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  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    I microwaved a banana on high for 15 seconds....
    because I left it in my vehicle overnight....
    because I took two with me yesterday....
    because I only ate one...
    because I wanted it to be much warmer than near freezing...
    because that one was the oldest one and needed to be eaten sooner that the fresher ones on the counter.....

    Oh yeah! The stem heated to 120* Fahrenheit. Just the stem. Yeah, I measured it. And it was probably much hotter than that before I got around to measuring it.
    The rest of it was still pretty cold. I didn't measure that.

    This is possibly the most fitting post for the intent of a thread, EVER in the history of internet forums! Congratulations!

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

    @TRayB said:

    @Bob_Luken said:
    I microwaved a banana on high for 15 seconds....
    because I left it in my vehicle overnight....
    because I took two with me yesterday....
    because I only ate one...
    because I wanted it to be much warmer than near freezing...
    because that one was the oldest one and needed to be eaten sooner that the fresher ones on the counter.....

    Oh yeah! The stem heated to 120* Fahrenheit. Just the stem. Yeah, I measured it. And it was probably much hotter than that before I got around to measuring it.
    The rest of it was still pretty cold. I didn't measure that.

    This is possibly the most fitting post for the intent of a thread, EVER in the history of internet forums! Congratulations!

    I cannot blame you for being insulted. I apologize.

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

    @Yakster said:
    Bananas don't last long around here, but this seems like a good idea.

    This seems like a great idea.
    Unfortunately, in my retail experience, I would have to visit a different grocery store to find riper bananas or less ripened bananas. wal-mart, kroger, publix, do not have much variation at all.

  • Rhamlin
    Rhamlin Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2024

    The first written recipe for apple pie is from England

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,055 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    As long as it didn't hurt too bad.

    Couldn't sit for 3 hours

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,600 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2024

    South American Screaming Piha, 116 dB.

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

    But this one holds the record:

    the White Bellbird has the loudest bird call ever documented, according to a paper published today in the journal Current Biology. Its short, booming, two-part call is three times the sound pressure level—a measure of sound intensity—of the Screaming Piha’s call, the previous record-holder.

    https://www.audubon.org/news/listen-loudest-bird-ever-recorded

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,600 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mice in the news!

    https://theconversation.com/we-discovered-two-new-australian-native-mammals-the-first-of-their-kind-this-century-223740?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=ddda388f7f-briefing-dy-20240304&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-ddda388f7f-49863420

  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,165 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Heads up @TNBigfoot68 @Bob_Luken @MrShrek Tennessee is #1 on the stress list! Yikes!
    https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/03/top-10-states-with-the-most-stressed-out-people-in-america.html

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,165 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You oldfarts don't get stressed anymore.

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,866 ✭✭✭✭✭

    bad for blood pressure

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,866 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MrShrek said:
    The only reason California didn’t make the list and Tennessee did is because all of the Californians moved here!

    insightful

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,866 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Vision said:

    @MrShrek said:
    The only reason California didn’t make the list and Tennessee did is because all of the Californians moved here!

    We know this is not fact. Do you know how hard it would be to move both your sister and first cousin all the way from California?

    But only one wife.

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,600 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Researchers tracking more than half a million falling snowflakes have uncovered a mathematical correlation between a snowflake's average acceleration (how much it swirls) and its Stokes number (how much it responds to changes in air turbulence).

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,458 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The original idea for daylight savings time was to save whale oil.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

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