So something I learned the other day was that there were for a time (Feb – Dec 1846) Letters Patent for a colony of North Australia based on Transportation to Gladstone. Interestingly by the time the revocation arrived in Sydney Barney had already left and had to be recalled.

What did you learn today?

MartinB said:

So something I learned the other day was that there were for a time (Feb – Dec 1846) Letters Patent for a colony of North Australia based on Transportation to Gladstone. Interestingly by the time the revocation arrived in Sydney Barney had already left and had to be recalled.

What did you learn today?

I found out that there was such a game as lawn darts. About which: in April 1987, seven-year-old Michelle Snow was killed by a lawn dart thrown by one of her brothers’ playmates in the backyard of their home in Riverside, California. The darts had been hidden in the storage room. Michelle’s father, David, began a crusade to get lawn darts banned, claiming that there was no way to keep children from getting their hands on lawn darts short of a full ban.

Due in part to Snow’s lobbying, on December 19, 1988, the CPSC reinstated the outright ban on lawn darts. In the previous eight years, 6,100 people had been sent to the emergency room due to lawn darts. Out of that total, 81 percent were 15 or younger, and half of them were 10 or younger. On the week the commission voted to ban the product, an 11-year-old girl in Tennessee was hit by a lawn dart and sent into a coma.

That’s something I hadn’t known about until today.

MartinB said:

So something I learned the other day was that there were for a time (Feb – Dec 1846) Letters Patent for a colony of North Australia based on Transportation to Gladstone. Interestingly by the time the revocation arrived in Sydney Barney had already left and had to be recalled.

What did you learn today?

That the torpedo attack on the hospital ship Centaur was out of character, as the Japanese had been meticulous in following the rules governing the protection of hospital ships.

Geoff D said:

That the torpedo attack on the hospital ship Centaur was out of character, as the Japanese had been meticulous in following the rules governing the protection of hospital ships.

It’s easy to be ‘meticulous’ about not striking at difficult targets.

Centaur was moving at 12 knots, a ‘good’ speed from a submarine’s viewpoint, and wasn’t escorted, and was in an area considered relatively, but not entirely, safe from submarine attack, and on a fairly predictable course close to the coast.

American hospital ships of the time were usually were capable of 19-20 knots, and because of the nature of their cargo, didn’t dawdle about (neither did the Centaur, but…). As well they were usually escorted, and, within the cruise range of Japanese submarines, usually on trans-ocean routes which could be varied from trip to trip, and with lots of room for manoeuvering like zig-zagging.

When they weren’t in transit, they were usually anchored within anchorages which had a heavy and constant anti-submarine screen.

A lack of opportunity doesn’t necessarily demonstrate a lack of will, although it may be claimed as such.

Cap’n, I’ve just spent a day going through papers from the inquiry into the sinking of the Centaur. One submission lists specific instances of the Japanese going out of their way to avoid hitting hospital ships and hospital installations. The “Manunda” in Darwin harbour was accidentally hit by a bomb intended for a nearby warship, but was avoided after the warship moved away. In the Philippines, the Japanese actually told the Americans that they would postpone a bombing raid until a hospital was moved away from the intended target. Those are the two I remember off hand. When I have time, I’ll dig out and scan the official document on the subject. In fact, the initial Japanese denial of the sinking of the Centaur was most likely because the Japanese Government itself didn’t believe that one of their submarine commanders would carry out such an attack. The most likely culprit was part of a group that had sunk a few ships off the QLD coast, but he himself had not been successful; he was later tried by the war crimes tribunal for machine-gunning survivors from another sinking.

Does yesterday count?

Two women I had never heard of (Henrietta Swan Leavitt and Vera Rubin) made very significant contributions to cosmology in the 20th Century, and Princeton did not accept women into their graduate astronomy program until 1975.

Vera Rubin is now 84 and still at work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin

The Rev Dodgson said:

Vera Rubin is now 84 and still at work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin

Must be good to be in demand.

well rev you should have read the Dark Matter rap i posted quite a few times on the old forum. Vera was mentioned in that.

The Dark Matter Rap

My name is Fritz Zwicky
I can be kind of prickly,
This song had better start
by giving me priority
Whatever anybody says,
I said in 1933
Observe the Coma cluster,
the redshift of the galaxies
imply some big velocities.
They’re moving so fast,
there must missing mass!
Dark matter.

For nearly forty years,
the matter problem sits.
Nobody gets worried ‘cause,
“It’s only crazy Fritz.”
The next step’s not ‘til
the early nineteen seventies,
Ostriker and Peebles,
dynamics of the galaxies,
cold disk instabilities.
They say: “If the mass
were sitting in the stars,
all those pretty spirals
ought to be bars!
Self-gravitating disks? Uh-uh, oh no.
What those spirals need is a massive halo.
And hey, look over here, check out these observations,
Vera Rubin’s optical curves of rotation,
they can provide our needed confirmation:
Those curves aren’t falling, they’re FLAT!
Dark matter’s where it’s AT!

And so the call goes out for the dark matter candidates:
black holes, snowballs, gas clouds, low mass stars, or planets.
But we quickly hit a snag because galaxy formation
requires too much structure in the background radiation
if there’s only baryons and adiabatic fluctuations.
The Russians have an answer: “Wr can solve the impasse.
Lyubimov has shown that the neutrino has mass.”
Zeldovich cries, “Pancakes! The dark matter’s HOT.”
Carlos Frenk, Simon White, Marc Davis say, “NOT!
Quasars are old, and the pancakes must be young.
Forming from the top down it can’t be done.”
So neutrinos hit the skids, and the picture’s looking black.
But California laid-back Blumenthal & Primack
say, “Don’t have a heart attack.
There’s lots of other particles
Just read the physics articles.”

Who’s right? It’s hard to know, ‘til observation or experiment
gives overwhelming evidence that relieves our predicament.
The search is getting popular as many realize
that the detector of dark matter may well win the Nobel Prize.

“The Dark Matter Rap”
-David Weinberg
Featured in Timothy Ferris’ The Whole Shebang’

With the media talking about Collins class subs I looked into the history of Australian subs in action and learned about the AE2….

