50 Random Facts To Entertain Your Brain Cells, As Shared By “Quite Interesting” Twitter Account

Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

That's an "I told you so" smirk if I ever saw one.

32points

Ozacoter 3 years ago

When the guy who wrote that sexist theory died they meassured his brain and it turns out that he had a particularly small brain. The irony...

23points

Valley Girl 3 years ago

Should I guess what else was small?

2points

Paul Davis 3 years ago

Reminds me when the U.S. Army worked to come up with a test for homosexuality which probably worked pretty well -- the intensely homophobic committee of officers in charge of it scored extremely high on it. It was quickly abandoned after that for some odd reason.

7points

Debrina Blackmoon 3 years ago

WHOOPS! LMAO

0points

Bob Belcher 3 years ago

Ok, but as a statistician she must know a sample size below 1,100 would skew any results and is not nearly enough to define a standard bell curve. I mean, she's 100% right that skull size does not matter, but her sample size is way too small.

7points

AJ 3 years ago

Darn me and my large head. Tho by personal experience I can confirm this is true, I have the largest hat while all my siblings have academic degrees.

7points

Mazer 3 years ago

And yet here we still are. Heavy sigh

6points

Brian Leahy Premium 3 years ago

I hope she didn't get a big head about it

5points

Nazda Pokmov 3 years ago

Big heads are overrated...

2points

Rissie 3 years ago

Meh, there is a correlation, but it's just that, a correlation. Smartypants come in all shapes and sizes

1point

backatya 3 years ago

otherwise the rest of the world are a bunch of fat heads

0points

Besides, the “Quite Interesting” Twitter page is actually a game show that currently broadcasts on the BBC Two channel. It started out in 2003 and already has 19 seasons. However, the quiz show has more of a comedic twist where well-known British personalities compete and score points not necessarily based on the correctness of their answers but the funniness. And as for the plot of the show, it focuses on the participants answering obscure questions, making it almost impossible to give a correct answer, which is why humor remains the main focus.

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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

Renaissance man.

68points

JuniorCJ82 3 years ago

No, that was Danny DeVito.

1point

Tom Susala 3 years ago

The man's name was Paul Winchell - Inventor, Puppeteer and character actor

11points

Debrina Blackmoon 3 years ago (edited)

Paul Winchel was Tigger's. Edward Estlin(aka E. E.) Cummings(immature snickering trigger, I know) played Pooh.

2points

Terry Tobias 3 years ago

T, I, double Grrrr!!

5points

Maryanna Baldridge 3 years ago

Where did he get the time????

3points

Analyn Lahr 3 years ago

🎶The wonderful thing about Tiggers...

2points

D K 3 years ago

Is that Tiggers a wonderful thing!

1point

Christine Jemison 3 years ago

Not true, tigger's voice was Paul Winchel !!!!

2points

BG 3 years ago

Google is your friend

4points

Nicely 3 years ago

Oo oo oo was it made out of springs?

1point

backatya 3 years ago

It was a heart for tigers and bears

0points

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

Paul Winchell did he do a commercial, with dog puppet for Nestle?

0points

Tom Susala 3 years ago

That was a puppeteer and ventriloquist named Jimmy Nelson. He was on the Milton Berle show in the early days of Television

0points

NWB 3 years ago

what! this is pretty epic!

0points

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May 3 years ago

I really want to know what the job was

183points

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

Copying articles from Reddit to Bored Panda?

137points

Bexxxxx 3 years ago

“Mere boredom was far from the only mistreatment suffered by Desnard, who argued he was deliberately marginalized and humiliated at work for four years, causing him to become withdrawn and clinically depressed. Furthermore, some headlines….gave readers the mistaken impression that Desnard had sued his employers because his job was too boring. In fact, his boredom and depression were a result of managers not allowing Desnard to do his job, but rather forcing him to carry out unrelated, menial tasks, or no tasks at all.” From Snopes.

45points

John Powers 3 years ago

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wionews.com/trending/french-man-sues-employer-for-boring-job-gets-45000-severance-package-444376/amp

7points

Something 3 years ago

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/jun/09/forget-burnout-there-is-nothing-worse-than-a-boring-job Apparently, buying paper and then doing nothing for the rest of the day.

4points

R.E.O. Speedwagon 3 years ago

Making NFTs maybe?

4points

matilda 3 years ago

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Brian Bennett 3 years ago

I'm sure it's everyone's job at one time or another!

1point

G R 3 years ago

He worked for a company that make perfumes. But the lawsuit wasn't that the work itself was boring, but in fact the opposite: the lawsuit was over him being bullied by his manager, and part of the bullying was that he was often not allowed to work - that he was forced to sit and do nothing for many hours, subsequently becoming so bored it damaged his mental health.

42points

Hannah Edwards 3 years ago

I’m glad he won compensation, that sounds like torture.

16points

The Scout 3 years ago

There is a trend to force unwanted employees out by sending them into "boreout" - you just keep paying them, but remove nearly all of their duties, communications and means to do something - often disguised as "relieving them of stress and work overload". After a while, the lack of real work and the perpetual boredom will lead to mental health problems similar to burnout.

8points

Davo gifman 3 years ago

I'm here to watch the paint dry. 🥴

4points

13 3 years ago

Where do I apply? I crave steady and boring.

3points

Christy Smith 3 years ago

You wouldn't crave it once you were given it, it's ungodly torturous and the day never f*****g ends ~> you need a nice long break to recoup yourself, not being overly bored 40+ hours a week ... Not that your current job isn't ridiculously stressful, I'm not downplaying it or anything.

3points

Fabian Meresse 3 years ago

Yeah, bore-out is a thing : meaningless job, feeling overpaid for unethical aim...there's a movement on high graduated youth: they downgrade to less paid job ( as butcher, baker, plumber...) because what you accomplish on one day is more feelable

2points

mulk 3 years ago

YES! meaningless job making you "stressed" about that, is called brown-out (https://www.mensura.be/en/blog/brownout-the-stage-before-burnout)

1point

BusLady 3 years ago

Then I should be a millionaire.

1point

Black nigha 3 years ago

My lazy ass finally a worthy opponent

1point

Hodor! Hodor? 3 years ago

Think I deserve double that amount then

1point

Kona Pake 3 years ago

I hope it’s not contagious.

1point

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Emerald Ocean 3 years ago

That’s cool. I really love that

55points

Magickmaster 8 3 years ago

It is also incorrect we have three official languages English Māori and nz sign language

3points

Andee Robinson 3 years ago

English is an official language here in NZ, so we have three languages! Te reo- that's the name of the Māori language is learned in all schools but it's limited, there are only a few Māori preschools and primary schools, but they are growing. Te reo is a beautiful language and my hope is that we will become bi-lingual in the near future! My favourite word is the colour pink as it is ma whero, which is white (ma) and red (whero) together! Also you can learn Te reo for free which is pretty awesome!

16points

Peppermallow 3 years ago

As a New Zealander, my first thought was "Well that's wrong". But after checking more than one official government website, I have to admit that this is both specifically and technically, correct, and somewhat surprising.

10points

ZAPanda 3 years ago

Yay for Jacinda, long may she remain in power.

4points

Fat Harry 3 years ago

English isn't a de jure official language in the UK because, oddly enough, it doesn't need to be. Welsh, however, IS an official language :)

2points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

As is Gaelic.

1point

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

Did not an Indigenous language help us to win WW2! Give credit where credit is due - not here!

1point

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

I just learned about this recently!

0points

Paul Davis 3 years ago

And of course people go to New Zealand and never bother to learn either of the official languages!

1point

Bora Zrinyi 3 years ago

Does children learn maori in school?

1point

Magickmaster 8 3 years ago

It’s. usually optional

0points

backatya 3 years ago

sign language? Are New Zealanders mostly deaf?

0points

Riley Quinn 3 years ago

I'm loving New Zealand more and more. Wish I knew then what I know now because I would've ditched this American hellhole long ago.

0points

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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

Priorities.

146points

Summer Mason 3 years ago

We need this in America.

6points

Lulu Lemons 3 years ago

I like your country

2points

Marilyn leger 3 years ago

precisely

0points

My O My 3 years ago

Hi foxxy, are you fine?

0points

Siss Larsen 3 years ago

So love this one lol

0points

InfectedVoice 3 years ago

Doesn't your guys's masterchef go on for like a year or something?

0points

The Scout 3 years ago

Actually not that strange.... A live political debate only makes sense if it is seen by as many people as possible, so scheduling it parallel to a major TV event is not a good idea.

8points

Tunk 3 years ago

Australian politics is so beyond abysmal with such poor characters that anything is preferable to watching them. Backwards and embarrassing and filled with contempt for those who keep blindly voting them in. The PM we have? You could not begin to imagine.

4points

Missmegs 3 years ago

America has joined the chat

6points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

Trust me, I can. And he who shall not be named is still uttering terrible lies, and a whole lot of people are still worshiping at his altar. Just take a look at lies he spewed in Arizona on Jan.15. Disgusting.

0points

Auntriarch 3 years ago

Trust me Tunk, I can imagine... Anyone for Boris?

0points

Monty Is Fiennes 3 years ago

Still, nobody paid attention....

2points

Huddo's sister 3 years ago

To either of them, oh wait, was that just me?

0points

Tee Witt 3 years ago

Sad

1point

Anton Kider 3 years ago

TVs new nobody would watch them. Bad planning though.

1point

Riley Quinn 3 years ago

And Americans can't even convince our legislators to make Election Day a holiday so we can vote.

0points

Edward Griggs 3 years ago

They knew which would rate higher

0points

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

Is that matter over minds!

0points

DanieLegz 3 years ago

Who won MasterChef?

0points

Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

Justin did, can't remember his last name.

0points

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third molar 3 years ago

This needs to be popularized so people will stop spending on rings!!

112points

Tina B 3 years ago

Correlation is not causation.

41points

Summer Mason 3 years ago (edited)

I fking love my ring to death. It's a small antique my husband bought me and I couldn't be happier. Oh oh its also in the shape of a rose which is my favorite flower in the world.

3points

LuckyL 3 years ago

like the 20.000 dollar ring the bride didn't like from the post a few days back

1point

Vanta Black 3 years ago

But Beyoncé said...

0points

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

If you need an expensive ring, chances are you're making up for a lack of other, more important things in the relationship

15points

Marnie 3 years ago

I need a source or it is meaningless to me. I don't believe just random tweets by people. I suspect that will be the case for most of these.

11points

Stein-Inge Kummeneje 3 years ago

It's not a random tweet though. It's from QI, a huge British television show focusing on weird trivia. It is fact checked.

16points

Bob Belcher 3 years ago

Those that spend more are geared toward materialistic tratics and lack depth in a relationship. Once the glimmer of the relationship begins to fade, so does the marriage. Those that focus more on the bond they have typically don't spend as much because they know they will be loved no matter how much they spend. Case in point, my wife and I have plain gold bands that cost us about $1,800 together in 2009. My brother spends at least 4K every time he buys a ring. He's on his 4th.

