10 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Week

[kilted exile]

Is methane natural gas? As in a fuel? cant people bottle it?

Yep, Methane is natural gas (along with Propane). The main problem is how to bottle it, I aint tried but I would imagine the cow would be upset if you tried to shove a collection tube up it On a serious note a more viable way to collect methane would be from landfill sites (at the majority it is flared) the problem is you have the issue of seperating out the methane from other gases (such as H2S etc)

Hey that's about two bottles of wine, or about 30-40 dollars. Which, depending on the quality of the hooker, is about what it costs these days too. Some things never change.

I dont think I wanna know how you know that.

[Scheherazade]

I dont think I wanna know how you know that.

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[Scheherazade]

1. John Prescott's now defunct Office of the Deputy Prime Minister spent £5,095 over the past four years on branded pens, carrier bags and note pads for exhibitions and events.

2. Spending on Halloween has risen ten-fold - from £12m to £120m in the UK, in five years.

3. Elephants can recognise their own reflection, something only before seen in humans, great apes and bottlenose dolphins.

4. Ten-pence is the going rate for clearing up a piece of chewing gum.

5. Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.

6. Twenty percent of the world's CCTV cameras are in the UK.

7. Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection.

8. Eighty-seven public servants earn more than Tony Blair's £183,932 salary.

9. The UK population grew at a rate of 500 per day last year as immigration out-stripped emigration.

10. During World War II, MI5 invited Daily Telegraph crossword winners to work as code-breakers at Bletchley Park.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a006089

[Virgil]

I dont think I wanna know how you know that.

Not from personal experience.

[Virgil]

2. Spending on Halloween has risen ten-fold - from £12m to £120m in the UK, in five years.

Probably similar in US too. I find this silly and an event meant for children taken over by adults. Another sign that adults refuse to grow up.

[Scheherazade]

1. An infestation of head lice is called pediculosis.

2. The Pope's been known to wear red Prada shoes.

3. Sea urchins see with their feet.

4. The fastest supercomputer in the UK can make 15.4 trillion calculations per second.

5. Airships use as much fuel in a week as a 767 uses to get from its gate to the runway. But are, obviously, much slower.

6. Four million people in the UK have phobias about toilets, says the National Phobics Society.

7. Online shoppers will only wait an average of four seconds for an internet page to load before giving up.

8. Salt makes bitter food taste sweeter.

9. Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defence secretary in US history.

10. White poppies are also sold to mark Remembrance day - the first produced in 1933 as a symbol for peace.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...last_w_6.shtml

[Nightshade]

10. White poppies are also sold to mark Remembrance day - the first produced in 1933 as a symbol for peace.

I know that one but can you find one for love or money....NO!

[kilted exile]

A rant....promise I'll keep it short.

This white poppy nonsense annoys the hell out of me. I wear a red poppy. The poppies growing in Flanders field were red. The money from buying my red poppy goes to the veterans, unlike the money from buying a white poppy.

Wearing a red poppy does not mean I support the reasons for the wars, it means I am deeply grateful to the people who sacrificed their lives.

[Nightshade]

hey I buy at least 2 red poppies and I would still buy them if I got a white poppy. I just want to wear a white one too. Im all for the red poppies ( although someone brught somthing up that Ive never thought of before that rather shocked me when I started thinking but I also belive in what the white poppies stand for.

[Scheherazade]

1. The age of consent in Northern Ireland is 17, as opposed to 16 in the rest of the UK.

2. A digital radio uses between 12 and 20 times the energy that an analogue radio does.

3. The phrase "dead reckoning" means navigating traditionally, by charts and compass.

4. George Bush is the first president since Jimmy Carter not to subscribe to the Guardian Weekly.

5. Male African golden web orb spiders have two penises, both of which drop off during sex.

6. There are 6.5m sets of fingerprints on file in the UK.

7. About 60% of drivers stopped by police do not give their true identity.

8. Heroin addicts commit on average 432 offences a year, according to Chief Constable Howard Roberts.

9. Michael Jackson watches I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here.

10. Iceland's population is about the same as that of Doncaster.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a006854

[Virgil]

5. Male African golden web orb spiders have two penises, both of which drop off during sex.

At first, before I read the whole sentence, I thought wow, two penises, that sounds great. But then I finished the sentence and said, woe, I think I rather keep my one.

[Scheherazade]

1. The late Alan "Fluff" Freeman, famous as a DJ, had trained as an opera singer.

2. Jan Leeming married five times but took the surname of a former partner she did not wed.

3. £6.5bn is spent each year in the UK on shoes.

4. Baby Spice Emma Bunton has a karate brown belt - that's just one below a black belt.

5. A geiger counter will not pick up traces of Polonium 210 as it emits alpha radiation, not gamma.

6. A sea creature from 400 million years ago, discovered by archaeologists, had the most powerful bite of any fish in history.

7. For red wine drinkers, grapes grown in Sardinia and the French Pyrenees are associated with longevity.

8. The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.

9. Fridge magnets could be fatal for people with heart devices such as pacemakers, say medical researchers.

10. A healthy eating campaign by Icelandic children's TV star Sportacus - whose TV show lazy Town is broadcast worldwide - was responsible for a 22% increase in the sale of vegetables in his home country.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a007134

[Nightshade]

Computer viruses attack your anti virus first

[certiorari]

1. Luddites are people who are oppossed to technology because of the loss of jobs. I don't see how people could oppose technology.
2. The nicest people have the worst tempers.
3. Don't trust your memory. Write down things you have to do.
4. It is best to apply to college in the summer because then you will get accepted earlier.
5. I'm very random. I wrote down my thoughts throughout two class periods and nothing I wrote collaborates with anything else.
6. Indiana Jones was Steven Spielburg’s first sequel.
7. Waiter/waitress’s in Germany say “Bitte Schön?” a lot, apparently.
8. Johnny Depp’s denist has a credit at the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.
9. I can’t hink of anymore.

[Serenata]

1. People can smile at you and secretly be wishing you dead.

2. That Onex is planning to buy Raytheon Aircraft.

3. My music director would rather cancel a concert than give a bad performance.

4. New furniture is expensive.

5. "Zanahoria" is Spanish for carrot.

6. Rabbit hair is really soft.

7. How to properly use the photocopier.

8. Feelings about people you don't like are often temporary.

9. Most people have no clue what I mean when I refer to "Forensics."

10. Accounting is not a fun class to take.