“AE2 remained in the South Pacific until December 1914, when she was ordered to the Mediterranean to support the British-led operations off the Galipoli peninsula in Turkey. AE2 was the first British submarine to penetrate the Dardanelles, achieving this task on 25 April 1915. AE2 operated in the Sea of Marmora for five days and made four unsuccessful attacks on Turkish ships before being damaged by a Turkish gunboat and scuttled by her crew on 30 April. These attacks are the only occasions an Australian submarine has fired in anger.”

…or should I say relearned (does that count?)

Ian said:

With the media talking about Collins class subs I looked into the history of Australian subs in action and learned about the AE2….

“AE2 remained in the South Pacific until December 1914, when she was ordered to the Mediterranean to support the British-led operations off the Galipoli peninsula in Turkey. AE2 was the first British submarine to penetrate the Dardanelles, achieving this task on 25 April 1915. AE2 operated in the Sea of Marmora for five days and made four unsuccessful attacks on Turkish ships before being damaged by a Turkish gunboat and scuttled by her crew on 30 April. These attacks are the only occasions an Australian submarine has fired in anger.”

…or should I say relearned (does that count?)

I didn’t know that.

Michael Caine never actually said “Not a lot of people know that.”

Bubblecar said:

Michael Caine never actually said “Not a lot of people know that.”

I didn’t know that.

Not a lot of people do.

Bubblecar said:

Not a lot of people do.

Not a lot of people cared.

MartinB said:

So something I learned the other day was that there were for a time (Feb – Dec 1846) Letters Patent for a colony of North Australia based on Transportation to Gladstone. Interestingly by the time the revocation arrived in Sydney Barney had already left and had to be recalled.

What did you learn today?

Whilst I can’t lick my own elbow, I can lick others..

Elbows?

Each to their own.

Ian said:

Elbows?

Each to their own.

you can’t … unless you’re some kind of freaky rubber man

Dropbear said:

Ian said:

Elbows?

Each to their own.

you can’t … unless you’re some kind of freaky rubber man

I think he was not concerned with elbows unless it was a clandestine deal.

I learned (or is it learnt?) the piano intro to Shine a Light off Exile on Main Street.

Apparently the work of Leon Russell initially and Billy Preston (piano and organ) for the recording.
(and not Nicky Hopkins as you may well have supposed)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPbozLRU3so

>Whilst I can’t lick my own elbow, I can lick others..

I suspect I discovered that before I learnt how to speak. But I suppose one can forget these thnigs :)

Ian said:

I learned (or is it learnt?) the piano intro to Shine a Light off Exile on Main Street.

Apparently the work of Leon Russell initially and Billy Preston (piano and organ) for the recording.
(and not Nicky Hopkins as you may well have supposed)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPbozLRU3so

I prefer learned.. it means that something was actually learnt.

learned is common in nth america and learnt is more common in britain.

Boris said:

learned is common in nth america and learnt is more common in britain.

As I discovered from my NZ spill chuckir

Like we would say ‘he’s a learned man, he’s learnt a lot’

Peak Warming Man said:

Like we would say ‘he’s a learned man, he’s learnt a lot’

If you are describing me. Yes but there is still much to be learnt.

that learned is pronounced differently from t’other learned. though.

Boris said:

that learned is pronounced differently from t’other learned. though.

Indeed but it depends on by whom one was taught.

no. learned in the first sense is one syllable and learned in the second sense is two. lur-ned. as in he is a learned man.

Boris said:

no. learned in the first sense is one syllable and learned in the second sense is two. lur-ned. as in he is a learned man.

Yes but it still depends upon the teacher. The learner may find other teachers later and amend their ways but otherwise.. old habits may die hard.

Brooke is learned..

she’s learned all about the bar.

Yes but it still depends upon the teacher.

then that teacher doesn’t know english. ffs just because some dimwit teacher thinks that is correct doesn’t make it so. these “examples” you constantly bring up are stupid. they seem purely a device to get out admitting you are wrong.

Boris said:

Yes but it still depends upon the teacher.

then that teacher doesn’t know english. ffs just because some dimwit teacher thinks that is correct doesn’t make it so. these “examples” you constantly bring up are stupid. they seem purely a device to get out admitting you are wrong.

no.. consider home teaching on back country..

roughbarked said:

Boris said:

Yes but it still depends upon the teacher.

then that teacher doesn’t know english. ffs just because some dimwit teacher thinks that is correct doesn’t make it so. these “examples” you constantly bring up are stupid. they seem purely a device to get out admitting you are wrong.

no.. consider home teaching on back country..

After all.. If the world is only 6,000 years old then Dinosaurs could speak English too and also believed that God created them..

no.. consider home teaching on back country..

why? why don’t we consider some arsehole from nsw who doesn’t understand english? i mean we could consider anyone who is ignorant and hold them up as a counterexample. but what would be the point of that?

Boris said:

no.. consider home teaching on back country..

why? why don’t we consider some arsehole from nsw who doesn’t understand english? i mean we could consider anyone who is ignorant and hold them up as a counterexample. but what would be the point of that?

Because it exists?

If the world is only 6,000 years old then Dinosaurs could speak English too

english has only been around a few hundred years in the form we know. you ever tried to read chaucer?

Boris said:

If the world is only 6,000 years old then Dinosaurs could speak English too

english has only been around a few hundred years in the form we know. you ever tried to read chaucer?

rabbits.

Because it exists?

that in itself is no reason.

Dictionary.com has learned(verb) and learnt (verb) as interchangeable.

good to see you are now just posting crap and that means you have no argument.

that is right Ian. just that different countries prefer one over the other. being a pom we learnt that learnt was the one.

Boris said:

Because it exists?

that in itself is no reason.

It wasn’t what I was arguing. A person is learned when one has been not only taught but sought further learning. To have learnt anything may not necessarily mean that one learned the difference between the words used in this sentence.

Boris said:

good to see you are now just posting crap and that means you have no argument.

wrong side of the bed this morn?

Boris said:

that is right Ian. just that different countries prefer one over the other. being a pom we learnt that learnt was the one.

And us Aussies became aware that pommies could be baited.

i thought we were talking about how they are pronounced and not individuals preferences for different pronunciations.

