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What did you learn today?

  • 16-09-2014 01:33AM
    #1
    beks101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭


    I learned the following:

    - There is actually a place in California called 'Weed'
    - If you go out of your way to help someone at work, forty more will stampede along demanding answers to stupid questions
    - Folgers classic roast coffee tastes like rat piss
    - Tech guy at work can basically remote his way onto my computer any time he likes, with or without my knowledge. Yes I'm an idiot. And that's fcuking scary.
    - Sudden texts from my Dad saying 'are you at work or at home?' will never not make me think that something horrific has happened and half my family is dead.
    - Double negatives are confusing.

    What did you learn today?


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  • #2
    Last_Minute
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Last_Minute


    It takes 3-5 working days for the bank to order foreign currency.


  • #3
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    That drinking on a school night is a bad idea :/


  • #4
    Knex*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,475 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    - How to play Hozier's 'Cherry Wine' on guitar
    - Real Estate agents in America love exclamation points.
    - I don't like coffee without milk


  • #5
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    That the word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and is eponymously derived from the name of Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in Lough Mask House, near Ballinrobe in County Mayo, Ireland, who was subject to social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880.


  • #6
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,060 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    That a Belgian murderer and rapist has been granted the right to die by the Belgian Federal Euthanasia commission, because of the 'unbearable psychological anguish' brought about by his life sentence.

    From reading about this I also found that others who have been granted this in the past based on similar arguments (and since died) include a transsexual whose operation turned him into a 'monster' (his words) and a pair of deaf twins, who knew they would go blind and no longer be independent.


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  • #7
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    The Purveyor of Truth wrote: »
    That beks101 is a thread thief.


    That the Purveyor Of Truth is a wannabe Mod.



    Edit: Tried to sneakily delete their post, so Ninja skills were implemented....:pac:


  • #8
    beks101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    Last_Minute wrote: »
    It takes 3-5 working days for the bank to order foreign currency.

    What kind of currency?
    osarusan wrote: »
    That a Belgian murderer and rapist has been granted the right to die by the Belgian Federal Euthanasia commission, because of the 'unbearable psychological anguish' brought about by his life sentence.

    From reading about this I also found that others who have been granted this in the past based on similar arguments (and since died) include a transsexual whose operation turned him into a 'monster' (his words) and a pair of deaf twins, who knew they would go blind and no longer be independent.

    That's really bloody interesting and begs so many questions. Such as, why didn't he just kill himself?

    Another thing I just learned: if you encounter a temperamental cow, you should not engage in direct eye contact.


  • #9
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    I learned I'm really bad at wringing out towels. Much harder than it looks


  • #10
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    beks101 wrote: »
    What kind of currency?



    That's really bloody interesting and begs so many questions. Such as, why didn't he just kill himself?

    Another thing I just learned: if you encounter a temperamental cow, you should not engage in direct eye contact.

    A real cow or a two legged one? Cause real cows are so gentle and sweet


  • #11
    scream
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 430 ✭✭scream


    That Clive Barker's 'Books of Blood' really are as good as people would have you believe.


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  • #12
    Miss Lizzie Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭Miss Lizzie Jones


    I can actually knit slippers.
    I hate getting yelled at.
    My youngest son is a big, grouchy, 24 year old baby when he is sick.
    I need to start drinking my tea without sugar in it.
    Some people judge others far too easily.


  • #13
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Nothing in particular.
    Hopefully tomorrow will be better.


  • #14
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    That the sap from a palm tree attacks the magnesium casings on saws.


  • #15
    raze_them_all_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭raze_them_all_


    I learned that the west african black rhino has offically been declared extinct


  • #16
    The Purveyor of Truth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭The Purveyor of Truth


    Corvus Maximus wrote: »
    That the Purveyor Of Truth is a wannabe Mod.

    Edit: Tried to sneakily delete their post, so Ninja skills were implemented....:pac:

    Christ. The post was obviously a joke. I deleted it before you posted, as I thought that there was a small chance that someone would foolishly think I was being serious. Cheers for confirming my suspicions. If you doubt that, PM an AH mod and ask for the precise time I deleted the post along with the 'reason' I gave for it. I have no problem with them giving you either, if they don't.


