Interesting factoids?

[jon86]

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Gentoo is a massive ***** to set up.
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I agree. When I was at university, I did two stage one tarball installs, one stage two and one stage three. It wasn't fun.

 

[Nate Silvers]

Some environmental facts:

It takes more than 2,400 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of meat.
A vegan diet requires 300 gallons of water per day vs. meat-eating diet which requires 4,000 gallons per day.
You'd save more water by not eating one pound of meat than you would by not taking a shower for 6 months.

More vegan facts here.
http://www.mnn.com/sites/default/files/user-35/vegan%20infographic.jpg

Here's some more interesting facts.

Animals Slaughtered during the time it took to make this post.

60,288 marine animals
30,744 chickens
1,515 ducks
833 pigs
574 rabbits
463 turkeys
357 geese
345 sheep
231 goats
196 cows and calves
44 rodents
42 pigeons and other birds
15 buffaloes
11 dogs
3 cats
3 horses
2 donkeys and mules
1 camels and other camelids
2 horses
2 donkeys and mules
1 camels and other camelids

http://adaptt.org/killcounter.html

 

[JBuk]

Approximately 85.7% of dwarves are not Happy

 

[dowie]

Vegans have recently overtaken environmentalists as the most self righteous ********* on the planet.

 

[Clarkson]

What a stupid fact. It doesn't cost me any more water to eat that pound of meat. (other than what the body uses to digest protein.)

 

[Lightnix]

If you have more than three strikes, the vegan police will come and take your vegan powers away.

 

[dowie]

inverse correlation between brain size and penis size across racial groups:

brain size:

Asian > White > Black

penis size:

Black > White > Asian

 

[Nate Silvers]

Vegans have recently overtaken environmentalists as the most self righteous ********* on the planet.

I get that a lot.

What a stupid fact. It doesn't cost me any more water to eat that pound of meat. (other than what the body uses to digest protein.)

Can't tell if cynical tone? (the water consumption comes from raising the animals).

If you have more than three strikes, the vegan police will come and take your vegan powers away.

Haha great movie. Here's one more to bore you with.

Gladiators were Vegan.

 

[Clarkson]

Yes I know the water is from raising the animals. But 'I' wouldn't save water by not eating meat. Unless of course you mean 'I' could be a saviour to planet earth by not depleting the water supplies that constantly fall from the sky.

 

[Lysander]

How do you know if someone's a vegan? Don't worry, they'll tell you.

 

[Nate Silvers]

You would because you wouldn't be voting with your money. Money is powerful.

Well as a vegan, it sucks paying astronomical water rates when my lifestyle choices mean I'm more than likely consuming a fraction of the water each month that my meat-eating friends are guzzling each day.

It's not sustainable. Our current water consumption drains aquifers around the world. Water tables are dropping drastically and wells are going dry.

http://water.org/water-crisis/water-facts/water/

How do you know if someone's a vegan? Don't worry, they'll tell you.

How do you know if someone is not a vegan? They will tell this joke.

 

[dowie]

Well as a vegan, it sucks paying astronomical water rates when my lifestyle choices mean I'm more than likely consuming a fraction of the water each month that my meat-eating friends are guzzling each day.

That's a bit confused... how are your water rates for the water you personally use related to the water used in meat production (the cost of which is more than covered in the cost of the meat itself)

 

[Lightnix]

Well as a vegan, it sucks paying astronomical water rates when my lifestyle choices mean I'm more than likely consuming a fraction of the water each month that my meat-eating friends are guzzling each day.

Exactly. I'm not going to join the losing side.

 

[mrk]

How do you know if someone is not a vegan? They will tell this joke.

 

[Nate Silvers]

That's a bit confused... how are your water rates for the water you personally use related to the water used in meat production (the cost of which is more than covered in the cost of the meat itself)

Meat is very heavily subsidised by the industry and government. That's why it's so cheap.

It takes 2,400 gallons of water to produce one pound of meat. On average 1 burger weighs 0.15625 lbs. If you eat 30 a year that's 4.6875 lb of meat. That's 11,250 gallons (51143.5 litres) of water for a £2 burger.

Average water consumption for a single household annually is 189 liters a day. That's £283 a year. 51143.5 litres (for 30 burgers a year) would cost around £76,579.

In the bigger picture you're using way more water than me to eat but we both pay the same price for water on this earth.

Sorry for the imperial/metric mix up. Bed time for me, night all.

 

[Raymond Lin]

For a second there I thought someone had been reading the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-25298982

 

[Angilion]

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Haha great movie. Here's one more to bore you with.

Gladiators were Vegan.

They used bits of dead animals in various ways. But you're probably referring solely to diet, in which case you're making unsupported speculative leaps. The furthest you can truthfully go is to state that there is a degree of evidence that at least most gladiators were at least mostly vegetarian.

 

[nick.lidgett]

Not all fat people are jolly, some of them are women

Kangaroos cant jump backwards

 

[bledd]

Some environmental facts:

It takes more than 2,400 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of meat.
A vegan diet requires 300 gallons of water per day vs. meat-eating diet which requires 4,000 gallons per day.
You'd save more water by not eating one pound of meat than you would by not taking a shower for 6 months.

More vegan facts here.
http://www.mnn.com/sites/default/files/user-35/vegan%20infographic.jpg

Here's some more interesting facts.

Animals Slaughtered during the time it took to make this post.

60,288 marine animals
30,744 chickens
1,515 ducks
833 pigs
574 rabbits
463 turkeys
357 geese
345 sheep
231 goats
196 cows and calves
44 rodents
42 pigeons and other birds
15 buffaloes
11 dogs
3 cats
3 horses
2 donkeys and mules
1 camels and other camelids
2 horses
2 donkeys and mules
1 camels and other camelids

http://adaptt.org/killcounter.html

But..

bacon

 

[Angilion]

'Encyclopedia' literally means "walk in circles", from the Latin words 'cyclus' (circle) and 'pedes' (feet).

This is because encyclopedias are (in book form, as they all were when the word was created) quite heavy and unless you're reading a part near the centre the imbalance in the weight will tend to cause you to walk in a curve. Since your focus of vision is on the encyclopedia, you won't be correcting the curve by using line of sight on a more distant object. You will, therefore, end up walking in a circle. The book was thoughtfully named as a warning to help people remain aware of this potential issue.

EDIT: Just in case anyone doesn't realise - that is not true. Factoid creation mixed with memories of Call My Bluff.