What didn't you know until recently?

[[Martin]]

That there was a German famous five film.

[Olly.]

That apparently NHS nurses have to pay to park in hospital car parks now. Since when? I know they may not be the only people that have to pay to park at their place of employment, but still, it doesn't seem right to me, surely they're already underpaid and undervalued as it is

[iTz0kt0Bu]

That in general apparently introverts and extroverts have different ways of communicating and perceive certain actions, communication wise, differently.

[Olly.]

^^ Oh god, that's even worse

[YellowButterfly78]

If you freeze a bottle of water and then put it in front of a fan then it blows ice cold air round the room

[Caribou]

Originally Posted by YellowButterfly78

If you freeze a bottle of water and then put it in front of a fan then it blows ice cold air round the room

Need something to catch the condensation under it though

[Rocket Spud]

^^ That's quite a good idea. How long before it becomes ineffective?

The temperatures dropped a fair bit here, tonight. Would of been useful the previous few nights.

[Rocket Spud]

Originally Posted by Talbot

Need something to catch the condensation under it though

Is that the ocd talking?

... That's the last time, i promise.

[Jason90]

There's a sin city 2 .

[Caribou]

Originally Posted by Rocket Spud

Is that the ocd talking?

... That's the last time, i promise.

Sod off you

[Rocket Spud]

Good ol' Victor

[Caribou]

Originally Posted by Rocket Spud

I hope it's hot on your delivery rounds tomorrow

[Rocket Spud]

... I hope it's not!

.. Be getting me ripped chinos out otherwise

[Caribou]

Originally Posted by Rocket Spud

.. Be getting me ripped chinos out otherwise

[slrrrrp]

That there's an odd musical instrument called the Baryton

[Azalea]

There is a real place called Denton, I thought it was just a fictional place in Frost.

[Olly.]

That the word 'spade' (as in a tool we Brits use to dig with) is actually an extremely offensive and derogatory term for an African-American person in the US, wow, incredible how the word for an innocuous object over here has such a different meaning across the Atlantic!

Reminds me of a tour guide in America who mentioned his amazement when a British person said to him they were 'just going out to smoke a fag' (i.e. just going out to smoke a cigarette in British terms), when the meaning of that sentence is so, so different in the US

[!>Y\e5l-%h-NMw>cH]

Originally Posted by Olly.

That the word 'spade' (as in a tool we Brits use to dig with) is actually an extremely offensive and derogatory term for an African-American person in the US, wow, incredible how the word for an innocuous object over here has such a different meaning across the Atlantic!

Reminds me of a tour guide in America who mentioned his amazement when a British person said to him they were 'just going out to smoke a fag' (i.e. just going out to smoke a cigarette in British terms), when the meaning of that sentence is so, so different in the US

[Olly.]

That Edinburgh is further west than Bristol.

[Caribou]

That double glazing has silica crystals in the aluminium spacer bar between the two panes of glass. That's why the spacer is perforated.

[buttonlane]

That not only can Plants read your mind but they can recognise you individually when you enter a room......Oh yes they can ***9829;science***9829; .

[Jason90]

On any given day there's a 1 in 20 chance of a woman getting pregnant if you use no contraception.

[Jason90]

^ interesting ill have a look, cheers.

[Progress]

Dogs can smell illnesses (very reliably) in people, including cancer and diabetes.

[Rocket Spud]

I didn't know that 'jobbie' can mean "a lump of excrement."

[thaigreen]

Originally Posted by Rocket Spud

I didn't know that 'jobbie' can mean "a lump of excrement."

How on earth did you find that out

[ghost.of.an.englishman]

the Thames used to ice over, before the embankment was constructed, and that Londoners even held ice fairs on it. Apparently the embankment made the river flow faster, making it less likely to freeze over.

interesting eh. Well, I thought so.

[Rocket Spud]

Originally Posted by thaigreen

How on earth did you find that out

Because i was going to use it in this sort of context: "I just got the hang of these computer jobbies".. it's primary use. It's quite useful when you can't find the right word.

Anyway, i was typing it out, because it sounded right, but i thought i'd google it as i was unsure.

[Appear]

^^ That's super interesting. I was aware the Thames used to freeze over and that frost fairs were held, but had no idea about embankment being responsible for it no longer freezing over as it once did.

Slightly related: earlier on in the week I discovered that that hot water freezes faster than cold water does. Really. It's known as the Mpemba effect, and has been observed and recorded as early as 4th century B.C. by Aristotle (so it was probably known about before then). Something to do with the bonds between those little oxygen and hydrogen atoms, it's thought.

[Caribou]

Originally Posted by ghost.of.an.englishman

the Thames used to ice over, before the embankment was constructed, and that Londoners even held ice fairs on it. Apparently the embankment made the river flow faster, making it less likely to freeze over.

interesting eh. Well, I thought so.

I saw that on TV too