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Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 3:05 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
So he got back at them by being a successful musician making parody songs! :D

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 3:41 pm
by Vegas
Originally, Makoto Kino (Sailor Jupiter) would have been leader of the Sailor Soldiers, been a juvenile delinquent, and would have been a smoker. Instead, Takeuchi decided to just make her LOOK like a delinquent, which is a great foil to her kind and loving nature.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 4:29 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retriever.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 2:00 pm
by Sleet
Last.) Afghan

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 4:18 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
The most played song on American radio during the twentieth century was You've Lost That Loving Feeling which was written by Barry Mann, Phil Spector, and Cynthia Weil. Although recorded by different artists, the song is the only one in history to be played over 8 million times on the radio. That amounts to about 45 years if the song was played back to back! Three songs were played 7 million times: Never My Love, Yesterday, and Stand By Me (in that order).

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 11:53 am
by Hlaoroo
The mouthpiece on a tin whistle or recorder and other similar instruments is properly known as a "fipple".

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 3:15 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
A South Korean movie theater owner decided that the movie The Sound of Music was too long. His solution? He shortened the movie by cutting out all of the musical scenes!

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 4:27 pm
by The Blue Fox
Here's a little something I figured out myself;

You've all probably been told all your life that nothing rhymes with the word "orange"

...no word that has two syllibals on its own anyway.

How about "syringe"?

I wonder if I blew a few minds with that one?

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:02 pm
by Vegas
The Sailor Moon S movie is the only one of the Sailor Moon movies to be directly based off a story by Naoko Takeuchi, the original creator of Sailor Moon. The Sailor Moon SuperS movie was originally going to be about Uranus battling the other Sailor Soldiers to gain talismans to save the life of Sailor Neptune and would have ended with Sailor Moon chasing Sailor Uranus on a pegasus. Ikuhara, who pitched the idea and worked on Sailor Moon through R, S, and SuperS, was over ruled, so he took the story elements and created Revolutionary Girl Utena. Another connection to Sailor Moon comes from the fact Kotono Mitsuishi, the voice of Sailor Moon, also voiced the character Juri, the only character Utena couldn't beat in direct battle.
Just for fun, compare this clip to this clip. Juri is the one with blond/orange hair.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:09 pm
by ArcWolf
The Blue Fox wrote:Here's a little something I figured out myself;

You've all probably been told all your life that nothing rhymes with the word "orange"

...no word that has two syllibals on its own anyway.

How about "syringe"?

I wonder if I blew a few minds with that one?

I guess it depends on how you pronounce it, because it doesn't seem to rhyme to me.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 9:10 am
by The Blue Fox
ArcWolf wrote:
The Blue Fox wrote:Here's a little something I figured out myself;

You've all probably been told all your life that nothing rhymes with the word "orange"

...no word that has two syllibals on its own anyway.

How about "syringe"?

I wonder if I blew a few minds with that one?

I guess it depends on how you pronounce it, because it doesn't seem to rhyme to me.
Really? Coz I've only known one pronuciation for each word...one where the the "g" sounds like a "j".

Oh-ran-juh
Sih-rin-juh

That's a rhyme to me.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 11:07 am
by deepskycyan
Yeah, I don't think orange rhymes with syringe all that much.

However, the rumour that nothing rhymes with orange is incorrect.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 12:43 pm
by Obbl
I concur.

Orange - /ˈôrənj/
Syringe - /ˈsirinj/ or /səˈrinj/

Either way, that's trying to rhyme an "uh" sound with an "ih" sound.
Now I will give you that my pronunciation of "orange" is much closer to an "eh" sound (which is closer to "ih" than "uh"), but still no dice. ;)

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 2:49 pm
by The Blue Fox
Maybe it's my Mancunian accent. I say 'em more like "Oh-rin-chuh" and "Sy-rin-chuh" really. XD

Also from what I can gather of Obbl's post you seem to be looking at the pronuciation of the middle of the word there when really you just need the ends of the words to sound alike.

But that's just my perspective.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 2:57 pm
by Obbl
Well, If you'll note, I do not have a vowel after my 'j' sound, so I am indeed rhyming the final vowel. ;)

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 3:56 am
by Hlaoroo
Actually, for a true rhyme, the whole word will rhyme, like "pocket" and "locket" or "sing" and "spring". What you have there is known as a partial rhyme.

Which, come to think of it, is a kind of rhyme...

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 4:09 am
by The Blue Fox
Partial rhyme is still a rhyme. Exact-a-mundo. :P

Now the poets of the world have just gotta work out how to fit a poem around "Orange" and "Syringe". XD

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 5:23 am
by Punchy
The Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge (also known as the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, or simply the 520 Bridge) is the longest floating bridge in the world.
It carries State Route 520 across Lake Washington from Medina to the Montlake district of Seattle.
It currently sits 1ft lower in the water than when it first opened.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 10:10 pm
by Shadowstar23
In my house, there is a sign that says " Warning: Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again."

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 10:28 am
by deepskycyan
Like this one? XD

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 12:10 pm
by Bucky-Roo
My birthday is on National Shower With A Friend Day. .-. Maybe too much information...

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 3:15 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
deepskycyan wrote:Like this one? XD
Probably best to play dead then.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 3:17 pm
by herobrineharry

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 4:45 am
by InDaZone1219
Leishmania is parasite native to warm, tropic regions. they can be transmitted by sandfly bites and cause the disease known as Leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis is a disease where pustules form on the skin from the parasites
gorging themselves on flesh. They can spread to the face where it becomes Mucotaneous Leishmaniasis. :shock:

I'm thinking on becoming a parasitologist, do you think I know this parasite well? :)

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:57 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
Leishmaniasis is also known as the flesh eating disease.