I learnt that roughie posts even more crap than the learned Boris.

now you are talking more crap roughie. just admit you haven’t a clue and we can go back to our normal lives.

Ian said:

I learnt that roughie posts even more crap than the learned Boris.

someone has to ;)

pffft i don’t post crap. if i do then it is funny crap.

:-)

Boris said:

now you are talking more crap roughie. just admit you haven’t a clue and we can go back to our normal lives.

/tic

Boris said:

pffft i don’t post crap. if i do then it is funny crap.

:-)

At least you think so. ;)

:)

I learnt that the ‘Numbers shaping up for carbon tax repeal’

“Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is looking more likely to be able to make good on his oft-repeated assertions to scrap the carbon tax should the Coalition win government in September.

Analysis of voting trends shows that should the present pattern continue to the election, the Coalition would effectively control both houses of parliament, making it powerful enough to repeal the carbon tax.”

smh

I learned a lot more things than I thought I had.

Some I wish I hadn’t.

Ian said:

I learnt that the ‘Numbers shaping up for carbon tax repeal’

“Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is looking more likely to be able to make good on his oft-repeated assertions to scrap the carbon tax should the Coalition win government in September.

Analysis of voting trends shows that should the present pattern continue to the election, the Coalition would effectively control both houses of parliament, making it powerful enough to repeal the carbon tax.”

smh

I learned a lot more things than I thought I had.

Some I wish I hadn’t.

As I understand it, the carbon tax revenue will not begin to flow until tax returns are due this year. That will mean a massive boost in Government revenue just prior to the election.

Ian said:

Analysis of voting trends shows that should the present pattern continue to the election,

But the probability of that is about 50%.

Good point.
Labor plus can still get up.

Ian said:

Good point.
Labor plus can still get up.

Yes, and Greater Western Sydney are a fair chance to make the Grand Final in the AFL.

sibeen said:

Ian said:

Good point.
Labor plus can still get up.

Yes, and Greater Western Sydney are a fair chance to make the Grand Final in the AFL.

I only discovered this year that they had a team from that district in the AFL!

True.

Dick Van Dyke is still alive.

About 2 years ago, I came across the group of small marine Tunicates (a subphylum of Chordata, which includes vertebrates) called Doliolida. They have the most amazing and quite bizarre life-cycle of sexual and asexual phases. This bizarre life includes specialised cells that detach and carry other external cells to new implantation sites on the organism, so they can grow and mature.

More at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doliolida

Michael V said:

About 2 years ago, I came across the group of small marine Tunicates (a subphylum of Chordata, which includes vertebrates) called Doliolida. They have the most amazing and quite bizarre life-cycle of sexual and asexual phases. This bizarre life includes specialised cells that detach and carry other external cells to new implantation sites on the organism, so they can grow and mature.

More at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doliolida

Zooids!

Geoff D said:

MartinB said:

So something I learned the other day was that there were for a time (Feb – Dec 1846) Letters Patent for a colony of North Australia based on Transportation to Gladstone. Interestingly by the time the revocation arrived in Sydney Barney had already left and had to be recalled.

What did you learn today?

That the torpedo attack on the hospital ship Centaur was out of character, as the Japanese had been meticulous in following the rules governing the protection of hospital ships.

they didn’t mind killing prisoners/ civillians , they gunned down those nurses after making them run into the water, one nurse survived and told of the massacre. the Japanese had already been marching around destroying chinese cities and being fairly brutal.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2013/05/what-to-really-eat-on-cinco-de-mayo/

If you fold a sari 8 times and strain your drinking water through it, you can reduce the incidence of cholera by 50%.

(I should really look up the reference for that, it was a doctor with a social conscience who told me and I took her at her word)

Reference here:

http://www.sswm.info/category/implementation-tools/water-purification/hardware/point-use-water-treatment/straining-and-fi

But I bet Geoff d already knew that.

:)

buffy said:

If you fold a sari 8 times and strain your drinking water through it, you can reduce the incidence of cholera by 50%.

(I should really look up the reference for that, it was a doctor with a social conscience who told me and I took her at her word)

The writer P.J. O’Rourke was in Haiti (pre-2000), where water-borne diseases debilitated and killed lots of kids. The UN sent in all sorts of expensive rehydration kits, but kids continued to get sick and die in big numbers.

O’Rourke noticed that one area in the hills was reporting very low, almost zero, incidences of such illnesses. He set off to find out why.

He found that church leaders, community heads, and school teachers in the area promoted the use of household chlorine bleach to make water safe to drink.

8 drops per gallon (4.5 litres). Stir well. Let stand for 30 mins. And your kids don’t die, and it’s very affordable.

And, no-one has to get their sari wet.

buffy said:

Reference here:

http://www.sswm.info/category/implementation-tools/water-purification/hardware/point-use-water-treatment/straining-and-fi

But I bet Geoff d already knew that.

:)

He also knows that it is impossible to fold a sari (or any other textile, including paper) more than 8 times. And the eighth fold is extremely difficult. And yes, Vibrio cholerae is big enough to be removed with a fine filter.

captain_spalding said:

And, no-one has to get their sari wet.

You’re no fun any more.

wookiemeister said:

they didn’t mind killing prisoners/ civillians , they gunned down those nurses after making them run into the water, one nurse survived and told of the massacre. the Japanese had already been marching around destroying chinese cities and being fairly brutal.

