Things you only found out today

[worthosoriginals]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

 

Sometimes I feel older than bread 

Next phase, brown bread

[Raj]

Idiots buying this stupid Dubai chocolate sh1t!

[Jattdogg]

2 hours ago, tom27111 said:

Ciabatta was invented in 1982.

 

It's younger than me. 

 

This has totally blown my mind.

....I always thought ciabatta was stone....

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, worthosoriginals said:

Next phase, brown bread

 

Don't. I'm already anxious.

[Trav Le Bleu]

France has an area the size of Paris called Zone Rouge, that is essentially a no-man's-land due to the remaining unexploded bombs and mines there from WW1 

 

Edited 9 May 2025 by Trav Le Bleu

[bovril]

17 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

France has an area the size of Paris called Zone Rouge, that is essentially a no-man's-land due to the remaining unexploded bombs and mines there from WW1 

 

The devastation from WW1 on the physical and human geography of Europe is probably not as known in Britain as it should be. 

[Stadt]

30 minutes ago, bovril said:

The devastation from WW1 on the physical and human geography of Europe is probably not as known in Britain as it should be. 

Even our own populace. WWII naturally occupies more headspace but most people wouldn’t know ~twice the amount of British troops died in the Great War.

[Foxdiamond]

19 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Even our own populace. WWII naturally occupies more headspace but most people wouldn’t know ~twice the amount of British troops died in the Great War.

I've always been fascinated by WW1.  When I was about 8 I remember watching the BBC landmark documentary series The Great War. The theme music would send chills up my spine.  The more recent They Shall Not Grow Old is brilliant 

[bovril]

3 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

I've always been fascinated by WW1.  When I was about 8 I remember watching the BBC landmark documentary series The Great War. The theme music would send chills up my spine.  The more recent They Shall Not Grow Old is brilliant 

really we live in the world WW1 created. 

[Foxdiamond]

1 hour ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

France has an area the size of Paris called Zone Rouge, that is essentially a no-man's-land due to the remaining unexploded bombs and mines there from WW1 

 

The sheer concentration of heavy, medium and light artillery was mind boggling. 

[davieG]

37 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

I've always been fascinated by WW1.  When I was about 8 I remember watching the BBC landmark documentary series The Great War. The theme music would send chills up my spine.  The more recent They Shall Not Grow Old is brilliant 

WW! always makes me angry as it was mostly just a massive royal family feud.

[Foxdiamond]

1 minute ago, davieG said:

WW! always makes me angry as it was mostly just a massive royal family feud.

Didn't do the Royals of Europe much good either.

[Foxdiamond]

Has anybody here heard of The Thankful Villages?

[Parafox]

20 hours ago, davieG said:

WW! always makes me angry as it was mostly just a massive royal family feud.

 

Oh dear. Watch out for the fallout from Harry and Megan v King Charles and Prince William.

[davieG]

5 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

Oh dear. Watch out for the fallout from Harry and Megan v King Charles and Prince William.

All done via the media these days less fatalities and virtually free as the rags and tv sycophants fall over themselves to be first in the queue for any juicy retorts, snipes, back-stabbings etc

[Stadt]

Despite being a big Chemical Brothers and New Order fan it only just dawned on me today that Bernard Summer does the vocals on Out of Control 

[Spudulike]

21 hours ago, davieG said:

WW! always makes me angry as it was mostly just a massive royal family feud.

It's been going on since medieval times. #WarOfTheRoses 

[jgtuk]

Only around 9% of plastic worldwide has ever been recycled 😳

[Sampson]

Not today but last week I found out that elephants are really good swimmers. And they like to swim just under the water and use their trunk as a snorkel.

[Free Falling Foxes]

On 09/05/2025 at 22:31, davieG said:

WW! always makes me angry as it was mostly just a massive royal family feud.

 

On 10/05/2025 at 19:56, Spudulike said:

It's been going on since medieval times. #WarOfTheRoses 

One anti war song that, perhaps, slips under the radar is Zor and Zam by the Monkees, which touches on this very point

 

[goose2010]

32 minutes ago, jgtuk said:

Only around 9% of plastic worldwide has ever been recycled 😳

every piece of plastic that has ever been made is still on the Earth!

[jgtuk]

15 minutes ago, Sampson said:

Not today but last week I found out that elephants are really good swimmers. And they like to swim just under the water and use their trunk as a snorkel.

Gal Oya National Park In Sri Lanka is famous for it’s lake swimming Elephants. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

44 minutes ago, goose2010 said:

every piece of plastic that has ever been made is still on the Earth!

Some of it's apparently in our balls, so I guess it depends on whether you consider that on the earth or not

[jgtuk]

57 minutes ago, goose2010 said:

every piece of plastic that has ever been made is still on the Earth!

Begs the question - why aren’t we stopping production of plastics (looking at you, fossil fuel industry 👀)

[Xen]

6 minutes ago, jgtuk said:

Begs the question - why aren’t we stopping production of plastics (looking at you, fossil fuel industry 👀)

Money. The answer is always money.

 

Which is ironic now that most notes are made of plastic themselves.