http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings
My saints day is my birthday. My parents (being atheist) claim no idea of the coincidence.
So, just like all ofa few ofthe X Factor people then.
Florence Foster Jenkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins)
;D
Florence Foster Jenkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins)
;D
I own the album depicted ;D
Fan death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death)
Fan death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death)
you have two sisters called Gregory?My saints day is my birthday. My parents (being atheist) claim no idea of the coincidence.
My mother always wanted a boy (she'd already had my two older sisters) called Gregory.
I was born about 6 weeks prematurely...
...on the feast of St Gregory the Great.
Florence Foster Jenkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins)
;D
D. B. Cooper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper)I learnt about this when I started working in the wonderful world of DVD subtitling. It was given as an example of a reference which may be known to its original target audience but needs explaining or replacing for localisation purposes.
I was slightly too young to remember this. What a story, and what a mystery.
The dispute in pronuncation is said to have lain at the heart of the enmity between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, with Brown adopting the traditional Scottish pronunciation and Blair pronouncing it as if it was the Stone of Scone. Memoranda from Tony Blair's office published in the Daily Telegraph in June 2011 were annotated by Gordon Brown and Ed Balls with scone related comments.
In the 1920s some people proposed draining the Mediterranean Sea. :o
Atlantropa (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Atlantropa)
In the 1920s some people proposed draining the Mediterranean Sea. :o
Atlantropa (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Atlantropa)
How on Earth does someone with such a grandiose and barking scheme manage to stay out of the loony bin?
In the 1920s some people proposed draining the Mediterranean Sea. :o
Atlantropa (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Atlantropa)
How on Earth does someone with such a grandiose and barking scheme manage to stay out of the loony bin?
Arthur C Clarke used the idea in one of his novels...
Rendevous with Rama - it's mentioned as an aside.
The bit I don't get is the hydro power station in the dam - won't that just let the med fill back up again? Or are they relying on evaporation?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DartitisNeeds rewriting
As if it's a serious medical condition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mull_of_Kintyre_test
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mull_of_Kintyre_test
Do I dare asked how you stumbled upon that?
Apparently someone tried to build an aircraft carrier out of sawdust and ice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pycrete (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pycrete)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mull_of_Kintyre_test
Do I dare asked how you stumbled upon that?
http://boingboing.net/2012/01/26/experts-concerned-at-big-ben.html
Ye gods! I almost lost my tea!(click to show/hide)
:hand:
When creating the surface of the road some 2.5 million Mills & Boon novels were pulped and mixed into the tarmac to help the surface absorbency.
End of the war
Dissatisfaction with the conduct of the war was growing with the public in Britain and in other countries. On Sunday, January 21, 1855, a "snowball riot" occurred in Trafalgar Square near St. Martin-in-the-Field in which 1,500 people gathered to protest the war by pelting busses, cabs and pedestrians with snow balls.[60] When the police intervened, the snowballs were directed at them. The riot was finally put down by troops and police acting with truncheons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkeuomorphThat's great, thanks.
This might be of interest to Audaxers (and others) staying in Aust:There's a bloke who does summatorother in Bristol CTC who has a photo (as opposed to the album cover) of that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aust
...
Aust Ferry
Main article: Aust Ferry
Bob Dylan was photographed in 1966 standing outside the Aust Ferry ticket office. In the murky background is the Severn Bridge. The photo was used to publicise Martin Scorsese's film about Dylan, "No Direction Home".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkeuomorphA term most familiar to readers of J E Gordon's simple engineering book "Structures", although he spelt it differehtly. The best modern example is probably film grain added in post-production to digitally-shot Hollywood movies. Also, the obsession with making any large areas of plastic either wood- or leather-grained, although the latter has died off over rceent years.
This might be of interest to Audaxers (and others) staying in Aust:I went there today. Just because. You can see the ruins of the ferry ticket office, with a turnstile and small building, half-brick, half-wooden, and a concrete path down to the remains of the wooden jetty. It's a surprisingly popular spot with people looking for fossils or flotsam and jetsam or something, and families with dads yacking on about the old ferry when they were a lad. Triassic cliffs, red, yellow and black, rather pretty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aust
...
Aust Ferry
Main article: Aust Ferry
Bob Dylan was photographed in 1966 standing outside the Aust Ferry ticket office. In the murky background is the Severn Bridge. The photo was used to publicise Martin Scorsese's film about Dylan, "No Direction Home".
http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_PageThe presence of a scottish wikipedia, with articles about Finnish rock bands, must prove that disk-space and bandwidth are now much too cheap.
The people of Eckernförde are particulary known for their fondness for ice-cream, which they often enjoy by the seaside on warm Summer's days.
It's worth it for http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose alone.
Iron is a chemical element in the periodic chart that haes the seembol Fe (L.: Ferrum) an atomic nummer 26. Airn is a group 8 an period 4 Metal. Airn is kent for being the last element made bi stellar nucleosynthesis, an thus the maist wechtie element that disna require a supernova or seemilar catacleesmic event for tae be furmed. It is, tharefore, the maist rowthie wechtie metal in the universe.
Ռեյ Բրեդբերի (անգլերեն՝ Raymond Douglas "Ray" Bradbury 1920թ․ օգոստոսի 22, Ուոկիգան, Իլինոյս, ԱՄՆ — 2012թ․ հունիսի 5, Լոս Անջելես, ԱՄՆ) ամերիկյան նշանավոր ֆանտաստ գրող, ֆանտաստիկ ժանրի ստեղծագործությունների համար տրվող «Նեբյուլա» և «Հյուգո» գրական մրցանակների դափնեկիր։ Բրեդբերիի բազմաթիվ ստեղծագործություններից առավել հայտնի են «Մարսի տարեգրությունները» (1950, անգլերեն՝ The Martian Chronicles) պատմվածքների ժողովածուն, «451 ըստ Ֆարենհայթի» (1953, անգլերեն՝ Fahrenheit 451), «Գինի խլածաղկից» (1957, անգլերեն՝ Dandelion Wine) վիպակները, ինչպես նաև «Ամպրոպի ձայնը» (1952, անգլերեն՝ A Sound of Thunder), «Աշխարհի վերջին գիշերը» (1951, անգլերեն՝ The Last Night of the World), «Ողջ ամառը մեկ օրում» (1954, անգլերեն՝ All Summer in a Day) պատվածքները և այլն:
რეიმონდ დაგლას ბრედბერი (ინგლ. Ray Douglas Bradbury; დ. 22 აგვისტო, 1920 - გ. 6 ივნისი, 2012) — ამერიკელი მწერალი, რომელიც მოღვაწეობდა ფანტასტიკის, საშინელებათა, სამეცნიერო ფანტასტიკისა და დეტექტივების ჟანრში.