10points

monkeydog 3 years ago

Why even read this thread, though?

3points

𝖊𝖆 3 years ago

I think this is relative to your pay. You could spend £1000 on a ring, and that be one months wage. Or £10000 and that be two and a half months wages. The second is more likely to divorce. As the emphasis is on appearance and wanting things for how much it costs rather than being focused on the actual marriage. Same goes with the cost of weddings. The more expensive a wedding compared to your earnings, the more chance you have or divorcing.

9points

80 Van 3 years ago

Important to remember that correlation does not equal causation. It’s likely that higher-wealth people have a higher likelihood of divorce due to a number of factors that have nothing to do with the engagement ring itself.

9points

AxleMunshine001 3 years ago

My wife bought her own engagement ring, because I couldn't afford any. My wedding ring is made of titanium and cost me just a few bob. It's the sentiment that counts, not the amount carats.

8points

Debrina Blackmoon 3 years ago (edited)

Yet I'm actually glad mine were lost to p**n(he possibly sold the second set and 3rd single)as they were just part of the joke.

1point

Groundcontroltomajortom 3 years ago

I'd rather an expensive ring than an expensive wedding or wedding dress, the ring at least you'll wear and treasure for the rest of your life??

5points

Slick 3 years ago

Well, my husband and i got married almost 10 years ago. We never bought rings for the occasion. And honestly, we never needed it. It's mostly people who can't understand why and are bugged by it.

5points

Mark Karol-Chik 3 years ago

Purchase vintage rings instead! At local small stores, or antique stores.

5points

Terry Fergusson 3 years ago

citation https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/wedding-spending-432/

5points

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Kona Pake 3 years ago

So, are humans the most advanced creature on earth?

32points

Julia Atkinson 3 years ago

Yes, yes, very impressive. But show me an axolotl capable of writing the Twilight trilogy or storming the Capitol in fancy dress

12points

Goth mouse (they/them) 3 years ago

I love axolotls! They look like a cartoon character with their hair in bunches!

12points

LONECOOLMAN 3 years ago

AND HE IS DARN CUTE TOO!

8points

RandomHumanBean 3 years ago (edited)

>._______.

5points

Beatrice Multhaupt 3 years ago

there's a seat in parliament just waiting for you, my friend.

4points

Karri Berkowitz 3 years ago

Thank you Minecraft for me knowing what this was

3points

Ace Girl 3 years ago

Well, I'll be. Maybe we aren't God's favorite creature after all! :-D

2points

Jesus Christ 3 years ago

honestly what i dont like, in my opinon is that some people go like "uwu smol bean" "tiny axolotl bean uwu"

2points

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

who cares they're damn cute!

1point

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Final score:

226points

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funkybluegirl 3 years ago

Definition of imposter syndrome: "Imposter syndrome is loosely defined as doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud. It disproportionately affects high-achieving people, who find it difficult to accept their accomplishments. Many question whether they're deserving of accolades."

93points

Bob Belcher 3 years ago

God this is me. I don't understand hiw I have my job but everyone tells me I'm good at what I do. I think I'm barley holding on.

16points

BusLady 3 years ago

I imagine that many high acheiving people fear that failure is just around the next corner.

4points

Bexxxxx 3 years ago (edited)

I have this too. I think that fear is literally what drives me to work harder than others at work, just desperately chasing validation that I am worth this job 😂 (I’m one of the top 3 performers too so idk why I stress so much)

4points

Shalini Pabreja 3 years ago

As if there wasn’t enough to worry about already.

3points

Marc Campbell 3 years ago

Been there done that how did I change that light bulb

0points

My O My 3 years ago

Ok. I read "deserving of chocolates". Better go get some

0points

Phil Vaive 3 years ago

I would bet it's because people with imposter syndrome work a lot harder to feel like they are earning their position

14points

Nadia Dodd 3 years ago

This is me down to a tee!! I go to work and do my best at my job to the point where I'm now feeling like people take advantage. However I never feel comfortable with people telling me I'm great at my job (to the point I was promoted after a year of working at the place I work), as to me, I'm just doing my job!!!

0points

Fabian Meresse 3 years ago

Probably because always questioning what you did is the pinnacle of perpetual self- improvement

12points

Sakura 3 years ago

Except this is in an unhealthy way that causes self-hatred and depression. A little bit of self-questioning is good but too much causes issues.

6points

Linda Riebel 3 years ago

Perfectionism gives rise to both facts -- doing well and not believing one is doing well.

5points

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

Are they better at their jobs, or just in worse jobs than they deserve therefore they excel at them??

5points

Paul Davis 3 years ago

Incompetent people never express such doubts about their abilities...and lack any sort of feedback loop to get better at their jobs.

4points

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François Carré 3 years ago

I worked with a boss who knowingly had this syndrome and told us about this. She was actually very good at her job but her anxiety was kind of pressuring for her coworkers.

3points

Mazer 3 years ago

Yet this is where lots of abusive behavior can start, especially among doctors and surgeons

2points

Annik 3 years ago

And people with Dunning Kruger Effect make shitty orange-faced US presidents. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

1point

I don't like my name 3 years ago

🙋‍♀️

1point

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Final score:

218points

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ima cat 3 years ago

Nice job!

50points

Siss Larsen 3 years ago

Cant believe it was a law again it in the first place. Grew up in north of Norway and we always had snowball fights

4points

Elita One 3 years ago

This is an AU of Footloose.

9points

Valley Girl 3 years ago

We can't pass voting rights, but damn it, we can outlaw snowballs for 250 years

6points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

DeathSantis just submitted his plan for redistricting. Guess who it helps and hurts. Disgusting slimeball.

1point

Glirpy 3 years ago

The next week someone lost an eye.

6points

albernistuff 4sale 3 years ago

because there is always "that kid" who thinks it hilarious to put a rock or ice chunk into the snowball

5points

Tom Susala 3 years ago

He was later killed in a Drive-By snowball fight in the ghetto of Denver

4points

BusLady 3 years ago

Now it's being petitioned to be made a sport in the Winter Olympics. Lol Anyone from Colorado Springs will get the joke.

2points

Catlady6000 3 years ago

I would actually watch that

3points

Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago (edited)

This story is apocryphal and told at a bar so take it with a grain of salt. There is a bar in the town called Bruce's Bar. It is famous throughout the US, and particularly in Colorado for serving Rocky Mountain oysters AKA bull testicles. People still make pilgrimages to Bruce's to eat them and I've taken tourist friends out to try them out. The story is people used to have "snowball fights" with them and then tell the cops they were just snow. . At the time, the town was less than a 100 people and they got tired of patching out of town jerks from getting hit in the face with frozen chunks of bull testicles so they outlawed all missiles, including snow balls. Not a lot of kids back then in a town that size. Its gone from 106 to 6500 people in the last 30 years so it was time to move on.

1point

Riley Quinn 3 years ago

If anyone has a couple of hours to kill, check out all the ridiculous laws still on the books in all 50 states. Ex: No gorillas are allowed in the back seat of cars.

0points

Jeffrey Diehl Premium 3 years ago

There is a South Park episode hiding in there.

0points

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

Maybe that kid will hold office in Colorado one day!

0points

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Final score:

210points

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Emerald Ocean 3 years ago

I don’t know why but I find this hilarious

88points

Theoretical Empiricist 3 years ago

It's from imagining the look on someone's face when you say, "Wow - that building must be 170 Smoots tall!"

14points

Rijkærd 3 years ago

It is hilarious...and thats like 20 smoots of hilarious...

1point

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

Me too. Meet a guy he asks how smoot are you - One slap commin up!

1point

D K 3 years ago

Because SMOOT.

1point

Jeff Bunn 3 years ago

You aren’t the only one!!

0points

Otter 3 years ago

The story I heard was that some Harvard students measured a bridge over their river in Smoots, which involved picking up a student named Smoot and laying him down again very precisely for the entire length of the bridge. Smoot was 5'7", or one Smoot.

11points

Deena Salzman 3 years ago

I used to cross that bridge to get to work, but it was MIT not Harvard students (the bridge is called the Harvard bridge though). The length of the bridge is 364.4 Smoots and one ear.

14points

Lisa Wilson 3 years ago

It was MIT. And you can still see the smoot measurements on the MA Ave bridge. They repaint it from time to time bc it's legendary

2points

Heather Mack-Scott 3 years ago

Matt Parker *Stand Up Maths) did a great video on the bridge a few years back https://youtu.be/-scs_yF59YE

0points

Tom Hardeveld 3 years ago (edited)

go left 30 Smoots and it's all Smoot sailing from then on...

8points

Robert Trebor 3 years ago

Oooh

0points

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

Every unit of measurement was once an arbitrary number, this is no more ridiculous than using a "foot" or a "meter"

5points

New Everywhere 3 years ago

Dr. Seuss measurements. Measure Smoots with a wangdoodle.

4points

13 3 years ago

Bananas move over!

2points

ME! 3 years ago

Ha!

1point

xXbluthsbannanastandXx 3 years ago

I can confirm this

1point

Riley Quinn 3 years ago

That'd make me 1 smoot tall.

0points

Marilyn leger 3 years ago

thank you thank you thank you

0points

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Final score:

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STress 3 years ago

Where do I sign?

122points

Kona Pake 3 years ago

Me too!

9points

Béla Kun 3 years ago

Ppl always think that jobs like this are the best thing since sliced bread, but I would wager most of the ppl would be bored out their minds after two days, and HC boredom is really bad.

2points

s. vitkovitsky 3 years ago

In the cardiac ward, where you'll wind up from lack of exercise.

2points

PauWow 3 years ago

What??? I've been doing that for free all this time when I could have cashed in...

23points

Otter 3 years ago

Only 37 hours per week? That's sleep deprivation!

13points

K Witmer 3 years ago

I'm already an expert. I should get paid to do this

10points

Lyn Moffett 3 years ago

Id sign in a heartbeat

9points

matilda 3 years ago

Dream job

9points

RedFox 3 years ago

Except for the fact that I have a sleeping disorder and can't sleep without medicine lol

0points

ALEXIS CISNEROS 3 years ago

as long as i get to have food wheile watching said netflix!!!

5points

buttonpusher 3 years ago

My dream job!

4points

13 3 years ago

Surprised this is dated november and not april.

2points

Chich 3 years ago

I've been in training for over a year!

1point

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Final score:

201points

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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

Aka "don't wanna meet in a dark alley"

83points

IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago

Right up MY alley.

0points

Otter 3 years ago

So I googled "horned crocodile-faced hell heron", and a picture of some dinosaurs came up... followed by a lot of pictures of herons standing on crocodiles. I was amused.

13points

Mazer 3 years ago

So I gather the people responsible for naming Boaty McBoatface were not involved in naming this dinosaur. Just clarifying

10points

Otter 3 years ago

I wonder what name the people who named a nuclear reactor "Nukey Poo" would have chosen?

