F**ked up Facts

[Happyhooker]

Lily Allen is scum

That’s just a simple fact!!

why? seriously, either of you, please explain

[laurent]

This man is only 49 and once was an international fly half / full back!

you'd think a canadian would be wary of putting up pictures of prematurely aged/weighty fly halves/full backs

Full back Sorry That's a pastis ...

[Happyhooker]

This man is only 49 and once was an international fly half / full back!

you'd think a canadian would be wary of putting up pictures of prematurely aged/weighty fly halves/full backs

Full back Sorry That's a pastis ...

that's gone straight over my head, sorry

[GogLais]

you'd think a canadian would be wary of putting up pictures of prematurely aged/weighty fly halves/full backs

Full back Sorry That's a pastis ...

that's gone straight over my head, sorry

Cornish pastis?

[Happyhooker]

Full back Sorry That's a pastis ...

that's gone straight over my head, sorry

Cornish pastis?

now i'm even more confused

[Niegs]

This man is only 49 and once was an international fly half / full back!

you'd think a canadian would be wary of putting up pictures of prematurely aged/weighty fly halves/full backs

Ha, ha... I was looking for a good pic of him, too, when I threw the above up. I suspect he's sucking in his cut something fierce here.

[Happyhooker]

This man is only 49 and once was an international fly half / full back!

you'd think a canadian would be wary of putting up pictures of prematurely aged/weighty fly halves/full backs

Ha, ha... I was looking for a good pic of him, too, when I threw the above up. I suspect he's sucking in his cut something fierce here.

i trained with him and played in 2 games alongside him and he was famously a fat cunt.

this was in the late 80s

[Niegs]

i trained with him and played in 2 games alongside him and he was famously a fat cunt.

this was in the late 80s

Saying he was a “fat cunt” or “fat” and a “cunt”?

[Niegs]

Don’t click if this is that disturbing to you, but many people in the Victorian era had family photos taken with a deceased family member, often a child.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36389581

[Mr Bungle]

Ah, ok. Weird. Maybe just a Celt thing?

Not in our parts - never heard of it before!

It’s not used in NZ but if you ever played Jonah Lomu rugby, you’ll have heard it.

Yes, Bill McLaren used to say "the whistle blows for no side". Or similar.

[laurent]

you'd think a canadian would be wary of putting up pictures of prematurely aged/weighty fly halves/full backs

Full back Sorry That's a pastis ...

that's gone straight over my head, sorry

51 0 in Wembley

[Chilli]

This man is only 49 and once was an international fly half / full back!

Christ almighty, I remember watching him make his debut for Wales. He looked about 14 at the time.

Ok,.....who is he?

[Calculon]

Neil Jenkins, famous Welsh pretty boy back, you remember the 1997 lions tour?

[Happyhooker]

i trained with him and played in 2 games alongside him and he was famously a fat cunt.

this was in the late 80s

Saying he was a “fat cunt” or “fat” and a “cunt”?

Nah, a bit up himself but a decent enough bloke

[clydecloggie]

Rugby. It apparently represents the end of the match. I've never heard it before.

Ah, ok. Weird. Maybe just a Celt thing?

Not in our parts - never heard of it before!

Never heard it used in Glasgow either.

[GogLais]

Full back Sorry That's a pastis ...

that's gone straight over my head, sorry

51 0 in Wembley

Thanks for reminding me about that smirking little git Castaignede running rings around us.

[laurent]

that's gone straight over my head, sorry

51 0 in Wembley

Thanks for reminding me about that smirking little git Castaignede running rings around us.

A votre service.

The 51 Score is important to all french alcoholics

[GogLais]

51 0 in Wembley

Thanks for reminding me about that smirking little git Castaignede running rings around us.

A votre service.

The 51 Score is important to all french alcoholics

Aha!

[Yr Alban]

Ah, ok. Weird. Maybe just a Celt thing?

Not in our parts - never heard of it before!

