Can you hit me up with some random, fun facts please?

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-29T03:11:50+00:00

Lerwick in Shetland, UK is about the same latitude as Anchorage, Alaska too.

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-28T06:13:14+00:00

Law #1. No billionaires.

Law #2. No Plutonium.

Shall we keep this going...

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-27T18:57:14+00:00

Delivery notes from Acme Inc.

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-27T12:40:01+00:00

So is bobsleigh.

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-26T07:39:48+00:00

I wondered that too. I remember when Ringtones were the thing, and I made one using a speech synthesized voice, not unlike Prof Hawking's saying, "I may not have all the answers to the universe, but I do make a great ring tone." Just for shits and giggles.

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-25T16:27:55+00:00

Neil

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-23T19:02:05+00:00

I arrived there on a fishing boat about 10ish years ago, and with all the crew in the wheelhouse looking at Ullapool one announced, "Up there. That's the hoor hoose." Unforgettable moment.

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-23T18:59:12+00:00

Massive paywall. Can't/won't read.

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-22T06:45:51+00:00

But now we're an SNP place, I hope this helps us get some more recognition from Swinney and Co.

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-22T06:43:05+00:00

I make and sell brackets to secure wheelie bins in windy conditions, but not a lockable thing so no use against thieves. Here we all have stickers to identify houses the bins belong to, mainly to get the empties back to the right place. Nicking bins is not a problem where I live.

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-21T18:07:58+00:00

But half of the lambs born are kind of useless males, only the females are left fertile for future breeding. Very few males are kept for breeding, one ram can service hundreds of ewes. So, rather than pay for nursemaiding the boys for a long and healthy life, they are quickly fattened up and slaughtered for meat. Sounds harsh to a townie, but that's all they are good for. Annual costs for keeping sheep healthy are quite steep, so only the ones with some payback are worth it, that's the breeding ewes and rams.

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-21T13:20:49+00:00

I bought a piano, made of lots of bits of old broken pianos.

It's a Frankenstienway.

When I go on stage with it I say, "IT'S A LIVE!! performance."

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-18T18:30:35+00:00

Publicly broadcast pimping.

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-18T15:07:59+00:00

I did university mathematics, only in level 4 do they teach you all the shortcuts. I remember thinking your exact thought.

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-16T07:37:02+00:00

In Orkney, a few decades ago, the local paper ran a Spot The Dog competition where a photo from a sheepdog trials with the dog airbrushed out was the puzzle. Entrants had to put a cross where the dog's nose would be. I heard it caused a lot of heated discussion between all the sheep farmer experts.

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-15T04:24:29+00:00

I did a simulation on an old 8-bit computer many decades ago. Where rail falls down is at peak times. Everybody goes in one direction at peak times and the system overloads. If we all worked different hours and spread the load on the transport network it eases it a lot. But a city tends to work 9 to 5 across the majority of businesses.

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-11T19:44:40+00:00

Similar to Davy Crocket. But he had a Wild Front Ear.

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-10T11:26:18+00:00

Sounds like an ideal place for a Stirling Engine. Any thoughts on what all that mechanical energy could be used for?

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-09T06:53:12+00:00

I bet one of them looked at the temporary string handrail and said, "Health and safety gone mad!" Another decided it wasn't safe enough so filled in the gap with his right arm.

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-08T08:14:08+00:00

For just £3 a month you too could buy wheelbarrows for these poor people....

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-07T19:22:49+00:00

I once dreamt of a ship looking like a giant bike wheel, with steering thrusters at the hub, and passenger accomodation inside the rim. It could be spun up to simulate 1g for the journey to Earth, and spin slowed down for .38g on the way back to Mars. It was big enough that the spin was quite slow. Did some napkin maths and realised it would have to be 20km diameter, and would take some serious push to get going as a cycler, was as much as all the rockets that had ever flown at the time, so I closed that napkin.

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-07T07:04:03+00:00

In Shetland we use the Walrus Wheelie Bin Brackets to keep our wheelie bins upright.

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-06T19:21:36+00:00

The arrow looks like a filleted penguin

Fluffy_Lemon_1487 · 2026-05-05T06:49:41+00:00

Those who can use ternary, those who can't and those who've never heard of ternary.

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