BS: simple stuff we might not know

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: Mr Red
Date: 15 Jan 18 - 06:48 AM

But do they know where they are?

Lost assumes concern, whereas some may wander to discover. Which means they are gained!

Take a ball of string with you!

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jan 18 - 09:46 AM

I have a hard time setting my computer to link to Bluetooth devices.
It must be something basic I am doing wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: Thompson
Date: 17 Jan 18 - 02:52 AM

Bluetooth is weird. I have a Bluetooth speaker I sometimes use when teaching. It won't connect to the computer when there's a roomful of students with mobile phones - presumably its little brain gets confused.

Cycling 6 miles 5 days a week can lower you chance of contracting cancer by 45% and of heart disease by 41%, according to
this study of a quarter of a million commuters over five years by Glasgow University.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: mg
Date: 17 Jan 18 - 04:33 PM

i can't make my cellphone quit locking itself all the time.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jan 18 - 06:17 PM

Bluetooth is so flamin' clunky, yet it's beautiful when it works. It. Lets me watch footie on me pad when Mrs Steve is watching hospital soaps and it lets me listen to sublime classical music on YouTube when she's gone to bed. One of me Christmas presents was a classy pair of Sony Bluetooth cordless headphones. Also, I can speak to people on me phone in the car without touching anything at all.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: Thompson
Date: 18 Jan 18 - 09:09 AM

Oh yeah, headphones (and earbuds). What do yiz keep them in? I mostly keep mine in flat boxes that I got with sets of bicycle lights designed for giving away - not everyone accepts to boxes with the lights, so I have a few plastic click-shut boxes to spare.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: mg
Date: 18 Jan 18 - 03:46 PM

how about keeping them in those baconkeepers like tuppreware. They are absolutely fantastic..can get them for $2 sometimes...great for bacon, but also all sorts of meats, vegetables, cheese etc...they will reform a chaotic refrigerator.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jan 18 - 04:43 PM

things I didn't know for ages:

recently heard that when John Lennon was born,
he was the sole survivor of a pair of twins.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: JennieG
Date: 19 Jan 18 - 05:09 PM

So was Elvis Presley - his twin brother was stillborn.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: frogprince
Date: 19 Jan 18 - 09:05 PM

If they were twins, how do they know if it was really Elvis that lived ?

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: JennieG
Date: 20 Jan 18 - 05:56 AM

You're right, you know! Perhaps Elvis never even entered the building, let alone left it?

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: Mr Red
Date: 20 Jan 18 - 06:14 AM

Clue's in the name ..........

Elvis is an anagram of lives

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 18 - 07:45 AM

Its kinda common.

1 in 8 of us absorbed a twin while our mothers were pregnant.
At the end of 9 months only 1 in 80 are delivered twins.

There are traces sometimes of an absorbed twin. A parchment like flat patch on the skin or an external bean like formation. Sometimes the remains are internal and sometimes there is no trace.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 21 Jan 18 - 02:36 AM

I just today went to an engaging tour and lecture in an historical farm house, about life in the 1700s. Much of the lecture took place in the kitchen. And I learned something I didn t know about butter. If a cow eats hay, the butter is white. If a cow eats grass the butter is yellow- because grass -believe it or not -has a lot of fat.

Grass ! Grass, like the grass on your lawn, is fatty! Does this give me reason to ignore my nutritionist 's advice to eat more salads?

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: Senoufou
Date: 21 Jan 18 - 04:31 AM

I believe the grass contains carbohydrate which is converted by the cow into fat as it travels along the rumen. I don't think it contains fat per se.
(We have three dairy herds of Holsteins in our village and know the farmer and his wife well.)

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Jan 18 - 06:47 AM

There are traces sometimes of an absorbed twin.

Can result in chimeric people, & plays havoc with (so called) DNA fingerprinting.
I believe they also get described as "Mosaic" because the DNA differs from body part to body part.

And because I collect 4 leaf clover**, the smell of milk at certain times of the year smells remarkably like the clover when I open the bus ticket (eg) that they get put in. GF lives on a dairy farm.

** Guinness World Record stands at 110,000 - if I continue for 100 years I may beat that!