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Mokey

This thread is awesome.
 
Talking about sheets, I am convinced the ability to neatly fold a fitted sheet is impossible, and therefore the modern day witch test.
 
Also, beer names in Elizabethan England were far cooler than today. You could buy Huffcap, The Mad Dog, Father Whoreson, Angel's Food, Dragon's Milk, Go-by-the-wall, Stride Wide and Lift-leg. Plus Bastard, a red wine from Burgandy. 

And it took 600 oaks to build a warship.

Nepia

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This thread is awesome.
 
Talking about sheets, I am convinced the ability to neatly fold a fitted sheet is impossible, and therefore the modern day witch test.
 
Also, beer names in Elizabethan England were far cooler than today. You could buy Huffcap, The Mad Dog, Father Whoreson, Angel's Food, Dragon's Milk, Go-by-the-wall, Stride Wide and Lift-leg. Plus Bastard, a red wine from Burgandy. 

And it took 600 oaks to build a warship.
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Good to see you man-ing this thread up after all the fluffing with sheets.

Hooroo

Being abrupt. 
In Vodafone Tauranga store. 
Sales Assistant: Hello! I'm new here but I'm here to help 
Customer: I'm in a fucking hurry, can you please get someone else! 
Gold! I watched her slink away and get a more experienced person and the customer walked out with a new phone.

nostrildamus

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Good to see you man-ing this thread up after all the fluffing with sheets.
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Sounds like Mokey might have been reading that Shakespeare and Alcohol book.

Tim

[b][url=http://www.salon.com/2007/04/12/castaneda/]The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda[/url][/b]

Tim

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<a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.salon.com/2007/04/12/castaneda/">The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda</a>
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This is a good read if you're interested in take-downs of cults and new age bullshit.

Kirwan

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Mokey" data-cid="466580" data-time="1419750116">This thread is awesome. 
Talking about sheets, I am convinced the ability to neatly fold a fitted sheet is impossible, and therefore the modern day witch test. 
Also, beer names in Elizabethan England were far cooler than today. You could buy Huffcap, The Mad Dog, Father Whoreson, Angel's Food, Dragon's Milk, Go-by-the-wall, Stride Wide and Lift-leg. Plus Bastard, a red wine from Burgandy. 
And it took 600 oaks to build a warship.</blockquote>
 <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.realsimple.com/m/home-organizing/cleaning/laundry/fold-fitted-sheet">http://www.realsimple.com/m/home-organizing/cleaning/laundry/fold-fitted-sheet</a> 
You're welcome.

nostrildamus

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Also, beer names in Elizabethan England were far cooler than today.
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Quite partial to Fuzzy Baby Ducks beer as a name, myself, and that is contemporary.
A forum also lists (and sadly I think most are N American):
Old Chub 
Dirty/Backwoods Bastard 
Sucks 
Wake N' Bake
Meat Whistle
Lil' Sumpin' Sumpin'
Brew Cocky 
Cats Piss 
Ryan and The Beaster Bunny (Evil Twin)
Hoppy Ending Pale Ale
Evil Twin's Justin BlÃ¥bÃ¦r (Denmark)
Pork Slap
Pigs Ass Porter and Polygamy Porter
Voodoo Doughnut Maple Bacon
Big Cock IPA
Panty Peeler 
Even More Jesus (Surly has had a few: Jesus Juice, FU Brett Favre, Overrated West Coast IPA, Imperial Brown Eye...) 
Pearl Necklace 
Donkey Punch 
Yellow Snow

Tim

Evil Twin is really a US brewery. The founder is the identical twin brother of the founder of the famous Mikkeller. He decided to move to the US and go into business for himself. Hence the Evil Twin name.

Tim

I've always like the Cornish Knocker. :)

Mokey

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<a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.realsimple.com/m/home-organizing/cleaning/laundry/fold-fitted-sheet">http://www.realsimple.com/m/home-organizing/cleaning/laundry/fold-fitted-sheet</a> 
You're welcome.
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No, Satan, I SHALL NOT CLICK ON YOUR LINK.

nostrildamus

Would appreciate some good NZ brew names but that is probably a different thread.
My tiny contribution for the thread, nipples are also known as the Glands of Montgomery (from his 1837 paper).
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.buzzfeed.com/carolynkylstra/nipple-factoids'>http://www.buzzfeed.com/carolynkylstra/nipple-factoids</a>
 
His paper is described in Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery.
 
