Weird things you never knew

poopot

The KFC Twitter account follows only 11 people…

the “spice girls” all five of them 
and six blokes called “herb”

Hattigol

poopot said:

The KFC Twitter account follows only 11 people…

the “spice girls” all five of them 
and six blokes called “herb”

To save everyone else checking this, I just have - and he's right!

poopot

And… turtles don’t live inside their shells…


they ARE their shells!!!!!

EricTheWeary

Muppets are usually left handed. 

[Puppeteers are usually right handed so the muppet goes on their right hand and then they use their left hand to hold the stick that controls the puppet hand so that becomes the muppet’s dominant hand]

viz

poopot said:

And… turtles don’t live inside their shells…


they ARE their shells!!!!!

That turtle looks really, really annoyed about something. 

sev112

Simonh said:

Tannin said:

"I walked out the door." 

"I took the broken glass panel out of the door to put a new one in."

You will hardly ever strike a situation which requires the "out of" - I had to think up something contrived just for the same of providing an example.

Adding a spurious "of" to otherwise decent sentences is a pointless and ugly Americanism.

I made a swan out of a single sheet of paper using origami

I made a swan out a single sheet of paper using origami

I made a swan out of paper using origami

I made a swan out paper using origami

I made a swan from a sheet of paper

england scored two from three penalties

”out” is the odd word out in the various examples.  Adding of to it, is a consequence of poor use of the word “out” in the first place 

rogd

sev112 said:

Simonh said:

Tannin said:

"I walked out the door." 

"I took the broken glass panel out of the door to put a new one in."

You will hardly ever strike a situation which requires the "out of" - I had to think up something contrived just for the same of providing an example.

Adding a spurious "of" to otherwise decent sentences is a pointless and ugly Americanism.

I made a swan out of a single sheet of paper using origami

I made a swan out a single sheet of paper using origami

I made a swan out of paper using origami

I made a swan out paper using origami

I made a swan from a sheet of paper

england scored two from three penalties

”out” is the odd word out in the various examples.  Adding of to it, is a consequence of poor use of the word “out” in the first place 

Gordon Bennet!!

Emp_Fab

You missed a 't'.

hollywoodrox

This thread is descending into silliness , I really wanted to know things I didn’t know, it’s very interesting 

Hattigol

If you mined all the gold in the oceans, there would be approximately 4kg for each person on earth.

rogd

Emp_Fab said:

You missed a 't'.

t

poopot

It’s impossible to hum whilst holding your nostrils closed!.

bobblehat

poopot said:

It’s impossible to hum whilst holding your nostrils closed!.

Thats nuts!

Kalimna

poopot said:

If you strap a slice of buttered toast to the back of a cat, butter side up, then drop the cat/toast combo from a height… it will drop to about an inch off the floor and then just spin continually!…

Many years ago, New Scientist magasine ran several letters on such a theme. It was then posited that the sound of spaceships humming was, in fact, multiple banks of toast/cat engines all spinning simultaneously.......

drofluf

Kalimna said:

poopot said:

If you strap a slice of buttered toast to the back of a cat, butter side up, then drop the cat/toast combo from a height… it will drop to about an inch off the floor and then just spin continually!…

Many years ago, New Scientist magasine ran several letters on such a theme. It was then posited that the sound of spaceships humming was, in fact, multiple banks of toast/cat engines all spinning simultaneously.......

Of course that would be useless in outer space because the toast/cat engines need gravity. 

I suppose the spaceships must use a different type of engine for interstellar travel. 

Hattigol

Spoonfeed is the longest English word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

Kalimna

drofluf said:

Kalimna said:

poopot said:

If you strap a slice of buttered toast to the back of a cat, butter side up, then drop the cat/toast combo from a height… it will drop to about an inch off the floor and then just spin continually!…

Many years ago, New Scientist magasine ran several letters on such a theme. It was then posited that the sound of spaceships humming was, in fact, multiple banks of toast/cat engines all spinning simultaneously.......

Of course that would be useless in outer space because the toast/cat engines need gravity. 

I suppose the spaceships must use a different type of engine for interstellar travel. 

Ahhh, but you will also have noticed that folks on spaceships manage to walk around the decks courtesy of an artificial gravity field. However, I remain uncertain what powers this field, nor what should happen (inertia perhaps?) to the spinning cat/toast array in the event of gravity field failure

Adam

the_jaffa

Hattigol said:

Spoonfeed is the longest English word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

And on a related note:

"facetious" contains all of the vowels, bit only once, and in order

EricTheWeary

the_jaffa said:

Hattigol said:

Spoonfeed is the longest English word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

And on a related note:

"facetious" contains all of the vowels, bit only once, and in order

One of my favourite facts; there are a bunch of others such as adecticous although facetious is probably the only one you might use in every day conversation. 

Very much enjoying the spoonfeed fact and looking forward to using it ( someway, somehow).

poopot

A duel between three people is called a truel.