The first one is rather pretty!
Is the second one (wild guess) Georgian?
The first one is rather pretty!
Is the second one (wild guess) Georgian?
Yes, first one I believe is Armenian.
The first one is rather pretty!
Is the second one (wild guess) Georgian?
Yes, first one I believe is Armenian.
Wow. Can you read the Georgian at all?
The first one is rather pretty!
Is the second one (wild guess) Georgian?
Yes, first one I believe is Armenian.
Wow. Can you read the Georgian at all?
Two gunboats and three light cruisers diplomacy against a country armed with 2 cannons and a few machine guns.More to do with keeping Zanzibar out of the hands of the Germans than anything else.
Not Britain's finest hour by any means.
Two gunboats and three light cruisers diplomacy against a country armed with 2 cannons and a few machine guns.Watch out Jersey ;)
Not Britain's finest hour by any means.
Something I came across researching a ships history for a weather project.
The shortest recorded war in history lasted 38 minutes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War)
quickly converted into single-purpose sexual missiles
The Football War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_War) is a contender for the weirdest title, and was a very short one, too.I remember that!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
Does exactly what it says on the tin. Literally.
;D :sick:
Last Saturday while I slept off the effects of the FNRTTC, Mrs Hall went to Sainsbury's. And backed into another motor. It's a Vauxhall VX2300 GLS, something I'm not familiar with, so I looked it up on t'web. Wikipedia has an article about shite old Vauxhalls and scrolling down has a picture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vauxhall_VX_490.jpg) of a shiny VX2300 GLS. The very one that Mrs. Hall clouted.Gosh! I hope it's going to be all right.
I was looking at the entry for Shakin' Stevens (I don't know why*), and found out that he had played gigs for the YCL. :oYorkshire Clarion Library?
ETA: * Actually, I do. I was looking up Stuart Colman, who was a member of Pinkerton's Assorted Colours, one hit wonders mentioned in PopMaster, and also Flying Machine, another one hit wonder, before unexpectedly becoming a Radio 1 DJ playing rock & roll, then championing (and later producing) a rockabilly cult icon called Michael Barratt
Young Communist League, as any fule kno ;DNah, that other thread has the real answer - it's the Yellowbelly Cyclists Legion.
Conflict Kitchen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_Kitchen)
Only around a 3 hour drive from my parents. May visit if they're still running next time I'm back in the US.
Before someone calls me mad, the trip would be combined with one or two minor detours along the way, such as visiting extended family.
Just found the 7" of this forgotten masterpiece, in the "Hooked on Classics" mould
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgKDKyl-EKE
That Fagging is no longer practiced in Our Great Schools.I weas trying to explain the warming toilet seats duty to one of the younger girls at work. She didn't believe it. I can imagine Clegg warming Cameron's seat every time he needs to drop a copper bolt.
Perhaps someone should tell Clegg Minor that he doesn't have to do it.
That would be one of Osbourne's dutiesThat Fagging is no longer practiced in Our Great Schools.I weas trying to explain the warming toilet seats duty to one of the younger girls at work. She didn't believe it. I can imagine Clegg warming Cameron's seat every time he needs to drop a copper bolt.
Perhaps someone should tell Clegg Minor that he doesn't have to do it.
* Actually, my mum was born in Bootle, but, as she moved to Dudley as a baby, it'd be quibbling to even mention it. In fact, forget I said anything ;D
I had to explain basic hydraulics to someone the other day :(
I had to explain basic hydraulics to someone the other day :(
To be fair, there has never been a need for me to know how hydraulics (or electrics, or engines, or computers for that matter) work, so I have never needed to dig further.
I wish I hadn't been totally put off science by the things that go bang faction though :(
I had to explain basic hydraulics to someone the other day :(
To be fair, I do tend to think of hydraulics (and on a bad day, calculus) using electrical analogies.
Erna Low is not on Wikipedia.erm I can understand why it was refused.
Someone tried to submit an article & it was refused. The grounds for refusal apply ten times over to some other Wikipedia articles I've seen.
http://wpedia.goo.ne.jp/enwiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Erna_Low (http://wpedia.goo.ne.jp/enwiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Erna_Low)
Yeah, good reason, but that wasn't one of the reasons given for refusal.
This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia.
Ive eaten a wormburger to see what would happen.
I await the outcome with baited breath.
;)
He then moved on to be a milkman for Hanns Dairies, in Factory Road, now Wells Place. His time working in Eastleigh on a horse-drawn milk-float gave him his inspiration for his hit record, Ernie,the fastest milkman in the West.[17][18] In Benny's honour a plaque has been put up close to the site of the now demolished Hanns Dairies building[18] and a new road has been named Benny Hill Close, though many of the people who had bought the new homes were not happy with the decision.[19]
Thomas William Green (30 March 1894 – 29 March 1975) was a British racewalker who won a gold medal in the men's 50km walk at the 1932 Summer Olympics. The son of a police constable, Green could not walk until the age of five, owing to his affliction with rickets. He lied about his age and joined the British Army in 1906 and served during World War I, where he was wounded on three occasions and gassed while fighting in France. Returning to Britain, he eventually settled in Eastleigh where he worked at a railway works before being encouraged by a blind friend to take up racewalking.Nice bit of nominative wossname going on there.
