The Thread for Useless, but Interesting Facts

[Mel81x+]

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/shopping-cart-origin/

What an odd read but also quite fascinating.

[CaaC (John)+]

37 minutes ago, Mel81x said:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/shopping-cart-origin/

What an odd read but also quite fascinating.

That was a fascinating read and made me think, the likes of Tescos give you an option of either using a small trolley or a big one as you do get a lot of small shop owners using the big trolleys for bulk buying for their shops where the likes of me would prefer a small trolley.

Yet our local Farmfoods store and Iceland only have big trolleys, I take it that this makes you buy more as you have a lot more space to put your goods in, I hate when there are only big trolleys left as all the small ones are being used, weird, but there you go, these small shop owners will more than likely use s big store that has big trolleys and avoids a store that only has small trolleys or baskets only.

Our local £1 shop only has these below ** which are awkward to use you can either carry them or wheel around, Lidles have these too but with an option of a big trolly or a small one, Lidles and the £1 shop stopped using wire hand baskets ages ago which now makes you buy more without knowing it.

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[nudge]

That's why I always have an empty cardboard box in the car and use it instead of trolleys or hand baskets. Buy less shit I don't need and also avoid plastic bags which I fucking hate.

50 minutes ago, Mel81x said:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/shopping-cart-origin/

What an odd read but also quite fascinating.

Single nights at a supermarket was by far the oddest thing in the article...

[CaaC (John)+]

What a load of crap  

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According to a 2017 study by British non-profit UKActive, adults spend an average of 3 hours and 9 minutes on the toilet each week, but only spend around 1  hour and 30 minutes being physically active during that same time span. Maybe this somewhat useless, but also motivating fact is what we needed to hear to get to the gym.

[Azeem]

If all countries in the world start consuming as much as US, we would need resources that of five Earths.

[Guest]

Today is bubble wrap appreciation day. I still love popping the bubbles so I get it

[CaaC (John)+]

What is the funniest law in America?

Weirdest laws passed in every state

• No intoxicated skiing. ...
• Cheese standards are regulated. ...
• No 'lewd and lascivious' behavior before marriage. ...
• It's illegal to kill Bigfoot. ...
• No hunting on Sundays, unless you're killing raccoons. ...
• No forbidding people from putting up clotheslines. ...
• It's illegal to 'cause a catastrophe'

https://eu.usatoday.com/list/news/nation-now/weirdest-laws-every-state/53ad0541-3518-4432-adc4-0fec193d389e/

 

[Tommy]

5 minutes ago, CaaC (John) said:

What is the funniest law in America?

 

• It's illegal to 'cause a catastrophe'

 

Guess that law wasn't in place when George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin etc were around. 

[Azeem]

Black propaganda is outright lying for malicious reasons, no source is given for what is said. White propaganda is clever way of presenting apparent facts, basically what PR is

Grey propaganda is middle between the two, most global indexes most happy nations, best cities to live fall in this category

[CaaC (John)+]

6 minutes ago, Tommy said:

Guess that law wasn't in place when George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, James Monroe and Benjamin Franklin were around. 

UTAH

It's illegal to 'cause a catastrophe'

In Utah, it's illegal to "cause a catastrophe." State law defines a catastrophe as widespread injury or damage caused by weapons of mass destruction, explosion, fire, flood, avalanche, or building collapse.

[Bluewolf]

[Stan]

2 minutes ago, Bluewolf said:

This is why women drivers are bad

[Azeem]

Word India comes from the river Indus, which originates in Tibet. The inhabitants beyond the river have been called different names Indos, Sindos, Hindos which also later became a religious identity.

The word India was added to a lot new places like Native Americans, West Indies (Caribbean), East Indies (Indonesia) by white folks bcz they thought anyone brown-ish is Indian.

[Rucksackfranzose]

1 hour ago, Khan of TF365 said:

Word India comes from the river Indus, which originates in Tibet. The inhabitants beyond the river have been called different names Indos, Sindos, Hindos which also later became a religious identity.

The word India was added to a lot new places like Native Americans, West Indies (Caribbean), East Indies (Indonesia) by white folks bcz they thought anyone brown-ish is Indian.

Ahem no, that's because Columbus indeed thought he found a route to India, when he arrived at the Caribbean. Not everything is down to white racism, ironically your post was more racist (in the sense of using a stereotype for a distinct group) than the event you mentioned.

Edited January 31, 2022 by Rucksackfranzose

[nudge]

1 hour ago, Khan of TF365 said:

Word India comes from the river Indus, which originates in Tibet. The inhabitants beyond the river have been called different names Indos, Sindos, Hindos which also later became a religious identity.

The word India was added to a lot new places like Native Americans, West Indies (Caribbean), East Indies (Indonesia) by white folks bcz they thought anyone brown-ish is Indian.

 

5 minutes ago, Rucksackfranzose said:

Ahem no, that's because Colimbus indeed thought he found a route to India, when he arrived at the Caribbean. Not everything is down to white racism, ironically you're post was more racist (in the sense of using a stereotype for a distinct group) than the event you mentioned.

Both of those are clearly wrong. All newly discovered lands back then were obviously named Indies in honour of Indiana Jones

[Cicero]

They called Native American's Indians because they thought they were in India. 

[Azeem]

1 hour ago, Rucksackfranzose said:

Ahem no, that's because Columbus indeed thought he found a route to India, when he arrived at the Caribbean. Not everything is down to white racism, ironically your post was more racist (in the sense of using a stereotype for a distinct group) than the event you mentioned.

Later part was tongue in cheek didn't add the emoji.

India is a general name of a region like Balkans in essence, quite few things are attributed as Indies. India and Indonesia have the same origin/name in Chinese too.

[Bluewolf]

[nudge]

1 hour ago, Bluewolf said:

Does the name "Bluewolf" have similar origins?

[CaaC (John)+]

6 minutes ago, nudge said:

Does the name "Bluewolf" have similar origins?

Amazon 

[Bluewolf]

4 minutes ago, nudge said:

Does the name "Bluewolf" have similar origins?

 

 

The Blue Wolf and Fallow Doe represent the ancestral Male and Female principles of all life, The Sky, The Earth, The Light and the Dark. One is not whole or balanced without the other. It is fitting that these ancestors are fabled to have given rise to the great 'Mongols' by Chingghis Khan the most famous descendant of the Blue Wolf and Fallow Doe.

[Bluewolf]

17 minutes ago, CaaC (John) said:

Amazon 

I would never allow my name to be associated with such a load of old tat.... 

[CaaC (John)+]

Blue Wolf - Bluetooth?    

[Azeem]

Pentagon itself doesn't know how much money it spends on military bases around the world, whose exact number are also not known.

[Waylander]

I always remember that interview a day before 9/11 by Rumsfeld talking about the missing billions of the Pentagon budget and then of course this never seemed to get raised ever again.