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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,595 ✭✭✭✭✭

    White petunias exist in nature, but not bright orange and yellow ones. In 2015, one of my PhD advisers, Teemu Teeri, found an orange petunia growing at a railway station near Helsinki. He discovered that its colour was due to an unauthorized genetic modification, and the sale of such plants came to be banned in some countries.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03438-z

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,441 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Only 35 days until Christmas.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,595 ✭✭✭✭✭

    On Thanksgiving Day the average American consumes 4,500 calories.

  • Itsfine
    Itsfine Posts: 20,555 ✭✭✭✭✭

    33 days ago was 10/27. 333 days from now is 10/27.

    333 days ago was the last day of 2022. 33 days from now is the first day of 2024.

    3333 days from now is 2033.

    I am the Troll Jesus. Follow me, my children, or clutch your pearls tightly.

    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,595 ✭✭✭✭✭

    a Norwegian man got to put his name in the Guinness Book of Records when he lifted 100.38kg using only his little finger.

  • 11thGenSoutherner
    11thGenSoutherner Posts: 1,140 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    Is she Norwegian?

    I think it may be more about where she put the little finger that got him off the bed

  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,704 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You can buy razor wire on Amazon. 260 ft for $80.65

  • Rhamlin
    Rhamlin Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    You can buy razor wire on Amazon. 260 ft for $80.65

    Good to know!

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,441 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There's an all new season of the Kardashians on hulu.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • OutdoorsSmoke_21191
    OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    There's an all new season of the Kardashians on hulu.

    A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,441 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Only 356 days until Christmas!

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,595 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Iceland Has Trained Horses to Respond to Your Work Emails When You’re on Vacation
    Yes, you read that right. Iceland is encouraging tourists visiting the country to disconnect and trained a few horses to type on a giant custom keyboard.

    https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/destinations/europe/iceland-horses-email/

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,645 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2024

    @silvermouse said:
    Iceland Has Trained Horses to Respond to Your Work Emails When You’re on Vacation
    Yes, you read that right. Iceland is encouraging tourists visiting the country to disconnect and trained a few horses to type on a giant custom keyboard.

    https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/destinations/europe/iceland-horses-email/

    https://player.vimeo.com/video/710287348

    I like the idea of OutHorsing, but I think my Dogministrative Assistant might get jealous. I'll have to get her a keyboard.

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,645 ✭✭✭✭✭

    XKCD:

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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,595 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That there is a commercially viable demand for this makes me nervous...
    The PureWash Bidet Seat is as standard as any other, but I like that you can talk to it. It’s heated, has adjustable temperatures and water pressure, and comes in white or black to match your bathroom style. It also features voice activation via Amazon’s Alexa or the Google Assistant. You can use your voice to command the spray pressure and the air dryer—it has a dryer!