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  • chillidoggychillidoggy Frets: 17136
     PC_Dave said:
    Four Christmas trees in the house are insufficient.
    I’m struggling with the grammar in that sentence.
    Me too, but struggling more with the surfeit of fucking trees. :s


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  • PC_DavePC_Dave Frets: 3396
     PC_Dave said:
    Four Christmas trees in the house are insufficient.
    I’m struggling with the grammar in that sentence.
    Me too, but struggling more with the surfeit of fucking trees. :s
    LOL duly awarded
    This week's procrastination forum might be moved to sometime next week.
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  • chillidoggychillidoggy Frets: 17136
    PC_Dave said:
     PC_Dave said:
    Four Christmas trees in the house are insufficient.
    I’m struggling with the grammar in that sentence.
    Me too, but struggling more with the surfeit of fucking trees. :s
    LOL duly awarded


    Wiz'd you for the pull on my grammar.


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  • MayneheadMaynehead Frets: 1782
    Sporky said:
    Badgers physically cannot wear hats, even with a bit of elastic going under their chin.
    I beg to differ...

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJfqEYlWwAAu5S7.jpg

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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 11262
    Four Christmas trees in the house are insufficient.
    Depends on your religion, bubbeleh.
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  • DopesickDopesick Frets: 1507
    There has never been a perfectly circular Hula Hoop.
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  • Trude said:
    When making porridge, if you increase the ratio of water to milk, it actually makes it stickier (not thinner as one might expect). This fact was discovered by myself this morning, and I don't even have a research budget! 
    Citizen science at its finest. Get it written up. 
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  • rawk100rawk100 Frets: 1757
    Cats can climb Christmas trees......dogs cannot (my pets had a bit of a row this morning).
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  • KebabkidKebabkid Frets: 3301
    Avocado was the Aztecs word for Testicle.
    Guacamole is the Mexican's word for 'Testicle Sauce'
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  • the so-called Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB, 3.9Ga) was actually an Early Heavy Bombardment (4.25Ga).
    may seem trivia but this is a bold (as of last year) revision of long-held geological orthodoxy.

    "it's the EARLY bombardment!' Prof Stephen Mojzsis (28m48s).


    anything documentary/discussion this guy is in is guaranteed total fascination. the geologist rocks!

    "is that a good place to live? hell yeah!... if you're a microbe" (30m20s)
    i am the hired assassin... the specialist. i introduce myself to you... i'm a sadist.
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  • ESBlondeESBlonde Frets: 3576
    'We need to make the office all Christmassy'

    Well OK, just a little I relented. So I bought in a rope light and two LED light bars to help.

    All those flashing lights give the girls headaches boss.

    There is a wrong sort of Christmassy it seems.

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  • ReverendReverend Frets: 4974
    tampaxboo said:
    if you imagine our solar system as equivalent to the size of a CD, then the milky way (the galaxy in which our solar system sits) would be equivalent to the size of the earth.

    according to most recent authorative estimates (hubble observatory 2017) there are about two trillion galaxies in the observable universe.

    https://briankoberlein.com/wp-content/uploads/ESA_Gaia_Milky_Way_Anatomy.jpg
    Just imagine the size of the shelves you would need. 
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  • ESBlondeESBlonde Frets: 3576
    tampaxboo said:
    if you imagine our solar system as equivalent to the size of a CD, then the milky way (the galaxy in which our solar system sits) would be equivalent to the size of the earth.

    according to most recent authorative estimates (hubble observatory 2017) there are about two trillion galaxies in the observable universe.

    https://briankoberlein.com/wp-content/uploads/ESA_Gaia_Milky_Way_Anatomy.jpg
    Never mind that, if the milky way is that big just think about the toblerone!
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  • breakstuffbreakstuff Frets: 10227
    ESBlonde said:
    tampaxboo said:
    if you imagine our solar system as equivalent to the size of a CD, then the milky way (the galaxy in which our solar system sits) would be equivalent to the size of the earth.

    according to most recent authorative estimates (hubble observatory 2017) there are about two trillion galaxies in the observable universe.

    https://briankoberlein.com/wp-content/uploads/ESA_Gaia_Milky_Way_Anatomy.jpg
    Never mind that, if the milky way is that big just think about the toblerone!
    Not as big as you would imagine.The Toblerone Galaxy is a bit of an anomaly, as instead of expanding,its actually getting smaller.
    Laugh, love, live, learn. 
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  • KilgoreKilgore Frets: 8599
    ESBlonde said:
    tampaxboo said:
    if you imagine our solar system as equivalent to the size of a CD, then the milky way (the galaxy in which our solar system sits) would be equivalent to the size of the earth.

    according to most recent authorative estimates (hubble observatory 2017) there are about two trillion galaxies in the observable universe.

    https://briankoberlein.com/wp-content/uploads/ESA_Gaia_Milky_Way_Anatomy.jpg
    Never mind that, if the milky way is that big just think about the toblerone!
    Not as big as you would imagine.The Toblerone Galaxy is a bit of an anomaly, as instead of expanding,its actually getting smaller.
    As is Mars. As a result of chemical and geological analysis, the Mars rovers have determined that underneath it's rocky and barren surface, the interior is composed of molten caramel and nougat. There is speculation that this may support life, possibly Scottish.
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  • VimFuegoVimFuego Frets: 15475
    /\ /\ both those deserve more LOLs.

    I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.

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  • tampaxbootampaxboo Frets: 487
    edited December 2017
    i'm so clearly slumming it in this thread. fretboard's gain is the ESA's loss and woe is me. fact!
    i am the hired assassin... the specialist. i introduce myself to you... i'm a sadist.
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  • Guitar_SlingerGuitar_Slinger Frets: 1489
    edited December 2017
    I did a radio show of Burt Bacharach songs.

    Two of the songs were 24 Hours From Tulsa and Do You Know The Way To San Jose (both written in the 1960s).  I looked both places up on Google maps to see what part of the US they're in.

    It said if you're driving, San Jose is 24 Hours from Tulsa!
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  • KebabkidKebabkid Frets: 3301
    If your car petrol gauge shows a diagram of a petrol pump, look to see if there's an arrow or even the petrol pump spout on the left or right of it. That denotes which side your petrol cap is on.
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  • KebabkidKebabkid Frets: 3301
    If your car petrol gauge shows a diagram of a petrol pump, look to see if there's an arrow or even the petrol pump spout on the left or right of it. That denotes which side your petrol cap is on.
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