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Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Jun 17, 2019 18:11

DBSnappa wrote:

Short term memory is much shorter than most people realise and there are known triggers that reset it, like walking through a door into another room, or climbing stairs

You can do something silly as you do the "normal" thing to remind you.

Jump up and down while you put your deodorant on, or sing a daft song as you lock the door.

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Jun 18, 2019 8:45

I've just learnt that the land bridge between Britain and the Continent that disappeared around 8,000 years ago is known as Doggerland and now I'm giggling like a schoolboy.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Jun 18, 2019 9:27

Grim... wrote:

You can do something silly as you do the "normal" thing to remind you.

Title

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14487

Long read on the fate of MH370

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... es/590653/

myp · **Posted:** Tue Jun 18, 2019 14:55

zaphod79 wrote:

Long read on the fate of MH370

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... es/590653/

Fucking hell

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Mr Chonks wrote:

zaphod79 wrote:

Long read on the fate of MH370

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... es/590653/

Fucking hell

To long to read?

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Grim... wrote:

DBSnappa wrote:

Short term memory is much shorter than most people realise and there are known triggers that reset it, like walking through a door into another room, or climbing stairs

You can do something silly as you do the "normal" thing to remind you.

Jump up and down while you put your deodorant on, or sing a daft song as you lock the door.

Don't talk to me about short term memory.

myp · **Posted:** Tue Jun 18, 2019 15:12

Warhead wrote:

Mr Chonks wrote:

zaphod79 wrote:

Long read on the fate of MH370

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... es/590653/

Fucking hell

To long to read?

Forsooth, perchance

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Jun 18, 2019 15:15

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Mr Chonks wrote:

Warhead wrote:

Mr Chonks wrote:

zaphod79 wrote:

Long read on the fate of MH370

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... es/590653/

Fucking hell

To long to read?

Forsooth, perchance

A multitude of bananas.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Grim... wrote:

DBSnappa wrote:

Short term memory is much shorter than most people realise and there are known triggers that reset it, like walking through a door into another room, or climbing stairs

You can do something silly as you do the "normal" thing to remind you.

Jump up and down while you put your deodorant on, or sing a daft song as you lock the door.

Well, Ok. Except, if you keep doing that, the silly thing becomes normal, right? So now you’re locked into a never-ending, always-escalating silliness war with yourself. Until once day you’re gargling bleach and tugging off an orangutang just so you don’t lose your keys.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

If you shapes the blades on your lawn mower somehow, dya reckon you could get it to lift off a decent height?

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Wed Jun 19, 2019 10:21

Satsuma wrote:

If you shapes the blades on your lawn mower somehow, dya reckon you could get it to lift off a decent height?

Flymo anyone?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Jun 19, 2019 12:47

zaphod79 wrote:

Long read on the fate of MH370

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... es/590653/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48691488

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14487

Zardoz wrote:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48691488

Different plane / air disaster - however I'm sure I saw something on the BBC last night or this morning which was a very condensed version of the thing I posted above with just the TLDR type summary of the horrible bits

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

As in probably suicide by the pilot and killing everyone on board
That the plane was purposefully depressurized to kill all the passengers long before it crashed
That the local police / politicians / government have been covering things up

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jun 19, 2019 13:19

Anyone got any weekend plans? Borgo Brewery & Baking might kick something off on Saturday afternoon to keep the bins amused", other than that, and a three year old's soft play party it is shaping up to be quiet.

*MrsA is off carousing.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Jun 19, 2019 13:20

That reminds me...

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jun 19, 2019 13:25

TheVision wrote:

That reminds me...

Sounds promising

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

TheVision wrote:

That reminds me...

Don't talk to me about short term memory.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Jun 19, 2019 14:02

zaphod79 wrote:

Zardoz wrote:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48691488

Different plane / air disaster - however I'm sure I saw something on the BBC last night or this morning which was a very condensed version of the thing I posted above with just the TLDR type summary of the horrible bits

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

As in probably suicide by the pilot and killing everyone on board
That the plane was purposefully depressurized to kill all the passengers long before it crashed
That the local police / politicians / government have been covering things up

Gah, sorry... Just saw the link before I popped out for lunch didn't read properly.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25585

I’ve just seen DocG’s lightning photos elsewhere and it reminded me I wanted to ask about this photo.

