Useless Information Thread

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 9:24 pm

The first Members vs. Mods thread was closed by Diss.

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 1:07 am

What Americans call "English muffins," English people call "American muffins."

Nobody wants to claim that muffin.

Post by **Render** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 1:29 pm

Sleet wrote:What Americans call "English muffins," English people call "American muffins."

Funny.
What people in Frankfurt call a Wiener Würstchen is absolutely the same thing that people in Vienna (Wien) call a Frankfurter Würstchen (->).

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 3:49 pm

English people seriously call them "American Muffins"? I just thought they called them crumpets or something like that!

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 5:10 pm

Oh, no, crumpets are very different. I don't really know how to explain them... They look a bit like sponges. They taste delicious with Vegemite though!

dtlux1 · Post by **dtlux1** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 5:14 pm

But ~~American~~ English Muffins are good, especially with eggs...

Goldeneye 007 for the N64 is actually multiple different games. There is a fully functional ZX Spectrum emulator in the Goldeneye 007 data. It was part of a side project to see if the N64 could run ZX Spectrum games, and it was during the development of Goldeneye. They decided to test it, and then remove the programing required to launch the emulator from the games data. There are edited versions of the game on the internet that have been made so this emulator can be launched.

GreatKitsune · Post by **GreatKitsune** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:01 pm

Canadian English, Australian English, American English, British English, and Pidgin English are considered (by some) separate languages.

Cesco · Post by **Cesco** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:25 pm

Rome is the city with the highest number of Smart brand cars on the streets.

GreatKitsune wrote:Panama hats are made in Equador.

...And French fries are made in Belgium, I already said these some pages ago.

Oops, you misspelled Ecuador.

Whozjama · Post by **Whozjama** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 10:18 pm

You can buy Vegemite here in Canada! At least where I live, it's an acquired taste, but still pretty good actually.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 6:41 am

GreatKitsune wrote:Canadian English, Australian English, American English, British English, and Pidgin English are considered (by some) separate languages.

Oh, Pidgin English is very different to English. It's definitely a separate language. Canadian/Australian/British/American English are probably more properly called dialects. They are all teh same language, just slightly different ways of doing it. Pidgin, however, has a completely different set of words and grammar rules.

GreatKitsune · Post by **GreatKitsune** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 7:39 am

Hlaoroo wrote:
GreatKitsune wrote:Canadian English, Australian English, American English, British English, and Pidgin English are considered (by some) separate languages.
Oh, Pidgin English is very different to English. It's definitely a separate language. Canadian/Australian/British/American English are probably more properly called dialects. They are all teh same language, just slightly different ways of doing it. Pidgin, however, has a completely different set of words and grammar rules.

I agree as far as Pidgin goes. But I still found this fact humorous because there's almost no notable difference between American English and Canadian English.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 2:47 pm

I never heard about Pidgin English before. Can somebody tell me what that is?

GreatKitsune · Post by **GreatKitsune** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 2:50 pm

Amazee Dayzee wrote:I never heard about Pidgin English before. Can somebody tell me what that is?

A language prevalent in southwestern Africa, but also found some places in the Caribbean.

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 4:51 pm

A pidgin is a simplified version of a language meant to enable communication between two groups that don't share a language. For example, when Westerners arrived in China to trade and couldn't speak Mandarin, they came up with an on-the-spot form of English that had less complicated grammar and pronounciations more friendly to the Chinese tongue. Three became "sri" and so forth. This first Pidgin English gave the name for all others.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 10:41 pm

And I wonder why there is a chat client named after it. O_O

Post by **Sleet** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 12:13 am

Because the point is it allows communication with different clients!

dtlux1 · Post by **dtlux1** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:01 pm

Vatican City is a country, and it happens to be the smallest country in the world with an area of only 0.2 square miles.

Whozjama · Post by **Whozjama** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 1:14 am

The Avacyn's glory deck is pretty powerful in Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 3:07 pm

One for Furrhan

Gureng-gureng, Gabi-Gabi, Waga-Waga, Wemba-Wemba, and Yitha-Yitha are all names of native Australian languages.

Punchy · Post by **Punchy** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 6:57 am

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Dardanelles Campaign.
It was a campaign of WWI that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916.

In Australia and New Zealand this day is known as "Anzac Day" which is the most significant commemoration of military casualties and veterans in those two countries.

