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In the UK there is a TV programme for very young children called Peppa Pig. One episode is about spiders and reassures viewers that spiders are very small and can't hurt you.fresh_42 said:![]()
Yes, if I should ever be bitten by a spider, I hope it happens north of the Alps!DrGreg said:In the UK there is a TV programme for very young children called Peppa Pig. One episode is about spiders and reassures viewers that spiders are very small and can't hurt you.
When the series was exported to Australia, that episode was banned.
hahaha, I was unaware of that ... what most people ( and obviously those who produced that TV prog) don't realize, is that the smaller spiders tend to be more venomous than the larger onesDaveDrGreg said:In the UK there is a TV programme for very young children called Peppa Pig. One episode is about spiders and reassures viewers that spiders are very small and can't hurt you.
When the series was exported to Australia, that episode was banned.
Ref: Peppa Pig 'spiders can't hurt you' episode pulled off air in Australia – again
jim mcnamara said:
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DrClaude said:It's called a rake
The Pavlov's cat joke is hilarious!fresh_42 said:
I have a T-shirt with basically that on it.fresh_42 said:
Spooky!collinsmark said:I have a T-shirt with basically that on it.![]()
A fellow PhD student was losing his hair in his early 20s. He was fond of the saying that "grass doesn't grow on a busy road", but admitted that his supervisor had retorted that grass doesn't grow through solid rock, either...davenn said:
Nor in a vacuum.Ibix said:A fellow PhD student was losing his hair in his early 20s. He was fond of the saying that "grass doesn't grow on a busy road", but admitted that his supervisor had retorted that grass doesn't grow through solid rock, either...
If it only wasn't so true! That basically describes what happens between school and university!scottdave said:Not sure if this link to an image on reddRe will work. If not then I'll try uploading.
Ok I'll try imgur.
https://i.imgur.com/KNARJop.png
I am taking a Python for analytics MicroMasters course through edX and Georgia Tech. The cartoon is an obvious exaggeration, but there are times when I'm watching the lessons, thinking "This is simple". Then I get the homework and ... "Whoa! Where did this come from?"fresh_42 said:If it only wasn't so true! That basically describes what happens between school and university!
The Alexandroff compactification of quantum field theories?mfb said:The identity uncertainty: EVERYONE ALIVE WAS BORN (sorry, only works in caps)
I was thinking "Schrodinger was not Born at all"mfb said:The identity uncertainty: EVERYONE ALIVE WAS BORN (sorry, only works in caps)
And I could have sworn the Bells had been heard not only locally.Ibix said:I was thinking "Schrodinger was not Born at all"
the first one on that page ....Keith_McClary said:A Glut of Math Jokes
with Bad Drawings.
I see nothing untoward here.fresh_42 said:Engineers!