1point

Tom Susala 3 years ago

I guess "Big F***ing Lizard" was already taken...

6points

Rikke Visby Wickberg 3 years ago

It's probably a good thing most dinosaur types we're named when we were all into Latin and mythology. Otherwise we would end up with these kind of names, and that would make Jurassic Park more amusing than scary, I think.... 😂

4points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

heccin chonkasaurus

2points

Benyovszky 3 years ago

We should introduce it to the Tarantula Hawk Wasp.

4points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

What, and not the Feather Star?

0points

PupperPanda 3 years ago

Aka "really big goose".

2points

Phill 3 years ago

Would love that in a Jurassic Park/World film “Run!!. The horned crocodile-faced hell heron has escaped”

2points

The Alchemist 3 years ago

There are loads of fun dinosaur names like "King of Gore, Reaper of death and Devil Horned Face"

1point

Madeleine Bentley 3 years ago

So, what is the name?

1point

Blatidae 3 years ago

Quick Google search gave me 'Ceratosuchops inferodios'. :)

5points

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Final score:

190points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

What about congressmermaids? Do they have statues?

147points

Yort 3 years ago

#congressmermaidrights

35points

Phill Healey 3 years ago

Yes but not as many as Mermen

5points

Sarah 3 years ago

I certainly hope so!

4points

Qibli of the SandWings 3 years ago

Only in Florida!

2points

backatya 3 years ago

no because they suck like Boxer and Feinstein

0points

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Martin Thomsen 3 years ago

Well people tend to disagree with various politicians. But no one disagrees with a mermaid

14points

RedFox 3 years ago

Mermaiding is a real job! If you become a mermaid you can perform for all sorts of events such as fairs, birthday parties, aquariums too! (Depending on what aquarium) I've just been starting to get into it, but it is so fun and I highly recommend it!

9points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

Florida actually has one good thing. The mermaids at Weeki Wachee. Check them out.

2points

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François Carré 3 years ago

Patriarchy just prefers to praise women who don't exist, that's it.

6points

Sonnovab Kegeles 3 years ago

Well duh, there have been relatively few Congresswomen, and most are recent enough that statues wouldn't yet be built.

6points

Clare E 3 years ago

And there have been no mermaids...

8points

Ham Explosion 3 years ago

Wait... since when do they make statues of people from congress?

5points

Nazda Pokmov 3 years ago

Didn't even know of any congresswomen statues or monuments even existed in the USA.

4points

Lady of the Mountains 3 years ago

well....congress people in general are never really well known.... but everyone knows about mermaids <3

2points

Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 3 years ago

how many monuments to mermaids? how many to congresswomen? and just for completeness, how many to congressmen?

2points

Tonk Terrier 3 years ago

Um-can we not make a "thing" about sexism? They aren't Monuments-they are just decorative statues. Im sure there are more garden gnomes too-is that sexist as well?

2points

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Nika De Beer 3 years ago

That word would honestly take me out of depression lol

112points

13 3 years ago

Try yelling "BUBBLES!" as angrily as you can 😁

10points

Natalia Linnik 3 years ago

You just honestly made me laugh. Thank you :)

4points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Discretely whisper "Beep Boop".

2points

Beth S 3 years ago

My sleep deprived brain read "mumble-fumbles" and agreed it was accurate. LOL

17points

Terry Tobias 3 years ago

I think you're right..."mumble fumbles" sounds the way depression feels. "Mubble fubbles" is silly and funny, like when you're feeling punchy. 😜

6points

Julia Atkinson 3 years ago

We need to revive some of these old words. Shakespeare is a good source, although I draw the line at honorificabilitudinitatibus

10points

Jenny Barton 3 years ago

I will tell this to all my depressed patients.

7points

Yort 3 years ago

Sounds like how people gradually come up with weirder nicknames for their pets, like Muffin > Mubbin > Mubbles > Mubble fubbles

6points

Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago (edited)

Like some kind of morph of “møtherfūcking feelings” lol

6points

funkybluegirl 3 years ago

I want to start using that, but I don't think it would go well.

5points

New Everywhere 3 years ago

Dr. Seuss feelings

4points

Sofia Gonzalez 3 years ago

Mubble-Fubbles. I like this

1point

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

I want to hear my therapist tell me I have Mubble-Fubbles. And change all of the medical records to this.

1point

Paul Davis 3 years ago

But for those laughing, think about how many people have killed themselves due to their severe mubble-fubbles?

1point

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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

So...one horse actually produces 15 humanpower.

179points

Phil Vaive 3 years ago

I like this. You should get yourself a cookie!

6points

Phill Healey 3 years ago (edited)

Or 73 US humanpower (units)

1point

IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago

Niahh?!?!

0points

Marilyn leger 3 years ago

nice translation

0points

Lukyan Terdal 3 years ago

Devil's, what have we told you about talking about politics?

0points

Beezel Palomar 3 years ago

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AJ 3 years ago

15 horsepowers is a peak power a horse can reach momentarily. Originally one horsepower itself is a unit to describe level of power that an average draft horse can maintain throughout an 8 hours work day.

24points

I'mNotARoboat 3 years ago

Thank you for clearing that up. I love QI but they often like to be tricksy.

4points

TheTopTenz 37 3 years ago

So I am one-fifteenth horse

5points

Troux 3 years ago

From your mother's or your father's side?

13points

M O'Connell 3 years ago

To be clear, 1 draft horse produces 15 horsepower (with one 'horsepower' being the average tractive effort of one pit pony).

4points

AJ 3 years ago

Draft horse can reach 15 horsepowers momentarily, but not keep going in that power. 1 horsepower is power an average draft horse can maintain throughout a workday.

10points

Jo Johannsen 3 years ago (edited)

Just horsing around.

3points

Kona Pake 3 years ago

Get off your high horse.

6points

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago (edited)

WRONG! It is literally one horsepower, from an average working horse, at the time it was created. How has this been upvoted? Peak power of a specific horse doesn't count any more than the power of a horse that's 1 step away from being glue

2points

Katherine Boag 3 years ago

Damn I didnt realise how dirty they did horses, thought it would be less than 5

1point

Mazer 3 years ago

Depends on the horse and the human

1point

H Moore 3 years ago

Watt calculated that one horsepower was equivalent to one horse doing 33,000 foot-pounds of work in one minute. To better understand this—and avoid unhappy memories of arithmetic class—picture a lone horse raising a 33-pound bucket of water from the bottom of a 1000-foot-deep well in 60 seconds. That amount of work equals one horsepower.

1point

Demi Zwaan 3 years ago (edited)

But... that's not true.

1point

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

Yes to all of that. Where is my chocolate?

120points

Sonnovab Kegeles 3 years ago

As I recall, Mexican chocolate is unsweetened, so bitter. Not a sweet item like we use here.

12points

The Scout 3 years ago

Bitter, high cocoa chocolate is quite popular in large portions of europe. Cocoa and thus also dark chocolate are rich in antioxidants and flavinoids, which have a cell-protective function. They also have a positive effect on cardiovascular ailments and high blood pressure. Dark chocolate can even counter caries-causing acids. Also containing a small portion of caffeine, chocolate would be a healthy supoerfood if we removed the sugar. Unfortunately even dark chocolate is high in calories, as it contains very little sugar, but a lot of fat.

12points

That_One_Harry_Potter_Nerd 3 years ago

I ate it to help my cavities 😶

5points

eimipet 3 years ago

Oh... was that yours? My bad...

2points

IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago

Lupin-approved.

1point

Christine Packard Didier 3 years ago

I think you mean "chunk of medicine"

1point

Alyssa Lieberman 3 years ago

It's on your hemmoroids

0points

Naesil 3 years ago

I would guess their chocolate was more of a pure chocolate, not the sugar and milk filled stuff we now eat.

12points

Tom Hardeveld 3 years ago

and chocolate is a bean, so it's vegetables. Coffee comes from a berry so it's fruit. I have a fruit salad every day

7points

Nugua 3 years ago

Biologically they are not beans, they are mallows, like okra, cotton and hibiscus.

2points

Peter Weir 3 years ago

real chocolate..not north american sugar / fat filled garbage..real cacao

5points

Sarah Levine 3 years ago

And also dementors

4points

Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago

Went to Mexico once and visited a little roadside stand, where a lady was selling these little, hardened cylinder-shaped logs. It was made of ground, roasted cocoa beans, cinnamon, and vanilla bean. She said to scrape some into a mug and add hot milk, and a bit of sugar if I wanted. Called it something like chocolate "tea". It was divine.

3points

Springy The Non Binary Demon(They/Them) 3 years ago

That does sound divine! I want to try some!

1point

Glirpy 3 years ago

"Here, just rub this on your hemorrhoids."

3points

Mazer 3 years ago

The chocolate the Aztecs ingested was waaaaaaaay different than current versions. Unless one is considering VENCHI chocolates, which once eaten, most other commercially produced chocolate will pale mightily in comparison. That’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it

2points

Nika De Beer 3 years ago

I think we should go back to this

2points

Otter 3 years ago

If we stopped adding sugar to chocolate, it would be purely medicinal. And effectively so!

3points

Kady LaHaie 3 years ago

It also makes Dementors disappear.

2points

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Julia Atkinson 3 years ago

You just know the cat will steal it at the first opportunity

18points

Rikke Visby Wickberg 3 years ago

My food bowl is empty, hoomin! I can almost see the bottom!

2points

Olga Dremina 3 years ago (edited)

I foresee a huge blast of apps where you can confirm transaction by barking

14points

tuzdayschild 3 years ago

That little fluffball follows me everywhere when I am at home, now she can get me when I'm not home too? Yeah, okay, bring it on.

10points

K Witmer 3 years ago

My dog already talks to me w the talking dog buttons this would just be the next step in his evolution or should I say my evolution bc we now have conversations

9points

Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago

That. Is. So. Freaking. Cool.

4points

Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

It features Bark Waiting and Bark Back.

9points

New Everywhere 3 years ago

My dog would call me all day breathing into the phone. Then send accusatory texts "why don't we talk like we used to?"

6points

Denise Taylor 3 years ago

THIS is what science should be doing!

6points

Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago

You Have A New Voicemail From: YAPYAPYAPYAPYAPYAP

4points

Got Myself 4 Dwarves 3 years ago

I went to Glasgow uni, but sadly no inventions to claim. Loved every minute there though

4points

elloelloello 3 years ago

I got to Glasgow uni, no inventions… yet

3points

Damien Wolf 3 years ago

“You pretended to throw the ball, I can’t get over your deception “

2points

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Otter 3 years ago (edited)

I wonder if anyone suggested "the iSuck"?

14points

LavenderAxolotl 3 years ago

No, that's already my nickname.

2points

Chris Kane 3 years ago

I tape a knife to mine and call him stabby

12points

ZAPanda 3 years ago

lol

1point

Hannah Edwards 3 years ago

Sounds like some sort of futuristic……ahem..personal service.

