"F**k my Hat, I didn't know that!" Amazing things you've only just found out

[Tony Tony Tony]

Can't claim credit for this one as I heard it on RHLSTP. Apparently if you add the year of your birth to how old you turn this year it always makes this year 2020. So if you born in 1970 this year you turn 50 born in 1980 this year you tun 40 with each adding up to 2020. Works for everyone!

Only happens to every couple of hundred years so enjoy having your hats fucked.

[touchingcloth]

Mate.

[kalowski]

Can't claim credit for this one as I heard it on RHLSTP. Apparently if you add the year of your birth to how old you turn this year it always makes this year 2020. So if you born in 1970 this year you turn 50 born in 1980 this year you tun 40 with each adding up to 2020. Works for everyone!

Only happens to every couple of hundred years so enjoy having your hats fucked.

Weirdly enough I was 10 in 1981 and born in 1971.
If you add 10 to 1971 you get 1981.

Wait a minute!!!!

[Tony Tony Tony]

Just realised this works for every year as all I am doing is adding the year of birth to the number of years that have passed to give the current year.

Turns out I am an idiot and Richard Herring is a cunt.

[touchingcloth]

Weirdly enough I was 10 in 1981 and born in 1971.
If you add 10 to 1971 you get 1981.

Wait a minute!!!!

Mate.

[kalowski]

It's as if it happens for every year in existence and those yet to come.

Who'd a thunk it?

[Hand Solo]

Someone mentioned this stupid fucking trick to me the other week and I pointed out how dumb it was, your age plus the year you were born obviously equal the current year, I think it's been floating around on Facebook which is why it's made a resurgence. The old one I remember is you did the same trick but you added a few more steps to complicate the mechanics of what's going on, turns out these days just the bare bones fools most people if they're arithmethick.

[touchingcloth]

There's a Chinese poem which is pronounced as:

Shí Shì Shī Shì Shī Shì, Shì Shī, Shì Shí Shí Shī.Shì Shí Shí Shì Shì Shì Shī. Shí Shí, Shì Shí Shī Shì Shì. Shì Shí, Shì Shī Shì Shì Shì. Shì Shì Shì Shí Shī, Shì Shǐ Shì, Shǐ Shì Shí Shī Shì Shì. Shì Shí Shì Shí Shī Shī, Shì Shí Shì. Shí Shì Shī, Shì Shǐ Shì Shì Shí Shì. Shí Shì Shì, Shì Shǐ Shì Shí Shì Shí Shī. Shí Shí, Shǐ Shí Shì Shí Shī, Shí Shí Shí Shī Shī. Shì Shì Shì Shì.

But which due to the language being heavily reliant on inflections translates as:

There was a poet named Mr. Shi who lives in a stone den. He liked to eat lions, and vowed to eat ten lions. Therefore Mr. Shi would usually visit the market to look for lions. At 10 o'clock exactly ten lions just arrived at the market. At that very moment, Mr. Shi shot a few arrows from his bow and killed those ten lions. Mr. Shi then brought the ten dead lions back to his stone den. Because the den might be too wet to store the lions. So he ordered his servant to clean and dry the den. After the den was cleaned, Mr. Shi started to try to eat those ten lions. However, only until he was eating the lions he found out that those ten dead lions were actually ten stone lions. Would you try to explain what was happening?

[Hand Solo]

There's a Chinese poem which is pronounced as:

Shí Shì Shī Shì Shī Shì, Shì Shī, Shì Shí Shí Shī.Shì Shí Shí Shì Shì Shì Shī. Shí Shí, Shì Shí Shī Shì Shì. Shì Shí, Shì Shī Shì Shì Shì. Shì Shì Shì Shí Shī, Shì Shǐ Shì, Shǐ Shì Shí Shī Shì Shì. Shì Shí Shì Shí Shī Shī, Shì Shí Shì. Shí Shì Shī, Shì Shǐ Shì Shì Shí Shì. Shí Shì Shì, Shì Shǐ Shì Shí Shì Shí Shī. Shí Shí, Shǐ Shí Shì Shí Shī, Shí Shí Shí Shī Shī. Shì Shì Shì Shì.

The perfect poem for the Covid19 kids!

[Sebastian Cobb]

Thanks for the tip about AA lithiums - I'll check them out for my camera flashes which I use just often enough for the batteries to have run themselves dead in the bag, so it'd be nice to not have to charge them every single time I use them.

Are delta peak chargers different to Ni-MH ones? I can picture delta symbols on one of my chargers and I think they all have separate monitors for each cell (well, one charger seems to only charge and monitor in pairs).

