I bet you didn't know that this thread would have a part 2

Paddy Cow

More Guinness is sold in Nigeria than in Ireland.

Realt Dearg Sec

Carry wrote: »

cdeb wrote: »

The world's first aviation fatality was also in Offaly, bizarrely

Bizarrely indeed. There must be something in the Offaly air or water or such like...

I looked it up: https://www.thejournal.ie/balloon-crash-tullamore-2463007-Dec2015/


Incidentally Ireland was also the first country of the Eurozone that fell into a recession after the crash of 2008/09. The then Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, who messed it up royally, was from - ta dah - Offaly.

It's an Offaly dangerous place.

Ipso

Paddy Cow wrote: »

More Guinness is sold in Nigeria than in Ireland.

It has about 40 times the population.

Big Nasty

Paddy Cow wrote: »

More Guinness is sold in Nigeria than in Ireland.

They love the black stuff! :pac:

New Home

Ipso wrote: »

It has about 40 times the population.

It is also one of the biggest producers of Guinness, IIRC.

mzungu

In 1911, Bobby Leach was the 2nd person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. He spent six months in the hospital recovering from injuries he sustained during the fall, which included two broken knee caps and a fractured jaw.

He died 15 years later when he slipped on an orange peel. His leg became infected, and eventually gangrene necessitated the amputation of the leg. Despite this procedure, he died of complications two months later.

Paddy Cow

Ipso wrote: »

It has about 40 times the population.

Ireland is the third largest consumer but we're nowhere near the third largest country population wise.

barrymanilow

Bookies are not actually legally or contractually obliged to ever pay out winnings to a punter.



A Bookies can decide not to pay out if they have suspicions of match fixing etc and they do not have to prove this.


There have been cases where small Bookmakers have been face to make a huge payout to a customer and instead have just closed the business.

Wanderer2010

If two gay people marry. can one of them take the others surname? Or is it generally left as their own surname?

ohnonotgmail

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

If two gay people marry. can one of them take the others surname? Or is it generally left as their own surname?

anyone can take any name they choose.

Capt'n Midnight

Say my name wrote: »

, thus encompassed the very first death of the Second World War.

Though the Chinese, Russians, Mongolians and Japanese may disagree.


The Second Sino-Japanese War started on the 7th of July 1937.

More people died in the Battle of Wuhan than total UK AND US deaths in WWII

KevRossi

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1169898211575656448

Chancer3001

I am sure this will be instantly disproved

But I just read that grasshoppers are called locusts when they swarm.

ohnonotgmail

Chancer3001 wrote: »

I am sure this will be instantly disproved

But I just read that grasshoppers are called locusts when they swarm.

almost. locusts are a species of grasshopper. they are the only species that swarm and only do so when population density is high enough. other species of grasshopper are solitary and do not swarm.

quickbeam

That buoy is pronounced boo-ee in American English.

Well, maybe you did know that, but it was new to me.

I almost prefer their pronunciation. If we pronounced it that way, I wouldn't have freaked out as a child when I was told there were buoys in the water, wondering why nobody was going out to rescue them.

sbsquarepants

KevRossi wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1169898211575656448

We all know hippos are very fast and agile in the water, but they are also surprisingly quick on land, they can run at roughly 30km an hour. Therefore the bike is your best bet for beating one in a triathlon.:D

Paddy Cow

quickbeam wrote: »

That buoy is pronounced boo-ee in American English.

Well, maybe you did know that, but it was new to me.

I almost prefer their pronunciation. If we pronounced it that way, I wouldn't have freaked out as a child when I was told there were buoys in the water, wondering why nobody was going out to rescue them.

I don't know why but I learned it as boo-ee and it doesn't matter how many times I'm corrected, boy just seems wrong.

Redneck Reject

That the two species of venomous lizards are from Mexico. The Gila Monster Lizard and the Mexican Beaded Lizard.

partyguinness

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

If two gay people marry. can one of them take the others surname? Or is it generally left as their own surname?

I have dealt with a few same sex couple in England.

They tend to double up with the surnames.

A guy I used to work with actually took his wife's surname and double barrelled it on the basis it looks more prestigious. The same guy also took time off when his hamster died and went into proper mourning. Spent nearly £2k on vets for the fckuing hamster. Work told him to cop on to himself which he did not appreciate- left soon after.

Bell end.

Paddy Cow

partyguinness wrote: »

I have dealt with a few same sex couple in England.

They tend to double up with the surnames.

