Interesting Stuff Thread

gaynorvader

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

Ha, I've seen people on Twitter going on about the rooms and I assumed they were being primadonnas but that's pretty bad!

I saw a great comment on a pic of a sign telling people not to flush toilet paper but to put it in the bin provided. Basically it boiled down to "Spoiled American pig-dogs! It's not just in Russia, in all 5 star to 0 star hotels across Europe you must do this!". I laughed.

robindch

gaynorvader wrote: »

I saw a great comment on a pic of a sign telling people not to flush toilet paper but to put it in the bin provided. Basically it boiled down to "Spoiled American pig-dogs! It's not just in Russia, in all 5 star to 0 star hotels across Europe you must do this!". I laughed.

Reason is that the Soviets (and now the Russians) used very thin sewage pipes which get blocked very easily indeed :rolleyes:

PopePalpatine wrote: »

As an F1 fan, I'm waiting to see how much of a clusterfuck the Russian GP will be.

Like the election?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQLy4JZD8Ts

PopePalpatine

PopePalpatine wrote: »

As an F1 fan, I'm waiting to see how much of a clusterfuck the Russian GP will be.

Be surprised if it happens tbh.

Hotblack Desiato

Cabaal wrote: »

Pretty shocking hotel conditions in Russia for the journalists!
:eek:

$50 billion only goes so far (especially when most of it is bribes.)

Bannasidhe

ninja900 wrote: »

$50 billion only goes so far (especially when most of it is bribes.)

Sure thats like 100 water metres installed tops.

oscarBravo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVaITA7eBZE

Gbear

I want this:

kylith

Gbear wrote: »

I want this:
<Great A'tuin amigurumi>

You don't happen to have a pattern for that, do you?

Gbear

kylith wrote: »

You don't happen to have a pattern for that, do you?

Here's a link to the website reddit found it on:
http://www.planetjune.com/blog/discworld-update/

It's written in knittingese but it looks like it's some sort of instructions.:)

Sulla Felix

Ravelry has a few bits and pieces, but from the looks of the blogpost she pretty much made it up as she went along which just makes it more awesome.

kylith

Gbear wrote: »

Here's a link to the website reddit found it on:
http://www.planetjune.com/blog/discworld-update/

It's written in knittingese but it looks like it's some sort of instructions.:)

Getting the continents would be the hardest part, but that is definitely on my list.

Brian Shanahan

Gbear wrote: »

I want this:

Get in line!

endacl

OK! Which o' y'all is knittists? Us non-knittests need y'all now!

Answer the call!

Bannasidhe

endacl wrote: »

OK! Which o' y'all is knittists? Us non-knittests need y'all now!

Answer the call!

I am an abject failure as a knittist.

Not too bad as an embroiderist but that is feck all use in this instance...

kylith

endacl wrote: »

OK! Which o' y'all is knittists? Us non-knittests need y'all now!

Answer the call!

I'm a crocheter, and I'll be starting on this just as soon as I've finished this cardigan and a doll with bear arms for my niece.

Kivaro

Irish Atheists: just a bunch of knitters and crocheters.
Where is the militancy?

Ok, back to your knitting ......

kylith

Kivaro wrote: »

Irish Atheists: just a bunch of knitters and crocheters.
Where is the militancy?

Ok, back to your knitting ......

I'm a militant crocheter, if that helps.

recedite

Knittists have a long and distinguished history. Back in the olden days (before the interweb) there were two types of people. Those that spent the long winter evenings darning their socks by candlelight, and those that read the good book by candlelight, while praying for their socks to last longer.

Bannasidhe

recedite wrote: »

Knittists have a long and distinguished history. Back in the olden days (before the interweb) there were two types of people. Those that spent the long winter evenings darning their socks by candlelight, and those that read the good book by candlelight, while praying for their socks to last longer.

and my granddad who somehow managed to do both...

kylith

Bannasidhe wrote: »

and my granddad who somehow managed to do both...

I read on my ipad while I knit. Hoorah for modern technology!

FouxDaFaFa

What about those of us who mounted an anti-knitting policy in primary school because the girls had to knit and the boys got to do cool and dangerous nail art?

Something, something, patriarchy, etc.

joseph brand

White Christians turning into Nones

Kivaro

Yeah, ye put the fear of god in me.

robindch

Could be the logo of The Raging Grannies, possibly the finest self-selecting human group in existence.

Brian Shanahan

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

What about those of us who mounted an anti-knitting policy in primary school because the girls had to knit and the boys got to do cool and dangerous nail art?

Something, something, patriarchy, etc.

In my school we all had to learn to knit. My teacher tells me she still has nightmares from the week they tried to teach me.

endacl

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

In my school we all had to learn to knit. My teacher tells me she still has nightmares from the week they tried to teach me.

Mine too. I remember something about 'a rabbit going around a tree...?'

Bannasidhe

endacl wrote: »

Mine too. I remember something about 'a rabbit going around a tree...?'

I nailed putting button holes in hair bands and decided to quit while ahead.

pauldla

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

In my school we all had to learn to knit. My teacher tells me she still has nightmares from the week they tried to teach me.

It was every Friday afternoon in our school. The girls were kept in for knitting class, while the boys were let lose to run amok.

obplayer

endacl wrote: »

Mine too. I remember something about 'a rabbit going around a tree...?'

I remember that from the Scouts about some knot or other.

Brian Shanahan

pauldla wrote: »

It was every Friday afternoon in our school. The girls were kept in for knitting class, while the boys were let lose to run amok.

Well in our school the principal was an equal opportunities torturer. If the girls were going to be inflicted by stabbing themselves with needles, he didn't see why the boys should be excused.