ZA Furries

As the title implies, I am going to attempt to post here (almost) every day to share something new (and hopefully interesting) that I recently learned. If I miss a day, feel free to stand in for me.

Day 1: Suddenly increasing facial blood pressure (by holding one's breath, hanging upside down, induced vomiting, or even strangulation) can cause capillaries to burst, leaving tiny red marks called petechiae, particularly on the eyelids. They are harmless and usually disappear after a few days.

Night before last I had an upset stomach from a hot chocolate that had been made with not-so-fresh milk, and after forcibly throwing it up I looked in the mirror and nearly had a panic attack. Frantic Googling ensued. #HypochondriacProblems

Haha that's quite odd, I only learnt that recently too, anyhow are we allowed to post our own things here too?

I guess so if you feel like it, but the idea was to have a fact-a-day type thing going. Kind of like Ivic's AMA thread but not at all.

"Kind of like, but not at all."

Have you been taking stupid pills again?

I knew I shouldn't have let you make me coffee.

Oh no... Trust me this is very entertaining, make Leeward more xD

Make me more? Did you accidentally the whole thing?

Leeward wrote:Make me more? Did you accidentally the whole thing?

I literally have no idea what this is meant to mean.

I was referring to this:

Tocs wrote:make Leeward more xD

which taken out of context could be seen to have an omitted verb, much like this old meme.

In other words, I had no idea what you meant, up until 30 seconds ago when I realised that you meant Sev should make me more coffee.

Gosh I really am on stupid pills today, aren't I? Sev! Stop spiking my coffee!

The Cow's lying, I did no such thing.

Is this the face of a cow that would lie to you?

Bartok!? What happened!? D:

That's not Bartok. That's me. I wouldn't lie to you. Or would I?

I know Bartok when I see him, since he's one of, like, only three anthropomorphic bats in all of mainstream entertainment!



Did you know he got his own movie after Anastasia? "Bartok the Magnificent". Kelsey Grammer was in it.

Sorry, I hope this isn't considered intrusive, but...do you mean to say you MADE yourself throw up?

Contrast wrote:I know Bartok when I see him, since he's one of, like, only three anthropomorphic bats in all of mainstream entertainment!

Fidget from The Great Mouse Detective, some bat in Fern Gully, Bartok in Anastasia and I know I had a fourth one a few minutes ago but now it's flapped right out of my mind. >.>

Yes I knew Bartok had his own movie after Anastasia, yes that's the exact pic I hurriedly tweaked, and yes I did make myself throw up because I was horribly nauseous and wanted to go sleep, I don't normally do that.

Rakuen Growlithe wrote:

Contrast wrote:I know Bartok when I see him, since he's one of, like, only three anthropomorphic bats in all of mainstream entertainment!

Fidget from The Great Mouse Detective, some bat in Fern Gully, Bartok in Anastasia and I know I had a fourth one a few minutes ago but now it's flapped right out of my mind. >.>

Rouge from Sonic, maybe?
There's also Bloody Bat-chan from Foxy Rena, but she's not exactly mainstream.

Wow this went off topic fast. To bring it back to education : Day 2?: One in four South African schools do not offer maths in matric curriculum.

Ocean knight wrote:Wow this went off topic fast. To bring it back to education : Day 2?: One in four South African schools do not offer maths in matric curriculum.

Are you serious? So then, where and how do they expect students to get into engineering?

What tics me off is schools that refuse to teach certain students mathd because of their "class average" so as to keep ot high to give the school a good name... Happened to a friend of mine...

Sonic2k wrote:

Ocean knight wrote:Wow this went off topic fast. To bring it back to education : Day 2?: One in four South African schools do not offer maths in matric curriculum.

Are you serious? So then, where and how do they expect students to get into engineering?

I dont know how this could be allowed to happen. My guess is they will end up as BA students(nothing wrong with BA students) or they wont go to university

Whoops, kind of forgot about this thread...

Adagio wrote:What tics me off is schools that refuse to teach certain students mathd because of their "class average" so as to keep ot high to give the school a good name... Happened to a friend of mine...

I'm pretty sure you could sue the school for that.

One school that I was in would disallow you from writing the Cambridge exams under their name unless you had at least a 70% average.

The ANC could have learnt a thing or two from them.

That's completely different from not allowing you to take the subject at all. You can still pass some kind of exam if not the Cambridge, right?

You would still write the exam, but as an "independent candidate".

The point is, the school was schewing its results.

Isn't that technically a type of fraud?

Most probably.

What does Bluetooth and Vikings have in common?

The term "Bluetooth" and it's logo confused me for a long time...
Turns out, Harald Bluetooth was a Viking, famous for uniting nations back in tenth century, (958-970)
The developer of Bluetooth took inspiration from this uniting, and wanted to unite wireless standards.


And the logo?

It's his sigil, as it appeared on ancient runes, and also his initials.

Manalee wrote:Day 1: Suddenly increasing facial blood pressure (by holding one's breath, hanging upside down, induced vomiting, or even strangulation) can cause capillaries to burst, leaving tiny red marks called petechiae, particularly on the eyelids. They are harmless and usually disappear after a few days.

Fun fact: you can create petechiae on your hand by grabbing tightly around the wrist, and then pumping more blood into the hand (by opening and clenching your fist repeatedly), resulting your hand becoming inflated.

Men have an extra appendage with which to experiment using this principle. Try it, it's fun.