I bet you didnt know that

lmimmfn

Candie wrote: »

And Jeep is often used as a catch all for any four wheel drive vehicle. Jello is a brand of fruit jelly, used to describe jelly of any brand in the US.

Actually according to the excellent documentary "America the story of the US", Jeep is derived from the army name for a general purpose vehicle, I.e. GP or Jeep

gozunda

New Home wrote: »

I have a bottle of "Liquid Paraffin" that I bought in the chemist's that reads "Oil of vaseline" underneath (small v). Go figure. Maybe that's only correct for the liquid form.

Liquid Parafin is a traditional oral remedy for constipation

Vaseline isn't

New Home

gozunda wrote: »

Liquid Parafin is a traditional oral remedy for constipation

Vaseline isn't

Try it and let us know how you get on.

New Home

cdeb wrote: »

On pizza, there's a pizzeria on the Pitcairn Islands - population 50, all descended from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

It's called Andy's Pizzeria, and Google gives the address as "Unnamed Road, PCRN 1ZZ, Pitcairn Islands"

The effects of globalisation...

Still on this... where do they get the mozzarella from?!?

Water John

PTFE also used in ball seals, low friction co-efficient. Really good impact shock absorber.

reganreggie

Dublin fire brigade have so far this year answered over 100,500 medical calls with only 12 ambulances with Halloween and Christmas still to come

facehugger99

Heard this on Kermode and Mayo podcast last week.

Bovril, the first part of the product's name comes from Latin bovīnus, meaning ox.

The -vril suffix comes from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race (1870), whose plot revolves around a superior race of people, the Vril-ya, who derive their powers from an electromagnetic substance named "Vril". Therefore, Bovril indicates great strength obtained from an ox.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

facehugger99 wrote: »

Heard this on Kermode and Mayo podcast last week.

Bovril, the first part of the product's name comes from Latin bovīnus, meaning ox.

The -vril suffix comes from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race (1870), whose plot revolves around a superior race of people, the Vril-ya, who derive their powers from an electromagnetic substance named "Vril". Therefore, Bovril indicates great strength obtained from an ox.

That's another Unilever product, along with Hellman's, Knorr, Ben & Jerry's, Lipton, Magnum, Carte D'Or...…...

Big Nasty

reganreggie wrote: »

Dublin fire brigade have so far this year answered over 100,500 medical calls with only 12 ambulances with Halloween and Christmas still to come

Only 12 Ambulances for the whole of Dublin? :eek:

That'd be close on 30 calls each / day.

Addle

Big Nasty wrote: »

Only 12 Ambulances for the whole of Dublin? :eek:

I didn't know that the fire brigade provide an ambulance service???

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Addle wrote: »

I didn't know that the fire brigade provide an ambulance service???

They do in Dublin.

VandC

I'm aware that firemen are also trained paramedics, a fireman could be fighting a fire one day and delivering a baby the next. But does anyone know is this all firemen or just the ones in Dublin?

lmimmfn

lmimmfn wrote: »

Actually according to the excellent documentary "America the story of the US", Jeep is derived from the army name for a general purpose vehicle, I.e. GP or Jeep

Its also the brand name of a vehicle manufacturer so I guess it's gone from acronym to brand to generic term. It might be derived from the army shorthand, but it's used as a catch all for 4 wheel drives by many.

reganreggie

VandC wrote: »

I'm aware that firemen are also trained paramedics, a fireman could be fighting a fire one day and delivering a baby the next. But does anyone know is this all firemen or just the ones in Dublin?

All firefighter in Dublin are either paramedics or advanced paramedics.

reganreggie

Yes there's only 12 Dfb ambulances but the Nas also have ambulances

gozunda

facehugger99 wrote: »

Heard this on Kermode and Mayo podcast last week.

Bovril, the first part of the product's name comes from Latin bovīnus, meaning ox.

The -vril suffix comes from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race (1870), whose plot revolves around a superior race of people, the Vril-ya, who derive their powers from an electromagnetic substance named "Vril". Therefore, Bovril indicates great strength obtained from an ox.

Talking of the Vrill ...

The existence of a Vril Society in Nazi Germany was alleged in 1960 by Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels. In their book The Morning of the Magicians, they claimed that the Vril Society was a secret community of occultists in pre-Nazi Berlin that was a sort of inner circle of the Thule Society. They also thought that it was in close contact with the English group known as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. 

Unfortunately this piece of fiction has morphed into a colourful internet myth with various websites and some rather hillarious Youtube videos promoting the 'veracity' of the society and its adherents

Various websites detail that a woman named Maria Orsic was a medium and the leader of the Vril Socciety. Supposedly this Vril Society was established after Orsic received communication from extraterrestrials who had once lived in what is now Sumeria. It is also alleged thst Hitler and the Nazi high command met up with the society to discuss esoteric matters or otherwise ...

