote from: Moleman76 on 18 February, 2018, 06:39:51 am

that "Imbolc" is the name for the "cross-quarter day" which is halfway between the winter solstice and the vernal (spring) equinox.

Is that still an excuse to jump naked over a bonfire, though?

T42 · « **Reply #2285 on:** 18 February, 2018, 11:49:08 am »

Hence the oft-corrupted phrase "Imbolc naked"?

Basil · « **Reply #2286 on:** 18 February, 2018, 03:56:35 pm »

mattc · « **Reply #2287 on:** 18 February, 2018, 06:35:17 pm »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 12 February, 2018, 06:23:25 pm

It is reasonably easy to get to work by bus. First time I've tried in 23 years of living in Swindon. Day rider tickets and tweaked routes have helped, and I live reasonably near a stop these days.

I think this is a first for the internet.

Posts saying pretty much the opposite are 2-a-penny, but the above makes rather a nice change

ian · « **Reply #2288 on:** 19 February, 2018, 02:30:03 pm »

That people still complain when they hear an accidental swear on the TV. The fucks.

Basil · « **Reply #2289 on:** 19 February, 2018, 09:50:53 pm »

That 80% of the world's garlic is produced in China.

De Sisti · « **Reply #2290 on:** 19 February, 2018, 10:06:45 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 19 February, 2018, 09:50:53 pm

That 80% of the world's garlic is produced in China.

I wonder if you were just listening to the same Radio Four programme as I was a few minutes ago?

Basil · « **Reply #2291 on:** 19 February, 2018, 11:03:27 pm »

Quote from: De Sisti on 19 February, 2018, 10:06:45 pm

Quote from: Basil on 19 February, 2018, 09:50:53 pm
That 80% of the world's garlic is produced in China.
I wonder if you were just listening to the same Radio Four programme as I was a few minutes ago?

Yes I was.

. But I thought I'd check what Wikipedia had to say before I posted.

David Martin · « **Reply #2292 on:** 20 February, 2018, 12:04:50 am »

The grip on my tyres isn't as good as I thought it should be and then was better than I was expecting. (lowsiding, catch it and highside)
Sharp hairpin turn here, downhill and I should have known better than to trust the tyres.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NutKk-nzfH8

Fortunately nothing serious - not a mark on the jacket but a small bruise on the upper arm/elbow.

fuzzy · « **Reply #2293 on:** 20 February, 2018, 12:17:45 am »

That I have GOT to live for another 7 years.

If I don't No.2 Son will get hit by the tax man for inheritance tax relating to money I gave him towards whatever he wants to do with it (mainly a deposit for a home).

Pass the beer

Torslanda · « **Reply #2294 on:** 20 February, 2018, 01:20:28 am »

Quote from: David Martin on 20 February, 2018, 12:04:50 am

The grip on my tyres isn't as good as I thought it should be and then was better than I was expecting. (lowsiding, catch it and highside)

Fortunately nothing serious - not a mark on the jacket but a small bruise on the upper arm/elbow.

You should know better than to engage the Infinite Improbability Drive without warning.

Another bowl of petunias ruined . . .

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2295 on:** 20 February, 2018, 12:45:19 pm »

Each testicle of a Right Whale can weigh up to 525kg

T42 · « **Reply #2296 on:** 20 February, 2018, 01:06:38 pm »

Monorchid Right Whales can only swim in circles.

robgul · « **Reply #2297 on:** 21 February, 2018, 03:25:08 pm »

Park Tool has a bike workstand with an electric lift mechanism!! - clamp the frame with the bike on the floor, press the button and hey presto the clamp lifts the bike up to the desired working height, and lowers it again..

Cool (and about £1,500) - really designed for electric bikes which are obviously quite heavy with the battery etc.

[I've been to Madison's trade show today ... lots of other stuff to drool over too]

Rob

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2298 on:** 21 February, 2018, 06:19:22 pm »

Quote from: mrcharly-YHT on 20 February, 2018, 12:45:19 pm

Each testicle of a Right Whale can weigh up to 525kg

I'd hate to see a money shot in whale pr0n.

ian · « **Reply #2299 on:** 21 February, 2018, 06:34:07 pm »

I googled so you don't have to. Two gallons of seminal fluid. I'm not sure who got the enviable job of measuring that. I'd have guessed and gone for cocktails, who's going to check.

They also have four metre long penises (available in a variety of colours, apparently). Something I, alas, now can't unsee.

Whale porn. It's what the internet was made for.

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