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Login/Join to ParticipateGroovy ga watashi no namae desu!
1,530 posts
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
you saw the title.
so come on people whats the most useless or randomest piece of info you know
I like Languages.
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15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
Yes.
It is.
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
if you get the millenium dome, turn it upsidedown and put it under niagara falls, it will take ten minutes to completely fill up
cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
veteran
1,389 posts
Location: Guelph, ON, Canada
4% of the girls in North America had their first kiss with another girl.
~ Bobo
wie weit, wie weit noch?
fragst mich, wo wir gewesen sind...
du fehlst hier
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,136 posts
Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom
there's nothing random or useless about that bobo in the slightest when trying to compare which country you should move to!
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Written by: Adya_Miriyana
Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that
tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint
plant call Diamond Star.
.
Actually, "zero"s were incapable of flying at the altitude that B-29 cruised at. It was the Mitsubishi J2M Raiden that challenged the B-29s (so the above fact is still more or less true, and I get to include an even more useless/ramdom peice of info!!!
) -v-
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Gromit's Humble Squire
4,496 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Any fans of scientific journals in the thread? Have some homosexual necrophilic mallard:
https://www.nmr.nl/DSA8-243.pdf
Watcher of 80s cartoons
665 posts
Location: Chepstow & Bristol, United Kingdom
Ducks and geese are the only bird species where the males have a penis that resembles a corksrew - all other species mate by cloaca kissing
goose penis
The homosexual necrophilia in the
mallard journal is funny - very funny
>What do you think about the state of the Earth?
>I'm optimistic.
>So why do you look so sad?
>I'm not sure that my optimism is justified.
1,803 posts
Location: Wonderland igloo, Vic, Australia
ew
.:Pink Exocutioner:.
I am Jack's Raging Bile Duct...
Loving you from the deepest part of my loins.
Gromit's Humble Squire
4,496 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
I thought it was hilarious the first time I heard about it. I didn't bother looking for the journal til I saw this thread. Who'dve thunk it'd ever be a relevant conversation piece..
Watcher of 80s cartoons
665 posts
Location: Chepstow & Bristol, United Kingdom
You've done well Ry - your post gets my vote - in fact I've just posted the link to e-learning site so that all of my students can read it for themselves.
>What do you think about the state of the Earth?
>I'm optimistic.
>So why do you look so sad?
>I'm not sure that my optimism is justified.
Gromit's Humble Squire
4,496 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
a dubious honour, but thanks!
I'd like to know how you'd make it relevant to whatever your e-learners get up to!
Watcher of 80s cartoons
665 posts
Location: Chepstow & Bristol, United Kingdom
Behavioural ecology, good example of the Harvard referencing system, population ecology etc and to prove that science is far from dull
>What do you think about the state of the Earth?
>I'm optimistic.
>So why do you look so sad?
>I'm not sure that my optimism is justified.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,533 posts
Location: Hampshire College, MA, USA
there's a chainsaw company that puts a warning on their products:
"do not attempt to stop the blade with hands or genitals"
possums have forked penises
-James
"How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?"
2,530 posts
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
lightning is roughly 1000 times hotter than the sun (edit: and no, i wasn't talking about the HoPper)
Old Engish law states that you aren't allowed to eat xmas pudding on xmas and that you can't wear a hat on tuesdays
We are the music makers, We are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams;
We are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.
journeyman
90 posts
Location: Perth, West Australia
You can't lick your own elbow.
Ok, so that's not entirely useless, now you know not to go dipping your elbows in chocolate sauce (unless you have a very close friend with you...
). "What drives life is...a little electric current kept up by the sunshine." Albert Szent-Gyorgi
785 posts
Location: vineyards, Vienna, Austria
i like big butts and i dont know why
"is optimism in austria just a lack of information?"
-Alfred Dorfer
10,530 posts
Location: They seek him here, they seek him there...
(u other brothers cant deny
when a girl walks in with an ittybitty waist
and a roung thing in ur face u get...)
a cow can go upstairs but nt downstairs..
mooooooo! 
The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
10,530 posts
Location: They seek him here, they seek him there...
No duh! 
