A thread for random and interesting facts and figures.
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Did you know...
In the English language "ough" can be pronounced at least NINE different ways.
Examples are cough, enough, dough, through, thought, plough, hiccough (hiccup), lough (Loch Ness) and thorough.
......and 'off' can be preceded by the words fuck, bugger, piss, sod, amongst others :rofl2:
Did you know, a motorcycle tyre has 0% of rubber in its compound.
If you add up all the numbers on a roulette wheel, it equals 666!
Quote from: VladTepes on Thursday, 08 July 2021, 02:56 PM
Did you know...
In the English language "ough" can be pronounced at least NINE different ways.
Examples are cough, enough, dough, through, thought, plough, hiccough (hiccup), lough (Loch Ness) and thorough.
Yet many people still pronounce it wrong :facepalm: :furious:
Pair can also be preceded with words such as:-
Nice
Fine
Big
And Huge
My small protest around a couple of topical issues in NZ at present.
1. Govt wants to tax to death a diesel ute owner and give an electric car owner a shed load of money back for being fcukin green.
2. Transgender weightlifter representing NZ in women's weightlifting.
(fair enough by me once it's had a child. Seems a uterus didn't come in the kit :facepalm: )
That's an utter insult to all the other competitors.
If ya born with a cock then ya male, if not you aren't. No matter how expensive the fancy dress surgeons do, it doesn't change that.
@Kiwifruit now you just need to make the photochop become real with some decals !
Did you know..The shortest "-ology" study is
Oology - the study of birds eggs.
Quote from: Kiwifruit on Thursday, 08 July 2021, 08:20 PM
My small protest around a couple of topical issues in NZ at present.
2. Transgender weightlifter representing NZ in women's weightlifting.
(fair enough by me once it's had a child. Seems a uterus didn't come in the kit :facepalm: )
Should rename it the XX, XY Olympics, no getting around that with self obsessed bullshit.
Quote from: VladTepes on Friday, 09 July 2021, 10:42 AM
@Kiwifruit now you just need to make the photochop become real with some decals !
Did you know..
The shortest "-ology" study is Oology - the study of birds eggs.
They are decals Vlad :onya:
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My small protest around a couple of topical issues in NZ at present.
1. Govt wants to tax to death a diesel ute owner and give an electric car owner a shed load of money back for being fcukin green
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If we have an election Kiwi, it will limit the spending and damage the toothy bitch will do ?
That's a crack up Roo!
Coming to the front cover of a womans magazine near you......NZ's Prime Minister
She might be huge on Instagram but l can't for the life of me understand what she has done here to be so popular.....oh thats right, nothing !!
Wait till she gets to be front and center at the UN then the world will see how inept the smiling fish and chip shop communist waitress is.
l hope l havn't been unkind !!
Kiwi, dont know anything about your politics, i try to know nothing about ours. Didnt know your Boss was a fush n chups girl :grin:Just like our Pauline Hanson.
Quote from: Roo on Saturday, 10 July 2021, 01:37 PM
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My small protest around a couple of topical issues in NZ at present.
1. Govt wants to tax to death a diesel ute owner and give an electric car owner a shed load of money back for being fcukin green
If we have an election Kiwi, it will limit the spending and damage the toothy bitch will do ?
[/quote]
Like most Labor politicians they have no regard for the taxpayer money they rape us of.
If they can't steal enough from us to give the 200,000 that are too tired to work they are printing even more.
I'd best stick to the subject of our illustrious motorcycle.
Quote from: GSXKING on Monday, 12 July 2021, 08:23 PM
toothy
Jacinda could eat an apple through a
fence Tennis Racket! :whistling: :rofl2:
Fince
@VladTepes :stir: :stir:
Got off track real quick this subject.
Did you know...
The term "Mad as a Hatter", came from Mercury poisoning whilst using it making hats.
Quote from: Batkwaka on Thursday, 15 July 2021, 08:18 PM
Did you know...
The term "Mad as a Hatter", came from Mercury poisoning whilst using it making hats.
I did know that actually...
Did you know that an Airbus A380 at take off speed of 315kmh requires 1200tons of air per second into each of its Rolls Royce jet turbine engines.
Now THAT is an interesting, and pointless, fact !
Quote from: VladTepes on Friday, 16 July 2021, 10:22 AM
Now THAT is an interesting, and pointless, fact !
Not exactly pointless, because if they didn't, the jet would not get off the ground and we'd have fire and smoke and stuff everywhere, very messy.
