Author Topic: what I have learned today. (Read 857391 times)

TheLurker · « **Reply #6075 on:** 28 April, 2022, 01:11:35 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington

Arnold Judas Rimmer BSC SSC has clearly never seen a picture of General George Armstrong Custer, military idiot and bar...

Ahh, but we don't know how his opponents on the day were wearing their hair. Custer and his men may have been beaten by warriors with their locks dressed in fashionable short bobs in which case Rimmer's hypothesis cannot be categorically refuted.

fimm · « **Reply #6076 on:** 28 April, 2022, 03:10:59 pm »

There used to be a golf course just behind the office in which I am sitting.

T42 · « **Reply #6077 on:** 28 April, 2022, 03:25:13 pm »

Quote from: TheLurker on 28 April, 2022, 01:11:35 pm

Quote from: Mr Larrington
Arnold Judas Rimmer BSC SSC has clearly never seen a picture of General George Armstrong Custer, military idiot and bar...
Ahh, but we don't know how his opponents on the day were wearing their hair. Custer and his men may have been beaten by warriors with their locks dressed in fashionable short bobs in which case Rimmer's hypothesis cannot be categorically refuted.

One ventures to point out that after the Little Big Horn battle Lt. Col. Custer's hair was considerably shorter than that of any of his conquerors, even the bald ones.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #6078 on:** 28 April, 2022, 06:11:30 pm »

And serves him right. Custer met the criteria of at least seven of the BRITISH Army's eleven recognised types of fucking idiot

T42 · « **Reply #6079 on:** 03 May, 2022, 08:01:16 am »

Satellites can now spot cows farting.

Clare · « **Reply #6080 on:** 03 May, 2022, 08:16:13 am »

MethaneSat?

T42 · « **Reply #6081 on:** 03 May, 2022, 10:40:10 am »

Summat like. Probably more belching than t'other but it's all, er, good.

Clare · « **Reply #6082 on:** 03 May, 2022, 10:54:45 am »

If it's MethaneSat that is the reason we are now in NZ. Vernon will be driving it when it launches.

andrewc · « **Reply #6083 on:** 03 May, 2022, 11:03:04 am »

Shouldn't your avatar be upside down ?

Congrats on escaping to somewhere relatively sane.

Clare · « **Reply #6084 on:** 03 May, 2022, 11:14:06 am »

My avatar is currently bobbing around in a container somewhere so it could well be upside down.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #6085 on:** 04 May, 2022, 08:06:32 am »

Ooh! Or rather, eh! May you drive many kiwisats!

T42 · « **Reply #6086 on:** 04 May, 2022, 08:13:49 am »

Quote from: Clare on 03 May, 2022, 10:54:45 am

If it's MethaneSat that is the reason we are now in NZ. Vernon will be driving it when it launches.

No, it was a Canadian bunch, GHGSat. NewSci have an in-shallows article about it.

ElyDave · « **Reply #6087 on:** 05 May, 2022, 07:30:31 am »

Quote from: T42 on 04 May, 2022, 08:13:49 am

Quote from: Clare on 03 May, 2022, 10:54:45 am
If it's MethaneSat that is the reason we are now in NZ. Vernon will be driving it when it launches.

No, it was a Canadian bunch, GHGSat. NewSci have an in-shallows article about it.

I've been looking at GHG Sat professionally, very interesting technology. Also several aeroplane-carried versions such as Kairos and a bunch of people using drones (Seekops) all working lots in the oil and gas industry as methane is the new thing (except it's really not)

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #6088 on:** 06 May, 2022, 11:47:34 am »

Today I are learning that in 2015 Jack White bought the first ever recording by a Mr E Presley, for 300,000 of your Earth dollars.

Basil · « **Reply #6089 on:** 06 May, 2022, 06:30:39 pm »

I am currently in that Manchester.
And it's true. It's bloody pissing down.

Syd · « **Reply #6090 on:** 06 May, 2022, 06:34:52 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 06 May, 2022, 06:30:39 pm

I am currently in that Manchester.
And it's true. It's bloody pissing down.

I don’t miss the rain. Edinburgh is so much drier.

Kim · « **Reply #6091 on:** 06 May, 2022, 09:06:05 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 06 May, 2022, 06:30:39 pm

I am currently in that Manchester.
And it's true. It's bloody pissing down.

I expect living in Wales was good training...

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #6092 on:** 06 May, 2022, 09:42:54 pm »

Quote from: Syd on 06 May, 2022, 06:34:52 pm

Quote from: Basil on 06 May, 2022, 06:30:39 pm
I am currently in that Manchester.
And it's true. It's bloody pissing down.
I don’t miss the rain. Edinburgh is so much drier.

One of the reasons I moved there from Glasgow! (And I still haven't got used to the idea that outdoor plants sometimes need watering...

)

rafletcher · « **Reply #6093 on:** 06 May, 2022, 10:04:08 pm »

Ah, Glasgow, where, if the rain misses you on the way down, it gets you when it bounces back up off the pavement. Loved the people though.

ElyDave · « **Reply #6094 on:** 07 May, 2022, 09:07:09 am »

Quote from: Syd on 06 May, 2022, 06:34:52 pm

Quote from: Basil on 06 May, 2022, 06:30:39 pm
I am currently in that Manchester.
And it's true. It's bloody pissing down.
I don’t miss the rain. Edinburgh is so much drier.

My water bill more than doubled moving from Derbyshire to Ely, there is an RHS garden over this way that is made up of plants suited to arid conditions, which says quite a bit.

nicknack · « **Reply #6095 on:** 07 May, 2022, 11:20:03 am »

As I mentioned in another thread, I don't think it rained on us at all in April. We're on Sheppey in North Kent where it's probably as dry as Ely. We have 6 water butts that get a lot of use.

rafletcher · « **Reply #6096 on:** 07 May, 2022, 08:54:41 pm »

That ships still pay a lighthouse fee when docking in Irish and UK ports.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #6097 on:** 07 May, 2022, 11:29:54 pm »

Today I are learning that the current Canadian fleg was only adopted in 1965. And none of the proposals for the said fleg had a BEAR on them.

Kim · « **Reply #6098 on:** 07 May, 2022, 11:56:18 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 07 May, 2022, 11:29:54 pm

And none of the proposals for the said fleg had a BEAR on them.

Didn't want to get sued by Surrey.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #6099 on:** 08 May, 2022, 12:03:40 am »

Today I are mostly learning that the fleg of Surrey looks like something you’d use to signal the end of a motor race in Ukraine: