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Friday Frivolity.
Tell me a a number related fact.


Start a new urban myth.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 10:49, 138 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
If you transpose two digits in a number the reulting error will be exactly divisible by 9.
Alphabetti spaghetti was originally conceived by Leonardo Da Vinci.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 10:50, Reply)
Posting a new thread in Off Topic makes you 64% more likely to be sneered at by people who are better than you.

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 10:51, Reply)
Everyone's better than me :'(((((

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:08, Reply)
Shut up maximinimus

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 12:06, Reply)
7 is a higher number than 4
I have other similar answers that I could post, but I fear it'll soon get dull.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 10:51, Reply)
But in this case
7 is a lower number than 4
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 10:56, Reply)
WITCHCRAFT!

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 10:58, Reply)
BURN HIM, JEFF!

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 10:59, Reply)
No
Read this, much better than urban myths.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11887115
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 10:52, Reply)
I disagree
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-11908583 - Superior link.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:15, Reply)
I'm in the top 2% or something

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 10:53, Reply)
If you turn the number 7 upside down you get the letter L in italics.
Monty Boyce is a cunt.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 10:53, Reply)
He said 'start a myth', not 'state a well-known fact'

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:05, Reply)
Alright then.
Monty Boyce's motto is 'just say no'

Better?
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:10, Reply)
Much. Thanks.

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:17, Reply)
97 is the highest two digit prime number.
The sax solo on Baker Street was actually played on a synclavier by former Blue Peter presenter Diane Louise Jordan.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 10:54, Reply)
Did she promise Bob Holness a blow-job in exchange for his sax?

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 10:57, Reply)
Nah, watersports innit.

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 10:57, Reply)
CAN I HAVE SOME PEE PLEASE BOB

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:04, Reply)
Heh.

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:11, Reply)
5318008 spell BOOBIES on an inverted calculator.
Eminem was conceived by artificial insemination using sperm donated by Tim Brooke-Taylor.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 10:57, Reply)

£3.3bn - Amount government plans to save through public sector pay freeze in five years.

£3.3bn - Worth of government contracts handed to Capita since election.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:02, Reply)
27 - The number of Restraining Orders taken out by pet owners against JeffTDF.
Boris Johnson was runner up in the original casting for The Milky Bar Kid.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:02, Reply)
Notice how it's the pet owners and NOT the pet though.
That tells a story.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:04, Reply)
A story where animals are barred from the British justice system for not having conscious cognitive thought processes.

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:06, Reply)
Tell that to Biscuit.
She'd laugh in your face.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:13, Reply)
*facepalm*
Alright gorgeous?
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:14, Reply)
Hi lovely : )
All settled in now?
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:19, Reply)
Mostly yeah.
Trying to get it shipshape for the young lady's state visit on Monday. I've managed to dispose of almost half of the crap that was sitting in our loft for three years, the rest is ebay or donate to charity. Life laundry feels fucking excellent. Group walk tomorrow, rest and housework on Sunday. I neeeeed sleeeeep!
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:23, Reply)
I started drinking aged 12.
Billy Bob Thorton's parents named him after popular television programme 'Fingerbobs', because that's what his dad did to his bottom every night until he was 24 years old.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:03, Reply)
According to Del a Soul, three is the magic number.
Kate Middleton is really an anamatronic invented to make sure Prince William actually gets some punani.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:05, Reply)
He has
Gone totally horse faced and bald in like 3 months hasn't he?
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:07, Reply)
I wish he'd just shave his head like every other young prematurely balding guy.

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:10, Reply)
Agreed.
She is a fox though. I wonder what she is doing with him? Can't imagine.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:13, Reply)
After Bob Dorough.

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:12, Reply)
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Cheetahs can be hypnotised by the listening to Dave Brubeck.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:05, Reply)
3
Is the magic number.

EDIT: Sorry BGB. Slow typing.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:05, Reply)
Yes it is

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:06, Reply)
What does it all mean?

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:09, Reply)
I'm 22 years old

Matt Lucas is Elton John's son.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:06, Reply)
What is the number related link between these bands?
The Beatles
Anthrax
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Adam and the Ants
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:08, Reply)
Is it 69?

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:09, Reply)
It's good but it's not right.
OT, you're back in play.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:12, Reply)
Is it 4?

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:15, Reply)
Dammit, that'll be the answer one day.

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:15, Reply)
It's an answer that's served me well over the years

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:17, Reply)
It's ZERO
And the question is 'out of ten, how do you rate the following artists?'
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:13, Reply)
Neds were great fun.

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:14, Reply)
They certainly were
- if you were a tone-deaf homosexual whose idea of 'great fun' was to listen to a bunch of equally-retarded benders making a pointless din.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:16, Reply)
hahahahaha

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:17, Reply)
No-one got an answer then?

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:16, Reply)
ok I'll tell
Two lead singers.
Two lead guitarist.
Two bassists.
Two drummers.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:20, Reply)
What, no Showaddywaddy?

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:23, Reply)
Some people have no fucking idea.