Submission to the Centaur inquiry. Unfortunately, just a single sheet of paper with no date or other identification. Sounds like a cabinet minute or suchlike.;
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The deliberate sinking of the Centaur was a brutal deed in savage keeping with the bayoneting of isolated bands of Australian prisoners of war when prisoners could not be handled without military inconvenience and danger. But there are reasons why our protest to Japan through Sweden, our protecting power, should not be limited to a mere strong rebuke.
Protest should be firm and repeated; but we shall exhaust every method of reaching an agreement with Japan for the safe conduct of hospital ships in future and for the acceptance in increasing degree of the Geneva conventions regarding prisoners of war as well as those which the Japanese have hitherto widely observed regarding the Red Cross.
The sinking of the Centaur was in strange contrast to the previous treatment of the Red Cross by the Japanese army and navy. Hitherto, with one possible exception, the Japanese have given marked protection to hospitals and hospital ships.
In the attack on Manila, the Americans were given warning to move a hospital from the proximity of their great wireless station before the Japanese bombed the station. At the expiry of tile allotted time, which was sufficient, and did in fact enable the removal of all sick and wounded people, the wireless station was blasted by bombers.
There were other cases in the Philippines campaign of warnings, and of deliberate restraint of this type.
During the Malayan campaign, the Red Cross was protected. At the finish, when bombers were thick over Singapore, safe conduct was given to hospital ships out of the harbor by signal.
In the big Darwin bombing a hospital ship, Manunda, was in port. She was struck by a bomb which was intended for a neighboring destroyer. When the warships left the Manunda’s neighborhood she was left alone. She could have been sunk as readily as the other ships were sunk.
At Milne Bay an Australian hospital ship was in the inlet when Japanese cruisers, supporting their marines on shore, came in and shelled our positions. They sank the other ship in port, but avoided damage to the hospital ship.
These are four definite instances, and there has been no complaint, except a single exception, which remains a mystery.
This exception concerns the Netherlands Indies hospital ship Op Ten Noorte. It was bombed by Japanese planes, but as in all bombing; from high altitudes on groups of ships, the identity may have been doubtful. The ship went out on February 28 to seek survivors of the Netherlands’ cruisers Java and De Ruyter, and disappeared.
It is not known whether the Op Ten Noorte struck a mine in the Dutch minefield or was seized by Japanese naval units, but it is suspected that she picked up Japanese as well as Dutch survivors and was confiscated by the Japanese.
We, on our part, have observed the protective rules regarding the Japanese Red Cross, but on two occasions in April the Japanese made loud complaints from their radio stations. Now they have announced that they addressed official complaints to the American Government through the Spanish Government and to the British Government through Switzerland.
The first complaint was that south of Kavieng Allied forces bombed a hospital ship. The name was given. A little later in the month another complaint was made about another ship.

From my reading/research, it seems that the “rogue element” hypothesis held sway. The Japanese Navy, being influenced heavily by the Royal Navy as a result of WW1, had less of the bushido bullshit than the Japanese Army and was therefore more likely to adhere to Hague and Geneva Conventions. Similarly, the Japanese Air Force in the early years of the war.

I learned that 70% of on-campus uni students are the first in their family to attend university.

>>I learned that 70% of on-campus uni students are the first in their family to attend university.<<

I’m surprised it is still that high.

That there are maps of Australia dating from 1547.

(maybe)

That the compare the meerkat TV ads also run in the UK.

(Rev’d Cuz Julyan thinks they are better than the regular TV programming, and has ambitions to become a meerkat.)

I found out that youtube has a video on how to remove a sim card from a galaxy 3.

You push it in and then it springs back.

(still didn’t work well enough to remove the card easily, I had to do it about 15 times. I think because my card was cut-down to the smaller size it still had some rough edges and got stuck)

Can I just put in the list of things I didn’t know before that I’ve compiled over a few years?

Sure, why not?

dv said:

Can I just put in the list of things I didn’t know before that I’ve compiled over a few years?

Surely that would just be a list of everything you know, if we want to be complete.

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

Can I just put in the list of things I didn’t know before that I’ve compiled over a few years?

Surely that would just be a list of everything you know, if we want to be complete.

The “just” should not be taken to imply that the list of everything that dv knows is insubstantial.

Unless we work on the premise that no-one really knows anything of course.

Shouldn’t take long…

dv said:

Shouldn’t take long…

I knew you were going to say that :)

1/ Pamela Stephenson is from New Zealand.

2/ The existence of a genuine extraterrestrial lake was confirmed in 2008 on Titan.

3/ A professional indoor football league called the Arena Football League existed until last year.

4/ Rick Astley had eight top-10 hits in the UK, and five top-10 hits in the USA.

5/ The only non-explorer to have died in Antarctica was Rodney Marks, an Adelaide-born astrophysicist who was stationed at the south pole during the long southern winter. The exact circumstances of his death in 2000 remain unknown, but it is known that he died of methanol poisoning. Five months passed between his death and his autopsy in New Zealand, due to the lack of transport to and from the base during the dark months.

6/ The southernmost births in the world have been those at Esperanza Base on the Antarctic peninsula. 8 children have been born at this Argentinian facility, the first being Emilio Palma in 1978.

7/ The northernmost specifically recorded birth was that in an ambulance aeroplane at Longyearbyen in Svalbard in 1999, though there may have been more northerly births in Greenland among the Inuits and their ancestors.

8/ There are currently Australian Army Reservists serving in Afghanistan.

9/ Melbourne is the world’s southernmost city with more than a million people.

10/ There are small forested areas in Greenland. The largest of these is the Qinngua valley, some 40 km from Nanortalik.

11/ The mercator is named after an actual bloke called Mercator. I thought it was Latin or something.

12/ The portion of the Australian Antarctic Territory that is not covered in ice is a quarter the size of Tasmania.

13/ There is a ski resort in Algeria called Tikjda at 1600 m, and one called Ifrane in Morocco at a similar altitude.

14/ The only autonomous Oblast in Russia is the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. These days Jews only make up about 1% of the population.

15/ Aardman did the video for Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer.

16/ Texas is one of the world’s major wind power users, with over 10 GW of name plate capacity installed.

17/ Swallowing chewing gum is actually harmless.

18/ Alexander Downer’s father, Sir Alexander Downer, spent three years in a Japanese Prisoner Of War camp.

19/ Padania exists.

20/ Kaliningrad was formerly East Prussia. It wasn’t the slightest bit Russian until being handed to the USSR after WW2.

21/ Danny Devito was in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s nest.

22/ In the UK, a commoner is anyone who is neither a peer nor the monarch. Prince William is a commoner.

23/ Joe Pesci was in Raging Bull.

24/ Danny Elfman use to front Oingo Boingo.

25/ The last Czar of Bulgaria made a comeback after the fall of communism, and was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2001 to 2005.

