Useless Fact

SpeedFreak · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:06

Ketchup in Cantonese is ke jup. Ke meaning tomato and jup meaning juice. If you ever wondered where it's name came from, now you know

Raymond Lin · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:06

SpeedFreak said:
Ketchup in Cantonese is ke jup. Ke meaning tomato and jup meaning juice. If you ever wondered where it's name came from, now you know

LOL.......I've always knew that since I speak both language

EDIT - Actually the "Ke" is only half the word of Tomato, its the second half.

SpeedFreak · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:08

Raymond Lin said:
LOL.......I've always knew that since I speak both language

EDIT - Actually the "Ke" is only have the word of Tomato, its the second half.

true, but you know what cantonese is like, close enough usually does the job

iCraig · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:11

Fun fact:

I don't like fun facts.

SpeedFreak · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:12

iCraig said:
Fun fact:

I don't like fun facts.

at least we know now

Millwall.FC · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:12

so if they call it juice do they drink it with their chips instead?

[TW]Fox · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:13

iCraig said:
Fun fact:

I don't like fun facts.

I can't decide whether you are annoying or not. It's quite difficult, infact, becuase most of the time you are able to offset the useless stuff you post with mildly amusing or half way intelligent things.

SpeedFreak · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:15

Millwall.FC said:
so if they call it juice do they drink it with their chips instead?

good question. Orange juice is chan jup so I guess so

The Pat · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:20

iCraig said:
Fun fact:

I don't like fun facts.

So posting that must have made you sad. So why did you do it?

Beansprout · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:21

[TW]Fox said:
I can't decide whether you are annoying or not. It's quite difficult, infact, becuase most of the time you are able to offset the useless stuff you post with mildly amusing or half way intelligent things.

I can't decide whether you are annoying or not. It's quite difficult, infact, becuase most of the time you are able to offset the useless stuff you post with mildly amusing or half way intelligent things

Only joking

iCraig · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:23

[TW]Fox said:
I can't decide whether you are annoying or not. It's quite difficult, infact, becuase most of the time you are able to offset the useless stuff you post with mildly amusing or half way intelligent things.

I haven't had a back-handed compliment in ages.

I feel exactly the same way with you, if we're talking about inter-forum relationships. Half of your posts are witty and satirical whereas the rest are uptight quasi-arrogant nonsense.

Dj_Jestar · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:24

The word "Div" formerly known as "Divvy" (a derogatory term for someone lacking intelligence/common sense) is scouse slang for The Deva Mental institute which is now known as West Chesire Hospital. Deva was the original Roman name for the nearby Chester.

Only found that out the other week.

iCraig · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:26

DIV is also a HTML tag and CSS selector.

That doesn't count because it wasn't fun.

Zefan · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:26

Star Wars was originally called "The Adventures of Luke Starkiller" but his name was changed due to it sounding a bit too aggressive. Of course then the title was amended as well. Yoda was originally called "The Critter".

SpeedFreak · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:30

That's brilliant Zefan

unwashed potato! · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:50

cool thread! bring it on people, what other pointless rubbish do you know that will make me sound like a genious tomorrow

vincent1989 · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:54

Mammalian said:
cool thread! bring it on people, what other pointless rubbish do you know that will make me sound like a genious tomorrow

genius is spelt thus; genius

unwashed potato! · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:57

bringerofdecay said:
genius is spelt thus; genius

alright this isn't a spelling beeee, aslong as i say it right i can still 'sound' like a genius, lol almost spelt it wrong again. I blame pcs for my bad spelling anyway, programs like ms word automatically change some words which mean you don't even realise that you spelt it wrongly

Zefan · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:59

Mammalian said:
programs like ms word automatically change some words which mean you don't even realise that you spelt it wrongly

It'd be much better if it gave you an electric shock or played the Family Fortunes "EEEH AAH" noise.

Or both.

Volcs · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:59

In every second, of every day, at least 13 chinamen are falling off their bicycles.

I think I've stolen this from Tru in a thread from about 2 years ago called Make Up a Fact