BFTD Posted Friday at 12:05 Share Posted Friday at 12:05 Potential here for a Daily Record follow-up to the Mumsnet Wars article. FOOTY THUG RAMMIES BOOKED ON "SICK" WEBSITE - site owner MacDonald refuses to comment I'll take @Shandon Par on the undercard. Technically superior and has more experience, but I've got the reach to keep him at bay until he knocks himself out. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted Friday at 13:29 Share Posted Friday at 13:29 (edited) Survival of the shittest Quote In a stark demonstration of how award-winning breakthroughs can come from the most unlikely directions, researchers have won an Ig Nobel prize for discovering that mammals can breathe through their anuses. After a series of tests on mice, rats and pigs, Japanese scientists found the animals absorb oxygen delivered through the rectum, work that underpins a clinical trial to see whether the procedure can treat respiratory failure. The team is among 10 recognised in this year’s Ig Nobel awards (see below for more), the irreverent accolades given for achievements that “first make people laugh, and then make them think”. They are not to be confused with the more lucrative and career-changing Nobel prizes to be handed out in Scandinavia next month. The latest crop of Ig Nobel winners received their awards at a ceremony at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday. The event featured real Nobel laureates to distribute the prizes, “24/7” lectures in which experts first explained their subject in 24 seconds, then in seven words, and copious paper-plane throwing. Other work honoured on the night included US research to house pigeons in missiles to help guide them to their targets; UK investigations which found that claims of extreme old age tend to come from areas that have short average lifespans and and a historical lack of birth certificates, and a French study which found that scalp hair tends to whorl in a clockwise direction, though less so in the southern hemisphere. The Japanese researchers became interested in whether humans with breathing difficulties might benefit from having oxygen pumped up their backsides after noting that some animals, such as loaches, can use their intestines to breathe. They began the work in the Covid crisis when many hospitals were desperately short of mechanical ventilators to support breathing in people with severe infections. The team’s experiments, which earned the Ig Nobel prize in physiology, showed that mice, rats and pigs could absorb oxygen into the bloodstream when it was delivered via the rectum, thus supporting normal breathing. Writing in the journal Med in 2021, Ryo Okabe at Tokyo Medical and Dental University and colleagues described how “enteral ventilation” offered “a new paradigm” to help patients in respiratory failure. Dr Takanori Takebe, an author of the study at Cincinnati children’s hospital medical centre, confessed to “mixed feelings” on hearing of the award, but warmed to it on finding out it was recognised for making people laugh and then think. If it fuelled interest in enteral ventilation, he said, “I’d be so happy.” The team is running a phase 1 trial in human volunteers. Dr Saul Newman at the University of Oxford bagged the demography prize for showing that many claims of people living extraordinarily long lives come from places with short life spans, no birth certificates, and where clerical errors and pension fraud abound. “Extreme old age records are a statistical basket case,” he said. “From the level of individual cases, up to broad population patterns, virtually none of our old-age data makes sense.” Prof Roman Khonsari, a craniofacial surgeon at the Necker-Enfants Malades university hospital in Paris, and colleagues won the anatomy prize for their global study of hair whorls. While scalp hair spirals in a clockwise direction on most people, their research found, there is more counter-clockwise spiralling in the southern hemisphere. “I was operating when I got the call,” Khonsari said. “I was extremely glad because, despite the undeniable irrelevance of this study, I am convinced that deciphering patterns in nature can lead to important discoveries on fundamental developmental mechanisms. Shapes carry interesting amounts of information.” The discovery led to comparisons with tornadoes, which typically rotate in different directions in the northern and southern hemispheres. Writing in the Journal of Stomatology, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, the researchers theorised that the Coriolis effect, by which the Earth’s spin deflects winds to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere, could be at work. Not that Khonsari believes it. “Frankly, I