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[Enigman]

Come to think of it, when was the last time that any country with English as its first language was invaded?

Does Pearl Harbour count?

 

[Borek]

Does Pearl Harbour count?

It was hardly an invasion.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Come to think of it, when was the last time that any country with English as its first language was invaded?

Do you count the Falkland Islands?

 

[AlephZero]

It was hardly an invasion.

I suppose technically there was an invasion force of one sailor (who swam ashore after his midget submarine ran aground). but 100% of the invaders were captured.

Do you count the Falkland Islands?

Good call.

 

[strangerep]

Does Pearl Harbour count?

Umm,... what makes you think English was the first language in Hawaii?

Or indeed anywhere in the Americas?

[Edit] BTW, Sydney Harbour was "invaded" in WWII by a Japanese midget submarine that carried 2 submariners. They managed to torpedo the perfectly harmless ferry HMAS Kuttabul while aiming for the USS Chicago, then committed suicide.

Of course, Australia's first language is not English either.

 

[Enigman]

Umm,... what makes you think

I refute that accusation.

 

[edward]

For many years we had real wood floors. Real wood became too expensive then along came Pergo laminate and engineered wood. Now we have a zillion companies making laminate. The wood look is so popular there is now ceramic planks with a wood grain look.

 

[lisab]

Umm,... what makes you think English was the first language in Hawaii?

Or indeed anywhere in the Americas?

[Edit] BTW, Sydney Harbour was "invaded" in WWII by a Japanese midget submarine that carried 2 submariners. They managed to torpedo the perfectly harmless ferry HMAS Kuttabul while aiming for the USS Chicago, then committed suicide.

Of course, Australia's first language is not English either.

The first language of <anywhere on Earth> is not <any language spoken today>.

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

... Of course, Australia's first language is not English either.

My math teacher once randomly told us that the aboriginals of Australia had but three numbers: none, one, and many.

 

[Evo]

My math teacher once randomly told us that the aboriginals of Australia had but three numbers: none, one, and many.

I think they may have heard about the Brazilian Piraha tribe that don't have a concept of counting and got confused.

The work builds on a study published in 2004, which found that the Piraha had words to express the quantities "one," "two," and "many."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080714111940.htm

 

[Ibix]

I think they may have heard about the Brazilian Piraha tribe that don't have a concept of counting and got confused.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080714111940.htm

There are so many of these tribes...

 

[Evo]

There are so many of these tribes...

Name another one like the Piraha.

I guess I should provide a link about them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirahã_people#Culture

 

[Evo]

An oldie, but still goodie.

Recently reported in the Massachusetts Bar Association Lawyers Journal,
the following 22 questions were actually asked of witnesses by attorneys
during trials. In certain cases, the responses given by insightful witnesses also appear:

1. "Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep,
he doesn't know about it until the next morning?"

2. "The youngest son, the twenty-year old, how old is he?"

3. "Were you present when your picture was taken?"

4. "Were you alone or by yourself?"

5. "Was it you or your younger brother who was killed in the war?"

6. "Did he kill you?"

7. "How far apart were the vehicles at the time of the collision?"

8. "You were there until the time you left, is that true?"

9. "How many times have you committed suicide?"

10. Q: "So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?"
A: "Yes."
Q: "And what were you doing at that time?"

11. Q: "She had three children, right?"
A: "Yes."
Q: "How many were boys?"
A: "None."
Q: "Were there any girls?"

12. Q: "You say the stairs went down to the basement?"
A: "Yes."
Q: "And these stairs, did they go up also?"

13. Q: "Mr. Slattery, you went on a rather elaborate honeymoon,
didn't you?
A: "I went to Europe, Sir."
Q: "And you took your new wife?"

14. Q: "How was your first marriage terminated?"
A: "By death."
Q: "And by who's death was it terminated?"

15. Q: "Can you describe the individual?"
A: "He was about medium height and had a beard."
Q: "Was this a male, or a female?"

16. Q: "Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a
deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?"
A: "No, this is how I dress when I go to work."

17. Q: "Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead
people?" A: "All my autopsies are performed on dead people."

18. Q: "All your responses must be oral, OK? What school did you go to?"
A: "Oral."

19. Q: "Do you recall the time you examined the body?"
A: "The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m."
Q: "And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?"
A: "No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an
autopsy."

20. Q: "You were not shot in the fracas?"
A: "No, I was shot midway between the fracas and the navel."

21. Q: "Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
A: "I have been since early childhood."

22. Q: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for
a pulse?"
A: "No."
Q: "Did you check for blood pressure?"
A: "No."
Q: "Did you check for breathing?"
A: "No."
Q: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you
began the autopsy?"
A: "No."
Q: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"
A: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."
Q: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"
A: "It is possible that he could have been alive and practicing
law somewhere."
Thanks

 

[OmCheeto]

My math teacher once randomly told us that the aboriginals of Australia had but three numbers: none, one, and many.

I wonder what the kids did with all their free time, not having to take all those math classes.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Ah, Evo, those were precious! Someone should develop a movie around those quotes.

