I bet you didnt know that

Capt'n Midnight

steddyeddy wrote: »

Ethylene, this simple molecule H2C=CH2 is what makes fruit ripen.

And this is how Ireland became the worlds' biggest manufacturer of bananas.


It was classed as a manufacturing process and so subject to lower tax rates for a while.

Kat1170

Wibbs wrote: »

Further to the Roman track and horse's arses...



Ye olde boreen. Only before the advent of the car and traffic was horsedrawn, roads didn't have a grass strip up the middle, because that's where the horses walked and wore the track. So that image of a bygone olde road is anything but, it's actually evidence of the coming of the motorcar.

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Unless using the previously mentioned two horse Roman type wagon. Two horses walking side by side, would leave the same strip of grass, No ??

Greybottle

Kat1170 wrote: »

Unless using the previously mentioned two horse Roman type wagon. Two horses walking side by side, would leave the same strip of grass, No ??

Two horse wagons would have been rare in Ireland. Usually one horse, or more often a donkey.

Donkeys don't like pulling in pairs BTW.

BettyS

Researchers this week found a species of jellyfish that appear to sleep, but that lack a brain. That one blew my mind!

tomwaterford

Greybottle wrote: »

Two horse wagons would have been rare in Ireland. Usually one horse, or more often a donkey.

Donkeys don't like pulling in pairs BTW.

They don't like drunk people taking shortcuts through their paddocks either

New Home

^^^


That one sounds like personal experience. Or did it happen to "a friend of yours"?

tomwaterford

New Home wrote: »

^^^


That one sounds like personal experience. Or did it happen to "a friend of yours"?

Personal experience

New Home

At least if wasn't bulls...

Curly Judge

If you put a baby into bath water and it turns red, it means that the water is too hot for your elbow.

FanadMan

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

It's 2017 and you still can't get the single edits of The Police's Walking On The Moon and Message In A Bottle on CD. All compilations use the longer album versions including one of their own called Every Breath You Take: The Singles.

Still have my Message In A Bottle single.......love that song!

ohnonotgmail

BettyS wrote: »

Researchers this week found a species of jellyfish that appear to sleep, but that lack a brain. That one blew my mind!

i think i work with a few of them.

Kat1170

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

i think i work with a few of them.

I think I've worked for a few of them

New Home

Pedestrian crossing in Pompeii (the ruts can be clearly seen, too)

BettyS

You made me laugh aloud with that one!

thee glitz

NZ is bigger than the UK.

storker

Greybottle wrote: »

Two horse wagons would have been rare in Ireland. Usually one horse, or more often a donkey.

Donkeys don't like pulling in pairs BTW.

I'm picturing one donkey saying to the other..."I don't fancy yours much.."

Greybottle

Wibbs wrote: »

Further to the Roman track and horse's arses...



Ye olde boreen. Only before the advent of the car and traffic was horsedrawn, roads didn't have a grass strip up the middle, because that's where the horses walked and wore the track. So that image of a bygone olde road is anything but, it's actually evidence of the coming of the motorcar.

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FWIW the picture above was taken in the Black Valley in Co. Kerry, supposedly the last place in Ireland to be linked to the electric grid in 1978.

Pic: https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.9751105,-9.714105,3a,75y,303.54h,92.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJYTnw1GjnBALcgnQfNmCMw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Capt'n Midnight

Another bit on the Rockets limited by the size of a Roman cart,

NASA have been using outsized cargo aircraft for yonks so didn't really have to restrict things to train size.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Spacelines_Pregnant_Guppy

google boeing train crash montana
to see that you can send big stuff by train if not restricted by bridges and tunnels

Tigger

Greybottle wrote: »

FWIW the picture above was taken in the Black Valley in Co. Kerry, supposedly the last place in Ireland to be linked to the electric grid in 1978.

Pic: https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.9751105,-9.714105,3a,75y,303.54h,92.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJYTnw1GjnBALcgnQfNmCMw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

cooney island got lecky in 99 its an inland island

Curly Judge

There are as many nanoseconds in a second as there are seconds in 30 years.

Capt'n Midnight

In New Hampshire it's now legal for pregnant women to kill people.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

In New Hampshire it's now legal for pregnant women to kill people.

No. They closed that loophole fairly quickly.

Snotty

A good read, not sure how much is true :


They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & Sold to the tannery.......if you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor"

But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot......they "didn't have a pot to piss in" & were the lowest of the low

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June.. However, since they were starting to smell . ...... . Brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting Married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof... Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold.

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old. Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat.

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would Sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive... So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.

https://www.littlethings.com/customs-from-a-simpler-time-vas/

New Home

In New Hampshire, for a very short time, until that loophole was closed, it was legal for pregnant women to kill people.



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B.A._Baracus

There is a $2 American bill. Most Americans don't know about it. As there's only so many in circulation.

VW 1

Washington state has a mutual combat law, whereby you can challenge someone to a duel or a fair fight, where law officers will not intervene.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

There's only so many of any denomination of bank note in circulation in any country.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

VW 1 wrote: »

Washington state has a mutual combat law, whereby you can challenge someone to a duel or a fair fight, where law officers will not intervene.

That's a myth. It is only legal for a sporting event per the following statute

9.08.070 Mutual combat.
A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if he engages in or provokes combat with another person or persons upon the streets, walks or other areas of the city open to the public, or upon unauthorized private areas, unless such combat constitutes regularly scheduled and sanctioned sporting events such as boxing, wrestling, or the martial arts, where safety precautions are taken to reduce serious physical injury.
(Ord. O2010-022, Added, 12/21/2010)

Ted_YNWA

Srameen knows everything.

New Home

That's true, but we did know that.