The thread of learning something new every day
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@booboo Been on to that one for a while re iodine - not the cretinism, didn't know the link.
Iodine levels are extremely low in NZ soils and therefore our vegetables are deficient. Other parts of the world have sufficient for normal development.
Seafood is good though, so we boost it in our diets in NZ as you say, but pregnant women may be a bit frightened of it due to listeria these days.
I might also have to "mickey" some iodine into some people's drinks though. I deal with a few cretins unfortunately.
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@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@booboo this reminded me that I learned why tanks (military) are called tanks from a podcast t'other day.
Apparently during WW1 whilst the Brits were developing tanks they were concerned that the filthy Hun would learn what they were up to. So they developed a cover story that they were working on an armoured supply wagon to get food and water to the troops.
Someone decided that the design looked a lot like a water tank and that's how the name stuck.
I think I knew that
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Jebus.
Who was Lisa Montgomery and why was she executed?
The first female inmate on federal death row has been executed by the US government in nearly seven decades.
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@Nevorian said in The thread of learning something new every day:
My Student Nurse daughter taught me about The Bristol Stool Chart on the weekend. I must admit I have experienced all seven levels on the chart at some stage.
Same. On the same morning after a few beers with a curry and a cheeky kebab on the walk home.
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@MajorRage A curry AND a kebab? That's quite a night.
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@JC said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Arizona entomologist Justin O Schmidt has ranked the sting of over 80 species of insect on his personal suffering, usually accidental, but occasionally induced.
My personal favourite is:
Maricopa Harvester Ant: After eight unrelenting hours of drilling into that ingrown toenail, you find the drill wedged into the toe.
The Natural History Museum has some of them:
there's a dude on youtube who does that shit. it looks... intense
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@Nevorian said in The thread of learning something new every day:
My Student Nurse daughter taught me about The Bristol Stool Chart on the weekend. I must admit I have experienced all seven levels on the chart at some stage.
I find the Bristol Scale rather limited.
Background: I only discovered it existed a little over a year ago myself, when I made a New Year's Resolution of keeping track of my shites... one of my typical half-joking resolutions, while also being a little curious about what I felt had been an irregular schedule over the last few years.
Upon doing 5 minutes research in the Google Play Store - I realised that this was NOT an original concept, and there were a plethora of "Poo Diary" type apps.
The one I settled on, had the functionality of my listing where on the Bristol Scale I was currently residing, each time I dropped the Cosby kids off at the pool. I nearly always felt there needed to be a 6.5 to accurately describe the craft-beer-dump. -
@mariner4life is that that Bravewilderness dude on IG? Lets hornets and shit bite him for fun?
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@mariner4life is that that Bravewilderness dude on IG? Lets hornets and shit bite him for fun?
yeah i think so, some of it looks totaly fucked.
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@Kruse said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Nevorian said in The thread of learning something new every day:
My Student Nurse daughter taught me about The Bristol Stool Chart on the weekend. I must admit I have experienced all seven levels on the chart at some stage.
I find the Bristol Scale rather limited.
Background: I only discovered it existed a little over a year ago myself, when I made a New Year's Resolution of keeping track of my shites... one of my typical half-joking resolutions, while also being a little curious about what I felt had been an irregular schedule over the last few years.
Upon doing 5 minutes research in the Google Play Store - I realised that this was NOT an original concept, and there were a plethora of "Poo Diary" type apps.
The one I settled on, had the functionality of my listing where on the Bristol Scale I was currently residing, each time I dropped the Cosby kids off at the pool. I nearly always felt there needed to be a 6.5 to accurately describe the craft-beer-dump.congratulations!! you just jumped to the top of the "weirdest post on the Fern" leaderboard.
the real crazies will be gunning for you now
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@mariner4life said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Kruse said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Nevorian said in The thread of learning something new every day:
My Student Nurse daughter taught me about The Bristol Stool Chart on the weekend. I must admit I have experienced all seven levels on the chart at some stage.
I find the Bristol Scale rather limited.
Background: I only discovered it existed a little over a year ago myself, when I made a New Year's Resolution of keeping track of my shites... one of my typical half-joking resolutions, while also being a little curious about what I felt had been an irregular schedule over the last few years.
Upon doing 5 minutes research in the Google Play Store - I realised that this was NOT an original concept, and there were a plethora of "Poo Diary" type apps.
The one I settled on, had the functionality of my listing where on the Bristol Scale I was currently residing, each time I dropped the Cosby kids off at the pool. I nearly always felt there needed to be a 6.5 to accurately describe the craft-beer-dump.congratulations!! you just jumped to the top of the "weirdest post on the Fern" leaderboard.
the real crazies will be gunning for you now
Shit... (intended)... they've got nearly a whole year to top it too.
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@Nevorian said in The thread of learning something new every day:
My Student Nurse daughter taught me about The Bristol Stool Chart on the weekend. I must admit I have experienced all seven levels on the chart at some stage.
I think we might have hit a new low.
Well done.
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@JC said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@MajorRage A curry AND a kebab? That's quite a night.
Yeah. 7pm table at Indian, dinner around 8 .... couple more drinks .... cheeky pint after at pub .... glint in eye ... club / pub crawl .... 3am .... Fuck!!! Must go home, best get some food so don’t feel too rough ....
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@MajorRage said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@JC said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@MajorRage A curry AND a kebab? That's quite a night.
Yeah. 7pm table at Indian, dinner around 8 .... couple more drinks .... cheeky pint after at pub .... glint in eye ... club / pub crawl .... 3am .... Fuck!!! Must go home, best get some food so don’t feel too rough ....
Sounds like a perfect Monday night
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I learned today that the biggest selling VW in production - is a sausage. Not a lemon; literally a sausage.
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The octothorpe...
... is this symbol: #
Apparently the abbreviation for the Latin words for pound weight, libra pondo, or lb (that's also something I learned today) got more and more stylised and became #.
Thus being called "the pound symbol" sometimes.
AT&T added it to it's phone keyboard because ... ummm ... they could ... and then it needed a name which some peeps and Bell Labs took upon themselves to make up and invented "octotherp", which became "Octothorpe".
And this is a shebang: #!
And the tweet that took me down this rabbit hole:
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@booboo said in The thread of learning something new every day:
The octothorpe...
... is this symbol: #
Apparently the abbreviation for the Latin words for pound weight, libra pondo, or lb (that's also something I learned today) got more and more stylised and became #.
Thus being called "the pound symbol" sometimes.
AT&T added it to it's phone keyboard because ... ummm ... they could ... and then it needed a name which some peeps and Bell Labs took upon themselves to make up and invented "octotherp", which became "Octothorpe".
And this is a shebang: #!
And the tweet that took me down this rabbit hole:
Yeah - us nerds know the shebang. First line of every shell script... just good practice.
I suspect we called it that, because we're never going to experience another " she - bang ".
Fuck, that joke's a stretch.
A root. Nerds never get a root.
Volkswagen currywurst - Wikipedia