 

[Mandelbroth]

17. Q: "Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead
people?" A: "All my autopsies are performed on dead people."

[...]

22. Q: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for
a pulse?"
A: "No."
Q: "Did you check for blood pressure?"
A: "No."
Q: "Did you check for breathing?"
A: "No."
Q: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you
began the autopsy?"
A: "No."
Q: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"
A: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."
Q: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"
A: "It is possible that he could have been alive and practicing
law somewhere."
Thanks

Thank you. I needed a good laugh or two.

I'm a little nervous for my math exam today.

 

[dkotschessaa]

My math teacher once randomly told us that the aboriginals of Australia had but three numbers: none, one, and many.

It's how they count their wives.

 

[AlephZero]

I wonder what the kids did with all their free time, not having to take all those math classes.

Probably working through the sequence Pre-Boomerang, Boomerang I, Boomerang II, Mulitvariable Boomerangs, Nonlinear Boomerang Algebra, ...

 

[Enigman]

Why would the irish mob want to kill a CEO of gaming company
>.<

 

[AlephZero]

Q: "Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?"

Reminds me of a quote from Sir Richard Burton, the 19th century army officer, explorer, linguist, etc, etc. A doctor once asked him, "How do you feel, when you have just killed a man?". Burton replied, "I don't have any particular feelings. But how to do feel, in the same situation?"

 

[zoobyshoe]

Why would the irish mob want to kill a CEO of gaming company
>.<

They based a game on the mob's known history, using insulting pseudonyms?

 

[Ibix]

Name another one like the Piraha.

I guess I should provide a link about them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirahã_people#Culture

I need to name two more to have many.

I was just being silly. I understand that there are a lot of languages with interesting foibles, but I'm not aware of any others with that particular oddity. There's one in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, but I don't think that counts.

Not very high, anyway. :D

 

[Ibix]

Probably working through the sequence Pre-Boomerang, Boomerang I, Boomerang II, Mulitvariable Boomerangs, Nonlinear Boomerang Algebra, ...

They're quite relaxed about those classes, though. If you miss one, it comes around again pretty soon. :D

 

[dkotschessaa]

They're quite relaxed about those classes, though. If you miss one, it comes around again pretty soon. :D

It wasn't that bad. I've just been waiting all day to use this image for something.

 

[OmCheeto]

It wasn't that bad. I've just been waiting all day to use this image for something.

You three, all get complimentary 1/2 million dollar yachts.

 

[lisab]

Any helicopter pilots here? This looks legit; is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08K_aEajzNA

 

[AlephZero]

I once watched a helicopter picking up bundles of fence posts and rails from a truck, and dumping them along the line of where the fence was going to be built (the terrain was too rough to drive over). Not quite as quick as that Oregon guy, but close.

Notice there are no people standing around the trucks. It he screws up, he only kills himself!

 

[DennisN]

Any helicopter pilots here? This looks legit; is it?

I don't know.

Speaking of choppers I came to think of this video by a really serious DIY guy, controlling a tricopter over the Niagara Falls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMHr6LQhTRE

and also his Space Glider - FPV to Space and Back! (weather balloon, camera and glider reaching ca 30'000 m).

 

[Enigman]

My pineal hurts.

 

[OmCheeto]

Any helicopter pilots here? This looks legit; is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08K_aEajzNA

The weather looks right.

Late for work!

Withrotor Aviation, Inc.

Christmas Tree Harvest - Every year we provide 40 days of helicopter support for the Christmas Tree Harvest in northern Oregon. With our Hueys we sling 3,000 pound pallets of Christmas Trees from the fields to the landings while we use our Jet Ranger to sling 700 pound bundles of Christmas Trees to the landings. All totaled we operate for 40 days and fly 280 hours. We are responsible for helping move 575,000 Christmas Trees.

Someone do the math!

 

[lisab]

My pineal hurts.

 

[Enigman]

No idea why...happens every time I do too much math (mild pressure around the general area). May be a benign cyst or something...

 

[dkotschessaa]

I once watched a helicopter picking up bundles of fence posts and rails from a truck, and dumping them along the line of where the fence was going to be built (the terrain was too rough to drive over). Not quite as quick as that Oregon guy, but close.

Notice there are no people standing around the trucks. It he screws up, he only kills himself!

The other week I was riding my bike to school, and saw a helicopter directly overhead. I was starting to get a little paranoid, like it was following me or something. Then it came lower...lower... OMG it was heading right for me... I was starting to really freak out.

Then I realized I was riding my bike through a medical campus and it was a medivac.

I saw it land and tried to snatch a picture. The attached isn't very good. But there it is.

 

[dkotschessaa]

No idea why...happens every time I do too much math (mild pressure around the general area). May be a benign cyst or something...

It's just the math muscles getting bigger, and bulking up to be more awesome.

That's what I tell myself anyway.

 

[dkotschessaa]

3 minutes until the end of my self imposed goof-off time cutoff. Will I go back to studying, or extend the threshold?