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Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:13 pm
by Marc Meakin
Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 8:39 pm
Christian Bale is English.
Thought he was Welsh
Edit, he was born in Haverfordwest so yes Welsh and British too
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:35 pm
by Marc Meakin
A bottom feeder refers to a fish that eats from the sea bed rather than someone that eats shit
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 10:24 am
by Ian Fitzpatrick
Aran sweaters come from Ireland and not Scotland!
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2024 3:12 pm
by Mark James
I don't think we talk about the shape of the country Chile enough. Just a big, long, thin country. It's amazing.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2024 3:16 pm
by Johnny Canuck
Mark James wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 3:12 pm
I don't think we talk about the shape of the country Chile enough. Just a big, long, thin country. It's amazing.
Like a big, long, red-hot pepper
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2024 3:25 pm
by Mark James
Croatia as well is a great shape. I like how they let Bosnia and Herzegovina have a tiny little bit of beach.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2024 3:48 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Switzerland looks like some sort of tardigrade thing. Denmark is Batman. The USA looks like a whale.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2024 7:05 pm
by Ben Wilson
There are no reigning female monarchs anywhere in the world right now for the first time in over 70 years.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2024 7:10 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Why did no-one mention that the Queen had died? So Charles is King?
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2024 7:12 pm
by Ben Wilson
No, she abdicated and Frederik is king.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2024 6:03 pm
by Mark James
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:09 pm
by Marc Meakin
I'm guessing he was shaken but not stirred
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:47 pm
by Mark Deeks
The Trojan War didn't actually happen.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:26 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Wikipedia (always reliable obviously) says:
Whether there is any historical reality behind the Trojan War remains an open question. Many scholars believe that there is a historical core to the tale, though this may simply mean that the Homeric stories are a fusion of various tales of sieges and expeditions by Mycenaean Greeks during the Bronze Age. Those who believe that the stories of the Trojan War are derived from a specific historical conflict usually date it to the 12th or 11th century BC, often preferring the dates given by Eratosthenes, 1194–1184 BC, which roughly correspond to archaeological evidence of a catastrophic burning of Troy VII,[4] and the Late Bronze Age collapse.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:03 pm
by Marc Meakin
I was toying with posting this in another thread but I've just found out that French people are prone to dipping their breakfast pastries, croissants and baguettes in their hot drink as part of their breakfast ritual
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:08 pm
by Mark James
If something is sub par it means it's not good however sub means under or below and the word par comes from golf, and in golf it's good if you are under par so the expression kind of doesn't make sense.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:38 pm
by Marc Meakin
Mark James wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:08 pm
If something is sub par it means it's not good however sub means under or below and the word par comes from golf, and in golf it's good if you are under par so the expression kind of doesn't make sense.
Par can also mean face value
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:48 pm
by Gavin Chipper
I suppose people are using "sub" to just mean "not as good as" in this case, rather than "numerically less than", but it is slightly weird.
On a related note, people often talk about something having really low odds when they mean low probability. Low odds is the opposite of that.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:19 pm
by Marc Meakin
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:48 pm
I suppose people are using "sub" to just mean "not as good as" in this case, rather than "numerically less than", but it is slightly weird.
On a related note, people often talk about something having really low odds when they mean low probability. Low odds is the opposite of that.
Fat chance and slim chance are good examples too
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:05 pm
by Jon O'Neill
Sun King is a blatant rip off of
Albatross and these are two totally separate and distinct songs.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:05 pm
by Ian Volante
Inspired by I'd say. I doubt they set out to copy it.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:47 pm
by Marc Meakin
Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:05 pm
Inspired by I'd say. I doubt they set out to copy it.
Well there are lots of songs that sound similar by accident.
Particularly riffs
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:25 pm
by Tal Lessner
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:47 pm
Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:05 pm
Inspired by I'd say. I doubt they set out to copy it.
Well there are lots of songs that sound similar by accident.
Particularly riffs
In this case, not by accident.
