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JZ Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 While this is not a joke to the people that wrote it, to normal thinking people, this is hilarious. https://theflatearthsociety.org/home/index.php/about-the-society/faq 3 2 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 7 hours ago, JZ said: While this is not a joke to the people that wrote it, to normal thinking people, this is hilarious. https://theflatearthsociety.org/home/index.php/about-the-society/faq Ah yes, subscribes a lot to the "moon landings were a hoax" school of conspiracy theory. 🙄 My own 'Evidence Number 1' that the moon landings happened: If they hadn't, the USSR would've gone all-out to prove it, including continuing to try & get there themselves. They didn't; they knew the USA had won the Space Race. 9 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted January 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26 ...don't rise to the bait. It's not just not worth it, it's impossible to reason 'em around! Kev. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pH Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 1 hour ago, SHMD said: ...don't rise to the bait. It's not just not worth it, it's impossible to reason 'em around! Kev. One scientific department at university used to have a monthly one-hour guest lecture and following Q and A session. These could be very interesting, and the Q and A could become very detailed and occasionally rather heated. In one month each year, the lecture would be on a subject not in any way related to the research interests of the department. One year, the lecturer invited was from the local branch of the Flat Earth Society. The Q and A consisted of two or three softball questions, asked by members of the committee organizing the lecture, and that was it. Nobody was interested in ‘learning’ any more. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post KeithMacdonald Posted January 26 Popular Post Share Posted January 26 Sorry, should have posted this yesterday, got distracted by the medicinal wee drams. 2 19 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 26 17 minutes ago, KeithMacdonald said: Sorry, should have posted this yesterday, got distracted by the medicinal wee drams. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 10 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said: Sorry, should have posted this yesterday, got distracted by the medicinal wee drams. Brings to mind an event that took place at the Dick Institute Kilmarnock. The yellow AA signs on the A77 directed motorists to "Serious Burns at the Dick" Jim 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted January 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 27 The University of Glasgow has a Centre for Robert Burns Studies, something I became aware of through my aunt having dealings with them - she had bought at auction an estate map in which someone there was interested. So of course it was referred to withing the family as the Burns Unit. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 56 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: The University of Glasgow has a Centre for Robert Burns Studies Ah yes, that again 😉 Quote As a global network, the Centre for Robert Burns Studies is connected with an active body of international scholars and has welcomed visiting scholars from across the world, including the USA, Slovenia and Czechia, amongst other places. Closer to home, the Centre supports a number of postgraduate students with their work on Robert Burns, providing financial assistance for Masters-level research through the Shaw Scholarship as well as the direct supervision of postgraduate research projects and support in early career research. The expensive part is re-enacting the life of wee Robbie. The price of whisky and prostitutes servant girls and wenches has gone up a lot, as has the cost of child maintenance for the various illegitimate offspring. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted January 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 27 Hmmm, I bought my current vehicle from Burns Ford! 😉 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 (edited) 6 hours ago, luckymucklebackit said: Brings to mind an event that took place at the Dick Institute Kilmarnock. The yellow AA signs on the A77 directed motorists to "Serious Burns at the Dick" Jim The Armed Forces assess the extent of a burns victim's injuries according to the "Rule of Ninths". Each area of the body is alloted a percentage that's a multiple of nine. So, each leg is 18%, the torso is 36%, each arm and the head is 9%. The remaining 1% is allocated to a chap's manhood, irrespective of its actual proportions. This brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "1% rise". Edited January 27 by CameronL Typo 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 (edited) 17 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said: There is... My Smart Car Upped and Left Me For Another Chorus My smart car upped and left me for another. But now she's gone I just have to agree Though I really did my best I just couldn't pass the test My car was more intelligent than me. When I saw her in the showroom I was smitten A real case of car love at first sight Seeing all her gleaming chrome Made me want to take her home And give her a good buffing every night And the salesman asked “Y’all ever owned a smart car?” I said “No, I’ve had a Jeep or two.” He just smiled and shook his head Looked me up and down and said “I think we’d best deliver her to you.” Chorus So they brought her round and left her on my driveway With a manual, and before they drove away I asked “How d’you turn her on?” They said “That’s page 1-4-1. Start reading now. You might get there today.” So I tried my best to understand that manual But reading it just made me feel a jerk 'Cos the language was absurd. Seemed like each and every word Was translated from Korean – by a Turk Chorus And I couldn’t use the vocal recognition She didn’t seem to like my Southern drawl And that really was no good She’d say “Not understood.” If I started any sentence with “Y’all.” So I plugged her in when I should have unplugged her Switched her off when I should have left her on Yes, I treated her so bad That it made my smart car sad ‘Til she couldn’t take no more, and now she’s gone. Chorus Well, I woke up one morning same as always. I found her gone, and I just wondered why She’d left me all alone And I found there on my ‘phone A text that said “Can’t take no more. Goodbye.” So now I’m all alone without my smart car But now I think mebbes our love was cursed Though she'd sensors all around Seems they didn't pick up "Hound" 'Cos she ran over my dog when she reversed. Chorus Last Chorus Well, my smart car upped and left me for another And when she left she drove away my heart. Mebbes I'll have more luck With an old Ford pickup truck. ‘Cos just like me that - car - ain’t - ve - ry - smart. Edited January 27 by CameronL Typo 2 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 1 hour ago, J. S. Bach said: Hmmm, I bought my current vehicle from Burns Ford! 😉 From the Wikipedia entry for Burns: Through his five surviving children (of 12 born), Burns has over 900 living descendants as of 2019. Quite possibly the owner is related! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted January 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 27 (edited) 14 minutes ago, pH said: Through his five surviving children (of 12 born), Burns has over 900 living descendants as of 2019. There's nothing remarkable in that. Say 8 generations at 30 year intervals, each descendant in turn having two children going on to have children in their turn, would give about 250 in the current generation, if three children, over 6,000. So 900 (across several generations alive simultaneously) seems reasonably likely - perhaps even on the low side - for someone living in the second half of the 18th century. Burns is in any case a pretty common surname in Scotland so the probability of any random Burns being a descendant of the poet is quite low. Edited January 27 by Compound2632 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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