Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[lenfield]

I just found out that if the album title begins with an ellipsis, my android phone doesn't recognise the mp3.

Linux uses dots as shortcut symbols for directories. That could be something to do with it.

 

[Seevio]

Just to be clear, the filenames didn't start with dots, just the album title in the metadata.

 

[Dave7]

I had no idea that grapes were poisonous to dogs.
I was going to chop some up and throw them out for the birds until my daughter, who has 2 small dogs, told me that. TBH I thought she must be wrong so googled it......sure enough she is correct.

 

[ColinJ]

I had no idea that grapes were poisonous to dogs.

There are lots of things that you wouldn't expect to be bad for them. I nearly fed my sister's dog half a bar of chocolate but fortunately she stopped me in time...

30 Foods Poisonous to Dogs

 

[lenfield]

Cherries contain cyanide!

 

[figbat]

Cherries contain cyanide!

Many stoned fruits do.

 

[lenfield]

Many stoned fruits do.

That should have been the name of a 90's rave band

 

[raleighnut]

That should have been the name of a 90's rave band

There is a band called 'Olive and the Stoned Fruits' in Detroit Michegan

 

[ColinJ]

I admit that I was ignorant to the fact that some tenants think that deposits on rental properties are a savings scheme for them...

Tenant: "We spilt a tin of paint which ruined a carpet, but we will still get all of our deposit back, right?"

Landlord: "Let me explain how it works to you..."

 

[Dave7]

At least 340 people are known to have died on Everest with at least 200 bodies still there. Even if people know roughly where the bodies are the cost to retrieve them is prohibitive.

 

[Webbo2]

At least 340 people are known to have died on Everest with at least 200 bodies still there. Even if people know roughly where the bodies are the cost to retrieve them is prohibitive.

I think it’s more about the risk of dying while trying to retrieve them that’s the issue rather than the cost.

 

[Dave7]

I think it’s more about the risk of dying while trying to retrieve them that’s the issue rather than the cost.

Apparently you are wrong, according to Mr Google .

 

[Webbo2]

Apparently you are wrong, according to Mr Google .

I think it six of one and half a dozen of the other. Helicopters can’t safely operate above 21,000 feet so the bodies have to moved down the mountain. So working at that height is extremely dangerous because just being up there has lead to the deaths in first place.
So you need very experienced mountaineers or guides to remove the bodies which as you say is very costly as most of them could be earning good money guiding, as for the cost of helicopeters.

 

[Jameshow]

That a B1 lancer can carry more payload than a B52...

 

[lenfield]

Magpies have memories and can recognize individual animals. My neighbour's cat killed a magpie a few weeks ago and several of them mobbed it. One magpie is still doing it. Presumably the dead one was his/her mate.