Interesting Wikipedia articles?

[richtea78]

It makes you think though. If there was an Apocolypse then how many people would die just because they couldn't cope rather than anything specific like zombies

[Dan_1981]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach–Tarsk...

I don't even really understand this.... Interesting though

[glazbagun]

From the adventurous dude who starved in his bus above: Rabbit Starvation. Why on a diet of only lean meat, you'll eventually poison yourself:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation

[9patch]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_ki...

[ColdoRS]

glazbagun said:

TTmonkey said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McCand...

"Much of the time I agree with the "he had a death wish" camp because I don't know how else to reconcile what we know of his ordeal. Now and then I venture into the "what a dumbst" territory" As much as I'd love to learn some survivalist skills, I think this is one thing where a DIY approach is probably not the best idea.

I watched Into The Wild, then read the book, then spent the following week reading loads of stuff online about him and the story and his journals... I was totally hooked on the whole thing very briefly.

Anyway, my conclusion, although i never sat down and came to one... is that he was most definitely an off the scale hippy, total dreamer. He was known to smoke alot of weed/hash/resin, whatever. Also reports from people he spent time with all sort of point towards him being a massive free spirit, very careless and unorganised, just took life as it came.

Pretty admirable in many respects but ultimately... his carelessness and dreamer personality trait is probably what killed him. In my opinion.

He wasn't dumb, didn't have a death wish... he was just wayyyy too chilled out and had a massive lack of foresight.

[anonymous-user]

TimJMS said:

Bum - hole bomb assassination attempt on Muhammad bin Nayef

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Nayef#A...

So the assassin hid a bomb up his jacksie and the victim suffered two injured fingers????
Oh those wacky A-rabs

[Hugo a Gogo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Hegdahl

accidentally blown of his ship during Vietnam war, washed ashore and imprisoned in Hanoi Hilton
pretended to be daft to mess with the VC

[sealtt]

Parrot of Doom said:

If you liked that, you may enjoy this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party

Written largely by a collaborator of mine on Wiki. Its very, very good.

What a fantastic read!

[9patch]

sealtt said:

Parrot of Doom said:

If you liked that, you may enjoy this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party

Written largely by a collaborator of mine on Wiki. Its very, very good.

What a fantastic read!

Look up Youtube...there are a couple of documentarys on there.



Formula 1 cars and their sponsors...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One_sponsors...

[cirian75]

One bad assed US army dentist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_L._Salomon

MOH winner no less

[Baryonyx]

ColdoRS said:

He wasn't dumb, didn't have a death wish... he was just wayyyy too chilled out and had a massive lack of foresight.

He was dumb. He failed to prepare, and was under-skilled for the task at hand. If he had truly sought to live the life of the old adventurers, who couldn't rely on detailed maps, then he should have invested in the lifetime of backwoods skills that the hunters and trappers who used to live alone in the wild relied upon.

[hondafanatic]

Hugo a Gogo said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillingdale

Michael O'Leary, of Ryanair, owns a taxi company with just one taxi (S class Merc), just for him, so it can use bus lanes etc round Dublin

That's amazing!

I know I know. Lots of much more worthy statements but that's brilliant.

[Sway]

hondafanatic said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillingdale

Michael O'Leary, of Ryanair, owns a taxi company with just one taxi (S class Merc), just for him, so it can use bus lanes etc round Dublin

That's amazing!

I know I know. Lots of much more worthy statements but that's brilliant.

Not uncommon at all - especially in London, where it confers exemption from the congestion charge, as well as the ability to use bus lanes.

[hondafanatic]

Sway said:

hondafanatic said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillingdale

Michael O'Leary, of Ryanair, owns a taxi company with just one taxi (S class Merc), just for him, so it can use bus lanes etc round Dublin

That's amazing!

I know I know. Lots of much more worthy statements but that's brilliant.

Not uncommon at all - especially in London, where it confers exemption from the congestion charge, as well as the ability to use bus lanes.

Some people just think on a different level. Makes perfect sense if you have the resources.

[Sway]

hondafanatic said:

Some people just think on a different level. Makes perfect sense if you have the resources.

You don't even really need much in the way of resources - the licence is a shed load cheaper than regular runs into the zone over a year.

[hondafanatic]

Sway said:

hondafanatic said:

Some people just think on a different level. Makes perfect sense if you have the resources.

You don't even really need much in the way of resources - the licence is a shed load cheaper than regular runs into the zone over a year.

Unlikely I know but any idea on costs... Purely out of curiosity?

[TimJMS]

V6Pushfit said:

TimJMS said:

Bum - hole bomb assassination attempt on Muhammad bin Nayef

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Nayef#A...

So the assassin hid a bomb up his jacksie and the victim suffered two injured fingers????
Oh those wacky A-rabs

Wikipedia said:

Assisted by his older brother, Ibrahim al-Asiri he hid a pound (0.5 kg) of PETN plastic explosives in his rectum and anal canal, which security experts described as a novel technique

Very novel!

[Sway]

hondafanatic said:

Sway said:

hondafanatic said:

Some people just think on a different level. Makes perfect sense if you have the resources.

You don't even really need much in the way of resources - the licence is a shed load cheaper than regular runs into the zone over a year.

Unlikely I know but any idea on costs... Purely out of curiosity?

Checked it out on TfL - approx £400 for licence and vehicle inspection, assume that's for a year. Then £1500 for an operator's licence, but that lasts five years. So £700 a year, assuming you don't
share the operator cost with someone else.

Congestion charge is a tenner a day, across 250 chargeable days. So a potential £2.5k.

[Jakg]

About three and a half hours after starting reading this thread (!) I thought it time to contribute!

Bir Tawi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil

An 800 square mile area of land claimed by no-one.

[hondafanatic]

Sway said:

Checked it out on TfL - approx £400 for licence and vehicle inspection, assume that's for a year. Then £1500 for an operator's licence, but that lasts five years. So £700 a year, assuming you don't
share the operator cost with someone else.

Congestion charge is a tenner a day, across 250 chargeable days. So a potential £2.5k.

Thanks for that info!

For well off people it seems like a no brained.