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then why are you disputing it if you don't know what it means lol 

 

it's only a google away, it's not difficult, save you looking like a cum truncheon n'all

 

Because I thought he just spelt Barrister wrong.....

 

Cringe @ the 2nd line

 

Lets leave it there son

 

yeah barristers are known for their poor grammar/ not being able to spell the name of their profession 

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Golf was banned in England in 1457 because it was considered a distraction from the serious pursuit of archery.

Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate.

A teenager in Belmont, New Hampshire robbed the local convenience store. Getting away with a pocket full of change, the boy walked home. He did not realize, however, that he had holes in both of his pockets. A trail of quarters and dimes led police directly to his house.

In 1970, "MCI" stood for "Microwave Communications, Inc." No longer used as an acronym, it now stands alone.

Clinophobia is the fear of beds.

At Disneyland they have hundreds of wild domesticated cats running around the park. They never come out during the day because there's too many people, but the reason they're there is to catch the mice.

The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.

In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there's a creepy spot called the "Zone of Silence." You can't pick up clear TV or radio signals. And locals say fireballs sometimes appear in the sky.

thernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.

Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars pa##ing a given point on a road.

Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees.

Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.

The first fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the paleontologists' favorite song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," by the Beatles.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

Hot water is heavier than cold.

If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.

Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.

On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.

Time slows down near a black hole; inside it stops completely.

To an observer standing on Pluto, the sun would appear no brighter than Venus appears in our evening sky.

Traveling at the speed of 186,000 miles per second, light take 6 hours to travel from Pluto to the earth.

A bucket filled with earth would weigh about 5 time more than the same bucket filled with the substance of the sun. However, the force of gravity is so much greater on the sun that the man weighing 150 pounds on our planet would weigh 2 tons on the sun.

A car traveling at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour would take over 48 million years to reach the nearest star (other than our sun), Proxima Centauri. This is about 685,000 average human lifetimes.

A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year. Mercury rotates very slowly but revolves around the sun in slightly less than 88 days.

A dog was k#lled by a meteor at Nakhla, Egypt, in 1911. The unlucky canine is the only creature known to have been k#lled by a meteor.

A full moon always rises at sunset.

f the world were tilted one degree more either way, the planet would not be habitable because the area around the equator would be too hot and the poles would be too cold.

If you stand in the bottom of a well, you would be able to see the stars even in the daytime.

Bacteria, the tiniest free-living cells, are so small that a single drop of liquid contains as many as 50 million of them.

At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.

Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.

The fastest moon in our solar system circles Jupiter once every seven hours - traveling at 70,400 miles per hour.

The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. If there was a bathtub large enough to hold it, Saturn would float.

Earth's atmosphere is, proportionally, thinner than the skin of an apple.

Because of the salt content of the Dead Sea, it is difficult to dive below its surface.

The planet Venus has the longest day.

The first atomic b0mb exploded at Trinity Site, New Mexico.

All organic compounds contain carbon.

Three astronauts manned each Apollo flight.

Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.

There are 7 stars in the Big Dipper.

upiter is the largest planet in the solar system.

The speed of sound must be exceeded to produce a sonic boom.

The nearest galaxy to our own is Andromeda.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is predicted to topple over between 2010 and 2020.

Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.

Blood is 6 times thicker than water.

Dissolved salt makes up 3.5 percent of the oceans.

Three stars make up Orion's belt.

 

Some interesting shit.

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Bring back Eskay

 

1. "The itis"

More commonly known now as a "food coma," this phrase directly alludes to the stereotype of laziness associated with African-Americans. It stems from a longer (and incredibly offensive) version — ni****itis.
 
Modern vernacular dropped the racial slur, leaving a faux-scientific diagnosis for the tired feeling you get after eating way too much food.
 
We recommend using the technical term instead: postprandial somnolence. 
 
2. "Uppity"
A couple years ago, Rush Limbaugh pontificated that a NASCAR audience booed Michelle Obama because she exhibited "uppity-ism." Glenn Beck even defended him, citing the First Lady's love of arugula.
 