26/ There are wild leopards in China and perhaps in eastern Russia.

dv said:

5/ The only non-explorer to have died in Antarctica was Rodney Marks, an Adelaide-born astrophysicist who was stationed at the south pole during the long southern winter. The exact circumstances of his death in 2000 remain unknown, but it is known that he died of methanol poisoning. Five months passed between his death and his autopsy in New Zealand, due to the lack of transport to and from the base during the dark months.

a few non-explorers died in the Mt Erebus Air NZ crash, and, in ooo about 2000, an English marine biologist was killed by a sea leopard whilst diving on a research site in Antarctica.

leopard seal make that

I’m going to admit that I’d never heard of Søren Kierkegaard.

sibeen said:

I’m going to admit that I’d never heard of Søren Kierkegaard.

He was pretty dense apparently.

That 50% of the Great Barrier Reef has gone and the other half will be gone by 2030.

22/ In the UK, a commoner is anyone who is neither a peer nor the monarch. Prince William is a commoner.

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I would challenge this one. The family of peers should be included. He is next in line to inherit the Duchy of Cornwall upon either the death of his father, or of his father’s ascension to the throne. In any case, he has been made the Duke of Cambridge upon his marriage.

I didn’t know that Mount Rushmore originally had Thomas Jefferson on the other side of George Washington.

“In any case, he has been made the Duke of Cambridge upon his marriage.”
—-

Yes, I will need to update that, perhaps by simply changing it to “Prince Harry”.

I didn’t know that Mount Rushmore originally had Thomas Jefferson on the other side of George Washington.
—-

Eh?

Got pics?

a few non-explorers died in the Mt Erebus Air NZ crash, and, in ooo about 2000, an English marine biologist was killed by a sea leopard whilst diving on a research site in Antarctica.
—-

I’ll edit it to clarify: “on the continent of Antarctica”

dv said:

“In any case, he has been made the Duke of Cambridge upon his marriage.”
—-

Yes, I will need to update that, perhaps by simply changing it to “Prince Harry”.

He is still also the direct descendent of a Royal Duke.

>>I didn’t know that Mount Rushmore originally had Thomas Jefferson on the other side of George Washington.

If a mining company did that to Mount Rushmore there’d be a hue and cry.

dv said:

I didn’t know that Mount Rushmore originally had Thomas Jefferson on the other side of George Washington.
—-

Eh?

Got pics?

I just saw it on Antiques Roadshow – the grand-daughter of the guy who knew the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, had a photo of it when they were at the early stages of carving.

dv said:

a few non-explorers died in the Mt Erebus Air NZ crash, and, in ooo about 2000, an English marine biologist was killed by a sea leopard whilst diving on a research site in Antarctica.
—-

I’ll edit it to clarify: “on the continent of Antarctica”

when the plane flew into the mountain, it was on the continent ;)

Is Mt Erebus not on the continent of Antarctica?

And the deceased marine biologist was hardly mid ocean when killed, but meters from the shore of the Antarctic peninsula. Does that not count as a death on the continent?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothera_Research_Station

http://news.nationalgeographic.com.au/news/2003/08/0806_030806_sealkiller.html

He is still also the direct descendent of a Royal Duke.

—

Doesn’t matter. Nobles in Britain are the holders of the titles, not their spouses and descendants.

Dropbear said:

dv said:

a few non-explorers died in the Mt Erebus Air NZ crash, and, in ooo about 2000, an English marine biologist was killed by a sea leopard whilst diving on a research site in Antarctica.
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I’ll edit it to clarify: “on the continent of Antarctica”

when the plane flew into the mountain, it was on the continent ;)

At least the customers got what they paid for. A flight to Antarctica.

If a mining company did that to Mount Rushmore there’d be a hue and cry.
—

Some good word there.

when the plane flew into the mountain, it was on the continent ;)
—-

Except the mountain is not on the continent. It is on Ross Island.

neomyrtus_ said:

Is Mt Erebus not on the continent of Antarctica?

And the deceased marine biologist was hardly mid ocean when killed, but meters from the shore of the Antarctic peninsula. Does that not count as a death on the continent?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothera_Research_Station

http://news.nationalgeographic.com.au/news/2003/08/0806_030806_sealkiller.html

at least on the continental shelf.. if there is one.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/201203A14.html

dv said:

when the plane flew into the mountain, it was on the continent ;)
—-

Except the mountain is not on the continent. It is on Ross Island.

hmmmmm about 20kms off shore… fair enough, you’ve won this time gadget!

Australia should totally do something like that, It would be easy to carve Red Barren out of Uluru.

dv said:

when the plane flew into the mountain, it was on the continent ;)
—-

Except the mountain is not on the continent. It is on Ross Island.

Now I have to go find out if Ross Island is separate(under the water) Like Tasmania is an island at the moment but that hasn’t always been the case.

dv said:

Australia should totally do something like that, It would be easy to carve Red Barren out of Uluru.

No.. It would have to be Namatjira

Speaking of Mount Rushmore…I didn’t know that the city where I live had such a moronic idjit living here. Worse than that, he is a regular customer at the bookstore :/

http://www.obamasonrushmore.com/

I think having the FLOTUS on MR would be weird.

dv said:

Australia should totally do something like that, It would be easy to carve Red Barren out of Uluru.

Just a bloody cable car up to the top so people can enjoy the view without risking life and limb. No point ruining the place with sculptures.

That myrmecology is the study of ants.

dv said:

23/ Joe Pesci was in Raging Bull.

Ooh ooh I knew that!

That Darth Vader was Luke Skywalkers fater.

+h

For PWM
http://cheezburger.com/7123193600

dv said:

For PWM
http://cheezburger.com/7123193600

Very clever.

I didn’t know Qld firies had no foam and health care workers were living on the streets:
Ms Gillard told the crowd that workers should not have to put up with Queensland Premier’s job cuts.

“You’ve seen 14,000 public servants lose their jobs and you know how hurtful that has been,” she said.

“Nurses, midwives thrown out of hospitals onto the streets.

“You’ve seen firefighters sent in to fight fires without foam.

“You’ve seen Breast Screen Queensland smashed up by the Campbell Newman Government.”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-05/gillard-addresses-labour-day-crowd-in-brisbane/4670416

dv said:

For PWM
http://cheezburger.com/7123193600

Thanks.

Not many people know about my clever side.

That Ficus pumila fruit was turned inside out and the mucopolysaccharide gloop soaked off the seeds and made into some strange jelly treat in Taiwan called Aiyu jelly.

