what I have learned today.

[Tim Hall]

Today I are learning that TV On The Radio aka Thomas The Vance was born Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston, which seems a tad excessive.

(files that away for a quiz wot I am writing)

[Mr Larrington]

Real names of notable wireless DJs?  See also Michael Joseph Paternak (Emperor Rosko), Maurice James Christopher Cole (Kenny Everett), John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (John Peel) and, er, um, Alan Leslie Freeman.

Not 'arf!

[robgul]

Real names of notable wireless DJs?  See also Michael Joseph Paternak (Emperor Rosko), Maurice James Christopher Cole (Kenny Everett), John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (John Peel) and, er, um, Alan Leslie Freeman.

Not 'arf!

Johnnie Walker, born Peter Waters Dingley - went to school with my BiL  (and was taught by my late FiL -  BiL's father)

[T42]

1 in 3 birds tested at an Australian animal hospital has chlamydia.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2306501-1-in-3-birds-tested-at-an-australian-animal-hospital-have-chlamydia

[Mr Larrington]

Isn't it endemic in koalas too?

(Googles)

Yes.  Yes, it is.  I think there’s something going on in Captain Cook's Mistake that they’re not telling us in case it frightens away tourists.

[Tim Hall]

Isn't it endemic in koalas too?

(Googles)

Yes.  Yes, it is.  I think there’s something going on in Captain Cook's Mistake that they’re not telling us in case it frightens away tourists.

Lou Sanders on The Unbelievable Truth said she found that out the hard way.

[Mr Larrington]

Isn't it endemic in koalas too?

(Googles)

Yes.  Yes, it is.  I think there’s something going on in Captain Cook's Mistake that they’re not telling us in case it frightens away tourists.

Lou Sanders on The Unbelievable Truth said she found that out the hard way.

I think some, or more, members of a Popular Beat Combo claimed to have contracted chlamydia after being pissed on by an infected drop bear.  Sex and drugs and rock and roll is one thing but golden showers with furry marsupials?  Weirdos.

[Kim]

To be fair, it's hard to get up close and personal with a drop bear without getting pissed on.

[Mr Larrington]

Since when has fairness been part of the equation

[Kim]

Since when has fairness been part of the equation

Certainly not where antipodean wildlife is concerned...

[ian]

Isn't it endemic in koalas too?

(Googles)

Yes.  Yes, it is.  I think there’s something going on in Captain Cook's Mistake that they’re not telling us in case it frightens away tourists.

It's environmentally endemic – it's a very successful organism that infects anything from protists to humans. It has an 'up to 100%' prevalence in fish. I'm not sure who's checked them all though.

[Mr Larrington]

Isn't it endemic in koalas too?

(Googles)

Yes.  Yes, it is.  I think there’s something going on in Captain Cook's Mistake that they’re not telling us in case it frightens away tourists.

It's environmentally endemic – it's a very successful organism that infects anything from protists to humans. It has an 'up to 100%' prevalence in fish. I'm not sure who's checked them all though.

Checking fish for chlamydia is part of the role of the EU Fisheries Committee.  The perpetual absence of Niggles Fartrage at meetings ensured that it was never done.

[T42]

Better not let your budgie pick your teeth.

[campagman]

I have learnt the difference between cactuses and succulents (even though cactuses are succulents)- I'm not sure if that should be cactii.

[MattH]

Details of the six million dollar man crash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jvGJhJINlc

[ian]

I have learnt the difference between cactuses and succulents (even though cactuses are succulents)- I'm not sure if that should be cactii.

Cacti with one i. Or Cactuses. Both are correct. Any fool knows you make booze out of succulents and distress cowboys with cacti.

[Salvatore]

That Freddie 'Parrot-face' Davies is still alive.

And why shouldn't he be, just because I haven't heard of him since his 1960s heyday.

[CAMRAMan]

I used a torque wrench for the first time today. I set it to 22 wotsits and was surprised how easy it was to attain that torque. That means in all probability that I've been a serial over-tightener in the past

[Canardly]

That Roma do not eat Hen's eggs.

[robgul]

I used a torque wrench for the first time today. I set it to 22 wotsits and was surprised how easy it was to attain that torque. That means in all probability that I've been a serial over-tightener in the past

That's quite a bit - what were you tightening?     Ease of use is, of course, related to the length of the bar on the wrench . . . what size wrench were you using?

[rafletcher]

That one can buy a garlic skin removal tube.

[ian]

That one can buy a garlic skin removal tube.

And, for the record, they're pretty fucking awesome.

[orienteer]

That you can improve muscles by doing the opposite to conventional exercises.

This Japanese (subtitled) TV programme, about 45 minutes.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/4031012/

[Mr Larrington]

Today I are mostly learning that even if it's in a case, dropping your fondleslab four feet to land face-down on a brick-surfaced driveway is an effective way of b0rking the screen, which now resembles a relief map of the Mekong Delta

Sent from round the cracks on my iPad.

[Mrs Pingu]

Oh dear.