The word fedora comes from the title of an 1882 play by dramatist Victorien Sardou, Fédora, written for Sarah Bernhardt
That there has been an entire sub-genre of music called Filk, associated with sci-fi & fantasy, apparently:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filk_music
That there has been an entire sub-genre of music called Filk, associated with sci-fi & fantasy, apparently:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filk_music
Your link isn't to the english version of wikipedia.It's possible that I'm misremembering, but I could have sworn that, when I created the link at the beginning of this article (http://www.ukcyclist.co.uk/ksw600), it was in English (second word in).
Crazy, someone trying to make a point perhaps? A bit of a fail from Google Translate on that page too "We are not yet able to translate from Breton into French" ;D
I don't know why but I find this whole Xeer thing very fascinating. This is the kind of altruism western world lacks.
A guurti (court) is traditionally formed beneath an acacia tree, where judges arbitrate a dispute until both parties are satisfied. This process can sometimes lead to several days' worth of discussions.
To be fair, there has never been a need for me to know how hydraulics (or electrics, or engines, or computers for that matter) work, so I have never needed to dig further. I wish I hadn't been totally put off science by the things that go bang faction though :(
Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart[1] VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963), was an English officer of Belgian and Irish descent. He fought in the Boer War, World War I, and World War II, was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip and ear, survived a plane crash, tunneled out of a POW camp, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor wouldn't amputate them. He later said "frankly I had enjoyed the war."
Bloody Norah - what an extraordinary man. Can you imagine the tales he could have told?
...on 28 July 2010 the singer finally revealed that he is indeed not the singer of any of the songs in the first four albums released under the name Plastic Bertrand
Work took me to Stiffkey this week. The (de-frocked) rector there was killed by a lion. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Davidson)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Priapus_Church
They love the cock.
In July 1943, as commanding officer, he led 2 Commando from their landing site at Catania in Sicily with his trademark Scottish broadsword slung around his waist, a longbow and arrows around his neck and his bagpipes under his arm, which he also did in the landings at Salerno.
In May 1940 Churchill and his unit, the Manchester Regiment, ambushed a German patrol near L'Epinette, France. Churchill gave the signal to attack by cutting down the enemy Feldwebel (sergeant) with a barbed arrow, becoming the only British soldier known to have felled an enemy with a longbow in WWII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_ChurchillQuoteIn July 1943, as commanding officer, he led 2 Commando from their landing site at Catania in Sicily with his trademark Scottish broadsword slung around his waist, a longbow and arrows around his neck and his bagpipes under his arm, which he also did in the landings at Salerno.QuoteIn May 1940 Churchill and his unit, the Manchester Regiment, ambushed a German patrol near L'Epinette, France. Churchill gave the signal to attack by cutting down the enemy Feldwebel (sergeant) with a barbed arrow, becoming the only British soldier known to have felled an enemy with a longbow in WWII.
(http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/5382/54497029715922036275982.jpg)
Now it makes sence why the Iraqies ran, when it was spewing 300 gram depleted uranium projectiles in vast amounts.
One of the most powerful aircraft cannons ever flown, it fires large depleted uranium armor-piercing shells. In the original design, the pilot could switch between two rates of fire: 2,100 or 4,200 rounds per minute; this was changed to a fixed rate of 3,900 rounds per minute. The cannon takes about half a second to come up to speed, so 50 rounds are fired during the first second, 65 or 70 rounds per second thereafter. The gun is accurate enough to place 80% of its shots within a 40-foot (12.4 m) diameter circle from 4,000 feet (1,220 m) while in flight. The GAU-8 is optimized for a slant range of 4,000 feet (1,220 m) with the A-10 in a 30 degree dive.
Now it makes sence why the Iraqies ran, when it was spewing 300 gram depleted uranium projectiles in vast amounts.QuoteOne of the most powerful aircraft cannons ever flown, it fires large depleted uranium armor-piercing shells. In the original design, the pilot could switch between two rates of fire: 2,100 or 4,200 rounds per minute; this was changed to a fixed rate of 3,900 rounds per minute. The cannon takes about half a second to come up to speed, so 50 rounds are fired during the first second, 65 or 70 rounds per second thereafter. The gun is accurate enough to place 80% of its shots within a 40-foot (12.4 m) diameter circle from 4,000 feet (1,220 m) while in flight. The GAU-8 is optimized for a slant range of 4,000 feet (1,220 m) with the A-10 in a 30 degree dive.
Holy fuckeroo :o
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BlankPage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BlankPage)
Only if you think that inter-war Yugoslavia really was a new state, rather than an expanded Kingdom of Serbia.Possibly. But I don't think there had ever been one Czechoslovak state before and Poland had to reform itself from parts which had no political or administrative connection with each other, so they were coming into being by going from the state of an idea to the state of a state.
Yeah, but neither of those changed as a result of independence. Most of Poland (including the richest, most urbanised parts, with most vehicles) already drove on the right. Czechoslovakia kept driving on the left until the Nazis changed it for them, like Austria - though both were going to change anyway, due to the inconvenience of being in a relatively small block of left-drivers (them & Hungary) completely surrounded by right-drivers.Only if you think that inter-war Yugoslavia really was a new state, rather than an expanded Kingdom of Serbia.Possibly. But I don't think there had ever been one Czechoslovak state before and Poland had to reform itself from parts which had no political or administrative connection with each other, so they were coming into being by going from the state of an idea to the state of a state.
Brazil changed at the same time as Portugal, which is still odd as it had been independent for a century and it's hard to imagine trade and/or cultural links justifying it. Perhaps the Chinese changed as a reaction to Japanese occupation? Maybe both countries and many of the others changed because the USA was the largest source of vehicles? I think that was the reason given for Samoa to change the other way recently, so they could get cheaper used cars from Japan, and I read that Rwanda has similar plans.Yes, Brazil is odd. I don't really buy the 'reaction to Japanese occupation' theory for China. It wasn't something imposed by Japan: it was what China already did. I could believe it for Korea, but the US & Soviet occupation forces changed it casually, by just importing their own rules for their own use & convenience, without asking the Koreans.
