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Post by questa on May 30, 2021 12:35:36 GMT
Reflectors are on the posts beside the road. You love contradicting people, don't you? Why not find your own story and post that instead of putting down other posters' efforts.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 30, 2021 12:40:32 GMT
WTF?
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Post by Kimby on May 30, 2021 17:37:08 GMT
I learned something new about Warfarin, the blood thinner developed at the University of Wisconsin by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation or WARF. Mr. Kimby’s doctors want him on blood thinners because of a heart arrhythmia he’s developed, to keep the blood that pools in his heart when he misses a beat from forming a clot that could cause a stroke. He was researching the drug online and found that its origin story is about as good as the discovery of penicillin. Wisconsin is (or was) America’s Dairyland, and in the 1920’s dairy farmers found that their cows were bleeding to death after minor surgeries. WARF researchers traced the cause to hay that had been stored in silos. Clover in the hay had decomposed or fermented, producing the compound that researchers called Warfarin. Its first use was as rat poison - rats and mice eat warfarin-laced bait, and start bleeding internally, which makes them thirsty so they leave your house or barn to get a drink and die outside. No muss no fuss. (Unless you’re a predator that eats too many warfarin-flavored mice.) Fast forward to someone making the connection to its use as a blood thinner in humans. Warfarin is also called Coumadin. 5 accidental drug discoveries, including Warfarin. geteddie.co.uk/blog/five-medicines-discovered-by-accident/Don’t be put off by the sponsor being a subscription service for Viagra. No purchase necessary.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 30, 2021 17:56:41 GMT
I just discovered, while watching a video about trains on the Isle of Wight, that the inner curved part of a 45 degree support is called a spandrel. More complete definitions here. Some particularly beautiful ones, from this report ~
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 8, 2021 20:47:31 GMT
The thing I learned today was not to use my finger to test whether or not a hot plate was working.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 29, 2021 14:21:39 GMT
A teaspoon of material from a neutron star weighs 4 bilion tons! Apart from it being a very strong spoon how do they know that?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 29, 2021 14:24:03 GMT
I never know that a teaspoon was a scientific instrument!
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Post by whatagain on Jun 30, 2021 17:24:19 GMT
The thing I learned today was not to use my finger to test whether or not a hot plate was working. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 😘
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Post by whatagain on Jun 30, 2021 17:25:12 GMT
A teaspoon of material from a neutron star weighs 4 bilion tons! Apart from it being a very strong spoon how do they know that? At least we know the scientist is British.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 4, 2021 4:35:50 GMT
Something I just this minute learned ~ Alfonso [XIII of Spain] became gravely ill during the 1918 flu pandemic. Spain was neutral and thus under no wartime censorship restrictions, so his illness and subsequent recovery were reported to the world, while flu outbreaks in the belligerent countries were concealed. This gave the misleading impression that Spain was the most-affected area and led to the pandemic being dubbed "the Spanish Flu". source
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 5, 2021 20:48:40 GMT
In America 150 people killed in 400 gun incidents over 4th July weekend.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 5, 2021 21:24:20 GMT
They love their fireworks fire arms.
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Post by questa on Jul 5, 2021 23:46:14 GMT
Looking at their track record it seems a nation is self-immolating. If Darwin's theory is at work in these statistics, I wonder what sort of creature will shamble out of the pile of spent cartridges sometime in the future.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 6, 2021 8:25:20 GMT
Northern Italy is rice and polenta, not pasta. Also butter and not olive oil.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 6, 2021 9:33:48 GMT
That's like when I learned that the first pizzeria opened in Paris in 1950 but in Milan not until 1960.
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Post by fumobici on Jul 7, 2021 14:23:31 GMT
Northern Italy is rice and polenta, not pasta. Also butter and not olive oil. Trust me, they eat plenty of pasta and olive oil in Northern Italy.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 7, 2021 14:37:32 GMT
fumobici, thanks for the correction! Pasta is eaten even in Venice and Trieste, and of course wealthy Northern Italian regions are the home of rich egg pasta, after all, those are eaten in Germanic countries and regions as well.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 7, 2021 15:17:56 GMT
Mick is correct in terms of the dominating food items. He never said that pasta was not eaten in the north, just that it is not the principal item eaten. Italian cuisine is as diverse as French, American or Chinese cuisine, just to name a few. I would even dare to say that it is probably not forbidden to eat risotto in southern Italy. Italian Regional Food: The North
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 7, 2021 15:22:31 GMT
Indeed. I was about to say that it was a generalisation and not suggesting there was a line drawn across Italy above which nobody ate pasta.