8points

Robert T 3 years ago

Could've been worse. Could've been "Suck On This".

7points

Simon 3 years ago

I would name it FloorSnoorter

6points

Tom Hardeveld 3 years ago

that's how I call my internetrouter

3points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

No Internet, Secured.

1point

Zophra 3 years ago

We call ours "Nemii" because it is our cats nemesis.

2points

Nazda Pokmov 3 years ago

Roomba sounds like a dance not a vacuum cleaner

2points

Natalia Linnik 3 years ago

The marketing was successful, never owned one but I can easily recall the name Roomba.

2points

Niffler_13 3 years ago

Roomba got the technology from Husqvarna

2points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

Luckily if they even taller it would be very uncomfortable for them

49points

Rissie 3 years ago

The thing is, this is mainly because of immigration and shorter people making up larger part of the population. If you go to villages with less diverse populations... you. will. feel. small. I have several close family members, friends and coworkers that are all over 2 meters. Me is but of average height and I feel tiny compared to them.

22points

May 3 years ago

Yeah, but because of immigration. Ethnically Dutch people are still amongst the tallest in the world.

28points

Otter 3 years ago

That was my first thought.

1point

Tom Hardeveld 3 years ago

as a Dutch person I can tell this is true. That's why we wear wooden clogs, so our feet reach the ground again...

11points

Scagsy 3 years ago

By what? By the minute? By the hour? This is important.

9points

Hannah Edwards 3 years ago

Dutch person * Disappears into nothing

15points

13 3 years ago

There goes that all natural flood protection.

5points

Daphne 3 years ago

I share my house with 2 'Dutch giants', most of my son's friends are tall and when I visted the USA I only met 1 tall dude, it was a totally different environment height wise!

3points

Cat Crazy Lady 3 years ago

Sounds scary to me. Surrounded by giants.

0points

Loes 3 years ago

Yeah, we don't like to bump our head everytime. Had to do something about that.

2points

Greg Clark 3 years ago

No, the water level is getting higher.

1point

Sofia Gonzalez 3 years ago

Than I must be Dutch

1point

InfectedVoice 3 years ago

So what does this mean, now the average Dutchman is only 6'5?

1point

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Henry Russell 3 years ago

there obviously preparing for the international peanut butter famine of 2024

74points

Bill cipher 3 years ago

NOT MY PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE CHIP SANDWHICHES

6points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

Try 2021 and 2022. All of the grocery stores in my town couldn't get peanut butter for months. Everyone that was in lockdown ate a lot of it. Sadly, I was on the brink of starvation.

2points

Martin Kaine 3 years ago

It truly is the end of times.

0points

Bitz_Please! 3 years ago

* They're

0points

J. Normal 3 years ago

Many universities do, They have food drives for the hungry to forgive the tickets.

6points

Rachknits 3 years ago

What about jam? I make great jam

3points

Aeon Flux 3 years ago

Can I have some?

0points

Slick 3 years ago

Stop monkeying around and park properly !

2points

Nimitz 3 years ago

Too keep the food bank stocked or something?

2points

Susan Widomski 3 years ago

They have some of the worst drivers I have ever seen. You really have to pay attention to the traffic around you.

1point

A Jones 3 years ago

Would peanut butter cups suffice?

1point

Amanda Cox 3 years ago

Peak humanity

1point

Otter 3 years ago

How about Ramen?

1point

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

That's not a bad idea have you noticed the price of 1K of this stuff

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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

I don't know if it's true but I've heard ginger cats are mostly male.

99points

Mazer 3 years ago

Ginger cats are mostly trouble in a fur suit

28points

Kady LaHaie 3 years ago

"Am I ginger??" "No." "Damn. Always wanted to be ginger but NEVER GINGER."

17points

Ozacoter 3 years ago

I think that it works as with color blindness. The ginger colour is in the X chromosome but it is recessive. So males with the gene always are ginger because they are XY while females need two copies of the ginger gene to have that colour because they are xx.

12points

stacyh 3 years ago

Males make up about 80% of ginger cats.

6points

Xenon 3 years ago

They are. Female ones are very rare.

4points

Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago

Yes, you can get some females, but something about the genes makes it so a female ginger is infertile and same with a tortoiseshell male. It’s cool to read about

3points

DarkLumiya 3 years ago

i had a female one

3points

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

Yes, it's true, something to do with the ginger gene being on the male gene

3points

Oopsydaisy 3 years ago

My ginger cat is female, but apparently the majority are male.

2points

May 3 years ago

I have a female ginger, and so does my neighbour - so I don't think they're rare.

2points

Linda HS 3 years ago

I have a ginger cat male and a ginger cat female

1point

MCathenaE 3 years ago (edited)

Most ginger cats are male, but not to such a high percent as torti/calico females. When you find a ginger female, she probably has many other ginger females in her bloodline. This is all just from personal observation while working with animals.

1point

abby smink 3 years ago

And super chonky

1point

13 3 years ago

There must be balance!

1point

Wednesday 3 years ago

anecdotally, I've had two ginger cats, and they were both male.

0points

Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago

That's interesting. Every ginger cat I have ever some across was male.

0points

Riley Quinn 3 years ago

This is true 3 to 1.

0points

Storm Rise 3 years ago

Yup- about 70% male. It's rare to find a ginger female, and almost impossible to find a tortoiseshell male

0points

Apollo Brackady 3 years ago

My ginger cat is a female, a CHAOTIC female

0points

Bouk Book 3 years ago

True. Had 2 ginger manxes as a kid. Loved them. Sunshine and Mango

0points

Patricia 3 years ago

We got 2 ginger tabbies from one litter, and both were female.

0points

NWB 3 years ago

true, very rare to get a girl I've had 1 ever.

0points

Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 3 years ago

ginger tabbies, specifically. Not just ginger cats in general

0points

TeaDude 3 years ago

The statistic I heard once is that approximately only 1 in 40,000 are female, and only a ginger female can birth ginger females

-1point

Marnie 3 years ago

That's a strange way to phrase it. Would be better as "99.6% of Tortoiseshell cats are female"

18points

Troux 3 years ago

I thought the same, but then again...maybe they identify as 0.4% male?

7points

Ozacoter 3 years ago

The male tortoiseshells have XXY chromosomes.

9points

Niffler_13 3 years ago

Coloration in cats is controlled by the X chromosome. So The 99.6% applies to cats having more than 1 color (white coloration is not included in that). So Calico, Tortoiseshells, etc are 99.6% likely to be female. Also cats with white and blue eyes are likely to be deaf.

8points

Candia Lee 3 years ago

White cats with blue eyes. tend to be deaf. I had two.

3points

Zaza 3 years ago

That's a calico in the picture but yes, for both tortie and calico goes that you can assume they are always female. A male 3-color is extremely rare, so rare it's hardly been documented, and if it happens they are sterile

6points

Candia Lee 3 years ago

I had two, but so long ago I don't recall offspring. One (Drat That Fat Bat Cat) was mostly white with Siamese ears/tail w two grey and two pale orange spots between his ears. His bro (Titty Titty Tat Tat, for where he liked to sleep and cause the movie was new) was a dark tuxedo tabby w orange mixed in.

1point

Elise Hansen 3 years ago

calico are mainly female

4points

Susan Widomski 3 years ago

And 4% what? Humanoid, robots, aliens? Could have written this one better.

2points

ShriSha Kamboj 3 years ago

isnt this one a calico??? white fur is there

1point

ℙ𝕦𝕣𝕣_𝕞𝕒𝕚𝕕 3 years ago

Oh cool, one I know. Don't I feel special.🤣

1point

Madeleine Bentley 3 years ago

I've only ever known/owned female torties but didn't think anything of it.

1point

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Robert T 3 years ago

It takes 10 times longer when there is a BP tab open in your browser...

208points

Terry Tobias 3 years ago

Ah yes! The "I'm just going to check my email and that's all" intention that turns into the *3 hours later, haven't eaten yet and it's dark out side* reality!

8points

Art3mis 3 years ago

So sad yet so true. I am procrastinating from something and so far it has been a few hours

3points

Draga Millani 3 years ago

thought it was just me-

1point

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

If TV Tropes is present, the schedule will extend millennia.

1point

Brendan Roberts 3 years ago

The 1985 paper was supposed to be released in 1983.

20points

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

Except sex

7points

Auntriarch 3 years ago (edited)

Does one count the time spent nodding off in medias res?

2points

Marianne Saiso 3 years ago

Which is why at work I always estimate 3x what I think it should take and everyone's pleasantly surprised when I deliver slightly early.

5points

Jenny Barton 3 years ago

This is the truest thing I have ever read on the internet.

1point

Susan Widomski 3 years ago

Takes much longer to reach someone in customer service via telephone.

1point

julie son 3 years ago

Don't I know it!

1point

Maryanna Baldridge 3 years ago

Have you ever taught a lesson to a Kindergartner? You think it will take 10 minutes. Turns out the kids can't sustain that kind of attention and it is 2.71 times less than you expected.

1point

SDLT010 3 years ago

So insted of it being 1 minute to 2:25 when its 2:24 its actually a bit over 2 minutes?

1point

Phil Vaive 3 years ago

As a newly self-employed person who builds websites, this one is accurate.

1point

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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

Hence the prevalent use of "/s" at the end of a post.

14points

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

This is extremely difficult to back up because sarcasm rarely works in text, and any human interaction is going to be immediately biased and flawed so measurement is worthless

8points

KatHat 3 years ago

A lot of the time what people call sarcasm is actually deadpan humor. And while a lot of sarcasm overlaps with deadpan humor, not all deadpan humor is sarcasm. And yet people think it's all the same thing. It absolutely is not.

7points

Phil Vaive 3 years ago (edited)

This one reminds me of the "stat" that flirting is basically 50/50. Half the time you think you're being flirted with, you aren't, and half the time you're flirting with someone, they won't pick up on it. I don't know if that one is real cause I can't remember where I heard it, but it always stuck with me cause it basically means that your interpretation is pretty much going to be wrong half the time

6points

Bunzilla 3 years ago

It's especially difficult online. Or if you're on the spectrum.

4points

BusLady 3 years ago

I need a Sarcasm Sign.

2points

Paul Davis 3 years ago (edited)

I read that as a sarcastic post so I really don't know if it's saying we're actually worse at it or not.

2points

Glirpy 3 years ago

"This is the worst hat I ever saw... Oh, it looks good on you, though."

1point

Cat Crazy Lady 3 years ago

Is that Rodney Dangerfield..?

0points

LAS 3 years ago (edited)

According to my husband I'm sh*t at expressing sarcasm, I think that I'm good at it, but he tells me over and over that no one gets it. So him and I have started holding up our hand as a "sarcasm sign", it seems to work for us.

1point

Robert T 3 years ago

/s

1point

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KM 3 years ago

oh good, we are teaching robots what we taste like

271points

KMill 3 years ago

What could go wrong!?

