I bet you didnt know that

dxhound2005

Not heavier, but with a lot less bounce, due to containing some foam material. I never knew any of that.

http://www.futsalonline.com/weightoffutsalball.html

Chancer3001

The ball does of course leave the ground but bounces much less and is easier to control.

The goals are also a different shape.

And there's different rules regarding restarting play

jojofizzio

mzungu wrote: »

She was closer than Baggio was when he missed the last penalty of the tournament!

How the hell was Diana Ross chosen for that gig??:D:D:D
D’ya reckon she meant to miss??or didn’t want to show the goalie up so deliberately swung it wide??:)

mzungu

jojofizzio wrote: »

How the hell was Diana Ross chosen for that gig??:D:D:D

A celebration of all things American!! She was singing "I'm coming up" before she took the kick.

jojofizzio wrote: »

D’ya reckon she meant to miss??or didn’t want to show the goalie up so deliberately swung it wide??:)

It was a total gaffe, but to be fair, taking any kind of penalty in front of a worldwide audience must be a total nightmare. She did better than Baggio in the final (although what was at stake was a tad different ) so I will give Diana Ross kudos there!

mzungu

In 1974, the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis published a paper titled "The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of 'Writer's Block.'" It contained a total of zero words.



Link to study is here, but be warned it is very opaque and might take a few reads to sink in: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1311997/

Fourier

stimpson wrote: »

So is this a football trivia thread now?

Unsubscribing until after the World Cup.

Why not? We've had loads of types of trivia. I don't play football or watch it, but #5356 is still pretty cool to me.

Oops!

Ipso wrote: »

The first Mad Max had a bit low budget, I saw a show a while back and they showed how they put together the Toe Cutters death scene.
In the scene he ends up driving into the front of an on coming truck, a truck driver was hired for around $100 to film the scene. Worried that he would damage the truck, he placed a piece of ply wood on the front of the grill to prevent any damage. If you watch the scene carefully, after the impact you can see the piece of ply wood on the front of the truck.

Hugh Keays-Byrne who plays Toe Cutter in the first movie also plays Immortal Joe in the latest movie Fury Road....

pleas advice

mzungu wrote: »

She was singing "I'm coming up" before she took the kick.

Probably why she missed so

pleas advice

mzungu wrote: »

In 1974, the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis published a paper titled "The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of 'Writer's Block.'" It contained a total of zero words.

some other very short papers (maths channel, so theres a tiny bit of maths, but it mentions the above paper)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvvkJT8myeI

ohnonotgmail

The Tanganyika laughing epidemic of 1962 caused contagious laughter in about 1,000 people throughout Tanzania and resulted in the closure of 14 schools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_laughter_epidemic

jmayo

Nixonbot wrote: »

And it was bloody awful! They caught fire trying to go up gentle slopes in Italy.

Porsche also designed a tractor and of course it was air cooled.

Not quite as successful as the tractor makers who made iconic sports cars.
Take a bow David Brown and Ferruccio Lamborghini.

The latter guy was also smart enough to sell many of his interests and retire to make wine.

el_gaucho wrote: »

Another World Cup trivia - Robert Prosinecki is the only player to score for two countries. Yugoslavia in 1990 and Croatia in 1998.

I actually thought one of di Stefano or Puskas that represented Spain in 1962 would have that record as well.

Turns out Puskas scored for Hungary in 1954, but not in 1962.
And di Stefano missed world cups because Argentina couldn't be bothered entering. :rolleyes:

Skylinehead

Weird geography time!

This ones not unknown, but the Republic of Ireland is further north than Northern Ireland.

Directly due south of Detroit is - Canada!

Canada is further south than some northern parts of California.

Santiago, Chile, is further east than New York City.

To go through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific, you go west to east.

dxhound2005

Newfoundland and Labrador has only been a province of Canada since 1949. Before that it was under British rule.

py2006

Nixonbot wrote: »

Weird geography time!

This ones not unknown, but the Republic of Ireland is further north than Northern Ireland.

Directly due south of Detroit is - Canada!

Canada is further south than some northern parts of California.

Santiago, Chile, is further east than New York City.

To go through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific, you go west to east.

Shut the front door!

4068ac1elhodqr

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Newfoundland and Labrador has only been a province of Canada since 1949. Before that it was under British rule.

And popular in some regions is the flying of the Newfoundland 'Tricolour'.

An unofficial flag, but probably with a similar background to the Irish flag i.e. Designed to keep the peace or balance between the Green and Orange (or in this case Rose).

