Author Topic: what I have learned today. (Read 858786 times)

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #5600 on:** 30 October, 2021, 10:47:24 am »

That the condensation on the outside of the windows rather than the inside means our windows are keeping in much more heat than the windows at our old place. Which is novel.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5601 on:** 30 October, 2021, 01:58:36 pm »

That on average 100 people read this thread for every post made in it. Mrs Pingu's post above is number 5600 and it says the topic has been viewed 559999 times.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5602 on:** 01 November, 2021, 07:21:18 pm »

Before sending Captain Kirk to boldly go where no human hand had set foot before, Gene Roddenberry was a Pan-Am airline pilot.

rafletcher · « **Reply #5603 on:** 01 November, 2021, 07:34:31 pm »

That there are still live firing ranges on Hythe beach.

ElyDave · « **Reply #5604 on:** 01 November, 2021, 09:45:54 pm »

Quote from: rafletcher on 01 November, 2021, 07:34:31 pm

That there are still live firing ranges on Hythe beach.

I used to regularly audit a medical devices factory in Hythe, there was a constant background crackle of small arms fire

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5605 on:** 02 November, 2021, 08:57:46 am »

I learned something of real practical use at the weekend: the quickest way into Ikea, to the toilets and straight out bypassing all the shopping areas!

woollypigs · « **Reply #5606 on:** 02 November, 2021, 10:33:15 am »

I was randomscrolling through reddit today and this one came up - https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/qkp9mx/just_a_perfectly_normal_ikea/ this is how IKEA really feels like. (you only need to watch the first 11sec)

PeteB99 · « **Reply #5607 on:** 05 November, 2021, 12:49:26 pm »

Where the Manor of Northstead is.

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Wombat · « **Reply #5608 on:** 06 November, 2021, 07:08:03 pm »

Quote from: rafletcher on 01 November, 2021, 07:34:31 pm

That there are still live firing ranges on Hythe beach.

I'm assuming you mean the Hythe in Kent, not the one in Hampshire, which does have a sort of beach.

rafletcher · « **Reply #5609 on:** 06 November, 2021, 07:22:05 pm »

Quote from: Wombat on 06 November, 2021, 07:08:03 pm

Quote from: rafletcher on 01 November, 2021, 07:34:31 pm
That there are still live firing ranges on Hythe beach.

I'm assuming you mean the Hythe in Kent, not the one in Hampshire, which does have a sort of beach.

Indeed, the Kentish one.

Kim · « **Reply #5610 on:** 06 November, 2021, 08:11:24 pm »

That there's a word for efflorescence.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #5611 on:** 07 November, 2021, 12:11:40 am »

Quote from: Kim on 06 November, 2021, 08:11:24 pm

That there's a word for efflorescence.

Cor, I caused Kim to learn a thing, as opposed to the other way around

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5612 on:** 07 November, 2021, 12:45:39 am »

I have learned that former Torygraph and now Heil on Sunday columnist Whingin' Dan Hodges is actually the son of Glenda Jackson. Mr Google claims that people who search for Dan Hodges also search for John “Tony Blair Is God” Rentoul, Brillo Neil, former Guido Fawkes tea boy Master Harry Cole, former Guido Fawkes sandwich monitor turned Gammon Broadcasting^TM pundit Tom “Hardwood” Harwood, all-purpose gobshite Julia Tory-Sewer and…

…and…

…

…Piers “Morgan” Moron, the colossal bellend. Ye shall know them by the company Mr Google has them keep.

T42 · « **Reply #5613 on:** 07 November, 2021, 08:09:15 am »

That such gadgets as hat-stretchers exist and are cheap. "One size fits all" according to ever-helpful Amazon. There's hope for excessively dolichocephalic* me, then.

* "Narrow-minded," quips MrsT.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5614 on:** 07 November, 2021, 11:00:34 am »

I have had a hat-stretcher on my Mega-Global Big River Corporation of Seattle, USAnia wishlist for a couple of years since even the largest Stetson available in the Tucson metropolitan area is marginally too small for my outsized gulliver. Also on my wishlist is the chance to return to USAnia and actually wear the damn thing.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5615 on:** 08 November, 2021, 10:36:25 am »

That IATA codes apply to some railway stations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IATA-indexed_railway_stations But they don't work in the NRE ticket site.

Ham · « **Reply #5616 on:** 09 November, 2021, 08:59:05 am »

You could argue I should have known this years ago, after all, I was vaguely aware of the story behind the Velvet Underground "Venus in Furs" - Severin and all that, but I'd never put the pieces together. The author of Venus in Furs, Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was who gave his name to Masochism (thanks to Kraft-Ebbing). Who knew? Lots of people probably, just not me.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #5617 on:** 09 November, 2021, 10:59:13 am »

That for about 3 years, Mozart kept a pet starling. It died on 4th June 1787.

Canardly · « **Reply #5618 on:** 09 November, 2021, 01:21:37 pm »

That there is a walk in NHS immunisation centre just down the road in a local community centre. It doesn't however do Booster jabs. Bah! (why not?) So the next one is 12 miles away.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5619 on:** 10 November, 2021, 02:49:08 pm »

That the Aussies version of Easy start is:

Feanor · « **Reply #5620 on:** 10 November, 2021, 03:00:41 pm »

On the subject of Easy Start...

When I worked on offshore oil rigs, we had large diesel-powered hydraulic power packs.
These could be a bit of a pig to get started, and it was fairly common to need a squirt of Easy Start in the air intake to get them fired up.

On one occasion, a crew had to mobilise a mechanic from the beach, as they could not get the thing to start even using the Easy Start.
The mechanic arrived, and they cranked the engine over.
"OK, give it a squirt of Easy Start into the air intake, and let's see what's going on!" quoth he.

The operator then squirted half a can of easy start into the *radiator* air cowling...
Well, that's the 'air intake', isn't it?...

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5621 on:** 10 November, 2021, 07:18:12 pm »

That shite courier company Yodel is ultimately owned by the Barclay Brother.

robgul · « **Reply #5622 on:** 10 November, 2021, 07:51:23 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 10 November, 2021, 07:18:12 pm

That shite courier company Yodel is ultimately owned by the Barclay Brother.

IIRC Yodel morphed out of the home delivery network that one of the mail order companies ran (i.e. catalogue company like Littlewoods et al)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5623 on:** 11 November, 2021, 08:29:41 pm »

That there is a town with two exclamation marks in its name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Louis-du-Ha!_Ha!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5624 on:** 16 November, 2021, 11:21:03 am »

That the Free City of Danzig / Gdansk was founded 101 years and 1 day ago, 15th November 1920, that it was intended to be one of four Free Cities along with Rijeka, Klajpeda and Istanbul, but only the first of those came into being, and moreover that it maintains to this day a Government in Exile. Recognized by no other state, country or institution whatsoever.