The thread of learning something new every day
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@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. -
Re "Octothorpe".
I get this weird image of a cross between Sponge Bob Square Pants and a Strayan Olympian
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Today I learned that Kevlar was discovered after trying to create lighter materials for tyres anticipating gas shortages.
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Today I learned that Kevlar was discovered after trying to create lighter materials for tyres anticipating gas shortages.
So the Arabs in the 70s caused the Americans to develop kevlar which they then wore when they invaded in the 2000s.
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Volkswagen currywurst - Wikipedia