A guy I used to work with actually took his wife's surname and double barrelled it on the basis it looks more prestigious. The same guy also took time off when his hamster died and went into proper mourning. Spent nearly £2k on vets for the fckuing hamster. Work told him to cop on to himself which he did not appreciate- left soon after.

Bell end.

Trying to keep it on topic so did you know that hamsters only live about 3 years and spending 2k on one is insane?

partyguinness

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Trying to keep it on topic so did you know that hamsters only live about 3 years and spending 2k on one is insane?

Hold on. It wasn't me- I didn't spend £2k on a hamster. Well, yes we knew that they only live for a few years. But the guy was inconsolable- we genuinely thought he was pulling the piss to begin with but no he was distraught- even took time off work.

It was a guy who used to work here. The same guy who took his wife's surname to double barrel it up.

The English can be very weird when it comes to their pets.

Capt'n Midnight

Redneck Reject wrote: »

That the two species of venomous lizards are from Mexico. The Gila Monster Lizard and the Mexican Beaded Lizard.

Komodo dragons are venomous too.

Wibbs

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Komodo dragons are venomous too.

Well the jury is still up in teh air about that Cap't. They have glands that among other things contain proteins that appear to cause toxic effects, but they're very mild and wouldn't be deadly nearly quick enough to be useful as a venom. Iguanas and other related speices have the same thing going on and aren't considered venomous. The idea that Komodo dragons saliva is so full of dangerous bacteria that it causes rapid shock on death to victims has also been disproved. It seems their primary method of hunting and killing prey is to use their incredibly powerful jaws and razor sharp teeth to lunge and bite down and tear open veins and arteries causing blood loss, enough to cause a slow death in the prey they're after. Now some of the proteins found in their saliva appears to be an anti coagulant so this might be in play too. They simply follow the injured prey and wait for it to be incapacitated. They can track prey over great distances because of incredibly acute senses of smell and taste.

Paddy Cow

partyguinness wrote: »

Hold on. It wasn't me- I didn't spend £2k on a hamster. Well, yes we knew that they only live for a few years. But the guy was inconsolable- we genuinely thought he was pulling the piss to begin with but no he was distraught- even took time off work.

Don't worry, I know it wasn't you I was trying to word my post so that it agreed with you without turning this into a discussion about how your former colleague is clearly overly attached to his hamster, which would derail the thread.

partyguinness wrote: »

It was a guy who used to work here. The same guy who took his wife's surname to double barrel it up.

The English and their class system! If he lived in the past that would make sense. They started hyphenating last names because traditionally a woman took her husbands name but if the woman was of a higher social standing and didn't want the family name to die out, they hyphenated it. Prestigious back then but pretentious now. Ask any kid who has a double name and nine times out of ten they will tell you they wish their parents had chosen one and not left it up to them to chose when they are older.

partyguinness wrote: »

The English can be very weird when it comes to their pets.

It's not just an English thing. I knew someone who told me that if her cat died she would need a week off work to mourn.

cdeb

Paddy Cow wrote: »

The English and their class system! If he lived in the past that would make sense. They started hyphenating last names because traditionally a woman took her husbands name but if the woman was of a higher social standing and didn't want the family name to die out, they hyphenated it. Prestigious back then but pretentious now. Ask any kid who has a double name and nine times out of ten they will tell you they wish their parents had chosen one and not left it up to them to chose when they are older.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard was one of the youngest of Scott's party to visit the Antarctic in 1910-13, which of course ended in Scott's death (as well as others - Oates being the most infamous; "I'm just going out and may be some time")

Anyways, he was born Apsley Cherry, but when his grand-aunt died and left her estate to Apsley's father, one of the conditions of the inheritance was that Cherry Sr had to add "Garrard" to his name, hence the new family, the Apsley-Garrards.

Chancer3001

We all know trees can't fend for themselves...

Except of course the Mexican fighting tree.

Redneck Reject

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Komodo dragons are venomous too.

But their not Mexican so I am biased heh .Forgive me.

Capt'n Midnight

Chancer3001 wrote: »

We all know trees can't fend for themselves...

Except of course the Mexican fighting tree.

Is not a fighting tree , is a ham bush.

KevRossi

Blue is the most common colour on a country's flag, then red. There are only 10 countries that have neither blue nor red in their flag, Ireland is one of them.

Of those 10, 9 have green, leaving Bhutan as the only country that has neither blue, red nor green in its flag.

