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In the English language the word “set” has the most amount of different definitions for a given word.
I remember when Channel 4 launched in the UK. Back then, you had to get someone out to tune your TV, and they would leave a sticker on the TV saying "I've joined the I've had my set set set"
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Sonic Youth did a tribute to Karen Carpenter called 'Tunic (Song for Karen)' and in the video, Karen is in Heaven playing in a band called The Angels (with Elvis, Janis Joplin and Dennis Wilson from The Beach Boys). The name 'The Angels' is on her drum kit).Water John wrote: »But Karen had the voice of an angel.
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EndaHonesty wrote: »Not true.
The only unique fact about a Kiwi bird beak is;
https://www.kiwisforkiwi.org/about-kiwi/kiwi-facts-characteristics/an-unusual-beak/
I think this came from the different measurement for the beak.
Some measure from the tip of the beak to the nostrils and others from the tip of the beak to the feathers.
If measuring from the tip of the beak to the nostrils then a Kiwi would have a very short beak indeed.
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I think this came from the different measurement for the beak.
Some measure from the tip of the beak to the nostrils and others from the tip of the beak to the feathers.
If measuring from the tip of the beak to the nostrils then a Kiwi would have a very short beak indeed.
The simple fact is; the nostrils are at the end of the beak, not the start of the beak.
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In April 2017, Oobah Butler, was a writer for Vice who had previously been bribed by restaurants to write good reviews i.e. they would pay him £10 to write a positive review despite never actually having a meal there. He decided to fake an entire restaurant to make the point that Trip Advisor was a false reality.
It was named "The Shed at Dulwich”
To get started, he needed to verify with Trip Advisor and used a cheap burner phone to do so. The restaurant now officially existed and was listed on the site. The location was given as 'The Shed' with the address listed as the road he lived on. It was also set up as 'an appointment-only restaurant'.
A domain was bought, registered and the site was built. Meal names were given hipster-friendly names such as 'Lust', 'Empathetic' or 'Comfort' with the accompanying pretenious blurb stating that '...instead of meals, our menu is comprised of moods'.
https://www.theshedatdulwich.com/
The mood meals themselves were photographed and looked delectable.
Trip Advisor confirmed and 'The Shed at Dulwich' was now officially the worst restaurant in London, ranked bottom, at #18,149
The restaurant needed reviews. So Butler got friends and colleagues to submit detailed glowing reviews and high marks. This was to circumvent the anti-scam technology and was thus from different computers to enable the hoax.
The Shed climbs the rankings.
Then Butler's burner phone starts ringing for reservations. His stock response to queries says that they are booked solid for 6 weeks. Suddenly, due to the interest generated, the ranking is now at #1,456. Clearly the mystique, the allure and the exclusivity of The Shed was driving it up the ranking system. Over the next few months the phone rang incessantly but nobody ate at 'The Shed'.
By August 2017, three months after setting up, The Shed is now ranked at #156.
Companies start sending free samples, people stop Butler on his street asking if he knows where 'The Shed' is, speculative requests are sent for jobs at 'The Shed', the attention, the requests become incessant. Still no one has eaten a morsel of food in the restaurant and by winter 2017 it is ranked #30 in London. People from abroad start requesting reservations and then suddenly Butler get's an email from Trip Advisor titled "Information Request"
Butler thinks he has been rumbled.
The restaurant has received 89,000 views in search results in the past day
Trip Advisor has been contacted by dozens of customers asking for information.
And the reason for the email? Well, on the 1st of November, 2017, six months after it's listing, The Shed at Dulwich is now officially the #1 ranked restaurant in London. :pac:
A restaurant that doesn't exist becomes the highest ranked in one of the world’s biggest cities, on one of the internet's most trusted review sites.
Butler, point made, contacts Trip Advisor to alert them of the prank to which the response is;
"As there is no incentive for anyone in the real world to create a fake restaurant it is not a problem we experience with our regular community – therefore this 'test' is not a real world example."
For starters
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This is Celtic Park in Glsagow, capacity 60,400 and this version was built in 1998,
If you look closely, you will see that the main stand on the left has pillars supporting it, while the end has none, even though it is the same depth.
The reason can be seen in the exterior photo here, the end stands are cantilivered, the main stand is not. Also note how the cantilivered structure protrudes over the outside of the stadium (part on the right), the one that is supported from within (on the left) does not.
The reason for this is obvious in this next picture; There is a graveyard right behind the main stand and they could not get permission to build a structure that overhangs it.
There's a better view of the whole thing here on Google Maps: https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Celtic+Park/@55.850012,-4.2011141,271a,35y,270h,39.42t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4888414f6436db0f:0xf1778c849701d24!8m2!3d55.849696!4d-4.20554270 -
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IvyTheTerrific wrote: »Before the invention of synthetic urea, the only way to tan hides was to use urine. So urine was an important resource! In towns with a tanning industry, people would collect urine in large "piss pots" for the purpose.
I bought a bag in Egypt, liked the one on display at a market and got one off the stall wrapped in a clear plastic bag, took it home still wrapped and when I took it out it brought tears to my eyes in a couple of different ways...it absolutely stank. I chose to believe it was probably animal urine used to tan it, aired it out for weeks, tried to clean it out with saddle soap, even Febrezed the beejezus out of it as a last resort but three months later the smell had barely faded. Nearly cried when I put it in the recycling stand.
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The Tokyo Express was a container ship that is best known for being struck by a rogue wave on 13 February 1997. This caused her to lose cargo, including one container loaded with 4,800,000 pieces of Lego. Ever since, Lego pieces including octopuses, dragons, flippers and flowers have been washing up on Cornwall beaches and are commonly found after storms.
Among the pieces lost were 418,000 swimming flippers, 97,500 scuba tanks, 26,600 life preservers, 13,000 spear guns, and 4,200 octopuses. Sea grass, cutlasses and dragons were also well-represented. Hence, this quirk of fate means that Cornwall residents often find nautical themed Lego pieces washing up on the beach. In another quirk of fate, none of the majority of non nautical themed Lego pieces that were lost have washed up on the beach.
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Who mentioned definition, i said methods of measurement. My post was a comment on where the confusion could possibly have come from but anyway...
'Bill. Several types of bill measurements can be
found in the modern literature. The most
common and replicable is the bill length mea-
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Several types of bill measurements can be
found in the modern literature. The most
common and replicable is the bill length mea-
sured from the anterior edge of the nostril to
the tip (Baldwin et al. 1931: 16). This measurement
is popular because in most taxa both
ends of the measurement are readily definable
points where calipers can be placed. Two
other methods, the lengths of total culmen
and exposed culmen, attempt to measure the
entire length of the bill. Total culmen measurements
extend to the bill tip from the
notch on the forehead where the base of the
culmen meets the skull (usually just inside the
feathers on the forehead; Baldwin et al. 1931:
11). Exposed culmen measurements extend
to the bill tip from the point where the tips of
the forehead feathers begin to hide the culmen
(Baldwin et al. 1931: 11). This is not an
easily defined point, and hence this is the
most variable of these bill measurements
(pers. observ.).'
ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL 9: 23–30, 1998
© The Neotropical Ornithological Society
SUGGESTIONS FOR MEASURING EXTERNAL CHARACTERS OF
BIRDS
Kevin Winker
University of Alaska Museum, 907 Yukon Drive, Fairbanks, Alaska, 99775, U.S.A.
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