random stuff

[Jah Lush]

This is nothing new. I remember a certain house on Court Lane back in the day that had more lights on every year at Xmas than Las Vegas. Plus ?a change.

[El Pibe]

when nations mobilise to pollard, and the counil here thinks they have it hard...

http://www.nknews.org/2013/08/when-two-americans-were-axed-to-death-by-n-korean-soldiers/

[Alan Medic]

Ted Max Wrote:

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> Alan, are you the double fronter that's gone "full

> Santa"?

>

No Ted. I just wanted to say 'thanks Ted' like Dougal would. That 'no Ted' was said like Dougal too.

[El Pibe]

some jolly nice pics of yesterday's fog

http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2013/12/11/23-dazzling-photos-of-the-fog-enveloping-london/

[Dopamine1979]

It's a tight left turn onto Adys road from Nutbrook street.

It used to be easier but now there is a bollard.

This annoys me.

Random rant over.

[david_carnell]

Dopamine1979 Wrote:

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> It's a tight left turn onto Adys road from

> Nutbrook street.

>

> It used to be easier but now there is a bollard.

>

> This annoys me.

>

> Random rant over.

It won't be there for long. That bollard is possibly the most knocked-over of any in the land. I've seen it replaced over a dozen times. I think one individual might be responsible but not positive.

[El Pibe]

BRilliant, this year's ignobel pyschology prize

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2044-8295.2012.02114.x/full

?Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder?

they had me at

"This research examines the role of alcohol consumption on self-perceived attractiveness"

And I'm sure quids will appreciate the:

PROBABILITY PRIZE: Bert Tolkamp [uK, the NETHERLANDS], Marie Haskell [uK], Fritha Langford [uK, CANADA], David Roberts [uK], and Colin Morgan [uK], for making two related discoveries:

First, that the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely that cow will soon stand up;

and Second, that once a cow stands up, you cannot easily predict how soon that cow will lie down again.

[david_carnell]

You needed to have read further down for the best line:

"Participants were 94 French men. Three did not follow instructions."

How they got 91 Frenchmen to rate themselves as anything less than suave, handsome and eloquent is beyond me.

[El Pibe]

:)

I also noted that 90% of the control subjects rumbled they either were being given booze when they were told it wasn't booze, or vice versa!

[red devil]

Ted Max Wrote:

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> I was casing a few joints on Court Lane last night

> and was surprised at the vulgarity of the

> Christmas light displays on the front of quite a

> few of the houses.

>

> If you live in one of those houses: bravo.

http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/twat-christmas-lights.jpg

[Salsaboy]

I don't like smooth peanut butter.

[Dopamine1979]

Random query:

Has this forum been responsible for any matchmaking over the years?

[????]

Two marriages I know of

At least one baby

and a few more casual encounters too...alledgedly

[Dopamine1979]

That's impressive! Can you at least divulge who the married couples are?

[????]

Nah, sorry. They can if they want to.

[uncleglen]

It's so dark outside I thought it was 16.30 already!

[El Pibe]

We say there's no such thing as clairvoyance, but here's a stab at the next one hundred quintilion years.

*spoiler* it ends badly for us!

[StraferJack]

Public Transport usage in London visualised

http://t.co/eNe4AKXScu

[El Pibe]

lovely.

Putting something through google translate and back vefore posting has been an occassional hobby of mine, but doesn't this just take out all the hard work

http://www.translation-telephone.com/

aka "Before you post stuff that I have to put the non mining, as well as striving for Pocket Edition is a translation and entertainment"

instant chinglish!!

[Dopamine1979]

The mornings seem to be getting darker and the evenings are getting lighter. Is that how it works at this time of year?

[El Pibe]

quite simply blimey!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaiaconistewart/with/11782192903/

[steveo]

And I'm just trying (and failing) to put a hinge on a bathroom door

[El Pibe]

Facebook as viral epidemic to die off within 3 years http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/23/facebook_disease_study/

[Ted Max]

The comeback.

http://www.facebook.com/notes/mike-develin/debunking-princeton/10151947421191849

[Dopamine1979]

Jimmy Carr looks like Quagmire from Family Guy