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Martina1991

Greybottle wrote: »

Apple bobbing dates from Roman times, if a girl slept with a bobbed apple under her pillow she would dream of her future husband.

My mother says that about wedding cake. Put it under your pillow and you will dream of your future husband!

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lmimmfn wrote: »

That's not true -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_market_operation
Since the gold standard was dropped central banks can print money if they want to stimulate economies etc. but it generally devalues currencies as happened with the Euro when they tried to prop up countries by buying government bonds at low interest rates.
Non central banks cannot magic up money, they usually use deposits for loans, get loans from other banks with a separate inter bank interest rate of get loans from the central bank.

Central banks don’t really in normal circumstances create any money. And banks don’t use deposits for loans, quite the reverse - the loans create the deposits.

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Greybottle wrote: »

Apple bobbing dates from Roman times, if a girl slept with a bobbed apple under her pillow she would dream of her future husband.

You misread that. Apple bobbing was introduced to British Celts by the Romans bring Apples to Britain. The future husband tradition was much later though.

Deusexmachina

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Another uniquely Irish tense is 'do be', for example 'I do be going'.

Not really particularly Irish - I think that is just for thicks to be honest

lmimmfn

server down wrote: »

Central banks don’t really in normal circumstances create any money. And banks don’t use deposits for loans, quite the reverse - the loans create the deposits.

link?

Riddle101

Some pirate trivia that I just recently read.

Pirates doubled as mixologists. They created a drink that prevented certain diseases. Pirates borrowed the recipe for grog and made it legendary by adding lemon juice (it helped prevent scurvy) and sugar (it tasted good). Their's was a drink that packed a punch.

Not all pirates who wore eye patches had missing eyes. The patches helped them with night vision. By wearing an eye patch, the sea buccaneers could always keep one eye adjusted to night vision. Pirates spent a lot of time going from the bright light above deck to the darkness below deck, especially when they were raiding ships or defending their own. If he lifted his patch before going below deck, a pirate could instantly see even if there was only a little light.

Red flags on a pirate ship were really bad. The Jolly Roger flag that flew from pirate masts was terrifying but the most dreaded sea flag was red. A ship hoisting a red flag warned its enemies that no mercy would be given to a captured ship, everyone on board would be killed immediately.

Pirates practiced gay marriage as early as the 1600s.

Julius Caesar was once captured by pirates. In 75 BCE, pirates captured Julius Caesar but when they only asked for a ransom of 20 talents, Caesar laughed in their faces and told them he was worth at least 50. While he was held captive, Caesar serenaded the pirates with poetry. Once his ransom was paid, though, Caesar had the pirates crucified as punishment.

Pirate earrings also served as ear protection. Pirate ships were outfitted with numerous cannons. Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge, had a whopping forty. Those cannons were vital during combat when a pirate ship might need to sink an enemy to prevent capture. Cannonballs were accompanied by a loud blast, though, and were known to deafen. Pirates would hang wads of wax from their earrings to prevent this sound damage. They popped the waxy contraptions into their ears like a makeshift earplug when firing cannons.

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That’s interesting but did the pirates actually know about the scurvy being caused by lack of fruit?

Ipso

Pope Long John Silver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_John_XXIII

cbyrd

lmimmfn wrote:

link?

It's called fractional reserve banking and it's beggars belief.
They must keep a percentage on reserve, (usually 20%) so Jimmy blogs goes into the bank with E1000 and puts it on deposit. The bank can then loan out 800, I go get a loan of this E800 and the bank I deposit it into can then loan out 720. So on so forth until you get to zero. The figures are nuts. Put a few zeros on that and you can see why the banking system is fcuked. They create money out of nothing.
I believe now that some banks don't even hold a percentage on reserve.. breaking the fractional banking system too.

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^ that’s not quite right. Jimmy doesn’t have to deposit 1000. The bank just needs to have 200 in its own reserves/capital to create a loan of 1000. Since that loan is deposited somewhere it increases the money supply. It’s a deposit in the account of the loanee or, if he uses the loan to purchase something, in the account of the person he purchases it from.

lmimmfn wrote: »

link?

Here’s the Bank of England paper on money creation.

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarterlybulletin/2014/qb14q1prereleasemoneycreation.pdf

VW 1

cbyrd wrote:

Put a few zeros on that and you can see why the banking system is fcuked. They create money out of nothing.