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:26, Reply)
Showaddywaddy's manager used to live in my home town
Allegedly.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:33, Reply)
So with double-everything they still managed to be shit?
(Just to save Monty from having to type anything)
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:24, Reply)
You're wrong about Anthrax
Scott Ian was the rhythm guitarist
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:48, Reply)
2 + 2 = 5
David Cameron keeps Nick Clegg's spine in a jar of formaldehyde on his desk. When he has meetings with Lib Dem ministers, he takes it out and strokes it like a Bond villan would stroke a cat.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:09, Reply)
I'm going to listen to Hail To The Thief now, cheers

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:10, Reply)
Way ahead of you there

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:11, Reply)
I just don't like Radiohead
They've done a few good tracks, but I mainly find them boring.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:21, Reply)
Gasp.
I'll give you that, but Hail To The Thief is a damn fine album, especially the last half.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:24, Reply)
Lazy-o-eye are fucking terrible.
That bonk-eyed whinging little scrote should die asap.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:34, Reply)
The Holocaust really happened

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:10, Reply)
+173% Rise in tuition fees for English and Welsh universities
-40% Cut to teaching budgets in English and Welsh universities.

Everytime there is an unexpected item in the bagging area, Shergar gets a sugar lump from Maddie.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:10, Reply)
Hahaha!
I like this.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:12, Reply)
You student hater!

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:12, Reply)
Haha

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:14, Reply)
There are in infinite amount of numbers between any two intergers
but is the infinity between 0 and 2 twice as big as the infinity between 0 and 1?
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:12, Reply)
No they are both infinite.
I thought you knew maths
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:15, Reply)
He's an accountant.
Of course he doesn't know maths.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:16, Reply)
A-HA! I saw a late night program about infinity and they said there were different sizes of infinity
but their explanation was nothing like my post above and I didn't really understand it
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:20, Reply)
There aren't different sizes of infinity
it's just easier to pretend they are in some situations.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:21, Reply)
Infinity is infinite
Hence the name. End of.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:22, Reply)
Well it's just a concept humans made up
we can change it if we want.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:24, Reply)
Damn scientists
Changing things whenever the hell the want. "Oh, let's redefine what counts as 'life' now."
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:25, Reply)
True story, yesterday we worked out that I take in about 20% of what's happening in hollyoaks, which is why I watch both of them every day, so I get 40% of the storyline.
This is unaffected by my laptop usage while watching the show.

This number is also the same amount of things I take in when my flatmates start talking to me; reducing by a further 2% (of total) every hour until I hit 5% of the total things I take in, at which point, its time to go to bed.

Theorticly, the best time to give me bad news, is about 11 o'clock (10% of notice capacity), because I will take it in to remember that something happened, but not know exactly what happened or care about it, and by the next morning when I wake up, it would be to late for me to have a valid response in regards to the bad news because all ill-feeling for that day gets reset upon waking up.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:15, Reply)
Steffs funeral was quite depressing

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:20, Reply)
The coffin was like a child's one, way to small.
"It's either a really small coffin or a really big urn"

I loled at the fire extinguisher next to it.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:40, Reply)
Hollyoaks should only be watched with the sound off.

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 14:38, Reply)
I have a 1 in 20 chance of getting a PhD
If all the candidates are equal. However as I am (greater than) 57% stupid and 100% shitting myself in abject fear at the interview process, I can say with 95% CI that not all the candidates are equal and I'm fucked.

Craig David has no bellybutton.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:15, Reply)
All you can do berk is prepare and then just do your best.
Do you think the other candidates aren't feeling as worried as you?
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:20, Reply)
Top empathising there, nice work.

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:21, Reply)
I doubt they are
I suspect most of them are Oxbridge types in the last year of their degree and as such are brimming with knowledge and confidence bordering on arrogance.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:31, Reply)
You've got experience of real life.
AND you've got experience of storage heaters. Don't underestimate yourself.

I've backed horses* with much longer odds than 20/1 before.

*Backing a horse is very different to me mounting a dog.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:36, Reply)
The phrase 'rearing livestock' has always amused my brother and me

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 12:08, Reply)
Oi you've met me!
I'm hardly brimming with arrogance and confidence am I?
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 12:46, Reply)
You know what you have to do then
Get your tits out in the interview.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:21, Reply)
Penguin is right
and I am more than happy to take you through a practice interview whenever you like.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:22, Reply)
I should note that I didn't do this in my interview on Wednesday
Partly 'cause I don't have tits, and partly because it wasn't necessary.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:24, Reply)
Neither does my ex's brother. Freaky weird.
Use the power of your ace science skillz. If that fails, use your tiny cuteness skillz, just as effective.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:23, Reply)
Interviews are like dates.
If it looks like they're going badly, MELON ON HEAD.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:27, Reply)
Hahahaha!
It may yet come to that, believe me...
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:30, Reply)
Seeing as nobody noticed last time, let me provide you with a useful example.

