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Noakes' voice is so relaxing.

Are there many US journalists/broadcasters around considered sharp interviewers? All I can think right now of is Terry Gross and Amy Goodman.

Eesh. I don't really agree with him divorcing linguistic evolution from cultural revolution. He makes something that is unavoidably messy sound too neat.

Hard Times reference = ♥

And the housemaster is Captain Mainwaring from Dad's Army. Interesting casting.

@mancunionmale

Seriously. In fact Ross is even being sarcastic here. He poked fun at British pop stars all the time on his show.

Ive's a good designer, and more responsible for Apple's success than Jobs was (in my opinion). But without Dieter Rams' designs, Ive would not be close to where he is today.

Trivia: the head of construction of the Pentagon was Lt. Gen. Groves, who oversaw the Manhattan Project

Trivia: Other famous trepanation patients include painter Georges Braque and Prince Carlos of Spain, subject of Verdi's opera Don Carlos.

a few QI episodes seem to have pulled their trivia from Freakonomics now (at least this one and the one about Superman vs. the KKK)

the world needs more Clive dancing to ABBA

And cannabis isn't 7x as carcinogenic as tobacco. What the hell?

"You don't take an active interest in how your country's run for just 45 years, and look what happens!"

Trivia: Ernst Mach can also be considered a significant forerunner to Einstein w.r.t. general relativity, having made similar claims from a philosophical perspective in the late 1800s.

It's aerobic cellular respiration...

the Amerike theory isn't well-supported :/

Rich always gets the howling buzzer.

proof that Gary Mallaber was the best thing about this band

Also the buzzers are mostly Cockney themed: Knees Up is a pub song, Chim Chim Che-ree was sung in Dick Van Dyke's notoriously bad attempt at a Cockney accent, and I'm Henery the Eighth... is an old East End music hall song.

Trivia: The Great Slave Lake is the deepest in Canada and in North America as a whole. Only Crater Lake comes close (594 vs 614 m).

To be truthful, cộng basically means communist and was being used in Vietnam before the US started to use it.

When was this? Age doesn't slow him down good god.

for a preachy dick, Skinner is pretty funny

@mintedsalami

Not all arachnids do actually. Sean's probably thinking of harvestmen, which are Arachnids (but not spiders) and lack book lungs. So he's got it wrong way 'round in a couple of ways.

more like Stanley St. in Johnny's case :P

And time travel (backwards) is an interesting but far-off concept. We'd have to pretty much rewrite GR. Wormholes necessitate negative mass iirc, and that's another can-of-worms.

I am officially gay for Rob Brydon.

@ThePppp2

it's a pun on the expression "flattery will get you nowhere/anywhere"

@ JohnLloydScharf

It's not a substitute for medical advice, nor does it provide you absolute risk. There's nothing pseudo-scientific about it. But you make no sense. Do you have a problem with the microarrays they use? Are you not aware that we've been amplifying Neanderthal DNA since 1997? Or t...

I blame lax parenting.

why are people assuming a performer always has an agent? i may have my kinks but i know that without genuine intimacy, the line between coercion and persuasion is as blurry as japanese naughty bits. sex-positive acts aren't guaranteed exploitation-free, especially with the incentive of profit (an...

@rlm6213

Flynn effect anybody?

A few other sites are doing the same. metafilter, imgur, metal-archives are all down. fark is down. digg is covered in it, as is slashdot. both google and duckduckgo have warnings. tvtropes has a warning. urbandictionary is covered in warnings.