Things that make you go.......WTF?

[think positive]

Longest triple post ever!
Still shorter than anything by 35 forever....

A+ moderation skillz.

Once is too much to read, let alone three times! Can you paraphrase it!

[luvdids]

Who the **** hands out headphones as gifts to their wedding party anyway?

#SchapelleMk2

Yep who the fck buys headphones in some shop in Colombia and doesn't check what's in the package before getting on a plane

Exactly what I just posted in the thread about it (hadn't seen these).

And even less believable Morrigu - she didn't get them from a shop - they were from 'some guy' she met a few days earlier who said he could get her a good deal. He sure did!

[Morrigu]

^ ah even stupider!!

Oh well play stupid games win stupid prizes

[David]

Longest triple post ever!
Still shorter than anything by 35 forever....

A+ moderation skillz.

Once is too much to read, let alone three times! Can you paraphrase it!

I think you can safely skim through it. Just a profile on Aly and what he does and doesn't want to achieve with his TV gig. Comes off as humble and thoughtful, nothing like the "arrogant worm" others see him as.

It's also telling that even the staunchly right-wing Australian thinks there's a strong racial component to the vitriol he cops.

[think positive]

Ta muchley! Cheers

[Pies4shaw]

So, how does this work? A couple of weeks ago, the "oldest person in the world" died at the age of 115 or 116. Today, the "oldest person in the world" died in Indonesia at age 146.

Do people age faster as they get older or what?

[David]

Haha, this topic has always fascinated me.

Basically, the answer is that these people are competing in two different leagues: one is 'verifiable' and one isn't. The former group only includes people whose birth and death dates can be properly certified, and is listed in the Guinness Book of Records; the latter group basically incorporates any random old person's claim in a village in the middle of nowhere, and tends to be the subject of news stories in the British red-top tabloids and their ilk.

Because claiming to be outrageously old seems to be something of a sport in parts of the developing world, I think we can safely presume that many of these claims to old age are severely inflated and falsified.

If there's a downside to the official table, however, it's that its standards for verification are so high that nobody from the developing world ever could qualify, particularly given the standards of documentation that were around in places like India and Indonesia 100+ years ago. That's one of the reasons why most of the people in the official old-age list hail from places like the US, France and Japan.

So it's entirely possible that people, even including some of the subjects of these Daily Mail and Pravda stories, have lived longer than anyone on the verified list. But the oldest age that we can conclusively say anyone has lived to is 122, the age at which Frenchwoman Jeanne Louise Calment died in 1997. Nobody else is known to have lived to see their 120th birthday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment

[Pies4shaw]

I was with Pierre at Borodino, too, you know.

[stui magpie]

A+ moderation skillz.

Once is too much to read, let alone three times! Can you paraphrase it!

I think you can safely skim through it. Just a profile on Aly and what he does and doesn't want to achieve with his TV gig. Comes off as humble and thoughtful, nothing like the "arrogant worm" others see him as.

It's also telling that even the staunchly right-wing Australian thinks there's a strong racial component to the vitriol he cops.

Interesting.

I watch him on the project and i only remember he's muslim when he talks about it. For me it's generally a non factor, I just take him on face value

BTW, I read the whole article.

[David]

^ I suspect that's how he wishes most people thought about him!

[ronrat]

Haha, this topic has always fascinated me.

Basically, the answer is that these people are competing in two different leagues: one is 'verifiable' and one isn't. The former group only includes people whose birth and death dates can be properly certified, and is listed in the Guinness Book of Records; the latter group basically incorporates any random old person's claim in a village in the middle of nowhere, and tends to be the subject of news stories in the British red-top tabloids and their ilk.

Because claiming to be outrageously old seems to be something of a sport in parts of the developing world, I think we can safely presume that many of these claims to old age are severely inflated and falsified.

If there's a downside to the official table, however, it's that its standards for verification are so high that nobody from the developing world ever could qualify, particularly given the standards of documentation that were around in places like India and Indonesia 100+ years ago. That's one of the reasons why most of the people in the official old-age list hail from places like the US, France and Japan.

So it's entirely possible that people, even including some of the subjects of these Daily Mail and Pravda stories, have lived longer than anyone on the verified list. But the oldest age that we can conclusively say anyone has lived to is 122, the age at which Frenchwoman Jeanne Louise Calment died in 1997. Nobody else is known to have lived to see their 120th birthday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment

The Dutch would not have bothered with recording Javanese births. Many of the Indos converted to muslim from Dayak etc because the Dutch missionaries wouldn't allow them to marry in Christian churches. If the story is true though the cloves smokes marketers will have a field day.

[luvdids]

Trying to see this psychic medium a friend raves about. Said to book, go to the website, enter your details & when you're available & they'll get back to you. Obviously the more available you are the sooner you'll get an appointment.

Sent the email, said I'm available any day (switch RDO) and every evening. My reply came that they're fully booked for 2017 & 2018 and opening the 2019 appointments the end of this month!!

I'll be expecting AMAZING things by the time I actually get there! AND I don't even know what it's costing me yet!

[stui magpie]

Trying to see this psychic medium a friend raves about. Said to book, go to the website, enter your details & when you're available & they'll get back to you. Obviously the more available you are the sooner you'll get an appointment.

Sent the email, said I'm available any day (switch RDO) and every evening. My reply came that they're fully booked for 2017 & 2018 and opening the 2019 appointments the end of this month!!

I'll be expecting AMAZING things by the time I actually get there! AND I don't even know what it's costing me yet!

Why do you need to give your availability? If they're that good, surely they already know?

Anyway, this is a real WTF. A batch of Bombay Saphire Gin is being recalled in Canada for being too strong. 77% rather than 40%

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/bu ... 101278218/

An isolated consumer complaint triggered the recall and the company is conducting a review of its third-party bottler.

What idiot complained?

[Mugwump]

^ jeepers, 77% is brake fluid territory. That's seriously dangerous. But perhaps I might try a small martini made from it anyway...

[stui magpie]

^

I've got some Jacques Senaux Absinthe. 4 bottles of different colour, the black is 80%, the Blue is 78%

makes some serious shots.