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Post here if you learnt something new today.
Today I learned that the default tone for 'SMS received' on a most Nokia phones is "SMS" in Morse Code.
... -- ...
dit dit did dah dah dit dit dit
There's an option to change it to CONNECTING PEOPLE too, according to WIKI.
Do I win ....- ----- .--. --- ..- -. -.. ---?
Well I knew the first bit already. But I didn't know the second, so I'VE learned something too ;)
i learnt today that that traitor Lewis Hammo lost his driving license.
he must be a shit driver in real life.
Yesterday I learned that you can scroll down on forums using the space bar rather than the down arrow key.
Today I learned that my Contractor's are a bunch of fuck-faces!
Missy Jem wrote: Yesterday I learned that you can scroll down on forums using the space bar rather than the down arrow key.
I tried and it works. And I may add, that if you use shift+space keys, it scrolls up.
Today I found out what my special purpose is for. Gosh what a great time I had. I wish all of NOOL could have been here with me. Maybe some other time as I intend to do this a lot. Every chance I get. 
Missy Jem wrote: Yesterday I learned that you can scroll down on forums using the space bar rather than the down arrow key.
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Today i learned that you can use the down arrow for scrolling down
Fcuk that though , i use the mouse roller or the side bar thingy.Or keep the roller pressed down for a couple of sceonds then the screen scrolls down of its own accord.Gotta be a fast reader to keep up though
Dunno bout laptops though, still using a desktop
Missy Jem wrote: Yesterday I learned that you can scroll down on forums using the space bar rather than the down arrow key.
Today I learned that my Contractor's are a bunch of fuck-faces!
Cheers! This is the 1st thing I've learned today 
Jiphy wrote:
Missy Jem wrote: Yesterday I learned that you can scroll down on forums using the space bar rather than the down arrow key.
I tried and it works. And I may add, that if you use shift+space keys, it scrolls up.
2nd thing I've learned today, nice one
(At this rate I'll soon have a couple of brain cells!)
That in the USA they still use gas chambers as method of execution, actually I found out that one can be executed any way: via handing, shooting, gas chamber, electric chair, injection, etc.
i learned a week ago that you're not supposed to drink caffeine when knocked up with a child.
pharmaceuticals are not good for use in long term.
there is a physical world after death. solely an observation based on my experiences from childhood through to adulthood and other folks observations.
monosodium glutamate is poisonous to the brain.
ants and roaches can survive being in a microwave oven.
cats are assholes.
older does not always mean wiser.just means senile.
Animadversion wrote: i learned a week ago that you're not supposed to drink caffeine when knocked up with a child.
someones knocked you up? 'ckinell. Stay off the espresso either way.
And cats are evil.
Burt Reynolds wrote:
Animadversion wrote: i learned a week ago that you're not supposed to drink caffeine when knocked up with a child.
someones knocked you up? 'ckinell. Stay off the espresso either way.
And cats are evil.
nah no kiddo yet.its for future reference.think 30 is a better time to devote life to a munchkin. cats are not so evil when they're little. dogs are insane because of their owners- knowthat forsure.cats are just reincarnated humans that fucked up toomuch andare punished by coming back as evil cats.they can't do shit but shred your furniture and piss on your clothing or sit on your face while youre sleeping at night.
MIMX wrote:
Missy Jem wrote: Yesterday I learned that you can scroll down on forums using the space bar rather than the down arrow key.
Today I learned that my Contractor's are a bunch of fuck-faces!
Cheers! This is the 1st thing I've learned today
And me
Kath wrote: I learned that you can't talk on the phone, text,and read these posts at the same time.
You can't? 
I can, while driving in Los Angeles traffic using my iPhone.
Martijn de Blaauw wrote: Learned to fly today....but failed
Result: broken arm
Matrin The Blaw!?
You ought to stay off the weed, or at least try to take off from the ground, before you spark up!
(Top tip form an old "aseed" heid!)
