Thread: Points to ponder

Originally Posted by Neverna

^ Nobody has taken their TV licence from them at all. However, some more well off people over 75 years old might have the pay for theirs at next renewal. Seems fair to me.

Seems like a fucking rort to me.
TV licence FFS.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

^ nope. The price would plummet if diamonds weren't as rare as getting a green off Harry Barracuda

Diamonds aren't rare, they're just made to seem that way.

I think it's Neptune or Uranus where it rains diamonds.

The most successful ad/scam ever is said to be de Beers 'diamonds are forever' slogan, turning rock into valued gems through a few hypnotic words.

^Did they send him up in your Otto?

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Originally Posted by jabir

I think it's Neptune or Uranus where it rains diamonds.

On Neptune it is raining diamonds.

On Uranus it is raining men.

...^5...

The first humans to reach Neptune will be surrounded by millions of tons of diamonds, and won't be able to bring back even a pocketful.

^On Saturn's ice moon Enceladus there are are geezers spraying water plumes hundreds of kilometres into the sky and falling back as ice and snow.

It would be cool if there were diamond geezers on Neptune!

Originally Posted by Looper

^On Saturn's ice moon Enceladus there are are geezers spraying water plumes hundreds of kilometres into the sky and falling back as ice and snow.

It would be cool if there were diamond geezers on Neptune!

"Geezers"

No reason why not, in fact the geezers could be living on a diamond planet where dirt is so rare that only the richest could afford a few grains.

Originally Posted by jabir

No reason why not, in fact the geezers could be living on a diamond planet where dirt is so rare that only the richest could afford a few grains.

Maybe we could sell dirt to those geezers.

Neutrinos are the second most abundant particles in the universe after photons. The sun sends 65 billion neutrinos per second per square centimeter to earth. So about 100 trillion of them pass through the human body every second.

So about 100 trillion of them pass through the human body every second.

'bout like an Indian curry then?

My SIL of work in her food stall today. Her shoulder aches from making too much somtam.

Hmmm. In the west we have l of kitchen devices for mixing cakes, bread, et al. But no Thai person has invented an electric somtam maker?

Woolly Mammoths Were Still Alive While Egyptians Were Building The Pyramids (2660 BCE)


Nintendo Was Founded When Jack the Ripper Was Still On The Loose (1889)


Swiss Women Got The Right To Vote The Same Year The US Drove A Buggy On The Moon (1971)


Ecstasy Was Invented The Same Year The Titanic Sank (1912)


Oxford University Existed For Hundreds Of Years Before The Aztec Empire Was Founded (1428)

Originally Posted by Luigi

Oxford University Existed For Hundreds Of Years Before The Aztec Empire Was Founded (1428)

And life was grim until the Spaniards came back with tobacco and from henceforth professorial types looked a lot wiser tamping down their pipes whilst mulling the mysteries of the universe.

Originally Posted by Luigi

Woolly Mammoths Were Still Alive While Egyptians Were Building The Pyramids (2660 BCE)

From the look of your chest hair and the size of your proboscis I say they still are.

Not to mention his primitive sexual urges.

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Not to mention his primitive sexual urges.

I know, i suspect he is a Homosapien!! and is known to associate with thespians.

On the subject of world population, interesting talk on why the world population wont exceed 11 billion, by the world renowned statistician Hans Rosling. watch it to the end, it is only 16 min and it would be perfectly clear.

Originally Posted by Luigi

Interesting, but it's mostly a sparsely populated land where the people have limited contact with the civilised world and are largely primitive in their way of life and habits.

However, enough about Australia. It is what it is.