GEORGE 1987: "At the time, 'Albatross' (by Fleetwood Mac) was out, with all the reverb on guitar. So we said, 'Let's be Fleetwood Mac doing Albatross, just to get going.' It never really sounded like Fleetwood Mac... but that was the point of origin."
Got this link from wikipedia
http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/dba11road.html
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:40 pm
by Marc Meakin
Interestingly it's normally Beatles Songs that get ripped off.
Taxman and Tomorrow Never Knows spring to mind
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:59 pm
by Mark James
There's hardly any still photos of Neil Armstrong on the moon. There's one with his back to the camera and one of his reflection in Buzz Aldrin's visor, because Neil had the camera on his suit. That's not the obvious thing though. What I did realise while looking at these pictures is, it would be fucking cool to go to the moon.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:12 pm
by Gavin Chipper
It's possible I was aware of this at the time but forgot, but
India apparently overtook China as the most populous country last year.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:45 pm
by Marc Meakin
Both countries combined constituting more than a third of the world population is insane
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:00 am
by Thomas Cappleman
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:45 pm
Both countries combined constituting more than a third of the world population is insane
Similarly, the US still being third if you added another billion people to it
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:50 pm
by Marc Meakin
The most recent Taoiseach is of mixed race and is gay
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:39 am
by David Williams
Thomas Cappleman wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:00 am
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:45 pm
Both countries combined constituting more than a third of the world population is insane
Similarly, the US still being third if you added another billion people to it
Article in the Sunday Times today. The population of Africa is similar to that of India and China, about 1.4 billion. Projections for the end of the century are China 0.7 billion, India 1.5 billion, Africa 4 billion.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:43 pm
by Marc Meakin
David Williams wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:39 am
Thomas Cappleman wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:00 am
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:45 pm
Both countries combined constituting more than a third of the world population is insane
Similarly, the US still being third if you added another billion people to it
Article in the Sunday Times today. The population of Africa is similar to that of India and China, about 1.4 billion. Projections for the end of the century are China 0.7 billion, India 1.5 billion, Africa 4 billion.
That's optomistic, given what the planet is likely to be like with global warming, world famine and nuclear war on the horizon, hopefully long after I'm dead
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:26 am
by Mark James
Saw a news headline that said "Kaizer Chiefs Defender Shot" and I thought why would you shoot someone just because they liked that band, then I realised it was a South African footballer who was killed in a car jacking. Woops
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:35 am
by Gavin Chipper
I wonder what your reaction will be when you hear that Franz Ferdinand has been shot.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2024 4:02 pm
by Marc Meakin
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:35 am
I wonder what your reaction will be when you hear that Franz Ferdinand has been shot.
Now that's what I call an item of of late news
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:24 am
by Callum Todd
Mark James wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:26 am
Saw a news headline that said "Kaizer Chiefs Defender Shot" and I thought why would you shoot someone just because they liked that band, then I realised it was a South African footballer who was killed in a car jacking. Woops
The band are named after the football team. They are Leeds United fans, and the Leeds United captain when they formed was Lucas Radebe, who came to Leeds from Kaiser Chiefs.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:26 am
by Callum Todd
The colours of American pool balls are in numerical order. So the stripes are the same colour as the solid ball that is 8 numbers lower, e.g. the yellow solid is 1 and the yellow stripe is 9, and so on.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:30 am
by Adam Gillard
The lyrics to Chain Reaction are proper filthy!
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:29 am
by Marc Meakin
Adam Gillard wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:30 am
The lyrics to
Chain Reaction are proper filthy!
Filthy lyrics could have it's own thread.
The Beatles were good at hiding or implying filthy lyrics
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 1:15 pm
by Mark James
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:29 am
Adam Gillard wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:30 am
The lyrics to
Chain Reaction are proper filthy!
Filthy lyrics could have it's own thread.
The Beatles were good at hiding or implying filthy lyrics
Spot on Adam. Only copped this recently myself. And they're not really even hiding it. The second verse is something else.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:05 pm
by Ian Volante
And nothing about dalmatians as it turns out.
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:01 pm
by Marc Meakin
Huw Edwards has resigned from the BBC