(How did I miss this the 1st time I read this thread?)
PS I drank in a pub called "De Blauwe Vaas" for months, thinking it was cool and had something to do with Blaw (Blow), then I noticed the massive Blue (Delft Pottery) vase in the corner. ...:\oops:
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: That in the USA they still use gas chambers as method of execution, actually I found out that one can be executed any way: via handing, shooting, gas chamber, electric chair, injection, etc.
...and how the hell did I miss this? (The dreaded NOOL reading disability strikes again!)
This in a country with a constitution that supposedly forbids "cruel and unusual punishment!" 
I'd call strapping someone to a chair and passing a high voltage current through them a "cruel and unusual punishment" or strapping them to a gurney and giving them a lethal concoction of three drugs intravenously a "cruel and unusual punishment!"
But what I want to know is this?
How do you execute someone "via handing?"
The mind reels...
Guillotine. High-speed efficiency, almost no suffering (well no one complained)... but that is old and French...
I hope that someday I will read in the 'I Learnt Something New Today' that US Chambers voted against death penalty. Come on, do this step towards achieved democracy...
Jiphy wrote: Guillotine. High-speed efficiency, almost no suffering (well no one complained)... but that is old and French...
I hope that someday I will read in the 'I Learnt Something New Today' that US Chambers voted against death penalty. Come on, do this step towards achieved democracy...
Guillotine sounds too French... we'd have to change it to something more American....
But I for one like the death penalty... as long as its reserved for those that have done real hanous crimes... repeating child molestors, murderers that tortured their victims, etc.
There used to be a thing called 'survival of the fitest', yet all we try to do now adays is save EVERYONE... then complain that population increases are affecting global warming... get rid of those that are a disease to society
I learned that Americans who are supposedly Christians, can read small print in the damn bible.
Though shalt not kill Unless you do something really bad like kill loads of kids, or if your black and you kill whitey
EdelBrock wrote:
But I for one like the death penalty... There used to be a thing called 'survival of the fitest', yet all we try to do now adays is save EVERYONE... then complain that population increases are affecting global warming... get rid of those that are a disease to society
(Fittest & Nowadays)
As long as life in any form exists, there shall always be a "survival of the fittest" it is not a fashion, fad, myth, or ideology; it is a branch of the natural sciences.
The phrase "survival of the fittest" has been abused and misused since Darwin wrote it. I'd bet my bottom dollar you've not read ANY Darwin.
You've been brainwashed by Neo-Social Darwinian nonsense. The phrase is in reference to being suitably adapted to the environment it has FUCK ALL to do with vicious humans.
These people are produced by a vicious sick society, they are the symptom not the cause, of society's ills.
The ruling ideology is the ideology of the ruling class!
And it's fucking sick sick sick!
But I'm too too tried today (of pearls and swine)!
I'd disagree that they are all society's products. There must be a proportion who are just born fucked up, otherwise there would have been a fundamental shift in the specific sicknesses of the core group of scumbags. By that I mean, that while each time has it's killers d'heure, which are no doubt made by that which surrounds them[1], there is a long running line of rapists, and yer basic no-regard-for-life killers of opporunity. Where all fuckups a product of society, there would not be a running thread of identical behavior, but rather a more dynamic and evolving history os assholes, as we find with the first subset described above.
[1] It may be argued as well, though I do not know how convincingly, that this group of people would actually turn out bad in any society, but with specifics drawn from that environment.
As to the death penalty......
Premise A: Killers are evil, and should be punished. Premise B: The death penalty is a just way to remove those who murder. Premise C: Execution is the just killing of the guilty. Premise D: Murder is unjust the killing of the innocent. Premise E: execution is carried out by the state in the name, and with the specific consent of, the people.
Conclusion, if just one innocent human has been fried, paralysed or gassed in your state, you are a murderer and should be executed, no ifs, ands or buts.
