Best examples of The Domino Effect

IvaBigWun

When a person/an event/etc lead to something major happening.

I'll start: Franz Ferdinand*















*not the Glasgow band, the other one

shopaholic01

A simply enquiry about getting a torch repaired .......

The Backwards Man

I went to the pub for a pint a half an hour ago, heading for the Lamas Fair now.

Chips Lovell

The War of Jenkins' Ear

antodeco

Somebody discovering a safe...

efb

Obesity


No, wait thats the Dominoes Effect

keith16

When Homer travelled back in time and squished a bug.

BOHtox

Here lads I'm getting Dominos, anyone want anything?

Celly Smunt

antodeco wrote: »

Somebody discovering a safe...

Just pray to god the next time somebody finds a safe that their LED torch doesn't break in the process.

Duff

When you're half way through building a card house and you knock one over.

Peregrine

Like this?

IvaBigWun

Did Henry Paulson trigger the world banking crises by refusing to bail out Lehman Brothers?

endacl

Best example I can think of is the time I saw a row of dominos set up. Somebody knocked over the first one. That knocked over the second one as it fell...

GLaDOS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrwTDfdck7I

lahalane

The Big Bang?

dd972

A gutful of dough, indegestion and a sleepless night

NuckingFacker

I owed my mate Jim a fiver. He needed it to help pay back his mate the tenner he owed for a packet of smokes. He needed the tenner to make up the wages for the saturday girl, who needed the wages to pay the rent to her parents, who needed the rent to pay the mortgage, to the bank who needed the mortgage payment to pay the bondholders, who needed the Bond money to pay the ECB.


I kept the fiver. Feck Jim. I doubt anything much came of it.

Red Kev

Henry Tandey was a British soldier in WWI who had a chance to shoot a young Austrian soldier fighting for Germany, but he didn't , it turned out the soldier was Adolf Hitler. Tandey went on to become the most decorated British private in WWI.

Hard to say if the German Nationalist movement of the 1920's would have remained splintered or united as it did under Hitler under a different leader. If WWII had never been fought, or if a different war had started then European, and indeed world history of the past 80 years would/could have been totally different.

More on the wiki page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Tandey

MadsL

Michael Smith and Colm Mac Eochaidh offering 10 grand reward for information leading to a convictions for planning corruption.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahon_Tribunal#.C2.A310.2C000_reward

MadsL

endacl wrote: »

Best example I can think of is the time I saw a row of dominos set up. Somebody knocked over the first one. That knocked over the second one as it fell...

What happened to the third one?

Red Kev

Then there's the Football War between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969. There were many causes, war was brewing anyway, but the dry tinder was sparked by a qualification match for the 1970 World Cup.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/feb/21/theknowledge.sport
The 'Football War' was fought by Central American countries El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. In fact, it also went by the name of the '100 Hours' War', and in reality there were a host of issues at the root of the troubles. Migration, trade and simmering land disputes on the border all conspired to spark social unrest between the two, but it wasn't until the best-of-three World Cup qualifiers in 1969 that the tipping point was reached.

The first game - a 1-0 win for Honduras - in Tegucigalpa witnessed disturbances but things deteriorated significantly come the second in San Salvador: visiting Honduran players, according to Ryszard Kapuściński's 1978 book Wojna Futbolowa, endured a sleepless night before the game, with rotten eggs, dead rats and stinking rags all tossed through the broken windows of their hotel; Honduran fans were brutalised at the game, and the country's flag and national anthem were also mocked. "Under such conditions the players from Tegucigalpa did not, understandably, have their minds on the game," admitted the Honduras coach Mario Griffin after his team lost 3-0. "They had their minds on getting out alive. We're awfully lucky that we lost."

Tension continued to increase before the decisive third match in Mexico, with the press stoking the frenzy. And on June 27 - the day of the play-off - Honduras broke off diplomatic relations with their neighbour. El Salvador eventually triumphed 3-2 after extra-time, booking their place in the 1970 World Cup (where they would lose all three of their group games without scoring). By July 14, El Salvador had invaded Honduras.

When the Organisation of American States negotiated a ceasefire on July 20, approximately 1,000 to 2,000 people had lost their lives and 100,000 more had become refugees. Troops from El Salvador were withdrawn in August, but it wasn't until 11 years later that a peace treaty between the nations was agreed. A civil war in El Salvador ensued between 1980 until 1992, when the International Court of Justice awarded much of the originally disputed territory to Honduras.

KyussBishop

Saw the Wiki article on Thomas Midgley Jr. just earlier today; he discovered that 'tetraethyllead' mixed with petrol (i.e. leaded petrol), improved the performance of engines, and with this invention he contributed enormously to the pollution of cities and the atmosphere around the world for decades (even, with recent discoveries, triggering a significant increase in violent criminal behaviour in countries using leaded petrol).

