Points to ponder

**uncle junior** · 25-11-2018, 12:29 PM

Dog piss = K₉P

**Maanaam** · 25-11-2018, 12:48 PM

Oxygen went for a date with Potassium.
It was OK.

**VocalNeal** · 25-11-2018, 07:18 PM

Are Brits better at counting in Roman numerals? He ponders after watching a BBC Nature documentary from 2012

**SKkin** · 26-11-2018, 04:23 AM

Originally Posted by uncle junior

What's under the Antarctic ice?

Don't you have a Piri Reis map?

**Maanaam** · 26-11-2018, 06:19 AM

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Are Brits better at counting in Roman numerals? He ponders after watching a BBC Nature documentary from 2012

FFS (@ me). I've looked at that and pondered it since it was posted. Penny just dropped.
Yes, why do they do that?

**cyrille** · 26-11-2018, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Are Brits better at counting in Roman numerals? He ponders after watching a BBC Nature documentary from 2012

Possibly yes, but most likely only because of TV programmes.

MCMLXXV sticks in the memory for some reason. Maybe that's when I found out they were Roman numerals.

**Luigi** · 26-11-2018, 01:44 PM

Did the person who termed Racecar know it was a palindrome?

**Maanaam** · 26-11-2018, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by cyrille

Possibly yes, but most likely only because of TV programmes.

MCMLXXV sticks in the memory for some reason. Maybe that's when I found out they were Roman numerals.

How old were you in 1975, or later, to have just realised that?

Starting to get a hint on why you're ignorant of anything but very common knowedge.

**uncle junior** · 26-11-2018, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by SKkin

Don't you have a Piri Reis map?

I've been watching some docs on it. You think it's legit?

**jabir** · 28-11-2018, 07:34 PM

Bootes Void. An empty region in space millions of light years across; beautiful and terrifying.

**jabir** · 08-12-2018, 11:04 AM

Someone made up dinosaur sounds without ever hearing them.

**jabir** · 08-12-2018, 11:10 AM

**Takeovers** · 08-12-2018, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by jabir

Someone made up dinosaur sounds without ever hearing them.

From skeletons found they have a good idea how the resonance cavities looked like they used to produce the sounds. That gives them a good idea on how they sounded.

Good selection of factoids, I like the beans comment.

**Luigi** · 08-12-2018, 11:43 AM

^ Colours though. T-Rex could have been pink.

**jabir** · 22-12-2018, 02:48 PM

**happynz** · 22-12-2018, 02:56 PM

Maybe there's a prescient under the tree.

**uncle junior** · 22-12-2018, 03:39 PM

rimshot

**happynz** · 22-12-2018, 05:12 PM

An octopus has nine hearts, three brains, and blue blood.

**cyrille** · 22-12-2018, 05:24 PM

Sounds like the Brit Royal family.

**SKkin** · 22-12-2018, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by happynz

An octopus has nine hearts, three brains, and blue blood.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Sounds like the Brit Royal family.

Three brains between a hundred of them?

**pseudolus** · 22-12-2018, 06:17 PM

^ certainly no heart.

**jabir** · 22-12-2018, 06:23 PM

I know what the turban guy is thinking, knob!

**jabir** · 23-12-2018, 03:10 PM

No matter what you're dealt you can always start over.

**Luigi** · 27-12-2018, 10:41 AM

**baldrick** · 27-12-2018, 10:45 AM

lint or fluff ?

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