36points

Becky Beach 3 years ago

teaching? what makes you think he didn't try it on his own?

13points

Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago

That comment made my day!

7points

Tom Hardeveld 3 years ago

my thoughts exactly!

4points

Monty Is Fiennes 3 years ago

And that we taste good!!!!

2points

Synsepalum 3 years ago

And to make matters worse, we taste like delicious bacon.

2points

Cocoa pop 3 years ago

I feel so safe (nervous laughter)

1point

Dominique Deveraux 3 years ago (edited)

We really do whoop our own a$$e$.

1point

May 3 years ago

Makes sense, since we're so close to pigs that we can use them for spare parts.

26points

Otter 3 years ago

We're long pig!

12points

Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

Well, that's good news for when we inevitably eat the rich.

12points

Myst Edenflower 3 years ago

It's why human flesh was called "long pig" among cannibals

10points

Robert T 3 years ago

They smell like bacon when cooking, as will be testified by anyone who has burnt themselves with a soldering iron.

10points

Bunzilla 3 years ago

Whenever I start cooking under the sun... I smell like peanut butter. It's weird. But I'm vegetarian, wonder if that has anything to do with it.

9points

Troux 3 years ago

I wonder who was pretending to be a robot...

7points

Strahd Ivarius 3 years ago

long pig, anybody?

6points

John Powers 3 years ago

Who did this robot taste?

6points

Autumn 3 years ago

You’re asking the important questions

4points

Peppermallow 3 years ago

"I'll be bac...on"

4points

Mari 3 years ago

Lol

0points

albernistuff 4sale 3 years ago

Does Soylent Green come in bacon flavor? I am so in!!!

4points

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Fabian Meresse 3 years ago

Aren't they always too close anyway?

139points

Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago

Nah, they want to avoid us as much as we do them. As long as they can't reach, observation is pretty interesting.All they want is to get away, hence the warning rattles.

6points

V V 3 years ago

If I can hear it, I'm definitely too close 😬

4points

BusLady 3 years ago

If I can hear it, they're too close. Yikes!

2points

backatya 3 years ago

no

0points

Jeff Bunn 3 years ago

Uh, yup

0points

albernistuff 4sale 3 years ago

If you hear them, they are too close.

1point

Riley Quinn 3 years ago

Which is their unique way of telling stupid humans to vacate.

0points

Salty Wild Hair 3 years ago

And none of those frequencies are healing frequencies.

0points

Rijkærd 3 years ago

If i can hear it am too close.

0points

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

I hear that I'm gone - hoping I'm running in the right direction!

0points

Bobby 3 years ago

Everybody, everything is making us fool. Oh poor us.

0points

Sidra Badar 3 years ago

Won't that mske their prey more attentive and ready for their attack? 🤔

0points

Mark Kelly 3 years ago

So that would cause people to run away sooner right?

0points

s. vitkovitsky 3 years ago

Dopplery.

0points

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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

I love nutmeg, but a little goes a long way.

57points

Hugh Cookson 3 years ago

Back in the day, I tried this as a Nutmeg infusion / tea (lots of rough grated Nutmeg ), but a friend of mine, unbeknownst to me, chucked in a few chopped up magic mushrooms - I was almost back to a normal state of 'normal' after 3 days - off my tits, high, happy and contented and didn't sleep much for the first day and a half, second day, just really weird, itchy slightly off kilter paranoid feeling then slept in fits and starts, third day felt like the life was being sucked out of me by frog demons with sweats, paranoia, night terrors, lack of bladder control, exhausted and completely drained - rather like a full on weekend of sex but without the orgasms ...... that was 35 years ago, I might try it again if I decide to commit suicide, it'd probably kill me anyway xx

15points

Bunzilla 3 years ago

It's funny, I was watching H2CT on YT, and she was trying a bunch of old recipes from an 1800's cookbook. She did three, and they ALL used nutmeg. Used to be a lot more popular than it is now.

4points

GadgetGirl 3 years ago

A lot longer away than you expected, apparently

1point

Mazer 3 years ago

That’s the truth, especially freshly grated nutmeg

1point

backatya 3 years ago

have you had hallucinations while eating it?

0points

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

Not according to Nostradamus a lot goes a long way to fooling people into believing in you!

0points

AxleMunshine001 3 years ago

Like so many so-called mystics, saints, shamans etc.... The secret of how to commune with the supernatural by dipping on hallucinogens. Millenia of some twats getting high on 🍄!

7points

PupperPanda 3 years ago

*heads to the spice rack*

5points

third molar 3 years ago

How conspiracies originate

4points

Katherine Boag 3 years ago

Nutradameg

3points

Susan Widomski 3 years ago

Advice for another way to get high. Thanks for that.

2points

Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago

One of my old friends got into it and didn’t know too much was a no no 😂 she was aggressive for weeks

1point

Speedgoat 3 years ago

Me: hmmm Wife: oh no you're not!

1point

Maryanna Baldridge 3 years ago

This makes me feel better about the future.

1point

Andrei Marentette 3 years ago

when in the FIFA World Cup, Messi hallucinates everyone

1point

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Julia Atkinson 3 years ago

Absolute nonsense, and when I tell my cats about this they'll come and beat you up

182points

Analyn Lahr 3 years ago

😺

3points

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

Or, are neurotic people more likely to be cat people??

24points

urszulat 3 years ago

In my experience people who don't like cats are full of themselves.

21points

Oopsydaisy 3 years ago

I have two, but I think there are good reasons for not liking cats and I don't judge people who are in that camp. Dogs, on the other hand. I judge the s**t out of people who don't like dogs.

2points

Carole Reid 3 years ago

Or full of something else.

1point

Candia Lee 3 years ago

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

What a surprise

16points

Jane Smith 3 years ago

If someone has a pet Octopus, they must be clingy.....

11points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

I loved My Octopus Teacher.

2points

Auntriarch 3 years ago

And dog people are old-rotic

8points

Slick 3 years ago

This !

2points

Alexandra Davis 3 years ago

Can very much confirm. I have 6 cats so am I 6x neurotic?

7points

Speedgoat 3 years ago

This must be looked into...🤔

4points

Susan Green 3 years ago

I see no problem with this.

5points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

Are you being sarcastic says the person who has a cat for their profile pic. ?

2points

ZAPanda 3 years ago

Can any of our dear friends in the States tell us what's with the dog obsession? Like every movie with a dog, the dog is the friend of the hero or the actual hero, and if there's a cat it's the villain or the friend of the villain. And probably has a british accent. I mean... why? Is it that cats are perceived somehow as "not masculine" or something? I mean apart from Tiger King. I mean like cat-cats. Housecats. It seems only British people in movies like cats. I do not know why.

4points

Kay blue 3 years ago

I can confirm this to be true :)

3points

Rachknits 3 years ago

Me too

2points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

I guess that this decade the skirts will be as long as a wedding dress

116points

RandomX123 3 years ago

Wedding dress? We'll be lucky if it's as short as Jörmungandr

12points

Cydney Golden 3 years ago

Nah, we're all wearing yoga and sweat pants.

1point

Draga Millani 3 years ago

ouch

1point

Mishka 3 years ago

Have you seen Target's dresses??

1point

Shannon Davis 3 years ago

Does anyone even wear skirts anymore?

-3points

Cee Mor 3 years ago

and so right now Target is selling little house on the prarie length dresses..hmmmm

10points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

They are hideous. Even my blind friend can't stand to look at them.

4points

albernistuff 4sale 3 years ago

Being depressed makes you more sensitive to cold; longer skirts are warmer. I wonder if there is a similar correlation with men in shorts v pants?

8points

Huddo's sister 3 years ago

Are there still women who put on longer skirts in the cold? I thought we were all sensible enough to put pants on :)

1point

Tom Hardeveld 3 years ago

2022... skirts are an average of 57 feet...

6points

Otter 3 years ago

I walked through a Norstrom the other day, and all the skirts I saw were well below the knee. Oh noes! Bad economic forecast!

6points

PupperPanda 3 years ago

2022 - the year of the maximum maxi skirt.

3points

Huddo's sister 3 years ago

But I'm too short for even regular maxis!

0points

Got Myself 4 Dwarves 3 years ago

No idea why this would be, but my brain made up a scenario whereby poor economy = miserable folk working miserable jobs looking for distractions in life likely means more drinking - which likely makes that kind of man more prone to being a tad forceful when chatting up the ladies so they tend to dress more conservative. But really it's just more likely to be less money means less nights out in general

2points

Candia Lee 3 years ago

When the economy got bad back in the days after zoot suits, clothes were simplified to save fabric: narrower lapels, pant legs, skirts; smaller collars; no ruffles or poofs. Once short skirts were in vogue, it seems natural that shorter skirts would be popular when money's short

1point

Sarah 3 years ago

I wonder what the reason is? Anyone know?

1point

Yort 3 years ago

Maybe people wear miniskirts when they’re happy and they’re happier when the economy is good

10points

Lady Goldberry 3 years ago

Isn't it the other way around? Skirts get shorter when the economy is bad.

0points

Riley Quinn 3 years ago

With these gams, baby, short skirts are always in fashion. (I'm laughing hysterically 'cuz you can't see them).

0points

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BusLady 3 years ago

Well Bud wasn't very wise.

4points

Damien Wolf 3 years ago

Man her body is amazing Budweiser her face like that?

3points

Bob Belcher 3 years ago

👏👏👏

0points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

Why, oh why, did his parents do this to him?

2points

Riley Quinn 3 years ago

What a curse, poor guy. If his parents had had any decency they would've named him after a real ale instead of this mass produced p*ss.

1point

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

And the moral of the story is Bud got Weiser!

1point

Alma Muminovic 3 years ago

Illegal arrest, this man was just going home.

1point

Susan Widomski 3 years ago

Not sure about this one.

1point

LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago

You did not have a great time in high school did you.

0points

Bobby 3 years ago

Bit Wiser action can make him avoid arrest..

0points

Emily Phillips 3 years ago

You'd think he'd be wiser, bud

0points

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May 3 years ago

What's 'voice traffic'?

28points

Chris D 3 years ago

Instead of typing a message, you can record a message and send via FB messenger.

13points

Robert T 3 years ago

Phonecalls

11points

Phill Healey 3 years ago

It's the little trucks that take your words from you phone to the phone of the person you are talking to

9points

Andrew Bridge 3 years ago

"Hey I'm walking here!"

1point

JennaMae 3 years ago

Right!

0points

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

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Riley Quinn 3 years ago

I'll refrain from complaining about the English language after learning this.

1point

Nitro Codes 3 years ago

Good luck.

0points

Bobby 3 years ago

Khmr Rule !

0points

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

Are you surprised when the language itself is called Khmer??

0points

ZAPanda 3 years ago

Yes, almost like people are allowed endonyms. weird.

