Uninteresting Trivial Facts

[ckn]

1 hour ago, Futtocks said:

The BBC news website has a pidgin section.

The Scottish Parliament has a number of documents translated into Scots as a dialect of English (PDF).

[graveyard johnny]

our local pub ran out of moonshine bitter on Saturday

[Robin Evans]

A French woman just asked me if I had any salt and/or fresh parsley I could spare her. I had both. Not the expected of requests today.

Then I met a German bloke who hasn't stopped laughing all week. A German who understands satire, irony and plain sarcasm..... blasted the stereotype wide open right there.

Not stuff the world will be set alight by I know..... but both made my day?

[Moose]

I've been bowling this afternoon and lost. Tonight I'm going to a highly regarded vegetarian Indian restaurant.

[ckn]

As an avid Star Trek fan, and one particularly enamoured of Deep Space 9, I always think Ferengi Commerce Authority when I see a news report on the FCA.  Please, please, please let there be a Brunt working there...

[jacksy]

3 hours ago, ckn said:

As an avid Star Trek fan, and one particularly enamoured of Deep Space 9, I always think Ferengi Commerce Authority when I see a news report on the FCA.  Please, please, please let there be a Brunt working there...

Will you be watching Discovery this September?

[ckn]

1 minute ago, jacksy said:

Will you be watching Discovery this September?

Definitely!

[Farmduck]

Tips for living longer:

1. Don't punch bears
2. If you are already punching bears, stop it!

[timtum]

I put up what is hopefully the last string of fly paper of the summer earlier on today.

[timtum]

On 8/25/2017 at 1:00 PM, Bearman said:

As I walked into work one morning I noticed I had two odd shoes on. One black and one brown. To make matters worse one was a slip on and one a lace up.

I was on tenterhooks all day waiting for or someone to notice and rip the pee out of me. I got away with it.

 

A couple of years ago I spent most of the day at my stall at a market resplendent in my slippers.

[ckn]

1 hour ago, timtum said:

I put up what is hopefully the last string of fly paper of the summer earlier on today.

There's very little that annoys me more than a fly in the house.  I have an irrational dislike of the things and they're one of the few things I will happily kill.  Spiders get the pint-glass with a bit of paper underneath treatment, flies get swatted with the first heavy thing I can find.

[Futtocks]

27 minutes ago, ckn said:

There's very little that annoys me more than a fly in the house.  I have an irrational dislike of the things and they're one of the few things I will happily kill.  Spiders get the pint-glass with a bit of paper underneath treatment, flies get swatted with the first heavy thing I can find.

Bluebottles are very evasive and hard to swat. Any other fly or a mosquito gets The Executioner.

Bees come in sometimes, buzz around for a few seconds, then exit the way they came. Wasps aren't as bright. Again, the latter gets zapped.

[ckn]

5 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

Bluebottles are very evasive and hard to swat. Any other fly or a mosquito gets The Executioner.

Bees come in sometimes, buzz around for a few seconds, then exit the way they came. Wasps aren't as bright. Again, the latter gets zapped.

Bees get escorted out if they're not sure of the way, wasps get squished if they won't take the hint of an open window and shuffle escort.

The thing with bluebottles is to overwhelm them.  They rarely can get away from an A4 pad brought down fast.

On mosquitos, here's an article I read in one of my engineering journals on how to build an automated laser targeting system for keeping mossies out of your garden.  Quite probably one of the most interesting technical articles I've ever read!  Certainly way beyond "uninteresting"...

[Bob8]

I am such a hippy that when there was one mosquito in my bedroom for a couple of weeks, I was content for it to takes its fill each evening without begrudging it.

In other dull news, I currently live in the Swiss Alps.

[Stevo]

I'm just back from a week on Mrs Stevo's family's farm in Spain. They have a saying related to flies which translates as: "You can kill a fly, but a hundred of its relatives will come to the funeral".

[ckn]

In the background today, I'm migrating my server's OS hard drive to a spare SSD one I had lying around from the demise of my Macbook Pro.

[ckn]

The British pint is 20% larger than a US pint.

I genuinely didn't know that until today...

[Futtocks]

2 minutes ago, ckn said:

The British pint is 20% larger than a US pint.

I genuinely didn't know that until today...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems

There are quite a lot of differences between imperial and US measures.

Edited September 6, 2017 by Futtocks

[Bob8]

2 hours ago, ckn said:

The British pint is 20% larger than a US pint.

I genuinely didn't know that until today...

The US are onto something here.  Having 16 fl oz to the pint and 16 oz to the pound makes a pint of watch weight a pound.

It is still wrong though.

[ckn]

Today's background song my brain is playing on repeat is the Cheers theme.

[ckn]

The siphon in our downstairs toilet is starting to fail. That's a PITA job for the weekend then...

[graveyard johnny]

we have more key rings than keys

[Futtocks]

Just now, graveyard johnny said:

we have more key rings than keys

That would very quickly stop being uninteresting if you revealed that you're actually a prison warder...

[tonyXIII]

I bet he works in a gift shop where they sell key rings. Definitely uninteresting.

[Robin Evans]

I've never seen a live super league game.