baha_man
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Comment · 5 years ago
Pint-sized cans of beer are rare, many beers come in 500ml cans. 330ml cans are common, especially for craft beer.
Comment · 6 years ago
'Almost everyone needs reading glasses by 40'
I think it's more like 45 than 40.
Comment · 6 years ago
He's not on a ventilator yet as far as we know
Comment · 9 years ago
Source?
Comment · 10 years ago
"Toilet" is not a euphemism:
"Toilet" was by etymology a euphemism, but is no longer understood as such. As old euphemisms have become the standard term, they have been progressively replaced by newer ones, an example of the euphemism treadmill at work.
Comment · 11 years ago
According to Snopes[1]:
"Practically anyone famous for his knowledge can be offered up as the virtuoso in this tale... Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, George Washington, the electrical genius Charles Proteus Steinmetz... How long this story has been around is a mystery."
Comment · 11 years ago
"Guns are, somewhat counter-intuitively, one of the more survivable suicide methods."
Source? This study gives a 'case fatality rate' of 85% for firearms, 69% for suffocation, and 2% for poisoning:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/case-f...
Comment · 12 years ago
..."the NHS in the UK. Its the largest organisation in the world with 1.4M employees..."
It's big, but it's not that big, fifth or sixth largest employer in the world according to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers#Large...
Comment · 12 years ago
"On an unrelated note, are there areas that use a [lʊv] pronunciation of "love" today? That might explain the to-me odd use of "lurve" in humor."
According to http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/lurve:
"Origin - 1930s: as a parody of the pronunciation of love in popular romantic songs."
Comment · 12 years ago
There's actually more useful information in the Independent article submitted previously:
Comment · 12 years ago
Well, perhaps a hole in one is a bigger deal for amateurs, so they are more likely to honour the tradition. The article give the odds of getting a hole in one as 7,500 to 1 for a pro and 12,500 for an amateur, which doesn't seem like a huge difference, but presumably pros will play so much more they'll get many more holes in one.
Comment · 12 years ago
Surely betting on yourself to win is fine?
Comment · 12 years ago
I would guess the main reason is that it would be too gruesome for anyone watching the execution. Also, decapitation seems almost like desecrating the condemned person's corpse, which might be considered a cruel and unusual punishment even for someone considered to be deserving of the death penalty.