This morning I didn’t know how to do a PowerPoint presentation and now I do.

You know nothing, Jon Snow

The first Google hit on “little known facts” (without quotes) takes you to a site with a list of alleged facts that are obviously just made up.

>>Not many people know about my clever side.

Any wonder, given how well you’ve hidden it?

Until 5 minutes ago I didn’t know how to set the DVD timer. I’ve just been talked through it (for Dr Who and Call the Midwife). How do I claim ignorance now? My image as a useless female is ruined!

buffy said:

Until 5 minutes ago I didn’t know how to set the DVD timer. I’ve just been talked through it (for Dr Who and Call the Midwife). How do I claim ignorance now? My image as a useless female is ruined!

Buffy is a twelve o’clock flasher

I don’t know who or what the police helicopter were chasing, but they were flying low circling around here for about 15-20 minutes, and starting to get annoying.

That is called “Gardening” in this area. Looking for plants……

I didn’t know that the huge iceblock that had grown in the fridge actually had 3 up and gos encased in it

removed it today, it had already swallowed up three bottles over the last few months

Peak Warming Man said:

That Darth Vader was Luke Skywalkers fater.

Pichca de fadre!

Vader was a jerk. :)

The human intestines contain as many neurons as the brain of a cat.

Yes, it was interesting.

Yes, trying to get my intestines to come inside last thing at night is dead tricky, i can tell you

Yes, trying to get my intestines to come inside last thing at night is dead tricky, i can tell you

i didn’t know where i was going to go when the volcano blew.

May 7 1952 – Geoffrey W.A. Dummer Proposes the Integrated Circuit
http://imgur.com/gallery/xGM71fC

Neophyte said:

Yes, trying to get my intestines to come inside last thing at night is dead tricky, i can tell you

Casts a new and interesting light on my sausage-making, to realise that the pig guts I’m stuffing are rich in brain cells.

>>May 7 1952 – Geoffrey W.A. Dummer Proposes the Integrated Circuit

He wasn’t from south of the Mason-Dixon Line, then?

Don’t leave too many sausages together, Mr Car, they may foment a revolution

I’ll be trying some fermented sausages later in the year.

Shit transplants, that’s another thing I don’t think I’d heard of. Some people’s large intestinal bacteria are such a bad mix that they transplant the poo of other people into their system.

Whatever next, ay?

Bubblecar said:

Shit transplants, that’s another thing I don’t think I’d heard of. Some people’s large intestinal bacteria are such a bad mix that they transplant the poo of other people into their system.

Whatever next, ay?

Yeah, they get done very rarely, but have been done in Australia. Desperate times, etc.

i’m holed up at a safehouse listening for a numbers station to let me know when its “safe”

“is it safe?”

wookiemeister said:

i’m holed up at a safehouse listening for a numbers station to let me know when its “safe”

“is it safe?”

It’s never safe, don’t stay holed up for any longer than you need to, keep moving, keep strangers at arms length.
I remember one warm summer’s evenin’ on a train bound for nowhere I met up with a stranger, we were both too tired to sleep so we took turns a starin’ out of the window but that’s another story.
Keep safe friend.

Lord_Lucan said:

wookiemeister said:

i’m holed up at a safehouse listening for a numbers station to let me know when its “safe”

“is it safe?”

It’s never safe, don’t stay holed up for any longer than you need to, keep moving, keep strangers at arms length.
I remember one warm summer’s evenin’ on a train bound for nowhere I met up with a stranger, we were both too tired to sleep so we took turns a starin’ out of the window but that’s another story.
Keep safe friend.

Bet you stared at the darkness, or my name’s not OCDC.

wookiemeister said:

i’m holed up at a safehouse listening for a numbers station to let me know when its “safe”

“is it safe?”

“Essen!”

The xkcd forum has a thread a bit like this one. It’s called Today I Learned . It’s been running for almost 5 years, and is currently up to 11330 posts (284 pages).

PM 2Ring said:

The xkcd forum has a thread a bit like this one. It’s called Today I Learned . It’s been running for almost 5 years, and is currently up to 11330 posts (284 pages).

I didn’t know that

The guy who played Sheriff Bart in Blazing Saddles was the brother of the chick who sang the Rocky theme.

The guy who played Captain Leland Stottlemeyer on Monk also played Jame Gumb in The Silence of the Lambs.

This is just getting sillier and sillier :/

kii said:

This is just getting sillier and sillier :/

but that’s something I did know.

kii said:

This is just getting sillier and sillier :/

I thought my new facts from that GUTS show were pretty interesting (human intestines have as many neurons as the brain of a cat, and people with gut problems are now sometimes given shit transplants, i.e., poo of other people introduced into their plumbing)

It was the previous two posts. Well, the Monk related one was okay, but that 2nd on from DV is pushing it.

I didn’t know kii hates Mexicans.

dv said:

I didn’t know kii hates Mexicans.

I didn’t know that!

The currency of Macau is the pataca.

PM 2Ring said:

The xkcd forum has a thread a bit like this one. It’s called Today I Learned . It’s been running for almost 5 years, and is currently up to 11330 posts (284 pages).

I wonder if anyone has read all 11330 posts.

They’d know everything (Brian).

Today I learned that Marge Simpson’s father’s name is Clancy.
I already knew Chief Wiggum’s name was Clancy and that Marge’s father looks a like like Moe.

• Today I learned that Marge Simpson’s father’s name is Clancy.

One mother of all invention – Margaret Groening – helps give The Simpsons its characters

Divine Angel said:

Today I learned that Marge Simpson’s father’s name is Clancy.
I already knew Chief Wiggum’s name was Clancy and that Marge’s father looks a like like Moe.

And it wasn’t until the Valentine’s episode (“I Choo-Choo-Chose you!”) that the writers realised it would be really funny if Ralph’s dad were Chief Wiggum.

In other news – I learned a great new word… “irrumatio” courtesy of http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2967#comic

i know fuck all about dark matter but that’s not much less than anyone knows.

Today I learned what ibid. means.

… that dead horse is rhyming slang for sauce.

