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    jon-nyc
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    #25

    Tsetse flies? Should be in the top five I would think

    Unless 1 is supposed to represent all insects

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    • AndyDA Offline
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      AndyD
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      #26

      Nope.
      Number one is (female) mosquitos who spread malaria.
      Two is people killing people.
      Four is dogs & rabies.

      Ventosa viri restabit

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      • J jon-nyc

        Most amazing beat boxer you’ve ever heard.

        https://x.com/jayroo69/status/2086192986929373462?s=20

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        CHAS
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        #27

        @jon-nyc WOW

        "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

        • Twyla Tharp
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            AndyD
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            #29

            Number 8 is sharks, they kill less than ten people a year.

            Ok its not a perfect list.
            Hippos getting 500 was a surprise, I know they are perpetually irritable animals, but who ventures close enough to such a big angry thing 😜

            Ventosa viri restabit

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            • AndyDA AndyD

              Good for them.
              But McDonald's sucks. Plasticky food in inadequate buns with salty fries.
              Vanilla milkshakes being the exception, slurp slurp.

              I had my first taste of their food(I use the word loosely) in my late 20's and it has always been my least liked takeaway.
              I usually try their 'special' burgers...
              so Thursday evening having been out, we roll into the drivethru, to be told the heatwave means their shake machine ain't working(?) so I get a Big Arch.
              Arrives looking a pale shadow of the photo and after a couple of bites turns to mushy cheesy bits ensuring my shirt, trousers and car all need a wash.
              I just wanted a cold vanilla milkshake.

              Thankfully MrsA usually prefers KFC. We get a boneless bucket, and I repeat my joke about the bucket coming in useful if the food makes us feel icky.
              We don't go often. So many better options on which to spend your £20.
              Burger King 😆

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              Daniel
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              @AndyD said:

              Good for them.
              But McDonald's sucks. Plasticky food in inadequate buns with salty fries.
              Vanilla milkshakes being the exception, slurp slurp.

              I had my first taste of their food(I use the word loosely) in my late 20's and it has always been my least liked takeaway.
              I usually try their 'special' burgers...
              so Thursday evening having been out, we roll into the drivethru, to be told the heatwave means their shake machine ain't working(?) so I get a Big Arch.
              Arrives looking a pale shadow of the photo and after a couple of bites turns to mushy cheesy bits ensuring my shirt, trousers and car all need a wash.
              I just wanted a cold vanilla milkshake.

              Thankfully MrsA usually prefers KFC. We get a boneless bucket, and I repeat my joke about the bucket coming in useful if the food makes us feel icky.
              We don't go often. So many better options on which to spend your £20.
              Burger King 😆

              100% agree about McDonald's.

              Correlation does not imply causation.

              'But as they said in one of the later Rocky movies, "Time...it's undefeated.".-- Mik

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                #31

                Name the mildly interesting person (for Mark at least?) who built the following; may be a bit too local and antique, so where the heck was Andy:

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                Ventosa viri restabit

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                  Ventosa viri restabit

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                    AndyD
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                    It's an astronomy observatory, built around 1750 by Thomas Wright, who was first to describe the Milky Way as many galaxies.

                    Now surrounded by the small village of Westeron.
                    Thomas Wright attended the same school as me (as did the young Stan Laurel for a year or two).

                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wright_(astronomer)

                    Ventosa viri restabit

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                      Daniel
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                      #34

                      Fascinating, Andy!

                      (And I wish I could have an observatory, it sounds like heaven, but if I could, Florida has too much light pollution to star gaze, most everywhere in the state now.)

                      'But as they said in one of the later Rocky movies, "Time...it's undefeated.".-- Mik

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