Bizarre Fact of the Day

Grunfeld

richardhomer said: 

PolarityMan;323913" said:

grass is the only english word which doesn't have any voewls.

Unlike 'rhythm'....

Voles have a poor sense of rhythm, (and spelling).

PolarityMan

Since when did bizarre facts have to be true? I feel I'm being victimized.

HAL9000

A crwth is a Welsh stringed musical instrument and is a word with no vowels.

PolarityMan

HAL9000 said:

A crwth is a Welsh stringed musical instrument and is a word with no vowels.

I said "English" word.....also I clearly lied.

Hootsmon

the real braveheart cat has no bowels

Hootsmon

Terry Thomas removed them

Phil_aka_Pip

HAL9000 said:

A crwth is a Welsh stringed musical instrument and is a word with no vowels.

'w' is a vowel in Welsh

randomhandclaps

Phil_aka_Pip said:

HAL9000 said:

A crwth is a Welsh stringed musical instrument and is a word with no vowels.

'w' is a vowel in Welsh

No it's not, it's a llafariad.

PolarityMan

A llafariaid is a lute like instrument used in a primitive form of druidic welsh reggae

Phil_aka_Pip

randomhandclaps said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

HAL9000 said:

A crwth is a Welsh stringed musical instrument and is a word with no vowels.

'w' is a vowel in Welsh

No it's not, it's a llafariaid.

does that word have an english equivalent? and isn't 'w' pronouned "oo", which would make it work like a vowel does in english?

randomhandclaps

Phil_aka_Pip said:

does that word have an english equivalent?

Yes, it means vowel.... which a,e,i,o,u,w & y are in Welsh.

randomhandclaps

All wild traffic cones on British soil are property of the Queen.

VimFuego

technically, there are no wild cones. All the true, native cones were killed off by the 17th C, the ones you see nowadays are imported cones that have escaped and gone feral.

HAL9000

randomhandclaps said:

I am one of quadruplets and as a result share my birthday with two siblings.

Do I take it that the other sibling's birthday is one day different from yours?

viz

^ Hope so or I'm going mental.

mike_l

viz said:

^ Hope so or I'm going mental.

going?

randomhandclaps

HAL9000 said:

randomhandclaps said:

I am one of quadruplets and as a result share my birthday with two siblings.

Do I take it that the other sibling's birthday is one day different from yours?

You are correct sir.  As it was a thread about bizarre facts there wouldn't be anything bizarre about 4 quadruplets sharing the same birthday.

I'm not really one of quadruplets BTW.

randomhandclaps

VimFuego said:

technically, there are no wild cones. All the true, native cones were killed off by the 17th C, the ones you see nowadays are imported cones that have escaped and gone feral.

This makes perfect sense.  I have often wondered why fluorescent orange doesn't appear elsewhere in British nature.

PolarityMan

randomhandclaps said:

VimFuego said:

technically, there are no wild cones. All the true, native cones were killed off by the 17th C, the ones you see nowadays are imported cones that have escaped and gone feral.

This make perfect sense.  I have often wondered why fluorescent orange doesn't appear elsewhere in British nature.

randomhandclaps said:

VimFuego said:

technically, there are no wild cones. All the true, native cones were killed off by the 17th C, the ones you see nowadays are imported cones that have escaped and gone feral.

This make perfect sense.  I have often wondered why fluorescent orange doesn't appear elsewhere in British nature.

Actually many "traffic cones" are actually not cones but trapezoids, often distinguished by their yellow colouring as well as the difference in size and shape, these being more closely related as a species to lizards than to traffic cones. Their unique adaptations make them extremely successful competitors to the feral "flourescent orange cone". The extensive urbanisation has allowed the yellow traffic trapezoids to flourish which lead to the WWF declaring the non indigenous orange traffic cone a protected species in 2004.

Phil_aka_Pip

randomhandclaps said:

VimFuego said:

technically, there are no wild cones. All the true, native cones were killed off by the 17th C, the ones you see nowadays are imported cones that have escaped and gone feral.

This make perfect sense.  I have often wondered why fluorescent orange doesn't appear elsewhere in British nature.

You don't see them in the wild very often, I think that's because their natural habitat is coincidentally close to colleges and universities, so most of them get caught and live out the rest of their lives in captivity in student flats. Once in that environment, their lifespan becomes limited to a maximum of 3 terms before they die of depression and and up on a rubbish tip.