Never heard it used in Glasgow either.

I’ve seen it used a few times. The first time, I’m sure, was in a newspaper (?The Scotsman, as we took it at home back then) in a report on Scotland’s GS win back in 1990.

[PornDog]

Arkansas borders six states - you can travel from Arkansas into all six of them by travelling due south.

[notfatcat]

There are six states bordering Arkansas. You can travel from all them into Arkansas by heading due north.

[GogLais]

Arkansas borders six states - you can travel from Arkansas into all six of them by travelling due south.

Well I had to check that one. Reminds me of the four colour theorem - in any map, however complicated, no more than four colours are required to ensure that no two adjacent regions have the same colour.

[Kawazaki]

Arkansas borders six states - you can travel from Arkansas into all six of them by travelling due south.

I just checked this fact and it's true.

[Niegs]

What’s with the travel into all by heading due south thing? I’m often slow on riddles but I see LA to the south...

Edit: okay, I see it... can access each state by traveling south from a portion of it. For Oklahoma that must be a very small opportunity?

[Line6 HXFX]

1 (and 2) Austerity in the UK is to blame for 135 thousand deaths, before Covid even hit and during Covid, tens of thousands of infected people were forced to go into work as there was zero support for them if they didn.t..spreading the disease wildly..
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ppr-report

3) Boris desperately wanted a "Brexit" ventilator (a ventilator provided by Dyson and Caterpillar and Brexit entrepreneurs) and completely ignored other established ventilator suppliers, many of which not just went to the wall, the ventilators they supplied had to be taken from the front line for lack of parts and servicing.

[Line6 HXFX]

There is more evidence that we (human beings) created the universe than God.

If in 200 thousand years it is possible that the human race can create a big bang, (bare in mind how far technology has advanced in just a hundred years), then it is extremely likely that the big bang that created us is man made.
We are the only things in the universe you can point a stick at that will shortly (time is relative) have the technology to create a big bang.
Who created the first one, if all we are doing is replicating big bangs..who knows.
Who cares.
The big bang that created us was most likely man made.

I called this theory hillbilly2 theory.
It hit me when I was sat in the bath reading a brief history of time around 2002.
Four years later a article in the daily Express said that " scientists are worried about creating a big bang in a particle accelerator".

[Biffer]

There is more evidence that we (human beings) created the universe than God.

If in 200 thousand years it is possible that the human race can create a big bang, (bare in mind how far technology has advanced in just a hundred years), then it is extremely likely that the big bang that created us is man made.
We are the only things in the universe you can point a stick at that will shortly (time is relative) have the technology to create a big bang.
Who created the first one, if all we are doing is replicating big bangs..who knows.
Who cares.
The big bang that created us was most likely man made.

I called this theory hillbilly2 theory.
It hit me when I was sat in the bath reading a brief history of time around 2002.
Four years later a article in the daily Express said that " scientists are worried about creating a big bang in a particle accelerator".

Less likely man made, but made by intelligent life, yes. If this universe is man made, we would also need to figure out how to bypass the Carlow of time within this universe.

More likely it’s a simulation.

[Line6 HXFX]

There is more evidence that we (human beings) created the universe than God.

If in 200 thousand years it is possible that the human race can create a big bang, (bare in mind how far technology has advanced in just a hundred years), then it is extremely likely that the big bang that created us is man made.
We are the only things in the universe you can point a stick at that will shortly (time is relative) have the technology to create a big bang.
Who created the first one, if all we are doing is replicating big bangs..who knows.
Who cares.
The big bang that created us was most likely man made.

I called this theory hillbilly2 theory.
It hit me when I was sat in the bath reading a brief history of time around 2002.
Four years later a article in the daily Express said that " scientists are worried about creating a big bang in a particle accelerator".

Less likely man made, but made by intelligent life, yes. If this universe is man made, we would also need to figure out how to bypass the Carlow of time within this universe.