Money is loaned out based on deposits held, and on the theory that not everyone will want access to all their money at the same time.

It's a system that has been in place for decades, and has failed in some isolated situations which is known as a "run on a bank".

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

I think this is an obscure and strange enough story to go in here.

Chris Kyle is basically America's most famous soldier.
"The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present. I guess that's true. They go back and forth on what the number is. One week, it's 160, then it's way higher, then it's somewhere in between."

He published his bestselling autobiography, American Sniper, in 2012. His book was turned into a film staring Bradley Cooper, and directed by Clint Eastwood, it made over $547 million (highest grossing US film of 2014).

In his autobiography, he wrote about a fight that he got into at a "Navy SEAL'S bar" with another ex-military guy who was 'disrespecting' America, so he punched this guy in the face. In the book he only referred to the ex-military guy as 'Scruff Face'.
He then went on a media tour to promote his book, and named Jesse Ventura as 'Scruff Face'.

Jesse Ventura is a former military guy, wrestler, author, presenter and former Governor of Minnesota. He won the Governor race as a non Democrat or a Republican!

Here is Chris Kyle saying that it was Jesse Ventura who he assaulted.

Jesse Ventura claimed that "The event this man spoke of never happened."
He filed a defamation suit against Kyle in January 2012, which Ventura did after Kyle failed to agree on a settlement in which he would state that the incident never happened.


This video was published on February 2nd, 2012. He died February 2nd, 2013. Chris Kyle was murdered in an unrelated incident at a gun range, by a guy who he had brought to the gun range.

In May 2013, Ventura substituted Taya Kyle, as executor of Chris Kyle's estate, as the defendant, with his lawyers arguing that "it would be unjust to permit the estate to continue to profit from Kyle’s wrongful conduct and to leave Governor Ventura without redress for ongoing damage to his reputation."

On July 8, 2014, Ventura was awarded $1.8 million: $500,000 for defamation and $1,345,477.25 for unjust enrichment. Everything that Chris Kyle said about the bar fight was entirely made up.

Following the verdict, HarperCollins announced that it would pull the sub-chapter "Punching out Scruff Face" from all future editions of the book.

A higher court then decided to overrule the lower courts judgement.

So as it stands now, Jesse Ventura won the case, spent $1 million on his legal fees, but won't receive any compensation from Chris Kyle's estate.

He has said that he is refiling a lawsuit against the estate.

Here is Jesse Ventura talking about it.

It's a fairly strange story all things being told.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Riddle101 wrote: »

Some pirate trivia that I just recently read.

Pirates doubled as mixologists. They created a drink that prevented certain diseases. Pirates borrowed the recipe for grog and made it legendary by adding lemon juice (it helped prevent scurvy) and sugar (it tasted good). Their's was a drink that packed a punch.

Not all pirates who wore eye patches had missing eyes. The patches helped them with night vision. By wearing an eye patch, the sea buccaneers could always keep one eye adjusted to night vision. Pirates spent a lot of time going from the bright light above deck to the darkness below deck, especially when they were raiding ships or defending their own. If he lifted his patch before going below deck, a pirate could instantly see even if there was only a little light.

Red flags on a pirate ship were really bad. The Jolly Roger flag that flew from pirate masts was terrifying but the most dreaded sea flag was red. A ship hoisting a red flag warned its enemies that no mercy would be given to a captured ship, everyone on board would be killed immediately.

Pirates practiced gay marriage as early as the 1600s.

Julius Caesar was once captured by pirates. In 75 BCE, pirates captured Julius Caesar but when they only asked for a ransom of 20 talents, Caesar laughed in their faces and told them he was worth at least 50. While he was held captive, Caesar serenaded the pirates with poetry. Once his ransom was paid, though, Caesar had the pirates crucified as punishment.

Pirate earrings also served as ear protection. Pirate ships were outfitted with numerous cannons. Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge, had a whopping forty. Those cannons were vital during combat when a pirate ship might need to sink an enemy to prevent capture. Cannonballs were accompanied by a loud blast, though, and were known to deafen. Pirates would hang wads of wax from their earrings to prevent this sound damage. They popped the waxy contraptions into their ears like a makeshift earplug when firing cannons.

Thanks for that, very interesting.

On a slightly related note, September 19th is Talk Like A Pirate day.