The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
10,530 posts
Location: They seek him here, they seek him there...
twas a joke hun 
The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
10,530 posts
Location: They seek him here, they seek him there...
indeed*wishes he didnt throw away thos chains*
(thats a joke sakura.. im not into that stuff ) The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
1,803 posts
Location: Wonderland igloo, Vic, Australia
its okay...i dont mind...it was just cos iwanted to be tucked in adn was too tired to be tied up lol
.:Pink Exocutioner:.
I am Jack's Raging Bile Duct...
Loving you from the deepest part of my loins.
10,530 posts
Location: They seek him here, they seek him there...
poor, yet quite funny joke...
A bit of an oxymoron there.... like "microsoft wirks" Tehe! Nerd Joke.. sorry
The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
water based
5,125 posts
Location: melbourne, Australia
95% of people cant touch their elbows together behind their back (i can)
every time a tone goes up an octave, it vibrates at exactly twice the speed
on average, over the course of our lives we will spend over 3 months staring aimless into the fridge.
cheers, pete
"you know there are no trophys for doing silly things in real life yeah pete?" said ant "you wont get a 'listened to ride of the valkyries all the way to vietnam' trophy"
*proud owner of the very cute fire_spinning_angel, birgit and neon shaolin*
water based
5,125 posts
Location: melbourne, Australia
more:
dogs cant decifer size, hence little dogs being mean to big uns
girrafe toungs have pinks spots on them. . .
POLKADOTcheers, pete
"you know there are no trophys for doing silly things in real life yeah pete?" said ant "you wont get a 'listened to ride of the valkyries all the way to vietnam' trophy"
*proud owner of the very cute fire_spinning_angel, birgit and neon shaolin*
water based
5,125 posts
Location: melbourne, Australia
and more:
penuts are used in dynamite
dreamt is the only word in english ending with 'mt'
regulation golfballs have 336 dimples (do u rekon they have to count to make sure)
shakespeare invented the words assassination and bump
women blink nearly twice as much as men
american airlines saved $40,000in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class
i cant find anything better to do
cheers, pete
"you know there are no trophys for doing silly things in real life yeah pete?" said ant "you wont get a 'listened to ride of the valkyries all the way to vietnam' trophy"
*proud owner of the very cute fire_spinning_angel, birgit and neon shaolin*
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Written by: Pigeon_Wigeon
Fish cant swim backwards...
actually, many can - especially cichlids. clownfish too for sure (I am a tropical fish nut - lots of aquariums in my life)
-v-
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Written by: Havokist
lightning is roughly 1000 times hotter than the sun (edit: and no, i wasn't talking about the HoPper)
make that 10 times hotter than the 'surface' of the sun (which is 6000 K, and isn't really a surface per se, but rather just the luminescent edge of its photosphere). the center of the sun is over 10,000,000 K. lightning bolts are around 30,000 to 55,000 K, making them about 5 to 10 times hotter than the 'surface' of the sun.
-v-
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Written by: Wirewood
You can't lick your own elbow.
I can - but I have a freakishly long tongue - no problem licking my nose either...
-v-
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Written by: pineapple pete
dogs cant decifer size, hence little dogs being mean to big uns
If dogs can't decifer size, how come they always go for the biggest bowl of food?
I thought the little dog/big dog thing was like a napolean complex.
I shall have to investigate this postulate in more depth...
edit: ok, after some investigation I see there is some validity to dogs lacking the same degree of size perception, at a distance, as humans.
firstly - their binocular overlap (field of view overlap between both eyes) is roughly 1/3 that of humans - meaning depth perception is availably in a much smaller field of view, and only pretty much directly in front of the animal's head, not to available the sides. depth perception is a valuable aid in size determination.
seondly, their visual acuity is roughly 1/3 that of a human - a normal dog has 20/75 vision, and a 'normal' human 20/20 (in other words, they are nearsighted). this can also affect pisking up size cues at a distance.
there are other factors though - even a one eyed nearsighted person can judge a dogs size effectly by its biological motion (its stride, and apparent weight of its foot falls), and it is likely dogs use cues like this too.
note that despite the disadvantages to dog sight mentioned, they also have certain advantages over human sight - greater overall field of view (at the expense of field of view with good depth perception), better low light vision, better motion detection, ability to differentiate between a greater number of shades of gray, etc...
EDITED_BY: vanize (1111573883)
-v-
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Location: The countryside, Australia
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and
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