Ikantcpell Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 20, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted October 20, 2016 Idiot. Unicorns don't have wings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V01 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 they do if their dad was a Pegasus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_avfc Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 6 hours ago, V01 said: they do if their dad was a Pegasus. Pedantic I know, but Pegasus is the name of a particular winged horse rather than a species so their dad would have to be Pegasus rather than "a Pegasus". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 3 hours ago, tom_avfc said: Pedantic I know, but Pegasus is the name of a particular winged horse rather than a species so their dad would have to be Pegasus rather than "a Pegasus". Well as we are being pedantic, Pegasus names many things, so v01 could be referring to one of them, and that might be the fictional winged horse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_avfc Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 1 hour ago, Seat68 said: Well as we are being pedantic, Pegasus names many things, so v01 could be referring to one of them, and that might be the fictional winged horse. I'm not sure Pegasus names many things that would be relevant in the context used! To be fair I'm not usually pedantic but its not often you get chance to use anything learnt from a classics degree!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BOF Posted January 20, 2017 Moderator Share Posted January 20, 2017 Actually this may not qualify as "totally useless" if you're ever over there, but here it is anyway. We all know everything that draws breath in Australia is able to kill you, nay hellbent on killing you. But which animal, statistically, is the most dangerous animal in Australia? Great White? Snakes? Hornets? Spiders? Jellyfish? Nope. The most dangerous animal in Australia is the horse. Quote The deadliest animal in Australia has been identified - and it's not what you think The University of Melbourne set out to answer a very specific question. What is the most dangerous animal in Australia? Or, more specifically, which animal has caused the most human deaths? To answer their query, researchers from the University looked at hospital admissions and coroner records that related specifically to animal incidents. They discovered that bees and hornets were responsible for 27 deaths and a whopping 12,351 hospital visits. Snake-related incidents caused 27 deaths, and 6,123 hospital visits. But there was one animal species, however, that killed far more people than all the animals surveyed, put together: Snakes? Spiders? Jellyfish? No. The animal responsible for the most deaths - 74 to be exact - between 2000 and 2013, was the humble horse. Tieing in second place came snakes, bees wasps and hornets with their 27 deaths, and deaths by ticks and ants took third place - as this chart from Statista shows. Is nothing safe in Australia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 20, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted January 20, 2017 Doesn't surprise me. I've always been shit scared of horses. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted January 20, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted January 20, 2017 I bet people aren't riding Box Jellyfish and unknown plats though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Would you rather stroke a horse or a box jellyfish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 32 minutes ago, a m ole said: Would you rather stroke a horse or a box jellyfish? Have you not read the stats? The Jellyfish obviously! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Paddywhack Posted January 20, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted January 20, 2017 16 minutes ago, lapal_fan said: Have you not read the stats? The Jellyfish obviously! Exactly. There would have been fewer fatalities throughout history if men had ridden jellyfish into battle instead of horses. @darrenm look, I think I used 'fewer' correctly!? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 4 hours ago, mjmooney said: Doesn't surprise me. I've always been shit scared of horses. One of my colleagues got killed by her horse in February They have a serious kick on them if they get spooked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 37 minutes ago, Paddywhack said: Exactly. There would have been fewer fatalities throughout history if men had ridden jellyfish into battle instead of horses. @darrenm look, I think I used 'fewer' correctly!? Excellent. I highly commend you on your grammar. I tend to find I almost never have to use the word 'less'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 50 minutes ago, darrenm said: Excellent. I highly commend you on your grammar. I tend to find I almost never have to use the word 'less'. Is that because you make less mistakes than other people? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 1 hour ago, HanoiVillan said: Is that because you make less mistakes than other people? *Are less mistaken ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted January 20, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted January 20, 2017 8 hours ago, BOF said: Actually this may not qualify as "totally useless" if you're ever over there, but here it is anyway. We all know everything that draws breath in Australia is able to kill you, nay hellbent on killing you. But which animal, statistically, is the most dangerous animal in Australia? Great White? Snakes? Hornets? Spiders? Jellyfish? Nope. The most dangerous animal in Australia is the horse. Interesting addendum to the above. Spiders in Australia have now become more of a threat to people indirectly - people spot one in their car whilst driving and end up having accidents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 23, 2017 Moderator Share Posted January 23, 2017 Today I learned ... that the steel bar at the back of an articulated trailer that runs widthways below the level of the doors is called (in America anyway) a Mansfield bar. After boobilicious actress Jayne Mansfield was killed when the car she was travelling in went under the trailer of a truck that had been travelling slowly in poor visibility. There were false rumours at the time that she had been decapitated in the accident. The bar (which wasn't there for the accident) became mandatory by law afterwards. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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