QI Fact of the Day

pokerpete · Post by **pokerpete** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:54 pm

according to the principles of homeopothy (not obsessed with this quackery honest) what you should do is this.

mix 1 part nutmeg to 10 parts water.
shake it up & down 10 times
shake it left & right 10 times
shake it forward & backward 10 times

then take 1 part of that solution to 10 parts water.
repeat

every time you do that it supposedly gets stronger

do it 23x and you dont have even a single molecule of nutmeg.
keep doing ituntil it's 100x and you should have something lethally strong

I've heard of solutions up to 1500x
apparently equivalent to a grain of rice crushed up in a solution the size of the solar system

now THAT would be strong stuff

aaamusements.co.uk · Post by **aaamusements.co.uk** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:55 pm

Odd duplicate event thingy....

trayhop123 · Post by **trayhop123** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 1:04 pm

useless fact : Ivan draknimov was allegedly the only russian to defeat and kill a bear with his bare hands. ,,,,,,,,,, hmmmmmmmm

however he also used to go door to door telling housewives he was collecting lingerie for charity :P

JG · Post by JG » Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:59 am

PP: Are you suggesting homeopathy is rigged?

Why would quacks need to rig it for heaven's sake? If it was rigged you'd get lots of people saying it didn't work and was just a load of nonsense. Errrr...moving on. You obviously haven't tried on line homeopathy. Basically the molecule you need is stored in a server somewhere and that very fact is enough to make whatever it is you drink, potent enough to cure whatever medical condition you have. On line homeopathy is big business and the companies involved would not risk rigging it otherwise it'd get picked up by morbidity trackers and someone would inform the tabloid press.

A snail has its teeth on its tongue. When they eat leaves you can hear them 'rasping' if you listen carefully. I once wrestled a snail off a dandelion using my bare hands.

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:57 am

maybe we can get admin to put a sticky up on why online homeopathy is'nt fixed ,to save time continually reposting.

harry2 · Post by **harry2** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:53 am

The German for fat is Schmalz .

harry2 · Post by **harry2** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:33 am

Lard is pig fat. A larder was originally the place where the lard was kept. The word lard comes from the ancient Greek for 'dainty'.

steveseagull · Post by **steveseagull** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 8:00 am

British seaman James Bartley was swallowed alive by a whale in 1891 and survived for two days in its stomach before being released by his shipmates. He lived another 35 years to tell the tale.

Apparently.

pokerpete · Post by **pokerpete** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:15 pm

mr lugsy wrote: maybe we can get admin to put a sticky up on why online homeopathy is'nt fixed ,to save time continually reposting.

excellent idea