what I have learned today.

[Paul]

Presumably there's a break-even point for physical media that's easily achieved when your smalls watch Frozen^[2] for the eleventy-zillionth time.



_{[2] Other annoying Disney films are available.}

I don't know where the balance is, but all copies of Frozen should be destroyed.

_{Writing as parent of smalls...}
Let it go.

Bzzt

[Ham]

Presumably there's a break-even point for physical media that's easily achieved when your smalls watch Frozen^[2] for the eleventy-zillionth time.



_{[2] Other annoying Disney films are available.}

I don't know where the balance is, but all copies of Frozen should be destroyed.

_{Writing as parent of smalls...}
Let it go.

Bzzt

What? ? ? You think it is only sung once ?? ?? ??

I wish

[hellymedic]

the BBC can't count.  On the 7 question quiz of the week I got 5 right and ended up with a score of 4/6

I got 2/7 first time and 7/7 second time - I always repeat the quiz to check my short-term memory.

Maybe they didn't count the question about the Marianas Trench (on your browser - mine got to 7) as all three options were correct.

[T42]

6174 

[nicknack]

6174 

Aha! I knew that one cos there's a band with the same name.

[T42]

Every time you Google something it comes up with a band or a brand that's usurped something real.

[ElyDave]

just ran thast one past my daughter "tha's weird, how did he discover that?"

meanwhile, today i was relearning binomial theory as i taught it to her

[Beardy]

That fascism isn’t in fact extreme racism with added nuts. Further reading suggests that in academic circles what exactly does constitute fascism is somewhat contentious and subject to much debate.

[T42]

And while others talk the fascists get on with it.

[Canardly]

That some people think Farage tells the truth.

[T42]

Honey bees go "whoops" when they bump into each other.

[Efrogwr]

Mrs E has just informed me that the Welsh for jellyfish is pysgodyn wibli wobli.

[caerau]

Ha, that came from a comedy panel show t’other day - I saw that 


A microwave oven is called popedi ping (sic)  [size=78%] [/size]

[FifeingEejit]

Ha, that came from a comedy panel show t’other day - I saw that 


A microwave oven is called popedi ping (sic)  [size=78%] [/size]

I've just learnt that they are just "slang" terms and that
A Jellyfish is a pysgod mor.
and a Microwave is a meicrodon

[Efrogwr]

Ha, that came from a comedy panel show t’other day - I saw that 


A microwave oven is called popedi ping (sic)  [size=78%] [/size]

I've just learnt that they are just "slang" terms and that
A Jellyfish is a pysgod mor.
and a Microwave is a meicrodon

Yes, but popty ping is a lot funner than a straight translation of microwave.
When I first learned Welsh, meicrodon was the name used in Gwynedd and popty ping was confined to Ynys Môn.

[Tim Hall]

Ha, that came from a comedy panel show t’other day - I saw that 


A microwave oven is called popedi ping (sic)  [size=78%] [/size]

I've just learnt that they are just "slang" terms and that
A Jellyfish is a pysgod mor.
and a Microwave is a meicrodon

Someone on the wireless, possibly Sandi Toksvig, said that meicrodon sounded like a tiny Mafia boss.

[caerau]

Comedy potential every time. And enjoy the arch-welsh getting all annoyed

[Cudzoziemiec]

That in Poland you can be fined 150 zloty for cycling with a passenger who has more than 0.02% blood alcohol. Specifically, a passenger in a sidecar!

[Kim]

That inhalers can be recycled:

https://www.dontwasteabreath.com/view/recycling_your_inhaler

[ElyDave]

not sure if they still are, but inhalers were one of the few things to escape the CFC elimination

[Kim]

not sure if they still are, but inhalers were one of the few things to escape the CFC elimination

Most of them changed, but I think CFC-based ones are still manufactured in small quantities for when needed, and get an unusual colour plastic part to denote that.

When beclometasone switched to HFA-134a propellant I found that I couldn't take two puffs on consecutive breaths without coughing (unless using a spacer).  Suspect that was a change in the ethanol content rather than an effect of the propellant itself.

*checks*  Yeah, the Salbutamol's using the same stuff.


The one that really pissed me off was Beconase (nasal spray) going from a CFC based aerosol to an aequeous spray.  I never used to get nosebleeds as a side-effect with the aerosol one.  (I'm using fluticasone these days.  Still get nosebleeds after prolonged use, but it's much more effective.  As such, it's best if the tree and grass pollen peaks overlap as much as possible.)

[Paul]

That inhalers can be recycled:

https://www.dontwasteabreath.com/view/recycling_your_inhaler

I always put mine in the household recycling, but it's no harm to take them to the local pharmacy - I have to go there anyway to collect the replacements.

[Nuncio]

As a result of some early HBO-Chernobyl follow-up reading I have discovered that Craig Mazin, the creator/writer/executive producer
a) also wrote the screenplay for The Hangover 2 and The Hangover 3
b) was the room-mate of Ted Cruz in their first year at Princeton (I'd heard this before, but didn't know it was Mazin),and has tweeted frequently about how much he dislikes him, and how hypocritical he is: ( eg  'Ted Cruz thinks people don't have a right to "stimulate their genitals." I was his college roommate. This would be a new belief of his)'

[Kim]

That inhalers can be recycled:

https://www.dontwasteabreath.com/view/recycling_your_inhaler

I always put mine in the household recycling, but it's no harm to take them to the local pharmacy - I have to go there anyway to collect the replacements.

My understanding is that by treating them specially they can recover the propellant, which is a potent greenhouse gas, rather than just recycling the plastic and aluminium.

[Kim]

Yesterday I learned about the redacted bits of Anne Frank's diary, which I somehow missed in spite of being a card-carrying bisexual.