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:35, Reply)
*Roota comment*

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:36, Reply)
I'M NOT EDMUND.
Or the cat-flinging mentalist.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:38, Reply)
That's not a melon
but I appreciate the effort.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:37, Reply)
Yes it is.
Not a WATERmelon, I'll grant.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:38, Reply)
Is it?
I thought it was a kitten wearing a lime...
*shuts up*
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:42, Reply)
Kittens are incapable of the kind of weary loathing on that cat's face.

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:44, Reply)
I expect I'll be dead before I'm 58
Vegans only eat vegetables that have been ethically slaughtered, whereas regular vegetarians prefer their carrots to have been roughed up, or their broccoli sufficiently traumatised before being culled.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:25, Reply)
I once met a girl who claimed to be a "windfall vegan"
quoting the Simpsons I said, "I refuse to eat anything that casts a shadow"

Her reply: "Really?"

I assume she's starved to death since then.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:32, Reply)
And the world kept on turning
Windfall vegan has got to be one of the most stupid things I've heard.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:34, Reply)
I guess they don't eat too many root vegetables
My garden has plenty of leaves they can have though.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:36, Reply)
She has.
In my basement. I can assure you she ate one or two things towards the end.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:36, Reply)
Got her back into meat, did you?

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:37, Reply)
This was a rare occurrence
where it wasn't a bacon sandwich that did it.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:40, Reply)
I guess she was an easy target
You knew that because she believed in the virtues of veganism she would swallow any old cock you gave her
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:40, Reply)
I'm three years behind teh rest of the world in discovering how good Portal is.
Ducks are capable of travelling at supersonic speeds, but only when not being observed.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:29, Reply)
It is rather good, isn't it
Sequel next year too, so I'll ask you what you think of it in in 2014.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:30, Reply)
It might take a bit longer
I'll have to get half life 1 before I can play half life 2 and then there is episode 1 and 2 to finish, and I still haven't finished new vegas, and Shogun 2 is due out next year.

And I've got to redecorate the bedroom and have kids at some points.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:39, Reply)
You ought to crack on with those games then
I'll help by knocking up your missus for you, deal?
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:41, Reply)
Sounds fair enough to me
Can you also talk to her in the evenings, only she gets grumpy when I spend all my time in front of the computer.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:42, Reply)
Sure thing mate
What topics of conversation does she like?
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:43, Reply)
Fuck knows
I've never actually done it, that's why she's grumpy.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:50, Reply)
Half Life 2 is fucking excellent, I'm playing through it again at the moment.
Episode one you'll finish in an hour, Episode 2 is considerably longer and more fulfilling.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:57, Reply)
Half Life 2 is fucking excellent
Especially Deathmatch mode
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 12:01, Reply)
There is a 75% chance that two numbers when multiplied together will result in an an even number.
Hyenas can he hypnotised by trad-jazz.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:30, Reply)
You're esentially restating the same joke about animals and jazz music.
It's highly LOLWAKI!
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:40, Reply)
LOL
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-11908583
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:31, Reply)
It's good, but if there was one person I would have expected an ace number fact from...

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:33, Reply)
the "imaginary number" i is the square root of negative one.
If you imagine the numbers from -10 to 10 in a line i would sit above 0.
It's use gives us a second dimension of numbers, all normal numbers are the x axis, all imaginary are the y axis.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 12:09, Reply)
I think you mean negative rather than number in the first line

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 12:10, Reply)
Nope...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_number
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 12:12, Reply)
Errr, yes.
i is the square root of a negative number, the square root of the number 1 is 1, the square root of negtive 1 is i.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 12:15, Reply)
Oh yeah I was looking at the wrong number.
shut up I'm hungover.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 12:16, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post995136
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:40, Reply)
A bird
On your hand is worth two in the bush.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:32, Reply)
Ways to leave your lover + Stones Nervous Breakdown = Bryan Adams Summer.
The colour yellow was invented by Aldous Huxley.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:38, Reply)
That's actually a brilliant number fact.

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:41, Reply)
Nena's red balloons - Del La Souls magic number = No. of tears by The Stranglers

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 12:10, Reply)
( ___ State / Joe Strummers' pre Clash band) = ( The Fall's _ Librans x Faron Young's _ in the Morning)

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 12:36, Reply)
I'm sure this is very clever
but my musical knowledge is lacking. But c'mon..."The Fall"??? Really? Just the sight of Mark E Smith is enough to put me off his music.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 12:39, Reply)
What about their "glam period"

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 12:56, Reply)
You are 1 massive bender.

(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 11:57, Reply)
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 123,456,789,987,654,321
1 = the number of times you have to type "interesting number facts" into google to find some interesting facts about numbers.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 12:01, Reply)
if you multiply 142857 by 2,3,4,5 or 6
you get the same digits in the same order just starting in a different place - eg 285714.

If exhumed, Rod Hull's body would be missing its right arm.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 12:23, Reply)
There are...
multiple infinities, infinity 1, infinity 2 etc... I don't get it either, but its easy to explain with circles and spokes, then drawing a larger circle with the same centre as the first and extending those spokes to the larger circle, the infinite spokes now have gaps between them...So you can add more spokes, creating a larger infinity.
(, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 17:14, Reply)

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