Post by **Sleet** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 11:21 am

Whozjama wrote:The Avacyn's glory deck is pretty powerful in Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014.

It was my favorite. <3 Even before I realized it was "the best." Mono-white with angels in it? I'm there.

The Gorillaz is the second-most commercially successful virtual band (a musical group whose members are fictional characters). The first? Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Whozjama · Post by **Whozjama** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 11:53 pm

Sleet wrote:
Whozjama wrote:The Avacyn's glory deck is pretty powerful in Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014.
It was my favorite. <3 Even before I realized it was "the best." Mono-white with angels in it? I'm there.

Naturally I wanted the lion deck, but after losing so much the internet guides guided me to Angel land.

I'm sure some of you have heard of Vocaloids but did you know there are furry ones as well? From what I've gathered this place is the main site for a least one of them.

Sun Apr 26, 2015 12:44 am

they are not actually vocaloids, as they don't use the same software. they are made in UTAU, which is freeware and allows users to make their own voice banks.
essentially, the Furloids are fan made Vocaloids. but here is a list of a bunch of them

Whozjama · Post by **Whozjama** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 12:29 am

Welp, it appears I need to do better research next time. :X

GreatKitsune · Post by **GreatKitsune** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 7:53 am

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:they are not actually vocaloids, as they don't use the same software. they are made in UTAU, which is freeware and allows users to make their own voice banks.
essentially, the Furloids are fan made Vocaloids. but here is a list of a bunch of them

That's still the best kind.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:05 pm

An ostrich's eye is the same size as its brain.

dtlux1 · Post by **dtlux1** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 9:20 pm

Amazee Dayzee wrote:An ostrich's eye is the same size as its brain.

And they don't actually bury their heads in the ground, they just get low to the ground.

Whozjama · Post by **Whozjama** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 9:50 pm

Monty Python made a sketch with vikings, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, and spam.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:01 pm

Thought to be the original fast-food, Genghis Khan and his hordes carried around flat patties of ground up mutton under their saddles to eat on the go.

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:32 am

Under their saddles? Eww. XP

Wed Apr 29, 2015 2:54 pm

the salt from the horse sweat preserved it. not very sanitary, but fairly practical.

Whozjama · Post by **Whozjama** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:26 pm

Oh oh! Mongols had captured Chinese engineers to build devices that lobbed entire trees!

Saturn381 · Post by **Saturn381** » Fri May 08, 2015 3:19 pm

The short "Mickey and the Beanstalk" was the last time Walt Disney would voice Mickey Mouse. His smocking habit would cause his voice to be unable to reach the high pitch tone Mickey was famous for.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun May 10, 2015 3:28 pm

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:the salt from the horse sweat preserved it. not very sanitary, but fairly practical.

I think I threw up a bit in my mouth. <_>

On November 18th, 1913, pilot Lincoln Beachy did something that had never been done in an airplane before: he made a complete loop-de-loop.

Whozjama · Post by **Whozjama** » Mon May 11, 2015 11:49 pm

Edith Piaf was a French singer, who sang songs and sang them until the end of her singing days.

Edit: One of her songs, Non, Je ne regrette rien (No, I regret nothing), forms the basis for the Inception soundtrack.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue May 12, 2015 11:54 am

During WWII, La-Z-Boy manufactured seats for tanks, torpedo boats, gun turrets, and armored cars.

Buster · Post by **Buster** » Tue May 12, 2015 8:54 pm

Chief O'Brien's middle name is Edward.
Most of you probably don't even know who that is, so it's twice as irrelevant!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue May 12, 2015 9:42 pm

A gun with a silencer attached sounds about as loud as a car door being slammed. It’s much quieter than the usual “bang!” but it’s not as subtle as the little “whoosh” heard in James Bond films.

JeffCvt · Post by **JeffCvt** » Tue May 12, 2015 9:54 pm

Amazee Dayzee wrote:A gun with a silencer attached sounds about as loud as a car door being slammed. It’s much quieter than the usual “bang!” but it’s not as subtle as the little “whoosh” heard in James Bond films.

I am 99% sure that, word for word, you posted that about a month ago Dayzee. I don't know where you get these facts from, but I think you may be starting to run out.

Post by **Sleet** » Wed May 13, 2015 11:42 pm

The term "suppressor" is preferred for this reason. "Silencer" is kinda inaccurate. The important part is it doesn't make a muzzle flash.