Anyway I thought I already sent you that list
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… it’s cats isn’t it? You want to include…
You know what, nevermind.
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It was a list comparing states that allow gay marriage to states that allow rather more… disturbing sexual proclivities. Though what Funk got out of it I can’t tell for sure 
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Does my state allow anything like that?
Just curious.
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… when you put it that way I almost want to keep the ratio just so we don’t lose any insanity cred. That is like “dont-■■■■-with-me-in-prison” level crazy. I think the stat may cut down on invasions just on how ■■■■■■■ lunatic it is.
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I can’t believe I never heard of this before - although it’s presumably because I pursued my undergraduate studies at ‘the other place’. In Oxford, 10 February 1355 saw the start of the ‘St Scholastica Day riot’, which was a dispute between Oxford University and the town resulting in a large number of deaths.
It was started by two students in a tavern who complained about the quality of the drinks. After an exchange of rude words, they threw their drinks in the taverner’s face and assaulted him!
Retaliation and armed clashes between locals and students led the town’s mayor to demand that the university arrest the two ill-behaved scholars, but the Chancellor refused, and instead, 200 students appeared to support him and allegedly assaulted the mayor.
As the situation escalated, locals from the surrounding countryside poured in, crying: "Havac! Havoc! Smyt fast, give gode knocks!’
The resultant riot lasted two days, leaving 63 scholars and around 30 townsfolk dead. The dispute was eventually settled in favour of the University, and a special charter was created, whereafter every 10 February, the mayor and councillors must march bareheaded through the streets, attend Mass, and pay the university a fine of one penny for every scholar killed. The penance ended 470 years later in 1825, when the mayor refused to take part.
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I wasn’t a participant in the St Scholastica riot of 1355 because it was before my time.
Funny that the townies took down two nerds for every one of their own
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“Yeah, but he broke two fingers, and I only got one skull fracture. Scoreboard Turk, scoreboard!” JD , Scrubs
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Holy shitsnacks.
Anybody else feel like some cuy?
In nearby Nottingham, there was once a cheese riot. Merchants were overpricing cheese, and there were cheese-induced injuries in the ensuing fracas.
“In October 1766 Goose Fair was the occasion of a ‘great cheese riot’ […]. Stalls were attacked and ransacked, and cheeses distributed to the crowd. Being barrel-shaped they could easily be rolled, and soon they were being propelled down Wheeler Gate and Peck Lane. The mayor, trying desperately to intervene, stood in the middle of Peck Lane, only to be knocked over by an accelerating cheese.”
■■■■■■■ glorious, Nottingham. Maybe there should be cheese control laws. ‘You can have my Gloucester Red when you prise it from my cold, dead, hand’.
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Apparently lions foster a species of bacteria in their mouths which is most deadly to other creatures - so much so that they often bite their prey and then wait for them to die. Learnt this from a vet who did training in South Africa and was talking about how dangerous operating on lions is!
I suppose it’s an objectively fascinating instance of symbiosis but I find it pretty sinister.
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Same for komodo dragons. ^-^
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I guess today is lion facts day.
Today I learned that the outermost part of an orange or lemon skin - the bit you zest for flavour - is called the flavedo.
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I did not know that VH. Sweet. Also, perfect name😂
There’s another part called the albedo, which Google search seems to think is a typo for libido… The more you know, the more you want to wash your brain out.
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Wouldn’t necessarily say I learned it but some random kids were messing around with a ouija board and I didn’t know them. They asked me to ask a question (I asked something kind of personal because the kids didn’t know me)know and answered correctly. Weird.
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Today I learned that if your squash tastes bitter, you really should stop eating it.
Not sure why the women mentioned in that article kept eating stuff that no-one else could stomach (maybe out of a sense of duty or obligation to “eat healthy”?) But they quite literally lost their hair over it - in addition to some pretty nasty sound symptoms.
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