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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Earnest » July 13, 2022, 10:43 pm

You got that right, Uncle T, the Jocks do good fish and chips.


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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » July 13, 2022, 11:54 pm

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Günther Prien (16 January 1908 – presumed 8 March 1941) was a German U-boat commander during World War II. He was the first U-boat commander to receive the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and the first member of the Kriegsmarine to receive the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. It was Germany's highest military decoration at the time of its presentation to Prien.[Note 1]

Under Prien's command, the submarine U-47 was credited with sinking over 30 Allied ships totalling about 200,000 gross register tons (GRT), along with the British battleship HMS Royal Oak at anchor in the Home Fleet's anchorage in Scapa Flow

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The brand is owned by a department of PepsiCo.
That's right, Frito-Lay North America—the company Mr. Lay founded with the maker of Fritos corn chips—is owned and operated by PepsiCo. Frito-Lay is a $13 billion dollar business for the beverage and convenience food giant and produces such other iconic chip brands as Doritos, Cheetos, Sun Chips, Tostitos, Funyuns, Ruffles, Smartfood, and more.

Lay's chips are high in sodium.
You know potato chips are salty, that's hardly a revelation. Still, just how salty they are may come as a shock.

According to the labeling of a single eight-ounce bag of Lay's Classic potato chips, that bag will net you 1,360 milligrams of sodium, which is way more than half of your daily allotment of 2,300 milligrams, per the CDC.


Lay's once released Cappuccino-flavored chips.
Lay's once produced and sold Cappuccino-flavored potato chips. The limited run was part of a contest wherein Lay's fans could submit flavor ideas and then vote on their absolute favorite, according to Grub Street. Cappuccino won, and the chip giant had to follow through with making them.


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First British ocean-going ironclad warship

HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate[Note 1] built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire. Warrior conducted a publicity tour of Great Britain in 1863 and spent her active career with the Channel Squadron. Obsolescent following the 1873 commissioning of the mastless and more capable HMS Devastation, she was placed in reserve in 1875, and was "paid off" – decommissioned – in 1883.

She subsequently served as a storeship and depot ship, and in 1904 was assigned to the Royal Navy's torpedo training school. The ship was converted into an oil jetty in 1927 and remained in that role until 1979, at which point she was donated by the Navy to The Maritime Trust for restoration. The restoration process took eight years, during which many of her features and fittings were either restored or recreated. When this was finished she returned to Portsmouth as a museum ship. Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, Warrior has been based in Portsmouth since 1987.

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Earnest » July 14, 2022, 2:04 am

You can visit Warrior at the Historic Dockyard and have a wander around the decks, DooDoo, very interesting. I think KP served on it when Jesus was a Killick.
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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Khun Paul » July 14, 2022, 7:23 am

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You can visit Warrior at the Historic Dockyard and have a wander around the decks, DooDoo, very interesting. I think KP served on it when Jesus was a Killick.
Yes correct under a Chief GI locally known as God !!

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Earnest » July 14, 2022, 10:47 pm

Have you visited the Historic Dockyard, sir?
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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » July 14, 2022, 11:03 pm

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TRAVEL SAFETY

CIA tip: Make a paper and digital copy of your passport. While traveling abroad, it might literally be your ticket home if problems arise. If a hotel desk clerk asks to hold on to your passport, see if they’ll accept the paper copy. While you’re at it, write down some important phone numbers on the hard copy, including emergency contacts and the local U.S. embassy just in case.
Email yourself the digital copy in case your phone goes missing along with your passport

CIA tip: Learn some local lingo. Bring a pocket guidebook or phone app so you can pick up key words and phrases.

Josh's tip: My go-to essentials include “thank you,” “please,” “hello,” “goodbye,” “yes/no,” “help,” “bathroom” and “police.” In worst-case scenarios, yelling out “no cash” helps if you believe you might be getting robbed, and “medic” and “hospital” if someone is hurt.
CIA tip: Try to reserve a room on a middle floor. Being on the ground floor can leave you vulnerable to break-ins, but many countries’ emergency response personnel aren’t equipped to reach higher than a few floors off the ground.
CIA tip: Lock it up. Automatic locks on hotel room doors can often be forced open, and the chains cut. Use the deadbolt if there is one. Better yet, invest in a cheap and easily portable rubber door stop; they work amazingly well.

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Melbourne was first called Batmania – what an awesome name for a city! John Batman established a settlement on the Yarra River, naturally naming it after himself. But in 1837 it was officially named Melbourne after the British Prime Minister visited.

