what I have learned today.

[LittleWheelsandBig]

That audax and randonneur are different.

Not in the UK.

[woollypigs]

That when the youth talk about a person they find attractive and beautiful they said that they are - tidy. As in - Damn, she is tidy.

I better stop using sick, which is sooo 2012.

[David Martin]

That falcons are more closely related to parrots than to hawks

[Cudzoziemiec]

That some of the people living in the Chartists settlement at Snigs End are the descendants of the original Chartists of 1847. And that Chartist colours were green and pink.

[David Martin]

That Dr Angela Merkel has a PhD in quantum chemistry

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[Basil]

What I have leaned today is
Not much Welsh.

First two hour class for numpties tonight.  Unfortunately I missed the first week of term as i had to be in Reading last week.

Oh my brane fecking hurts.   

[fuzzy]

That a mass of starlings (as in those doing ariel ballet and turning the sky into an art gallery) is called a Murmaration. Lovely word.

[Legs]

That power ballad deluxe I Found Someone, made popular by poodle-haired Cher, was in fact written by poodle-mulletted soft-rock nabob Michael Bolton for Laura Branigan, whose woefully underpowered version sounds almost as wrong as Russ Ballard's original Since You've Been Gone.

[ElyDave]

That a mass of starlings (as in those doing ariel ballet and turning the sky into an art gallery) is called a Murmaration. Lovely word.

There is another group of birds (I forget which, not the Spice Girls ) that is called a sussuration

[Legs]

There is another group of birds (I forget which, not the Spice Girls ) that is called a sussuration

sparrows.

[Paul]

That my Dad's Dad was a commandant in the Irish Army and was in the guard of honour at the funeral of Michael Collins.

[Kim]

That in Denmark they have special bins for recycling flamingos.

[Basil]

That in Denmark they have special bins for recycling flamingos.

Anyway.  I may be the last person on earth to learn this, but during a chat with farmer type in pub tonight, I learned that the David Brown of tractor fame is the DB of Aston Martin DBn.
Gear boxes, apparently.

[Cudzoziemiec]

That in Denmark they have special bins for recycling flamingos.

I need to know about this. More precisely, Bairdy otp needs to know about this.

[Feline]

Today I learned that there are certain people who have it in for you no matter what. The best way to deal with them is to be right up in their face to spite them for ever 

[Kim]

Chipshop vinegar isn't vinegar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-brewed_condiment

[Gattopardo]

Chipshop vinegar isn't vinegar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-brewed_condiment

Depends on the chipshop.

[Gattopardo]

I just figured out how and why I know the difference.  Having lived near Worcester famous for the sarson factory and the sauce it was one of the things we learnt.

Also look at things like the mother of vinegar.

[T42]

Chipshop vinegar isn't vinegar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-brewed_condiment

The French have a saying "you don't catch flies with vinegar", but the funny thing is that it's the acetic acid released by decomposing fruit that attracts them.

[Andrij]

Last night...

It's not only cyclists who like to gather at Hyde Park Corner, skaters meet there for their Friday Night Skate to the Coast.

[Mr Larrington]

Chipshop vinegar isn't vinegar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-brewed_condiment

Len Deighton mentioned this in "Horse Under Water": when the drugs expert asks "Harry Palmer" if he knows what acetic acid is, "Harry" replies "Yes, it's what my local supermarket sells as vinegar".

[spokenword]

Chipshop vinegar isn't vinegar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-brewed_condiment

To save on carriage it also comes sans water, i.e. as a concentrate, and is imbibed in this state to prove ones manliness amongst the staff!

[Aunt Maud]

That in Denmark they have special bins for recycling flamingos.

In Danish, flamingo can also mean polystyrene.

[Jakob W]

Chipshop vinegar isn't vinegar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-brewed_condiment

How much vinegar would you have to be getting through for it to make a dent in your profits? Isn't malt vinegar about a pound a litre?

(In the brewed-but-not-distilled column, aren't most alcopops brewed to strength rather than spirits+mixer? I was always surprised trading standards allowed Smirnoff Ice to get away with that.)

[David Martin]

Is vinegar legitimate food for certain faiths if it is brewed?