Diplomacia e Relações Internacionais
Poderia ser também: pausa para o besteirol, mas não é.
Creio que pouca gente conhece a origem da palavra shit, embora muitos usam o famoso bullshit.
Enfim, certos serviços burocráticos, pela linguagem usada, têm a peculiaridade de produzir muito bullshit, mas não estou denunciando ninguém. Apenas trazendo um pouco de cultura geral para deleite dos curiosos e sedentos de saber...
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
Living and learning
Manure... An interesting fact
Manure : In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship and it was also before the invention of commercial fertilizers, so large shipments of manure were quite common.
It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, not only did it become heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by product is methane gas of course. As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen.
Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM!
Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what was happening.
After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the instruction 'Stow high in transit' on them, which meant for the sailors to stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.
Thus evolved the term 'S.H.I.T' , (Stow High In Transit) which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.
You probably did not know the true history of this word.
Neither did I.
I had always thought it was a golf term.
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Poderia ser também: pausa para o besteirol, mas não é.
Creio que pouca gente conhece a origem da palavra shit, embora muitos usam o famoso bullshit.
Enfim, certos serviços burocráticos, pela linguagem usada, têm a peculiaridade de produzir muito bullshit, mas não estou denunciando ninguém. Apenas trazendo um pouco de cultura geral para deleite dos curiosos e sedentos de saber...
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
Living and learning
Manure... An interesting fact
Manure : In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship and it was also before the invention of commercial fertilizers, so large shipments of manure were quite common.
It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, not only did it become heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by product is methane gas of course. As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen.
Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM!
Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what was happening.
After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the instruction 'Stow high in transit' on them, which meant for the sailors to stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.
Thus evolved the term 'S.H.I.T' , (Stow High In Transit) which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.
You probably did not know the true history of this word.
Neither did I.
I had always thought it was a golf term.
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- Os Bancos Centrais Precisam Fixar Os Juros Da Economia? - Americans For Limited Government
Trata do Fed, mas, mutatis mutandis, poderia se aplicar igualmente ao Brasil. Por que o Banco Central tem de fixar os juros? Por acaso ele fixa o preço das bananas? O juro é o preço do dinheiro colocado no mercado, para tomadores necessitados (para...
- A Biografia "melhorada" Do Novo Lider Chines - Shanghai Daily
Obviamente, os jornalistas do Shanghai Daily não podem contar a verdade: que o pai do novo líder chinês foi uma das muitas vítimas do delírio maoista do Grande Salto para a Frente e da Revolução Cultural, e que ele evidentemente não foi "voluntário"...
- Transportes E Comunicacoes: Uma Historia Global
From: The Globalist (http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?storyid=9522) Globalist Analysis > Global Trade A Brief History of Supply Chains By Sanjeev Sanyal | Thursday, March 22, 2012Before there were Chinamax cargo ships, cloud...
- Inconvenient Truths About 'renewable' Energy - Matt Ridley (wsj)
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- Miragens Chinesas - The Economist
Brazil/China economy: Rebalancing the relationship The Economist, April 13th 2011 FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT Sino-Brazilian commercial ties have expanded rapidly in the last decade, and China is now Brazil’s top trading partner—and was its...