Doc I really need to get to my bed but you've raised some points I wouldn't mind discussing: "At A Later Date"! A Hale an' Hearty Fare Ye Well. Ah! Beeeeeeeeedddddddddddddddd!!!!!!!!!!!
Today I learnt that I had been betrayed by someone I trusted the most. A happy christmas it won't be.
That sounds bad Tim. If it's any consolation, my Christmas is going to be rubbish this year too. Bring on the New Year, at least I have things to look forward to then :(
Doctor? wrote: I'd disagree that they are all society's products. There must be a proportion who are just born fucked up, otherwise there would have been a fundamental shift in the specific sicknesses of the core group of scumbags. By that I mean, that while each time has it's killers d'heure, which are no doubt made by that which surrounds them[1], there is a long running line of rapists, and yer basic no-regard-for-life killers of opporunity. Where all fuckups a product of society, there would not be a running thread of identical behavior, but rather a more dynamic and evolving history os assholes, as we find with the first subset described above.
[1] It may be argued as well, though I do not know how convincingly, that this group of people would actually turn out bad in any society, but with specifics drawn from that environment.
As to the death penalty......
Premise A: Killers are evil, and should be punished. Premise B: The death penalty is a just way to remove those who murder. Premise C: Execution is the just killing of the guilty. Premise D: Murder is unjust the killing of the innocent. Premise E: execution is carried out by the state in the name, and with the specific consent of, the people.
Conclusion, if just one innocent human has been fried, paralysed or gassed in your state, you are a murderer and should be executed, no ifs, ands or buts.
well in this country murder is legally defined as the unlawful killing of a human being during the queens peace
guess if its the same in the states then if the death sentence has been passed it's not unlawful & therefore not murder.
oldmonkey wrote: Today I learnt that I had been betrayed by someone I trusted the most. A happy christmas it won't be.
I feel sorry for you. My only advice, try to learn something newer to keep your mind busy...
Doctor? wrote: I'd disagree that they are all society's products. There must be a proportion who are just born fucked up, otherwise there would have been a fundamental shift in the specific sicknesses of the core group of scumbags. By that I mean, that while each time has it's killers d'heure, which are no doubt made by that which surrounds them[1], there is a long running line of rapists, and yer basic no-regard-for-life killers of opporunity. Where all fuckups a product of society, there would not be a running thread of identical behavior, but rather a more dynamic and evolving history os assholes, as we find with the first subset described above.
[1] It may be argued as well, though I do not know how convincingly, that this group of people would actually turn out bad in any society, but with specifics drawn from that environment.
I'd go further to mention that those that have a difficulty assimilating into society also live off that same society. We have so many programs that support and ensure that these individuals not only keep breathing, but keep breeding as well. I'm under the belief that almost all kids are born about equal in potential... it's the parents and other adults that screw them up. Each has potential to overcome these issues and be helped, but after a certian age/mindset they are set in their ways. The best thing for society is to get rid of these individuals so they don't affect any children. (as MIMX likes to say: Won't somebody think of the children!)
As to the death penalty......
Premise A: Killers are evil, and should be punished. Premise B: The death penalty is a just way to remove those who murder. Premise C: Execution is the just killing of the guilty. Premise D: Murder is unjust the killing of the innocent. Premise E: execution is carried out by the state in the name, and with the specific consent of, the people.
Conclusion, if just one innocent human has been fried, paralysed or gassed in your state, you are a murderer and should be executed, no ifs, ands or buts.
You forgot premise F: Stiff and harsh punishment will hopefully deter others from commiting similar crimes.
People are constantly complaining about the lack of healthcare system, social security, and schooling. Yet we waste billions of dollars everyday feeding, housing, and conducting retrials for individuals that can't be trusted in society. Many of these have been proven unable to change their ways (i.e. child molesters). If released in society, they will only taint more children and screw them up for life... if we house them its a waste of money.
