I bet you didn't know that this thread would have a part 2

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_O'Brien_(politician)

Is a member of the opposition in the Indian Upper House.

BaZmO*

Every “c” in Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently

Mollyb60

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Lets you see how you'd fare with various different types of nuclear bombs. The difference between the normal nuclear weapons and the hydrogen bombs in terms of damage/radiation radius is scary.
Very interesting website but one of the main things that the author of the site was trying to get across was that nuclear bombs aren't the end of the world necessarily so there's no need to be fatalistic about them. It'd be devastating and horrible but it wouldn't kill everyone.

cdeb

Ever watch the film Threads? It kind of suggested those who died immediately would be the lucky ones.

Evade

Something to consider is the list of presets seems to be based individual warheads but in a Cold War East vs West scenario each missile would have had multiple warheads and there would have been multiple missiles.

After a quick google the UK government believed the Soviet Union had over 100 targets in the UK alone.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/05/uk-government-top-secret-list-probable-nuclear-targets-1970s

London was expected to be devastated by two to four bombs of up to five megatons each exploding over the city. Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester were each said to be in line for one or two "airbursts" of up to five megatons. That's 333 times more powerful than the 15-kiloton US nuclear bomb that flattened the Japanese city of Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 140,000 people.

cdeb

Yep, that's exactly the scenario described in Threads alright. So a double whammy of more, and more powerful, nukes. Not nice!

Eamonn bulfin,the man who raised the irish republic flag over the GPO in 1916 was born in argentina and deported back after being arrested

cdeb

Santa Claus was declared bankrupt in 2015 - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/santa-claus-bankrupt-10465461.html

New Home

KevRossi

Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles, recorded Eternal Flame in the nude. She continued to record most of her work after this in the nude.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/may/03/vocals-nude-bangles-eternal-flame-susanna-hoffs-how-we-made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSoOFn3wQV4

Realt Dearg Sec

KevRossi wrote: »

Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles, recorded Eternal Flame in the nude. She continued to record most of her work after this in the nude.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/may/03/vocals-nude-bangles-eternal-flame-susanna-hoffs-how-we-made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSoOFn3wQV4

Oh but when I'm teaching online it's "inappropriate" and "traumatizing".

Capt'n Midnight

Human Sacrifice will be illegal in Uganda as soon as the president signs the new law.

retalivity

"Barberskum" is the Norwegian and Danish translation for shaving foam.

This nugget of info was brought to you by the bottle of Lidl shaving foam from my shower earlier.

Professor Moriarty

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Human Sacrifice will be illegal in Uganda as soon as the president signs the new law.

Must book a flight for tomorrow.

retalivity

The world's first underwater roundabout opened in the Faroe Islands in December 2020.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55195390

cdeb

John Harvey Kellogg is best known for being the name on your box of Corn Flakes in the morning.

He also had some...interesting views on a few topics. He wrote a book called Plain Facts about Sexual Life and, while on honeymoon, he and his wife updated the text to bring it from 356 pages to 512 pages. A decent feat considering it's thought the marriage was never actually consummated in 41 years. A later edition proposed ways to prevent masturbation -

In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid (phenol) to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement.

a method of treatment [to prevent masturbation] ... and we have employed it with entire satisfaction. It consists in the application of one or more silver sutures in such a way as to prevent erection. The prepuce, or foreskin, is drawn forward over the glans, and the needle to which the wire is attached is passed through from one side to the other. After drawing the wire through, the ends are twisted together, and cut off close. It is now impossible for an erection to occur, and the slight irritation thus produced acts as a most powerful means of overcoming the disposition to resort to the practice

He was anti-sex, anti-alcohol and anti-smoking - and lived to 91...

silliussoddius

Snap, crackle and no pop

Captain_Crash

cdeb wrote: »

He was anti-sex, anti-alcohol and anti-smoking

He was also sh*te craic at a party!!

Professor Moriarty

Captain_Crash wrote: »

He was also sh*te craic at a party!!

Dunno. With that wire tying the top of his penis, if you dropped a viagra into his lemonade, he'd be great craic altogether.

Sleepy

cdeb wrote: »

He was anti-sex, anti-alcohol and anti-smoking - and lived to 91...

And was only miserable for the last 75 of those years...

roosterman71

cdeb wrote: »

He was anti-sex, anti-alcohol and anti-smoking - and lived to 91...

He was also anti meat and you can trace the current Vegan trends all the way back to himself.

Plus isn't Kelloggs a charity/church in Australia so they pay no taxes?

Capt'n Midnight

John Johnson*, after being captured by a group of Blackfoot warriors, bit through his bonds, killed the man guarding him, cut off his leg, and used it to fight his way out of the camp.

And then he ate it.





* aka Liver-Eatin' Johnson

Dufflecoat Fanny

cdeb wrote: »

John Harvey Kellogg is best known for being the name on your box of Corn Flakes in the morning.

He also had some...interesting views on a few topics. He wrote a book called Plain Facts about Sexual Life and, while on honeymoon, he and his wife updated the text to bring it from 356 pages to 512 pages. A decent feat considering it's thought the marriage was never actually consummated in 41 years. A later edition proposed ways to prevent masturbation -





He was anti-sex, anti-alcohol and anti-smoking - and lived to 91...

Check out the film road to wellville. Based on a health farm ran by Kellogg at the turn of the century it's very funny.

BaZmO*

Dufflecoat Fanny wrote: »

Check out the film road to wellville. Based on a health farm ran by Kellogg at the turn of the century it's very funny.

I saw this years ago. Don’t remember much about it other than I enjoyed it.

New Home

retalivity

Electric Eels arent actually eels, they are a different genus called knifefish that are more closely related to catfish than eels.

There is an electric eel at Chatanooga aquarium with its own twitter account - the zoo has setup sensors to automatically tweet corny 1960s Batman-esque catchphrases whenever 'Miguel Wattson' discharges electricity.

https://twitter.com/EelectricMiguel/status/1392448409827741696

BonnieSituation

New Home wrote: »

I read that so many times. It's class. Sent it to a mate and he was the same.

In a similar vein, I remember being blown away when shopping in UNIQLO in Tokyo. They just throw your purchases into a tray. No scanning, nothing.

And the item totals pop up on the screen in front of you.

Then I found out that each item has an RFID chip in the tag!:D:D:D:D

Still, was so clean as a system.

Quazzie

BonnieSituation wrote: »

I read that so many times. It's class. Sent it to a mate and he was the same.

In a similar vein, I remember being blown away when shopping in UNIQLO in Tokyo. They just throw your purchases into a tray. No scanning, nothing.

And the item totals pop up on the screen in front of you.

Then I found out that each item has an RFID chip in the tag!:D:D:D:D

Still, was so clean as a system.

Decathlon in Dublin (and many other places) has that also. T'would make ya wonder why more places dont have it.

BonnieSituation

Quazzie wrote: »

Decathlon in Dublin (and many other places) has that also. T'would make ya wonder why more places dont have it.

Aye they do indeed now that you mention it.

It only works in places where they control all the stock.

Dunnes (for non-grocery) and Penneys for example rather than Arnotts and Brown Thomas.

humberklog

BonnieSituation wrote: »

I read that so many times. It's class. Sent it to a mate and he was the same.

In a similar vein, I remember being blown away when shopping in UNIQLO in Tokyo. They just throw your purchases into a tray. No scanning, nothing.

And the item totals pop up on the screen in front of you.

Then I found out that each item has an RFID chip in the tag!:D:D:D:D

Still, was so clean as a system.

They have the same system in Decathlon, you just throw it in a knida bin and it goes bing!