A chilly and windy part of the world, St. Johns NF, is on the same type of latitude as that of sunny Paris. 47oN.
It's wee airport was choc o-block after 9/11 when many trans-Atlantic flights were diverted into it.

diomed

US soldier gets world's first penis and scrotum transplant
"the donor testicles were not transplanted, due to ethical considerations"

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43873058

Ipso

Damn ethical considerations, someone should get the sack!

Chancer3001

Nixonbot wrote: »

Weird geography time!

This ones not unknown, but the Republic of Ireland is further north than Northern Ireland.

Directly due south of Detroit is - Canada!

Canada is further south than some northern parts of California.

Santiago, Chile, is further east than New York City.

To go through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific, you go west to east.

Pretty sure I posted those before.

And got less thanks too. Dicks

maudgonner

There is a mountain at the head of Killary Harbour on the Mayo/Galway border. Its Irish name is Magairlí an Deamhain - which means the Devil's testicles.

When the official English translation was made however, they sanitised it to Devilsmother. I think that proves that the English don't know bollocks?

retalivity

Alanna Thousands Valley wrote: »

And popular in some regions is the flying of the Newfoundland 'Tricolour'.

An unofficial flag, but probably with a similar background to the Irish flag i.e. Designed to keep the peace or balance between the Green and Orange (or in this case Rose).

A chilly and windy part of the world, St. Johns NF, is on the same type of latitude as that of sunny Paris. 47oN.
It's wee airport was choc o-block after 9/11 when many trans-Atlantic flights were diverted into it.

Newfoundland is the only place outside of western europe to have its irish name not derived from english or the local language. It is known as talamh an eisc, or land of the fish.
There were irish speaking communities there up til the middle of the last century, and ita impact on the newfie accent and lingo is still evident today.

Pretty sure ive posted that before too!

mzungu

In research commissioned by Guinness, drinkers with facial hair are wasting 162,719 pints a year in the UK. The average drinker with facial hair will lose about a pint and a half per annum to their beard/moustache.

Robin Dover, a specialist in hair science and dermatological conditions, was called to explore the full extent of the loss. He spent two days analysing the Guinness soaked moustache hair of eight human guinea pigs, using a pre-weighed tissue and a set of super accurate scales. While the hair itself is capable of absorbing 20% of its own weight in liquid, Dr Dover observed that the majority of the wastage occurred between the fibres of the facial hair.

The scientist found the average drinker takes 10 sips to sink a pint, of which 0.56 millilitres of Guinness is trapped in the average moustache at every sip.

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/25/jamiewilson

Thepoet85

Nixonbot wrote:

Canada is further south than some northern parts of California.

What am I missing here. How?

normanoffside

The English word ‘Sinister’ comes from the Latin word of the same spelling meaning ‘left handed’. Historically left handed people in European cultures have been considered at best awkward but more commonly bad or evil.

In fact anything on or coming from the the left generally implies bad luck.

In contrast and for the same reason ‘right’ in most European languages also means correct or proper.

Ipso

Thepoet85 wrote: »

What am I missing here. How?

Nova Scotia is fairly south, given that the planet is actually a bit tilted and not like how you see on a map it makes sense

Evade

Ipso wrote: »

Nova Scotia is fairly south, given that the planet is actually a bit tilted and not like how you see on a map it makes sense

Middle Island in Lake Erie is the southernmost point of Canada.

diomed

Saint Pierre and Miquelon (pop 624) off the southern tip of Newfoundland is part of France.

Cookie_Monster

Nixonbot wrote: »

To go through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific, you go west to east.

not really, you go north to south, and only a little bit east...

cdeb

diomed wrote: »

Saint Pierre and Miquelon (pop 624) off the southern tip of Newfoundland is part of France.

On a similar note, the first euros ever spent were spent in Africa.

It was to buy a pound (or some amount) of lychees in Reunion, the easternmost place in the world to use the euro.

Riva10

Ipso wrote: »

Damn ethical considerations, someone should get the sack!

Because he was acting the dick and made a ball$ of it.

sbsquarepants

Nixonbot wrote: »

Weird geography time!

This ones not unknown, but the Republic of Ireland is further north than Northern Ireland.

Directly due south of Detroit is - Canada!

Canada is further south than some northern parts of California.

Santiago, Chile, is further east than New York City.

To go through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific, you go west to east.

I've been looking on a latitude / longitude website because I just couldn't wrap my head around the California thing, I assumed it must be some quirk like an island that's technically Californian or something like that, but no it just turns out that I have a piss poor mental picture of the globe!

I was amazed to discover that Dublin lies way further north (53.34) degrees than any point in the 48 contiguous united states (48.56) and almost 10 degrees further north than Toronto (43.65) which I always pictured as more or less level with us!