What have you learnt today?

[JohannBessler]

I learned that if you make a thread criticising JUB the thread is deleted.

^ which thread was that?

It doesn't matter the thread is gone.

Guys, I think it important to realize that, while JUB isn't perfect, it's the best of its kind on the 'Net, bar none.

I too have a couple of issues---the main one relating to the existence of trolls in the political room--but remember: we get free membership...unless you choose otherwise.

The benefits far, far outweigh the annoyances.

[refujiunderground]

that sometimes you have to get over yourself and face your fears. two steps forward, not looking back. life is for the living. you can succeed if you're willing to ride it out.

[cgymike]

Guys, I think it important to realize that, while JUB isn't perfect, it's the best of its kind on the 'Net, bar none.

I too have a couple of issues---the main one relating to the existence of trolls in the political room--but remember: we get free membership...unless you choose otherwise.

The benefits far, far outweigh the annoyances.

Yep and that's another reason for letting relatively minor gripes go. Kinda like when in a relationship when some things bother you about your bf but you don't split up because of it/them because there is more value in staying together.

[JP.]

I learnt that elevator is a fragile being...broken twice in a month..

[JP.]

I learnt that fit male with boobies sell clothing faster

http://compare.ebay.com/like/370541125106

[Axxess]

Today I learned that England invaded and occupied Iceland during World War II. Never mentioned that in my history classes. I'm starting to realize that there is so much I didn't learn while in school.

[belamo]

Today I learned that England invaded and occupied Iceland during World War II. Never mentioned that in my history classes. I'm starting to realize that there is so much I didn't learn while in school.

Leaving aside the fact that you could not actually learn much from all that everybody should be learning at this stage of civilized development, but rather be hinted at all that MUST be learned during the couple of decades following the school period, you do not go to school to "learn": you go there to get programmed or, rather and in most cases, you are merely forced to follow a social rule and habit.

[oakpope]

Leaving aside the fact that you could not actually learn much from all that everybody should be learning at this stage of civilized development, but rather be hinted at all that MUST be learned during the couple of decades following the school period, you do not go to school to "learn": you go there to get programmed or, rather and in most cases, you are merely forced to follow a social rule and habit.

And yet I learned a quite bit in school, how do you explain that ?

Today I learned that Jerry Springer' shows are terrible (and yet funny in a twisted way to watch).

[BreakTheIce]

Here's what I learned

[star-warrior]

I was happy to learn that the books I bought for someone was loved and appreciated.

[belamo]

And yet I learned a quite bit in school, how do you explain that ?

Today I learned that Jerry Springer' shows are terrible (and yet funny in a twisted way to watch).

You said "a bit" ("quite" or not ): you prove my point
And do not mistake "learning" for "feeling".

[oakpope]

A feeling can be a learning experience, can it not ?

I didn't say that it was in English that I learned the most

Without school I wouldn't have the mental capacity to learn all that I know (the amount of which being irrelevant to the proposition).

[belamo]

A feeling can be a learning experience, can it not ?

It depends on how you account for it, especially if you use creative accounting

I didn't say that it was in English that I learned the most

Without school I wouldn't have the mental capacity to learn all that I know (the amount of which being irrelevant to the proposition).

So you learned to learn at school. That's fine. At least you did, no matter where, no matter how

[pat grimshaw]

I learned that 50% of houses in India have toilets. The others do it in the streets, the fields and the rivers.

[belamo]

I learned that 50% of houses in India have toilets. The others do it in the streets, the fields and the rivers.

So does that mean that in India 100% of the toilets are used, while in the Western world only 50% of the people use the toilets available in a 100% of the houses?

[pat grimshaw]

Yes. I've only seen a few people do it in the streets, or fields or rivers.

[Saybrooke]

OMG! I learned that relish is made from pickles!!!

[G-Lexington]

I learned I can make Saybrooke horny.

Lex

[star-warrior]

Scaling a cake mixture that contains eggs, depends on several things:

1. a recipe for tin size A
2. the ratio between the volume of tin A to the volume of tin B
3. the number of eggs in the original recipe for tin size A and a rounding up of the ratio in (2) to accommodate whole eggs.

For more see http://www.thepinkwhisk.co.uk/2012/0...ke-recipe.html

[oakpope]

^http://translate.google.fr/translate...nalblog.com%2F

My favorite French amateur cooking site.

[star-warrior]

^http://translate.google.fr/translate...nalblog.com%2F

My favorite French amateur cooking site.

I have to say that potato recipe is very pretty, and it has bacon in too

[cgymike]

Today I learned that ambient light levels start to go down at 15:22 in my place as of today. Sunset at 16:19

[pat grimshaw]

I heard the new president of Catalonia might go for separation and independence and that his aides took him away before he could finish his sentence.

[cgymike]

^Why only 3 blog entries?

[pat grimshaw]

^ Because I hesitate and have second thoughts before putting pen to page.

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^ Because I hesitate and have second thoughts before putting pen to page.

[cgymike]

^your update was identical to the original post you made

[pat grimshaw]

^
So many questions, Cee Gee Why!

