The Thread of Useless Facts

**vifferman** · 29th January 2008, 14:49

Originally Posted by FlangMasterJ

It's even harder to eat your own head.

That's because on of The Basic Rules of Food is "never eat anything bigger than your head".

It's obvious, innit? If you're feeding your head, and try and squeeze too much in, it will come out your ears and nose.

Or your head might explode.

**Maha** · 29th January 2008, 14:52

I Was 'Not' Born in Rotorua!

**Ocean1** · 29th January 2008, 15:02

Originally Posted by katman

The Vikings navigated by a method called 'deliberate error' whereby instead of steering straight towards where they wanted to end up, they deliberately steered a course to one side so that when they made land they knew exactly which way to turn to reach their destination.

Originally Posted by Swoop

This is called off-course navigation. Used in aviation by not allowing for windstrength. When you need to find where the destination is, at the end of the flight time, you look upwind.

In the case of the Vikings I suspect it was neither deliberate nor an allowance for windage. Longships had appaling pointing ability, they "went about" by swapping sharp ends and leaway was huge. They simply didn't have much choice about their point of sail, so they kept track of the difference between their desired course and their actual course. Basic dead reckoning navigation, get it wrong and instead of appropriating a few sheep and taking advantage of the maidens of the Welsh coast you'd find yourself emigrating to a brave new colony in Greenland.

**vifferman** · 29th January 2008, 15:04

Originally Posted by maha man

I Was 'Not' Born in Rotorua!

But I was.

**Finn** · 29th January 2008, 15:23

Originally Posted by maha man

I Was 'Not' Born in Rotorua!

You still smell funny.

**Maha** · 29th January 2008, 15:25

Originally Posted by Finn

You still smell funny.

That is not a Useless fact!!...its just Fact......

**ManDownUnder** · 29th January 2008, 15:35

Originally Posted by vifferman

That's because on of The Basic Rules of Food is "never eat anything bigger than your head".

But if I come across some tits bigger than my head am still allowed to lick them?

**Finn** · 29th January 2008, 15:43

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

But if I come across some tits bigger than my head am still allowed to lick them?

Only the Far North has tits bigger than your head and I'm not sure you'd appreciate whats behind them.

**Ixion** · 29th January 2008, 15:45

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

*cough* bullshit *cough*

...fish don't get pregnant... they lay eggs

'Tis in the big Oxford, marked archaic. It actually refers to a gravid fish, as you note goldfish do not get pregnant. 'twit' is actually a contraction the correct term is an entwitith

**Ocean1** · 29th January 2008, 15:55

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

But if I come across some tits bigger than my head am still allowed to lick them?

Can we, for the moment, assume that the rule applies to solids only?

It's just that, I was SO looking forward to my wee evening tipple which, traditionally exceeds the size limit in question by some margin...

**Oakie** · 29th January 2008, 16:58

Originally Posted by 007XX

It is also one of the most poorly fed area of the body in nerve endings...hence the fact that even if you pinch the skin of your elbow really, and I mean really hard, you won't feel much...

Yes I pinched it really hard (like all the other readers of this thread I'll bet) and it's true. No pain. Well I guess if I ever need a skin graft for my penis then, I won't select the elbow as the donor site.

**HDTboy** · 29th January 2008, 17:04

Fanta was created during World War II in Nazi Germany by the German Coca-Cola bottling company. Due to restrictions on shipping between Germany and the United States, the German bottling plant could not get Coca-Cola syrup.