More likely it’s a simulation.

So why less likely?
We are hurtling towards the sun at a rate of knots, if we have the technology to reset the entire thing, have the tech to create a big bang, that will esentialky create life on earth in our future and in 30 thousand, 50 thousand or 140 thousand years..why wouldn't we?
I (unlike Christians or religionists) have actual evidence for my theory, I can point at technology that is all around you.
The wheels on your car.

[notfatcat]

From the BBC today -

Neutron stars are dead stars that are incredibly dense. A teaspoonful of material from a neutron star is estimated to weigh around four billion tonnes.

[Oxbow]

And yet still not as dense as Ben Youngs.

[Grandpa]

From the BBC today -

Neutron stars are dead stars that are incredibly dense. A teaspoonful of material from a neutron star is estimated to weigh around four billion tonnes.

Is that heaped or flat?

[Globus]

Arkansas borders six states - you can travel from Arkansas into all six of them by travelling due south.

Well I had to check that one. Reminds me of the four colour theorem - in any map, however complicated, no more than four colours are required to ensure that no two adjacent regions have the same colour.

I tried, very hard, to disprove this. Failure. It's truly amazing.

[Globus]

Have a look at neutrinos. The theory was that they existed but look at what lengths they had to go to, to catch one.

[Grandpa]

Have a look at neutrinos. The theory was that they existed but look at what lengths they had to go to, to catch one.

Damn you for sending me down a rabbit hole... 55

[Grandpa]

Have a look at neutrinos. The theory was that they existed but look at what lengths they had to go to, to catch one.

Damn you for sending me down a rabbit hole...

[tc27]

There is more evidence that we (human beings) created the universe than God.

If in 200 thousand years it is possible that the human race can create a big bang, (bare in mind how far technology has advanced in just a hundred years), then it is extremely likely that the big bang that created us is man made.
We are the only things in the universe you can point a stick at that will shortly (time is relative) have the technology to create a big bang.
Who created the first one, if all we are doing is replicating big bangs..who knows.
Who cares.
The big bang that created us was most likely man made.

I called this theory hillbilly2 theory.
It hit me when I was sat in the bath reading a brief history of time around 2002.
Four years later a article in the daily Express said that " scientists are worried about creating a big bang in a particle accelerator".

Less likely man made, but made by intelligent life, yes. If this universe is man made, we would also need to figure out how to bypass the Carlow of time within this universe.

More likely it’s a simulation.

So why less likely?
We are hurtling towards the sun at a rate of knots, if we have the technology to reset the entire thing, have the tech to create a big bang, that will esentialky create life on earth in our future and in 30 thousand, 50 thousand or 140 thousand years..why wouldn't we?
I (unlike Christians or religionists) have actual evidence for my theory, I can point at technology that is all around you.
The wheels on your car.

I read an interesting sci fi novel that postulated our universe was created as a by product of another universes exotic power/propulsion system their ships used to explore the 'real universe.

Simulation theory is a pretty robust explanation for our universe though - would not surprise me at all.

[Grandpa]

There is more evidence that we (human beings) created the universe than God.

If in 200 thousand years it is possible that the human race can create a big bang, (bare in mind how far technology has advanced in just a hundred years), then it is extremely likely that the big bang that created us is man made.
We are the only things in the universe you can point a stick at that will shortly (time is relative) have the technology to create a big bang.
Who created the first one, if all we are doing is replicating big bangs..who knows.
Who cares.
The big bang that created us was most likely man made.

I called this theory hillbilly2 theory.
It hit me when I was sat in the bath reading a brief history of time around 2002.
Four years later a article in the daily Express said that " scientists are worried about creating a big bang in a particle accelerator".

Less likely man made, but made by intelligent life, yes. If this universe is man made, we would also need to figure out how to bypass the Carlow of time within this universe.

More likely it’s a simulation.

