AS A MATTER OF FACT - share your random but interesting facts!

Capt'n Midnight

Mickey Dazzler wrote: »

As a straight, non-intravenous drug taking man living in the Ireland you have absolutely no chance of catching HIV by having sex with a woman without a condom. No Chance.

The IBTS won't take blood from women who have had sex with men who have had sex with other men

Mickey Dazzler

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The IBTS won't take blood from women who have had sex with men who have had sex with other men

Why are you telling me this?

139

The word 'Quiz' has its origins in Dublin. Apparently two friends placed a bet, one man bet the other that he could make up a nonsense word and it could enter the English language. he put up posters around Dublin with the word 'quiz', people noticed started kept asking "what the **** is a quiz?" etc. After awhile the word became know to mean - unknown puzzle etc.

rod_long

Mickey Dazzler wrote: »

As a straight, non-intravenous drug taking man living in the Ireland you have absolutely no chance of catching HIV by having sex with a woman without a condom. No Chance.

what if one or more of the women had sex with a bi sexual man before they met you ?

Capt'n Midnight

Quizzes are Quizzical
Tests are T...

BunShopVoyeur

rod_long wrote: »

Mickey Dazzler wrote: »

As a straight, non-intravenous drug taking man living in the Ireland you have absolutely no chance of catching HIV by having sex with a woman without a condom. No Chance.

what if one or more of the women had sex with a bi sexual man before they met you ?

Sir, I think you've just come up with the cure for AIDS.

Mr.Crinklewood

Geese are illiterate.

1ZRed

Mickey Dazzler wrote: »

As a straight, non-intravenous drug taking man living in the Ireland you have absolutely no chance of catching HIV by having sex with a woman without a condom. No Chance.

If you think that's a fact you should reconsider what you think you know. Anal sex is not the only way of passing HIV on.

Any fluid of the body contains HIV so you could cum in a girl and pass it on or receive it even through vaginal sex. Fact!

Btw I'm a bisexual guy and it amazes me how ignorant some people are, and gay/bi people are the ones getting a bad name.
Assuming you're serious of course, you should really wise up.

Toby Take a Bow

Mickey Dazzler wrote: »

As a straight, non-intravenous drug taking man living in the Ireland you have absolutely no chance of catching HIV by having sex with a woman without a condom. No Chance.

Even if she has AIDS? And even if you're having anal sex?

1ZRed

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

Mickey Dazzler wrote: »

As a straight, non-intravenous drug taking man living in the Ireland you have absolutely no chance of catching HIV by having sex with a woman without a condom. No Chance.

Even if she has AIDS? And even if you're having anal sex?

If she had AIDS and you had unprotected anal sex with her, there's a high change of catching the virus.

Since this is a thread about facts,
the bottom has a much higher change of getting the disease than the top.

Stinicker

1ZRed wrote: »

If she had AIDS and you had unprotected anal sex with her, there's a high change of catching the virus.

Since this is a thread about facts,
the bottom has a much higher change of getting the disease than the top.

You can catch Aids from kissing.... Fact

1ZRed

Stinicker wrote: »

1ZRed wrote: »

If she had AIDS and you had unprotected anal sex with her, there's a high change of catching the virus.

Since this is a thread about facts,
the bottom has a much higher change of getting the disease than the top.

You can catch Aids from kissing.... Fact

Haha yeah that's true but it would take the transmission of 3-4 buckets of saliva to effectively do so which would really put you off!:eek: It is near impossible to get it this way though.
oh yeah, Fact!

efb

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Vaginal sex:

HIV is found in the sexual fluids of an infected person. For a man, this means in the fluids which come out of the penis before and during sex. For a woman, it means HIV is in the fluids produced by the vagina before and during sex to help make intercourse easier.
If a man with HIV has vaginal intercourse without a condom, infected fluid can pass into the woman's blood stream through a tiny cut or sore inside her body. Such a cut or sore wouldn't always be visible, and could be so small that the woman wouldn't know about it.
If a woman with HIV has sexual intercourse without a condom, HIV could get into the man's blood through a sore patch on his penis or by getting into the tube that runs down the penis.
If there is any contact with blood during sex, this increases the risk of infection. For example, there may be blood in the vagina if intercourse occurs during a woman's period.


Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_is_HIV_transmitted#ixzz1tkfaxOID

Cookie_Monster

merengueca wrote: »

The US Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and the US railroads were built by English expatriates.

Why did the English people build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did they use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

Okay! Why did the wagons use that odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagons would break on some of the old, long distance roads, because that's the spacing of the old wheel ruts.

So who built these old rutted roads? The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The roads have been used ever since.

And the ruts? The initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for or by Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.

Thus, we have the answer to the original question. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot. Specs and Bureaucracies live forever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_gauge#Early_origins_of_the_standard_gauge
pre-dates the Romans.
Also in regards UK railway guage there have been plenty of variants and initially narrower guages would have been far more popular in mines and quarries

u_c_thesecond

i like lamp wrote: »

4. John Lennon says 'shoot me' at the start of the song come together....

i just got some chill reading that !!

recyclops

Salvador Dali designed the chupa chups logo. Probably his most well known piece.

stupidusername

Ooh I thought of an actual fact that I wouldn't mind more people knowing - seagull is a disambiguation, there is no such thing as a seagull. they are all gulls, and then there are different types of gulls. the ones people probably refer to as seagulls are likely most commonly herring gulls. there are also black headed gulls and common gulls.

milltown

The average human being has less than two legs.

tomirs

Blondes have more fun I should know

castletownman

A little known cultural and sporting fact is that anyone of the opinion that the upcoming Heineken Cup final between Ulster and Leinster is finally an All-Ireland final to look forward to, officially took the Queen's soup during the Famine, when the rest of us were starving.