Are you taking pictures on film by any chance? The only time I've ever not had to charge batteries for a camera is because it's had a lithium battery lurking in it for the exposure meter.

The li-ons for my camera have always been flat, and are probably now fucked.

[Twonty Gostelow]

Shí Shì Shī Shì Shī Shì, Shì Shī, Shì Shí Shí Shī.Shì Shí Shí Shì Shì Shì Shī. Shí Shí, Shì Shí Shī Shì Shì. Shì Shí, Shì Shī Shì Shì Shì. Shì Shì Shì Shí Shī, Shì Shǐ Shì, Shǐ Shì Shí Shī Shì Shì. Shì Shí Shì Shí Shī Shī, Shì Shí Shì. Shí Shì Shī, Shì Shǐ Shì Shì Shí Shì. Shí Shì Shì, Shì Shǐ Shì Shí Shì Shí Shī. Shí Shí, Shǐ Shí Shì Shí Shī, Shí Shí Shí Shī Shī. Shì Shì Shì Shì.

[touchingcloth]

Are you taking pictures on film by any chance? The only time I've ever not had to charge batteries for a camera is because it's had a lithium battery lurking in it for the exposure meter.

The li-ons for my camera have always been flat, and are probably now fucked.

Nope, digital. The longest I go without ever getting any of them out is probably about six months, but they always come out with a big chunk of charge left.

[Clatty McCutcheon]

A 'hobbit' is an old Welsh unit of volume or weight

An old unit of measurement (which isn't made up) is the ell, the total length of the forearm and extended hand.

Therefore, the word 'elbow' is the 'bow' in the 'ell', i.e. the bend in the forearm.

[Ambient Sheep]

Ummm....

[beanheadmcginty]

Can't claim credit for this one as I heard it on RHLSTP. Apparently if you add the year of your birth to how old you turn this year it always makes this year 2020. So if you born in 1970 this year you turn 50 born in 1980 this year you tun 40 with each adding up to 2020. Works for everyone!

Only happens to every couple of hundred years so enjoy having your hats fucked.

Sweet Jesus. Your brain must be operating on all sorts of different levels not to instantly see through that. What special powers have you got?

[Tony Tony Tony]

Sweet Jesus. Your brain must be operating on all sorts of different levels not to instantly see through that. What special powers have you got?

I can eat vast quantities of ice cream without being sick.

[Cerys]

You might want to be careful doing that.  A mate of mine froze his stomach by eating one too many tubs of Cherry Garcia and now has to have it regularly excoriated to remove the ongoing necrosis.

[Ambient Sheep]

I can eat vast quantities of ice cream without being sick.

Wouldn't you rather take the £5,000?

[touchingcloth]

You might want to be careful doing that.  A mate of mine froze his stomach by eating one too many tubs of Cherry Garcia and now has to have it regularly excoriated to remove the ongoing necrosis.

Marc Almond once ate so much ice cream he had to have his stomach pumped and try found fifty different Ben & Jerry's flavours in there.

[Tony Tony Tony]

Wouldn't you rather take the £5,000?

Only if I can use it to buy a spoon

[Ambient Sheep]

Oh I'm sure you could buy a LOT more than that!

[olliebean]

But what if all you need is a knife?

[jenna appleseed]

[touchingcloth]

But what if all you need is a knife?

I was in that situation once, but ironically all I had was £5,000 worth of spoons.

[buzby]

Are delta peak chargers different to Ni-MH ones? I can picture delta symbols on one of my chargers and I think they all have separate monitors for each cell (well, one charger seems to only charge and monitor in pairs).

Intelligent Delta-Peak chargers can be used on most kinds of rechargable cells, the only difference between chemistry types are the maximum charge rate (and the requirement for temperarure monitoring in the case of Li-ion). Eneloops have a lower max charge rate than normal NiMH so it depends on the charger. Monitoring in pairs isn't ideal either, as it can lead to backfeeding of current between the cells if they have differing capacities.

[Mr Banlon]

Did not know BBC had a pidgin-English News service. Me dun not know bout dat.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-53568290

[Gulftastic]

In Australia and New Zealand, Airplane! is called 'Flying High!' because they were worried about people being confused with 'The Concord Airport 79'.

[Better Midlands]

Did not know BBC had a pidgin-English News service. Me dun not know bout dat.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-53568290

[Colin Sanction]

Did not know BBC had a pidgin-English News service. Me dun not know bout dat.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-53568290

Is this a wind up?

Kanye West: Di America Rapper don tok sorry to im wife Kim Kardashian afta dem dry dia cloth for public

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-53542634

[Better Midlands]