Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse

The New Coffee Room

  1. TNCR
  2. General Discussion
  3. Mildly interesting

Mildly interesting

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General Discussion
2.4k Posts 31 Posters 267.7k Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • taiwan_girlT Offline
    taiwan_girlT Offline
    taiwan_girl
    wrote last edited by
    #2379

    Quite the arm workout for that guy!

    1 Reply Last reply
    • jon-nycJ Online
      jon-nycJ Online
      jon-nyc
      wrote last edited by jon-nyc
      #2380

      They’re always pretty jacked and mostly under 45. If not under 35.

      You were warned.

      1 Reply Last reply
      • MikM Away
        MikM Away
        Mik
        wrote last edited by
        #2381

        alt text

        In Kazakhstan's majestic Tian Shan mountains lies the birthplace of every apple you've ever eaten. These ancient forests are home to Malus sieversii, the wild ancestor of all modern apple varieties. 🍎

        Long before the Silk Road connected East and West, bears and birds spread apple seeds throughout these pristine mountain ranges. When traders eventually discovered these sweet mountain fruits, they carried them across continents, leading to natural hybridization with other wild species.

        The legacy of these ancient apples lives on in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, whose name literally means "Father of Apples." But time hasn't been kind to these precious forests - today, only 1% of the original wild apple forests remain in their ancestral home.

        These hardy mountain trees gave rise to the thousands of apple varieties we enjoy today - from the crisp Honeycrisp to the tart Granny Smith. Their genetic diversity holds the key to developing disease-resistant and climate-adaptable apples for future generations. 🌳

        Sources: Research by Soviet scientist Nikolai Vavilov (1929), Kazakh geneticist Aimak Dzangaliev's studies, The Royal Horticultural Society

        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

        1 Reply Last reply
        • MikM Away
          MikM Away
          Mik
          wrote last edited by
          #2382

          alt text

          "Sealed by a landslide for 21,000 years, the Chauvet Cave’s walls pulse with the oldest known paintings—lions, rhinos, and galloping horses frozen in torchlight. A time capsule from the Ice Age, untouched until 1994. Who else feels the whisper of Paleolithic genius? Artists scraped walls clean before painting and used torch flicker to make beasts appear to move—proto-cinema 30,000 years early! 🐎✨ #ChauvetCave #FirstArtists"
          In 1994, three French speleologists squeezed through a narrow cliffside tunnel near the Ardèche River—and stumbled into a cathedral of prehistoric art. The Chauvet Cave’s walls, preserved by a perfectly timed landslide around 19,000 BCE, bore over 400 animals painted with charcoal and ochre: stampeding woolly rhinos, dueling cave lions, even a 10-meter-long panel of horses flowing like a Paleolithic filmstrip.
          Radiocarbon dating shocked the world: these were twice as old as Lascaux, painted when Neanderthals still roamed Europe. The artists used cave contours to create 3D effects (a bison’s head emerging from a rock bulge), and footprints of an 8-year-old child—perhaps an apprentice—remain fossilized in the clay.

          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

          1 Reply Last reply
          • MikM Away
            MikM Away
            Mik
            wrote last edited by
            #2383

            alt text

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

            1 Reply Last reply
            • MikM Away
              MikM Away
              Mik
              wrote last edited by
              #2384

              IMG_4962.jpeg
              Ian Fleming, who was a keen bird watcher living in Jamaica, was familiar with ornithologist James Bond's book "Birds of the West Indies," and chose the name of its author for the hero of "Casino Royale" in 1953, apparently because he wanted a name that sounded "as ordinary as possible." Fleming wrote to the real Bond's wife, "It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born. In return,'' Fleming wrote, ''I can only offer you or James Bond unlimited use of the name Ian Fleming for any purposes you may think fit. Perhaps one day your husband will discover a particularly horrible species of bird which he would like to christen in an insulting fashion by calling it Ian Fleming.'' He also contacted the real James Bond about using his name in the books, and Bond replied to him, "Fine with it."
              At some point during one of Fleming's visits to Jamaica, he met the real Bond and his wife, as shown in a made-for-DVD documentary about Fleming. A short clip was shown with Fleming, Bond and his wife. Also in his novel "Dr. No", Fleming referenced Bond's work by basing a large ornithological sanctuary on Dr. No's island in the Bahamas.
              In 1964, Fleming gave Bond a first edition copy of "You Only Live Twice" signed, "To the real James Bond, from the thief of his identity." In December 2008 the book was put up for auction, eventually fetching $84,000. (Wikipedia/New York Times)
              Happy Birthday, James Bond!
              image.png
              image.png

              “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

              1 Reply Last reply
              • jon-nycJ Online
                jon-nycJ Online
                jon-nyc
                wrote last edited by
                #2385

                Interior of the Orient Express

                IMG_4824.jpeg

                You were warned.

                1 Reply Last reply
                • jon-nycJ Online
                  jon-nycJ Online
                  jon-nyc
                  wrote last edited by
                  #2386

                  Hey @mark , aim higher. lol

                  You were warned.

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  • jon-nycJ Online
                    jon-nycJ Online
                    jon-nyc
                    wrote last edited by jon-nyc
                    #2387

                    Watch that bar start to bow.

                    You were warned.

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    • taiwan_girlT Offline
                      taiwan_girlT Offline
                      taiwan_girl
                      wrote last edited by
                      #2388

                      The comment "Ronnie Coleman is not human". I wonder what % is steroids? 555

                      HoraceH 1 Reply Last reply
                      • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                        The comment "Ronnie Coleman is not human". I wonder what % is steroids? 555

                        HoraceH Offline
                        HoraceH Offline
                        Horace
                        wrote last edited by
                        #2389

                        @taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:

                        The comment "Ronnie Coleman is not human". I wonder what % is steroids? 555

                        He was obsessed with bodybuilding. Obviously, steroids are necessary to look like that. He's paying the price these days. I don't think he can walk anymore. He still lifts, though. As I said, he's truly obsessed.

                        Education is extremely important.

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        • taiwan_girlT Offline
                          taiwan_girlT Offline
                          taiwan_girl
                          wrote last edited by
                          #2390

                          Read the general info about him on Wiki. 60 years old and in a wheelchair. Sad, but apparently, he has no regrets.

                          I imagine his heart is in pretty bad shape also. Seems like a lot of those people who use steroids a lot time end up with heart problems.

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          Reply
                          • Reply as topic
                          Log in to reply
                          • Oldest to Newest
                          • Newest to Oldest
                          • Most Votes


                          • Login

                          • Don't have an account? Register

                          • Login or register to search.
                          • First post
                            Last post
                          0
                          • Categories
                          • Recent
                          • Tags
                          • Popular
                          • Users
                          • Groups