As for your last sentance, that is why we set aside the death penalty for those that are proven to be guilty without a doubt, and have been proven within a court of law that they are a burden to society.
and before people start whipping out examples of innocent people that have been executed, that is very unfortunate and I truely hope it doesn't happen again. But that does not mean we should lay down and allow for diseased people to drain and taint our society.
oldmonkey wrote: Today I learnt that I had been betrayed by someone I trusted the most. A happy christmas it won't be.
Digi Mike not sent you something he promised? He's a bugger ain't he
Well Edel I shake my head.
Remove and eliminate all those who are different and sick. That has been tried before.
You would have fit in well in NAZI Germany.
Frankly I'm astounded that an educated person can advocate or even entertain such sentiments.
You have moved far to the right of the Republicans. I suggest you have a good look at the values that your country was founded on and the the values you fought for. I. E. Declaration of Independence and you Constitution.
A more correct translation of the Commandment is, "Though shalt not Murder". I contend that the taking of any human life when not defending oneself is murder.
Now on Christmas Morning in Oz, Peace to all humanity.
Ron, I think that is a large leap to say getting rid of the unchangable that hurt society (murders, rapists, etc.) is like the 'cleansing' that the Nazis tried to do.
So you prefer to keep these people alive and ding healthcare for law abiding citezens?
EdelBrock wrote: Ron, I think that is a large leap to say getting rid of the unchangable that hurt society (murders, rapists, etc.) is like the 'cleansing' that the Nazis tried to do.
So you prefer to keep these people alive and ding healthcare for law abiding citezens?
You said this about society.
"I'd go further to mention that those that have a difficulty assimilating into society also live off that same society. We have so many programs that support and ensure that these individuals not only keep breathing, but keep breeding as well. I'm under the belief that almost all kids are born about equal in potential... it's the parents and other adults that screw them up. Each has potential to overcome these issues and be helped, but after a certian age/mindset they are set in their ways. The best thing for society is to get rid of these individuals so they don't affect any children. (as MIMX likes to say: Won't somebody think of the children!)"
That is pure NAZI. You had better think about what you want your country to become. The kind of people who advocated the above policies also don't think very highly of mixed-race marriages and their results. Yes, that is the next logical step with your line of thinking.
Perhaps you are learning something now.
Over and out from me on this. It is Christmas.
Ron, I'm talking about a death penalty for people that CHOSE to commit heinous crimes that destroy lives... the type of destruction that impacts society only negatively. These are people clearly beyond help and change... there is absolutely NO purpose for them in society...
Inter-racial marriages might be chosen, but the people still impact positively to society... ethnicity (and to some extent religon) is not chosen, it is what they are born with, and this doesn't stop a positive impact on society.
I know clearly what the Founding Fathers intended for the country and I stand firmly behind those ideals.
The death penalty might make a stomach turn, but what other purpose do these criminals of atrocities have to benefit society? The longer they live, the more they are a drain on regular, law-abiding people.
I'm not advocating to kill all criminals, just those that there is no other recourse for....
oh, and Merry Christmas (it's still afternoon on Christmas eve here.....)
...wow, I learned in this thread how quickly this thread turned awfully political. That's a whole other damn thread altogether!!
Side note:
oldmonkey wrote: Today I learnt that I had been betrayed by someone I trusted the most. A happy christmas it won't be.
Hang on and in there, Tim. Just, hang on in there.
oldmonkey wrote: Today I learnt that I had been betrayed by someone I trusted the most. A happy christmas it won't be.
Chin up mate
i learnt today that if adolf hitler had conquered britain he would have made edinburgh one of his headquaters-he had a vision of the nazis marching along princes street with the castle in the background-(adi amin had a similiar dream)
edinburgh got off fairly lightly during the bombings because of this apparently
Gazman wrote: Chin up mate
One of the cleanest Best Lines. Pity, real shame when its use is called on.
bobmo wrote: i learnt today that if adolf hitler had conquered britain he would have made edinburgh one of his headquaters-he had a vision of the nazis marching along princes street with the castle in the background-(adi amin had a similiar dream)
edinburgh got off fairly lightly during the bombings because of this apparently
I heard a similar thing about Oxford.