Arrrrrrr

cdeb

You can change your language setting on Facebook to "Pirate"

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Deusexmachina wrote: »

Not really particularly Irish - I think that is just for thicks to be honest

"The Irish equivalent of the verb "to be" has two present tenses, one (the present tense proper or "aimsir lhreach") for cases which are generally true or are true at the time of speaking and the other (the habitual present or "aimsir ghnlhreach") for repeated actions. Thus, "you are [now, or generally]" is tú, but "you are [repeatedly]" is bn tú. Both forms are used with the verbal noun (equivalent to the English present participle) to create compound tenses. This is similar to the distinction between ser and estar in Spanish.

The corresponding usage in English is frequently found in rural areas, especially Mayo/Sligo in the west of Ireland and Wexford in the south-east, Inner-City Dublin along with border areas of the North and Republic. In this form, the verb "to be" in English is similar to its use in Irish, with a "does be/do be" (or "bees", although less frequently) construction to indicate the continuous, or habitual, present:

"He does be working every day." Bn sg obair gach l
"They do be talking on their mobiles a lot." Bn siad ag caint go minic ar a bhfp
"He does be doing a lot of work at school." Bn sg damh go leor oibre ar scoil.
"It's him I do be thinking of." Is air a bhn mg smaoineamh.
This construction also surfaces in African American Vernacular English, as the famous habitual be."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English#To_be

Speaking in Hiberno-English doesn't mean somebody is a 'thick'.

valoren

A pinhead amount of matter from a Neutron star is estimated to be the equivalent weight of 3 Empire State Buildings (1,095,000 tonnes)

joe stodge

you can lead a horse to water, but you cant make him drink.

MagicIRL

Stonehenge was rebuilt (around 1901) to how they (Archaeologists) thought it looked back in the day. :eek:

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/12/330623.html?c=on

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joe stodge wrote: »

you can lead a horse to water, but you cant make him drink.

And a Leopard can't change spots in midstream.

New Home

MagicIRL wrote: »

Stonehenge was rebuilt (around 1901) to how they (Archaeologists) thought it looked back in the day. :eek:

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/12/330623.html?c=on

Pretty much the same thing happened with Knossos.

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New Home wrote: »

Pretty much the same thing happened with Knossos.

And the façade of Newgrange here as well.

Ineedaname

valoren wrote: »

A pinhead amount of matter from a Neutron star is estimated to be the equivalent weight of 3 Empire State Buildings (1,095,000 tonnes)

If you landed on a Neutron star you would weigh 100 billion time more than you would on Earth.

Wibbs

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

And the fae of Newgrange here as well.

Aye and no way it looked like that originally. The new facade had to be held together with cement or it wouldn't stay up. Not a lot of cement around 5000 years ago.

New Home

They probably used "No More Nails", back then.

Big Nasty

Ineedaname wrote: »

If you landed on a Neutron star you would 100 billion time more than you would on Earth.

I can't know how even light!

Greybottle

New Home wrote: »

They probably used "No More Nails", back then.

But they called it "We haven't invented nails yet".

Nails were first used by the Egyptians around the time Newgrange was built, but the technology hadn't arrived here yet.

Nails were hand made up until around 1800 and were so valuable that they were often reused. The quickest way to get nails from an old, abandoned house was to simply burn it down and comb the ashes for them.

tayto lover

Ineedaname wrote: »

If you landed on a Neutron star you would weigh 100 billion time more than you would on Earth.

How the Hell does anyone know that?

Ipso

Isn't a neuron star a star that collapses in on itself, so it has the density of a normal star but a smaller mass so it musty mess around with gravity thereby making the interstellar traveler feel heavier.

True story, a higgs boson particle walked into a chapel. The priest asked him what he was doing, the particle said "you can't have mass without me".

Ipso

MagicIRL wrote: »

Stonehenge was rebuilt (around 1901) to how they (Archaeologists) thought it looked back in the day. :eek:

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/12/330623.html?c=on

Speculation, but an interesting hypothesis.

http://bellbeakerblogger.blogspot.com/2016/08/ritualized-ball-games-in-neolithic.html

Ineedaname

Ipso wrote: »

Isn't a neuron star a star that collapses in on itself, so it has the density of a normal star but a smaller mass so it musty mess around with gravity thereby making the interstellar traveler feel heavier.

True story, a higgs boson particle walked into a chapel. The priest asked him what he was doing, the particle said "you can't have mass without me".

It has a mass about 1.4 times that of the sun but is only about 20km in diameter. It could fit inside Manhattan