what I have learned today.

[T42]

I'll confess to have worn crotchless trousers, but they only went that way when I stretched for a awkward shot at billiards.

[PaulF]

That Rule 34 applies to dungarees.

What Rule 34 is

[Kim]

That Rule 34 applies to dungarees.

What Rule 34 is

Not the one about MTB shoes, this is a Rule of the Internet:

[Cudzoziemiec]

No homoerotic bees? I thought gay waggledancing had been a thing since forever.

[Kim]

Spelling bees (native to Leftpondia) are a completely different species, thobut.

[Pingu]

...Though this might be a thing of the past, I will have developers and data scientists in a couple of weeks. If only I knew what I was doing. It's all sprints and scrums and frankly, I don't know what. I have a project manager, fortunately. Product development sounds very masculine and steroidal, like a sweaty rugger changing room. Somewhere in the mix there ought to be room for a contemplative snooze. If there isn't, I'm using my boss powers to create one.

Sounds disturbingly agile.

[TheLurker]

...Though this might be a thing of the past, I will have developers and data scientists in a couple of weeks. If only I knew what I was doing. It's all sprints and scrums and frankly, I don't know what. I have a project manager, fortunately. Product development sounds very masculine and steroidal, like a sweaty rugger changing room. Somewhere in the mix there ought to be room for a contemplative snooze. If there isn't, I'm using my boss powers to create one.

Sounds disturbingly agile.

[rafletcher]

Actually a couple of days ago, when watching Lucy Worsley's latest programme about American historical inaccuracies..

That there is still a legal scheme that allows US companies - which have included Microsoft and Starbucks - to "employ" Federal prisoners for a small fee payable to the US Government. Used to prevent off-shoring of jobs apparently - get your slave labour at home instead.

[ian]

To be fair, the Americans have always been pretty good at slavery.

[rafletcher]

That was the main point. Lincoln desire to destroy slavery in the South was because that would in turn ruin the economy of those states, as opposed to any noble anti-slavery cause. "Slave" states that sided with the union were allowed to keep their slaves.

[Cudzoziemiec]

That the Norwegian name Krogsveen is pronounced roughly "Croeswick". Almost as confusing as English.

[rafletcher]

That the Black and White Minstrel show still holds the theatre box office records in Australia and New Zealand 

[rafletcher]

That Hong King imports potatoes from France, to make crisps.

[T42]

I hope that we don't then import the bloody things.

[hellymedic]

That Hong King imports potatoes from France, to make crisps.

With the odd grenade...

[spesh]

That Hong King imports potatoes from France, to make crisps.

With the odd grenade...

Somebody at the Beeb must be having a laugh.

The bombe de terre was safely detonated on site by bomb disposal officers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-47107609

[rogerzilla]

That a Mazda 6 washer bottle, once fully frozen, will not defrost even on a 40 mile drive.  I'll have to carry a small squeezy bottle in the car from now on.

[andytheflyer]

That a Mazda 6 washer bottle, once fully frozen, will not defrost even on a 40 mile drive.  I'll have to carry a small squeezy bottle in the car from now on.

Buy some screenwash concentrate from Halfords - about £6 a gallon.  A bottle lasts me all winter, and I live in the sticks/cow country where the farmers are on and off the land all winter and the roads are filthy for months.  It won't freeze then.  Get the green one, not the purple one, unless you want to have the smell of blackberries every time you wash the screen.  I'm not making that mistake again…...

[ElyDave]

Same here, and I use it 50:50. 

[andytheflyer]

Same here, and I use it 50:50.

I just glug some into the washer tank when I fill it up - but I suspect It'll be about a 30% mix. I tend to go on the colour.  Over this last cold spell (down to -5C here) the washers stayed operational.

It's the best/best value screenwash I've found.

[Ham]

That an odd fact learned years ago from Nektar, who were a fave prog rock band at the time, is an actual fact and not as I had thought an outbreak of silliness on a fairly jolly album, Down to Earth, which had the concept of being a circus. It's an odd line that stuck in my consciousness, popping up from time to time. It appears that elephants really are extraordinarily fond of oranges.

[T42]

Sites such as Go Fund Me take 4 or 5% commission on all donations.

Well of course they do, how else are they going to get rich?

[andytheflyer]

The location of a badger latrine that I had previously been unaware of.  Needless to say the dog found it before I did.  I had to try to get him to walk home downwind of me.  I then had to bath him, of course, in full PPE.

EDIT: I have since learned, from the dog trainer we see each week, that it would have been fox poo, and that fox poo is the WORST.  I was directed to a local supplier of industrial strength dog shampoo, but since he's been out in the rain a few times since his bath the pong has mostly been mitigated.  But the fox-poo shampoo stands in readiness for the next inevitability.

[Tim Hall]

The photo of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald was taken by Bob Jackson.  This can cause some confusion when trawling teh interwebs for pictures of bikes made by a Leeds based frame builder.

[rafletcher]

Tha missing just one gym session makes for an achy next session.

And that Sonos speakers won’t play nicely with power line adaptors.