don’t think it is a plausible hypothesis,” he said. The other winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel prizes Peace Awarded to the late BF Skinner, a US psychologist, for exploring the feasibility of housing live pigeons inside missiles to guide them to their targets. The project, which Skinner himself described as “crackpot”, was dropped despite a perfect demonstration involving a pigeon trained to target features on the New Jersey coastline. “The spectacle of a living pigeon carrying out its assignment, no matter how beautifully, simply reminded the committee of how utterly fantastic our proposal was,” Skinner wrote. Botany Given to Jacob White in the US and Felipe Yamashita in Germany for reporting evidence that the South American plant Boquila trifoliolata can mimic the leaves of plastic plants it is placed alongside, leading them to conclude that “plant vision” is a plausible hypothesis. Medicine Won by a Swiss, German and Belgian group for demonstrating that fake medicine that causes painful side-effects can be more effective in patients than fake medicine that does not cause painful side-effects. Physics Awarded to James Liao at the University of Florida for a comprehensive, multi-publication investigation into the swimming abilities of a dead trout. Probability Shared by a team of 50 researchers, mostly Dutch, who flipped 350,757 coins to test a hypothesis put forward by Persi Diaconis, a former magician and professor of statistics at Stanford University. Their work supported Diaconis’s prediction that tossed coins are (slightly) more likely to land the same way up as they started. Chemistry Another win for the Netherlands, with a team in Amsterdam using chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms, all the in the name of polymer science. Biology Another posthumous award, the Ig Nobel in biology honoured the late Fordyce Ely and William Petersen for their 1940 investigation into factors affecting the production of milk in dairy herds. Writing in the Journal of Animal Science, the pair recounted placing a cat on the back of a cow and repeatedly exploding paper bags to see if milk-flow changed. The terrified cows appeared to release less milk. “Frightening at first consisted in placing a cat on the cow’s back and exploding paper bags every 10 seconds for two minutes,” the researchers wrote. “Later the cat was dispensed with as unnecessary.” Edited Friday at 13:29 by GNU_Linux 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted Friday at 15:33 Share Posted Friday at 15:33 2 hours ago, GNU_Linux said: Survival of the shittest Well, I know a lot of people who can talk through it so this is hardly surprising. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted Friday at 15:57 Share Posted Friday at 15:57 I had a relative who died from tuberculosis. Is science now to trying to tell me that we could have kept him alive by sticking a compressor hose up his arse? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'WellDel Posted Friday at 16:41 Share Posted Friday at 16:41 8 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: I'll be in Glasgow tomorrow if anyone fancies a fight. Deliberately picked a weekend I'm away. Pussy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted Friday at 21:53 Share Posted Friday at 21:53 9 hours ago, BFTD said: Potential here for a Daily Record follow-up to the Mumsnet Wars article. FOOTY THUG RAMMIES BOOKED ON "SICK" WEBSITE - site owner MacDonald refuses to comment I'll take @Shandon Par on the undercard. Technically superior and has more experience, but I've got the reach to keep him at bay until he knocks himself out. I'm a lover not a fighter and as you are hirsute- 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted Saturday at 00:44 Share Posted Saturday at 00:44 12 hours ago, tamthebam said: I was considering passing through Glasgow tomorrow. Should be enough time to pagger Melanius. Can someone live stream this on P&B? Oh and 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted Saturday at 12:34 Share Posted Saturday at 12:34 On 13/09/2024 at 13:05, BFTD said: Potential here for a Daily Record follow-up to the Mumsnet Wars article. FOOTY THUG RAMMIES BOOKED ON "SICK" WEBSITE - site owner MacDonald refuses to comment I'll take @Shandon Par on the undercard. Technically superior and has more experience, but I've got the reach to keep him at bay until he knocks himself out. It will be tough to get a replacement within 24 hours after Shandon breaks his ankle falling off the scales at the weigh-in 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted Saturday at 13:31 Share Posted Saturday at 13:31 On 13/09/2024 at 12:38, Melanius Mullarkey said: Yes I'll try to have a shite whilst im there. Objective achieved. On 13/09/2024 at 12:52, tamthebam said: I was considering passing through Glasgow tomorrow. Should be enough time to pagger Melanius. Too late, I’m away again. Anyway, passed these classy establishments earlier. