I bet you didnt know that

BBDBB

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

You could just take the Viagra at some other time...

That would be one hell of a weekend

DogBun

If you stand on one leg, 300% of your body weight goes through that hip joint.

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Wibbs wrote: »

yep 10:08:42 because that became an industry standard, because it showed off the hands on an analogue watch well and also worked well for digitals too. IIRC it was Seiko who first made it a thing across their range in advertising literature, with the rest of the industry following suit.

Apple on the other hand nearly always show the iPhone clock/time at 9:41 in their promotional literature.

This was the time that Steve Jobs showed the original iPhone live in 2007. He was running a minute late

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The word El in Hebrew, Semitic and proto Semitic languages means God. It originally was name of the specific God of the Canaanites but later becomes the general name for God.

It survives in modern Semitic languages and universally in names derived from Hebrew.

Israel - triumphant with God
Michael - who is like God
Daniel - god is my judge
Gabriel - God is my srength
Adel(le) - God is eternal.



The word angel means messenger of god. Does what it says on the tin.

(Seems like a compact language, huh?).

Capt'n Midnight

Wibbs wrote: »

yep 10:08:42 because that became an industry standard, because it showed off the hands on an analogue watch well and also worked well for digitals too. IIRC it was Seiko who first made it a thing across their range in advertising literature, with the rest of the industry following suit.

On reason is that it meant the hands didn't cover the logo or date display.

Chancer3001

I heard it was because it made the two hands look like a smiley face on the watch

storker

corner of hells wrote: »

The HSE allows you only four viagra a month or 48 rides a year.
Less if you factor in headaches and the red army.

Your missus does the Red Army?

Duckworth_Luas

Everyone knows that the best thing since sliced bread is in fact sliced bread.

However, before this households made there own bread, with flour that came in cotton sacks.

In the USA, during the Great Depression, creative mothers began to make use of this resource to make clothes for their children.



The results were adequate, but when the flour suppliers realised what was happening they reinvented they way they supplied their product.

They began to pack their flour in cotton bags designed with bright, colourful patterns, which made for much more attractive clothing.





The branding and company logos on the bags were made of washable ink that was removed by soaking them in hot water.

Sometimes the sacks included designs for children's toys, such as dolls and Teddy bears





They were even made into clothing for adults as well.



In fact it, after the Great Depression, up until at least the 1960s, there were competitions as to who could make the most fashionable dress out of flour bags. This one is in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

homecouldbhere

Fascinating.
Wish I could thank that more than once!

Realt Dearg Sec

Best post I've read in ages.

Duckworth_Luas

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Everyone knows that the best thing since sliced bread is in fact sliced bread.

However, before this households made there own bread, with flour that came in cotton sacks.

In the USA, during the Great Depression, creative mothers began to make use of this resource to make clothes for their children.

The results were adequate, but when the flour suppliers realised what was happening they reinvented they way they supplied their product.

They began to pack their flour in cotton bags designed with bright, colourful patterns, which made for much more attractive clothing.

The branding and company logos on the bags were made of washable ink that was removed by soaking them in hot water.

Sometimes the sacks included designs for children's toys, such as dolls and Teddy bears.

They were even made into clothing for adults as well.

In fact it, after the Great Depression, up until at least the 1960s, there were competitions as to who could make the most fashionable dress out of flour bags. This one is in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

How interesting! I wonder if the saying 'She'd look good in a sack!" is related to this - I suspect so.

That last dress is beautiful.

Realt Dearg Sec

Candie wrote: »

How interesting! I wonder if the saying 'She'd look good in a sack!" is related to this - I suspect so.

That last dress is beautiful.

I'd look good in that myself. And I'm a 35 year old man.

IvyTheTerrible

And now fabric companies sell prints called "feedsack" prints to sewers (in particular patchworkers) at much higher prices, as retro sells.
(Look at this one, $17.50 a yard! https://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/338561-feed-sack-girls-on-bikes-pink-289-by-kkitwana )

Curly Judge

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Everyone knows that the best thing since sliced bread is in fact sliced bread.

However, before this households made there own bread, with flour that came in cotton sacks.

In the USA, during the Great Depression, creative mothers began to make use of this resource to make clothes for their children.



The results were adequate, but when the flour suppliers realised what was happening they reinvented they way they supplied their product.

They began to pack their flour in cotton bags designed with bright, colourful patterns, which made for much more attractive clothing.





The branding and company logos on the bags were made of washable ink that was removed by soaking them in hot water.

Sometimes the sacks included designs for children's toys, such as dolls and

Teddy bears





They were even made into clothing for adults as well.



In fact it, after the Great Depression, up until at least the 1960s, there were competitions as to who could make the most fashionable dress out of flour bags. This one is in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

Great post!
My mother never made dresses out of flour bags but she did make bed sheets.
I remember that her biggest job was washing out the starch so that the sheets would be relatively soft and smooth. This as no easy job, especially before the advent of Tide and Persil.
In those days being able to buy a full hundredweight of Odlums was a bit of a status symbol. Ours was prominently placed on an old armchair next to the kitchen cupboard.

Greybottle

5% of all milk produced in the Republic of Ireland goes to making Baileys.

A bottle of Baileys is sold every 0.125 seconds worldwide, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. That's over a quarter of a billion bottles a year.

In the time it took you to read this, over 100 bottles of the sickly sweet liquer have been filled and sold.

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Candie wrote: »

How interesting! I wonder if the saying 'She'd look good in a sack!" is related to this - I suspect so.

That last dress is beautiful.

I searched for Candie's phrase "She'd look good in a sack" and it turns out that Marilyn Monroe took that challenge.

New Home

Just wondering: monks and nuns tunics used to be made out of sack-cloth (not the nice cotton one, more like the stuff Marilyn is wearing) - could there be a connection between that expression and joining a nunnery?

tayto lover

Greybottle wrote: »

5% of all milk produced in the Republic of Ireland goes to making Baileys.

A bottle of Baileys is sold every 0.125 seconds worldwide, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. That's over a quarter of a billion bottles a year.

In the time it took you to read this, over 100 bottles of the sickly sweet liquer have been filled and sold.

Feck ya. Now I have to open a bottle i've had for ages. Lovely stuff.

bonzodog2

Greybottle wrote: »

5% of all milk produced in the Republic of Ireland goes to making Baileys.

A bottle of Baileys is sold every 0.125 seconds worldwide, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. That's over a quarter of a billion bottles a year.

In the time it took you to read this, over 100 bottles of the sickly sweet liquer have been filled and sold.

I wonder how many cow farts that works out to? :rolleyes:

fred funk }{

In 1941 there were only 11 democracies in the world. Ireland was one of them.

StupidLikeAFox

Thats interesting, there is an interactive map on this page
https://ourworldindata.org/democracy/

Noveight

Commander of the Confederate Army Robert E. Lee was buried without shoes as his coffin was slightly too short for him.

Greybottle

fred funk }{ wrote: »

In 1941 there were only 11 democracies in the world. Ireland was one of them.

But we weren't technically a fully independent state.

Nice to know all the same.

gitzy16v

Greybottle wrote: »

But we weren't technically a fully independent state.

Not sure we are one now!!!

Any interesting story about the phrase "out of the frying pan into the fire"?

Wanderer78

Modern day democracy, otherwise known as plutocracy!

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fred funk }{ wrote: »

In 1941 there were only 11 democracies in the world. Ireland was one of them.

Of course that was the year that the Germans had rolled over much of Europe.

However even in the twenties where were probably only 20 or so democracies in the world, always a good response to people justifying some of our politics by saying that Ireland is a young democracy.

The second oldest tennis tournament in the world, after Wimbledon, is the Irish Open. It was considered pretty much the biggest tournament after Wimbledon before WWI, and was the first to feature men and women singles and doubles. As recently as 1962 it was big enough to draw the superstars when it was won by Rod Laver in the year he won all 4 grand slam tournaments...a feat no other tennis player has since achieved (although he did it again in 1969).

mzungu

Deleted User wrote: »

The second oldest tennis tournament in the world, after Wimbledon, is the Irish Open. It was considered pretty much the biggest tournament after Wimbledon before WWI, and was the first to feature men and women singles and doubles. As recently as 1962 it was big enough to draw the superstars when it was won by Rod Laver in the year he won all 4 grand slam tournaments...a feat no other tennis player has since achieved (although he did it again in 1969).

Not quite, Steffi Graf won all four in 1988.

Ineedaname

mzungu wrote: »

Not quite, Steffi Graf won all four in 1988.

She also won a gold medal at the Olympics making her the only person to achieve a Golden Slam in a single year.

Buford T. Justice XIX

mzungu wrote: »

Not quite, Steffi Graf won all four in 1988.

But she didn't win the Irish Open that year as well which was the point, I think?