You learn something new every day

[Happydays]

Culross is pronounced Coorus, Sauchie is Saw-key

There's lots

[Kendhni]

Stayed there for a week once. Won't be staying again. Flat as a pancake, bu99er all there and windy as hell.

I stayed there for a few nights back in 2010 (on business) - suffice to say the taxi driver from Bristol airport had no idea where I was talking about.

[Manoverboard]

We have stayed in the ' Hoops Inn ', not a million miles away I seem to recall

[Mervyn and Trish]

Not something I learned but something that happened. 71 years old and got my first tattoos today, though the designs are rather uninspiring and their purpose is medical rather than decorative. Still it's something to flash round the pool on Iona next year.

[Manoverboard]

Not something I learned but something that happened. 71 years old and got my first tattoos today, though the designs are rather uninspiring and their purpose is medical rather than decorative. Still it's something to flash round the pool on Iona next year.

They're for target practice ... right

[oldbluefox]

Not something I learned but something that happened. 71 years old and got my first tattoos today, though the designs are rather uninspiring and their purpose is medical rather than decorative. Still it's something to flash round the pool on Iona next year.

They'll go nicely with your battle scars.

[Stephen]

Not something I learned but something that happened. 71 years old and got my first tattoos today, though the designs are rather uninspiring and their purpose is medical rather than decorative. Still it's something to flash round the pool on Iona next year.

Are your joining the Triads

[Ray B]

Not something I learned but something that happened. 71 years old and got my first tattoos today, though the designs are rather uninspiring and their purpose is medical rather than decorative. Still it's something to flash round the pool on Iona next year.

What's next, a ring through the lug and a stud in the nose?

[Kendhni]

Elvis Presley's manager sold "I hate Elvis" badges as a means of getting money from those that did not like him as well as those that did.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Not something I learned but something that happened. 71 years old and got my first tattoos today, though the designs are rather uninspiring and their purpose is medical rather than decorative. Still it's something to flash round the pool on Iona next year.

What's next, a ring through the lug and a stud in the nose?

Apparently you have to be in BUPA to get a Prince Albert....

[Kendhni]

On holiday it appears I have been known to suffer from ice cream induced sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia

[Stephen]

On holiday it appears I have been known to suffer from ice cream induced sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia

I get that from the wife, it affects my neck

[Kendhni]

In 2019 a group of Israeli scientists managed to 3D-print a human heart using cells from the patient.

Makes a change from a cheap plastic whistle (which I believe is the first thing most people 3D-print).

[david63]

I saw a few days ago that they had created a house by 3d printing

[Kendhni]

I watched that - incredible, especially at the price point they are aiming for.
Starting to show us where this technology could take us.

[Mervyn and Trish]

A friend of ours works in a theatre where they use 3D printing to make props. When they closed due to the pandemic they used it instead to print plastic face visors that they donated to local care homes.

[Kendhni]

A friend of ours works in a theatre where they use 3D printing to make props. When they closed due to the pandemic they used it instead to print plastic face visors that they donated to local care homes.

Cool ... and as is appropriate for this thread, I did not know that could be done.

[Ray B]

A friend of ours works in a theatre where they use 3D printing to make props. When they closed due to the pandemic they used it instead to print plastic face visors that they donated to local care homes.

Cool ... and as is appropriate for this thread, I did not know that could be done.

You learn something new every day Ken.

[towny44]

A friend of ours works in a theatre where they use 3D printing to make props. When they closed due to the pandemic they used it instead to print plastic face visors that they donated to local care homes.

Cool ... and as is appropriate for this thread, I did not know that could be done.

I am still amazed at how they can do 3D printing, I think I understand Star Trek teleportation better.

[Mervyn and Trish]

A friend of ours works in a theatre where they use 3D printing to make props. When they closed due to the pandemic they used it instead to print plastic face visors that they donated to local care homes.

Cool ... and as is appropriate for this thread, I did not know that could be done.

I am still amazed at how they can do 3D printing, I think I understand Star Trek teleportation better.

Well if you fancy cuppa in 5 mins I'll put the kettle on

[Kendhni]

A friend of ours works in a theatre where they use 3D printing to make props. When they closed due to the pandemic they used it instead to print plastic face visors that they donated to local care homes.

Cool ... and as is appropriate for this thread, I did not know that could be done.

I am still amazed at how they can do 3D printing, I think I understand Star Trek teleportation better.

Yes, teleportation is basically a mass murder device. Basically it creates a copy of you in the target area and then atomises the old version - since you are a direct copy you don't realise that your existence only came into place at the point of teleportation so you think you have moved from A to B.

[Stephen]

Just as I thought

[Kendhni]

A good news one for today. Symantec did a security survey of several sites and found out that religious sites had 3 times more malware than porn sites. The conclusion for this was that only of the two site types needed to generate a profit.

[Mervyn and Trish]

When I was working in a hospital in the days when such places had internet connections with less capacity than my current home broadband the IT department were charged with clamping down on personal use of the system after the finance department complained they were having trouble accessing central NHS systems to do their work. The IT audit revealed two things about personal.use. The worst offending department was finance. And among them the very worst offender was the Director of Finance managing bookings for a holiday home they owned. Ooops.

[Kendhni]

Throughout history if you counted everyone that reached the age of 65 then half of them would be alive today.
Similarly, of everyone that has ever lived approximately 7-8% are still alive.