We said that to the judge. We said that if we were going to put subliminal messages on our records, it would be ones saying, "Buy more Priest albums."
That a float (as in milk float) is named after a type of cart with a loading bed between the wheels lower than the axles. This was to facilitate the carriage of heavy or unstable items such as milk churns.I didn't know that cart originally referred only to a vehicle with two wheels. So a shopping cart is actually a shopping waggon.
So modern ones are not really floats at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Float_%28horse-drawn%29
Incidentally, the use of the word float for parade vehicles seems not to be related.
That a float (as in milk float) is named after a type of cart with a loading bed between the wheels lower than the axles. This was to facilitate the carriage of heavy or unstable items such as milk churns.I didn't know that cart originally referred only to a vehicle with two wheels. So a shopping cart is actually a shopping waggon.
So modern ones are not really floats at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Float_%28horse-drawn%29
Incidentally, the use of the word float for parade vehicles seems not to be related.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation
This is one of my few OCD things.
I just can't relax enough for a poo if the paper is "under". I have to change it.
Even visiting chums' houses I will change it around if it is in the "incorrect" orientation, even though though I'm only in there for a wee.
And my bikes are carts? :)
Round these parts, it's a shopping *trolley*.
... the work bog roll is definitely softer than it used to be. A few years ago you held in all no.2s until you got home, for fear of abrasion.
Two gunboats and three light cruisers diplomacy against a country armed with 2 cannons and a few machine guns.
Not Britain's finest hour by any means.
Now it makes sence why the Iraqies ran, when it was spewing 300 gram depleted uranium projectiles in vast amounts.QuoteOne of the most powerful aircraft cannons ever flown, it fires large depleted uranium armor-piercing shells. In the original design, the pilot could switch between two rates of fire: 2,100 or 4,200 rounds per minute; this was changed to a fixed rate of 3,900 rounds per minute. The cannon takes about half a second to come up to speed, so 50 rounds are fired during the first second, 65 or 70 rounds per second thereafter. The gun is accurate enough to place 80% of its shots within a 40-foot (12.4 m) diameter circle from 4,000 feet (1,220 m) while in flight. The GAU-8 is optimized for a slant range of 4,000 feet (1,220 m) with the A-10 in a 30 degree dive.
Holy fuckeroo :o
He'd been to Dewsbury, then? ;D
He'd been to Dewsbury, then? ;D
He was the Vicar of Thornhill!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Slovak_citizens :thumbsup:??? Are Pingus Slovaks?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_that_most_frequently_use_the_word_%22fuck%22
Lovingly catalogued by someone with too much time on their hands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation
This is one of my few OCD things.
I just can't relax enough for a poo if the paper is "under". I have to change it.
Even visiting chums' houses I will change it around if it is in the "incorrect" orientation, even though though I'm only in there for a wee.
Whilst watching The Sound of Music yesterday (never seen it before) I went a-Wiki-ing. Georg von Trapp's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Johannes_von_Trapp) first wife was the grand daughter of Robert Whitehead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Whitehead), torpedo inventor. He's buried a handful of miles from here in Worth churchyard, Crawley.Dunno: have you tried Wiki?
Follow up question: Whitehead is credited as inventing the torpedo in 1866, which was presented to the Austrian Navy. In simple terms, which side were the Austrians (presumably Austro-Hungarian Empire) on at that time?
...The Austrian side. The system of alliances which led to everyone joining in WW1 didn't exist. Austria & some other German states fought Prussia & some other German states, & Italy (which wanted Venice) fought a war that year. The outnumbered & outgunned Austrians defeated the Italians at sea, but lost the war on land.
Follow up question: Whitehead is credited as inventing the torpedo in 1866, which was presented to the Austrian Navy. In simple terms, which side were the Austrians (presumably Austro-Hungarian Empire) on at that time?
SFW.I've had it, from eating the local food in Malta. Good way to lose weight fast, although you get explosive yellow poo.
There is a real illness known as Beaver Fever: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_fever
Railbikes. You can hire them.Did you ever read this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draisine
Since then I've used a water filter on all my Black Country trips.I never realised Dudley was so risky...
Good grief. Following on from that, I think this establishment probably deserves a mention, too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer_World
(http://www.barometerworld.co.uk/jpg/phil_barometer.jpg)
Good grief. Following on from that, I think this establishment probably deserves a mention, too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer_World
(http://www.barometerworld.co.uk/jpg/phil_barometer.jpg)
I can't imagine anyone wasting their time and money on someone like this when there are so many legitimate psychics out there.
The Scots used to eat halal.Lot more to halal than not eating pork.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_pork_taboo
and (d) mental health problems.
NB. I'm not mocking mental health sufferers - some of those "Freemen on the land" types are genuinely not the full picnic.
In September 2009 it was reported that Canadian flax exports had been contaminated by a de-registered genetically modified (GM) variety, known as Triffid.
I am especially fond of pseudolegal woo, especially fuckwits like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemen_on_the_land
It seems to be a pretty significant overlap with (a) recreational drug users, (b) people who feel that paying tax is optional, and (c) fuckwit conspiracy theorists.
In the same vein, "Mad" Jack Churchill. Great name, better story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill
At one point, Barnum noticed that people were lingering too long at his exhibits. He posted signs indicating "This Way to the Egress". Not knowing that "Egress" was another word for "Exit", people followed the signs to what they assumed was a fascinating exhibit...and ended up outside.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_ChurchillQuoteIn July 1943, as commanding officer, he led 2 Commando from their landing site at Catania in Sicily with his trademark Scottish broadsword slung around his waist, a longbow and arrows around his neck and his bagpipes under his arm, which he also did in the landings at Salerno.QuoteIn May 1940 Churchill and his unit, the Manchester Regiment, ambushed a German patrol near L'Epinette, France. Churchill gave the signal to attack by cutting down the enemy Feldwebel (sergeant) with a barbed arrow, becoming the only British soldier known to have felled an enemy with a longbow in WWII.
