Strange Facts that go against the grain completely

lividduck · 19-02-2012 7:39pm

44leto wrote: »

The true scale of the solar system, we are use to seeing it nicely laid out on a textbook. But a text book is far to small to show its true scale. If you put Earth on a scale of the size of a grain of rice, the sun would be 300 metres away and the size of a 3 story house Jupiter about a mile away and the size of a beach ball, Neptune a mile and half and the size of a football and Pluto would be 2 and half miles away and the size of this fullstop. Also 99% of the matter in the solar system in contained in the Sun.

That puts into perspective how gloriously successful the Viking missions were, truly one of mans greatest achievements.

The Vikings haven't gone on any missions since The battle of Clontarf! and how a bunch of marauding norsemen, raping and pillaging, can be described as one of mans greatest achievements is beyond me.:D:D:D

44leto · 19-02-2012 7:41pm

Mickey Dazzler wrote: »

Farting into cupped hands and then inhaling the contents is good for you skin.

Except guinness ones they can destroy a mans septum, thats what really happened to Danniella Westbrook.

Potential-Monke · 19-02-2012 7:43pm

A blue whales tongue weighs more than an elephant

Bone is 5 times stronger than steel

About 75 acres of pizza are eaten every day in the US

All planets in our solar system rotate anti-clockwise, except for Venus

If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.

19-02-2012 7:45pm

Viking helmets didn't have horns in them!

stevedublin · 19-02-2012 7:46pm

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Shaving against the grain gives you a closer cut than going with it.

It also removes half your face!

dx22 · 19-02-2012 7:49pm

Dravokivich wrote: »

You are saying something that its mainly plastic will be deflected by a magnetic field?

:rolleyes:

Yes your correct...the magnetic field repells metal not plastic so it would deflect something like a hammer maybe,apologies

44leto · 19-02-2012 7:50pm

lividduck wrote: »

The Vikings haven't gone on any missions since The battle of Clontarf! and how a bunch of marauding norsemen, raping and pillaging, can be described as one of mans greatest achievements is beyond me.:D:D:D

LOL
I actually meant the Voyager probes.

But the Viking have had a very big cultural impact on Europe, they founded a number of Cities including Dublin its just a pity they didn't stay and run it. The Normans and they founded the land of Rus, Russia.

They weren't all about the rape and pillage.

AngryBollix · 19-02-2012 7:51pm

sex is better with the chick on top

44leto · 19-02-2012 7:52pm

AngryBollix wrote: »

sex is better with the chick on top

Yeah you tend to crush the chicken when you get on top.

AngryBollix · 19-02-2012 7:53pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

A blue whales tongue weighs more than an elephant

Bone is 5 times stronger than steel

About 75 acres of pizza are eaten every day in the US

All planets in our solar system rotate anti-clockwise, except for Venus

If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.

Presumably you'll only die once. Therefore it is more likely that you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning.

AngryBollix · 19-02-2012 8:08pm

44leto wrote: »

Yeah you tend to crush the chicken when you get on top.

Try it with a woman. You wont be disappointed.

Skylinehead · 19-02-2012 8:11pm

Batsy wrote: »

If London were a country it would be the 8th biggest in Europe.

No it wouldn't

Unless you're talking about population.

In which case you're still wrong :pac:

admiralofthefleet · 19-02-2012 8:11pm

Daroxtar wrote: »

If a tree falls in a forest and there are no women there to witness it, it doesn't make a mess

if a fat girl falls in the woods do the trees laugh?

pragmatic1 · 19-02-2012 8:13pm

AngryBollix wrote: »

sex is better with the chick on top

Cac bo.

Temptamperu · 19-02-2012 8:14pm

If ants where the same size as humans they would walk at about 180mph if humans where the size of ants they would walk at .005 meters and hour.

44leto · 19-02-2012 8:15pm

AngryBollix wrote: »

Try it with a woman. You wont be disappointed.

Before or after the chick;)

AngryBollix · 19-02-2012 8:15pm

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Cac bo.

What?

AngryBollix · 19-02-2012 8:16pm

44leto wrote: »

Before or after the chick;)

Threesome? Nice

Mr NoTV · 19-02-2012 8:18pm

Panties don't always land silver side up.
That only always happens when there are unexpected visitors to the room.