The stories detail that the Vrill Society members were attractive young women who grew their hair all the way down past their hips, which was uncharacteristic of the times. The logic for growing their hair to such an extravagant length centered around their belief that human hair acts as an antenna to make contact with extraterrestrials!

If you are seriousley bored and want to have a laugh check out what's been put up on Youtube about this fictional society.

368100

reganreggie wrote: »

All firefighter in Dublin are either paramedics or advanced paramedics.

Would there be any reason why they've never tried to implement this outside Dublin? Seems like itd be an invaluable resource

On the subject of Jeeps (or GPs), Jeep Butt or Jeep Disease was a condition that put about seventy thousand soldiers in hospital during the course of second world war.

Long bumpy rides over pocked terrain puts pressure on the coccyx area, and that in combination with sweaty butts and lack of regular hygiene meant perfect conditions for boils and philonidal cysts - painful, swollen, pus-filled, infected hair follicles that needed to be drained and kept dressed and clean to heal - which sometimes took weeks, and that meant staying in hospitals and or nursing facilities.

Something to think about next time you hit a speed bump.

reganreggie

368100 wrote: »

Would there be any reason why they've never tried to implement this outside Dublin? Seems like itd be an invaluable resource

Outside of Dublin and Waterford many brigades are retained firefighter so the response times would be a problem. There are argument for and against dual role ems services

mzungu

The worlds best camera has 200 megapixels, but if your eyes were a camera they would have 576 megapixels.

gozunda

New Home wrote: »

Try it and let us know how you get on.

So if you bought a bottle of liquid parafin - What was it used for? :pac:

New Home

gozunda wrote: »

So if you bought a bottle of liquid parafin - What was it used for? :pac:

This will explain.

I never said it was for my personal use

:pac:

gozunda

New Home wrote: »

This will explain.

I never said it was for my personal use

:pac:

Go on ...

New Home

gozunda wrote: »

Go on ...

No, you go on, I've already been. :pac::pac::pac:

VonLuck

To follow on from the brand names that have fallen into common day use, some of the surprising ones I've found are superglue, velcro, escalator and of course heroin!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

mzungu wrote: »

The worlds best camera has 200 megapixels, but if your eyes were a camera they would have 576 megapixels.

Canon have a 250 megapixel for astronomy and surveillance use.

Then there's the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera located on a mountain in Chile.

gozunda

New Home wrote: »

No, you go on, I've already been. :pac::pac::pac:

I don't need to!

New Home

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

Canon have a 250 megapixel for astronomy and surveillance use.

Then there's the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera located on a mountain in Chile.

Does that mean that, in theory, Dark Energy could be seen with the naked eye, having 6megapixels more?

retalivity

New Home wrote: »

Still on this... where do they get the mozzarella from?!?

As a small tropical pacific island, They just make do with sardines and pineapple on their pizzas

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

New Home wrote: »

Does that mean that, in theory, Dark Energy could be seen with the naked eye, having 6megapixels more?

It's used to observe and record hundreds of millions of galaxies, to allow the DES - Dark Energy Survey - carry out it's study.

Caledonia

368100 wrote: »

Would there be any reason why they've never tried to implement this outside Dublin? Seems like itd be an invaluable resource

Doctor I know said DFB are appalling as paramedics in his experience working in hospitals. Patients outside Dublin are getting better pre hospital care as fire brigade not involved. Makes sense not as skilled as only doing paramedic job half the time. Would go so far to say they putting patients at risk.

New Home

gozunda wrote: »

So if you bought a bottle of liquid parafin - What was it used for? :pac:

In all seriousness: it's used to lots of things, including for skin care. However, among other things, it's used in wine-making in general to soften the corks and to give them extra elasticity, and in wine-making for domestic use only, directly onto the wine, to create a barrier against oxygen.

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

It's used to observe and record hundreds of millions of galaxies, to allow the DES - Dark Energy Survey - carry out it's study.

There I go, showing my ignorance yet again.

mzungu

The last time all living humans were on earth was November 2nd 2000. Ever since this date the International Space Station has been continuously occupied.

Water John

What about the one million who are in the air at any one time?

MikeyTaylor

Pop punk band Jimmy Eat World and cello-metal band Apocalyptica were originally Metallica tribute bands.

mzungu

Water John wrote: »

What about the one million who are in the air at any one time?

Still on planet earth so they count!

OldRio

Caledonia wrote: »

Doctor I know said DFB are appalling as paramedics in his experience working in hospitals. Patients outside Dublin are getting better pre hospital care as fire brigade not involved. Makes sense not as skilled as only doing paramedic job half the time. Would go so far to say they putting patients at risk.

That is some accusation you are putting out.

NewbridgeIR

Metallica and AC/DC are the longest-running acts without a Greatest Hits / Best Of.

Capt'n Midnight

mzungu wrote: »

The last time all living humans were on earth was November 2nd 2000. Ever since this date the International Space Station has been continuously occupied.

The Russians have had at least one Space Station in orbit since 29 September 1977.

