Yep. It’s not for amateurs.
“What’s the use of being sober, when you’re gunna get drunk again?”
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Today I learned how the dashboard got its name.
The dashboard was a literal board designed to catch filth. In the horse-and-buggy era, horses at a ‘full dash’ had a tendency to kick up a cocktail of mud, rocks – and of course manure – directly into the driver’s face.
Carriage-makers developed a wooden barrier to at least partially block the debris. When engines replaced horses, the board stayed put, and the name stuck, even though the mud and poop no longer did.
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Give me a kiss and I’ll tell you 
TIL that anaesthetists have no sense of humour. Went in for a knee op and was asked what I was taking blood thinners for. I said to thin my blood. Lights out pretty quick and woke up in recovery. He didn’t find it funny but he did his job.
Well it would have because most roads were still unpaved in those days.
While I am here, TIL that robots can make chips…!
These are now for sale in Australia.
End days
My one said “so we are taking a tumor out of your right kidney?”.
I said “no, the left one”
He said “no, right ” so by this point I just thought he was testing me out.
I said “no, left one”. He calls the surgeon.
Him: “oh, give us a minute”
They had set up to operate on my right kidney
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Name band on opposite wrist. Thats what I was told for the first time last week. And just before I was KO’ed the surgeon come in with a texts. Glad they sorted yours out. Then again the left one was right, right?
I’ve watched Life Of Brian probably 10 times, only just realised George Harrison is actually in it.
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His company (Handmade Films) bank-rolled the Monty Python films. Without him, those films wouldn’t have been made.
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Was on SBS last night. Wouldn’t be allowed to get made in these so called modern days. Still cracks me up.
And ,as posted on the ‘songs you haven’t heard in a long while ‘ thread, yesterday I learnt that Nils Lofgen is a very decent pianist.
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… that fire alarms at a single site have synced flashing lights to avoid triggering epileptic seizures.
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(yesterday) I watched an ESPN doco called You Don’t Know Bo , and I learned about Bo Jackson.
When you see the stuff he was doing it’s like “how have I never heard of him?!!”. He was playing major league baseball and NFL in the same years. He said the NFL was his winter hobby. And he excelled at both. He was an athletic freak.
Sadly he got a career ending injury at age 28 - dislocated hip led to hip replacement - before he won any titles in either baseball or football.
found this youtube compilation to give you a taste of what Bo could do. Doco is definitely worth a watch.
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Deion Sanders (Coach Prime) is the only person in history to score a touchdown in the NFL and hit a home run in MLB is the same week
(I didn’t learn this today)
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Neon Deion. At one time he could do anything. Defence, offence, special teams, baseball.
Need a learned it in the past thread (and still remember it)
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TIL it Brussels Sprouts. With an S on the end of Brussel.
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This will blow your mind. There’s also an 's on the end of it! 
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