6points

Oopsydaisy 3 years ago

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Fliphpo 3 years ago

Sad :(

71points

Wednesday 3 years ago

yes, but on the plus side, this will diversify the gene pool as they are getting to be critically endangered.

1point

Ozacoter 3 years ago (edited)

I can see the articles 'Millennials are ruining Albatrosses marriages"

22points

Mazer 3 years ago

We nearly wiped them out. 35mm film processing was done using albumen from their eggs, which were once collected annually in the thousands, now the biggest issue is the adults feeding chicks pieces of plastic, which are never passed and chicks die of starvation or internal injury.

8points

RedMarbles 3 years ago

We have got to clean up our oceans. It's so sickening thinking about all these wild animals working hard to survive and feed their offspring while so much of the effort is going to waste.

4points

Bubba Jones 3 years ago

FREAKING HUMANS!!

5points

Vanessa Henao 3 years ago

Well, the same is hapenning with human animals... We just like to think it is not.

3points

K Witmer 3 years ago

Is the divorce rate higher now? It seems no one can afford to get divorced now. I've seen a lot of exes living together bc they can't afford to live apart. My aunt and her husband divorced 10 yrs ago and they just moved back in w each other bc of money.

5points

Lady of the Mountains 3 years ago

when a bird has better eye makeup than you do

2points

Hollysmom 3 years ago

How sad

2points

Susan Widomski 3 years ago

I have never been to an albatross wedding. Do you have pics?

2points

Katherine Boag 3 years ago

I dont think albatrosses can get legally married...

2points

Candia Lee 3 years ago

They are spending too much on engagement rings 🤪

2points

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Henry Russell 3 years ago

grow potatoes everyone

100points

The Idaho Potato 3 years ago

I approve.

6points

Purple Potato 3 years ago

I also approve

3points

Candia Lee 3 years ago

I tried, twice. Nothing, then a small handful of "new" potatoes. Even my yam: beautiful vine all over the garden, two yams worth and the big one had worms. Must be my soil or something.

3points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

Please.

0points

CultOfBambi 3 years ago

But.. civil wars can be a good thing. Without the US civil war wouldn't they still have slavery?

-2points

Paul Davis 3 years ago

Just take it from Irish history which has always been a model of peacefulness.

10points

I'mNotARoboat 3 years ago

I was looking for an Ireland reference lol You did not disappoint. "Interesting" side note: Ireland is currently the subject of the next entry in this list.

0points

Bora Zrinyi 3 years ago

Two years ago I wanted to plant rose. I saw a gardening show what said make a hole in a potato, put the rose haulm in it, and it will grow. The rose died but the potato outgrown. It had harvested and eaten.

7points

Auntriarch 3 years ago

At least you had potatoes

4points

Bunzilla 3 years ago

Potatoes are an excellent food source and keep quite well over winter. One of the miracle crops from our Native American brethren that revolutionized nutrition and helped people survive through the winter.

7points

adiiantryx 3 years ago

it's the original positive sum game, if everyone is fixed to the land which they are on (in some way, most commonly potatoes because they are the most plentiful of food), they are less likely to risk it and more likely to compromise

6points

Bill cipher 3 years ago

Technoblade was onto something

5points

strawberry idiot 3 years ago

The orphan killer has many brilliant points, this was one of them

1point

GadgetGirl 3 years ago

If nothing else, they make good projectiles.

2points

Mazer 3 years ago

IDAHO, the nation is watching!!

2points

The Idaho Potato 3 years ago

Indeed.

1point

September 3 years ago

Potatoes are life

1point

Artsy Bookworm 3 years ago

Potatoes for the win!!!

1point

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Bella Wexhome 3 years ago

nope.

80points

Fat Harry 3 years ago

I like them. They're cute.

13points

Mike Everly 3 years ago

Nope, what?

2points

Mazer 3 years ago

Yep, and they can regenerate lost limbs

1point

Julia Atkinson 3 years ago

They're also prone to attacks of the zoomies at 2am

17points

Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago

Well, that's gonna keep me awake tonight.

4points

ZAPanda 3 years ago

I find salticidae way cuter. 8049637131...4dd1_o.jpg

9points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

she

0points

Got Myself 4 Dwarves 3 years ago

I really really didn't need to know that. It's almost 2am, I'm never sleeping now

8points

Marcellus II 3 years ago

Don't believe everything you read.

0points

MauKini 3 years ago

A friend of mine had this kind of spider. They are awesome. Cool to watch. Also, when they walk on your hand you can barely feel them.

7points

Hannah Edwards 3 years ago

That’s quite a cute spider!

7points

Slick 3 years ago

Spiders have cute cat like paws.

5points

funkybluegirl 3 years ago

I really did not need to hear that.

5points

Dominique Deveraux 3 years ago

Not interested.

1point

strawberry idiot 3 years ago

They also have paws, like cats.. they are arachnicats

1point

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Troux 3 years ago

Ooooh you're having an anxiety attack, too? This is going great!! 🥰🥰🥰

12points

Cat Crazy Lady 3 years ago

Haha. :)

1point

Henry Russell 3 years ago

ok so if a date is going well one person´s heart stop beating the other one will stop beating

9points

RedstonewolfX 3 years ago

So, don't die during the date. Got it

4points

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

So, if one of you has a heart attack, does that mean ...

6points

Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago

Date's over.

7points

Emma Starr 3 years ago

Mmmm..pretty sure that is not true. I've been married 23 years and our heartbeats have not synced!

5points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

Mine has a lump of coal in his chest. That is why we live 3000 miles apart.

2points

Sinkvenice 3 years ago

That's not quite true, it hasn't been worded very well. The study showed that if a couple had chemistry, their heart rates would speed up and slow down at the same time. Alas, their hearts wouldn't start to beat at the same time.

4points

Dinah Brand 3 years ago

No way! That's so romantic:)

3points

Grant Barke 3 years ago

I find waking up in the same bed together is a better indicator how well the date is going, teehee.

2points

tuzdayschild 3 years ago

"Two hearts, two heart that beat as one" Who knew Lionel Ritchie knew what he was talking about?

2points

Jenny Pugh 3 years ago

Good job I'm out of the dating game then - I have heart failure and mine beats to a weird rhythm... :/

1point

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

Yep Got to carry that old stethoscope just to check for compatibility!

1point

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Robert T 3 years ago

Only the successful ones are. ;-)

61points

Piet Puk 3 years ago

"It's not rocket surgery."

19points

Auntriarch 3 years ago

Snort-laugh!

4points

Naesil 3 years ago

I would say it depends what you consider to be rocket scientist, someone who is part of designing the rockets then nah not smarter, I could be part of that, but then the people who figured out how you can get that chunk of metal safely to space, using earths gravitational pull, managing to attach it safely to the space station that is moving 8km/s (5 miles per second) in orbit, and then plummeting it back to earth safely without burning everyone on board to crisp, dont feel like average people could do that.

10points

Vera1 3 years ago

They studied aerospace engineers for this. It's quite an interesting study, I've linked it if you'd like to have a look: https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/375/bmj-2021-067883.full.pdf

7points

Question everything 3 years ago

Don't forget it's team work and everything is checked and verified. They use well established formulaes to calculate stuff so yes, an average person can be a rocket scientist. Everything seems daunting if you don't have the right education or information and experience but all can be learned. Some learn the same thing in 3 hours, some in 3 years and even those that take 3 years can get into good jobs if they are good talkers and manipulators.

1point

s. vitkovitsky 3 years ago

The average person can barely back their car into their driveway.

0points

Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

Neither are brain surgeons. Looking at you, Ben Carson.

6points

Marnie 3 years ago

This doesn't even make sense. The "general population" does not have a level of intelligence. Only individual people do. If you're talking about statistics, then a better way to phrase might be "Rocket scientists do not have above-average intelligence" (which I personally find hard to believe) or "Rocket scientists are only in the top 40 percentile of intelligence, not top 1 as one would think," or something like that.

3points

Marianne Saiso 3 years ago

I think it's technically that the distributions of intelligence of the 'general population' and 'aerospace engineers' overlap significantly, so there is no statistically relevant difference in the averages. A certain percentile would still be seen statistically as a shift in the entire population. But that statement is very difficult to interpret for people that have not studied statistics.

2points

otplus 3 years ago

define general population, because there are soaps that come with directions, and i cannot fanthom someone not understanding how someone can read before figuring out how soap works

3points

Hannah Edwards 3 years ago

I suppose it’s the sort of job that weeds out and explodes the less intelligent ones.

2points

otplus 3 years ago

define general population

2points

Paul Davis 3 years ago

If you run into one it's best to bring a brain surgeon with you and let them duke it out.

1point

Israel Martinez 3 years ago

Rocket surgeons, however ...

1point

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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

Apparently, quite a few animals do.

40points

Bexxxxx 3 years ago

“ Object permanence is the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or otherwise sensed.” Leaving this here because I had to Google it lol 😅

67points

Ace Girl 3 years ago

Cats are 1 step ahead of my husband in this area.

28points

Zophra 3 years ago

Nice comment! Made me smile!

5points

Deena Salzman 3 years ago

This is obvious to anyone who has a moderately intelligent cat. My cat runs over ever time I open the drawer where I keep her laser pointer, so not only does she know that the dot comes from the object in my hand, she also knows where it is kept.

17points

thatmagicgaychick 3 years ago

or even a stupid cat. Mine know exactly where the food comes from

8points

BusLady 3 years ago

My cats know exactly where the treats are. They get excited if I go anywhere near that cabinet.

2points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

My cat loved dried sardines. I bought 2 bags and put them in the cabinet. Wake up the next morning to a large pile of dried fish heads and 2 empty bags. She later had regrets.

2points

Lillukka79 3 years ago

Mine gets annoyed if his water caraf is 10cm of the normal place. He just stares at the water and then gives me the wtf-look.

0points

Huddo's sister 3 years ago

My cat now expects to get milk each time I put the kettle on, because he knows I get the milk out after that.

0points

InfectedVoice 3 years ago (edited)

Please don't use a laser pointer with your cat anymore, it can cause serious psychological issues, especially in dogs but cats can suffer too, she is already becoming obsessed with it by what you say, please don't make that any worse, it can lead to an unhappy and anxious cat, they need tangible objects to play with.

0points

ZAPanda 3 years ago

Anyone who has seen a cat waiting behind a door to JUDICIOUSLY SMITE another cat who is about to walk past, will know this.

15points

Phil Vaive 3 years ago

Oh for sure they do! My cat knows EXACTLY which toys are under which couch at all times.

10points

Israel Martinez 3 years ago

Meanwhile, I've known a few dogs that will look away from you thinking that if they don't see you, you can't see them ...

8points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

yep. my Huskey. I could tell you stories. So many stories.

1point

Dinah Brand 3 years ago

It says that dogs have object permanence similar to a 1 to 2 year old human.

5points

Jeja 3 years ago

My dog definitely has object permanence. She knows exactly where the carrots and green beans come from and she waits in front of the refrigerator at almost the same time everyday to get them.