But I get what you mean.... :hat:
Did you know at cruising speed Supermarine Spitfires did around 5mpg?
A top fuel dragster engine apparently produces around 8000-10000 brake horsepower, this is calculated as there is no dynamometer large enough to measure actual output.
Also, at the end of a quarter mile run, the engine is running like a diesel as the spark plugs will have melted away because of the ethanol/methanol and nitrous fuelling cocktail that they feed these things.
Fuel mileage is an impressive 80L for a single pass....
Hooli, not cruising but flat out, my old H1 Kawa, Bigger pistons, ported and expansion chambers did exact same mpg. Slightly better actually. Was a pure fossil eater but so quick, until a corner. :grin:
@Eric GSX1400K3 I missed Winternats :( I do LOVE top fuellers !
Did you know:- The word Chunder is derived from convicts calling out on prison boats from above as they vomited. Calling "Watch Under" to anyone below decks. :hat:
Quote from: GSXKING on Monday, 19 July 2021, 05:03 PM
Did you know:- The word Chunder is derived from convicts calling out on prison boats from above as they vomited. Calling "Watch Under" to anyone below decks. :hat:
:clapping:
:rofl2:
Poor bastards below! that'd make them sick as well!
Mike, we need a Chunder emoji :happy1:
Awesome, I'm going to put it on Snapeys boat post! :happy1: :clapping:
The QE2 at cruising speed does 125ft to the gallon.
Quote from: Hooli on Tuesday, 20 July 2021, 04:46 PM
The QE2 at cruising speed does 125ft to the gallon.
The more frequent internet claim is two gallons per foot ! (patently wrong) but yours is actually overly generous!
QE2 fuel bunker capacity is approximately one million gallons (Cunard source) .
1,000,000 x 125 ft - 125,000,000 feet = approx 23,674 miles range.
Cunard however cites the QE2's cruising range as a cruising range of 7,500 miles.
Based on their figures of 1 million gallons and 7,500 mile range, that works out to 39.6 feet per gallon
Cunard state 49 feet per gallon in calm, open seas.
Given weather variations
the average fuel consumption probably is 40-50 feet per gallon.!
Some interesting comparison of various cruise ships on a gallons/hour basis here: https://cruises.lovetoknow.com/wiki/How_Much_Fuel_Does_a_Cruise_Ship_Use
Sources: Cunard, wikipedia, lovetoknow.com, snopes, cruise industry news,
I think most people know this one but it is a favourite of mine:
There is only one lake in the Lake District in England, Bassenthwaite Lake...
There's only one lake in Scotland.
Scottish Lochs have no key.
Quote from: Hooli on Thursday, 05 August 2021, 02:09 AM
Scottish Lochs have no key.
so what do you tie your boat up to then? ??? :happy1:
Did you know:
Perth Is the only Capital City in Australia that isn't named after a person, it is named after Perth in Scotland.
Quote from: Batkwaka on Friday, 20 August 2021, 05:44 PM
Did you know:
Perth Is the only Capital City in Australia that isn't named after a person, it is named after Perth in Scotland.
Devil's advocate... Canberra???
Quote from: Stargazer on Friday, 20 August 2021, 07:21 PM
Quote from: Batkwaka on Friday, 20 August 2021, 05:44 PM
Did you know:
Perth Is the only Capital City in Australia that isn't named after a person, it is named after Perth in Scotland.
Devil's advocate... Canberra???
Quite correct, it should be the only Australian Capital City named after another place.
Canberra is based on an aboriginal name meaning "Vacuous hole of filth".
Quote from: Batkwaka on Friday, 20 August 2021, 07:38 PM
Quote from: Stargazer on Friday, 20 August 2021, 07:21 PM
Quote from: Batkwaka on Friday, 20 August 2021, 05:44 PM
Did you know:
Perth Is the only Capital City in Australia that isn't named after a person, it is named after Perth in Scotland.
Devil's advocate... Canberra???
Quite correct, it should be the only Australian Capital City named after another place.
Canberra is based on an aboriginal name meaning "Vacuous hole of filth".
I believe the same applies to the old Anglo-Saxon name for Westminster... ;)
:lol:
We know, you have put of your selfies on here.
@Irish in Oz you're a funny c.....hap :stir: :stir: :stir:
@GSXKING We should have got a pic together at Dorrigo, then you would have looked really handsome.