Australia was the second country in the world where women could vote. While New Zealand proudly beat us by giving women the vote in 1893, we followed suit in 1902. However, we were well ahead of the USA (1920), UK & Ireland (1928), and ahead of all the Scandinavian countries.

We are home to the Box Jellyfish – the world’s most venomous creature.

Tasmania has the cleanest air of anywhere in the world.

The design of our famous Sydney Opera House was inspired by an orange. Although many Aussies think it looks closer to some white porcelain bowls sitting in a dish rack.

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eccentric


adjective | ik-SEN-trik

What It Means

Eccentric usually describes people and things that deviate from conventional or accepted usage or behavior, especially in odd or whimsical ways. It is also used technically to mean "deviating from a circular path" and "located elsewhere than at the geometric center."

// Down the road from us lives an eccentric old man who claims that he can communicate with the birds that roost in his yard.

// The dwarf planet Pluto has a particularly eccentric orbit.

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Earnest » July 15, 2022, 1:05 am

And does this eccentric old man have a name, DooDoo?
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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Laan Yaa Mo » July 15, 2022, 2:05 am

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July 15, 2022, 1:05 am
And does this eccentric old man have a name, DooDoo?
C'mon Westerby, pay attention. Your eccentric little buddy, Doodoo, already gave you the answer. It's Pluto. Beware because he is apt to borrow a switch from Matron to tan your hide.

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Earnest » July 15, 2022, 4:18 am

It does.

What was I thinking?
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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Earnest » July 16, 2022, 12:40 am

It looks like nothing really happened today.
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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Laan Yaa Mo » July 16, 2022, 12:48 am

Sunday is World Ice-Cream day so I expect Doodoo will provide a doozy in a few days.
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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » July 23, 2022, 12:23 am

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Sheep Rule!
There are 9 sheep per person in New Zealand, making it the highest ratio in the world.

At the time, there are just 4.8 million New Zealanders, scattered across 268,021 sq km, which means there are over 43 million sheep in New Zealand!


For the Love of Golf
With more than 400, New Zealand has more golf courses per capita than anywhere else in the world.


STEEPEST STREETS
The steepest residential street in the world is called Baldwin Street and is located in Dunedin. It has a gradient of 38 degrees.

More Scottish Pipes?
There are more Scottish piping bands per capita in New Zealand than in Scotland.

Least Corrupt Nation in the World
According to the Corruptions Perception Index, New Zealand is the least corrupt nation in the world (tied with Denmark).

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Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel (/kəˈniːvəl/; October 17, 1938 – November 30, 2007) was an American stunt performer and entertainer. Over the course of his career, he attempted more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps. Knievel was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999.[1] He diedn of pulmonary disease in Clearwater, Florida, in 2007, aged 69.
Most broken bones in ones body 433 A Guiness World book Record
Insurance
In a 1971 interview with Dick Cavett, Knievel stated that he was uninsurable following the Caesars' crash. Knievel said he was turned down 37 times from Lloyd's of London, stating, "I have trouble getting life insurance, accident insurance, hospitalization and even insurance for my automobile ... Lloyd's of London has rejected me 37 times so if you hear the rumor that they insure anybody, don't pay too much attention to it."[22] Four years later, a clause in Knievel's contract to jump 14 buses at Kings Island required a one-day $1 million liability insurance to the amusement park. Lloyd's of London offered the liability insurance for $17,500.[23] Knievel eventually paid $2,500 to a U.S.-based insurance company.


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The SEAT motor company was founded where
A) SPAIN
B) PORTUGAL
C) DENMARK









ANSWER
A)SPAIN

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Barney » July 23, 2022, 1:32 am

You got me curious and thinking doodoo.

List of countries with more sheep than people, numbers and ratios 2020
January 23, 2021


Mauritania

Population of Mauritania: 4.7 million
Number of Sheep in Mauritania: 8.8 million
Ratio: 1.8 sheep per person in Mauritania

Iceland

Population of Iceland: 360k
Number of Sheep in Iceland: 454k
Ratio: 1.2 sheep per person in Iceland

Ireland

Population of Iceland: 5 million
Number of Sheep in Iceland: 5.5 million
Ratio: 1.1 sheep per person in Ireland

Namibia

Population of Namibia: 2.5 million
Number of Sheep in Namibia: 2.7 million
Ratio: 1.08 sheep per person in Namibia

