What did you learn today?

[Oddly]

He's on narcotics - you will be lucky to get an unintelligible string of characters...

Be hard to tell the difference from my usual posting, then, eh?

@the harp unstrung , doing good, thanks. Still waiting for x-rays and result of blood tests. My GP seems to think it's a trapped/pinched nerve, aggravated by arthritis, and triggered by work-load.
My job won't let me back until a definite analysis, so I'll be off a few more days.
Pain under control, and whatever was in the drugs, it's helping me sleep again, so I'm as good as can be.

 

[FilterFunk]

Time can be divided into Morris Day

 

[FilterFunk]

I have No Time for Morris Dancing

Too late!

 

[Tom Bomb]

This Brisbane scientist is one of the world's 100 most influential people.

That's my boffin ​

Lidia Morawska is based at the Queensland University of Technology.(Supplied)

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[FilterFunk]

TIL about the Royal Chicano Air Force, an art collective which started in my hometown of Sacramento, CA:
Royal Chicano Air Force - Wikipedia

 

[5StringBlues]

whompy-jawed

When you have any two things that are supposed to join together as one to perform a certain function and they don't fit together the correct way they are whompy-jawed.



If you are using a pair of scissors and they don't cut correctly and the blades shift and won't meet like they are supposed to then they are whompy-jawed.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Don't you mean Rebel Chicano Arts Front, the splitters?

Air Force, my eye

TIL about the Royal Chicano Air Force, an art collective which started in my hometown of Sacramento, CA:
Royal Chicano Air Force - Wikipedia

 

[FilterFunk]

Don't you mean Rebel Chicano Arts Front, the splitters?

Air Force, my eye

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The story of how they came to call it Royal Chicano Air Force is interesting. It's there on the Wikipedia page.

 

[Tom Bomb]

That's where I read it, immediately before I posted

The story of how they came to call it Royal Chicano Air Force is interesting. It's there on the Wikipedia page.

 

[the harp unstrung]

 

[Tom Bomb]

The Chicago Tribune threw a spanner in the works that took one-hundred and eighty odd years to catch a cog — 'We killed all in sight': Research suggests Aussie rules, cricket pioneer took part in Indigenous massacre. A little history on the chin.

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[Tom Bomb]

My pot rack is a half-decent seismometer.
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[the harp unstrung]

U.S. lawmakers move urgently to recognize survivors of the first atomic bomb test — National Geographic

 

[RichterScale]

I'd like to read it but they want my email address in order to continue reading.
I will give them my email address for $20,000, US.

 

[delta7fred]

I'd like to read it but they want my email address in order to continue reading.
I will give them my email address for $20,000, US.

I have an email address just for giving out to such sites.

I just logged in and there are 408 unread emails. Occasionally I go in and delete everything.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Saddle up the palomino. Just over the way, it's horses for (main) courses.

… "We found one product with about one third horse DNA in it, which was just an incredible finding. We went back and checked, double checked, and we triple checked, because we understood that if we were to go out public with such a story it was going to have quite an effect."
Irish food regulator

Scams range from the intentional mislabelling of inferior products in order to pass them off as premium items, to the substitution of one food stuff for something else entirely. …

… "Where was the source of it, that was the big question? Who put the horse meat inside the beef products?"
Head of intelligence & investigations, Dutch Food & Consumer Safety Authority

Regulators are struggling to keep up with this burgeoning underground business which risks undermining the reputation of whole industries. …
Food Fraud: An organised crime

 

[RichterScale]

Today I learned that if you fill up a 5 gal gas can for the lawn mower and plan to leave it in the back of the van till the weekend and loosen the cap just a tich, so the plastic can doesn't swell up,...... You should probably secure it in some way, in case you have to brake hard for any reason.
I didn't learn this today, but was reminded, since I've done it 487,000 times and know better. I guess I don't learn good.

 

[Winslow]

Ive seen several loved ones pass away in the past 2 years, and now this sad news today has made me realise the truth about how much more frequently your friends and family pass away once you go over the hill of middle age.

Sympathy "like." Sad but all too true.

 

[IamGroot]

 

[IamGroot]

TIL, Ballpoint pen manufacturers don't seem keen on advertising a little known but well-documented feature of their products: the ink from these pens attracts termites! Draw a line with a ballpoint pen, and termites will blindly—literally, blindly—follow it across the page.

How to Trick a Termite with a Ballpoint Pen