Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Oct 16, 2025 11:03 am
The "general knowledgeness" of almost all mythology stuff (e.g. Greek, Norse) is purely sustained by quizzes and essentially has no existence outside them.
Seems an actually good candidate for the thread - depending on what you mean by almost all. Certainly there's lots of obscure stuff on both, but that probably doesn't come up much in quizzes anyway. But there's loads that regularly pop up in actual pop culture things (films, video games, comics based on them), plus there's definitely still interest in the original myths themselves. Interested what kinds of things you'd count as quiz trivia but otherwise ignored?
I don't think I have any specific quiz questions on mythology that have come up in mind if that's what you mean. It's more of a general impression I've got. And we can change it to "almost all" plus or minus an error margin.
But on the wider point that's been raised, stuff that's purely quiz trivia (so not just mythology) does seem to be a thing.
I suppose I'd say that prior to the explosion of superhero films, Norse mythology in particular had essentially zero presence in British culture apart from maybe the fact that there's this guy Thor that has a hammer. And you'd get random quiz questions about it. And you'd think "Why this subject, as opposed any obscure piece of knowledge picked at random from the world?"
Fair - I don't really have much experience of how much Norse myth stuff there was around before say 20 years ago, but can believe that its cultural impact has grown more recently (compared to Greek being more consistently present). Though they're the kind of stories that would pop up when reading about that period - I remember reading them in Horrible Histories and similar books when I was young.
There's also surprisingly little Norse mythology anyway. All we have is 2 books written in Iceland about 300 years after the main Viking age was done. So who knows what the myths originally were and how much got lost.
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 2:04 pm
I don't think we will ever a man walk on the moon, this century
I was just going through this thread and came across this. While I'm still not sure about your claim, it seems likely now that there will be a time quite soon when there are no living people who have walked on the moon. Given the age of those who have walked on the moon, people would have to go there pretty soon to reset this.
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2026 11:01 am
Whatever one thinks of people like Ian Huntley and Ian Watkins (or anyone called Ian), prisons should be able to protect them from other prisoners.
I always think smoking gun evil murders or paedos should get the option of lethal injection or run the risk of being murdered
Either way the taxpayer benefits.
Sorry my humour is understandably dark atm
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2026 11:01 am
Whatever one thinks of people like Ian Huntley and Ian Watkins (or anyone called Ian), prisons should be able to protect them from other prisoners.
I always think smoking gun evil murders or paedos should get the option of lethal injection or run the risk of being murdered
Either way the taxpayer benefits.
Sorry my humour is understandably dark atm
But these are obviously just headline cases, and the risks are presumably quite high in general for prisoners who may be disliked for whatever reason by other dangerous prisoners. Every time you watch a prison drama, you think "Fucking hell, it can't really be like this can it?" It's not really acceptable.
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2026 11:01 am
Whatever one thinks of people like Ian Huntley and Ian Watkins (or anyone called Ian), prisons should be able to protect them from other prisoners.
I always think smoking gun evil murders or paedos should get the option of lethal injection or run the risk of being murdered
Either way the taxpayer benefits.
Sorry my humour is understandably dark atm
But these are obviously just headline cases, and the risks are presumably quite high in general for prisoners who may be disliked for whatever reason by other dangerous prisoners. Every time you watch a prison drama, you think "Fucking hell, it can't really be like this can it?" It's not really acceptable.
I watched a film called Wasteman a week ago and Fuck me prison really is this bad overcrowding understaffed drones delivering drugs etc
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2026 11:01 am
Whatever one thinks of people like Ian Huntley and Ian Watkins (or anyone called Ian), prisons should be able to protect them from other prisoners.
Having seen who's allegedly done him in, I'm wondering if that person thinks he's higher on the moral crime scale compared to Huntley. If so, we're looking at pretty fine-scaled differences in the complete and utter nasty bastard stakes between the two of them.
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2026 11:01 am
Whatever one thinks of people like Ian Huntley and Ian Watkins (or anyone called Ian), prisons should be able to protect them from other prisoners.
Having seen who's allegedly done him in, I'm wondering if that person thinks he's higher on the moral crime scale compared to Huntley. If so, we're looking at pretty fine-scaled differences in the complete and utter nasty bastard stakes between the two of them.
It would certainly be naive to assume the perpetrator is some kind of moral hero its hardly likely a white collar criminal would share a cell or wing with such an evil bastard
I just hope it gives some comfort for any relatives of the victims and the fact that he is no longer a burden on the taxpayer and I know im a dinosaur but ive never understood the complete abolutiotion of the death penalty
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2026 11:01 am
Whatever one thinks of people like Ian Huntley and Ian Watkins (or anyone called Ian), prisons should be able to protect them from other prisoners.
Having seen who's allegedly done him in, I'm wondering if that person thinks he's higher on the moral crime scale compared to Huntley. If so, we're looking at pretty fine-scaled differences in the complete and utter nasty bastard stakes between the two of them.
Just looked him up. Anthony Russell. I don't think he has an awful lot in the way of "moral high ground".
