[Closed] Everyday is a school day

I learned last night that 42% of US honey bee colonies have died in the last year.

I learnt that only 190 days are school days for pupils.

That I still can't ride through that rocky burn without going over my handlebars.

Bert & Ernie are gay.

Today I learned that having an 'r' and an 'n' close together make the greatape's post quite confusing.

That I have the second bank holiday off, despite living in Scotland and having two Hogmany days. 8)

🙂

... That some of our number are teenagers in disguise and are covered in zits... Uuugghh 😀

... That some of our number are teenagers in disguise and are covered in zits... Uuugghh

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On the weekend I learned that 650b makes no difference (surprise!)
And that MTB racing is no longer for me. Enduro/XC/whatever, makes me a stupid, imbecilic, nervous wreck. No more!

[url= http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/18/truth-about-poo-doing-it-wrong-giulia-enders-squatting ]That squatting is better than sitting[/url]

I learned that if I leave my bathroom cupboard door open, my 4 siamese cats will help themselves and completely decimate over 20 rolls of tissue in the space of 3 hours!!!!

20% of adults in the UK who consider themselves to be of normal weight are actually clinically overweight. This compares with 16% in France and 10% in Italy. We're not being honest with ourselves!
(BMJ 2015;350:h2621)

Buffalo wings come from chickens, not Buffaloes.

Buffalo wings come from chickens, not Buffaloes.

piss off do they

You never see a flying buffalo

Obviously they can't fly, they've only got tiny wings. Normally they keep them folded up inside, like a ladybird

[quote=Pook ]You never see a flying buffalo

that's because they've had their wings cut off.

You never see a flying buffalo

That's because tomhoward has eaten all of the wings - proof that plyphon is right 😛

pineapples don't grow on trees (actually learned this while in Oz a couple of years ago, but it still surprises me!)

I've learned that if 20 toilet rolls were completely decimated, you should still have the equivalent of 18 rolls that can be used.

I learned that if you don't set message type to MQSTR then my app won't process the message

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pineapples don't grow on trees (actually learned this while in Oz a couple of years ago, but it still surprises me!)

I was bowled over when I saw a field of them! And now love boring people by questioning them on whether they know

I feel I should clarify my statement. I thought that the 'wing' was just a random name of a cut of meat from a buffalo, much like beef skirt (I'm fairly sure cows, generally don't wear skirts), rather than an appendage that enabled a buffalo to fly.

The wings are chicken wings, the sauce was invented in Buffalo, NY.

That the temperature of the earths core is about 6000 C, and its cooling at the rate of about 100 C every billion years. Bit like a McDonalds apple pie.

The wings are from Buffalo in New York. Like my wife.
Love getting wings when we visit family

Bees are brilliant -
the queen and the workers are female, the drones are male and exist to fertilize the queens eggs.
The number of male/female eggs are determined by the needs of the colony.
At the end of the season, as winter approaches, no more eggs will be required so the males become redundant, they are escorted to the door, their wings are chewed off and they are booted out.
When a new queen is born, she will leave the hive taking at least half but probably nearly all the colony with her. This is the only time she will be outside and the only time she will fly.
Scouts will have found and prepared a new site for the colony. They will bustle through the hive pushing the colony toward the door. Once outside the colony has no idea where it's going, the scouts fly round and through the swarm to push it in the direction of the new hive.
Hives are united by what is called Queen Substance. The queen secretes this and it is rubbed on the faces of her attendants and then distributed throughout the hive. No queen substance, the colony will die.
Bees are incredibly anal. In each section of a honeycombe they will only put deposits from one type of flower. This means that combes can have different colours depending on the type of flower. Normally honey is shades of yellow or brown. However someone once showed me combe that was bright reds, blues, greens all colours. It took them a while to find out that there was a stick of rock factory a couple of miles away and at the the weekend the rock machinery was shut down and cleared out and all the gunk dumped at the back of the factory. Rats/gulls opened the bags to get at the sweet stuff and the bees weren't long in finding it. They took the sugary stuff back to base and put the red stuff in the red container, the blue stuff in the blue container, etc.
EDIT - oh yeah, and you can rent out colonies of bees to farmers to pollinate their crops.

I've discovered that the last two days of constipation, has not been helped by consuming various habanero sauces. And now the plug has loosened up a bit I am squirting liquid fire every few minutes.

Here we go again...

Bert & Ernie are gay