I didn't believe it, mind you, but I did hear it.
I learned a principle in Daoism:
*To respond to good with good - brings good. *To respond to evil with evil - brings good. *To respond to evil with good - brings evil. *To respond to good with evil - brings evil.
I'm sorry if that doesn't sound smooth. I translated it from Chinese. A bit game theory moral. I practiced it already in my family yesterday.
Today I re-learnt that people will believe any old pile of horseshit as long as it allows them to go on behaving abysmally towards others!
Arrrrrrrgh! 
I learnt I didn't have to go to work tomorrow!! YESS!!!
...but that does NOT excuse me from tomorrow's Crew Trainer Meeting, this I already know. ;)
Crew? FFS ths USS Mackie Dee's
Today (well yesterday....£40 fine payable to biggie I suppose for ruined the thread), I learned that a thing I read about in books when I was 5, project Orion, is supposedly a really secret thing that only now can be partially discussed, having been defunct since Kennedy signed the nuke testing treaty.
If you want to know the score then, read kids science books.
Doctor? wrote: ...(well yesterday....£40 fine payable to biggie I suppose for ruined the thread)...
...If you want to know the score then, read kids science books.....
I did learn something today (an a day's a long time when yer a fucking insomniac) some shit to day way parrots, but that short term memory loss is a killer!
Talking of fucking up threads, it's Fred Killer! So...
Today the Doctor? learned that Getafix! does indeed read weans science books...
as well as the wans fir the big boys...
People who are mean towards you are maybe just jealous of the person you are, jealous of all the good things you do, the great experiences you live, ...
Genevieve! wrote: People who are mean towards you are maybe just jealous of the person you are, jealous of all the good things you do, the great experiences you live, ...
Then again, pehaps people who are nice to you;
are just trying to get your knickers off
(Eh? And that would be...?
...a good day! )
(I'll go away now to learn somethimg...Solly...)
Gettwofrox! wrote:
Then again, pehaps people who are nice to you; are just trying to get your knickers off (Eh?
Huh...maybe not my closest friends but maybe some other people around me...Ich weiss nicht! 
Something new I learnt today: I love that smiley.
Today I learned that the New POS [Point of Sale] System is also a very POS [Piece of Sh!t] system--it crashed in the middle of breakfast rush this morning! FCUK!!
I just learned that Jenn had to count on her fingers. When she sold six Big Macs, she had to take her sneakers off... at breakfast time too!
Chris Nash wrote: I just learned that Jenn had to count on her fingers. When she sold six Big Macs, she had to take her sneakers off... at breakfast time too!
Just be thankful you don't have to deal with what I did today.
Must admit, I wouldn't enjoy serving overpriced, below-par 'food' to people who really should be watching their waistlines. Bet they take one look at you Jenn and think, 'THAT's a girl who doesn't eat where she works'.
I just learned that it'll probably be another 20 years before I go into a McDonald's again...
I learned that WhatABurger was started in Corpus Christi, TX and they still have their headquarters over here.
I learnt to never mess about Celine Dion with co-workers who are actually die-hard Celine fans
Within the past 24 hours I not necessarily learnt as much as realized what I already knew all along...
CUPID FCUKING RHYMES WITH STUPID!!
Genevieve! wrote: I learnt to never mess about Celine Dion with co-workers who are actually die-hard Celine fans
Entre tes voisins et tes collègues de boulot, tu as l'air d'être vraiment cernée par des cons.
I just learnt that no matter how much I think I'm over it, I'm still having the worst time getting over my ex.
And to think I'm having a date tomorrow night with this other guy I like...!
FFS Jenn, do you never LISTEN??? Forget him - there's a meaning behind the prefix, 'EX'.
