Groucho's Fact Hunt

[daza_1973]

Eye in Suffolk.

Oh, Eye

 

[Billysgingham.]

Oh, Eye

You will have to go and edit it to just scotland, sorry.

 

[daza_1973]

Glenelg in Scotland is the only palindrome placename in the uk with more than three letters in its name....

Eye in Suffolk.

with more than three letters lol

 

[Billysgingham.]

with more than three letters lol

eye eye.

 

[WA Toffee]

Dogs use the earths magnetic fields to navigate which way they poo, they will only poo following a north-south magnetic field and never in a east-west

can we get a fact check on this one please. My dog poos in any direction

 

[SpongeBob brown shoes]

can we get a fact check on this one please. My dog poos in any direction

Dogs poop in alignment with Earth's magnetic field, study finds

Dogs use the Earth's magnetic field when they're relieving themselves. Not only that, but canines choose to do so in a north-south axis, a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Zoology says. The study suggests that dogs are sensitive to small variations in Earth's magnetic field. After...

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Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds
Science Jan 3, 2014 10:05 AM EST
Dogs use the Earth’s magnetic field when they’re relieving themselves. Not only that, but canines choose to do so in a north-south axis, a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Zoology says.
The study suggests that dogs are sensitive to small variations in Earth’s magnetic field. After examining 70 dogs — made up of 37 breeds — over two years, 1,893 defecations and 5,582 urinations, researchers found that under “calm magnetic field conditions,” dogs preferred to “excrete with the body being aligned along the north-south axis,” avoiding east-west altogether. Dogs were observed in a free-roaming environment, meaning they were not leashed and not influenced by walls or roads that would influence linear movement.
Why do the dogs prefer the north-south axis and avoid east-west? That was unclear, according to the study:

 

[WA Toffee]

Dogs poop in alignment with Earth's magnetic field, study finds

Dogs use the Earth's magnetic field when they're relieving themselves. Not only that, but canines choose to do so in a north-south axis, a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Zoology says. The study suggests that dogs are sensitive to small variations in Earth's magnetic field. After...

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Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds
Science Jan 3, 2014 10:05 AM EST
Dogs use the Earth’s magnetic field when they’re relieving themselves. Not only that, but canines choose to do so in a north-south axis, a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Zoology says.
The study suggests that dogs are sensitive to small variations in Earth’s magnetic field. After examining 70 dogs — made up of 37 breeds — over two years, 1,893 defecations and 5,582 urinations, researchers found that under “calm magnetic field conditions,” dogs preferred to “excrete with the body being aligned along the north-south axis,” avoiding east-west altogether. Dogs were observed in a free-roaming environment, meaning they were not leashed and not influenced by walls or roads that would influence linear movement.
Why do the dogs prefer the north-south axis and avoid east-west? That was unclear, according to the study:

I better show that to my dog then, he's obviously doing it wrong

 

[Pilks]

Connecticut, USA, has some of the strangest laws known to man

In the city of New Britain it is illegal for a fire engine to exceed 25mph even when heading to a fire, whereas throughout the state you can, technically, be stopped by police for riding a bicycle faster than 65mph

Also, walkers beware! In the village of Devon it is illegal to walk backwards after sunset, while in the town of Hartford you are not allowed to cross the street walking on your hands

Sanity does sometimes prevail however. Throughout the state it is, naturally, illegal for pickles to not bounce, whilst it is an offence to dispose of used razor blades

Mind you, they'd never fail to recognise people dismantling a football coach. That would be entirely too absurd...

 

[Groucho]

Connecticut, USA, has some of the strangest laws known to man

In the city of New Britain it is illegal for a fire engine to exceed 25mph even when heading to a fire, whereas throughout the state you can, technically, be stopped by police for riding a bicycle faster than 65mph

Also, walkers beware! In the village of Devon it is illegal to walk backwards after sunset, while in the town of Hartford you are not allowed to cross the street walking on your hands

Sanity does sometimes prevail however. Throughout the state it is, naturally, illegal for pickles to not bounce, whilst it is an offence to dispose of used razor blades

Mind you, they'd never fail to recognise people dismantling a football coach. That would be entirely too absurd...

So what happens to razors then?

 

[Black Belt Jones]

The British East India company, at the height of its powers around 1800, had a private army twice the size of the British army (around 250000 men) and accounted for half the world's trade. Probably the most powerful corporation in world history.

And we think Google and Facebook have clout. Although it's prob not long before they start getting their own armies together...

 

[summerisle]

The British East India company, at the height of its powers around 1800, had a private army twice the size of the British army (around 250000 men) and accounted for half the world's trade. Probably the most powerful corporation in world history.

And we think Google and Facebook have clout. Although it's prob not long before they start getting their own armies together...

Have a listen to this.

BBC Radio 4 - The Anarchy

William Dalrymple's history of the East India Company and how it came to subdue India.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Socrates]

The British East India company, at the height of its powers around 1800, had a private army twice the size of the British army (around 250000 men) and accounted for half the world's trade. Probably the most powerful corporation in world history.

And we think Google and Facebook have clout. Although it's prob not long before they start getting their own armies together...

And you think it doesn't exist today?

The East India Company has split, changed names and kept out of the limelight but the same old practices continue today and the descendants of the original owners are still creaming it in.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

And you think it doesn't exist today?

The East India Company has split, changed names and kept out of the limelight but the same old practices continue today and the descendants of the original owners are still creaming it in.

I think corporations-as-governments exist today for sure - this used to be an arresting thought when people like Pynchon first wrote about it, but nowadays even Dave from the pub recognises the phenomena.

I don't know any company that has a standing army of 250000 people, mind. Is there one?

 

[Socrates]

I think corporations-as-governments exist today for sure - this used to be an arresting thought when people like Pynchon first wrote about it, but nowadays even Dave from the pub recognises the phenomena.

I don't know any company that has a standing army of 250000 people, mind. Is there one?

Blackstone in the US. Eric Prince's outfit.

And let's face it, our armed forces and security services are there to protect "British interests" abroad.
Those interests are usually commercial. Oil and gas being the most prominent.

 

[chrismpw]

I think corporations-as-governments exist today for sure - this used to be an arresting thought when people like Pynchon first wrote about it, but nowadays even Dave from the pub recognises the phenomena.

I don't know any company that has a standing army of 250000 people, mind. Is there one?

Interesting. It's long been clear to anybody with eyes that corporations own the uk government. Those in 'power' who are supposed to represent the electorate but they only really represent the best interests of big companies.

Then there's the absolute disinterest the police show to any household crime compared with the immediate crackdown on anyone lifting a mars bar from sainsbury's.