Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[Billy ray]

One day your parents put you down and never picked you up again.

I just read that too

 

[Moonwatcher]

Teaching had begun at Oxford University by 1096 while the founding of Tenochtitlán in 1325 marked the start of the Aztec civilization. That means that Oxford predates the Aztecs by over 200 years.

http://factmyth.com/factoids/oxford-university-is-older-than-aztec-civilization/

 

[Sainteric]

It's not part of New South Wales. It is Commonwealth territory that is effectively administrated as part of the ACT.

It's not part of the ACT it is administered by a federal department. It has no representation in the ACT govt, but is part of the federal electorate that is mostly in the ACT.

 

[exe ex machina]

this is THE worst video ever made in the history of video production....

 

[Moonwatcher]

You can live the rest of your life without breathing.

 

[GreyCrow]

And I thought the Mariana Trench was deep

 

[Moonwatcher]

The Mariana Trench is 0.00000000000000003% Spam.

 

[SaltPeter]

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The Mariana Trench is 0.0000000000000001% Spam.

Very happy to see it is the low sodium spam that made it to bottom. Bit hard to make out the use by date though. Probably also happy that it someone else has poisoned themselves with Bud too

 

[Wallaby]

In Hawaii, Spam is known as 'Hawaiian Steak'. The Hawaiians are obsessed with Spam, and have Spam festivals, Hawaiian Mcdonalds have a Spam-burger, and local gourmet chefs have all tried their hand at special Spam recipes.

 

[estibador]

In Hawaii, Spam is known as 'Hawaiian Steak'. The Hawaiians are obsessed with Spam, and have Spam festivals, Hawaiian Mcdonalds have a Spam-burger, and local gourmet chefs have all tried their hand at special Spam recipes.

It's the same in Tonga with this stuff:

It's pretty much their national dish now. They include it in all their 'traditional' feasts, and every shop has rows and rows of it in every size, all the way up to big 1kg tins.

 

[Billy ray]

MMm with juices

 

[SaltPeter]

Ox & Palm is popular in PNG, with the standard expat joke being "its not what's in it, its who's in it"

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Sorry akkaps and Moonwatcher. My bit of trivia was BS. It's a shame, I thought it was a good story.

 

[William Wonka]

this is THE worst video ever made in the history of video production....

Not sure about this.
I once watched a 90 second clip of a bloke thinking

 

[exe ex machina]

Not sure about this.
I once watched a 90 second clip of a bloke thinking

Yeah, but if only you knew what was being thought, it would make that video a short-film masterpiece.

 

[exe ex machina]

i take it back....that SW video is the greatest video ever produced, filmed, and narrated....heckin'g masterpiece, heckin'g genius.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Disappointed my earlier post was bs, and has been edited out. To make up for it, unless someone can trump me (Like Allthatpower's friend), this is the earliest photograph of someone giving the finger. Some baseball player in the 1860-70s. I'll see if I can find out more details later.

Spoiler

 

[troybe]

And here Radbourn flipping the bird again


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[imadodgyumpire]

Oh right. So this is common knowledge? Ah well, I'll delete my post soon and piss off from this thread then.

 

[troybe]

Oh right. So this is common knowledge? Ah well, I'll delete my post soon and piss off from this thread then.

No not at all. I googled baseball player flipping bird and it had an article about him. At first I thought it was a cigar in his hand but apparently he just liked flipping the bird


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[exe ex machina]

all 16th etc Century scientists resemble 1970s rock/metal stars.

 

[Rod Stroker]

James Cameron's first choice actor to play the T1000 in Terminator 2, was not Robert Patrick. It was...

Billy Idol.

Billy was unable to do it as he was recovering from a motorbike accident.

 

[Moonwatcher]

James Cameron's first choice actor to play the T1000 in Terminator 2, was not Robert Patrick. It was...

Billy Idol.

Billy was unable to do it as he was recovering from a motorbike accident.

James Cameron had Schwarzenegger audition for Kyle Reese, not the Terminator.

 

[Shell]

In Hawaii, Spam is known as 'Hawaiian Steak'. The Hawaiians are obsessed with Spam, and have Spam festivals, Hawaiian Mcdonalds have a Spam-burger, and local gourmet chefs have all tried their hand at special Spam recipes.

Ive been tothe Spam museum. Without a doubt spam is the foulest smelliest shit ever produced its gross.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Austria gets its name from the German word for East, Osten. Australia gets its name from the Latin word for South. So the fact that both countries have similar sounding names is just a coincidence despite the same reasoning being used to name them.