I bet you didnt know that

py2006

The birth of the TV Newsflash or Breaking NEWS came with the assassination of JFK.

When news started to filter to the CBS (via telephone) that shots were fired at the president the decision was made to tell the public via a live broadcast which was unheard of at the time. Unfortunately, in those days, when you switched on the live cameras they took approx 20mins to heat up to a point where they can relay pictures. From that day forward the live cameras were left on 24hrs a day.

Normal tv programming was replaced with generic "CBS Bulletin" logo until the cameras warmed fully and the infamous broadcast by Walter Cronkite's went live. Starts at 30:14. At 106:43 the confirmation of the death is relayed.

More here from 9:06 onwards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFoEC2O9R4U

Riddle101

125 reasons why a person was sent to a Lunatic Asylum around 1864 - 1889

REASONS FOR ADMISSION
WEST VIRGINIA HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE (WESTON)
OCTOBER 22, 1864 to DECEMBER 12, 1889
Amenorrhea
Asthma
Bad company
Bad habits & political excitement
Bad whiskey
Bite of a rattle snake
Bloody flux
Brain fever
Business nerves
Carbonic acid gas
Carbuncle
Cerebral softening
Cold
Congetion of brain
Constitutional
Crime
Death of sons in the war
Decoyed into the army
Deranged masturbation
Desertion by husband
Diptheria
Disappointed affection
Disappointed love
Disappointment
Dissipation of nerves

Dissolute habits
Dog bite
Domestic affliction
Domestic trouble
Douby about mother’s ancestors
Dropsy
Effusion on the brain
Egotism
Epileptic fits
Excessive sexual abuse
Excitement as officer
Explosion of shell nearby
Exposure & hereditary
Exposure & quackery
Exposure in army
Fall from horse
False confinement
Feebleness of intellect
Fell from horse
Female disease
Fever
Fever & loss of law suit
Fever & nerved
Fighting fire
Fits & desertion of husband

Gastritis
Gathering in the head
Greediness
Grief
Gunshot wound
Hard study
Hereditary predisposition
Ill treatment by husband
Imaginary female trouble
Immoral life
Imprisonment
Indigestion
Intemperance
Interferance
Jealousy
Jealousy & religion
Kick of horse
Kicked in the head by a horse
Laziness
Liver and social disease
Loss of arm
Marriage of son
Masturbation & syphillis
Masturbation for 30 years
Medicine to prevent conception

Menstrual deranged
Mental excitement
Milk fever
Moral sanity
Novel reading
Nymphomania
Opium habit
Over action on the mind
Over heat
Over study of religion
Over taxing mental powers.
Parents were cousins
Pecuniary losses: worms
Periodical fits
Political excitement
Politics
Puerperal
Religious enthusiasm
Religious excitement
Remorse
Rumor of husband’s murder or desertion
Salvation army
Scarlatina
Seduction
Seduction & dissappointment

Self abuse
Severe labor
Sexual abuse and stimulants
Sexual derangement
Shooting of daughter
Smallpox
Snuff
Snuff eating for two years
Softening of the brain
Spinal irritation
Sun stroke
Sunstroke
Superstition
Supressed masturbation
Supression of menses
Tabacco & masturbation: hysteria
The war
Time of life
Trouble
Uterine derangement
Venerial excesses
Vicious vices in early life
Women
Women trouble
Young lady & fear

donegal.

so masterbation if you're a boy and being a girl if your a girl

py2006

I tick the box for about 120 of those...

Baggly

Imagine masturbating for 29.999 years and knowing one shuffle more would end you up committed. And then doing it anyway.

mzungu

Stubbs (above) was the honorary mayor of the Alaskan town of Talkeetna who died on July 21st 2017. A cat of good taste, he would drink his water out of either a wineglass or margarita glass. The locals loved him, he never raised taxes or interfered with business, the ideal politician if ever there was one.

In what could be described as hectic final few years of life, in 2013 Stubbs was attacked by a dog and suffered a punctured lung and a fractured sternum. A crowd funding page was set up to pay his medical bills with donations being received from around the world. Then a more sinister incident occurred, local teenagers fired BB gun pellets at him, leaving one lodged in his hindquarters. Shortly after, Stubbs hitched a lift with a bin truck out of town and prompted an all-points-bulletin on the local radio station, but our hero made his own way home. Then he fell into a deep fryer at a local restaurant, thankfully it was switched off and cool at the time. He did require an all-night cleansing with dish soap after that unfortunate encounter. Old age caught up on him and from 2015 onwards, he was rarely seen in public until his passing.

New Home

Scientists in Mongolia are examining a 200-year mummified monk who some Buddhists believe is still alive because he is in a deep meditative trance.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/mongolia/11387391/Mongolian-scientists-study-200-year-old-mummified-monk-who-is-still-alive.html

blinding

New Home wrote: »

Scientists in Mongolia are examining a 200-year mummified monk who some Buddhists believe is still alive because he is in a deep meditative trance.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/mongolia/11387391/Mongolian-scientists-study-200-year-old-mummified-monk-who-is-still-alive.html

He is resting on account rather than funds resting in his account .

razorblunt

Pter wrote: »

Imagine masturbating for 29.999 years and knowing one shuffle more would end you up committed. And then doing it anyway.

