Today I learned +

[DrunkonDuty]

Sister cities has long been a thing. I think it's now time for "sister statues."

 

[Meech17]

This one two seven Nine or ten times at band camp...

I know this is an American Pie reference, but it's spot on.. Every year there'd be rumors and stories about which kids got down at band camp. Late night bus rides back from competitions was even worse..

Get any group of like minded young people together and it's going to happen. I was friends with a lot of drama kids, and they made us band kids seem like priests in comparison.

 

[MarkB]

Now that should be an Olympic sport.

Perhaps in the future...

 

[Gradine]

I love Australia, that is amazing.

I mean, let's not get too carried away, this is the same country that declared war on a giant herd of emu and lost

 

[Dioltach]

If you are doing it right, half of the equipment is the same.

A pole vaulting joke would be entirely inappropriate here.

 

[MarkB]

A pole vaulting joke would be entirely inappropriate here.

Just don't be a Fosbury Flop.

 

[Reynard]

TIL while listening to the current episode of Our Fake History that one of the most common ways of cheating in the ancient Olympics was to curse your opponents -- often by writing a curse on a thin sheet of lead and throwing it into a well where the dead can carry it to Hades. If that isn't an adventure seed, I don't know what is.

 

[Ryujin]

TIL while listening to the current episode of Our Fake History that one of the most common ways of cheating in the ancient Olympics was to curse your opponents -- often by writing a curse on a thin sheet of lead and throwing it into a well where the dead can carry it to Hades. If that isn't an adventure seed, I don't know what is.

Especially effective if you throw it into the well that the opponent drinks from.

 

[trappedslider]

TIL: Komodo dragons have iron-tipped teeth to tear into flesh

 

[Reynard]

TIL: Komodo dragons have iron-tipped teeth to tear into flesh

Huh, they managed to get even more terrifying. Great.