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'Ard as nails, or what?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_pulling
Suddenly it becomes clear why geese have such an attitude problem... :sick:
Ah yes, "Mad Jack". Lived to be about 90, which must have surprised a lot of people.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_ChurchillQuoteIn July 1943, as commanding officer, he led 2 Commando from their landing site at Catania in Sicily with his trademark Scottish broadsword slung around his waist, a longbow and arrows around his neck and his bagpipes under his arm, which he also did in the landings at Salerno.QuoteIn May 1940 Churchill and his unit, the Manchester Regiment, ambushed a German patrol near L'Epinette, France. Churchill gave the signal to attack by cutting down the enemy Feldwebel (sergeant) with a barbed arrow, becoming the only British soldier known to have felled an enemy with a longbow in WWII.
'Ard as nails, or what?
HAI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE
http://lolcode.org/1.2_spec.html
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I had thought that Merkins were people who lived south of Canadians.
Apparently not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkin
Random Wiki will get you into trouble
I had thought that Merkins were people who lived south of Canadians.
Apparently not.
Q. What's a merkin?
A. A pubic wig.
Oh my!How can a list of cakes not include Flapjack?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cakes
Oh my!How can a list of cakes not include Flapjack?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cakes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_ChinaThe Soviet Union used to put deliberate errors in all maps until some time in the '80s. The aim was supposedly to hinder any invasion and they ended it once they realised the Running Dog Capitalist Pigs had satellite images making it all irrelevant. I'm not convinced that China's aim is necessarily the same though.
Cryptographically-generated offsets in the datum! That's taken a few steps over the line between genius and insanity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_ChinaThe Soviet Union used to put deliberate errors in all maps until some time in the '80s. The aim was supposedly to hinder any invasion and they ended it once they realised the Running Dog Capitalist Pigs had satellite images making it all irrelevant. I'm not convinced that China's aim is necessarily the same though.
Cryptographically-generated offsets in the datum! That's taken a few steps over the line between genius and insanity.
Doesn't the word derive from one meaning 'foreign'?
In 30 years of working in Germany or with Germans I never heard anyone refer to the French as "welsch". It was usually die blöde Franzosen.
Even in the late 19th century, the islanders could communicate with the rest of the world only by lighting a bonfire on the summit of Conachair and hoping a passing ship might see it, or by using the "St Kilda mailboat". This was the invention of John Sands, who visited in 1877. During his stay, a shipwreck left nine Austrian sailors marooned there, and by February supplies were running low. Sands attached a message to a lifebuoy salvaged from the Peti Dubrovacki and threw it into the sea. Nine days later it was picked up in Birsay, Orkney, and a rescue was arranged. The St Kildans, building on this idea, would fashion a piece of wood into the shape of a boat, attach it to a bladder made of sheepskin, and place in it a small bottle or tin containing a message. Launched when the wind came from the north-west, two-thirds of the messages were later found on the west coast of Scotland or, less conveniently, in Norway.
That in Germany "welsch" (from the same root as "Welsh") is applied to the French, but In Switzerland it means Italian. Meanwhile, in Tyrol and South Tyrol they call Italians Italian.
Allegedly.
Banovići (Cyrillic: There is no cyrillic in Banovići Fuck you) is a town and municipality in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Since 1965, sculptures of the winning Princess Kay and other finalists have been carved, one per day, at the Minnesota State Fair. Recent butter sculptures have been carved out of a 90-pound block of Grade A butter, in a walk-in, glass-walled refrigerator. The butter is manufactured by Associated Milk Producers in New Ulm, Minnesota. The butter carving booth is one of the most popular exhibits at the Fair. The carving of the butter sculpture takes 6–8 hours per finalist. For nearly 40 years, Linda Christensen has sculpted the Princesses' butter sculptures. Princesses take their butter sculpture home with them at the end of the Fair.
Spread themselves thin?Very good. That belongs in the bad jokes thread.
Salekhard–Igarka Railway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salekhard%E2%80%93Igarka_Railway), aka Трансполярная магистраль - Transpolar Mainline.
Some more pictures can be seen here (http://politolog.net/russia/doroga-v-nikuda-nastoyashhaya-rossiya-fotoreportazh-bloger/).
Arthur Ransome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ransome), of Swallows and Amazons fame, was married to Trotsky's secretary.There is a book about that, Blood Red, Snow White. A cracking read.
Ooh, I'll look that up. He was also one of the first front-line war correspondents, on the Eastern Front in WW1 for the Times, which is presumably how he ended up with Trotsky's secretary.Arthur Ransome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ransome), of Swallows and Amazons fame, was married to Trotsky's secretary.There is a book about that, Blood Red, Snow White. A cracking read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_having_different_meanings_in_American_and_British_English:_A%E2%80%93LUnder "beaver" the article refers to "female vagina". Is that tautology or am I about to be educated?
What it says on the tin. What it lacks in accuracy it makes up for in scope. Plenty of learn-something-new-every-day fodder there.
This person has a vagina, & self-identifies as a man. Hasn't had any surgery to change it, & I understand it's quite often on show in films.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_having_different_meanings_in_American_and_British_English:_A%E2%80%93LUnder "beaver" the article refers to "female vagina". Is that tautology or am I about to be educated?
What it says on the tin. What it lacks in accuracy it makes up for in scope. Plenty of learn-something-new-every-day fodder there.
Secondly, one of my favourite singers had a son with a name you just couldn't make up. Maybe it's different in America?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_Cline
Secondly, one of my favourite singers had a son with a name you just couldn't make up. Maybe it's different in America?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_Cline
It's different in America, and was probably even more so back then.
Hang on. Are we saying thatSecondly, one of my favourite singers had a son with a name you just couldn't make up. Maybe it's different in America?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_Cline
It's different in America, and was probably even more so back then.
