fruitvilla Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 3 minutes ago, a m ole said: Interesting… what would you consider halfway in the following sequence of numbers? 1,2,4,8,16,32,64 A: 8 B: 32 Depends ... on the "scale" ... which is better: mean or median? But definitely not 8! .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, fruitvilla said: Depends ... on the "scale" ... which is better: mean or median? But definitely not 8! .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitvilla Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Just now, a m ole said: Sorry I need a translation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Just now, fruitvilla said: Sorry I need a translation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitvilla Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Just now, a m ole said: I thought the mole of dogs would have done that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Just now, fruitvilla said: I thought the mole of dogs would have done that! I thought you were just speaking Danish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted September 30, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 30, 2021 2 hours ago, fruitvilla said: Yes and no .... perhaps on a logarithmic scale, but not on a tape measure. Show me the tape measure you are using or gtfo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chindie Posted October 7, 2021 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted October 7, 2021 Koalas, Australia's cute furry mascots, have a reputation as effectively nature's stoners, sleeping from one bit of green to the next. But this isn't quite the case. Koalas are stupid. They have one of the smallest brain to body size ratios in the animal world, and said brain is smooth, without the wrinkles and folds normally associated with the brain in even very unintelligent animals. They are so stupid that a koala left in a room filled with eucalyptus leaves would starve, because they don't recognise their food as food unless it's in a state they expect it to be. Because of this in captivity they have to be given branches of eucalyptus, placed high up to simulate the actual tree. Their lack of brain power seems to be an odd result of their both being a primitive animal, but also their environment and lifestyle making being primitive an advantage - when you're a small animal that only eats a very basic limited diet in an extremely dry hostile land, having a big complex watery brain is more of a disadvantage than benefit. The brain also helps dispel their reputation as chill laid-back little fellas. They are intensely solitary and territorial animals and can be vicious, and dislike sharing space with other koalas. They're also full of shit. Literally. Their guts have their biggest caecum in the animal kingdom. The caecum is a section of the intestine that in herbivores is used to break down plant matter further. In koalas, it lets them pull the maximum nutrition from the leaves they eat, but it also means they basically only shit once a week. And speaking of shit, as infants, they actually eat shit for a period. Mother koalas are able to produce a partially digested pulp turd that the joey eats, giving them a nutritional boost. And like most marsupials, they also have a split dick, 2 vaginas and wombs. And famously they have Chlamydia. So, there we have the koala. A stupid, sleepy, aggressive, shit filled, shit eating, weird genitaled clap ridden beast, perfectly suited to it's environment. They probably originated in Small Heath. 7 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xela Posted October 7, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 7, 2021 29 minutes ago, Chindie said: In koalas, it lets them pull the maximum nutrition from the leaves they eat, but it also means they basically only shit once a week. Lucky, lucky bastards... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted October 7, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted October 7, 2021 On 20/07/2021 at 04:41, BOF said: I do love a good @Chindie story. Although on a related note I wouldn't say soft drinks dissolving things over an extended period of time is that horrifying or weird, given the amount of stories in circulation about what happens to things left in Coca Cola for any length of time. Coca Cola was an oft-used form of post-coital birth control among teens in the ‘50s and ‘60s, at least in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bickster Posted October 8, 2021 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted October 8, 2021 Andy Kaufman. This tale is in the wiki for the character Latka Gravas Quote Creation In 1977, the producers of Taxi saw Kaufman's Foreign Man act at The Comedy Store. They had already created the main characters for the pilot but they enjoyed Kaufman so much they immediately offered him a role based on the character.[1] Kaufman wasn't a fan of sitcoms, but his manager, George Shapiro, convinced him that this would rocket him to stardom, where he would make a lot of money which he could then put into his own act, which became Andy's Funhouse.