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I bet you didnt know that

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As people here work in various jobs / professions they might know things from work or study no one here knows yet. this is what this topic is about.

what do you know that we have never heard of?

Eg: you don't need to be great at maths to be an architect

this is obvious to me but everyone says to me "i wanted to be an architect but i was bad at math,i can barely add"

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Persephone kindness

If you want your company logo on a design you have give it to the designer in a vector file like EPS or something I can't save it off your website the DPI is too low.

It will look ****.

Your moniter's RBG is unique to it's make ...and colours of a design can show up differently on each one. What you think your website looks like might not show up like that to your clients unless you check first on diff moniters. Web Safe colors are a sub-setof the whole specturm that display accurately on every moniter. And designers use these...the side effect of this is though ..generally online life ...has a very narrow color scheme and no one seems to notice. But you see fewer colours online than you do in print ...

CMYK is also the primary system for any laser print job...it's a blend of four colours in different % the human eye blends these together ..for the full spectrum.But if you magnify the image you can see the separations...

Ya ..exciting!

chillin117

Jeans are banned in North Korea !

Purple Mountain

Candie wrote: »

Apologies for clogging up the thread with random things that occur to me.

Dr John Harvey Kellog, inventor of cornflakes and all kinds of dubious therapies practiced in his sanitorium - a precursor to todays spas - was a Seventh Day Adventist and had strong religious views on most things, but especially so on sins of the flesh, more specifically masturbation. A practice he believed weakened both the body and the spirit and he believed that circumcision without anesthetic was as desirable for boys as applying phenol - also known as carbolic acid - to a young girls clitoris was, also without anesthetic.

He also believed that diet played an enormous role in stirring the passions and that spicy food led to an increase in body heat resulting in an occasion of solitary sin, and that only the blandest possible food should be consumed. His friend and co religionist Sylvester Graham agreed, and they each perfected the recipes for Kellogs Corn Flakes and Graham Crackers.

Something to think about over breakfast tomorrow.

Jesus

RiderOnTheStorm

The phrase "blood is thicker than water" is nearly always used wrongly. Most folk (myself included, for a long time) think it means that family (blood relations) are more important than friends.

But the true quote is "the blood of battle is thicker than the waters of the womb ". Which means the opposite. Those that have shared conflict & turmoil, have forged a friendship stronger than those that have just shared a womb.

VandC

Candie wrote:

I thought it was a very nice and kind thing to say, and I don't think you should be at all embarrassed. We should all be as nice as that to each other.

Thanks Candie.

agreed

[Deleted User]

VandC wrote: »

Don't I know it *wants to delete posts but what's the point since they've been quoted* lol

I thought it was a very nice and kind thing to say, and I don't think you should be at all embarrassed. We should all be as nice as that to each other.

VandC

MyStubbleItches wrote: »

Too late

Don't I know it

*wants to delete posts but what's the point since they've been quoted* lol

Thargor

The correct phrase is "Anchor's Aweigh" not "Away".

MyStubbleItches

VandC wrote: »

You are so not boring! And I'm going to stop now before I come across as a weirdo/stalker/creep

Too late

VandC

Candie wrote:

That's so kind - thank you, but I'm really, really boring!

You are so not boring! And I'm going to stop now before I come across as a weirdo/stalker/creep

[Deleted User]

VandC wrote: »

Candie, I love your posts of "random things". Always interesting (to me anyway) and I am in awe of the wide range of knowledge you have. I feel I could listen to you talk for days and wish I was half as interesting as you!

That's so kind - thank you, but I'm really, really boring!

VandC

Candie wrote:

Apologies for clogging up the thread with random things that occur to me.

Candie, I love your posts of "random things". Always interesting (to me anyway) and I am in awe of the wide range of knowledge you have. I feel I could listen to you talk for days and wish I was half as interesting as you!

[Deleted User]

Apologies for clogging up the thread with random things that occur to me.

Dr John Harvey Kellog, inventor of cornflakes and all kinds of dubious therapies practiced in his sanitorium - a precursor to todays spas - was a Seventh Day Adventist and had strong religious views on most things, but especially so on sins of the flesh, more specifically masturbation. A practice he believed weakened both the body and the spirit and he believed that circumcision without anesthetic was as desirable for boys as applying phenol - also known as carbolic acid - to a young girls clitoris was, also without anesthetic.

He also believed that diet played an enormous role in stirring the passions and that spicy food led to an increase in body heat resulting in an occasion of solitary sin, and that only the blandest possible food should be consumed. His friend and co religionist Sylvester Graham agreed, and they each perfected the recipes for Kellogs Corn Flakes and Graham Crackers.

Something to think about over breakfast tomorrow.

[Deleted User]

New Home wrote: »

That's weird, I was reading about Zika only earlier tonight. Apparently the disease can be transmitted through the eye. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160906130949.htm

Yeah, I'd heard about that. When the last outbreak was getting underway it was still thought that it could only be contracted in limited ways, via blood. It really is much more dangerous and transmissible than thought.

Diseases of poverty always seem to be underestimated at first.

New Home

That's weird, I was reading about Zika only earlier tonight. Apparently the disease can be transmitted through the eye. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160906130949.htm

[Deleted User]

The University of Cambridge's research into the Zika virus (the virus carried by mosquitos that overshadowed the Rio Olympics) has thrown up the possibility of harnessing the virus to save lives.