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted Saturday at 13:31 Share Posted Saturday at 13:31 20 hours ago, 'WellDel said: Deliberately picked a weekend I'm away. Pussy. ^^^knew I was in town and ran, type post. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted Saturday at 21:36 Share Posted Saturday at 21:36 For someone that's been dead for nearly 42 years, Leonid Brezhnev can still pull the hotties. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted Sunday at 15:01 Share Posted Sunday at 15:01 Just got my hands on a DVD of an East Fife v Raith Rovers game from 1983. A pretty rumbustious affair with a raucous atmosphere. A few old school terracing songs that I'd completely forgotten about. "Here we go, here we go, here we go" "Glory glory what a hell of a way to die... ...to die a Rovers b*****d" "Blue and white shite, blue and white shite hello hello" And not forgetting the charming "You're going to get your f**king heads kicked in" Simpler times 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted Sunday at 15:41 Share Posted Sunday at 15:41 33 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said: Just got my hands on a DVD of an East Fife v Raith Rovers game from 1983. A pretty rumbustious affair with a raucous atmosphere. A few old school terracing songs that I'd completely forgotten about. "Here we go, here we go, here we go" "Glory glory what a hell of a way to die... ...to die a Rovers b*****d" "Blue and white shite, blue and white shite hello hello" And not forgetting the charming "You're going to get your f**king heads kicked in" Simpler times Obvious reasons why you don't hear "you're going to get your f**king heads kicked in", "come and have a go if you think you're hard enough (Kenneth)", or "you're going home in a f**king ambulance" anymore, but what happened to "here we go (x3)"? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted Sunday at 16:47 Share Posted Sunday at 16:47 1 hour ago, BFTD said: Obvious reasons why you don't hear "you're going to get your f**king heads kicked in", "come and have a go if you think you're hard enough (Kenneth)", or "you're going home in a f**king ambulance" anymore, but what happened to "here we go (x3)"? The entire second half appeared to be spent singing "cheerio, cheerio cheerio" as the Raith fans drifted towards the exits. Same tune as "here we go". I think the tune was some kind of American marching band nonsense. Someone will come along with the details. I think I can probably guess who 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted Sunday at 16:52 Share Posted Sunday at 16:52 5 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said: The entire second half appeared to be spent singing "cheerio, cheerio cheerio" as the Raith fans drifted towards the exits. Same tune as "here we go". I think the tune was some kind of American marching band nonsense. Someone will come along with the details. I think I can probably guess who Stars and Stripes Forever. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH33 Posted Sunday at 17:39 Share Posted Sunday at 17:39 New job tomorrow Must be normal 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted Sunday at 18:40 Share Posted Sunday at 18:40 1 hour ago, RH33 said: Must be normal I give that till Wednesday. good luck. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted Sunday at 19:32 Share Posted Sunday at 19:32 4 hours ago, Cosmic Joe said: Just got my hands on a DVD of an East Fife v Raith Rovers game from 1983. A pretty rumbustious affair with a raucous atmosphere. A few old school terracing songs that I'd completely forgotten about. "Here we go, here we go, here we go" "Glory glory what a hell of a way to die... ...to die a Rovers b*****d" "Blue and white shite, blue and white shite hello hello" And not forgetting the charming "You're going to get your f**king heads kicked in" Simpler times Did it have the timeless "We are the EF the EFFC"? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted Sunday at 20:13 Share Posted Sunday at 20:13 40 minutes ago, Silvio Tattiescone said: Did it have the timeless "We are the EF the EFFC"? Of coorse 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted Sunday at 21:03 Share Posted Sunday at 21:03 47 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said: Of coorse I may have been at that game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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