Oh shit... I just learned that Jenn never bloody listens...
Chris Nash wrote: FFS Jenn, do you never LISTEN??? Forget him - there's a meaning behind the prefix, 'EX'.
Oh shit... I just learned that Jenn never bloody listens...
:finger:
For the most part, he's the one ex I'm having the tough time getting over. I usually get over exes within a week, FFS! And it's the first time since BEFORE he went out of town in JULY that we've seen each other.
So :finger:--if I'm having a tough time getting over Mikey then hey, that's fine. I'll get over it eventually. Just give me time.
That's all there is to it.
Trans-Kraftwerk Express wrote:
Chris Nash wrote: FFS Jenn, do you never LISTEN??? Forget him - there's a meaning behind the prefix, 'EX'.
Oh shit... I just learned that Jenn never bloody listens...
:finger:
For the most part, he's the one ex I'm having the tough time getting over. I usually get over exes within a week, FFS! And it's the first time since BEFORE he went out of town in JULY that we've seen each other.
So :finger:--if I'm having a tough time getting over Mikey then hey, that's fine. I'll get over it eventually. Just give me time.
Jenn, I hope I'm not stepping on any toes here, or being out-of-order! Show this lucky guy the time of his life, but enjoy every second of it yourself. Take him home, a motel, whatever, and bang his brains out! And do it for you!
Nothing
will make you feel better than knowing you are one desirable hot chick,
and it'll make you forget all about "The Ex"!
ON!
Sister.
"Enjoy yourself it's later than you think!"
Chris Nash wrote: FFS Jenn, do you never LISTEN??? Forget him - there's a meaning behind the prefix, 'EX'.
Oh shit... I just learned that Jenn never bloody listens...
Today I learned that Chris took an INORDINATE amount of time to work out that chicks ears work differently from those fitted to the male.
Today I learned that as much as I hate my family and "family life just makes me feel uneasy" I still love the fuckers!
At least you can pick your friends!
i can now download,convert and burn DVDs in a format that my PC,my "all PLAYING all formats " DVD player and the other DVD player that barely PLAYS anything can ACCEPT.The downside is i am too knackered to watch any of them.Sweeney TODD,Control and NO COUNTRY for OLD MEN(i just know what you are thinking-God Bless America-a rocket mick free zone) are my latest tests.
I learned [this week] that, Cupid may rhyme with stupid, but he does know what he's doing...
sometimes.
I just learned that Chris should understand that I did say "sometimes"!! :p
Hey, just bustin' chops here, Chris.
I should hope so after the months of complaining, being miserable, ranting, etc. Jenn.
Hope everything is going well
EDIT: and I have absolutely no idea what: 'just bustin' chops here' means
Chris Nash wrote: EDIT: and I have absolutely no idea what: 'just bustin' chops here' means
Basically, to "bust one's chops" means to give someone a hard time.
That's the only way I can explain it.
I learned that I really am dumb. My sister informed me I missed my nephews birthday (wednesday) so I rushed out today to buy him a present and a Happy 3rd Birthday card.
He's 4.
(Don't ban) Missy Jem wrote: I learned that I really am dumb. My sister informed me I missed my nephews birthday (wednesday) so I rushed out today to buy him a present and a Happy 3rd Birthday card.
He's 4.
What a laugh !
Happy to see we are not alone to be dumb this way !
The something of the day : I have learned that I am not as dumb as I thought.
ive learnt that the more aggro on nool the more people come on late at night and post.its true,burt told me so
banshee wrote: ive learnt that the more aggro on nool the more people come on late at night and post.its true,burt told me so
True Banshee, can't remember the last time I enjoyed being on here this much, it even kept me out of the pub!
I learned that ordering sides of cheesy garlic bread AND onion rings with a monster steak and chips does not make for a pleasant morning after...
Snorri xxx
I learned that when you cum, sneeze and fart at the same time, you loose your prestige in the eyes of a girl.