Just found two:i
Firstly I am surprised to find I have never been a member of Chic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chic_%28band%29
The "Casual Sexism" thread is over there ==>Is there a "Childish jokes about suggestive names" thread?
The "Casual Sexism" thread is over there ==>Is there a "Childish jokes about suggestive names" thread?
The village of Edith Weston (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Weston), wot we visited on the Rutland Expedition at the weekend, is named after Edith of Wessex, Queen of England a long long time ago. She had a brother, Harold Godwinson, who came to an untimely end at Battle.
"Mackerel are superb swimmers."
They're fish, ffs. If they weren't superb swimmers, they'd be complete failures at being fish.
"Mackerel are superb swimmers."
They're fish, ffs. If they weren't superb swimmers, they'd be complete failures at being fish.
Reminds me of early-year parenthood, where people were obsessed with trivia like what age the toots started walking.
"Ooh, he's walking already, at 10 months! Such a clever little toot!"
"<panic> Our little toot is not walking at 11 months! Wail!"
What a load of tosh.
How many parents sit around look at their 18-yr olds oaves and nattering:
"Ohh, look how well he walks! I bet he was walking at 10 months!"
I think plenty of parents look at their 18-year-old oaves and mutter "pick your bloody feet up, you can't even walk properly"."Mackerel are superb swimmers."
They're fish, ffs. If they weren't superb swimmers, they'd be complete failures at being fish.
Reminds me of early-year parenthood, where people were obsessed with trivia like what age the toots started walking.
"Ooh, he's walking already, at 10 months! Such a clever little toot!"
"<panic> Our little toot is not walking at 11 months! Wail!"
What a load of tosh.
How many parents sit around look at their 18-yr olds oaves and nattering:
"Ohh, look how well he walks! I bet he was walking at 10 months!"
"Mackerel are superb swimmers."
They're fish, ffs. If they weren't superb swimmers, they'd be complete failures at being fish.
Reminds me of early-year parenthood, where people were obsessed with trivia like what age the toots started walking.
"Ooh, he's walking already, at 10 months! Such a clever little toot!"
"<panic> Our little toot is not walking at 11 months! Wail!"
What a load of tosh.
How many parents sit around look at their 18-yr olds oaves and nattering:
"Ohh, look how well he walks! I bet he was walking at 10 months!"
I don't want to rain on your parade, but parents taking close interest in whether or not their children are hitting developmental milestones is important. Our 3-y-o didn't walk until 18 months, but while many sniffily dismissed this with the "how many 18 year-olds do you see not walking?" line, we could tell that something was amiss and Andrew was subsequently diagnosed with hypermobility in his knees and ankles. With orthotics, he now walks just as well as any his age.Another anecdote: I limped. My mother was worried, doctor dismissed it as "He is attention seeking". She went to another doctor's surgery (30 miles away). I had Perthes disease, no head of femur left. It took 4 years of treatment to recover and I'm lucky to be walking now and it is only due to that treatment that I'm able to walk today.
[1] Penguins, while undeniably crap at being birds, are pretty good at swimming while being Not Fish, so I reckon any fish that's less good at swimming than a penguin is crap at being a fish.
When associated with how fast peregrine falcons are for example, they seem to actually be talking about their plummeting ability - which for me is falling, not flying. But hey ho.It is a powered plummet though, they don't just fall. And they can do about 70mph in level flight.
Does a mudskipper count as a crap fish or a crap amphibian? :-)Neither, a mudskipper is crap at being captain of a boat.
we need rules, validation, corroboration.When associated with how fast peregrine falcons are for example, they seem to actually be talking about their plummeting ability - which for me is falling, not flying. But hey ho.It is a powered plummet though, they don't just fall. And they can do about 70mph in level flight.
In the level flight face-off, Tadarida brasiliensis kicks some serious feathered ass. Plus it's a bat, which is inherently cool.
Bat bombs were an experimental World War II weapon developed by the United States. The bomb consisted of a bomb-shaped casing with over a thousand compartments, each containing a hibernating Mexican Free-tailed Bat with a small timed incendiary bomb attached. Dropped from a bomber at dawn, the casings would deploy a parachute in mid-flight and open to release the bats which would then roost in eaves and attics in a 20-40 mile radius. The incendiaries would start fires in inaccessible places in the largely wood and paper construction of the Japanese cities that were the weapon's intended target.
Someone has been having a laugh with my friends Wikipedia entry:
Francis has a degree in Home economics which he earned at the University of Leeds. Since graduating, Tomas has specialized in cross stitch and croshay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas_Francis
Since he is about 20 stone and current Wale's tight end prop I do feel quite sorry for whoever it was if he finds out :)
Someone has been having a laugh with my friends Wikipedia entry:
Francis has a degree in Home economics which he earned at the University of Leeds. Since graduating, Tomas has specialized in cross stitch and croshay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas_Francis
Since he is about 20 stone and current Wale's tight end prop I do feel quite sorry for whoever it was if he finds out :)
So you didn't feel up to correcting the spelling to "crochet", then? :demon:
Someone has been having a laugh with my friends Wikipedia entry:It was done by some using a mobile whilst in Bridgewater.
Francis has a degree in Home economics which he earned at the University of Leeds. Since graduating, Tomas has specialized in cross stitch and croshay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas_Francis
Since he is about 20 stone and current Wale's tight end prop I do feel quite sorry for whoever it was if he finds out :)
Someone has been having a laugh with my friends Wikipedia entry:It was done by some using a mobile whilst in Bridgewater.
Francis has a degree in Home economics which he earned at the University of Leeds. Since graduating, Tomas has specialized in cross stitch and croshay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas_Francis
Since he is about 20 stone and current Wale's tight end prop I do feel quite sorry for whoever it was if he finds out :)
Erm, which one's Merckx? A couple of them do look a bit as if they've done the old trick of pasting new heads on old bodies.