The list:

Republic of Ireland
Jamaica
Bhutan
Mauritania
Ivory Coast
Niger
Nigeria
Cyprus
Saudi Arabia
Pakistan



And the very cool flag of Bhutan...

LostinBlanch

Lewis Teague, the director of such films as The Jewel of The Nile, Cats Eye and Cujo only graduated from film school in 2016 at the age of 78.

*Scroll down to the bottom of the article.

Conchir

KevRossi wrote: »

Blue is the most common colour on a country's flag, then red. There are only 10 countries that have neither blue nor red in their flag, Ireland is one of them.

Of those 10, 9 have green, leaving Bhutan as the only country that has neither blue, red nor green in its flag.

The list:

Republic of Ireland
Jamaica
Bhutan
Mauritania
Ivory Coast
Niger
Nigeria
Cyprus
Saudi Arabia
Pakistan

Incidentally, the map has incorrectly labelled Bhutan as having red or blue. Bhutan is squeezed between China and India, directly north of Bangladesh (to the east of Nepal, also between China and India).

LostinBlanch

Wibbs wrote: »

Well the jury is still up in teh air about that Cap't. They have glands that among other things contain proteins that appear to cause toxic effects, but they're very mild and wouldn't be deadly nearly quick enough to be useful as a venom. Iguanas and other related speices have the same thing going on and aren't considered venomous. The idea that Komodo dragons saliva is so full of dangerous bacteria that it causes rapid shock on death to victims has also been disproved. It seems their primary method of hunting and killing prey is to use their incredibly powerful jaws and razor sharp teeth to lunge and bite down and tear open veins and arteries causing blood loss, enough to cause a slow death in the prey they're after. Now some of the proteins found in their saliva appears to be an anti coagulant so this might be in play too. They simply follow the injured prey and wait for it to be incapacitated. They can track prey over great distances because of incredibly acute senses of smell and taste.

They're nasty, as this article shows. Apart form the recorded deaths since 2007.
Imagine being in that group of divers shipwrecked in shark infested waters and eventually making it to an island where an estimated 1300 live? :eek: :eek:

partyguinness

KevRossi wrote: »

Blue is the most common colour on a country's flag, then red. There are only 10 countries that have neither blue nor red in their flag, Ireland is one of them.

Of those 10, 9 have green, leaving Bhutan as the only country that has neither blue, red nor green in its flag.

The list:

Republic of Ireland
Jamaica
Bhutan
Mauritania
Ivory Coast
Niger
Nigeria
Cyprus
Saudi Arabia
Pakistan



And the very cool flag of Bhutan...

That is not a great list of countries to be lumped in with.

Gloomtastic!

Ineedaname

KevRossi wrote: »

Blue is the most common colour on a country's flag, then red. There are only 10 countries that have neither blue nor red in their flag, Ireland is one of them.

Of those 10, 9 have green, leaving Bhutan as the only country that has neither blue, red nor green in its flag.

The list:

Republic of Ireland
Jamaica
Bhutan
Mauritania
Ivory Coast
Niger
Nigeria
Cyprus
Saudi Arabia
Pakistan

Slight correction. Mauritania adopted a new flag in 2017 that features red stripes so now there's one less.

Realt Dearg Sec

partyguinness wrote: »

That is not a great list of countries to be lumped in with.

Neither is the other one.

Badly Drunk Boy

cdeb wrote: »

The world's first aviation fatality was also in Offaly, bizarrely

Carry wrote: »

Bizarrely indeed. There must be something in the Offaly air or water or such like...

I looked it up: https://www.thejournal.ie/balloon-crash-tullamore-2463007-Dec2015/

I can't see any mention of a fatality in the link or elsewhere. It was the first aviation-related disaster alright, causing major damage and the town to be rebuilt, but I think the first fatality was in France a month later. (Sorry for being pedantic.:o)

MyStubbleItches

KevRossi wrote: »

Blue is the most common colour on a country's flag, then red. There are only 10 countries that have neither blue nor red in their flag, Ireland is one of them.

Of those 10, 9 have green, leaving Bhutan as the only country that has neither blue, red nor green in its flag.

The list:

Republic of Ireland
Jamaica
Bhutan
Mauritania
Ivory Coast
Niger
Nigeria
Cyprus
Saudi Arabia
Pakistan



And the very cool flag of Bhutan...

Am I the only one that sees red in that flag?

