The thread of learning something new every day

Tim

Even without the religious aspect those guys would still be ultra-nationalist/fascist terrorists.

Tim

[b][url=https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_quarterly/Dodging_Armageddon.pdf]Dodging Armageddon, the Third World War That Almost Was, in 1950[/url][/b]

Hooroo

I learnt something new just a few moments ago.
 
Auckland is the most populous region in NZ but what is the second? I was slightly surprised to read it is Canterbury.
 
I thought the Wellington Region would have had more people with the Kapiti coast etc included

red terror

John Key learns how to watch the Yankees get their asses kicked. 
 
<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">
 
 
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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." In fact, it was Prime Time at the big ballyard in the Bronx. Curacao Prime Minister Ben Whiteman also was in attendance. (AP Photo/Ben Walker)
 
<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>
 
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Yankees get pummelled 10-4. Magic Number is 1.

Hooroo

I thought that game would sell out? Looks half empty

red terror

Might have been pre-game, but Yankee fans are bailing on the team like the front-runnin' pieces of garbage they are.

MajorRage

Out of interest, why are Yankees fans front runnin' pieces or garbage? (Whatever that means from a sporting point of view...)

taniwharugby

I learnt that despite my best intentions of zoning out when my wife talks about her chickens, I am still absorbing what she says!

red terror

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Out of interest, why are Yankees fans front runnin' pieces or garbage? (Whatever that means from a sporting point of view...)
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<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">
 
A GIF of some Yankees fans (saw this at Deadspin today):
 
<img src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--DTx6eyrm--/1453952729493403463.gif" alt="1453952729493403463.gif">
 
 
And then there's this -- just today:
 
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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.
 
<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>
 
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You learn something new every day.

red terror

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="MajorRage" data-cid="521631" data-time="1443590733">
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Out of interest, why are Yankees fans front runnin' pieces or garbage? (Whatever that means from a sporting point of view...)
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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.
 
Update: Deadspin is on it...

<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>

Siam

Dunning-Kruger Effect
 
Courtesy of our own NTA (Nicholai the Armenian)
 
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.
 
Thank you Nick!

dogmeat

I learned that TALKING IN CAPS and using a lot of !!!!!!!!! renders rigorous scientific discourse obsolete and that an argument is always won by the person who first manages to get corporate greed, imbecile, denyers (not deniers which is a reference to hosiery), [insert hobbyhorse]-gate, naÃ¯ve and pseudo-science into one sentence.

Donsteppa

I learnt that people reading things on the Internet is far more important to the advancement of civilisation than actual researchers. Especially if they publish and then have those publications cited. Wake up Sheeple.

NTA

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.
 
Simultaneously, I also learned that I have ninja-like reflexes when presented with an electric planer against the tip of my finger.
 
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.

taniwharugby

the origins of the term 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'
 
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.
 
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

mariner4life

I'm in a sports club. Tonight I have learned Mat Rogers is being used to advertise Keno. Mat Rogers. Advertising gambling. In a sports club. Astounding.

jegga

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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.
 
Update: Deadspin is on it...
 
<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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My ex has a cousin that lives in Boston, he came over for xmas after 9/11 . I asked him if neutrals would be supporting the Yankees and he said "a lot of people would like something like that for New York after 9/11..... but its the Yankees so probably not."
 
Put the loathing of Aucklands npc team over the years into perspective.

jegga

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I'm in a sports club. Tonight I have learned Mat Rogers is being used to advertise Keno. Mat Rogers. Advertising gambling. In a sports club. Astounding.
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FFS 
 
Every time I hear that bogans name I remember the time he was playing for the sharks vs St George and he ran around Blacklock and scored a try, did it again and gave him a mouthfull on the way past tried it a third time and Blacklock hammered him and broke his nose. Blacklock just stood there grinning as they carted the jackass off with his face covered in blood.

Tim

Well, there's one "homoeopathic" product out there with measurable activity ...
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2015/10/homeopathy_contains_alcohol_and_can_be_sold_to_minors.html'>http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2015/10/homeopathy_contains_alcohol_and_can_be_sold_to_minors.html</a> <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">Thereâ€™s one exception to the rule that homeopathic products are basically sugar and water. Many of them list alcohol as an â€œinactiveâ€ ingredient. Because labeling laws on homeopathy are so different from regulations on real medicine with proven ingredients, the only actual drug in a bottle of homeopathic medicineâ€”ethanol, the same active ingredient in vodkaâ€”doesnâ€™t have to be listed as a drug. This is not an isolated case. 
CVS sells a store-brand homeopathic constipation medication labeled â€œsafe and non-habit forming.â€ It is conveniently 20 percent ethanol, meaning it is a 40-proof hard liquor and saving you the trouble of hitting the liquor store. Because who doesnâ€™t enjoy doing shots when theyâ€™re trying to beat constipation?</blockquote>

Tim

<a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/11/12/18850/fuel-nuclear-bomb-hands-unknown-black-marketeer-russia-us-officials-say">The fuel for a nuclear bomb is in the hands of an unknown black marketeer from Russia, U.S. officials say </a> <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">The presence of identical fissile materials in three smuggling incidents indicates someone has a larger cache and is hunting for a buyer</blockquote>

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