Author Topic: Amazing facts (Read 48447 times)

nidgemo · « **Reply #720 on:** October 27, 2004, 05:21:16 pm »

Quote from: Roddizul on October 27, 2004, 04:52:23 pm

got me too the c*nt

yet another advantage of using Macs...

I DID do it... but it didn't work

on a Mac, it's apple + w

BSBW · « **Reply #721 on:** October 29, 2004, 10:59:54 pm »

• A TYPICAL DOUBLE-BED MATTRESS CONTAINS AS MANY AS 2 MILLION HOUSE DUST MITES (DEMODEX FOLLICULOROM

Drobs · « **Reply #722 on:** October 30, 2004, 12:43:49 am »

Quote from: BSBW on October 29, 2004, 10:59:54 pm

• A TYPICAL DOUBLE-BED MATTRESS CONTAINS AS MANY AS 2 MILLION HOUSE DUST MITES (DEMODEX FOLLICULOROM

We actually have minute mites living on our skin every moment of everyday too dont we? I'm sure i read that, particularly on the forehead.

All you spamhead's.....stay a-fookin'-way.

Roddysul · « **Reply #723 on:** October 30, 2004, 01:53:14 am »

80% of the weight of a pillow that is 3 years old will consist of house dust mite faeces

Walshy nMe® · « **Reply #724 on:** October 30, 2004, 12:14:14 pm »

Quote from: Roddizul on October 30, 2004, 01:53:14 am

80% of the weight of a pillow that is 3 years old will consist of house dust mite faeces

Nice.

Redders · « **Reply #725 on:** October 30, 2004, 12:25:19 pm »

Quote from: Roddizul on October 30, 2004, 01:53:14 am

80% of the weight of a pillow that is 3 years old will consist of house dust mite faeces

Good job mines new.

Graeme · « **Reply #726 on:** November 16, 2004, 01:56:47 am »

Type 'laddo' into Google and within 5 pages of search results our beloved thread can be found

Sez_20 · « **Reply #727 on:** November 16, 2004, 02:05:02 am »

Quote from: Graeme on November 16, 2004, 01:56:47 am

Type 'laddo' into Google and within 5 pages of search results our beloved thread can be found

Seen as we're on the google thing.. type "french military victories" into google and then click "I'm feeling lucky" .....

Sorry if u heard this/been posted before, couldn't be bothered to read through 25 pages!

Graeme · « **Reply #728 on:** November 16, 2004, 02:06:47 am »

Quote from: Sez_20 on November 16, 2004, 02:05:02 am

Seen as we're on the google thing.. type "french military victories" into google and then click "I'm feeling lucky" .....

Sorry if u heard this/been posted before, couldn't be bothered to read through 25 pages!

Hadn't seen that one before - class

sydney_gal · « **Reply #729 on:** November 16, 2004, 02:13:15 am »

funny as

Sez_20 · « **Reply #730 on:** November 16, 2004, 02:13:36 am »

hehe!! a personal favourite, sorry frenchies!!

sydney_gal · « **Reply #731 on:** November 16, 2004, 02:25:08 am »

got a txt off my ex last night, who's french, (and just come back from o/s) and im soo tempted to text him telling him to do the same!

Roger · « **Reply #732 on:** November 29, 2004, 04:48:01 pm »

Every person has a unique 'tongue' print.

BSBW · « **Reply #733 on:** November 29, 2004, 04:50:44 pm »

Quote from: sydney_gal on November 16, 2004, 02:25:08 am

got a txt off my ex last night, who's french, (and just come back from o/s) and im soo tempted to text him telling him to do the same!

Ask him where my fucking jacket, wallet, glasses and match ticket are!

Didnt you also say you were recently robbed, call me arl Mr Suspicious

Millsee · « **Reply #734 on:** November 29, 2004, 08:12:37 pm »

Quote from: roger on November 29, 2004, 04:48:01 pm

Every person has a unique 'tongue' print.

Listening to the radio whilst on duty today then?

