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It derives from "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes"

LostinBlanch

On a slightly different note, did you know that listening to crickets can tell you the temperature in Fahrenheit?

• First get your cricket
• Count the number of chirps in 14 seconds
• Add that to 40
• Now you have the temperature in Fahrenheit

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LostinBlanch wrote: »

On a slightly different note, did you know that listening to crickets can tell you the temperature in Fahrenheit?

• First get your cricket
• Count the number of chirps in 14 seconds
• Add that to 40
• Now you have the temperature in Fahrenheit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCxhS7Aayps

keane2097

Another Bob Dylan one - he's one of only two people ever to have won both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar, along with our own George Bernard Shaw.

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I suppose this could actually happen (at least, it can until they abolish the time changes).

Franz Von Peppercorn

God. I laughed at “the science chirps for itself” bit. Shoot me.

sbsquarepants

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Under intense fear, opossums fall into a comatose-like state that can last for hours, long enough to convince any predator that the opossum is dead. Fear causes these animals to emit a corpse-like smell that only adds to their act

I think i have found my spirit animal.

Why would the predator not just eat them?

You'd think it would be a bonus, not having to actually kill the little bugger first!

ohnonotgmail

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Why would the predator not just eat them?

You'd think it would be a bonus, not having to actually kill the little bugger first!

this bit

emit a corpse-like smell that only adds to their act

some animals wont eat carrion

Carry

Fourier wrote: »

I'm not sure how the Norse myths changed into the modern Icelandic ones.

Not much really. The Icelandic sagas are actually based on the Norse myths, they are only much more alive in Iceland but not modern as such.
Iceland was pretty much isolated for a long time and so all the old sagas survived.

Today still 60% of the Icelandic population believes in elves and all the other little creatures. They actually have an official elves commissioner who has to give an expert opinion when roads are built and such like.

And there is an elves school where you can learn everything about the little people. With diploma!

It's not that far away from the Irish fairies. I remember that Eddie Lenihan, storyteller and fairy expert, managed that a new road in Clare was slightly diverted to not destroy a fairy tree.
There is a fairy tree in my area, full of offerings from people who make a wish to the fairies. From me too, I have to admit. :cool:

Fourier

Carry wrote: »

Not much really. The Icelandic sagas are actually based on the Norse myths, they are only much more alive in Iceland but not modern as such.
Iceland was pretty much isolated for a long time and so all the old sagas survived.

Today still 60% of the Icelandic population believes in elves and all the other little creatures. They actually have an official elves commissioner who has to give an expert opinion when roads are built and such like.

Ha! That's class. I found this woman who is an Elf sex expert!
https://icelandmag.is/article/icelandic-woman-claims-elves-are-better-lovers-men

Is it true that they can still read the sagas without help?

Carry wrote: »

There is a fairy tree in my area, full of offerings from people who make a wish to the fairies. From me too, I have to admit. :cool:

I know granny thought the faeries were dead people, I don't know how common that was.

Carry

Fourier wrote: »

Ha! That's class. I found this woman who is an Elf sex expert!
https://icelandmag.is/article/icelandic-woman-claims-elves-are-better-lovers-men

:D:D

Sex with the Icelandic Invisibles

That's certainly something worth exploring :D:D Invisible lovers, I think I'll get me one, Icelandic or not. :pac:

Fourier wrote: »

Is it true that they can still read the sagas without help?

No idea, but I guess so. Icelandic is rather Old Norse because of the isolation of the country and they are apparently proud to keep it that way. Not the isolation but the Old Norse.

Capt'n Midnight

LostinBlanch wrote: »

On a slightly different note, did you know that listening to crickets can tell you the temperature in Fahrenheit?

• First get your cricket
• Count the number of chirps in 14 seconds
• Add that to 40
• Now you have the temperature in Fahrenheit

Count number of chirps in 25 seconds, divide by 3, then add 4 to get temperature in Celsius. :P

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^^^
Post of the week right there.