Looking at the list you'd have to do it in style though, dragging back on 40 cigarettes, covering yourself in milk, drinking shíte whiskey, in the company of gypsies, whilst goading a horse, snake, and dog into attacking you.

You'd be dragged away screaming "FÚCKING WORTH IT!".

sbsquarepants

donegal. wrote: »

so masterbation if you're a boy and being a girl if your a girl

Definitely a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't when it comes to the old wanky panky

You can get sent down for masturbation, deranged masturbation and supressed masturbation, masturbation and syphillis.... and obviously for that auld classic - the 30 year peddle (I wonder was this responsible for the loss of the arm:D)

Carry

I bet most farmers don't know that:

A lot of farmers in my area are still driving the good old Mitsubishi Pajero, with the word Pajero clearly visible on the rear of the car.

Pajero however is Spanish for 'wanker' which always gives me a chuckle when I trundle behind such a fine vehicle on my local country roads.

That's why the very same car has been named 'Montero' in Spain and the Americas otherwise Mitsubishi couldn't sell their cars over there.

razorblunt

That's gas. Over here Land Rover Evoque means "I can park on double yellows/zig zags/ in front of driveways whilst picking up sSorcha and Fintan from school."

play4fun1

Carry wrote: »

I bet most farmers don't know that:

A lot of farmers in my area are still driving the good old Mitsubishi Pajero, with the word Pajero clearly visible on the rear of the car.

Pajero however is Spanish for 'wanker' which always gives me a chuckle when I trundle behind such a fine vehicle on my local country roads.

That's why the very same car has been named 'Montero' in Spain and the Americas otherwise Mitsubishi couldn't sell their cars over there.

quit few car models had their name "changed" to suit locals

Dodge Nova
same apply to few other product/services

acai berry

TV Series "My Kitchen Rules - Australia" is better in every way than its counterpart in Britain. The Australian one is more slick and sophistocated. The Aussie contestants really make an effort to dress the part for dinner - style is "something else". The chief Judges, Pete and Manu, are the hottest looking guys, dressed to perfection from head to toe. A third judge, Colin Fassnidge, actually hails from Dublin, and now owns a top class restautant in AU. The popup-restaurants each team of two contestants have to set up in their own homes, are outstanding. Then there's the actual cooking - mostly brilliant, representing a wide variety of cultures.

The Britsh one fails to measure up on all of these points. They appear unsophistocated and unsure of themselves a lot of the time - that's contestants and judges. Their "pop-up" restaurants simply don't have the homes and surroundings to measure up to the Assie version. Their cooking is mostly meh. Our own Rachel Allen is one of their judges. Somehow even her performance seems to fall below usual expectations. Watching the British version is a bit of a disappointment compared to the Aussie version.

That's Pete Evans, one of the Aussie judges. See what I mean! :cool:

wildlifeboy

acai berry wrote: »

TV Series "My Kitchen Rules - Australia" is better in every way than its counterpart in Britain. The Australian one is more slick and sophistocated. The Aussie contestants really make an effort to dress the part for dinner - style is "something else". The chief Judges, Pete and Manu, are the hottest looking guys, dressed to perfection from head to toe. A third judge, Colin Fassnidge, actually hails from Dublin, and now owns a top class restautant in AU. The popup-restaurants each team of two contestants have to set up in their own homes, are outstanding. Then there's the actual cooking - mostly brilliant, representing a wide variety of cultures.

The Britsh one fails to measure up on all of these points. They appear unsophistocated and unsure of themselves a lot of the time - that's contestants and judges. Their "pop-up" restaurants simply don't have the homes and surroundings to measure up to the Assie version. Their cooking is mostly meh. Our own Rachel Allen is one of their judges. Somehow even her performance seems to fall below usual expectations. Watching the British version is a bit of a disappointment compared to the Aussie version.

That's Pete Evans, one of the Aussie judges. See what I mean! :cool:

And why did you post this in here? i am confused?

acai berry

wildlifeboy wrote: »

And why did you post this in here? i am confused?

It's based on my knowledge as an expert TV watcher. Has that not as much right to be here as the fact that rats and horses can't vomit? Still confused, wildlifeboy????

Squall Leonhart

acai berry wrote: »

It's based on my knowledge as an expert TV watcher. Has that not as much right to be heere as the fact that rats and horses can't vomit? Still confused, wildlifeboy????

But it's not fact, it's opinion. That's going against the spirit of the thread no?

Ryath

acai berry wrote: »

TV Series "My Kitchen Rules - Australia" is better in every way than its counterpart in Britain. The Australian one is more slick and sophistocated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c

acai berry

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

But it's not fact, it's opinion. That's going against the spirit of the thread no?