Roger · « **Reply #735 on:** November 29, 2004, 08:17:07 pm »

Quote from: Millsee on November 29, 2004, 08:12:37 pm

Listening to the radio whilst on duty today then?

[size=02pt]Sun, Mon, Tues are my days off this week[/size]

macc · « **Reply #736 on:** November 30, 2004, 03:50:05 pm »

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Barney_Rubble · « **Reply #737 on:** December 10, 2004, 08:19:59 pm »

Counting sheep can send you to sleep.

Providing the count rate is between one and four sheep per second, or 1 to 4 Hz. This is in the delta human brainwave frequency, the same as a resting heartbeat, which (at 4Hz) makes sleep imminent. But if the sheep gallop past, from 5 up to 12 Hz, the theta, alpha and mu waves are generated and sleep will not come easily at all.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

Anthony · « **Reply #738 on:** December 11, 2004, 02:13:01 am »

The Merseyside Derby is the second most often played fixture in the "Top Flight" - behind Everton v Aston Villa

Barney_Rubble · « **Reply #739 on:** December 11, 2004, 03:06:16 am »

And goldfish have I'll get me coat...

Big Ig · « **Reply #740 on:** December 27, 2004, 02:22:21 am »

Quote from: Rudolphsul on October 20, 2004, 02:43:03 pm

Oct. 5, 2000 - Scientists from University
College London issued warnings that the
flank of a volcanic island in the eastern
Atlantic is at risk of collapsing and generating
a wave up to 160 feet high that could swamp
the coastlines of the Caribbean and eastern
Florida.

Simon Day of the college's Hazard Research
Center wrote in New Scientist that a huge
chunk of La Palma, the most volcanically
active island in the Canaries, is now unstable.
"If the flank of the volcano slides into the
ocean, the mass of moving rock will push the
water in front of it, creating a tsunami wave
far larger than any seen in history," said Day.
"The wave would then spread out across the
Atlantic at the speed of a jet airliner until it
strikes coastal areas all around the North
Atlantic."

Day identified scores of volcanic vents in the
7,957-foot-high Cumbre Vieja Volcano that
comprises the southern half of the island of
La Palma. He determined that the western
flank of the mountain, a mass of
approximately 500 billion tons of rock, is
slowly detaching itself as volcanic activity
forces magma to the top of the volcano. A
major volcanic explosion could cause the flank
to detach and fall into the sea with
catastrophic effects.

Fuckin hell

$:-\$

Millsee · « **Reply #741 on:** December 27, 2004, 11:55:49 am »

Quote from: Richie Partridge in a pear G on December 27, 2004, 02:22:21 am

Fuckin hell $:-\$

This has been talked about for about 200 years.

Roddysul · « **Reply #742 on:** January 9, 2005, 09:47:45 pm »

There is a town in Newfoundland called Dildo

Sez_20 · « **Reply #743 on:** January 9, 2005, 10:27:28 pm »

Quote from: Roddysul on January 9, 2005, 09:47:45 pm

There is a town in Newfoundland called Dildo

There's also a Gaylord in Michigan!

and yes that's the name of the town!

Roddysul · « **Reply #744 on:** January 9, 2005, 10:29:18 pm »

male seaguls have red legs

Sez_20 · « **Reply #745 on:** January 9, 2005, 10:32:06 pm »

Quote from: Roddysul on January 9, 2005, 10:29:18 pm

male seaguls have red legs

but you can only see them if they're wearing shorts

Roger · « **Reply #746 on:** January 9, 2005, 10:37:33 pm »

Slugs have 4 noses

Roddysul · « **Reply #747 on:** January 9, 2005, 10:56:55 pm »

snails can sleep for 3 years

Millsee · « **Reply #748 on:** January 9, 2005, 11:05:13 pm »

Remember when your English teacher taught you that the plural of fish was still fish? It never seemed to make much sense. If you had six guppies, then you have six fish. Right?

Right.

