So, I hope you've learnt something more useful than me!
― jel, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave q, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nick, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kodanshi, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Andrew L, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Otis Wheeler, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ronan, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Hitler, Freud, Jung and Tito, were all in Vienna in 1913. Though all their paths did not cross. But, still quite an occurence.
I learned that my singing isn't nearly as loud to other people as it is to me.
I've done eight and a half hours of schoolwork so far and that's all I've learned. How pathetic.
― maria, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
That is what I have learned.
― Arthur, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
xoxo
― Norman Fay, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― maryann, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― rainy, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― duane, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― di, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― nathalie, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Trevor, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kodanshi, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Boy 1: "Is it dead?" Boy 2: [pausing thoughtfully] "Yeah". Boy 3: "Then let's kill it! Kill kill!" [poking dead hare with long pointy stick]
Knowing my luck, I'll end up with a son most closely resembling Boy 3.
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 30 May 2003 15:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Friday, 30 May 2003 16:19 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Friday, 30 May 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 30 May 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link
― NA. (Nick A.), Friday, 30 May 2003 16:42 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 30 May 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 30 May 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
My thoughts exactly.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 30 May 2003 17:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Friday, 30 May 2003 17:48 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 May 2003 19:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 30 May 2003 19:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 2 June 2003 16:43 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 2 June 2003 16:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Monday, 2 June 2003 16:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 2 June 2003 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Monday, 2 June 2003 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 June 2003 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 2 June 2003 17:06 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 2 June 2003 17:06 (twenty years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 2 June 2003 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 June 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 2 June 2003 17:40 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Monday, 2 June 2003 18:06 (twenty years ago) link
― janni (janni), Monday, 2 June 2003 19:21 (twenty years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 2 June 2003 19:30 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Monday, 2 June 2003 20:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 2 June 2003 22:27 (twenty years ago) link
What did you learn Nicole?
― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 2 June 2003 22:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%0D%0Ainurl:%22ViewerFrame%3FMode%3D%22&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N
― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link
and that i should never ever read the washington post free daily paper Express, it will only ruin a good day (temporarily.)
― carly goodman, Friday, 7 January 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 8 January 2005 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link
NB, I've already forgotten.
― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Saturday, 8 January 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
today i learned about 'team breezy'
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
Today I discovered the reason I don't pig out at Thanksgiving is because I eat such good food all the other days of the year that why sweat it?
― Aimless, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
hahaa! me too!xp
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
elf on a shelf
― mookieproof, Sunday, 9 December 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
^^ if i see one i will hurl it to the ground
― horse motivator (clouds), Sunday, 9 December 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
That shit is partly made up of dead blood cells.
― Alba, Sunday, 10 March 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
Watching Antiques Roadshow just learnt that the phrase ‘bottoms up’ refers to pushing a glass up from the bottom so that all the booze is emptied into your mouth.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 10 March 2019 20:55 (five years ago) link
I shuddered reading my posts on this thread. Trigger indeed.
― nathom, Sunday, 10 March 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link
Shame the timestamp is lost on the Sep 11 2001 posts
― Alba, Sunday, 10 March 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
horse motivator was a good dn
― clouds, Monday, 11 March 2019 01:38 (five years ago) link
xp fwiw I’m in the US (central time zone) and I don’t see posts on Sept 11, only Sept 10.
― ⅋ (crüt), Monday, 11 March 2019 01:47 (five years ago) link
The mekon was based on the oversized headed daughter of the original editor of The Eagle. The Eagle was a Xian magazine.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
Some interesting takes on Indian aesthetics which I could do with reading more on.That the eatery I've avoided since soon after it opened does have some ok food in. Just isn't the place I used to frequent in the same premises which pipped up as an fb memory this morning.
Learnt how to use carbon paper and a copy wheel over the weekend. Not sure why I never had before. Just not got round to it.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
I only recently learned about "basic bitches" being a thing, wtf
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
Learned about the phrase or about the people?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
the table on which Grant and Lee signed the treaty that ended the Civil War was gifted to General Custer's widow.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
(she was not a widow at the time)
I learned that you can butterfly a boneless cut of meat. I always thought it was for bone-in cuts, or for that matter, just bone-in whole birds.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
I just learned in the last few minutes that I was actually thinking of spatchcocking, so I learned nothing, actually.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
There are 4 thermostats in the office, not 3. The 4th one is in Jason’s office
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
Fuckin' Jason, man...
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 22:30 (four years ago) link
Via sund4r I learned the other day that the little globe icon next to “public” on a Facebook post shows a different part of the earth depending on where you are posting from
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
I've learned that swedish people watch a donald duck christmas special on xmas eve. has been broadcast every year since the 50s and remains popular
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
I just found that out too, the climax of midsommar was wild
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 22:47 (four years ago) link
I learned that a small percentage of Swiss eat cats.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
i learned that wifi needs to be connected BEFORE you connect to VPN & before you tell the help desk that the VPN isn’t working 😞
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
The Wikipedia entry on Cat meat is quite informative, which I was intending to check today anyway because coincidentally I just learned this morning that cat meat is used to make health tonic in certain parts of East Asia
― Josefa, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
The popularity of Italian food in India. Went to a Philosophy talk on Indian aesthetics and overheard a conversation between the speaker and an Italian audience member afterwards where the speaker was saying that there was a craze or longer term love for Italian food in the subcontinent.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 4 July 2019 07:05 (four years ago) link
JOrma Kaukonen's 2nd musical influence was rock and roll after he initially learnt folk blues. Which is to say he picked up guitar in the mid 50s influenced by a friend's esoteric musical tastes then when he got back from his dad's foreign posting as a diplomat he wound up in a rock'n'roll band with Jack Cassady as lead guitarist, still late 50s.
I just remember the perpetuation of the idea that nobody in the San Francisco scene had played rock and roll that they were all folkies who were just being amplified for the first time. Whioh seems to be untrue of most of the players you actually look into.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 4 July 2019 07:10 (four years ago) link
Yesterday I learnt that Longshot kick The Bucket described an actual horserace where the titular horse collapsed. The chorus names several other horses in the same race.
I also learnt that a Langsat is a fruit.Fruit don't have feet so it's ability to kick a bucket is like really limited.
Also learnt that Egyptian tactics at points in the October War were a bit wayward. Learnt a few days ago that Israel was coasting on surprise success of 6 day war not learning from mistakes made during it.& that Sadat manipulated an agreement he had made with Assad into getting external support from the UN. Subsequently he let Assad down when he was expecting support in a crisis. Gosh those politicians can be contrary.
Also the extent to which the US was born from genocide. As pre and post Independence the european population were already attacking the indigenous peoples to attempt to wipe them out.
& how mutable the old and new testaments were in terms of books included until a certain point. Kwame Anthony Appiah talking about what was considered canonical in terms of the Judaic tradition being more dynamic than people assume too. So what a real Jesus would have been familiar with in terms of holy texts likely to be different than later Xian thought would picture.
― Stevolende, Monday, 7 June 2021 06:54 (two years ago) link
7cm of water will block radiation emitted from a radioactive source by half.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 7 June 2021 07:04 (two years ago) link
... if the radioactive source is a spent fuel rod.
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Monday, 7 June 2021 07:36 (two years ago) link
I thought a spent fuel rod would still have a great deal of radiation coming from it, just not enough to be drawn from.& does water not become irradiated. After which does it retain the protective qualities.I mean surely one needs to get one's tinfoil together for these consequences.
― Stevolende, Monday, 7 June 2021 10:32 (two years ago) link