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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: an0n on December 31, 2004, 10:05:03 am
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No, not 'weird ass facts'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4134329.stm
48. Margaret Roberts (later Thatcher) helped invent the chemical process that produces Mr Whippy ice cream.
53. Phrase-turner extraordinaire Clive James says he originated the terms "underwhelmed" and "young fogey", but is yet to receive the recognition he deserves. He also says he's particularly proud of his description of the Conan the Barbarian-era Arnold Schwarzenegger as "a brown condom full of walnuts".
60. The bookmakers William Hill loses 80,000 little pens a day - the sort used to fill out betting slips.
67. It's 30 years since the world's first barcode was used. It was on a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit at a supermarket in Ohio. The gum is now an exhibit in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC.
And most notably:
81 . When people are in love, weird things happen. Men get more female hormones, and women get more male. Scientist Donatella Marazziti says it's as if nature wants to eliminate what can be different in men and women, perhaps to help the mating process.
Which explains why I turn into an idiot around women!
*runs*
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pwned (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4078895.stm)
glad i bought the uber widescreen one then ;)
overall: :lol:
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:lol:
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5. 52% of households have five or more remote controls.
1. Street brawlers sometimes arm themselves with potato peelers, according to the Home Office, which wants to make them banned weapons.
86. You can see the back of your own head in some parts of the universe as time and light are so curved. The universe is neither flat, nor football shaped - it looks like a flat-sided trumpet, German physicists believe.
98. Lord Baden Powell wanted a section on the dangers of "self abuse" in his Scouting for Boys. His original manuscript read: "A very large number of the lunatics in our asylums have made themselves ill by indulging in this vice although at one time they were sensible cheery boys like you."
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We have 11 remote controls.
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28. The word "celeb" is not a recent invention - it was used in a letter to Woodrow Wilson in 1913. The word "sex", used to mean sexual intercourse, was first used in 1929.
So what was used before then?
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Celebrity.
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The word "sex", used to mean sexual intercourse, was first used in 1929.
So what was used before then?
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Intercourse and/or 'relations'.
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Copulation, or UNHOLY FILTH, probably.
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Bonking.
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'Married', probably.
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
We have 11 remote controls.
That's pathetic.
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4. Crows apparently like the taste of windscreen-wiper blades.
68. Bill Clinton revealed in his autobiography that he didn't learn to ride a bike properly until he was 22.
76. More than one billion birds crash into buildings in the US every year. Mirrored office blocks are a particular hazard.
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Originally posted by Rictor
That's pathetic.
We'd be hard pressed to find a reason for anymore...
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See if you can find the one that switches off your latent homosexuality. Its probably under the couch somewhere, amidst crumbled nachos and loose change.
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.........:wtf:
Cat swallow all your Midol this morning?
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[q]Lord Baden Powell wanted a section on the dangers of "self abuse" in his Scouting for Boys. His original manuscript read: "A very large number of the lunatics in our asylums have made themselves ill by indulging in this vice although at one time they were sensible cheery boys like you."
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:wtf:
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Originally posted by an0n
Which explains why I turn into an idiot around women!
*runs*
:D:yes:
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:eek: THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE IS HERE!!!
*runs*
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[color=66ff00]Stop being a tool Rictor.
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Originally posted by WMCoolmon
So what was used before then?
pafpaff was the official term... :drevil:
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They should bring it back...