Edit: Sorry I forgot to mention two fave beer names
Jean Claude Van Cock puncher (obv Belgian IPA <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/26884/88667/)'>http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/26884/88667/)</a>
and
Camel Toe Egyptian Pale Ale (<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/piece-camel-toe-egyptian-pale-ale/68696/'>http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/piece-camel-toe-egyptian-pale-ale/68696/</a>) 
What do they taste like?
I suspect the latter has a smooth velvety finish with a back palate tickle of bearded mussel.

Chris B.

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No, Satan, I SHALL NOT CLICK ON YOUR LINK.
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During my sheet research I came across an article that said fitted sheets are more about saving the manufacturer fabric than convenience and comfort for the consumer and whomever was being interviewed said she never bought fitted sheets and instead relied on her skill in making a bed with hospital corners. 
 
Farmers had heaps of quality sheet sets to choose from in their Boxing Day sales - and I branched out into some very nice towels at half price, as well.
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-and-Choose-High-Quality-Bath-Towels'>http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-and-Choose-High-Quality-Bath-Towels</a>
 
Nepia will be scorning this, but I'm still the one who's really laughing!

dogmeat

I learned that the Baron hardly ever posts any more (which had escaped me) which as I reflect on the last year somehow seems to diminish this place and makes me (momentarily) maudlin.

No Quarter

Yeah, I guess everyone loves McCullum now so he ran out of battles to fight.

NTA

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I learned that the Baron hardly ever posts any more (which had escaped me) which as I reflect on the last year somehow seems to diminish this place and makes me (momentarily) maudlin.
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Well, he's gone the hard love on SidBarrett in the "Breaking Up" thread.
 
Feels like he was never gone!

dogmeat

I learned that the latest generation of caesium atomic clocks lose 1 second every 14.1 billion years.
 
That's 14.1 BILLION years.
 
NB The universe is estimated to be 13.5 billion years old.
 
there was an explanation on why you need a timepiece that accurate but I missed it coz I was still going
 
Whaaaaatthefuuuuckinheeeeeeeellllllllllll

taniwharugby

ha, I struggle to understand/comprehend when they start talking in billions of years, it just seems like a guess...I mean can we prove they are wrong, and then, oh sorry, it was only 13.9billion years...

Chris B.

This isn't really learning, because I thought it up myself this morning (but it's doubtless been thought of before). However, seems like a good place to post.
 
For some reason 2015 has struck me as a particularly futuristic number and I suspect it might be to do with its distance from my birth date.
 
Looking at things in reverse, if you turn 25 this year then you were born in 1990 and you're as far away from your birth date as people were in 1965. That's not so bad.
 
If you were born in 1965, you turn 50 this year - and you're as far from your birthdate as the Gallipoli landings (1915).
 
If you're like my father, who's 80 this year, he's as far from his birthdate as the bloody Crimean War (1855).
 
And if you're 100 this year, you can stretch right back to the end of the Napoleonic wars (1815).

booboo

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This isn't really learning, because I thought it up myself this morning (but it's doubtless been thought of before). However, seems like a good place to post. 
For some reason 2015 has struck me as a particularly futuristic number and I suspect it might be to do with its distance from my birth date. 
Looking at things in reverse, if you turn 25 this year then you were born in 1990 and you're as far away from your birth date as people were in 1965. That's not so bad. 
If you were born in 1965, you turn 50 this year - and you're as far from your birthdate as the Gallipoli landings (1915). 
If you're like my father, who's 80 this year, he's as far from his birthdate as the bloody Crimean War (1855). 
And if you're 100 this year, you can stretch right back to the end of the Napoleonic wars (1815).</blockquote>
 
Marty McFly traveled Back to the Future to 2015 in II. 
At least the hoverboard has actually been invented ...

The Silver Fern

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