The Rev Dodgson said:

… that dead horse is rhyming slang for sauce.

avago.. you can rhyme just about anything if you try.

I learnt this a long time ago while thumbing through a National Geographic magazine in the waiting room of a sperm donor clinic or some such.
The thing being that there is a European Bison, it looks like the North American Bison only it’s black and lives in forests in Poland.

No it wisent

I didn’t know that Lyme disease doesn’t officially exist in Australia.

I also didn’t know it doesn’t really exist in Australia.

You know how it is, when things are in the media, you think you’ve got it…

• You know how it is, when things are in the media, you think you’ve got it…

Miss Hoover?

furious said:

• You know how it is, when things are in the media, you think you’ve got it…

Miss Hoover?

Bingo.

I saw the bulk of that episode today…

Divine Angel said:

I didn’t know that Lyme disease doesn’t officially exist in Australia.

But nobody seems to be putting any great effort into thoroughly checking. I am currently seeing out what I hope is the final day for this episode of my Lyme-like disease.

Geoff D said:

Divine Angel said:

I didn’t know that Lyme disease doesn’t officially exist in Australia.

But nobody seems to be putting any great effort into thoroughly checking. I am currently seeing out what I hope is the final day for this episode of my Lyme-like disease.

That’s what I don’t understand. The official sources deny it exists here, but there’s a lack of evidence to say it hasn’t gotten here.

I remember one time I thought I had Eddie Mcguire

dv said:

I remember one time I thought I had Eddie Mcguire

The star of ‘Who Wants to Lob Half a Brick at Eddie?’

could be worse capt, could be hosted by tom waterhouse.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

bump

MV didn’t know nipple tape existed.

…or that it can also be used to flatten nipples so you don’t have high beams on during awards nights or other important events.

I didn’t know Gai Waterhouse had appeared in Dr Who:

The daughter of Randwick racehorse trainer T.J. Smith, she made a name for herself as a model and actor, including in the Australian drama The Young Doctors before moving to England and appearing in the Doctor Who story The Invasion of Time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gai_Waterhouse

Bronwyn Bishop was a TV actress when she was younger.

Divine Angel said:

MV didn’t know nipple tape existed.

.

Truly and rooly.

Divine Angel said:

…or that it can also be used to flatten nipples so you don’t have high beams on during awards nights or other important events.

.

You’re right. I didn’t know that either.

Or, in extremis, you can use ordinary double sided tape. Or even blu-tac.

TIL Saudi Arabia is working to reverse decades of favoring religious over scientific studies in schools and universities. The country is pouring billions into improving science curricula, endowing new research-oriented universities and establishing scientific agencies.

Saudi Arabia maps genome and educational future
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/education/101011/saudi-arabia-science

1. Budweiser beer conditions the hair
2. Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish
3. Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 minutes
4. Mayonnaise will KILL LICE, it will also condition your hair
5. Elmer’s Glue – paint on your face, allow it to dry, peel off and see the dead skin and blackheads if any.
6. Shiny Hair – use brewed Lipton Tea
7. Sunburn – empty a large jar of Nestea into your bath water
8. Minor burn – Colgate or Crest toothpaste
9. Burn your tongue? Put sugar on it!
10. Arthritis? WD-40 Spray and rub in, kill insect stings too
11 Bee stings – meat tenderizer
12. Chigger bite – Preparation H
13. Puffy eyes – Preparation H
14. Paper cut – crazy glue or chap stick (glue is used instead of sutures at most hospitals)
15. Stinky feet – Jello
16. Athletes feet – cornstarch
17. Fungus on toenails or fingernails – Vicks vapor rub
18. Kool aid to clean dishwasher pipes. Just put in the detergent section and run a cycle, it will also clean a toilet. (Wow, and we drink this stuff)
19. Kool Aid can be used as a dye in paint also Kool Aid in Dannon plain yogurt as a finger paint, your kids will love it and it won’t hurt them if they eat it!
20. Peanut butter – will get scratches out of CD’s! Wipe off with a coffee filter paper
21. Sticking bicycle chain – Pam no-stick cooking spray
22. Pam will also remove paint, and grease from your hands! Keep a can in your garage for your hubby
23. Peanut butter will remove ink from the face of dolls
24. When the doll clothes are hard to put on, sprinkle with corn starch and watch them slide on
25. Heavy dandruff – pour on the vinegar !
26. Body paint – Crisco mixed with food coloring. Heat the Crisco in the microwave, pour in to an empty film container and mix with the food color of your choice!
27 Tie Dye T-shirt – mix a solution of Kool Aid in a container, tie a rubber band around a section of the T-shirt and soak
28. Preserving a newspaper clipping – large bottle of club soda and cup of milk of magnesia , soak for 20 min. and let dry, will last for many years!
29. A Slinky will hold toast and CD’s!
30. To keep goggles and glasses from fogging, coat with Colgate toothpaste
31. Wine stains, pour on the Morton salt and watch it absorb into the salt.
32. To remove wax – Take a paper towel and iron it over the wax stain, it will absorb into the towel.
33. Remove labels off glassware etc. rub with Peanut butter!
34. Baked on food – fill container with water, get a Bounce paper softener and the static from the Bounce towel will cause the baked on food to adhere to it. Soak overnight. Also; you can use 2 Efferdent tablets , soak overnight!
35. Crayon on the wall – Colgate toothpaste and brush it!
36.. Dirty grout – Listerine
37. Stains on clothes – Colgate toothpaste
38. Grass stains – Karo Syrup
39. Grease Stains – Coca Cola , it will also remove grease stains from the driveway overnight. We know it will take corrosion from car batteries!
40. Fleas in your carpet? 20 Mule Team Borax- sprinkle and let stand for 24 hours. Maybe this will work if you get them back again.
41. To keep FRESH FLOWERS longer Add a little Clorox , or 2 Bayer aspirin , or just use 7-up instead of water.
42. Gatorade is good for Migraine Headaches (PowerAde won’t work)

… about Francesco Lentini (look him up – interesting chap).

>He was born with three legs, two sets of genitals and one rudimentary foot growing from the knee of his third leg. So, in total, he had three legs, four feet, sixteen toes, and two sets of functioning male genitals, which were all that existed of a conjoined twin and jutted from the right side of his body.<

…but he lived to the age of 85.

