The thread of learning something new every day
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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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@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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@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.