Andy_R
Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
- Location
- County Durham
Point of order. It's not a pie. It's a pizza. This is why you should never cut and paste verbatim from the interwebs.
Pie:
The difference should be blindingly obvious.
Really TRUE odd factoids
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Pie:
The difference should be blindingly obvious.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Corona as in Corona virus comes from the crown like structures it has
I was diagnosed with colour-blindness. It came like a bolt from the green.I was aware of that. I am developing puzzle game apps in which good colour vision would have been needed. I have added extra detail to make it possible for people with poor colour vision to play.
There is a useful colour blindness simulator HERE.
Another interesting factoid is that accessibility software can make it possible for blind people to work with GUIs like Windows.
Many years ago a blind person came to our company to explain what changes we needed to make to our software in order for operators like her to be able to use it. She used a screen reader program to read text off the screen to her. We added a status bar into which we fed important information - 'Warning - reactor #2 cooling system failure', 'Reactor #2 core temperature exceeding safe limits', 'Leave Ukraine NOW!!!' - that kind of thing...
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Vindaloo originated from Portuguese sailors, carne de vinha d'alhos ("meat in garlic wine marinade"). The basic structure of the dish was "preserved" raw ingredients, packed in wooden barrels of layers of pork & garlic, soaked in red wine. This was "Indianized" by the local Goan cooks.
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
Dean Martin might beg to differ...
"When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's amore"
classic33
Leg End Member
Founded on September 23, 1889, by Fusajiro Yamauchi, Nintendo originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as cab services and love hotels.
The word Nintendo can be roughly translated from Japanese to English as "leave luck to heaven".
The word Nintendo can be roughly translated from Japanese to English as "leave luck to heaven".
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
Fish used to have fingers.
https://www.livescience.com/ancient-fish-fingers.html
https://www.livescience.com/ancient-fish-fingers.html
Technically speaking there is only half a road, as the boundary between City and Islington runs down the middle. Another fun fact the population of the City of London is only about 8,000. Whilst I am on a mapping roll, there is only one named two way street in the country on which you legally drive on the right, Savoy Court.
Andy_R
Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
- Location
- County Durham
Not something to be Snickered at
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
What's the point of having a separate thread for true odd factoids if people are going to put things like this in it?
classic33
Leg End Member
The fear of premature burial, the "deceased" being in a coma for instance, not actually dead, led to many devices being patented to allow the "deceased" to alert those above ground to their plight.
One of the most simple of these was a cord attached to the persons finger. The cord leading to a bell on the surface, which would ring when the cord was pulled. The "deceased" became the dead ringer whilst the person watching for any activity would be working the graveyard shift. Their job was to get the "deceased" coffin dodger, for whom the bell tolled, to the surface, having been saved by the bell, and to a physician.
One of the most simple of these was a cord attached to the persons finger. The cord leading to a bell on the surface, which would ring when the cord was pulled. The "deceased" became the dead ringer whilst the person watching for any activity would be working the graveyard shift. Their job was to get the "deceased" coffin dodger, for whom the bell tolled, to the surface, having been saved by the bell, and to a physician.
classic33
Leg End Member
Roller coasters were invented to distract Americans from sin
In the 1880s, hosiery businessman LaMarcus Thompson hated that Americans were tempted by hedonistic places like saloons and brothels.
So he set out to straighten up one of the most immoral places he could think of: Coney Island in New York. There, he built America’s first roller coaster to give New Yorkers some good, clean fun—away from seedier pastimes.
In the 1880s, hosiery businessman LaMarcus Thompson hated that Americans were tempted by hedonistic places like saloons and brothels.
So he set out to straighten up one of the most immoral places he could think of: Coney Island in New York. There, he built America’s first roller coaster to give New Yorkers some good, clean fun—away from seedier pastimes.