Bubblecar said:

>He was born with three legs, two sets of genitals and one rudimentary foot growing from the knee of his third leg. So, in total, he had three legs, four feet, sixteen toes, and two sets of functioning male genitals, which were all that existed of a conjoined twin and jutted from the right side of his body.<

…but he lived to the age of 85.

Brought to you buy HOX.

-u

Bubblecar said:

>He was born with three legs, two sets of genitals and one rudimentary foot growing from the knee of his third leg. So, in total, he had three legs, four feet, sixteen toes, and two sets of functioning male genitals, which were all that existed of a conjoined twin and jutted from the right side of his body.<

…but he lived to the age of 85.

more importantly, two functioning sets of genitals

Geoff D said:

Bubblecar said:

>He was born with three legs, two sets of genitals and one rudimentary foot growing from the knee of his third leg. So, in total, he had three legs, four feet, sixteen toes, and two sets of functioning male genitals, which were all that existed of a conjoined twin and jutted from the right side of his body.<

…but he lived to the age of 85.

more importantly, two functioning sets of genitals

One set is more than enough to get you into too much trouble.

>>more importantly, two functioning sets of genitals

His wife would never know where he was coming from.

Peak Warming Man said:

>>more importantly, two functioning sets of genitals

His wife would never know where he was coming from.

;-)

Peak Warming Man said:

>>more importantly, two functioning sets of genitals

His wife would never know where he was coming from.

Classic :)

I didn’t know there were no border crossings from Panama to Colombia, and hence no way to drive from North America to South America.

The roads in southern Panama end at an impassible stretch of forest called the Darien Gap.

Dropbear said:

Whilst I can’t lick my own elbow, I can lick others..

The elbow is the joint between the front of the upper arm and forearm – It’s easy to lick the front of the joint.

I learnt that there is only a tiny bit of the old SSSF Archives still available on the Net. And I’m a bit sad and grumpy about that.

Rule 303 said:

Dropbear said:

Whilst I can’t lick my own elbow, I can lick others..

The elbow is the joint between the front of the upper arm and forearm – It’s easy to lick the front of the joint.

I learnt that there is only a tiny bit of the old SSSF Archives still available on the Net. And I’m a bit sad and grumpy about that.

I think that a couple of people archived it. Maybe they just haven’t made it available. I’ll bet it still exists somewhere. Undefined had a copy but I don’t see him around any more.

Rule 303 said:

The elbow is the joint between the front of the upper arm and forearm…

Front = distal end, I mean.

morrie said:

Rule 303 said:

Dropbear said:

Whilst I can’t lick my own elbow, I can lick others..

The elbow is the joint between the front of the upper arm and forearm – It’s easy to lick the front of the joint.

I learnt that there is only a tiny bit of the old SSSF Archives still available on the Net. And I’m a bit sad and grumpy about that.

I think that a couple of people archived it. Maybe they just haven’t made it available. I’ll bet it still exists somewhere. Undefined had a copy but I don’t see him around any more.

I may be mistaken, but I think undefined is poikilotherm.

Can’t remember who the Rage fan was (Stealth? Curve?) but this is for them: http://www.rageagain.com/#/home

Playlists for every episode of Rage since 1998, with links to youtube videos for each song.

And that should have gone in chat. Sorry.

I didn’t know it was the wrong thread.

Wocky said:

Can’t remember who the Rage fan was (Stealth? Curve?) but this is for them: http://www.rageagain.com/#/home

Playlists for every episode of Rage since 1998, with links to youtube videos for each song.

That’s gonna need some bandwidtth.

Wocky said:

I didn’t know it was the wrong thread.

that works. ;)

I have most of the old forum archived.

dv said:

I have most of the old forum archived.

Yes, but we want it in a printable format, not just your memory.

e.g.

Post 1321092
From: sibeen
Subject: who is awesome

You’re so awesome, dv!!!

dv said:

e.g.

Post 1321092
From: sibeen
Subject: who is awesome

You’re so awesome, dv!!!

Shopped

Stealth said:

dv said:

e.g.

Post 1321092
From: sibeen
Subject: who is awesome

You’re so awesome, dv!!!

Shopped

Yeah, doesn’t look right. Corrupt data?

Rule 303 said:

Dropbear said:

Whilst I can’t lick my own elbow, I can lick others..

The elbow is the joint between the front of the upper arm and forearm – It’s easy to lick the front of the joint.

I learnt that there is only a tiny bit of the old SSSF Archives still available on the Net. And I’m a bit sad and grumpy about that.

If anyone has archives of the old forum that they could send to me, I’ll republish them and make it available for everyone.

fsm@cobberwebs.com

fsm said:

Rule 303 said:

Dropbear said:

Whilst I can’t lick my own elbow, I can lick others..

The elbow is the joint between the front of the upper arm and forearm – It’s easy to lick the front of the joint.

I learnt that there is only a tiny bit of the old SSSF Archives still available on the Net. And I’m a bit sad and grumpy about that.

If anyone has archives of the old forum that they could send to me, I’ll republish them and make it available for everyone.

fsm@cobberwebs.com

dv said he had most of them earlier today.

The Rev Dodgson said:

fsm said:

Rule 303 said:

The elbow is the joint between the front of the upper arm and forearm – It’s easy to lick the front of the joint.

I learnt that there is only a tiny bit of the old SSSF Archives still available on the Net. And I’m a bit sad and grumpy about that.

If anyone has archives of the old forum that they could send to me, I’ll republish them and make it available for everyone.

fsm@cobberwebs.com

dv said he had most of them earlier today.

PM2ring also had some.

I’m currently downloading the entire www2b.abc.net.au server. Some of the forums still seem to be there.

>>I’m currently downloading the entire www2b.abc.net.au server.

If you see a note saying “Help, am trapped in basement’ that will be PeterT

If you see a note saying “Help, am trapped in basement’ that will be PeterT

you’ll be lucky, the dog ate that note years ago.

you mean the gobbling shark?

Riff-in-Thyme said:

And i, for one, am glad to have not seen it.

I didn’t know that the bubbles in crispbread were traditionally created by mixing snow or powdered ice into the dough, which then evaporated during baking.