I got that from watching "Discovery Fit & Health"

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 8:19 pm
by InDaZone1219
Necrotizing fasciitis is another flesh eating disease, but this time with bacteria instead
of something parasitic. ;)

Good to know someone's heard of Leishmaniasis before.
Kudos to Amazee Dayzee. :D

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:37 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
Actually I think Discovery Fit and Health did a lot more on the subject of Necrotizing fasciitis. Other viruses that horrify me are Naegleria fowler, the brain eating amoeba with a mortality rate higher than 95%, and the hantavirus which comes from rats which has a mortality rate of 36% if you don't figure it out in time.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:51 pm
by InDaZone1219
Naegleria fowleri was featured in "Monsters Inside Me", one of my
favorite shows. It gave a boy who went wakeboarding in a lake, one of it's natural
habitats, Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (the disease that gives the organism
the nickname). He didn't make it and the lake he got the parasite was in his own backyard.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 12:58 am
by Douglas Collier
The Sopwith Camel shot down more aircraft than any other aircraft in WWI.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 1:19 am
by InDaZone1219
Pyrexia is the medical name for a fever.

now you know... ;)

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:43 am
by Vegas
Amazee Dayzee wrote:Actually I think Discovery Fit and Health did a lot more on the subject of Necrotizing fasciitis. Other viruses that horrify me are Naegleria fowler, the brain eating amoeba with a mortality rate higher than 95%, and the hantavirus which comes from rats which has a mortality rate of 36% if you don't figure it out in time.
InDaZone1219 wrote:Naegleria fowleri was featured in "Monsters Inside Me", one of my
favorite shows. It gave a boy who went wakeboarding in a lake, one of it's natural
habitats, Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (the disease that gives the organism
the nickname). He didn't make it and the lake he got the parasite was in his own backyard.
Wasn't this the amoeba that forced Disney to close part of their park? Let's see, the River Country waterpark in Walt Disney World?
EDIT: actually, not quite, according to this article. Though the same amoeba was in River Country.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 3:24 pm
by InDaZone1219
Vegas wrote: Wasn't this the amoeba that forced Disney to close part of their park? Let's see, the River Country waterpark in Walt Disney World?
EDIT: actually, not quite, according to this article. Though the same amoeba was in River Country.
That's what they get for using a nearby, perfectly temperate lake, for their water park. One slipped through the filtration unit and entered the body through an orifice, then gorged on brain tissues.

They can also encyst themselves to avoid immune response. Once enough Leukocytes attach themselves to the amoeba, the amoeba just sheds the cyst and keeps consuming tissue.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 4:16 pm
by Vegas
InDaZone1219 wrote:
Vegas wrote: Wasn't this the amoeba that forced Disney to close part of their park? Let's see, the River Country waterpark in Walt Disney World?
EDIT: actually, not quite, according to this article. Though the same amoeba was in River Country.
That's what they get for using a nearby, perfectly temperate lake, for their water park. One slipped through the filtration unit and entered the body through an orifice, then gorged on brain tissues.

They can also encyst themselves to avoid immune response. Once enough Leukocytes attach themselves to the amoeba, the amoeba just sheds the cyst and keeps consuming tissue.
Well, at least they went ahead and worked to make sure the problem never came back. Must have worked if they had that part of the park open for twenty more years.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 5:31 pm
by InDaZone1219
Good thing it wasn't Cryptosporidium hominis, which are known to have an immunity to Chlorine in water
treatment plants. The water treatment plants have since been upgraded.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:48 pm
by Mickey the Luxray
There is a conspiracy theory that links D.B. Cooper and Tommy Wiseau as the same person.

XKCD #1400 explains the basic theory. While it is likely untrue, it's still a funny thing to see floating around.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 10:32 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
InDaZone1219 wrote:Good thing it wasn't Cryptosporidium hominis, which are known to have an immunity to Chlorine in water
treatment plants. The water treatment plants have since been upgraded.
That was another one that was on "Monsters Inside Me". I should stop falling asleep while leaving Discovery Fit and Health on. x_x

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 4:52 pm
by InDaZone1219
Amazee Dayzee wrote:
InDaZone1219 wrote:Good thing it wasn't Cryptosporidium hominis, which are known to have an immunity to Chlorine in water
treatment plants. The water treatment plants have since been upgraded.
That was another one that was on "Monsters Inside Me". I should stop falling asleep while leaving Discovery Fit and Health on. x_x
You'll never know what's lurking in your environment... ;)

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 11:53 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
I'm gonna start washing everything I eat and scrubbing it so that I don't get any sicknesses.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 12:22 am
by InDaZone1219
Amazee Dayzee wrote:I'm gonna start washing everything I eat and scrubbing it so that I don't get any sicknesses.
Watch out for mosquitoes and sandflies too.
Then there are Human Bot Files that tackle and lay eggs on a mosquito during
mid-flight. This is so when the mosquito goes to suck blood from a human, the heat of
the blood causes the eggs to fall onto the skin. The larvae hatch and eat their way into
the skin and thrive with their posterior breathing hole sticking out and barbs to hold
themselves in place. This is so they harm the human when they are trying to be extracted
from their burrows. After maturing, they leave the skin and take down another mosquito.
Did I mention that they can stretch to about a foot long when being extracted?

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 5:08 am
by Kyuunado
Right when I was eating breakfast too...
I prefer parasitic wasps. Wasps that kill off roaches and other bugs are the only kind of wasp I actually like. :lol: