N'Al fun facts of the day

TBE on 21/3/2009 at 05:14

Your making me think that grammer and punctuation are thought of as irregardless in todays society. For all intensive purposes, you can shove you're penultimate buzzword up you're keester.

LOL!

demagogue on 21/3/2009 at 05:43

Quote Posted by PeeperStorm

Similarly, the Japanese also have a term for death from overwork: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_from_overwork) Karoshi. It's enough of a problem that their health ministry keeps statistics on it.

And J-List has a great (http://www.jbox.com/PRODUCT/SHIRT-OVER1) t-shirt on it.

Japan is the Mecca of quirky fun facts, though. I swear while I was living there, each new day was a celebration of "what fucked-up oddball thing are the Japanese going to do today?"

N'Al on 21/3/2009 at 09:46

8.)

(http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed&sectHdr=on&spellToler=on&chinese=both&pinyin=diacritic&search=kater&relink=on) The colloquial term for a hangover in German is "Kater", which is also the term for a tomcat. And boy, does it ever fucking hurt.

rachel on 21/3/2009 at 11:21

Heard about that Paris syndrome a couple years ago... Pretty funny thing, this. Well, unless you're Japanese, of course. Then it pretty much sucks. I guess.
Aaaanyway...

Queue on 21/3/2009 at 13:19

Quote Posted by demagogue

...each new day was a celebration of "what fucked-up oddball thing are the Japanese going to do today?"

And they make great radios.

N'Al on 21/3/2009 at 13:33

9.)

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDxnQnudE1o) Alice in Chains' band name came out of the band members' ironic desire to come up with the most over-the-top name for a speed metal band dressed in drag.

Queue on 21/3/2009 at 13:42

I thought their name was just a poor reference to Alice Cooper (maybe even with a touch of Alice in Wonderland thrown in to the mix), thus making it rather hack and unoriginal; as 'ol Vinnie was the original "Alice" in metaphorical, and sometimes literal, chains while on stage.

N'Al on 21/3/2009 at 14:19

The drag metal thing is mentioned in the (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Bank-Alice-Chains/dp/B0000296JW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1237644812&sr=8-1) album notes to Music Bank.

N'Al on 22/3/2009 at 09:49

10.)

(https://www.amazines.com/Haribo_related.html) The name of German confectionary maker Haribo (dem's of gummi bear fame) is an acronym of the founder's name - Hans Riegel - and his place of birth - Bonn.

Koki on 22/3/2009 at 10:29

Then I'm Pikaop.

Why are all my nicknames terribad?