Zika virus is particularly dangerous for pregnant women to contract, as it can pass through the blood brain barrier (BBB), a semi permeable membrane that allows water and nutrients to pass through, but keeps most of the bad stuff out. If a pregnant woman contracts the virus, it can pass the BBB and attack the developing brain of the foetus. Few viruses can penetrate the BBB, HIV and Zika being two.

Research involving glioblastoma the most common type of brain tumour, suggests the possibility of using Zika to kill the cancerous cells, as the virus attacks them in the same way as it attacks and kills cells in the developing brain of the unborn.

Lab research has shown that Zika slows down the growth of tumours, and the mechanisms it uses to penetrate the BBB and target the cells may form the key to future treatments of a cancer that kills thousands (in the UK) a year.

Wardling

So after a strange nappy, a long discussion with the OH and a bit of googling I learned that if you feed your toddler raisins they can poop grapes.

Fascinating huh? No end to their talents.

StupidLikeAFox

I kung fu'd my driving test

jimgoose

Most people, thanks mainly to Hollywood, mis-use the term Kung Fu, thinking it refers to that Chinese unarmed combat style somewhat resembling Taekwon Do and certain Karate styles. In fact, gōngfu is a combination of two Chinese words which, translated together from Mandarin, equate to something along the lines of merit or achievement through hard work. As such, the term can be applied to just about anything worth doing - in the immortal words of Musashi, the "Sword-Saint", do nothing that is of no use

- from armed/unarmed combat, to writing and various technical pursuits. What most people actually mean when they say "Kung Fu" is more along the lines of gōngfu wushu, which translates approximately but adequately as "the skills of the martial artist".

Realt Dearg Sec

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

They've had a hundred years and still not sorted it out? Lazy frogs. I bet Fritz has the German side long since cleared up...;)

I was in Berlin last August and the red line metro (or whatever number it was) was shut down for the weekend because they found another bomb and had to detonate it. A german girl we were talking to said it was still pretty normal for that to happen

Please, you're disrupting my national stereotyping. Which is typical paddy behaviour.

Capt'n Midnight

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

They've had a hundred years and still not sorted it out? Lazy frogs. I bet Fritz has the German side long since cleared up...;)

Meanwhile in Birmingham
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/aston-expressway-bomb-roads-live-13040331

FanadMan

AllForIt wrote: »

Just last week I heard in the news that an unexploded bomb that was found in London disrupted traffic flow. I don't know where it was but it happens all the time.

In fact when I lived in London same happened in a street literally just round the corner from where I resided, which is why I know this to be true.

http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/11500911.Unexploded_bomb_unearthed_in_Clapham_back_garden_by_landscape_gardener/

London is awaiting a tidal wave since the 2nd World War. The SS Richard Montgomery, an ammunition ship sent from the US, foundered on a sandbank 1.5 miles off the English coast, in the mouth of the Thames. There is reputed to be about 1400 tonnes of high explosive still in the holds. If this exploded it could cause a 30 - 40 foot tidal wave to rush the Thames.

Its three masts can still be seen in the water and has a 500m exclusion zone around it......just in case.

AllForIt

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

They've had a hundred years and still not sorted it out? Lazy frogs. I bet Fritz has the German side long since cleared up...;)

Just last week I heard in the news that an unexploded bomb that was found in London disrupted traffic flow. I don't know where it was but it happens all the time.

In fact when I lived in London same happened in a street literally just round the corner from where I resided, which is why I know this to be true.

http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/11500911.Unexploded_bomb_unearthed_in_Clapham_back_garden_by_landscape_gardener/

Cookie_Monster

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

They've had a hundred years and still not sorted it out? Lazy frogs. I bet Fritz has the German side long since cleared up...;)

I was in Berlin last August and the red line metro (or whatever number it was) was shut down for the weekend because they found another bomb and had to detonate it. A german girl we were talking to said it was still pretty normal for that to happen

Realt Dearg Sec

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

There is a large area of Northern France that is off limits for human habitation and agriculture since WWI because of unexploded ordinance, human and animal remains and chemical poisoning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge

They've had a hundred years and still not sorted it out? Lazy frogs. I bet Fritz has the German side long since cleared up...;)

Buford T. Justice XIX

There is a large area of Northern France that is off limits for human habitation and agriculture since WWI because of unexploded ordinance, human and animal remains and chemical poisoning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge

TallGlass

I read this on the bus enthusiasts forum earlier.

Usually I notice these things, never once notice this.

The Dublin Bus logo on all there busses, the one that looks like a castle is actually the words 'db' formed together. Oddly interesting I thought.

Realt Dearg Sec

MonkieSocks wrote: »

You can do the "Cliff Walk Lloop", Howth, Dublin, on google street view.

Follow the trail

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.3855419,-6.0500007,3a,75y,107.24h,76.58t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sl6yJIbcPksu6t60CyLffVQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

And you can pass two shifty looking men as if you were really there.

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.385226,-6.0490109,3a,75y,107.24h,76.58t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWNYmZUyFUjRrn304IV1h6g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

In fact, if you turn around as you're going, you'll realise the two shifty men are following you

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.385204,-6.0489071,3a,75y,270h,76.58t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9s00yvIRZsL_GfSX135z1g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

MonkieSocks

You can do the "Cliff Walk Loop", Howth, Dublin, on google street view.

Follow the trail

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.3855419,-6.0500007,3a,75y,107.24h,76.58t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sl6yJIbcPksu6t60CyLffVQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

tomwaterford

The brickwork on downing street london is actually yellow (blackness was orginally caused by pollution)

this was only rediscovered in the 1960s during extensive renovations and they were repainted black