what I have learned today.

[rogerzilla]

A clue (to quote Mitchell and Webb, rudely)

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"It's avocado, you cunt!"

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It's actually pampas

[Jurek]

The speed of light is 299792 metres/second.
That number is the same as the northing coordinate of The Great Pyramid of Giza.

[L CC]

The speed of light is 299792 metres/second.
That number is the same as the northing coordinate of The Great Pyramid of Giza.

Does this belong in the Conspiracies thread?

[rogerzilla]

The speed of light is 299792 metres/second.
That number is the same as the northing coordinate of The Great Pyramid of Giza.

Does this belong in the Conspiracies thread?

Only if the pyramid has a gert massive eye hovering over it.

[DaveJ]

Speed of light is around 3*10**8 m/s so a factor of a thousand out, not that I expect that would worry the conspiracy theorists.

[Mr Larrington]

That’s ^^^^ just what THEY want you to think!!!

[MattH]

Ha! This proves time travel is a thing being hidden from us by our overlords, as they must have travelled back to Egypt to determine the exact position to build the pyramid, as neither the metre nor the coordinate system were in place then. They put the pyramid there to give those of us who are on the path to enlightenment the clues we need to piece together the truth behind who is running the world and their immense capabilities.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Deluded revisionism! Those of us who are truly enlightened know that the metre and the second were both invented with their current dimensions so as to enable this "coincidence".

[Cudzoziemiec]

That the Hardy monument in Dorset is not to the author. It's Nelson's Hardy.

[T42]

My Eng. Lit. career in school would have been a lot more agreeable if Thomas had got shot at Trafalgar.  Or anywhere else.

[Cudzoziemiec]

The Japanese word komorebi, meaning sunlight shining through trees. Almost as good as petrichor.

[ScumOfTheRoad]

Speed of light is around 3*10**8 m/s so a factor of a thousand out, not that I expect that would worry the conspiracy theorists.

The speed of light is a foot per nanosecond.
When giving lectures, Admiral Grace Hopper used to give out foot long pieces of wire and say "Here- have a nanosecond"

[citoyen]

Thanks to today's Guardian crossword, I now know that the word clerestory is pronounced clear-story and not, as I previously imagined, cleh-ress-tory.

At least I did already know what the word means though.

[Pingu]

Thanks to today's Guardian crossword, I now know that the word clerestory is pronounced clear-story and not, as I previously imagined, cleh-ress-tory.

At least I did already know what the word means though.

Me too also

[Basil]

That there is a Black Country flag.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Black_Country

[Efrogwr]

That in Japanese a Toyota wankpanzer is called Randokaruza.

[Cudzoziemiec]

That in Japanese a Toyota wankpanzer is called Randokaruza.

Is that a randy carouser or a rando[nneur] car user?

[Efrogwr]

That in Japanese a Toyota wankpanzer is called Randokaruza.

Is that a randy carouser or a rando[nneur] car user?

It sounds more like the first one.

[rafletcher]

That in Japanese a Toyota wankpanzer is called Randokaruza.

Is that a randy carouser or a rando[nneur] car user?

It sounds more like the first one.

Or maybe a Japanese pronunciation of Land Cruiser.

[Efrogwr]

That in Japanese a Toyota wankpanzer is called Randokaruza.

Is that a randy carouser or a rando[nneur] car user?

It sounds more like the first one.

Or maybe a Japanese pronunciation of Land Cruiser.

You've got it!

[Mr Larrington]

Back in Days of Yore when Professor Larrington lived in Japan there was on the TV a commercial for the Honda City, complete with chorus of ladies joyfully singing “Shitty Shitty Shitty!”

[T42]

Back in Days of Yore when Professor Larrington lived in Japan there was on the TV a commercial for the Honda City, complete with chorus of ladies joyfully singing “Shitty Shitty Shitty!”

Made oi larf.  Shades of Pschitt! lemonade And Choky chocolate milk.

[Mr Larrington]

Back in Days of Yore when Professor Larrington lived in Japan there was on the TV a commercial for the Honda City, complete with chorus of ladies joyfully singing “Shitty Shitty Shitty!”

Made oi larf.  Shades of Pschitt! lemonade And Choky chocolate milk.

And a well-known English guitarist is known over there as “Elic Crapped-on”.

[orienteer]

There's a Japanese drink called Calpis.

For export markets they eventually renamed it Calpico.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Back in Days of Yore when Professor Larrington lived in Japan there was on the TV a commercial for the Honda City, complete with chorus of ladies joyfully singing “Shitty Shitty Shitty!”

Bang Bang Bang!