Mir was occupied from
4 April–16 June 2000
September 1989 – 28 August 1999
5 February 1987 – 27 April 1989
12 March–16 July 1986


When the US stop funding the ISS the Russian plan is to undock their section and keep on trucking.

mzungu

In 1984 Caroll Spinney (Big Bird from Sesame Street) was contacted by NASA to ask if he would be willing to join a mission to orbit the earth as Big Bird, to encourage children to get interested in space. As it would happen, after back and forth conversations between NASA and Sesame Street bigwigs, the plan never got approval and the position was taken by a school teacher Christa McAuliffe (as part of the Teacher in Space Project), who went through months of training to go into space.

Unfortunately, the story has a tragic ending. On January 28th 1986 the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart after 73 seconds into its mission killing all seven people on board.

Grayson

reganreggie wrote: »

Yes there's only 12 Dfb ambulances but the Nas also have ambulances

And that's not counting the private services. However the private services don't respond to emergencies, they just transport patients.

If I remember correctly there's actually two dispatch teams for Dublin ambulances. One for the fire brigade and one for the HSE. However they're both in the same room.

here's a HSE ambulance


And here's the Fire brigade one.

cdeb

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Metallica and AC/DC are the longest-running acts without a Greatest Hits / Best Of.

I actually have an AC/DC greatest hits compilation. It's a double CD called Hell's Hits. The blurb on the inside is in Russian. Which sounds legit...

Good compilation though. You can get it on Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Greatest-Hells-Hits-AC-DC/dp/B01H7Y8DX2

BaZmO*

mzungu wrote: »

The last time all living humans were on earth was November 2nd 2000. Ever since this date the International Space Station has been continuously occupied.

That reminds me of this picture;



Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo, is the only human, alive or dead that isn't in the frame of this picture, 1969

Collins took this picture of the Lunar Module, containing Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong with Earth in the background, during the Apollo 11 mission. This makes him the only person ever to have lived who was not inside the frame of the photo. Matter cannot be created or destroyed. That means that every human that lived up to the point of this photo being taken still exists, at least in some form, and every human that has been born since then was also is in this photo, at least in some form. So even if you were born after this picture was taken, the materials you’re made from are still on the frame of this picture.

NewbridgeIR

cdeb wrote: »

I actually have an AC/DC greatest hits compilation. It's a double CD called Hell's Hits. The blurb on the inside is in Russian. Which sounds legit...

Good compilation though. You can get it on Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Greatest-Hells-Hits-AC-DC/dp/B01H7Y8DX2

Amazon have form for selling bootlegs / CDRs / non-legitimate releases.

The Discogs entry for Greatest Hells Hits is pretty conclusive.
https://www.discogs.com/ACDC-Greatest-Hells-Hits/release/2124493

Unofficial release and blocked from sale in their marketplace.

IMHO, the best-sounding AC/DC is the original 1989 pressing of Volume 1 which contains six blackface Alberts mastered by Disctronics. Since then, the international and US mixes have been used on ALL AC/DC pressings worldwide. Botched tracklistings and Frankenstein edits. To put this in context - it would be like if the first half of the Beatles UK catalogue was replaced with the US albums from the 1990s onwards i.e. the original UK mixes and edits lost to older CDs and the original vinyl. That's pretty much where we are at with the original Australian AC/DC albums.

Exclamation Marc

The numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666...

Cordell

BaZmO* wrote: »

That means that every human that lived up to the point of this photo being taken still exists, at least in some form, and every human that has been born since then was also is in this photo, at least in some form. So even if you were born after this picture was taken, the materials you’re made from are still on the frame of this picture.

No. There is a very small possibility (extremely small indeed but not zero) that you may have in your body at least one atom that was in his body back then.

Water John

Am I right in thinking that the original devil's number was 661, but that got changed to 666 at some point? Any knowledge on that?

mikhail

Water John wrote: »

Am I right in thinking that the original devil's number was 661, but that got changed to 666 at some point? Any knowledge on that?

616, I think.

Marvel refer to their main continuity as Earth 616. (This is for labelling parallel universe cross-overs - comic book lore gets stupidly complicated.)

Fourier

Water John wrote: »

Am I right in thinking that the original devil's number was 661, but that got changed to 666 at some point? Any knowledge on that?

As mikhail said 616.

In some manuscripts of the New Testament it's 616 and in others 666. Some even have "...or 616" with the gap in the text being about the size of 666. So it is possible that Revelations read "616 or 666" back when it was its own work, before being placed into the New Testament and that different editors chose a number when they assembled their copy of the New Testament.

It's one of the signs that the New Testament wasn't made in one place and then copies sent everywhere. Probably it was a list of texts agreed upon and then people made it with their own local copies of those texts, resulting in slight differences.

facehugger99

BaZmO* wrote: »

So even if you were born after this picture was taken, the materials you’re made from are still on the frame of this picture.

My Dad's jizz?

Ewww!