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Post by questa on Jul 8, 2021 13:11:46 GMT
Pasta, in the form of noodles, arrived in Italy from the ancient Silk Road. The port of Genoa was the main entry and the food that sustained the builders of the Great Wall and palaces soon became universal. In return the good folk of Europe taught the travellers about pickled vegetables and sauerkraut which helped reduce Vit. C deficiencies.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 8, 2021 13:52:48 GMT
I saw on Instagram that the astronauts are obliged to masturbate to provide sperm samples. @thom_astro (commander of the mission) didn't say the actual word, but it was pretty clear.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 20, 2021 16:58:59 GMT
I was surprised to learn that the otherwise very waste-conscious and environmentally aware Icelanders do not take home their restaurant leftovers, either in a “doggy bag” or in a box like we USAnians typically do.
At the farewell dinner in Reykjavik we were served two large hunks of lamb ribeye on each plate, and our guide was trying unsuccessfully to give her untouched leftover piece away. I suggested that since she was going home that night she take the leftovers with her. Her reply was an astonished “you can do that?”, and when she asked the waiter if he could package up her leftovers, he seemed surprised too. But he found something to wrap it in and brought her a paper bag to take with her.
How could they waste good food on a small island where prices are high and so much has to be imported?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 20, 2021 17:19:19 GMT
In the early days of doggy bags in France, about 25 years ago, they were surprised and unequipped as well, but they would usually wrap things in aluminium foil. Now they have all sorts of special containers, but asking for doggy bags is still not a reflex in France perhaps because portions are smaller and there is not nearly enough stuff left over to make it worthwhile.
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Post by mich64 on Jul 20, 2021 22:17:19 GMT
I suggested that since she was going home that night she take the leftovers with her You may have started a new trend for Iceland! (A very good trend)
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Post by Kimby on Jul 20, 2021 22:55:10 GMT
On the tour bus in Iceland I learned how to use Air Drop to share photos between IPhones.
With 19 tour members jostling to get shots of puffins, reindeer, seals and whales, those who got the best images shared with the rest of us. Also, we shared people pictures with the folks who were in them.
And on the plane on the way home, since my sister and I were separated by two rows, we figured out how to use Air Drop to share a running conversation in Notes.
Amazing devices, iPhones are!
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Post by questa on Jul 20, 2021 23:30:14 GMT
I was taken out for dinner at a good Indian restaurant last week. Birthday treat from my family...6 of us. As we got to the end of the meal the waiter appeared with a handful of plastic take-away boxes and placed them on the table. "Would you like these?" he asked. I commented that his timing was spot on and my son, who eats there often, said that they watch the guests and when they start talking and slow down eating the boxes are offered. That way the guests don't feel they have to stuff themselves and there is enough left-overs for a decent meal
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 2, 2021 20:41:59 GMT
Questa Casa in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, is the oldest working brothel in the world.
Says everything really...
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Post by questa on Aug 3, 2021 0:50:08 GMT
Kalgoorlie is a place of legend...Only legal, income taxed brothels open 24/7 and only place where one can play "2-up" legally. It is a centre of gold mining with major mines still working. There are some good yarns that come out of the town, especially in the 'rowdy days'. Once a 'girl' wouldn't attend to the local cop so he closed down her business. During the night an earthmover ran amok and took out the copper's house while he was out on a call many miles from town.
Another tale has the Madam doing her tax returns with her accountant. They have listed many claims but need more until she comes up with "Wear and tear of essential equipment". The claim is accepted.
While I do not have shares in Questa Casa, a great-great aunt was madam of a stylish brothel near the Queensland Goldfields. One of my cousins has that as her name now.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 12, 2021 21:28:03 GMT
Huckle, that link only takes me to the background of my own gmail account.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 22, 2021 6:36:15 GMT
The Thames River of Connecticut is pronounced the way it is spelled. (I learned this on CNN Hurricane Henri coverage.)
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