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Post by marisol on Jul 1, 2012 20:01:17 GMT -5
Are there commies in England and Ireland-this is something I really don't know, not trying to be a pain in the ass?
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Post by StormInateacup on Jul 2, 2012 0:01:43 GMT -5
Storm you really throow doggie's in the water to check for croc's that? So sad. I never did it personally, but yes it's commonplace. I suppose when you're faced with the notion that it's 110 degrees in the shade and you can risk your kid getting ett - or the mutt getting ett - or keep sweltering with no hope of ever having a swim - because those temps are year round ones in the tropical north here - it doesn't actually seem that cruel. And yes there are commies in England and Ireland.. Australia too. But as most (ie ALL) of them are the rebellious sons and daughters of wealthy doctors and lawyers, living off the Family Trust fund in houses mum and dad bought for them while they study Fine Arts at various Universities and sip lattes late into the night, before graduating and taking up positions in the ad agencies their Uncle Sebastian owns and forgetting all about their misspent yoof - no one gives a fuck what they have to say about anything. Communism is dead, buried, dug up again and cremated Marisol. It is and has not been for over 30 years any kind of serious political force or movement anywhere in the world. Even the fucking Chinese don't believe in it any more mate. It's only a propaganda term, used by the Amurikin Right to frighten people away from any politician or society who might suggest that their tax dollar could be better spent on a hospital everyone can afford to go to than a tank driving down the street of a foreign country, full of marines shooting at their kids.
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Post by StormInateacup on Jul 2, 2012 23:36:16 GMT -5
The two most dangerous animals in the world are :
1. The mosquito. 2. The common housefly.
It is estimated that between them they have been responsible for the deaths of in excess of 45 billion people over the course of human history.
(Hey it was on QI - it must be true!)
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Post by Random Panther on Jul 3, 2012 6:15:04 GMT -5
It's certainly true of vector(disease carrying) mosquitoes.
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Post by marisol on Jul 3, 2012 12:40:22 GMT -5
In Saudi Arabia there are solar-powered pay phones in the desert.
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Post by StormInateacup on Jul 3, 2012 12:54:46 GMT -5
In 1980, Namco released PAC-MAN, the most popular video game of all time.
The original name was going to be PUCK MAN, but executives saw the potential for vandals to scratch out part of the P in the games marquee and labeling.
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Post by StormInateacup on Jul 11, 2012 3:03:22 GMT -5
Despite what the moral majority and censorship barons would have you believe, less than 1% of Internet space is taken up by "Gentlemen's special interest literature." (aka Pron). However: In excess of 89% of all emails are spam. So the next time you're tempted to delete every unopened email in your inbox - it's prolly pretty safe.
The ACLU did a study - it must be true.
Crisps or Potato chips for the Yanks present, are for worse as a cause of tooth decay than lollies or sweet drinks, because the potato starch, almost pure carbohydrate, sticks to your teeth like glue, whereas other sugars dissolve quite quickly.
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Post by StormInateacup on Jul 11, 2012 3:57:07 GMT -5
And until about 150 years ago the majority of French people were unable to read, write or speak - French!!
They spoke a wide variety of not only Dialects, but actual foreign languages, including Breton, Flemish and Basque - none of which are even vaguely related to actual French.
eta: French rural peasants were so impoverished that right up until the early 1800's they pretty much hibernated through winter. The entire family would pack into the one bed of straw and hunker down, waking occasionally to nibble on a dry biscuit and drink a bit of vino- and then kip out again till the spring thaw.
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Post by rscott on Jul 11, 2012 12:04:51 GMT -5
The northern plains Indians would also hibernate as do some Inuit to this day.
It think it would make for one smelly incestuous bed.
I'll bet there was no sex ed. needed for the kiddies.
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Post by StormInateacup on Jul 11, 2012 12:32:40 GMT -5
The French are used to the smell. They are after all, French.
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Post by rscott on Jul 11, 2012 12:41:48 GMT -5
I've only know one true Frenchman, Pierre. He was a friend of my ex's and would spend a week a year with us on his way to Guatemala to buy hand woven textiles for pennies on the dollar in Europe and stateside. He was a swamey little shit but always clean and well groomed.
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Post by StormInateacup on Jul 11, 2012 12:46:01 GMT -5
Fewer than 30% of French people will shower before or after fucking...or before visiting the doctor.
Beastie swears blind that on a day when the wind's coming over the Channel you can smell France.
Now far be it from me to impugn my colonial overlords, but any people who can make the English feel superior in matters of regular ablutions have to be pretty whiffy!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2012 1:27:10 GMT -5
Aspen trees are all clones, they don't seed. Every stand of Aspens is a family of clones.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2012 1:42:28 GMT -5
The oldest living, non-clonal organism on earth is Methuselah. At 4,841 years old, this ancient bristlecone pine is the oldest known non-clonal organism on Earth. Located in the White Mountains of California, in Inyo National Forest, Methuselah's exact location is kept a close secret in order to protect it from the public. (An older specimen named Prometheus, which was more than 5,000 years old, was cut down by a U.S. Forest Service graduate student in 1964.) Today you can visit the grove where Methuselah hides, but you'll have to guess at which tree it is. Could this one be it?
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Post by StormInateacup on Jul 12, 2012 5:29:11 GMT -5
Those cloned trees are trippy!! What is probably the largest living organism on earth has been discovered in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon. A fungus living three feet underground is estimated to cover 2,200 acres. After testing samples from various locations, scientists say it is all one organism. Officially known as Armillaria ostoyae, or the honey mushroom, the fungus is 3.5 miles across and takes up the same space as would be occupied by 1,665 football fields. (Not sure how that compares the the size of Wales, which is the usually standard of girth taken with immense things but anyway) The small mushrooms visible above ground are only the tip of the iceberg. Experts estimate that the giant mushroom is at least 2,400 years old, but could be 7,200 years old. Previously, the world's largest organism was another Armillaria ostoyae, which covers a mere 1,500 acres near Mt. Adams in Washington state.
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