Erm, which one's Merckx? A couple of them do look a bit as if they've done the old trick of pasting new heads on old bodies.2nd from right, front row. Those brows are unmistakeable. He's smiling, so it is a bit deceptive.
Erm, which one's Merckx? A couple of them do look a bit as if they've done the old trick of pasting new heads on old bodies.2nd from right, front row. Those brows are unmistakeable. He's smiling, so it is a bit deceptive.
That the CAN bus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus) protocol for controlling car electrics is also used by DI2
RZ's image is the 1970 Molteni team and the riders are named, Merckx rode for Faema until they folded at the end of the season. I think this might be the one Mr zilla wantedWas kinda my point. Interesting about the change in physique over the decades. I believe there have been similar changes in other sports, though in other directions; post-professionalisation rugby union being probably a noticeable example.
Molteni 1971
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7579/16115986661_b8128b2bb8_b.jpg)
Merckx with the bike, Basso to the left
Amazing the physique differences with the modern peloton
EDIT: x post with RZ
*BREAKING NEWS*
Catatonia declares independence from Spain 27th October 2017.
Not to be confused with Katatonia, a Swedish metal band. Or Catalonia, a country in the Mediterranean. .
Or Catatonia, a shit Welsh pop band with a frankly terrifying frontwoman.
Ganja International Airport (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganja_International_Airport)
When Prince Louis of Battenberg acknowledged being the father of Lillie Langtry's as-yet unborn child, his parents had him assigned to HMS Inconstant.I'm more surprised by the choice of ship name. It seems to run against all the traditional military virtues.
Quite the lass, that one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillie_Langtry
When Prince Louis of Battenberg acknowledged being the father of Lillie Langtry's as-yet unborn child, his parents had him assigned to HMS Inconstant.I'm more surprised by the choice of ship name. It seems to run against all the traditional military virtues.
Quite the lass, that one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillie_Langtry
Beat me to it.
Judging from the chequered histories of most of the Inconstant avatars, Their Lordships were exercising their talent for irony:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Inconstant
Also USS Saucy, USS Pert and USS Temptress :o
Dorodango, the Japanese craft of rolling spheres of mud.I so want to go outside and start trying this.
Crick had agreed to become a fellow on the basis that no chapel be placed at Churchill. A donation was later made by Lord Beaumont of Whitley to Churchill College for the establishment of one, and the majority of fellows voted in favour of it. Sir Winston Churchill wrote to him saying that no-one need enter the chapel unless they wished to do so, and therefore it did not need to be a problem. Crick, in short order, replied with a letter dated 12 October 1961 accompanied by a cheque for 10 guineas saying that, if that were the case, the enclosed money should be used for the establishment of a brothel.
Born in Besançon as the son of wood turner Jean-Baptiste Blavet,[1] a profession which he followed for some time, he accidentally became the possessor of a flute and soon became the finest player in France.
Of Michel Blavet, 18th century French composer:QuoteBorn in Besançon as the son of wood turner Jean-Baptiste Blavet,[1] a profession which he followed for some time, he accidentally became the possessor of a flute and soon became the finest player in France.
Irony in software engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_matter_of_programming
The first song we wrote is about Natalie Portman's tapeworm using her as a glove puppet to lead an uprising in Hollywood.
A crowning moment of diplomacy. :demon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks
There is no First Amendment exception that applies to yelling "fire" in a crowded theater.[32] The idea comes from a court decision regarding distribution of pamphlets in opposition to the draft during World War I. But, even absent such an exception, the First Amendment will not necessarily apply if by yelling "fire" a person infringes upon the constitutional right to "life" that laws against raising a false public alarm are founded upon.[33] There is also not a hate speech exception to the First Amendment, as the law only prohibits direct, targeted threats toward specific persons.[34]I've often heard this "yelling fire in a crowded theatre" thing but never that it was "an exception to the First Amendment," just a stupid thing to do (unless there really is a fire). I guess that's mainly cos I'm not Usanian, but it's just an example of a misconception about misconceptions.
The Wikipedia article for "List of Whales" has "Cetacean Needed" if it was missing an image or scale diagram of the creature in question.;D You ought to have made that up but it's true! :D
After the Russians entered Poland and WW2 in Europe ended, many Polish resistance fighters resumed fighting their new occupiers. The last wasn't killed until 1963.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursed_soldiers
This chap should surely be a national hero - Henry Maudslay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Maudslay).John Ramsbottom must run him pretty close.
Stone frigates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_frigate) are a thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalously_numbered_roads_in_Great_Britain
Do not click, it's very, very dull.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_llamaThat is awesome.
😀👍https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_llamaThat is awesome.
😀👍https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_llamaThat is awesome.
There is a road sign somewhere near Monmouth warning of Welsh and English alpacas. Alpacoed. I don't know if those would be his.
Where the A38 used to go past the eastern end of the runway for Bristol airport (the road has now been diverted), there were level-crossing style lights to halt traffic for take offs and landings.
Where the A38 used to go past the eastern end of the runway for Bristol airport (the road has now been diverted), there were level-crossing style lights to halt traffic for take offs and landings.
Mal Volio,, formerly OTP, has alpacas.....
There is a road sign somewhere near Monmouth warning of Welsh and English alpacas. Alpacoed. I don't know if those would be his.
That's one of those warning signs where you're never sure what to do. Beware of livestock in the road I suppose. But it's Wales, so you're already on the lookout for sheep, slow arafs, Tregaron mountain toads and so on, a specific warning for aplacas seems redundant.
See also: "Danger: Golfers" and those ones warning of aircraft.
There's a beware of the duck sign on a road near Bangor.
War Emergency Power (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_emergency_power)
Never heard of it! Systems where (piston) aeroplane engines can have a massive boost of power in a short time.
War Emergency Power (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_emergency_power)
Never heard of it! Systems where (piston) aeroplane engines can have a massive boost of power in a short time.
War Emergency Power (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_emergency_power)
Never heard of it! Systems where (piston) aeroplane engines can have a massive boost of power in a short time.
