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shouldbeinbed

Rollin' along
Location
Manchester way
If i point my finger at one of my chickens it will just stare at it . Having said that if you pointed your finger at me i would just stare at it and wonder what the fark you where doing .

Mine peck at it momentarily until they realise there's no food attached and then they lose interest and scrat about again.

They look directly up at me too when the mealworm bucket is a'rattlin in my hand.

Middle son is convinced one can hypnotise chickens by placing your finger on their beak and drawing it away from them in a straight line, the theory is that they will visually keep following the line into infinity and zone out, never tried it and I smell BS.

I'm always intrigued by the Iggy Pop line on hypnotising chickens in lust for life.
 

Cuchilo

Prize winning member X2
Location
London
Mine peck at it momentarily until they realise there's no food attached and then they lose interest and scrat about again.

They look directly up at me too when the mealworm bucket is a'rattlin in my hand.

Middle son is convinced one can hypnotise chickens by placing your finger on their beak and drawing it away from them in a straight line, the theory is that they will visually keep following the line into infinity and zone out, never tried it and I smell BS.

I'm always intrigued by the Iggy Pop line on hypnotising chickens in lust for life.
They may look upwards but not up . To look up they turn their heads to the side . NEVER doubt my chicken looking up FACTS !
 

Joey Shabadoo

My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
I read that the reason Ireland adopted the harp as an emblem is Henry VIII remarked that it would be easier to master the harp than to master Ireland.

Could've been worse. Imagine having Sudoku on your flag.
 

winjim

Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
The French have no word for entrepreneur.
 

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
Widely used. There was even a poster on here once that used to do them for their day job and was talking about something else and then didn't realise that monte carlo methods were very famously used for what he was trying to talk about!
Do I resemble that remark?

These days I have people to do my Monte Carlo simulation for me.
 

MontyVeda

a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
The French have no word for entrepreneur.
Years ago i was on one of those Extra Tenner courses that doleys do... the bloke running it told us that the Japanese have no word for 'problem', instead they call it a 'learning opportunity'. It sounded like bull then and it still does. He also told us that Asians eat dog food to save money :eek:
 

raleighnut

Legendary Member
Years ago i was on one of those Extra Tenner courses that doleys do... the bloke running it told us that the Japanese have no word for 'problem', instead they call it a 'learning opportunity'. It sounded like bull then and it still does. He also told us that Asians eat dog food to save money :eek:
It sounds like he's full of merde. (I wish there was an English word for it :whistle:)
 

classic33

Leg End Member
a few facts on Ireland, that some might not know....

Ireland is the only country in the world which has a musical instrument – the harp – as their national symbol.
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Dublin or Dubh Linn translates to Black Pool.
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the term Nosey Parker and the word Boycott originate from Ireland.
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Newgrange is older than the pyrimads and stonehenge.
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Shannon airport was the first duty free airport in the world.
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Ireland has never had snakes.
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windmills in Ireland turn clockwise.
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John Butler Yeats won the first Olympic medal for Ireland for painting. His painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.
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there are no female leprechauns.
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last one O'Connell street in Dublin is the widest in europe,
champs elysees is an anvenue
;) and the O'Connell bridge is the only bridge in europe that is wider than it is long.
Thought Foynes got the distinction of being the first Duty Free Airport.

Dublin is a Viking word.
 
No the words for seventy is soixante dix (60+10) and it gets worse for example 99 is quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ( 4 * 20 +10 + 9)
Take it from someone who lived in France for some years, and has a diploma in French from Bordeaux University, that there is a word for seventy in the French language, also for eighty and ninety.
Clue: France isn't the only country where French is an official language.

http://www.academie-francaise.fr/la..._strong-em-septante-octante-nonante-em-strong

Septante, octante, nonante (sommaire)
Vous vous interrogez sur une des bizarreries les plus célèbres de la langue française. Pourquoi en effet dire soixante-dix, quatre-vingts, quatre-vingt-dix, alors que les formes septante, octante, nonante, en accord tout à la fois avec le latin et le système décimal, sont plus ou moins largement usitées dans divers pays francophones ?

Notre vocabulaire porte ici la trace d’un usage très ancien et aujourd’hui disparu : au Moyen Âge, on avait coutume en France de compter de vingt en vingt. Aussi trouvait-on les formes vint et dis (30),deux vins (40), trois vins (60), etc. Saint Louis fonda, par exemple, l’hospice des Quinze-vingts (des 300 aveugles). Ce système, dit « vicésimal », était utilisé par les Celtes et par les Normands, et il est possible que l’un ou l’autre de ces peuples l’ait introduit en Gaule.

Dès la fin du Moyen Âge, les formes concurrentes trente, quarante, cinquante, soixante se répandent victorieusement. Pourquoi l’usage s’arrête-t-il en si bon chemin ? Aucune explication n’est vraiment convaincante. Peut-être a-t-on éprouvé le besoin de conserver la marque d’un « calcul mental » mieux adapté aux grands nombres (70=60+10, 80=4x20, 90=80+10). Reste la part du hasard et de l’arbitraire, avec laquelle tout historien de la langue sait bien qu’il lui faut composer...

C’est au XVIIe siècle, sous l’influence de Vaugelas et de Ménage, que l’Académie et les autres auteurs de dictionnaires ont adopté définitivement les formes soixante-dix, quatre-vingts, quatre-vingt-dixau lieu de septante, octante, nonante. Il est à noter pourtant que les mots septante, octante, nonante figurent dans toutes les éditions du Dictionnaire de l’Académie française. Encore conseillés par les Instructions officielles de 1945 pour faciliter l’apprentissage du calcul, ils restent connus dans l’usage parlé de nombreuses régions de l’Est et du Midi de la France, ainsi qu’en Acadie. Ils sont officiels en Belgique et en Suisse (sauf, cependant, octante, qui a été supplanté par quatre-vingts et huitante – en Suisse – tant dans l’usage courant que dans l’enseignement ou les textes administratifs). Rien n’interdit de les employer, mais par rapport à l’usage courant en France, ils sont perçus comme régionaux ou vieillis.
 
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classic33

Leg End Member
[QUOTE 3970845, member: 259"]Dublin's a gaelic word, meaning Blackpool. :smile:[/QUOTE]
Whats Dublin in Gaelic then?
 
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