I think the OP or Mod should be the judge of that. You are taking on their role. If you were to to watch samples of each of those shows, you'd see that what I'm saying is fact - not just opinion. Less of your minimodding, if you please, Squall Leonhart, and previous posters who have responded to this!

wally79

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

But it's not fact, it's opinion. That's going against the spirit of the thread no?

Haven’t you seen Twitter. Opinion now equals fact

ohnonotgmail

acai berry wrote: »

It's based on my knowledge as an expert TV watcher. Has that not as much right to be heere as the fact that rats and horses can't vomit? Still confused, wildlifeboy????

as a what now?

wally79

acai berry wrote: »

I think the OP or Mod should be the judge of that. You are taking on their role. If you were to to watch samples of each of those shows, you'd see that what I'm saying is fact - not just opinion. Less of your minimodding, if you please, Squall Leonhart, and previous posters who have responded to this!

What if someone thinks the UK version is better. Is that also a fact?

acai berry

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

as a what now?

Where's your sense of humour?

DEFTLEFTHAND

Carry wrote: »

I bet most farmers don't know that:

A lot of farmers in my area are still driving the good old Mitsubishi Pajero, with the word Pajero clearly visible on the rear of the car.

Pajero however is Spanish for 'wanker' which always gives me a chuckle when I trundle behind such a fine vehicle on my local country roads.

That's why the very same car has been named 'Montero' in Spain and the Americas otherwise Mitsubishi couldn't sell their cars over there.

Mazda had a similar issue with the 'La Puta.'

The whore.

MikeyTaylor

play4fun1 wrote: »

quit few car models had their name "changed" to suit locals

Dodge Nova
same apply to few other product/services

Well, since they hired Lucy Kennedy to do their breakfast show, I don't think that would be such a bad idea.

cdeb

And Irish Mist in Germany I believe.

Mist = sh1t

UCLA's Centre on Everyday Lives of Families draws researchers from a number of disciplines to gain insight into modern life and how it's lived.

One study involving psychologists, anthropologists and sociologists found a significant link between clutter and depression. Namely that while depressed people are more likely to accumulate clutter, cluttered surroundings can also cause depression. By tracking levels of cortisol in study subjects researchers concluded that having too many possessions and living in disarray causes high levels of stress and anxiety, feelings of guilt, depression, demotivation, and affects concentration at work as well as sleep issues.

The kicker is that while women suffered most with all of the above, most men's cortisol level was affected to a far lesser extent and men were much less likely feel adversely affected by clutter. It also deduced that womens relationship with their possessions was more emotionally based, and men's more practically founded. Basically, men don't get sentimentally attached to things in the same way and men don't even see the mess - never mind get upset about it.

Personally, I didn't need a study to tell me this.

Another part of everyday life is examined by the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, and the results of a study that looked at the relationship between colour and sleep quality yielded some intereresting results. After examining 200 bedrooms and their occupants, it was determined that a light restful blue was the best color to paint your room if you were concerned about sleeping more.

People with blue bedrooms slept an average of just eight minutes short of eight hours. Compare that with the purple bedroom owners average of just five hours and fifty six minutes of sleep. Other activities were affected too. Red bedrooms saw much less action than the mid-brown ones with their occupants getting jiggy once a week compared to the brown bedrooms owners who were at it three times a week.

Receptors in the retina called ganglion cells are most senstive to the color blue and these cells send information to the part of the brain that controls our circadian rhythms and dictates how well we sleep and how well we function while we're awake. Other colors have lesser affect, but blue, yellow and green are all good choices for bedrooms and the colors least stimulating to the ganglion cells are grey, brown and purple, making them a poor choice of paint shade if sleep is what you want.

The position of brown shades on the sex/sleep spectrum does present a bit of a conundrum when it comes to deciding what's the most important thing to do in the bedroom.

Carry

Just as well that my bedroom is in different shades of blue.
There is nothing like a good night's sleep.

py2006

In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead...

He suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.

On June 4, 1923, jockey Frank Hayes took off through the gates at Belmont Park on Long Island. He and his horse, Sweet Kiss, made it to the finish line first. But all was not well. During the race, Hayes had a heart attack and died. Nonetheless, he was declared the winner: But when the horse crossed the finish line it became quite evident that Frank Hayes was more than just “relaxed”- the jockey dropped out of the saddle, lifeless.

It was later determined that Hayes had died of heart failure shortly after Sweet Kiss took the lead, and the New York Times speculated that the jockey’s heart had given out as a result of severe training in order to make weight, coupled with the excitement of winning his first race.

Hayes, dressed in his colorful racing silks, was buried three days later. In light of the incident, Belmont’s Jockey Club waived all of the rules and thus made Hayes’ win official. This ruling makes Frank Hayes the only jockey to win a race while deceased. In fact, it is the only time in sports history when a competition was won by a dead man.

cdeb

I think we had that one before, cos I remember someone pointing out that Jochen Rindt won the 1970 Formula 1 title despite having died in a crash four races from the end. (And then there was a debate as to whether an entire world championship was really a "competition" in the sense noted above, and it was agreed that it probably wasn't, but it was interesting anyway)