Well now, that's interesting

naughtysmurf

I was listening to the radio the other day and someone mentioned that back in the day when we were all swinging from tree to tree, that the way they figured out whether something was safe to eat or not was whether it was sweet or bitter,
Seemingly, in the natural world very little stuff that tastes sweet is toxic or poisonous whereas if it's bitter or sour it has a higher chance of being poisonous so they avoided it and I thought to myself, well now, that's interesting

So AH, what have you ever heard that made you think, well now that's interesting I'd have never thunk it?

Where To

If I only ate stuff that tastes good I'd be dead years ago.

Banjo String

I was living in Dublin for three years seemingly oblivious to the fact all the D- numbers were split up into odd/even numbers, with evens in the south, odds on the north side.

A real face palm moment when that one was pointed out to me.

Max Power

43.7% of all statistics are made up right on the spot.

naughtysmurf

SamHall wrote: »

I was living in Dublin for three years seemingly oblivious to the fact all the D- numbers were split up into odd/even numbers, with evens in the south, odds on the north side.

A real face palm moment when that one was pointed out to me.

Get the fcuk outta here, you ****tin me

Max Power

SamHall wrote: »

I was living in Dublin for three years seemingly oblivious to the fact all the D- numbers were split up into odd/even numbers, with evens in the south, odds on the north side.

I did not know this.

Banjo String

naughtysmurf wrote: »

Get the fcuk outta here, you ****tin me

It would only be obvious if you knew already.

naughtysmurf

Northside = odd, makes sense I suppose

doubleyoubee

naughtysmurf wrote: »

Northside = odd, makes sense I suppose

Number 1 of course.

Jimminy Mc Fukhead

Dublin 8.

antodeco

Jimminy Mc Fukhead wrote: »

Dublin 8.

Is this a random Dublin number game?

D8 is Southside.

Fr_Dougal

antodeco wrote: »

Is this a random Dublin number game?

D8 is Southside.

And Northside.

allybhoy

SamHall wrote: »

I was living in Dublin for three years seemingly oblivious to the fact all the D- numbers were split up into odd/even numbers, with evens in the south, odds on the north side.

A real face palm moment when that one was pointed out to me.

Haha, I had a similar moment when I realised why ArTHURS Day was always on on Thursdays... I'd been patiently waiting for it to land on the weekend for years.....


Obligutary interesting fact taken from QI

It is a common held myth that you shouldn't drink if you are on antibiotics. The myth stems back to when antibiotics where invented, in the Victorian Era, the first disease to be treated with antibiotics was syphilis, a sexually transmittable disease. Doctors noticed that people usually were more sexually promiscuous when they drank. Seeing as for the first week of treatment you're still contagious, they started telling their patients not to drink, so as not to have sex, so as not to transmit the disease.

That said, there are a few antibiotics that should not be mixed with alcohol, not because they'll be less effective, but because it'll make you feel very ill and vomit, but the myth that antibiotics won't work with alcohol is simply not true

dr.bollocko

We should have a "well now that's interesting" forum.

Duckworth_Luas

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

43.7% of all statistics are made up right on the spot.

81% of left handed adult males know that to be completely false

Biggins

dr.bollocko wrote: »

We should have a "well now that's interesting" forum.

We do - it goes under the official title of "Sex and Sexuality" section.

I find it very interesting.
Learned a trick or three also much to the wifes delight.

Canis Lupus

Ducks can't look up.

TheUsual

You know the "science parts" on adverts on TV ?
Like shampoo and skin anti-wrinkle cream.

Well they are not made up and complete rubbish.

TheUsual

Biggins wrote: »

We do - it goes under the official title of "Sex and Sexuality" section.
I find it very interesting.
Learned a trick or three also much to the wifes delight.

Two in the pink, one in the stink.

kippy

Sex Panther - They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time, it works every time.

naughtysmurf

Biggins wrote: »

We do - it goes under the official title of "Sex and Sexuality" section.

I find it very interesting.
Learned a trick or three also much to the wifes delight.

I'm not allowed in there, anything you would like to share with us that would help to enhance our love lives?

jimbobaloobob

I learnt how to tie a camel in the desert, and as i did it i said to myself

Now thats interesting

jimbobaloobob

:)its in the camel section of boards.
its interesting

Biggins

naughtysmurf wrote: »

I'm not allowed in there, anything you would like to share with us that would help to enhance our love lives?

I do not dare kiss and tell
It would not go down too well.
You pay to read what you see
You then join in with some glee!

naughtysmurf

Biggins wrote: »

go down well.

I hear ya, message received

ilovesleep

Biggins wrote: »

I do not dare kiss and tell
It would not go down too well.
You pay to read what you see
You then join in with some glee!

I like that. That's good.

Bad Santa

naughtysmurf wrote: »

I was listening to the radio the other day and someone mentioned that back in the day when we were all swinging from tree to tree, that the way they figured out whether something was safe to eat or not was whether it was sweet or bitter,</p>
Seemingly, in the natural world very little stuff that tastes sweet is toxic or poisonous whereas if it's bitter or sour it has a higher chance of being poisonous so they avoided it and I thought to myself, well now, that's interesting

There's a movement that lives by the principals of the above and eat only fruit, tender greens and gets their fats from Avocado and Coconuts. Not sure what they call themselves, but they have an annual retreat called the Woodstock Fruit Festival every year. When I first heard of it, it sound like a cult but then on one of their videos they showed a 68 year old guy walking down a road doing a handstand and I thought, now that's interesting.