What did you learn today?

[Malt-Teaser]

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but I'm not so sure about that.

Today I learned some new rules at pool, well it is more than 20 years since I last played seriously.

More importantly, I learned a new verb "To Favorite" (as opposed to "To Favourite"). OK, so in either form I never realised that "favourite" was a verb, but this new-fangled twitter thing tells me that someone "favorited" one of my tweety thingies.

There you go, what did you learn today?

[orange_barnet]

This might turn out to be a short thread ....

[BigMac]

Something very personal here....

Today I learned today that even though you think you're completely on top of a situation, it only takes one bastard to remind you that you're not...

...this is not forum or whisky related in any way, I might add...

[Pete Smoke]

I learned from Lofty Wiseman's SAS Survival Handbook that in times of desperate thirst one can suck the water from an animal's eyes to survive. The other recommended technique is to squeeze fresh water from live frogs.

[Malt-Teaser]

I learned from Lofty Wiseman's SAS Survival Handbook that in times of desperate thirst one can suck the water from an animal's eyes to survive. The other recommended technique is to squeeze fresh water from live frogs.

I'm riveted

[orange_barnet]

I learned from Lofty Wiseman's SAS Survival Handbook that in times of desperate thirst one can suck the water from an animal's eyes to survive. The other recommended technique is to squeeze fresh water from live frogs.

I'm riveted

.... I must admit I was a tad pole-axed by such gruesome suggestions.

[Mr Tattie Heid]

Things your mother never toad you....

And then there's this:

[two-bit cowboy]

We're renovating a hallway upstairs. Off with the old covering, down to the stud walls. On with the sheet rock (and requisite taping and mudding). I finally, today, after six years of hanging rock, taping, mudding and painting, got a seam absolutely perfect. All you folks who do this for a living: buzz off. I'll never be a pro, but this one seam is perfect--the best of my best. Wow. (Tomorrow I'll "fix" the other seams!)

[Pudge72]

I have learned how quickly a thread can become derailed on this forum (see the 'If no water...' thread).

[Bishopburn Boy]

very strangely , the differnc ebetween a coffin and a casket

[Mr Tattie Heid]

In the past couple of days, I have learned quite a bit about gout, including how painful it can be.

[les taylor]

Yesterday Mrs les and two of our daughters flew to Manhattan, just for 8 days. Today I've had it reinforced how much I miss her when she's not here. She's gong to pop up on the webcam of 46th and 7th later and wave to me.

[les taylor]

I also learnt that the end of a loaf of bread is called The Heel nad not the crust. In France it's called the Knobby.

[Willie JJ]

Today I learned today that even though you think you're completely on top of a situation, it only takes one bastard to remind you that you're not...

So do you have to be a bastard to do the reminding or does the act of reminding turn you into one?

Teach me. I haven't learnt anything else today.

[two-bit cowboy]

In the past couple of days, I have learned quite a bit about gout, including how painful it can be.

Now the next most painful thing you'll learn is all the great things you shouldn't eat.

[orange_barnet]

Today I learned today that even though you think you're completely on top of a situation, it only takes one bastard to remind you that you're not...

So do you have to be a bastard to do the reminding or does the act of reminding turn you into one?

Teach me. I haven't learnt anything else today.

My interpretation is that it can be 'neither, nor' or 'either, or' dependent on the specific context. It seems to me that Claus was referring to a particular situation rather than generalising.

Hope you get back on top of that particular situation soon Claus!

[Mr Tattie Heid]

In the past couple of days, I have learned quite a bit about gout, including how painful it can be.

Now the next most painful thing you'll learn is all the great things you shouldn't eat.

Meat, fish, and beer...that's my whole diet! Actually, the dietary advice almost sounds like the opposite of everything I've been told for the past fifty years--legumes, whole grains, oily fish, asparagus, cauliflower, spinach, peas, and oatmeal, bad; dairy, coffee, tea, chocolate, fats and oils, cakes and cookies, good. (Okay, I'm cherry-picking for effect.) But I'm not going to worry about it too much right now--it was a relatively mild attack, hurt really bad for less than 24 hours. I've probably been a little too steady with the beer for the past couple of months, so could stand to cut back there. We'll see how it goes. The worst thing will be having to be a bit more careful when I go on vacation to the UK for five weeks.

[two-bit cowboy]

Can't do lima beans or cauliflower, which I love; with all the rest I'm ok.

[BigMac]

Today I learned today that even though you think you're completely on top of a situation, it only takes one bastard to remind you that you're not...

So do you have to be a bastard to do the reminding or does the act of reminding turn you into one?

Teach me. I haven't learnt anything else today.

Willie, this was a situation that I had put alotta effort into, that got ruined by a bastard even though I thought I was in control... but yes, you can interpret it in more than one way, so feel free... I'm not gonna elaborate further on this anyway

It seems to me that Claus was referring to a particular situation rather than generalising.

Indeed I was, OB - great insights

[Mr Tattie Heid]

So do you have to be a bastard to do the reminding or does the act of reminding turn you into one?

I gather it's the act of being a bastard in itself that does the reminding.