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Post by emily on May 18, 2021 15:30:21 GMT
I absolutely love random details
I am tapping my feet to dance music on the radio
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Post by emily on May 18, 2021 15:34:00 GMT
I also think we should have a thread for a pub quiz. it will be fun!
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Post by egg on May 19, 2021 13:17:43 GMT
I absolutely love random details President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute. In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator. According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favoured day for self-destruction. he Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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Post by banjo on May 19, 2021 18:36:48 GMT
Pub quizzes are not my favourite pastime Emily, I try to avoid them for much the same reason that I can't stand Trivial Pursuit. The last time I was dragged into taking part in one, it was for a Christmas charity event some five years ago, and I was delegated by our team to address any mathematical questions which suited me just fine! One of the questions was to calculate the square root of a number somewhere around the mid 900s. Let's call it 930 for the sake of argument? You can see that while I was crunching that number in my head, I couldn't possibly think about all the other questions, and it was difficult to concentrate on working it out with all the background noise. I worked it out without using the raising whole numbers to squares- paper and pencil method, and I did it to one significant figure. Another team did it to two significant figures! It was clear to me that said participant had simply done it on their "smart" 'phone (or just plain Google'd it.) That was not in the spirit of the event, but to that team it was obviously more important to win than just to participate. It just reinforced my withering opinion of pub quizzes. That said, incalculable numbers of folk seem to love it so if folk are up for it then I say "go for it". I just think that whilst referring to the great god Google is really just cheating the perp, for me (especially with an online iteration of such a quiz) it makes it all a bit worthless. Later we had to make models of dogs out of clay or something. That was more fun and I still have my little clay figurine here.
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Post by pierre on May 20, 2021 13:13:49 GMT
Like nearly every thing these days a pub quiz would be easy to cheat at as you can get lots of answers on line. With bridge clubs out of action,we are now playing on line with BBO. My Flower plays twice a week with a friend and it is very competitive--with a lot of trust. I play on a Thursday nite with 3 friends,and it is fun,but when my wife is my partner we are so keen NOT to cheat. You only need to have 2 PCs at the same address to see your partners cards
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Post by nob on May 20, 2021 13:43:06 GMT
We used to do pub quizzes but on holiday to Fuerteventura a few years ago we entered a quiz and a group of young girls won, yep the smartphones helped.
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Post by nob on May 20, 2021 16:16:51 GMT
Continuing from the sparrow hawk blackbird thread, there are some blackbirds in a small leylandii and a magpie has been watching them going in and out. Yesterday the magpie came out with a Blackbirds egg In its mouth and devoured the insides on the lawn. Those Covids are smart much cleverer than blackbirds.
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Post by banjo on May 20, 2021 16:38:25 GMT
They sure are. When I used to stay in a cabin up in t'Lakes, I bought a catapult to fire pellets at the corvids because the screeching drove me bat-shyte potty. They learned about the "threat" immediately and I couldn't open the cabin door by more than a couple of inches and they'd fly off, back again within a minute of closing the door. I guess they weren't quite smart enough to figure out that I had diddley squat chance of hitting even one of them with such a deadly weapon compared to the even chance of clipping my own thumb!
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Post by pierre on May 21, 2021 14:11:48 GMT
I have a brother-in-law who lives in the Hampshire countryside.He got an air rifle and whilst he is sitting in the garden he has "bagged"a couple of Magpies.I believe this is legit over there. Most of the best bird song comes from blackbirds,now that thrushes have all but disappeared
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Post by nob on May 22, 2021 14:53:26 GMT
Well I planted some ornamental poppy seeds in a tray and pricked them out into peat pots and put them in a tray, the blackbirds must be relining their nest because they have ransacked the tray of pots. It looks like ill have to redo the lot.
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Post by banjo on May 22, 2021 17:47:17 GMT
Every year they decimate the Coir liners for the wall and hanging baskets. Tweet tweet tweet! The sparrows are ths worst offenders but the blackbird(s) seem to have much less luck in seeing a clutch through so I forgive them. After all they do sing so sweetly.
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Post by duyuthinkysaurus on May 22, 2021 18:37:37 GMT
We put a hanger of various things as a bird feeder, since we put it out the only thing we have seen is the odd blackbird. But then we are living on a new build estate with no trees around us.
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Post by banjo on May 22, 2021 20:02:08 GMT
Blackbirds are ground feeders only aren't they? Best beloved has half a dozen or more hanging feeders, but the blackbirds never frequent them, preferring the ground trays she puts out specifically for them. No sign of any Rolands as yet ...
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Post by nob on May 23, 2021 6:27:34 GMT
We had a rat a couple of years ago eating the nuts and things we put out for the birds. Then it came with a friend so that did it, they were living under the guy at the backs shed, he has it on the ground and rats love that, they came into my garden through a tunnel they had dug. Council came and put poison bait down If I recall it cost £60. That didn't work so called them back they wanted another £60, so I told them no. Wilko rat poison at £4 a box did the trick. Caught one staggering round the fish pond dispatched with a spade and not seen any since.
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Post by banjo on May 23, 2021 7:33:50 GMT
You could have called upon our erstwhile absent correspondent with the brace of Air Arms TX200 pellet guns nob.
I think I may have mentioned before that I inherited my Dad's pop guns because the other two cuckoo offspring that took the lot didn't want them. I put a fake red dot device on the Crosman .177 which makes it difficult to load and obscures the barrel sights, and I haven't zero'd it yet because SWMBO doesn't approve of guns and doesn't know that I have them. Oh what a tangled web we weave (etc). At the end of the day I don't want to kill anything really, although a rat is still a rat eh?
Ooh- I wonder if "guns" has just flagged up at GCHQ ...
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