One would then assume that swordtails, guppies, and piranhas (I wonder who will be dinner?) are all fish. Right?

Wrong!

We have all made this incorrect assumption. Actually, you now have three species of fishes.

Confused?

It works like this:

The word fish is both singular and plural. When singular, it refers to two or more specimens of the same species. The plural fishes refers to two or more specimens of different species.

B9 · « **Reply #749 on:** January 9, 2005, 11:19:36 pm »

in antarctica there's a fish that is capable of stopping all bodily functions, including the heart and hibernating when it gets caught in the ice during the winter.

when there is water around it again it will simply active its functions again from its temporal atasis and swim on.

Millsee · « **Reply #750 on:** January 12, 2005, 06:46:39 pm »

This was the first mention on RAWK of the legend that is Morientes

Quote from: Roper on February 19, 2002, 12:13:12 am

and there i sat, looking on with a big smile on my face for the full 90 mins. the game finished 1-0 to madrid, morientes, sencond half goal. and i saw macca come on, even if it was just for 2 minutes.

Roger · « **Reply #751 on:** January 12, 2005, 06:50:27 pm »

Quote from: Millsee on January 12, 2005, 06:46:39 pm

This was the first mention on RAWK of the legend that is Morientes

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php/topic,1154.msg11285/topicseen.html#msg11285

Quote from: Eddie on December 11, 2001, 01:46:17 pm

Morientes

Kez · « **Reply #752 on:** January 12, 2005, 06:56:46 pm »

Between the ages of 22 and 25 people have a habit of forgetting how old they are.

Bryndaloo · « **Reply #753 on:** January 12, 2005, 07:26:04 pm »

Quote from: Sez_20 on January 9, 2005, 10:32:06 pm

but you can only see them if they're wearing shorts

Felix · « **Reply #754 on:** January 12, 2005, 08:43:17 pm »

The two Liver Birds on top of the Liver Building were designed by German sculptor Carl Bartels. When WWI broke out, he was arrested and interned on the Isle of Man. The City of Liverpool removed all references to his achievements, and after the war ended he was forcibly expatriated to Germany even though he still had a wife in London.

DK · « **Reply #755 on:** January 12, 2005, 10:48:36 pm »

The designer of the Sydney Opera House, Danish Joern Utzon, has never seen the landmark completed. He left Australia over budget issues with the Government and has never returned.

B9 · « **Reply #756 on:** January 12, 2005, 11:41:14 pm »

I thought they talked him into coming back because basically they were clueless and couldn't finish it without him?

BSBW · « **Reply #757 on:** January 23, 2005, 09:23:25 pm »

As Mad as a Hatter!

Did you ever wonder where that phrase "mad hatter" came from?

It came from England. A long time ago, English people used to assume that if you were a hat maker you were mentally ill.

Actually, they were not too far off the mark. Hatters of the day used to use chemicals, including mercury, to make their hats.

The problem is, when we do not know the cause of a person's behavior, we naturally assume that it's something INSIDE the person. But it wasn't the hatters who were mentally ill, it was the chemicals.

They weren't mad hatters. They were environmentally damaged hatters.

Not a lot people know that

Roger · « **Reply #758 on:** January 23, 2005, 10:00:13 pm »

Quote from: BSBW on January 23, 2005, 09:23:25 pm

As Mad as a Hatter!

Did you ever wonder where that phrase "mad hatter" came from?

It came from England. A long time ago, English people used to assume that if you were a hat maker you were mentally ill.

Actually, they were not too far off the mark. Hatters of the day used to use chemicals, including mercury, to make their hats.

The problem is, when we do not know the cause of a person's behavior, we naturally assume that it's something INSIDE the person. But it wasn't the hatters who were mentally ill, it was the chemicals.

They weren't mad hatters. They were environmentally damaged hatters.

Not a lot people know that

I take my hat off to you for that gem

BSBW · « **Reply #759 on:** January 23, 2005, 10:03:54 pm »

Education as well as culture? We have it all