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Post by anaix3l on Aug 9, 2020 8:20:16 GMT -5
Seagulls are thieves. Came across one video and then discovered there are many similar ones with seagulls casually entering, grabbing something and then rushing out.
How brazen...
Though this dude doesn't know the difference between yellow gloves and potato snacks
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Post by anaix3l on Aug 31, 2020 16:53:42 GMT -5
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Post by anaix3l on Sept 18, 2020 9:04:38 GMT -5
Mary Roach wrote a book called The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. That's one of the best names you can possibly have if you're going to write a book about stiffs. Bonus: ever wondered what happens if the person next to you on a flight just dies after you're in the air? Apparently, you can end up just sitting next to the cadaver for the rest of the flight if the plane is full and there's no place to move him (or her). About 50K people die during flights every year, in case you didn't know.
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Post by anaix3l on Oct 12, 2020 14:54:47 GMT -5
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Post by anaix3l on Oct 18, 2020 10:45:37 GMT -5
TIL: trawling obituaries to get details on those who have lost someone dear and then sending bereavement spam attempting to convert them is a thing.
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Post by redvers76 on Oct 18, 2020 13:33:21 GMT -5
TIL: trawling obituaries to get details on those who have lost someone dear and then sending bereavement spam attempting to convert them is a thing. I thought that was standard modus operandi for religions. Certainly at uni they seemed to make a thing of trying to “support” (but really to convert) anyone who suffered bereavement...
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Post by anaix3l on Oct 24, 2020 7:01:14 GMT -5
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Post by bartman2001 on Jan 1, 2021 8:33:49 GMT -5
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Post by bartman2001 on Jan 21, 2021 11:25:17 GMT -5
Lock Ness Monster? Nope large primitive sea turtle: dve.iheart.com/content/2021-01-21-loch-ness-monster-mystery-solved-according-to-scientist/?Keyid=socialflow&Sc=editorial&Pname=local_social&fbclid=IwAR2sEDt9s-sW2hOnwsNYm-BjaagQQv_PULsj4cR9qFrarwA_fUUVNOtPcxkFor years, people have claimed that there is a strange creature in the water of Scotland's Loch Ness. In fact, the first written account of the Loch Ness Monster was recorded in the year 565, but the mystery didn't really take off until 1960, when an aeronautical engineer filmed a strange hump making its way through the water and leaving a wake behind it. The sightings continued from there and this year alone there were a dozen reports of people spotting "Nessie," including one where a boat's sonar picked up an object 33 feet long that was some 550 feet down in the lake. Now, a scientist claims to have solved what exactly has been swimming in Loch Ness all these years. Henry Bauer, professor emeritus of science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, has been researching "Nessie" and concluded that she is actually a type of undiscovered sea turtle that got trapped in the loch during the end of the last Ice Age. According to The Sun, Bauer doesn't agree with theories that "Nessie" is a form of dinosaur, stating in a very scientific fashion, "The most popular attribution of identity for Loch Ness Monsters is a relationship with the extinct plesiosaurs, but this is difficult to square with the rarity of surface sightings let alone occasional sightings on land." Instead, Bauer surmises that she is more likely a "yet-to-be-properly discovered and described variety of large sea turtle that is most likely also still extant in some niches in the oceans." He explained his discovery saying, "Everything described for Loch Ness Monsters is known among the many species of living as well as thought-to-be extinct turtles such as air-breathing but spending very long periods in deep water, ventures onto land, very fast movement in water, ability to be active in very cold water and relatively long necks." Bauer's theory is being taken very seriously and has already been published in a respected science journal. The professor said that it is not a question of if "Nessie" is real, it is just a question of what she is, and he is pretty certain to have figured that out. You can read more about "Nessie" sightings at the Official Loch Ness Sightings Register.
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Post by bartman2001 on Feb 16, 2021 17:58:18 GMT -5
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Post by anaix3l on Feb 17, 2021 6:34:15 GMT -5
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Post by anaix3l on Feb 22, 2021 16:59:41 GMT -5
On a lighter note: some corona crisis related German vocabulary (found here, explanations are in German though): coronamüde = tired of this shit Babyelefant = the distance you should keep from others (should be enough to fit at least a baby elephant) Hamsteritis = the disease of chronically hamstering (panic buying/ hoarding) Krisenfrise = crisis hairstyle Impfneid = envy of those who have been vaccinated
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Post by anaix3l on Mar 5, 2021 17:27:51 GMT -5
Among the brands owned by the Storck group are Dickmann (mousse in chocolate coating) and Bendicks (mint chocolates).
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Post by anaix3l on Mar 8, 2021 15:39:33 GMT -5
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Post by AeroCooper on Mar 15, 2021 19:12:48 GMT -5
"Physics works, and I'm still alive"
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