During segregation, Southerners used "uppity" to describe blacks who didn't know their socioeconomic place. Originally, the term started within the black community, but the racists adopted it pretty quickly.
 
3."Peanut gallery"
This phrase intends to reference hecklers or critics, usually ill-informed ones. In reality, the "peanut gallery" names a section in theaters, usually the cheapest and worst, where many black people sat during the era of Vaudeville.
 
4. "Gyp"
"Gyp" or "gip" most likely evolved as a shortened version of "gypsy" — more correctly known as the Romani, an ethnic group now mostly in Europe and America. The Romani typically traveled a lot and made their money by selling goods. Business disputes naturally arose, and the masses started thinking of Romani as swindlers.
 
Today, "gyp" has become synonymous with cheating someone.
 
5. "Paddy wagons"
In modern slang, "paddy wagon" means a police car.
 
"Paddy" originated in the late 1700s as a shortened form of "Patrick," and then later a pejorative term for any Irishman. "Wagon" naturally refers to a vehicle. "Paddy wagon" either stemmed from the large number of Irish police officers or the perception that rowdy, drunken Irishmen constantly ended up in the back of police cars.
 
Neither are particularly nice.
 
6. "Bugger"
When you call someone a "bugger," you're accusing them of being a Bulgarian sodomite. The term stemmed from the Bogomils, who led a religious sect during the Middle Ages called "Bulgarus." Through various languages, the term morphed into "bugger." 
 
Many considered the Bogomils heretical and thus, said they approached sex in an "inverse way." In Hungarian, a related word still means a slur for homosexual men.
 
7. "Hooligan"
This phrase started appearing in London newspaper around 1898. The Oxford Online Dictionary speculates it evolved from the fictional surname, "Houlihan," included in a popular pub song about a rowdy Irish family.
 
Other sources, like Clarence Rook's book, "The Hooligan Nights," claim that Patrick Houlihan actually existed. He was a bouncer and a thief in Ireland.
 
Whatever the case, somewhere an Irish family landed a bad rap. Most notably, the term evolved into "football hooliganism," destructive behavior from European football (but really soccer) fans.
 
8. "Eskimo"
"Eskimo" comes from the same Danish word borrowed from Algonquin "ashkimeq," which literally means "eaters of raw meat." Other etymological research suggests it could mean "snowshoe-netter" too.
 
Either way, when we refer to an entire group of people by their perceived behaviors, we trivialize their existence and culture. Let's start using the proper terms, like Inuit.
 
9. "Sold down the river"
Today, if someone "sells you down the river,"  he or she betrays or cheats you. But the phrase has a much darker and more literal meaning.
 
During slavery in the U.S., masters in the North often sold their misbehaving slaves, sending them down the Mississippi river to plantations in Mississippi, where conditions were much harsher.
 
10. "Eenie meenie miney moe"
This phrase comes from a  longer children's rhyme:
 
Eenie, meenie, miney, moe / Catch a tiger by the toe / If he hollers let him go / Eenie, meenie miney, moe
 
This modern, unoffensive version comes from a similar, older one, where n***er replaces tiger. Rudyard Kipling mentions it as a "counting-out song" (basically a way for kids to eliminate candidates for being "It" in hide-and-seek) in "Land And Sea Tales For Scouts And Guides."
 
11. "Hip hip hooray!"
Though steeped in controversy, this first part of this phrase might relate to the Hep Hep Riots — anti-Semitic demonstrations started in Germany in the 19th century. Nazis reportedly cheered "hep hep" as they forced Jews from their homes across Europe. 
 
"Hep" is likely an acronym for "Hierosolyma est perdita" which means "Jerusalem has fallen" in Latin. The Crusaders may have used this as a battle cry, although little proof exists. Or German shepherds or hunters may have used "hep hep" as a traditional command to rally trained dogs.
 
Just to be safe, avoid the first two words. "Hooray" conveys just as much merriment as the full version and comes from hurrah, a version of huzzah, a "sailor's shout of exaltation."
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few countries dont

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