The thread of learning something new every day
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@antipodean was pretty much large scale working bee, zero fucks given about health and safety with people standing on those bits sticking out to work on areas around them.
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In 2010 a law was introduced that made kidnapping brides or marriage by abduction illegal in Chechnya...although the law hasn't stopped the practice.
Bride abductions are an endemic phenomenon in the Caucasus and Central Asia. In Chechnya alone, rights activists say as many as one in four marriages begins with the woman being kidnapped and forced to wed against her will.
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@taniwharugby To hell with that. Living with someone who is with you voluntarily can be difficult enough. Imagine trying to cohabit with someone you've forced to be there. So many opportunities for utu, you'd never know when your moment of karma would be at hand.
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Learnt something new today
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@no-quarter define "stand around"
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@no-quarter said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Learnt something new today
The Onion has a Metro section now?
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@antipodean Neither you nor your mate are gay until you fit his second bollock in your mouth.
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Brood X cicada spends 17 years in the ground and emerge en masse and live for several weeks.
A type of fungus eats into its abdomen and drops its spores as the cicada flies about, the fungus is listed as an illicit drug.
Interesting podcast about them.
Overheard at National Geographic
Listen to Overheard at National Geographic on Pandora - Come dive into one of the curiously delightful conversations overheard at National Geographic’s headquarters, as we follow explorers, photographers, and scientists to the edges of our big, weird, beautiful world. Hosted by Peter Gwin and Amy...
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Brood X cicada spends 17 years in the ground and emerge en masse and live for several weeks.
... And lots of hibernating animals come out in prime year cycles.... Because Nature right?
Or voodoo
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Apparently in early 1900's in BOston, 40 people a year died from elevator related deaths, and were also plenty of decapitations, because elevators didnt have doors back then.
Also, imagine you are at work, pop out for a smoke or coffee, jump in the elevator to go back to work, and you get stuck for 41 hours (whats worse, is no one knew you were stuck)
Even your work colleague wrote a nasty note about bailing and put it on your desk!!
Oh, and in the building you work, they have 24 hr surveillance in all elevators, including the one you are stuck in...but no one notices
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Signalman Jack, a baboon worked for the railway for 9 years...imagine if they tried that shit today PETA would be all over it.
Signalman Jack: The Baboon Who Worked for the Railroad—and Never Made a Mistake
He was paid 20 cents a day and half a bottle of beer weekly.
Val Kilmer weighs in on Batman oral sex controversy
