The thread of learning something new every day
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Roman "Swiss Army Knife"<br><br>
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<p>Not really learning something new, but something interesting to reflect on, Christian Cullen is a full year younger than Brad Thorne</p>
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<p>Amazing. Brad Thorne does not believe in time hence he does not age!!</p> -
<a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/bangkok-bombing-who-are-the-turkish-terrorist-group-the-grey-wolves-20150830-gjavjz.html">Bangkok bombing: Who are the Turkish terrorist group the Grey Wolves?</a>
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<p>I learnt something new just a few moments ago.</p>
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<p>Auckland is the most populous region in NZ but what is the second? I was slightly surprised to read it is Canterbury.</p>
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<p>I thought the Wellington Region would have had more people with the Kapiti coast etc included</p> -
<p>John Key learns how to watch the Yankees get their asses kicked. </p>
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<p><img src="http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/thumbnail/960/img/photos/2015/09/29/36/a6/3fd4402ba99c4b72918ca20c7c6c9312-5bd0dc061f1446fd9bc8026492d870c1-0.jpg" alt="3fd4402ba99c4b72918ca20c7c6c9312-5bd0dc0"></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="background-color:rgb(247,247,247);">New Zealand Prime Minister John Key prepares to take in the Red Sox-Yankees baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015, in New York. "This is a totally unique experience," said Key. "You can't get this anywhere else."<strong> In fact, it was Prime Time at the big ballyard in the Bronx.</strong> Curacao Prime Minister Ben Whiteman also was in attendance. (AP Photo/Ben Walker)</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2015/09/29/prime-ministers-from-new-zealand-curacao-at-red-sox-yankees'>http://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2015/09/29/prime-ministers-from-new-zealand-curacao-at-red-sox-yankees</a></span></p>
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<p>Yankees get pummelled 10-4. Magic Number is 1.</p> -
<p>Might have been pre-game, but Yankee fans are bailing on the team like the front-runnin' pieces of garbage they are.</p>
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<p>I learnt that despite my best intentions of zoning out when my wife talks about her chickens, I am still absorbing what she says! </p>
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<p>Out of interest, why are Yankees fans front runnin' pieces or garbage? (Whatever that means from a sporting point of view...)</p>
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<p><img src="http://izquotes.com/quotes-pictures/quote-rooting-for-the-yankees-is-like-rooting-for-u-s-steel-joe-e-lewis-307729.jpg" alt="quote-rooting-for-the-yankees-is-like-ro"></p>
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<p>A GIF of some Yankees fans (saw this at Deadspin today):</p>
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<p><img src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--DTx6eyrm--/1453952729493403463.gif" alt="1453952729493403463.gif"></p>
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<p>And then there's this -- just today:</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:rgb(46,46,47);font-family:'pt-serif', Georgia, serif;background-color:rgb(251,251,251);">A judge has tossed the $10 million defamation lawsuit of a drowsy Yankees fan who sued ESPN for mocking him on air when he fell asleep in his seat during a home game.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://nypost.com/2015/09/30/judge-tosses-sleeping-yankees-fans-lawsuit-against-espn/'>http://nypost.com/2015/09/30/judge-tosses-sleeping-yankees-fans-lawsuit-against-espn/</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:rgb(46,46,47);font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251);">You learn something new every day.</span></span></p> -
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<p>Out of interest, why are Yankees fans front runnin' pieces or garbage? (Whatever that means from a sporting point of view...)</p>
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<p>Last night was another fine example. All season the Yankees were old and injured, and yet overachieved and won more games than any experts predicted. They made the wildcard playoff spot, a one-game knockout against Houston. That game was played last night, at home in Yankee Stadium. Bottom of the 8th-inning - - Yankees trailing 3-0 - - still an inning to go and not an insurmountable lead. You might have expected that Yankee "supporters" might be encouraging their boys for the comeback rally, but instead were raining hard boos down on their players and manager.</p>
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<p>Update: Deadspin is on it...</p>
<p> </p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://deadspin.com/booing-yankees-fans-got-the-misery-they-deserve-1735150384'>Booing Yankees Fans Got The Misery They Deserve</a>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Dunning-Kruger Effect</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Courtesy of our own NTA (Nicholai the Armenian)</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Provides a nice little box to put all the conspiracy theorists, and about every second fluffybunny I meet (well used to meet, now I don't talk to fuck all foreigners) in bars.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Thank you Nick!</span></p> -
<p>I learned that TALKING IN CAPS and using a lot of !!!!!!!!! renders rigorous scientific discourse obsolete and that an argument is <strong>always </strong>won by the person who first manages to get corporate greed, imbecile, denyers (not deniers which is a reference to hosiery), [insert hobbyhorse]-gate, naïve and pseudo-science into one sentence.</p>
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<p>On the weekend, I learned that an electric planer is NOT the tool you should use to try and take a few shavings off a piece of timber the size of a credit card, particularly when you are holding said piece of timber in your other hand.</p>
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<p>Simultaneously, I also learned that I have ninja-like reflexes when presented with an electric planer against the tip of my finger.</p>
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<p>And that birds don't give any fucks how impressive you think your privacy screening is; everything exists for them to stand on and shit off. The fluffybunnys.</p> -
<p>the origins of the term 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'</p>
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<p>Apparently, back in the day of ships and cannons, obviously keeping cannon balls next to the was a bit of a problem, even when stacking them in a pyramid, the bottom row still would slip and your pyramid would collapse.</p>
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<p>A brass plate was made, with slight indentations in place to put each cannon ball and make your pyramid, making it a bit more stable, this was for whatever reason, called a brass monkey; however, as brass contracts in the very cold, often the indentations would all but disappear, and the balls would fall off - cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey</p>