1point

Emerald Ocean 3 years ago

What does that mean

5points

Marnie 3 years ago

I looked it up: "Object permanence describes a child's ability to know that objects continue to exist even though they can no longer be seen or heard."

30points

Pat Head 3 years ago

Makes sense considering Schrodinger's theory.

2points

Oopsydaisy 3 years ago (edited)

Ummm.... And it's not a theory

0points

D K 3 years ago

Well yeah, the ball didn’t just “disappear” behind the couch!

1point

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Final score:

110points

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Natalie Bohrteller 3 years ago

I think I know them as strozzapreti 🤔

36points

Francesca Annoni 3 years ago

They both exist but are two different dishes...the strangolapreti are a tipe of gnocchi..strozzapreti is a type of pasta.. the one int the picture are actually strozzapreti!

22points

Tom Hardeveld 3 years ago

yeah, strozza IS preti, isn't he...

3points

BasedWang 3 years ago

thats how I saw it written also

2points

Draga Millani 3 years ago

same meaning

0points

Zelda 3 years ago

The meaning is the same!

0points

Chich 3 years ago

Apparantly first made by women who were annoyed by fat priests dropping by for free meals far too often

9points

Fabian Meresse 3 years ago

We have the same kind of word in French for when a pastry is too dry or compact : it's said '' étouffe-chrétien'' ( litteraly: ''Christian choker'')

6points

Samantha Sinclair 3 years ago

Grandma's toe nails 🤮

3points

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

I guess they knew of bad priest when this was invented so it's nothing new!

1point

s. vitkovitsky 3 years ago

Tjere's also a Persian eggplant dish called The Priest Fainted.

1point

Sofia Gonzalez 3 years ago

What did the priest do to the pasta? I feel that we're missing out on some juicy drama here!

1point

Marcellus II 3 years ago

Ask the Bolognese.

0points

Hollysmom 3 years ago

Creepy

1point

LSR 3 years ago

Priest strangling should be the norm. Everywhere.

0points

Andrea Nu 3 years ago

Strozzapreti not strangola-preti

0points

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Final score:

104points

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Olga Dremina 3 years ago

I'm pretty sure plumbers installed less known saxopipes in our house.

37points

Tom Susala 3 years ago

The proposed weapon could demolish an entire village and play 16 bars of "Ornithology" at the same time

8points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

That is so sick. But I laughed anyway.

2points

Bunzilla 3 years ago

How did he expect for people to A: Make 10m wide cannonballs B: Load 10m 550t cannonball into a giant cannon? And wow, that would take a LOT of gunpowder. Pray the cannon itself doesn't explode!

4points

buttonpusher 3 years ago

Death by Jazz!

4points

Nitro Codes 3 years ago

J A Z Z

0points

Israel Martinez 3 years ago

Was he the one "Mr. Saxobeat" was sung about ... asking for a friend ...

2points

Liam Picotto 3 years ago

Basically, don't you ever name your kids anything Adolf/Adolphe related

1point

Ray Heap 3 years ago

Ahhhhh! No..... It’s the.... Wait for it.... Saxaboom!

1point

LSR 3 years ago

Saxocannon sounds like some hell of a porn actor name.

0points

Caroline Driver 3 years ago

It would also blow out the eardrums of anyone standing near it, I should think

0points

Riley Quinn 3 years ago

Some ideas should never be uttered aloud.

0points

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Final score:

98points

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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago

Northern Ireland leads the world in eliminating clowns.

127points

Bob Belcher 3 years ago

We need to import a group of them and send them around Washington

4points

funkybluegirl 3 years ago

Haha!

3points

Henry Russell 3 years ago

than go ireland cause clowns are like scary

2points

CultOfBambi 3 years ago

Something else to thank St Patrick for?

0points

GadgetGirl 3 years ago

Rightly so

0points

Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

Here in the US, we have quite a lot of them in Congress. We'd be happy to donate to the cause.

24points

Zoe's Mom 3 years ago

We appointed one as President.

4points

Robert T 3 years ago

We have one in Downing Street that we can offer. Already has the right hair and is currently working on the red nose with all the parties.

19points

PupperPanda 3 years ago

He's too busy going to "work events"...

6points

I'mNotARoboat 3 years ago

Bojo is such a great name lol

1point

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

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Rissie 3 years ago

There is no such thing as clown shortage, there is a thing called clown abundance and that happens with even one measily clown present.

8points

Tom Susala 3 years ago

They can have All the Trumps and Wisconsin Senator Johnson

6points

Carole Reid 3 years ago

Except Trumps aren't funny.

0points

DE Ray 3 years ago

They're all in Stormont.

5points

Julie Arsmtrong 3 years ago

You're so right

0points

Paul Davis 3 years ago

Jeez let's ship all of our excess clowns there, starting with Republican senators.

4points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

They can't get visas. Plus, it would ruin our relationship with them. I would send all Republicans to the South Pole, but I don't want to upset the penguins.

1point

Kevin J. Henning 3 years ago

Tell them to check out American politicians. We have plenty to give away.

2points

Maryanna Baldridge 3 years ago

Good

2points

Ben Steinberg 3 years ago

Lucky bastards...

2points

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97points

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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

System of a Down's album entitled "Toxicity" was released two years before Britney Spears' song "Toxic." Just saying.

105points

Joran Quinten 3 years ago

That may well be, but SOAD didn't popularize it enough

24points

Sonnovab Kegeles 3 years ago

On the other hand, a very popular singer will popularize something much more than a lesser known band/singer, regardless of which used the term (or item) first. Sucks but it's true.

16points

boredkoala 3 years ago

DISORDER! Disorderrrrrr!

8points

KatHat 3 years ago

But if it doesn't hit popular culture in the same way, it doesn't have the same effect. Language and reference changes don't happen in a culture simply based on linear time.

7points

Heather Stewart 3 years ago

SOAD TOXICITY IS MUCH BETTER TOO. 🙂🙂

4points

Rissie 3 years ago

This Twitter account is full of not so interesting not so facts.

3points

Israel Martinez 3 years ago

Richard Cheese' "Tuxicity" came out a year after and a year before "Toxic" ...

2points

CultOfBambi 3 years ago

While I like Britney, and Toxic is a good, very catchy song, I f*****k i n g LOVE System of a Down (their music as well as activism).

1point

Arctic Fox Lover 3 years ago

You beat me to it

1point

Caroline Driver 3 years ago

Never heard of them, but even I have heard of Britney Spears

0points

InfectedVoice 3 years ago

And what a great album it is, I'm going to see a SOAD tribute band next month, should be fun.

0points

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JLN 3 years ago

Ah, the 'traditional ballad' of 21st century human singer Britney Spears, and the last remaining song in the year 5 billion (Whovians will get it)

4points

Rachel W B 3 years ago

Love SOAD

3points

Riley Quinn 3 years ago

Somewhere between the sacred silence and sleep disorder, disorder, disorder. Not hating on Britney, but pop isn't something I listen to.

1point

fenixrising1972 3 years ago

I was using "toxic" that way literally before Britney Spears was born.

1point

September 3 years ago

Covid 19s favorite hits are, Down With The Sickness, and Bodies ~ by Drowning Pool

1point

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

Well now isn't that a real giggle! That girl is a metaphor!

0points

Rachel W B 3 years ago

Let's be honest, people who were into SOAD were not Britney fans. But I have to say as 'pop' culture, she did it,and hope she is now enjoying her hard work

0points

Downunderdude 3 years ago

At the risk of sounding like a pompous s**t, I confidently assert that nothing Britney Spears has done (or is ever likely to do) has (or will have) any influence whatsoever on me, so I must, with respect, dispute your 'fact'.

-2points

Veri Rockt 3 years ago

And yet, you are commenting here

1point

#41

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Final score:

96points

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Robert T 3 years ago

Sleek sporty and non-existent?

112points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

My car has become a hoopty, and so have I.

2points

Bora Zrinyi 3 years ago

I never thought fat old rich men look like their Porshe.

18points

Cassie Sondrup 3 years ago

Umm more like it's what they think they look like.😁

1point

Ozacoter 3 years ago

Grey chubby and old? It checks

16points

tuzdayschild 3 years ago

Hmm...my car is black and has a big trunk

13points

Bob Belcher 3 years ago (edited)

My Ford fusion is blue exterior and black cloth. No s**t, I am wearing a blue shirt and black pants. Guess it's true.

7points

Troux 3 years ago

Only when I flash my headlights.

12points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

Those were the good old days. My headlights are now the low lamps on Mud Boggers.

4points

Karin Jansen 3 years ago

Small and black? (signed, a huge blond woman)

11points

Damien Wolf 3 years ago

I do have an exhaust problem

7points

Izzy_ 3 years ago

Yep, been having a hard time trying to keep my car clean. Lines up with my current chaotic life :-/

7points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

Clean? I didn't know that was required. My passenger side window is stuck halfway down. My friend asked if I was worried about things getting stolen. I told her I would never know.

3points

third molar 3 years ago

And like rental cars during vacations

5points

Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

What if you have two dogs that look nothing like one another?

5points

Cat Crazy Lady 3 years ago

Maybe you get a few attributes from both. ;D

0points

#42

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Final score:

95points

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Kirsten Kerkhof 3 years ago

These days you don't even get 12 a fortnight!

36points

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

Would you want to deliver to London? Then there's the idiotic government intervention that said royal mail have to deliver for other companies because otherwise it's "anti-competitive"!!

3points

Jonny Keeton 3 years ago

Oh no. I really hate that I saw fortnight as fortnite are first. Crap man.

0points

KatHat 3 years ago

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Scagsy 3 years ago (edited)

Royal Mail avoid our road like the plague and there's no guarantee that anything you send will reach it's intended destination. They were losing that many of my ebay parcels at one point that I used to tell people that if you ever committed a murder you should post the murder weapon off by Royal Mail second class. That is the only way to be certain that it will never be seen again.

7points

Caroline Driver 3 years ago

I remember reading a Sherlock Holmes story and it mentioned the 11 o'clock post, like there were others in the day. Didn't realise it was 12!

1point

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

I remember when Christmas card cost 2 cents to send and at Christmas the Postmen delivered on Saturdays. And the mail came to your house and you didn't have to dress for the weather to get you mail!

1point

Paul Davis 3 years ago

They're up to like 15 a day now right?

1point

Amanda Hunter 3 years ago

So checking one's mail isn't a new thing then.

0points

InfectedVoice 3 years ago

Holy s**t, my wife has more than that every morning these days.

0points

Nazda Pokmov 3 years ago

Too bad we're down to one a day now.....

0points

Rikke Visby Wickberg 3 years ago

We get post twice a week!

0points

Viola Fö 3 years ago

That's about how many you have in AMURICA right now, right

-1point

s. vitkovitsky 3 years ago

super relevant comment

1point

#43

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Final score:

94points

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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

I'd really, really like to see cops try to enforce this...lol.

