General Chit Chat

[bwfcdan94]

The Co-op. It's sad to see how they have gone down the pan.

Yeah, and wouldn't it be a bit crap for which ever firm has just won the audit of Co-op Bank, oh...hang on...

remember to search the boardroom cupboards for drugs... (Q. is this cocaine an Asset or a Liability?)

Asset

[bwfcdan94]

I believe it is a current asset rather than a non current asset.

[thebish]

hmmm...

http://fullist.co.uk/2014/05/britains-n ... anchester/

PoundPub?? I don't think so - not if you actually sell a pint for £1.50

[bwfcdan94]

Atherton - not in Manchester.

[TANGODANCER]

Atherton - not in Manchester.

Part of Wigan which is Greater Manchester. Not us, of course, we're Lancashire.

[bwfcdan94]

Atherton - not in Manchester.

Part of Wigan which is Greater Manchester. Not us, of course, we're Lancashire.

We should just become our own separate place like Bristol.

[Hoboh]

http://www.stephmoto-adventurebikeblog. ... to-me.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Very entertaining and interesting story if anyone wants to follow it, would suit the bish methinks

[Dujon]

An interesting event at Lawson (a few kilometres west from Maison Dujon) yesterday. A light aircraft got into some sort of trouble. The pilot activated the aircraft's parachute and floated he, his passengers and the craft itself onto someone's front fence.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-10/l ... ns/5444350" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Montreal Wanderer]

An interesting event at Lawson (a few kilometres west from Maison Dujon) yesterday. A light aircraft got into some sort of trouble. The pilot activated the aircraft's parachute and floated he, his passengers and the craft itself onto someone's front fence.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-10/l ... ns/5444350" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Good Lord! I'd never even heard of parachutes for planes.

[Dujon]

Yes, Monty, they have been around for a wee while - but only on light aircraft. I heard somewhere or other yesterday that this 'craft was a 'demo' machine being spruiked around this country. The identification letters on the side of the aeroplane would seem to confirm that. All locally registered aircraft carry a 'VH' prefix.

[thebish]

oh dear...

http://www.amplifyingglass.com/products/

18 food products that have not made the translation into english very well..

including:

[Harry Genshaw]

An interesting event at Lawson (a few kilometres west from Maison Dujon) yesterday. A light aircraft got into some sort of trouble. The pilot activated the aircraft's parachute and floated he, his passengers and the craft itself onto someone's front fence.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-10/l ... ns/5444350" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Good Lord! I'd never even heard of parachutes for planes.

I'm glad it wasn't just me. Amazing! Not sure I'd have believed it if I hadn't seen it for myself

[thebish]

enjoyed finding this today... Spurious Correlations (or, how the Daily Mail does science!)
Correlation and Causation are not the same thing!

http://www.tylervigen.com/

eg..

[Prufrock]

Does this mean I shouldn't have the MMR?

[Dujon]

Aye, thebish, there's all sort of things to be done with basic data sets. Perhaps someone could come up with a correlation between Slinkies sold in the U.K. to the number of hospital admissions as a result of individuals tumbling head over heels down stairs.

[Beefheart]

enjoyed finding this today... Spurious Correlations (or, how the Daily Mail does science!)
Correlation and Causation are not the same thing!

http://www.tylervigen.com/

eg..

My favourite example is that falling pirate numbers have caused global warming.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I'm in need of a mnemonic to remember the word mnemonic

[Gary the Enfield]

I'm in need of a mnemonic to remember the word mnemonic

My
Name
Evokes
Memories
Of
Nomadic
Indo
China

You're welcome.

[thebish]

love this kind of thing - words that have no obvious single-word translation in English...

http://www.boredpanda.com/untranslatabl ... jana-iyer/

e.g.

the Pascuense word "Tingo" - to gradually steal all the possessions from a neighbour's house by borrowing and not returning!

and..

bakku-shan - the Japanese word for a beautiful girl as long as she is being viewed from behind!

or (for WtW)

the Japanese word "Tsundoku" - the act of leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piling it together with other such unread books!

[Prufrock]

That Japanese one has BOBFOC and my personal fave 'kronenbourg' as almost if not quite equivalents.