New Home

Yes.

ohnonotgmail

MyStubbleItches wrote: »

Am I the only one that sees red in that flag?

yellow and orange to me

MyStubbleItches

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

yellow and orange to me

Ok, reddy orange.

New Home

Nope, orange orange. Might be your screen resolution.

lmimmfn

New Home wrote: »

Nope, orange orange. Might be your screen resolution.

not resolution but down to the devices's screen technology used. Crappy screens or TFT( awful viewing angles ) is rubbish at colour reproduction, IPS/OLED are the best at colour reproduction. VA panels are middle of the road between TFT and IPS, better refresh than IPS but worse than TFT and worse colour repreduction than IPS but better than TFT and better viewing angles than TFT.

I have an IPS and the colour on it is sublime as its calibrated and everyone that sees it is shocked at how good it looks. I also have a VA panel for gaming, its good for middle of the road.

Professor Moriarty

MyStubbleItches wrote: »

Ok, reddy orange.

Straight from the horse's dragon's mouth:

The National Flag of Bhutan is divided diagonally into equal yellow and orange halves. The division starts from the lower corner of the flag where it is hoisted and runs along the diagonally opposite corner.

The yellow portion lies on the upper part of the diagonal division and it represents the yellow scarf worn by His Majesty, which in turn represents the being of His Majesty, the King. The orange portion lies on the lower part of the flag and it represents the orange scarf worn by the Je Khenpo, the religious head of the country.

The National Flag has a white dragon which spreads equally along the diagonal division towards the upper end. The dragon holds norbu(jewel) by its claws.

johndaman66

It has to be said. That is one hell of a cool flag.

Mollyb60

johndaman66 wrote: »

It has to be said. That is one hell of a cool flag.

And it mostly follows the rules for a great flag:

1. Keep it simple (the dragon might be a bit too complicated to meet this rule)
2. Use meaningful symbolism
3. Use two to three basic colors
4. No lettering or seals of any kind.
5. Be distinctive

From the excellent podcast 99% Invisible:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/vexillonaire/


Belfast City's flag is a decent one:

Mollyb60

Mollyb60 wrote: »

And it mostly follows the rules for a great flag:

1. Keep it simple (the dragon might be a bit too complicated to meet this rule)
2. Use meaningful symbolism
3. Use two to three basic colors
4. No lettering or seals of any kind.
5. Be distinctive

From the excellent podcast 99% Invisible:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/vexillonaire/


Belfast City's flag is a decent one:

I don't know about that Belfast flag..

Not simple
What's the symbolism? There's so many objects! Ships, bells, two tone bells, the sea...
5 colours
It's defintely distinctive though, but looks too much like a picture than a flag.

Carry

lmimmfn wrote: »

not resolution but down to the devices's screen technology used. Crappy screens or TFT( awful viewing angles ) is rubbish at colour reproduction, IPS/OLED are the best at colour reproduction. VA panels are middle of the road between TFT and IPS, better refresh than IPS but worse than TFT and worse colour repreduction than IPS but better than TFT and better viewing angles than TFT.

I have an IPS and the colour on it is sublime as its calibrated and everyone that sees it is shocked at how good it looks. I also have a VA panel for gaming, its good for middle of the road.

Now, I certainly didn't know that!
Though I'm not sure if I'm any wiser after reading it. But TFT, IPS/OLED, IPS, VA, their various minglings and awful viewing angles sound interesting - somehow.

Mollyb60

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't know about that Belfast flag..

Not simple
What's the symbolism? There's so many objects! Ships, bells, two tone bells, the sea...
5 colours
It's defintely distinctive though, but looks too much like a picture than a flag.

Yeah if it was on a pole flapping in the breeze I think it would actually fail the 'good flag' test.

There's way too many colours on it, I think if they took off the ship, blue V thing and sea it'd be a good one. White and blue with the red bell/ship in the centre. (Not sure what the bell represents though, the maritime heritage maybe? I couldn't find a description online)

Took me 5 minutes to throw this together:

New Home

Mollyb60 wrote: »

Yeah if it was on a pole flapping in the breeze I think it would actually fail the 'good flag' test.

There's way too many colours on it, I think if they took off the ship, blue V thing and sea it'd be a good one. White and blue with the red bell/ship in the centre. (Not sure what the bell represents though, the maritime heritage maybe? I couldn't find a description online)

Took me 5 minutes to throw this together:
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=490334&stc=1&d=1568190308

We can tell. :pac:

Now, THIS would make one cool flag.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=111222770&postcount=3023