AngryBollix · 19-02-2012 8:23pm

Mr NoTV wrote: »

Panties don't always land silver side up.
That only always happens when there are unexpected visitors to the room.

And they all recoil in horror as they get a glimpse of your sweaty skids

Lando Griffin · 19-02-2012 8:36pm

There was never global warning it was always climate change, soon to be regular severe weather events.

Big Nasty · 19-02-2012 8:38pm

Lando Griffin wrote: »

There was never global warning it was always climate change, soon to be regular severe weather events.

I never warned to that either! :pac:

44leto · 19-02-2012 8:52pm

Lando Griffin wrote: »

There was never global warning it was always climate change, soon to be regular severe weather events.

They retracted that claim from the nobel winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. There is no proof, they retracted a lot of claims from that report.

But the gist is right we are all going to die.

goose2005 · 19-02-2012 9:05pm

44leto wrote: »

The true scale of the solar system, we are use to seeing it nicely laid out on a textbook. But a text book is far to small to show its true scale. If you put Earth on a scale of the size of a grain of rice, the sun would be 300 metres away and the size of a 3 story house Jupiter about a mile away and the size of a beach ball, Neptune a mile and half and the size of a football and Pluto would be 2 and half miles away and the size of this fullstop. Also 99% of the matter in the solar system in contained in the Sun.

That puts into perspective how gloriously successful the Voyager missions were, truly one of mans greatest achievements.

and yo momma would still be visible

44leto · 19-02-2012 9:07pm

The most influential man who shaped the events of the 2oth century was Gavrilo Princip, (who the hell is he), he was the Serbian nationalist who, by a stroke of luck, shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Then a Austria declared war on Serbia, then Russia declared war on Austria then you got the escalation to the first world war which caused WW2 and the events of WW1 was a prime reason for communism emerging in Russia and then half the world.

mconigol · 19-02-2012 9:13pm

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and James Bond Jr. were both animated in Dublin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wolf_Films_Dublin

KKkitty · 19-02-2012 9:23pm

realies wrote: »

Braking a mirror brings seven years of bad luck

That is derived from when a servant broke a master's mirror it would take 7 years wages to replace the broken mirror. No bad luck for the same thing now.

mconigol · 19-02-2012 9:39pm

Most people don't know the right way to open a banana.

Monkeys do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBJV56WUDng

Gorrilas kind of do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxbopaxDsf8

wendell borton · 19-02-2012 9:46pm

Batsy wrote: »

If London were a country ............

More bizare English laws.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7081038.stm

It is illegal not to tell the tax man anything you do not want him to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing

44leto · 19-02-2012 9:48pm

mconigol wrote: »

Most people don't know the right way to open a banana.

Monkeys do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBJV56WUDng

Gorrilas kind of do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxbopaxDsf8

Fascinating but I would love to see a monkey open a tin of bananas.

storker · 19-02-2012 9:49pm

If your car could drive straight up, space would be about an hour's drive away.

Stork

mconigol · 19-02-2012 9:53pm

44leto wrote: »

Fascinating but I would love to see a monkey open a tin of bananas.

Not a can but seems like they might try to open it like a banana if these videos are anything to go by:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Tyefez45I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM26WZ3Lzh0

Silly monkeys :pac:

wendell borton · 19-02-2012 9:54pm

tony 2 tone wrote: »

The fumes :rolleyes:

the tubes electric.

adamski8 · 19-02-2012 9:56pm

mconigol wrote: »

Most people don't know the right way to open a banana.

meh, same result and by not opening the monkey way you dont get that black crap under your fingernails. human>monkeys

44leto · 19-02-2012 9:59pm

mconigol wrote: »

Not a can but seems like they might try to open it like a banana if these videos are anything to go by:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Tyefez45I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM26WZ3Lzh0

Silly monkeys :pac:

Wow

I have a new appreciation of my thumbs.

superstoner90 · 19-02-2012 9:59pm

realies wrote: »

Braking a mirror brings seven years of bad luck

A broken condom brings 18 years bad luck!