100points

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

They can fck off

10points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

They would have to arrest each other. Headline, " Cop Shortage in Massachusetts Due to Foul Language" I call foul on this law.

2points

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

Yeah with the language they use!

0points

May 3 years ago

Wait - what happens when the Red Socks lose? Does all of Boston get arrested?

22points

Henry Russell 3 years ago

yep

8points

Kelli Girouard 3 years ago

Have you met someone from Massachusetts? They come out of the womb swearing.

13points

Auntriarch 3 years ago

Mess of two shits?

5points

Mazer 3 years ago

Obsolete laws exist in every state, it’s very expensive to remove them so they stay but are rarely, if ever enforced

7points

Niffler_13 3 years ago (edited)

You're also required to bath every day in Massachusetts, but it's illegal to bath on Sundays.

5points

Maryanna Baldridge 3 years ago

Yeah, and how's that going?

3points

Tom Susala 3 years ago

Tell that to the a**holes in Boston...

2points

boredkoala 3 years ago

*Massholes :D

3points

Roger Haywood 3 years ago

Well, f**k me!

1point

backatya 3 years ago

No one stopped me and who knows how many times I did

0points

Riley Quinn 3 years ago

But still acceptable to scream racial epithets, esp. at high school events.

0points

#44

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Final score:

87points

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Robert T 3 years ago

This is why Boris plays them in the garden.

71points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

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3points

Susan Widomski 3 years ago

Made me laugh.

3points

King Kashue 3 years ago

And in Westminster...

2points

Phill Healey 3 years ago

In parliament

2points

Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago

Amusing and on point! Very nice!

2points

Hannah Edwards 3 years ago

Define annoying

4points

Sofia Gonzalez 3 years ago

But how does a game, by law, count as annoying?

3points

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

If it's the met police, they will decide what's annoying, and apparently it's women being not kidnapped

2points

Bettie-Jean Neal 3 years ago

Car... Game ON!

2points

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

Mugging is that considered an annoying game! I find gunshots annoying also!

1point

Riley Quinn 3 years ago

What's the definition of annoying in this instance?

0points

Bobby 3 years ago

That's why police avoid to catch the thieves and robbers in Streets here in South Asia.

0points

Sidra Badar 3 years ago

What's the definition of 'annoying' here?

0points

Ladedah 3 years ago

If annoying was illegal, I'd have been locked up a long time ago 🤪

0points

#45

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Final score:

79points

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May 3 years ago

So much of that is during December - so many traditions involving candles!

32points

Allan Hviid 3 years ago

As a Dane, i can confirm, that we burn a LOT of candles 🕯🕯

6points

Catherine M. Pearson 3 years ago

For hygge

5points

howdylee 3 years ago

and i haven't burned a single candle in nearly 12 years!

2points

Susan Widomski 3 years ago

And I thought it was due to the crowds when there is a sale at the candle store.

2points

InfectedVoice 3 years ago

I like a good candle.

1point

Alma Muminovic 3 years ago

I love burning candles nightly just for the mood. 😏

1point

albernistuff 4sale 3 years ago

Does this correlate to ER 'extraction' visits?

1point

Arctic Fox Lover 3 years ago

Well, y'know, I like candles

1point

BasedWang 3 years ago

my nose would want a vacation

1point

#46

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Final score:

75points

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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago

"Only"? Human beings have been around for 150,000 years and 1/15 of the total are alive now.

72points

Karin Jansen 3 years ago

First thought: "This can't be right! That should be like 1 in a 1.000." Second thought: "Oh right, we're overpopulated." Damn this is shocking. We should stop having so many babies.

12points

Tom Hardeveld 3 years ago

makes sense, only one of the 15 people I see in my mirror are alive now

8points

Emerald Ocean 3 years ago

This confuses me

8points

Deutschland Mädchen 3 years ago

Yeah same here

1point

13 3 years ago

Noooo we're not overcrowded at ALL.

4points

Nitro Codes 3 years ago

oh no not in the SLIGHTEST.

1point

Sam F 3 years ago

If this is true, then only ~105 billion people have ever lived...

4points

Sarah Fitzpatrick 3 years ago

120 billion is what I calculated.

1point

Tom Susala 3 years ago

That explains the gaps on the stage at the last Earth Wind and Fire concert....

3points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

Hysterical. I just bought my sister their greatest hits. She just realized that she likes them after all. She is 69.

0points

oktopus 3 years ago

I have 14 bodies in my cellar, so this must be true.

3points

HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago

A newer version of Arsenic and Old Lace.

1point

Kelli Sykes 3 years ago

Only? That’s much higher than I would’ve guessed.

2points

Glirpy 3 years ago

And one out of 2 of those is a sh!tty person.

2points

Fliphpo 3 years ago

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1point

#47

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Final score:

69points

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Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

You had me at ale

29points

Nitro Codes 3 years ago

You had me at "the"!

0points

Candia Lee 3 years ago

Unlike most other adjectives that end in -al, or do the others all mean "ale"? Someone's pulling ur leg.

6points

Jill 3 years ago

Well marriage was originally done by a guy kidnapping his intended and hiding away with her until her relatives gave up or she got pregnant. This "honeymoon" was later changed to more of a ritual which involved drinking honey mead instead. https://www.brides.com/story/the-gloomy-history-behind-honeymoon

5points

Rench 3 years ago

Old English brӯdealu, literally: "bride ale", that is, wedding feast

3points

Kira Okah 3 years ago

From "brȳd-ealu" - wedding feast. Brȳd - bride. Ealu - ale-drinking. Close enough but it needed some fixing.

3points

Ace Girl 3 years ago

I thought it came from the Celtic goddess Brigid.

1point

Riley Quinn 3 years ago

Where does bridezilla come from?

0points

Brian Bennett 3 years ago

Just ale me baby!

0points

Oopsydaisy 3 years ago

I don't think so

0points

#48

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Final score:

67points

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Tom Susala 3 years ago

Tell that to the residents of Flint

6points

Arctic Fox Lover 3 years ago

It is? As a Michigander, I have never heard of this

6points

Silas Rose 3 years ago

same

6points

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

But dag nammit is fine, right?

6points

Dinah Brand 3 years ago

Unless you're at a Lion's game!

4points

Silas Rose 3 years ago

so true

2points

Auntriarch 3 years ago

By Jupiter!

4points

Roger Haywood 3 years ago

Which one?

3points

Roger Haywood 3 years ago

There are 1000's of them. Yet every religion claims thier god is the one and only. Bullshit.

1point

Piet Puk 3 years ago

God damn!

2points

Henry Russell 3 years ago

run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2points

Ladedah 3 years ago

... this seems like a great time to insert a link to the awesome words of george carlin 😁... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GoYyiNRtMEE

1point

Roger Haywood 3 years ago

Joe bless you.

1point

Bobby 3 years ago

From MI here. I always thought it was an FCC thing that "damn" could be said on tv/radio, but "god damn" got censored. Maybe its just the state though

1point

Andrei Marentette 3 years ago

you know what? I'm gonna purposefully try this

1point

#49

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Final score:

66points

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Traveler Mind 3 years ago

I'm balinese this is BS!

61points

Tom Hardeveld 3 years ago

no, this is Patrick!

20points

Evil Little Thing 3 years ago

So yall aren't actually a bunch of fainting goats?

8points

Marcellus II 3 years ago

Ethnography disagrees with you though. E.g. Cambridge University Press' handbook "adolescent sleep patterns" quotes the sources (pg 100, see google books). It's reports from the 1940s mostly. Also, start reading https://www.jstor.org/stable/23818710

0points

Bora Zrinyi 3 years ago

In Hungary the culturally conditioned response to intense fear and stress is drinking alcohol.

7points

Upstaged75 3 years ago

I think that's a global phenomenon! :)

2points

Otter 3 years ago

Are the people there all dads? Because a dad's response to any stimuli seems to be to fall asleep on the couch...

7points

Sinkvenice 3 years ago

As a sufferer of extreme insomnia (the longest I've gone without any sleep whatsoever was six days and I did NOT feel good at all), this sounds amazing. Show me pictures of ventriloquist dummies and I immediately fall into a deep sleep?? Sign me up Bali!

3points

Demi Zwaan 3 years ago

Hm. Maybe I'm part Balinese then. My stress response is yawning followed by a nap. And after a stressful day I fall asleep on the couch before dinnertime and won't wake up for at least 14 hours.

2points

KMill 3 years ago

Like … a opossum?

2points

Bobby 3 years ago

This sounds similar to cataplexy

1point

Antony Aston 3 years ago

I fall asleep when really stressed

1point

Auntriarch 3 years ago (edited)

Not the only one. My brother used to fall asleep when his ex-wife was yelling at him. It didn't calm her down at all

6points

Riley Quinn 3 years ago

Is this really a good idea? I mean aren't we programmed to respond to fear more pragmatically than sleeping?

0points

Onion rings like to make your breath smelly 3 years ago

how do i sleep if i have so much on my mind... damn these Balinese people are strong

0points

#50

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Final score:

63points

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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

"Calculated." LOL

13points

UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago (edited)

Close. Lightfoot also calculated that world was created on the fall equinox, but in the 3929BCE. Irish Archbishop John Ussher calculated the year 4004BCE, and that became the most commonly used year among Biblical literalists. There was a gap between being able to add up the ages of men in the Old Testament and verifiable historical events in the New Testament. Over decades he obtained an extremely large library for the time, purchased from around the whole of Europe and the Middle East, and finally found a document that spanned the gap. For the time, it was pretty amazing research. I highly recommend Martin Gorst's excellent book, Measuring Eternity, about the search for the age of the Earth and ultimately the universe itself. It’s amazing to watch the science grow little by little, and occasionally in leaps and bounds.

12points

Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

That's ridiculous - it was 9:12

9points

BusLady 3 years ago

A fellow sarcasm-aholic. First bump!

3points

Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago

So thats where the christians get the whole 6000 years old thing.

8points

Kotfw 3 years ago

Yeah, that and gullible stupidity.

6points

Raven Sheridan 3 years ago

What time zone though?

7points

Maryanna Baldridge 3 years ago

Can I just make up random stuff an claim it's true, too?

7points

Huddo's sister 3 years ago

Depends, are you an antivaxxer?

2points

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François Carré 3 years ago

378 years and a lot of scientific discoveries later, some people still firmly believe such calculation was good math for estimating our planet's age. But not as many people as those who think Earth was created 2022 years ago.

6points

I'mNotARoboat 3 years ago (edited)

"...those who think Earth was created 2022 years ago." is an even weirder idea to me than the other (bs) idea of Earth only being 6000 years old.

4points

ZAPanda 3 years ago

I'm guessing that this genius just added up the ages of various biblical patriarchs (as if it was some kind of factual history book), and was like "Tadah!"

3points

Nimitz 3 years ago

"Calculated" is too elegant a word for something so stupid

3points