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Facts

 
 
All Acting Regiment
17:33 / 29.10.05
Let's take random facts from here and discuss them.

To start the role bawling:

The octopus' testicles are located in its head.

If you cut a 'V' shape into your toe nails, you can prevent 'in-grown' toe nails.

Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:06 / 29.10.05
You have no sense of smell when you are sleeping.

Guess that explains why we need smoke alarms and why so many people die in their sleep of smoke inhalation. Can't ever remember the sense of smell featuring in a dream either but then I don't have a great sense of smell. It's a potent trigger to memory though. I do clearly remember dreaming the senses of sight, hearing and touch.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
12:34 / 30.10.05
I'm sure I remember being woken by the smell from when my cat pissed in the toaster just before one of my family started toasting (allow time for cat to run away).
 
 
matthew.
12:51 / 30.10.05
Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter!

Now I have a real reason to hate the diamond mining/selling/advertising system.

And this little nugget gives me gele(sic):
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe!
 
 
sleazenation
13:10 / 30.10.05
The male barnacle has the longest penis in proportion to body size of any creature in the animal kingdom. Because it is rooted to the spot, it uses its penis to grope around for a mate...
 
 
Mourne Kransky
14:29 / 30.10.05
When gentlemen in medieval Japan wished to seal an agreement, they urinated together, crisscrossing their streams of urine.

Who you gonna call?
 
 
All Acting Regiment
14:47 / 30.10.05
The male barnacle has the longest penis in proportion to body size of any creature in the animal kingdom. Because it is rooted to the spot, it uses its penis to grope around for a mate...

...d'knock it till you've tried it...
 
 
Triplets
15:40 / 30.10.05
Taht's a petrty cool dioscvery, matt. Mghit hvae to look itno taht one.
 
 
Mistoffelees
16:37 / 30.10.05
Teshe sehos are mdae for winklag.

Or to tkae amrs angaist a sea of trelobus
And by onspipog end tehm.

Mybae dreseves its own trahed?
 
 
alejandrodelloco
16:44 / 30.10.05
Cats cannot taste sweet things.

No wonder they are so angry, pissing in toasters and whatnot.
 
 
w1rebaby
16:54 / 30.10.05
Dogs can't look up, either.
 
 
Triplets
21:42 / 30.10.05
They fucking can.
 
 
LykeX
09:04 / 31.10.05
Not very high. That's why one trick to get a dog to sit is to hold a treat high above them. Then they have to sit down in order to see it.
 
 
The Puck
00:17 / 01.11.05
Teshe sehos are mdae for winklag.

Or to tkae amrs angaist a sea of trelobus
And by onspipog end tehm.

Mybae dreseves its own trahed?

i didnt understand this, line for line, scrolling down. but when i saw the whole i got it instantly.

AND ive just realised that im quite dyslexic indeed. intresting.
 
 
matthew.
02:41 / 01.11.05
Teshe sehos are mdae for winklag.

Or to tkae amrs angaist a sea of trelobus
And by onspipog end tehm.

Mybae dreseves its own trahed?


I don't understand the italicized part. Am I stupid? Could someone help me with this?

Also, this fact I found reminds me of that trick where you ask a person to see a sentence and tell you how many "f"s are in the sentence, and the person forgets to count "of".
 
 
Axolotl
06:52 / 01.11.05
These shoes are made for walking, troubles & opposing. Those were more difficult than other parts, but you should also brush up on your Shakespeare.
 
 
Axolotl
07:32 / 01.11.05
Gah, I've just realised my previous post makes me sound like a prat. Sorry Matt, I didn't mean to sound so condescending.
 
 
Evil Scientist
08:52 / 01.11.05
The fastest moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.
 
 
Sekhmet
14:35 / 01.11.05
Armadillos always bear their young in litters of four, all of the same sex.

Identical quadruplets every time. Aren't you glad you're not an armadillo?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:59 / 01.11.05
Am I stupid?

Not necessarily, but you've disproved your original fact. People recognise patterns, and certain patterns are easier to interpret than others. Faced with very easy anagrams for very common words, people can solve them very quickly, so quickly that they appear to be reading at an approximately normal speed, especially if they are short words, words with a combination of letters that do not occur in many places or words the letters of which remain in approximately the same order. There's more on this here.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
15:06 / 01.11.05
I'm dubious about the cats not tasting sweet things, actually. One of mine grew up round the back of a hotel in Warrington and always goes for christmas cakes, party rings, pop tarts...even jam if it's left out.
 
 
Lysander Stark
13:36 / 02.11.05
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an 'Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.'

From slam-dunk to apotheosis. Or something.

I am always dubious about the dogs-looking-up debate, not least because my parents' dogs can clearly look up. However, many people (Americans who hunt, so not, strictly speaking, 'many', but you know what I mean...) tell me that deer either cannot or do not look up. The ingenious but not really sporting Americans therefore have special chairs in trees where they can sit and wait until a stoopid deer passes nearby, failing to see a man with a gun (and probably a few beers) hanging 20 feet off the ground, and thereby crossing the line from deer to venison.
 
 
Sekhmet
14:08 / 02.11.05
Sometimes in trees, sometimes just a little box on top of a tall structure with a ladder, called a deer stand. These are frequently placed in proximity to a deer feeder.

Fun, innit?
 
 
All Acting Regiment
14:57 / 02.11.05
Oh deer.
 
 
Spaniel
13:01 / 03.11.05
Here's a nicer fact. Did you know that my home city - Brighton & Hove - is the only city in the world to have an ampersand in it's name?

Tutully amussing.
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
13:04 / 03.11.05
What about London & Big London then?

sussed.
 
 
Quantum
13:17 / 03.11.05
only city in the world to have an ampersand in it's name?

Truly we rock & roll. Except the shortening to B&H like the crap fags.
 
 
Quantum
13:37 / 03.11.05
I am always dubious about the dogs-looking-up debate

What debate? [after the gun fires in the pub, proving Ed correct]
Shaun: Okay. But dogs CAN look up!


Nuff said.
 
 
Spaniel
13:57 / 03.11.05
Harrison's only jealous becuase he moved away from our radically individual and cool city.

Big London doesn't even exist!
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
14:04 / 03.11.05
just 'cos you've never been doen't mean it doesn't exist Boboss.
Anyway i was chucked out of Brighton when my trust fund ran out & my dreads where chopped off!

FACT!
 
 
Quantum
14:14 / 03.11.05
"You don't have to be TEH GAY to live here- but it helps!!!"
Seagulls bigger than dogs, scenic views, no parking and one-and-a-half piers, ahhh Brighton&Hove!
 
  
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