The thread of learning something new every day
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@mariner4life said in The thread of learning something new every day:
they were definitely kiwifruit in the mid-80s. Te Puke being just down the road, guess what we did for school projects in primary school?
Not where I'm from, but you were in the Kiwifruit capital of the world so not surprising.
I hate to think what your school projects were down there...possibly just picking hairy balls?
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@Snowy said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@mariner4life said in The thread of learning something new every day:
they were definitely kiwifruit in the mid-80s. Te Puke being just down the road, guess what we did for school projects in primary school?
Not where I'm from, but you were in the Kiwifruit capital of the world so not surprising.
I hate to think what your school projects were down there...possibly just picking hairy balls?
no, that was just at Tauranga Boys
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@Snowy said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Snowy whereas yours would have been leatherwork I presume?
Unfortunately, tanning and sewing weren't in the curriculum.
Some skills can be learned later in life though.
ah youtube
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I learnt that it wasn't just the Germans who used Zeppelins in WW1, the British and French amongst other countries did as well. They also experimented with using them as aircraft carriers, where they'd have planes strapped to the bottom to fly off ... I don't think they ever used them in action though.
I always assumed only the Germans used Zeppelins.
Edit - found a pic on wiki.
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@mariner4life said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Snowy said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Snowy whereas yours would have been leatherwork I presume?
Unfortunately, tanning and sewing weren't in the curriculum.
Some skills can be learned later in life though.
ah youtube
Practice mostly. Youtube get all precious about some things.
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@Nepia said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I learnt that it wasn't just the Germans who used Zeppelins in WW1, the British and French amongst other countries did as well. They also experimented with using them as aircraft carriers, where they'd have planes strapped to the bottom to fly off ... I don't think they ever used them in action though.
I always assumed only the Germans used Zeppelins.
Called airships, blimps or dirigibles, the only difference was the name (and some construction) but they were in many countries. Gasbags full of hot air are all around you...
The USS Los Angeles airship ended up nearly vertical after its tail rose out of control while moored at the Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1927.Later on but that is quite some parking.
Interesting comment:
"They did more damage keeping people awake than actual physical damage," says Jeffery S. Underwood, a historian at the United States Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Zeppelins "scared the living daylights" out of the British. The Germans believed that bombing civilians would bring panic in the cities, leading the British government to collapse—or at least pull out of the fighting and leave the French on their own on the Western Front.A precursor to WW2.
Airships have a really interesting history and have been looked at recently for heavy lifting.
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@Snowy The spire on the Empire State Building was designed as a mast for airships. The plan was to have passengers disembark across an open gangplank, process through a customs hall on the top floor and be out in the street in less than 10 minutes. However high winds meant it was basically impossible to dock.
Barnes Wallis of bouncing bomb fame designed the R101 that was destroyed in France and Neil Shute the novelist was Chief Engineer on the R100
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@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Snowy The spire on the Empire State Building was designed as a mast for airships. The plan was to have passengers disembark across an open gangplank, process through a customs hall on the top floor and be out in the street in less than 10 minutes. However high winds meant it was basically impossible to dock.
Barnes Wallis of bouncing bomb fame designed the R101 that was destroyed in France and Neil Shute the novelist was Chief Engineer on the R100
We've got our very own QI going on here!
Having been to the top of the Empire State I can say that that was a fucking stupid idea (and there wasn't a gorilla in sight).
Did this ever happen? The movie. Never seen it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-45731665
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@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I learned two things
1 Wireless buds don't work very well if you leave them in your jacket pocket when you put it through the washer and dryer
2 I learned where I'd left my missing budsI've never used my wireless buds as I too will do dumb shit like this. Or I'll lose one of them within a week. Plus, I think they look stupid sticking out of people's ears.
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@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I learned two things
1 Wireless buds don't work very well if you leave them in your jacket pocket when you put it through the washer and dryer
2 I learned where I'd left my missing budsYeah, well, imagine how gutted your jacket was when the music cut out only minutes into the cycle...
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@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I learned two things
1 Wireless buds don't work very well if you leave them in your jacket pocket when you put it through the washer and dryer
2 I learned where I'd left my missing budsYeah, well, imagine how gutted your jacket was when the music cut out only minutes into the cycle...
fucking LOL
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Slender doesn't mean what you think it means.
Rebel Wilson cuts a slender figure as she shows off weight loss in busty dress - The Mirror
Rebel Wilson has proudly showed off her dramatic weight loss as she works towards her goal weight of 165lbs (75kg) by the end of this year
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@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Slender doesn't mean what you think it means.
Rebel Wilson has proudly showed off her dramatic weight loss as she works towards her goal weight of 165lbs (75kg) by the end of this year
Can’t stand Rebel Wilson. Over
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@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Slender doesn't mean what you think it means.
Rebel Wilson has proudly showed off her dramatic weight loss as she works towards her goal weight of 165lbs (75kg) by the end of this year
It's the theory of relativity
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@Machpants said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Slender doesn't mean what you think it means.
Rebel Wilson has proudly showed off her dramatic weight loss as she works towards her goal weight of 165lbs (75kg) by the end of this year
It's the theory of relativity
It's science!
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@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Slender doesn't mean what you think it means.
Rebel Wilson has proudly showed off her dramatic weight loss as she works towards her goal weight of 165lbs (75kg) by the end of this year
Fuck I just learned I'm anorexic.