I've noticed that double post occur before when i'm typing uncomfortably on my laptop which is sitting on my chest as I'm lying prone on my bed.

[Saybrooke]

I learned I can make Saybrooke horny.

Lex

Yes! Keep the stories cumin

[goldenmoth]

I learned that scientists recorded the sound of a whale mimicking us, the human race and we come off as really obnoxious.

[JP.]

I learnt that gay man are bitching...

[Misaki]

I've learned that trying to cook foreign food will never be my specialty.

[belamo]

I heard the new president of Catalonia might go for separation and independence and that his aides took him away before he could finish his sentence.

The new one? If you mean Mas he is not new, and there are chances that loser might not be president again, just like the two previous elections in which his sorry dumb ass was put away from the government by the alliance of The Three Red Witches.
He is a total loser, with no talent, no power beyond that which he is allowed to have by Madrid, and whose plaiding for independence is not even something that his party actually stands for: that is why the old real independent party doubled its representatives. That man is a poor idiot and a political wreck: he and his thug-in-charge (Felip Puig) have done a lot of harm, but they are so pathetic, having won three elections before this one but having been able to govern only two years, and this last time not by political pressure from the opposing parties, but by self-choice: he kicked himself out of the government, but that's still something to be confirmed.

There, I did not want to write but, as always, I WOULD not resist.

[JP.]

I havent learnt why a few smilies look yellow and round
and some look like banana

and what about this kevbo smiley? What about him and why one of member here named "Kevbo"?

Hmm...mystery of the universe

[belamo]

I've learned that trying to cook foreign food will never be my specialty.

Foreign to what?

[purina]

Catalonia - what a sad name.

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Catalonia - what a sad name.

[Misaki]

Foreign to what?

Sweden.

Although I did try to Americanize it that's probably why it didn't turn out like I'd hoped it would.

[belamo]

Catalonia - what a sad name.

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Catalonia - what a sad name.

Yep: hence its sad history... for all its past glories, in a far, far, far away past (sorry, but I still find it hard to use the feminine pronoun "her" to refer to those political chimaeras, rather than mere "abstractions", commonly called "nations").

[purina]

Of course another way to hear it is "Cat'll own ya", which is funny... 'cause it's true.

[belamo]

Of course another way to hear it is "Cat'll own ya", which is funny... 'cause it's true.

That's right, like when Spanish-speaking people find funny how when they read "USA" they read "use!", "Oregon" is almost exactly like "big-eared", or to Japanese "Ohio" sounds like "good morning".

[CottonBolus]

Things are better and at the same time worse than they seem.

[cgymike]

I have learnt that the expression "the grass is always greener" is pretty much true. People move for usually the wrong reasons.

Awwww Cotton...cute avatar

[belamo]

Things are better and at the same time worse than they seem.

http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/...12/06/deep.jpg
http://www.handresearch.com/thumbs-u...-finger-up.jpg

[oakpope]

The new one? If you mean Mas he is not new, and there are chances that loser might not be president again, just like the two previous elections in which his sorry dumb ass was put away from the government by the alliance of The Three Red Witches.
He is a total loser, with no talent, no power beyond that which he is allowed to have by Madrid, and whose plaiding for independence is not even something that his party actually stands for: that is why the old real independent party doubled its representatives. That man is a poor idiot and a political wreck: he and his thug-in-charge (Felip Puig) have done a lot of harm, but they are so pathetic, having won three elections before this one but having been able to govern only two years, and this last time not by political pressure from the opposing parties, but by self-choice: he kicked himself out of the government, but that's still something to be confirmed.

There, I did not want to write but, as always, I WOULD not resist.

And still his party has 50 / 135 sieges. I don't know if they will, but they would have a majority with the right party (PP ?).

[belamo]

And still his party has 50 / 135 sieges. I don't know if they will, but they would have a majority with the right party (PP ?).

They are totally leperous, nobody will make up a government with them for fear of contagion... the point is how to effectively govern without actually, nominally being part of the government

[oakpope]

the point is how to effectively govern without actually, nominally being part of the government

That would be the dream of many politicians I'm sure

By the way, glad that the constitutional court ruled against their plea to revoke marriage equality. They won't try again anytime soon.

[belamo]

That would be the dream of many politicians I'm sure

Rather that of most the population: you could have a worthless idiot elected for the pomp without having to sawllow his decision-making crap... wait... all that has been being done already.

[Saybrooke]

I learned not to joke about who you love, cause the one you actually do love might leave you </3

[belamo]

I learned not to joke about who you love, cause the one you actually do love might leave you </3

So you learned that your beloved one is stjwpeed.

[belamo]

(Actually I realized it yesterday, but I count it as a today's acquisition). How fugly actually is the guy looking at us from the Hollister bags and "opening soon" ads: like the love child of John Enos III and a platypus... or that of Mike Jeffreaks with his post-surgical self. I mean the guy under all that heavy photobrushing>

[CottonBolus]

If it didn't work the last few times, then there's a big possibility that it won't work this time, either.