So why less likely?
We are hurtling towards the sun at a rate of knots, if we have the technology to reset the entire thing, have the tech to create a big bang, that will essentially create life on earth in our future and in 30 thousand, 50 thousand or 140 thousand years..why wouldn't we?
I (unlike Christians or religionists) have actual evidence for my theory, I can point at technology that is all around you.
The wheels on your car.

When you say 140,000 years do you mean 14 billion?

[Sandstorm]

The legs on your chair

[Biffer]

The Boötes void, sometimes called the Great Void, is a huge, spherical region of space that contains very few galaxies. It's approximately 700 million light years from Earth and located near the constellation Boötes, which is how it got its name. The supervoid measures 250 million light-years in diameter, representing approximately 0.27% of the diameter of the observable universe, which itself is a daunting 93 billion light-years across. Its volume is estimated at 236,000 Mcp3 , making it the largest known void in the Universe.

At first, astronomers were only able to find eight galaxies across the expanse, but further observations revealed a total of 60 galaxies. Now, while that might still seem like a lot, it would be like stumbling upon ONLY 60 objects across a region larger than the continental United States (and that's just in two dimensions). According to astronomer Greg Aldering, the scale of the void is such that, "If the Milky Way had been in the center of the Boötes void, we wouldn't have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s." Looking at the volume of the Boötes void, it should contain about 10,000 galaxies, when considering that the average distance between galaxies elsewhere in the universe is a few million light-years.

But the question is....why and how this void came to be. There hasn't been enough time since the universe began for mere gravitational forces to clear out a space of that size. There's a theory which suggests that supervoids are caused by the intermingling of smaller mini voids, like soapbubbles coming together.

But a more...maybe creepier...explanation is that the Boötes void could be the result of an expanding Kardashev III scale civilization. As the colonization bubble expands outward from its home system, the civilization dims each star (and subsequently each galaxy) it encounters by blanketing it in a Dyson shell. This might also explain why the void has such a nice, spherical shape.

Oh and we're seeing a snapshot of The Void 700million years ago. A lot could have happened in 700 million years that we just cannot see/know due to the inherant speed of light.

Sleep well.

[Grandpa]

The Boötes void, sometimes called the Great Void, is a huge, spherical region of space that contains very few galaxies. It's approximately 700 million light years from Earth and located near the constellation Boötes, which is how it got its name. The supervoid measures 250 million light-years in diameter, representing approximately 0.27% of the diameter of the observable universe, which itself is a daunting 93 billion light-years across. Its volume is estimated at 236,000 Mcp3 , making it the largest known void in the Universe.

At first, astronomers were only able to find eight galaxies across the expanse, but further observations revealed a total of 60 galaxies. Now, while that might still seem like a lot, it would be like stumbling upon ONLY 60 objects across a region larger than the continental United States (and that's just in two dimensions). According to astronomer Greg Aldering, the scale of the void is such that, "If the Milky Way had been in the center of the Boötes void, we wouldn't have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s." Looking at the volume of the Boötes void, it should contain about 10,000 galaxies, when considering that the average distance between galaxies elsewhere in the universe is a few million light-years.

But the question is....why and how this void came to be. There hasn't been enough time since the universe began for mere gravitational forces to clear out a space of that size. There's a theory which suggests that supervoids are caused by the intermingling of smaller mini voids, like soapbubbles coming together.

But a more...maybe creepier...explanation is that the Boötes void could be the result of an expanding Kardashev III scale civilization. As the colonization bubble expands outward from its home system, the civilization dims each star (and subsequently each galaxy) it encounters by blanketing it in a Dyson shell. This might also explain why the void has such a nice, spherical shape.

Oh and we're seeing a snapshot of The Void 700million years ago. A lot could have happened in 700 million years that we just cannot see/know due to the inherant speed of light.

Sleep well.

I love that story... as a kid, I wish my dad had told me that story instead of the one about Little Red Riding Hood!

Space and time... doesn't it screw with your mind...