LostinBlanch

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Count number of chirps in 25 seconds, divide by 3, then add 4 to get temperature in Celsius. :P

Is that just for European crickets only, or does it work on Yankee ones too?

Oh, and who knew there were so many cricket experts on here? :P:D

Esel

New Home wrote: »

It derives from "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes"

So, Art Décoratif in the singular then?

Wibbs

Crickets were very popular pets in some parts of the world, particularly the Far East, China for example(where they're still sometimes kept). They were considered a lucky animal. They were also kept as fighting crickets and betting on outcomes could be very high stakes affairs. One other culture where they were also kept as pets for a time was Spain of all places.

Fourier

Carry wrote: »

:D:D
That's certainly something worth exploring :D:D Invisible lovers, I think I'll get me one, Icelandic or not. :pac:

You haven't truly been loved until you've experienced a gnome.

Realt Dearg Sec

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

LostinBlanch wrote: »

On a slightly different note, did you know that listening to crickets can tell you the temperature in Fahrenheit?

• First get your cricket
• Count the number of chirps in 14 seconds
• Add that to 40
• Now you have the temperature in Fahrenheit

Count number of chirps in 25 seconds, divide by 3, then add 4 to get temperature in Celsius. :P

This is the most complicated cricket equation since the duckworth Lewis method

mzungu

The 1925 serum run to Nome, a.k.a. the Great Race of Mercy, was a transport of diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled relay across the Alaska by 20 mushers and about 150 sled dogs. They covered about 674 miles in five and a half days and saved Nome and the surrounding communities from an incipient epidemic.

Today, most huskies in the US are descended from the sled dog team that completed the 1925 Great Race of Mercy. They saved many children's lives by transporting diphtheria antitoxin when no one else could. Afterwards, the team was sold to a kennel in Poland Spring, Maine.

Carry

Fourier wrote: »

You haven't truly been loved until you've experienced a gnome.

But he is not INVISIBLE! My god, I wish he were... :eek:

I was desperately trying to find a meme with fainting and pearl clutching, gave up, because I fainted while pearl clutching...

Fourier

Since this thread has now descended into gnome shaming I'm off.

#gnomepositive
#gnomepegging*

*After all a woman's place is in the gnome

razorblunt

Fourier wrote: »

You haven't truly been loved until you've experienced a gnome.

Not worth it emotionally.
They love you and then they're gnone.

razorblunt

mzungu wrote: »

The 1925 serum run to Nome, a.k.a. the Great Race of Mercy, was a transport of diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled relay across the Alaska by 20 mushers and about 150 sled dogs. They covered about 674 miles in five and a half days and saved Nome and the surrounding communities from an incipient epidemic.

Today, most huskies in the US are descended from the sled dog team that completed the 1925 Great Race of Mercy. They saved many children's lives by transporting diphtheria antitoxin when no one else could. Afterwards, the team was sold to a kennel in Poland Spring, Maine.

Yep they basically ran the arses off dogs to give emergency innoculations to kids so that less than 100 years later parents can decide not to give their kids vaccines.

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At least the Fairies have rings: it means their intentions are serious.

Fourier

New Home wrote: »

At least the Fairies have rings: it means their intentions are serious.

Hobbits are similar, though you have to get them young. Sex can be hard for the elderly as old hobbits die hard.

OOC: Okay I'm done! :pac:

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I gnome what you mean.

Ted_YNWA

New Home wrote:

I gnome what you mean.

Oh Gnome-io.

Lorelli!

At one stage lobster was considered food for the poor. In some states in America, laws were sought to prevent prisons from serving it to prisoners more than twice a week because it was cruel. It was so abundant, it was also used as crop fertilizer!

Also read somewhere this week that female kangeroos have three vaginas! Did not know that!

LostinBlanch

OK ,moving on from all this gnomosexuality

Did you know that Volkswagen don't just make cars? They also make currywurst, and it's their best selling item. It even has it's own part number.

*looks for sausage emoji*

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Do they have a smoked version made using their cars' exhausts?