He also was part of the team that invented CFC's, thus also personally contributing to the massive depletion of the Ozone layer and to global warming; a good quote on the wiki page:
J. R. McNeill, an environmental historian, has remarked that Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."

Another one of his inventions, which he developed after contracting polio, was "an elaborate system of strings and pulleys to help others lift him from bed" - which he eventually got entangled in, strangling himself to death.

Lando Griffin

I think Midgley Jnr wins this thread.
Still a winner in death as in life; what a man.

Brego888

When someone throws a trident

Senna

The break-in at the Watergate Hotel.

efb

Mary of Nazareth's little white lie about Gabriel the door-to-door salesman

DwightSchrute1

If we can hit that bullseye the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards, checkmate!

my my my

thyis is one thing i agree with you on, the domino effect doesnt start because it becomes out of reach or tantalising, it' s teenage psychology

Capt'n Midnight

Lando Griffin wrote: »

I think Midgley Jnr wins this thread.
Still a winner in death as in life; what a man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7duPNQCp-w4

IvaBigWun

Lando Griffin wrote: »

I think Midgley Jnr wins this thread.
Still a winner in death as in life; what a man.

As the inventor of CFCs?

Capt'n Midnight

IvaBigWun wrote: »

As the inventor of CFCs?

And adding lead to petrol.


From QI
Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."

IvaBigWun

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

And adding lead to petrol.


From QI
Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."

Ah!

Another one is 9/11. It gave America an excuse to go to war and changed airport security forever.

rustedtrumpet

Stone Cold cracking a can of bud over his head

timthumbni

One Mr Walter White being diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer.

Voltex

Steve Jobs and the iPod...now we have the iPhone (2,3,3s, 4,4s)..iPad..mini iPad..it fricken ridiculous!

Lando Griffin

IvaBigWun wrote: »

As the inventor of CFCs?

He won several awards when he was alive and now is winner of this thread.
He may have caused harmful toxins fill our air but he still has and is winning something.

goose2005

A young security guard who noticed a piece of tape on a door led to the discovery of Watergate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wills_(security_guard)

Michael D Not Higgins

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20130812.png

Lapin

Pat Kenny leaves RTÉ,

Seán O'Rourke gets Pat's radio job,

Aine Lawlor gets Sean's radio job,

Claire Byrne gets Aine's radio job,

David McCullagh gets Pat's television job,

Nobody knows what happening to Tom Dunne's job,

But then, the dominos haven't stopped tumbling yet.........

Someone finding some land on the other side of the Atlantic and deciding to leave some settlers there.

HerrScheisse

That fellow that had his fruit stand confiscated at the roadside in Tunisia in 2010.

3 years later, North Africa is still burning, Egypt has had a coup, Gadaffi dragged off and executed, many thousands dead, and Syria in a proxy civil war played out by the superpowers.

Just like the domino effect of Sarajevo, except this guy was not an archduke but a nobody selling fruit.

Maire2009

Gervinho (Arsenal) -> Roma
Lamela (Roma) -> Spurs
Bale (Spurs) -> Real Madrid
Ozil (Madrid) -> Arsenal

\0/ \0/ \0/

Sofaspud

I once saw two people wearing clothing with an equal number of dots standing next to each other.

Seedy Arling

Pee Flynn mouthing off on the Late Late.

Nemeses

MadsL wrote: »

What happened to the third one?

I think it fell too.... like the fourth one, the fifth one...

DazMarz

One young woman's fierce lie about getting pregnant out of wedlock leading into the foundation of Christianity...

2Mad2BeMad

The Irish economy

Burky126

The Bay Of Pigs Incident

IvaBigWun

HerrScheisse wrote: »

That fellow that had his fruit stand confiscated at the roadside in Tunisia in 2010.

3 years later, North Africa is still burning, Egypt has had a coup, Gadaffi dragged off and executed, many thousands dead, and Syria in a proxy civil war played out by the superpowers.

Just like the domino effect of Sarajevo, except this guy was not an archduke but a nobody selling fruit.

Sounds like Franz Ferdinand The Sequel

ScumLord

Red Kev wrote: »

Hard to say if the German Nationalist movement of the 1920's would have remained splintered or united as it did under Hitler under a different leader.

I'm sure they would have found some other xenophobe to rally behind. Hitler didn't drag Germany kicking and screaming into WW2 or the holocaust, the Germans were just waiting for someone to lead them down that path. He wasn't alone either, he had a gang of nutjob friends that were just as bad if not worse than he was.

cloudatlas

A peaceful sit in in a park to stop it becoming a mall lead to widespread protest and violent clamp down by police. LA riots, riots in Greece, Paris ghetto riots have all stemmed from police unjustly arresting or attacking/killing someone.