Uruguay

Population of Uruguay: 3.5 million
Number of Sheep in Uruguay: 10.3 million
Ratio: 2.9 sheep per person in Uruguay

Wales

Population of Wales: 3.1 million
Number of Sheep in Wales: 9.5 million
Ratio: 3 sheep per person in Wales

Mongolia

Population of Mongolia: 3.3 million
Number of Sheep in Namibia: 14.8 million
Ratio: 4.5 sheep per person in Mongolia

Australia

Population of Australia: 25.6 million
Number of Sheep in Australia: 85.7 million
Ratio: 3.3 sheep per person in Australia

New Zealand

Population of New Zealand: 5 million
Number of Sheep in New Zealand: 38.4 million
Ratio: 7.7 sheep per person in New Zealand

Falkland Islands

Population of Falkland Islands: 3,500
Number of Sheep in Falkland Islands: 700k
Ratio: 200 sheep per person in the Falkland Islands


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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Earnest » July 23, 2022, 4:45 pm

Ewe must be joking, I saw an awful lot of sheep in the Falklands but not many Bennys.
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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » July 23, 2022, 10:18 pm

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Here are InterNations’ best and worst places for expats to live in 2022:
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/10-b ... 21987.html
The Top 10
1. Mexico

2. Indonesia

3. Taiwan

4. Portugal

5. Spain

6. United Arab Emirates

7. Vietnam

8. Thailand

9. Australia

10. Singapore

The Bottom 10
43. Malta

44. Italy

45. Turkey

46. South Africa

47. Japan

48. Luxembourg

49. Cyprus

50. Hong Kong

51. New Zealand

52. Kuwait


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backspang noun


Definition of backspang
chiefly Scottish
: a trick or loophole that enables one to retreat from a bargain

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The Aussie alps receive more snow than Switzerland.
AFL was invented to keep cricketers fit during their offseason.
Outside of Athens, Melbourne has the world’s largest Greek population.

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Laan Yaa Mo » July 23, 2022, 10:56 pm

You should update your list, Doodoo, and get more African destinations on there in addition to Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar et al. And why is New Zealand ranked 51st behind Hong Kong?
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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by stattointhailand » July 23, 2022, 11:49 pm

High risk of bumping into GT?

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Earnest » July 24, 2022, 12:01 am

Laan Yaa Mo wrote:
July 23, 2022, 10:56 pm
You should update your list, Doodoo, and get more African destinations on there in addition to Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar et al. And why is New Zealand ranked 51st behind Hong Kong?
There's a link, which I'm sure you'll agree is progress in terms of therapy. It's actually written by someone called Christine Mui and pitched at the Yanks, which is why Cyprus is number 49ish, I guess. Quite a few HM Forces old boys retire to Cyprus...nice island but attracts the Russkis too.

I've never visited NZ but would have quite happily retired to HK before the HK Police and Carrie Lam sold out to the Communists.
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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » July 24, 2022, 12:26 am

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You can buy green-bean-flavoured ice pops in China!

In Ancient China, soldiers sometimes wore armour made from paper.

The Forbidden City, a palace complex in Beijing, contains about 9,000 rooms!

The mortar used to bind the Great Wall’s stones was made with sticky rice!

Half of all pigs on earth live in China.

Put together, all of China’s railways lines could loop around earth twice!


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The long-eared jerboa (Euchoreutes naso)[2] is a nocturnal mouse-like rodent with a long tail, long hind legs for jumping, and exceptionally large ears. It is distinct enough that authorities consider it to be the only member of both its genus, Euchoreutes, and subfamily, Euchoreutinae.

Long-eared jerboas are found in the Palearctic ecozone. The specific palearctic ecozone areas they are found in are southernmost Mongolia to the Takla-Makan Desert, Mengxin, Aerijin Mountain, and Qing-Zang Plateau regions of north western China.[3] Long-eared jerboas in most cases are nocturnal,[3] The long-eared jerboa's fur according to the book 100 animals to see before they die "is reddish yellow to pale russet with white underparts."[4] Very little is known about the species.





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nuance


noun | NOO-ahnss

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A nuance is a subtle distinction, variation, or quality in something, such as tone, color, meaning, etc.

// Her highly trained palate is able to detect nuances in fine wine that even most oenophiles cannot.

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Laan Yaa Mo » July 24, 2022, 3:55 am

stattointhailand wrote:
July 23, 2022, 11:49 pm
High risk of bumping into GT?
Yes, that explains New Zealand's very low ranking perfectly.
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