3ndahalfof6 · 19-02-2012 10:01pm

Batsy wrote: »

The surface of the Earth is smoother than the surface of a snooker ball (if both were at the same scale).

where would you get a snooker ball that size.

life on earth is going to cease this year.

Icepick · 19-02-2012 10:12pm

Sindri wrote: »

Abbey Road?

Westminster

skylight1987 · 19-02-2012 10:13pm

44leto wrote: »

The most influential man who shaped the events of the 2oth century was Gavrilo Princip, (who the hell is he), he was the Serbian nationalist who, by a stroke of luck, shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Then a Austria declared war on Serbia, then Russia declared war on Austria then you got the escalation to the first world war which caused WW2 and the events of WW1 was a prime reason for communism emerging in Russia and then half the world.

yes i often tell people about this man and his huge impact on history and people dont get it, but it was such a fluke that he managed to kill him , imagine if he hadnt , the world would be a different place and i wouldnt be here, cause my great grandmothers first husband died in WW1 and the man she married next fathered my nan, so he even impacted on my very existance

Curly Judge · 19-02-2012 10:16pm

On Mars, a day is longer than a year

44leto · 19-02-2012 10:17pm

Curly Judge wrote: »

On Mars, a day is longer than a year

That can sometimes be the same in my job.

Sindri · 19-02-2012 10:24pm

Icepick wrote: »

Westminster

What? Do you mean it as in Westminster City as a borough of London? And that Batsy was referring to the City of London rather than Greater London?

Abbey Road (street)

Mance Rayder · 19-02-2012 10:37pm

44leto wrote: »

LOL
The Normans and they founded the land of Rus, Russia.

Technically it was Kiev Rus Ukraine which is where Russia really began, but I'll give you that.:D Also your facts about the true scale of the solar system has me fascinated. Thanks.;)

Icepick · 19-02-2012 11:32pm

Sindri wrote: »

What? Do you mean it as in Westminster City as a borough of London? And that Batsy was referring to the City of London rather than Greater London?

Abbey Road (street)

yes

Mike 1972 · 19-02-2012 11:40pm

wendell borton wrote: »

More bizare English laws.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7081038.stm

It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament wearing a suit of armour (1313)
a ban on firing a cannon close to a dwelling house (Met Police Act 1839);
the prohibition of driving cattle through the streets of London (Metropolitan Streets Act 1867).

Nothing particularly bizzare about any of those. Its easy enough to envisage times/situations in the past when such laws would have made perfect sense and there is no pressing reason for repealing them now ?

And I dont know about you but I dont want every Tom Dick and Harry firing cannons anywhere next nigh or near my gaff.

Turtwig · 19-02-2012 11:42pm

God doesn't exist.:D

Mike 1972 · 20-02-2012 12:09am

44leto wrote: »

The most influential man who shaped the events of the 2oth century was Gavrilo Princip, (who the hell is he), he was the Serbian nationalist who, by a stroke of luck, shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand..

Wasnt very lucky for the aul Archduke all the same ?

Mind you WW1 would have happened regardless. Tensions between the European powers had been building up to boiling point for quite a while and all those countries didnt embark on one of the bloodiest conflicts of all time merely over some minor Royal getting whacked someplace most of their populations couldnt find on a map.

Zen65 · 20-02-2012 12:48am

YourAMentalist wrote: »

Hot water freezes quicker than colder water.

Do you mean that it cools quicker than colder water?

Are you simply pointing out the obvious relationship between heat flow and temperature differential?

The term "freezes" means to transform to ice, and hot water never turns to ice (at pressures observable on this planet).

Let's not turn AH into a forum where people can speak out against the laws of physics!! Down with this sort of thing!!

Z

Sindri · 20-02-2012 12:51am

Zen65 wrote: »

Do you mean that it cools quicker than colder water?

Are you simply pointing out the obvious relationship between heat flow and temperature differential?

The term "freezes" means to transform to ice, and hot water never turns to ice (at pressures observable on this planet).

Let's not turn AH into a forum where people can speak out against the laws of physics!! Down with this sort of thing!!

Z

On this forum we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

skregs · 20-02-2012 12:58am

Here, if that gorilla eats the banana peel as well, why does he bother to peel it at all?

What an idiot.

Strange Facts that go against the grain completely

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