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Roald Dahl mentions it in his autobiography. It was known to pilots, in his unit at least, as "going through the gate". He describes using it to escape some dastardly Huns by flying at about six feet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_prognosticator
Merryweather lobbied for the government to make use of his design around the British coastline but they instead opted for Robert FitzRoy's storm glass.
Hungry now, you utter GIT ;D
Swastika, Ontario (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_Ontario)
Pirate Metal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_metal) is actually a legitimate musical genre :jurek:
This came up on IRC earlier... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster
King Heinrich VI was forced to intervene
King Heinrich was said to have survived only because he sat in an alcove with a stone floor.
This came up on IRC earlier... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster
Pirate Metal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_metal) is actually a legitimate musical genre :o
Pirate Metal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_metal) is actually a legitimate musical genre :o
https://youtu.be/1AaNj7W4AKo
Nominative determinism: It seems her name is Patty Gurdy.Pirate Metal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_metal) is actually a legitimate musical genre :o
https://youtu.be/1AaNj7W4AKo
I think I've just fallen in love with the hurdy-gurdy player :thumbsup:
Cathays (/kəˈteɪz/ kə-TAYZ; Welsh: usually Cathays[2] but also Y Waun Ddyfal) is a district and community in the centre of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It is an old suburb of Cardiff established in 1875. It is very densely populated and contains many older terraced houses giving it a Victorian era atmosphere. The area falls into the Cathays ward. It is the third most populous community in Cardiff, having a population of 18,002 in 2011, only a third born in hell.That's a very Cathays-specific post.
not to be confused with that bloke off of TV's The League Of GentlemenAlles klar, Herr Larrington, alles klar.
As a dedicated follower of the alternative (I’m a ‘bent rider after all) I’ve always wanted to liKe the Hurdy Gurdy, but I just can’t. I’ve tried a few time, and even watched some of the more recent players, but those drones are just too much like my tinnitus for me to actually enjoy the sound.
I watched some of Patty Gurdy’s videos a while ago as I was showing my many children that I wasn’t lying about there being an instrument called a hurdy-gurdy.. She’s a bit good.
I think I might be into Pirate metal now, arrr.
Patty Gurdy?Pirate Metal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_metal) is actually a legitimate musical genre :o
https://youtu.be/1AaNj7W4AKo
I think I've just fallen in love with the hurdy-gurdy player :thumbsup:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Irish_inventions_and_discoveriesI fail to spot a very important Irish invention there...
Spot the 300 year gap LOL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Sheridan_(cyclist)
LEJoG in 2 days 11 hours and 7 minutes! :o
...
My aim is to talk to them about their record breaking exploits, their motivations and their background. Most of all I am interested in listening to them describing their record breaking rides from their own point of view.
1) RRA in conversation with Eileen Sheridan
https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with (https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with)
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Have a listen...
My aim is to talk to them about their record breaking exploits, their motivations and their background. Most of all I am interested in listening to them describing their record breaking rides from their own point of view.
1) RRA in conversation with Eileen Sheridan
https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with (https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Sheridan_(cyclist)
LEJoG in 2 days 11 hours and 7 minutes! :o
she completed the 1,000 miles in three days and one hour, smashing the women's record and finishing two hours and twenty minutes down on the record men's time
Have a listen...
My aim is to talk to them about their record breaking exploits, their motivations and their background. Most of all I am interested in listening to them describing their record breaking rides from their own point of view.
1) RRA in conversation with Eileen Sheridan
https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with (https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with)
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It was listening to that* that prompted me to google Eileen Sheridan. How come I'd not heard of her before?
*That was linked in our Corps Colonel's blog on Friday. One of our Lt Cols, a lady of my acquaintance, is attempting to break that record. I don't know the full details, but she set off some time on Sunday and by 1000 yesterday was in Kendal and still going strong.
This story is a great demonstration of my maxim that any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no." The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it.
D. B. Cooper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper)
I was slightly too young to remember this. What a story, and what a mystery.
D. B. Cooper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper)
I was slightly too young to remember this. What a story, and what a mystery.
Back to the OP - the Storyville documentary about this is on BBC4 now.
D. B. Cooper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper)
I was slightly too young to remember this. What a story, and what a mystery.
Back to the OP - the Storyville documentary about this is on BBC4 now.
Watched this earlier this evening. Fascinating Stuffs, though I reckon they downplayed the notion that he died either during or immediately after the jump. Though if he did it adds another level to the “how did some of the money fetch up at Tina Bar nine years later” question.
As I was walking the dog1 in the park this morning we chanced upon a woman (Probably late 30s) and her dog coming the other way. Both dogs decided to have a bark-fest. As we were each admonishing our respective mutts she unexpectedly let out a tremendous fart, at which point she scuttled away. ;D
She wasn't quick thinking enough to blame her dog.
Childishly, I'm still sniggering about it.
1 We've had to admit that this is her actual name.
In 2007, the pun "Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me", spoken by Kenneth Williams, was voted the funniest one-line joke in film history.[10][11] The line was not written by Rothwell but borrowed with permission from a Take It from Here script written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.
Vol de sirop d'érable du siècle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist
This deserves crossposting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chairs
The ball chair is very cool in a 1960s futuristic space-age way, but their chosen bar stool is just weird.This deserves crossposting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chairs
How do you move a dragline excavator 13 miles to its new working location?
You walk it at 0.01mph.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundew_(dragline) (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundew_(dragline))
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat-roofed_pub
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_vapour_turbine
This sounds like one of those bonkers thought experiments, but they were actually used. It's not recorded whether anything
went wrong. Decommissioning must have been interesting.
To coin a phrase...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_postillion_has_been_struck_by_lightning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine
He attempted to walk through walls himself—but failed...
There was a real Saul Goodman (a musician), not just the dodgy lawyer from Breaking Bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Goodman_(percussionist)
It's so long since I used an immobile phone I'd forgotten it's possible to dial just the "number" without the "code"!