  • #17
    beks101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    A real cow or a two legged one? Cause real cows are so gentle and sweet

    Of the bovine variety actually. There are some nasty ones in the Alpine mountains.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/alpine-authorities-issue-pamphlet-combat-deadly-cow-tramplings-n203521


  • #18
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    The Purveyor of Truth wrote: »
    Christ. The post was obviously a joke. I deleted it before you posted, as I thought that there was a small chance that someone would foolishly think I was being serious. Cheers for confirming my suspicions. If you doubt that, PM an AH mod and ask for the precise time I deleted the post along with the 'reason' I gave for it. I have no problem with them giving you either, if they don't.

    Jaysus calm down and take your medicine. You only deleted your post because of what I posted. Don't make a mountain out of a molehill


  • #19
    cookiexx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 335 ✭✭cookiexx


    I learned that one of the first acts of the new Irish government was to paint traditional red post boxes green.


  • #20
    Savage Tyrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,164 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    That I cant post a rape joke in the best joke thread.... No matter how funny it is.


  • #21
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    You gona learn today!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70gme6lL86o


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  • #22
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    Although Moore County, Tennessee, is the home county of Jack Daniel's, a major operational distillery of whiskey, it is a dry county, so the product is not available at stores or restaurants within the county.

    Ha ha !!!


  • #23
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    I read about schizoanalysis and "desiring-production" which is a reaction to the psycho-analytic model started by Freud.


  • #24
    Irish Stones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,308 ✭✭✭Irish Stones


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    A real cow or a two legged one? Cause real cows are so gentle and sweet

    That's how gentle and sweet a real cow can be (from an Italian on-line newspaper) ;)

    http://www.lastampa.it/2014/09/12/multimedia/societa/lazampa/mattis-e-samuel-lamicizi-speciale-fra-mucca-e-uomo-5wlN7QkLZN3cDfyHjYDbaL/pagina.html

    *[Translation]: Mattis and Samuel, the special friendship between a cow and a man

    Dog isn't the only man's best friend. This video tells of the friendship between a cow and a man. She's Mattis, he's Samuel. Another evidence that cows are very social animals, an underestimated peculiarity when cows are closed in farms to force them to produce milk and when they are deprived of their calves.


  • #25
    Betty Bloggs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 274 ✭✭Betty Bloggs


    Aretha Franklin had her first child aged just 12, and her second child at age 14.
    Also that she is still alive, I wasn't sure about that.


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That no matter how good or bad my diet is, and no matter how little or how much exercise I do, I will not lose any more weight. Perhaps that's more accepted than learned!!!

    That my running partner for Saturday is going to shout at me if I go too fast or too slow.

    How to make up a telephone cable - easy peasy lemon squeezy.


  • #27
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    beks101 wrote: »


    - Double negatives are confusing.

    Well they certainly aren't not confusing.

    I learned it is possible to somehow twist your knee in your sleep. Ouch:mad:


  • #28
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    I learned that electric Ireland are useless. I signed up after being told I would get 8% discounts rising to 10% for going dd on the bills. Rang today to finalise the gas to be told I should not have been told that and the there was no discount on the electric and only 4% on the gas. I blew a gasket and immediately rand energia who were great and im signed up with them now for 18% and 17% discounts respectively


  • #29
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    beks101 wrote: »
    I learned the following:

    - There is actually a place in California called 'Weed'
    - If you go out of your way to help someone at work, forty more will stampede along demanding answers to stupid questions
    - Folgers classic roast coffee tastes like rat piss
    - Tech guy at work can basically remote his way onto my computer any time he likes, with or without my knowledge. Yes I'm an idiot. And that's fcuking scary.
    - Sudden texts from my Dad saying 'are you at work or at home?' will never not make me think that something horrific has happened and half my family is dead.
    - Double negatives are confusing.

    What did you learn today?

    I learned I'm not the only one who has terror struck into them by the wording of a text, and that I'm not alone in thinking Folgers is an abomination.

    And I learned that aegrotat is a word for a medical certificate. It's a great word, and I will do my bit to bring it into common usage.


  • #30
    The Peanut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭The Peanut


    That no matter how disciplined I think my diet is, reading a thread about favourite order from the chipper WILL result in sh*te for lunch.


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  • #31
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Candie wrote: »
    I learned I'm not the only one who has terror struck into them by the wording of a text, and that I'm not alone in thinking Folgers is an abomination.

    And I learned that aegrotat is a word for a medical certificate. It's a great word, and I will do my bit to bring it into common usage.

    2 questions

    What is folgers?

    Do you really think aegrotat is a good word? I think it sounds horrible!


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