What is happening here? Darwin is typing the word Tuesday, and the ‘e’ has appeared very faintly before the cursor moves along. Do types characters fade in very quickly rather than just ‘appear’, or is it due to the screen or... what? I just assumed you hit the screen and the letter appeared solid in the next instance.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Jun 19, 2019 18:01

You seem to have accidentally blended a picture of your laptop together with a Van Gogh.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

Predictive text it looks like to me.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jun 19, 2019 18:30

Like that bit in James Bond

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25585

Trooper wrote:

Predictive text it looks like to me.

I don’t have predictive text on my laptop, and if it did it would almost certainly say ‘Tuesday’ rather than ‘tue’, and capitalise it, surely?

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25585

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagornis

This bird had a six METRE wingspan, and flew.

Can you even imagine that thing swooping overhead?

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25585

Step aside, loser. With a wingspan of up to SEVEN POINT FOUR METRES is your boy Pelagornis Sandersi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagornis_sandersi

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25585

Last one: Argentavis. Sized between the previous two, but OMG there is a scale model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentavis

And to think, I was only googling Sesame Street characters.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25585

I’m back! I’m up far too early, so for some reason I’m watching a video of Rory Stewart speak passionately in parliament for 13 minutes on the subject of hedgehogs, and now you should, too. https://youtu.be/vqTkLoekm_0

Genuinely interesting, but I’m really quite impressed at his level of research and also information retention as he rarely glances at his notes.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Jun 20, 2019 9:24

Condorman

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Lives in a condorminium.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

I've made a shed load of dosh for my employer today. One branch of our client has logged 17 pin entry devices as 'not reading cards.' Five of therm are working fine, and six can't be found in the store, so those are all chargeable calls. Mind you, I'm bored to tears with dealing with them, particularly as the 'intelligent' lighting plunges the room into darkness every fifteen minutes.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

I'm taking a late lunch break, in case you hadn't guessed, hence the plethora of posts.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14487

Warhead wrote:

particularly as the 'intelligent' lighting plunges the room into darkness every fifteen minutes.

You need a beanie cap with a propeller on it that just keeps spinning round and round ;-)

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

I think the racks and racks of clothing jammed into this room are shielding me from the sensor.

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Fri Jun 21, 2019 12:18

I’ve just seen someone famous at my local dump, sorry, recycling centre.

Can you guess who. 20 questions

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jun 21, 2019 12:28

Male?

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Fri Jun 21, 2019 12:31

Grim... wrote:

Male?

Yes
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DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38458

DBSnappa wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Male?

Yes

Natch.

Over 40?

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

Stig...

Actual question, sportsman?

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Fri Jun 21, 2019 12:34

DavPaz wrote:

DBSnappa wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Male?

Yes

Natch.

Over 40?

Yes

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DBSnappa · **Posted:** Fri Jun 21, 2019 12:34

Trooper wrote:

Stig...

Actual question, sportsman?

No

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Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

In politics?

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Fri Jun 21, 2019 12:40

Cras wrote:

In politics?

No

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Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

DBSnappa wrote:

Cras wrote:

In politics?

No

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Musician?

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Fri Jun 21, 2019 12:45

Findus Fop wrote:

DBSnappa wrote:

Cras wrote:

In politics?

No

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Musician?

No idea if he can play anything, but he definitely doesn’t do it to pay the bills.

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Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

Is he on TV regularly?

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Fri Jun 21, 2019 13:01

Trooper wrote:

Is he on TV regularly?

I believe so
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Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jun 21, 2019 13:03

Is he Food & Drink related?

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Fri Jun 21, 2019 13:04

Zardoz wrote:

Is he Food & Drink related?

No
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