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

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Evade

Batrachotox wrote: »

This is actually a request for info, feel some of you smarties might know - why in windy/stormy weather as we're experiencing does the water in the bottom of the toilet rock back and forth as if blown by the wind, despite being inside?

There's a vent outsiude at the top of the waste pipe and the wind blowing across it creates a bit of a vacuum affecting the water in the toilet.

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This is actually a request for info, feel some of you smarties might know - why in windy/stormy weather as we're experiencing does the water in the bottom of the toilet rock back and forth as if blown by the wind, despite being inside?

joeguevara

mzungu wrote: »

The first film with a $100 million budget was True Lies, which was made in 1994.

The scene with the horse in the elevator was class.

The car salesman who pretended to be an under cover agent who eventually p1ssed himself was hilarious.

Watched it recently. Still a good film.

joujoujou

In 2007, Australian Government spent 84 million dollars to devise porn filter. 16 y.o. then boy cracked it in 30 minutes after it went online.

https://gizmodo.com/australian-84-million-porn-filter-thwarted-by-16-year-293419

Chancer3001

mzungu wrote: »

The first film with a $100 million budget was True Lies, which was made in 1994.

Jamie lee curtis in that movie brings back....memories...

Schwarzenegger was a millionaire before he started acting from buying, improving and flipping properties.

He also had a thing early on where he didnt do a movie unless they paid him double what they paid him in the previous movie. Kept that going all the way until a 20m pay cheque AFAIK

mzungu

The first film with a $100 million budget was True Lies, which was made in 1994.

LostinBlanch

Helmut Simon, the guy who discovered Otzi the Iceman frozen in ice in the Otz valley in the Tyrolean Alps, was also found dead frozen in ice.

joujoujou

Limerick, Pennsylvania. Yeah.

Professor Moriarty

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Nope.

It's a full size power plant.

Sneaky!

Capt'n Midnight

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Whereabouts?

I'm assuming it's probably UL and a science dept?

Nope.

It's a full size power plant.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

There's a nuclear power station in Limerick.

Whereabouts?

I'm assuming it's probably UL and a science dept?

GrumpyMe

FishOnABike wrote: »

Surely there's no word bigger than infinity.

But inFINity has an end!

mzungu

The term ‘footage’ comes from films being measured in feet, when being edited in the early days of film making.

Capt'n Midnight

FishOnABike wrote: »

Surely there's no word bigger than infinity.

That would be an ecumenical question.

Literally.

Here's the the answer in a story about an infinite hotel and an ecumenical council.

Capt'n Midnight

There's a nuclear power station in Limerick.

Capt'n Midnight

Deleted User wrote: »

Stephen Fry is a big fan of Ireland and Irish people, especially Mattress Mick of all people.

You can watch the movie too. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5797094/

Trying to save his struggling mattress business, Michael Flynn reinvents himself as the eccentric online persona 'Mattress Mick', under the guidance of his friend Paul Kelly. As business begins to grow, their friendship starts to implode.

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ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

Aside from the fact that I completely disagree with that statement, he hasn't presented that show in years. Its Sandy Toksvig

....who has a pretty "condescending patronising grating voice" herself, I'll never forgive her for ruining 15-to-1.

Stephen Fry is a big fan of Ireland and Irish people, especially Mattress Mick of all people.

Anyway, you know in "Live and Let Die" when James Bond runs across all those crocodiles like they're stepping stones?

Turns out, that scene is real*. Apparently they were discussing how to film it and make it look realistic when the croc wrangler just said "I could probably just give it a go" and took off running. They dressed him up as Bond for the subsequent attempts, and.......well, who needs CGI?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDeUzB12ln8

* it is unclear if the crocs were tethered in some way, though it certainly looks like it.

joeguevara

FishOnABike wrote: »

Surely there's no word bigger than infinity.

hippopotamus is a bigger word than infinity.

New Home

...and beyond!

FishOnABike

Surely there's no word bigger than infinity.

Evade

I see your centaur and raise definitely.

A definite light year.

KevRossi

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Oh and the longest word in the English language is smiles.
There's a mile between the first and last letters.

Centaur is longer.

'AU' stands for astronomical unit, the distance from the earth to the sun. It's used to measure distances in space. And 'cent' makes 100 times this. So it's about 14,959,787,070 Km.

Give or take a bit.

mzungu

Sunsets on Mars are blue (see below). Fine dust makes the blue near the Sun's part of the sky much more prominent.

On the other hand, the normal daylight makes the rusty dust colour that a lot of people associate with Mars more prominent.

ohnonotgmail

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Not hilarious if one of the males spikes you.

It's not that the excruciating pain. It's not that the pain can last months.

It's that conventional painkillers like say morphine have no effect on the pain :eek:

how is a venomous mammal not hilarious?

Capt'n Midnight

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

i think a duck billed platypus has to be more hilarious than a moose.

Not hilarious if one of the males spikes you.

It's not that the excruciating pain. It's not that the pain can last months.

It's that conventional painkillers like say morphine have no effect on the pain :eek:

Ipso

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Alaska's land area is a good bit more than twice that of Texas (and Texas is bigger than France, so...). In fact Alaska is one fifth the size of the entire lower 48 states. It's incredible, and mostly empty of people, with not even close to 1 million people (and nearly half of the population live in Anchorage, which is about the size of Cork).

I love the discussion of Alaska, by the way. I've always kind of wondered what it's like to live in a relatively remote place like Barrow Alaska, a town of about 4000 people inside the Arctic Circle that has no road connections to the rest of Alaska, which became famous due to 30 Days of Night and also for their high school football team (the Whalers), one of the world's most northern towns. It's weird to me that I live very close to a desert and yet thousands of miles away in the Arctic circle these people are part of the same country, living a life completely incomparable in its practicalities and its culture than mine.

EDIT: I just googled Barrow and they've actually officially changed the name of the town to Utqiagvik. So there you go.

Reminds me of Western Australia; 2.6 million square miles with a population of 2.6 million of which two million live in Perth. That's a lot of empty space.
The first European to record their landing in Australia done so in WA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Hartog

It was another Dutch man who was the first European to see Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Janszoon

Kat1170

sbsquarepants wrote:

Maybe a draw, the platypus is quite funny i'll grant you, but a moose is basically a horse as drawn by Salvador Dali, but alive

A camel is often described as a horse designed by a committee.

sbsquarepants

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

i think a duck billed platypus has to be more hilarious than a moose. So much so that when the first specimen was brought back to england everybody thought it was a hoax.

Maybe a draw, the platypus is quite funny i'll grant you, but a moose is basically a horse as drawn by Salvador Dali, but alive:D

ohnonotgmail

sbsquarepants wrote: »

You sure that's not their wifi code?:D

I don't know if i'd fancy living somewhere like that but i would definitely love to spend a month or 2, preferably when the vampires aren't in town. I've been mad to visit Alaska ever since watching Northern Exposure years back (probably 25 - 30 years back now)

And i absolutely defy anyone to produce a more hillarious animal than a moose:D

i think a duck billed platypus has to be more hilarious than a moose. So much so that when the first specimen was brought back to england everybody thought it was a hoax.

sbsquarepants

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

EDIT: I just googled Barrow and they've actually officially changed the name of the town to Utqiagvik. So there you go.

You sure that's not their wifi code?:D

I don't know if i'd fancy living somewhere like that but i would definitely love to spend a month or 2, preferably when the vampires aren't in town. I've been mad to visit Alaska ever since watching Northern Exposure years back (probably 25 - 30 years back now)

And i absolutely defy anyone to produce a more hillarious animal than a moose:D