DEFTLEFTHAND

castletownman wrote: »

A little known cultural and sporting fact is that anyone of the opinion that the upcoming Heineken Cup final between Ulster and Leinster is finally an All-Ireland final to look forward to, officially took the Queen's soup during the Famine, when the rest of us were starving.

Brits v d4 brigade and their colossal army of bandwagoners who've no business been at a rugby game

efb

Jesus was left handed

joolsveer

Christopher Lee witnessed the last public execution by guillotine in France in 1939.

On June 17, 1939, Weidmann was beheaded outside the prison Saint-Pierre in Versailles. The "hysterical behaviour" by spectators was so scandalous that French president Albert Lebrun immediately banned all future public executions. Unknown to authorities, film of the execution was shot from a private apartment adjacent to the prison. British actor Christopher Lee, who was 17 at the time, witnessed this event.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Weidmann

The King of Moo

André the Giant, famed giant wrestler and star of The Princess Bride, lived in a village outside France as a young boy.
Due to his size, he was unable to fit on the schoolbus and his family couldn't afford a car big enough for him.

So his father asked his friend, who had moved to the area, if he might drive André to school in the mornings in his truck.

The friend was happy to oblige.

That friend was Nobel-Prize winner Samuel Beckett.

fundlebundle

Don't have time to read the whole thread so sorry if these were mentioned:

Babies at 3 months can count logarithmically as its our natural form of counting. It takes a couple of years to unlearn this and count in single digits.

Cats can survive falls less than one story and greater than five stories but not in between

Fetal cells from a baby remain in a woman's body for her entire life.

Dublin people are the fastest walkers in the world

Thank you radiolab

Capt'n Midnight

You could save 4,000L of water a year by peeing in the shower.

Ted_YNWA

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

You could save 4,000L of water a year by peeing in the shower.

and as for sharing showers ...

Wibbs

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

i just got some chill reading that !!

Well then check this pic out. A bit chilling considering... Celebrated war photographer Don McCullin was asked to follow the Beatles around for a day taking pics. An odd choice, but that's who they wanted and he really captured them as a bunch of mates, even though it was late in their career and they were having "artistic differences".

puzzle factory

old people are the biggest carriers of AIDS in the world
walking aids , hearing aids ect...........

Bambii_

Smcgie wrote: »

Its impossible to lick your elbow

You can if your double jointed (:

longshanks

If you gathered all the crocodiles in the world, and lined them up head to tail, you would have a really long line of crocodiles. No one has ever done this.

Bipolar Joe

Random fact, I can always tell who watches Mythbusters and QI based on what they post in random fact threads.

housetypeb

If you stand on your roof naked on a clear night in the northern hemisphere at 3am on the 2nd Tuesday of the 5th month and whistle for your pet dog to join you-your neighbors won't talk to you for a year.

dubtom

75% of the stuff you buy on ebay will in fact not originate from the claimed country that it says it does,it will more than likely come from China or the far east.*









* May be completely untrue.

milltown

If you want to find out if something is true or false, you'll get your answer much, much quicker by posting it as a fact in this thread than if you just asked the question in the relevant forum.

Fact.

superstoner90

Fact: I need to take a dump.

tSubh Dearg

The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and some of its blood vessels are large enough that a man could swim through them. Which would take some very specialist diving equipment!

Capt'n Midnight

If you laid all the worlds economists end to end they wouldn't reach a conclusion.

policarp

The average mans penis is twice the length of his thumb. . .:D

1ZRed

policarp wrote: »

The average mans penis is twice the length of his thumb. . .:D

I call bullsh!t on your ass!!:PIf that were the case I would be just under 6". That can't be true for a lot of guys.

1ZRed

On average gay men have larger cocks than straight guys. This is true.

DEFTLEFTHAND

The original recipe for Coca Cola did indeed include cocaine.

emigrate2012

sKepTics_George wrote: »

Sykk wrote: »

No word in the english language ryhmes with purple, silver month, or orange. [/
I'm assuming silver and month aren't together so, month-c#nt.

emigrate2012

1ZRed wrote: »

On average gay men have larger cocks than straight guys. This is true.[/Quote

have you researched this using your mouth gauge?

The King of Moo

emigrate2012 wrote: »

I'm assuming silver and month aren't together so, month-c#nt.

Are you suggesting they rhyme?

"th" with "t?"

1ZRed

emigrate2012 wrote: »

1ZRed wrote: »

On average gay men have larger cocks than straight guys. This is true.[/Quote

have you researched this using your mouth gauge?

Duh, how else would it be scientific? :P

But in all seriousness it IS actually true;)

Adrianno28

I havent got laid in over 4 months- climbing the fookin walls here!:o

And Im Gay too- and the above post is not true in my case- maybe thats part of it! lol

1ZRed

Adrianno28 wrote: »

I havent got laid in over 4 months- climbing the fookin walls here!:o

And Im Gay too- and the above post is not true in my case-maybe thats part of it! lol

Haha well all i can say is that for me (a top) I couldn't really care about dick size.

*Easily offended straight people, don't read further. You've been warned! :P*

The prostate is about what, 3 or 4 inches in? so anything above average is kind of 'waisted' while having butt sex anyway. Unless your a total size queen that is!lol

stupidusername

what's a top?

1ZRed

stupidusername wrote: »

what's a top?

The top is the penetrator, the bottom is the reciever.

There's your gay sex lesson for the day! Haha