[1] Kaufman agreed to appear as Latka in fourteen episodes per season, approximately half of the entire series. In the show, Latka's home country is never disclosed (only referred to as "[Latka's] country" or "the old country"), and his native language is essentially gibberish, although a few words and phrases were consistently used. (Notably "Ibbi da" for "Yes" or "That is so".) Some fans have theorized that Latka may be from a fictional Baltic country-island named Caspiar, which Kaufman claimed "Foreign Man" was from, but this was never explicitly addressed on any episode of Taxi. "Tony Clifton" One of Kaufman's conditions on being hired was that one of his other characters, Tony Clifton, be allowed to guest star in the series. The producers were well aware that "Clifton" was an alter ego of Kaufman, but went along with the fiction that Clifton was a separate actor. They signed Clifton to a separate contract, and announced to the cast that Clifton was being hired to portray the character of Louie's brother in the series' tenth episode. However, after the first day of rehearsal, the producers felt Kaufman-as-Clifton was not up to the acting challenge of playing the offered role. Informed of this, Kaufman asked that "Clifton" be fired in public, ostensibly for coming to rehearsal late. Clifton then showed up on set for the next day of filming, and was demanding, boorish and obnoxious; the producers not only fired Clifton, but threw him off the set after he caused havoc and enraged Judd Hirsch and Jeff Conaway. The role was hurriedly recast, and when Kaufman (as himself) returned to work for the following episode, he acted as if nothing had happened. 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xela Posted October 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2021 The first officially registered trademark in the UK was the Bass triangle, in 1876. Bass was so popular in the early years, it appeared in the 1882 painting from Edouard Manet; A Bar at the Folies-Bergère The trademark still lives on today, albeit in a slightly more modern form. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted October 17, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted October 17, 2021 In addition to the above (and more pointlessly) Joules Brewery is the 6th oldest beer trademark. It’s Red Cross symbol predates the British Red Cross so to differentiate between the two, the brewery one has gold edging around it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 19, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted October 19, 2021 1984's Ghostbusters is one of the most beloved movies of all time, with reason - it's amazing. The film famously had a convoluted development, from legal issues due to the name being the same as an obscure 70s TV show, to Dan Akroyd's original script being increasingly bizarre to the point it was completely unfilmable. That script was bizarre because Akroyd is genuinely obsessed with the paranormal. He has an immense knowledge of completely useless information, and even alleges that he lived with a ghost for a number of years. As a result he riddled his original script with paranormal and esoteric references, very few of which remain. But one interesting one does. Remember the ultimate villain in Ghostbusters? The extremely thin oddly androgynous being Gozer? That name is a reference to the Enfield Poltergeist case. Early during the case 2 alleged psychics attended the house and during their... investigations, at one point the wife of the pair began crying 'Gozer, Gozer, please help me Gozer'. The husband later claimed that 'Gozer is a nasty piece of work, a black magic kinda chap'. Akroyd, being a paranormal buff, knew about the story and used the name as yet another callback to the weird and spooky shit he loves, but unlike most of the rest of it, that reference survived into the final film to become movie history. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 Im not into paranormal as such but I do find it interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 19 hours ago, Chindie said: 1984's Ghostbusters is one of the most beloved movies of all time, with reason - it's amazing. The film famously had a convoluted development, from legal issues due to the name being the same as an obscure 70s TV show, to Dan Akroyd's original script being increasingly bizarre to the point it was completely unfilmable. That script was bizarre because Akroyd is genuinely obsessed with the paranormal. He has an immense knowledge of completely useless information, and even alleges that he lived with a ghost for a number of years. As a result he riddled his original script with paranormal and esoteric references, very few of which remain. But one interesting one does. Remember the ultimate villain in Ghostbusters? The extremely thin oddly androgynous being Gozer? That name is a reference to the Enfield Poltergeist case. Early during the case 2 alleged psychics attended the house and during their... investigations, at one point the wife of the pair began crying 'Gozer, Gozer, please help me Gozer'. The husband later claimed that 'Gozer is a nasty piece of work, a black magic kinda chap'. Akroyd, being a paranormal buff, knew about the story and used the name as yet another callback to the weird and spooky shit he loves, but unlike most of the rest of it, that reference survived into the final film to become movie history. When I was very young, the Enfield poltergeist was a book that was passed round my circle of friends. We were maybe 13 and the reactions ranged from sleeping with the light on to looking for holes in the stories. I loved that book. I may have mentioned this before but years later one of the authors Guy Lyon Playfair, the psychic researcher did a talk at Butlins, I spent a couple of hours talking through the Enfield poltergeist, very enjoyable but difficult for me as it was pretty much bollocks as far as I was concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colhint Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 29 minutes ago, PussEKatt said: Im not into paranormal as such but I do find it interesting. You are, I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 5 minutes ago, colhint said: You are, I know. Dont scare me like that 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted October 20, 2021 Moderator Share Posted October 20, 2021 France's longest land border is with Brazil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 20, 2021 Moderator Share Posted October 20, 2021 3 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: France's longest land border is with Brazil. France also shares a land border with The Netherlands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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