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    #152
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,908 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    No you are all wrong, my version is the correct one.

    LOL..

    Just testing the know alls here.


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    #153
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 28,541 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Cartouche wrote: »
    Before he was a famous director, Quentin Tarantino once played an Elvis impersonator on The Golden Girls

    https://youtu.be/sT9cCsjIuYU?t=4m30s

    A good director would have got him to tone it down a bit.


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    #154
    themagiconion
    Site Banned Posts: 33 ✭themagiconion


    There was great excitement in scientific communities recently when a giant gas cloud, made up entirely of alcohol, was found in space.

    This boozy nebula is about 463 billion kilometers long and would contain enough alcohol to make the equivalent of 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.


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    #155
    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,815 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Robineen wrote: »
    In the late 70s and early 80s, Tim Allen of 'Home Improvement' fame served time for drug trafficking after being caught with over a pound of cocaine at a US airport in 1978.

    Bill Murray was caught at O'Hare airport while trying to smuggle 10lbs of weed on 20th September 1970, his 20th birthday. He was convicted and got probation.


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    #156
    [Deleted User]
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    Your stomach produces highly corrosive hydrochloric acid (usually referred to as gastric acid) to break down and digest food. To stop your stomach from breaking down and digesting itself, your body produces a brand new stomach lining every three days.

    Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire, but the oldest university is Nalanda University in Northern India.

    Within two minds about fracking? New research published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America would suggest that several Californian earthquakes from 1920 and 1933 could be blamed on oil and gas drilling.


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    #157
    Cartouche
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭Cartouche


    In the 1730s, a group of printing apprentices massacred “every cat they could find” on Paris’ Rue Saint-Séverin. The cats were subsequently tried (in a mock trial, BUT STILL), found guilty of witchcraft, and hanged.
    The popular belief is that the cats were treated better by the masters than the apprentices were. This was an early precursor to the French Revolution


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    #158
    Mr Whom
    Site Banned Posts: 72 ✭✭Mr Whom


    RobertKK wrote: »
    While around 10% of Irish people have red hair (ginger) 46% of Irish people carry the red hair genes.
    If both parents carry red hair genes, their offspring have a 25% of having red hair.

    Poor misfortunate fooks


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    #159
    Grandeeod
    Registered Users Posts: 12,107 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    With the introduction of the camera phone, iPhone and Samsung Galaxy range, people still don't know how to take a proper fooking photo. As for taking video footage, that's even fooking worse. People have been gifted fantastic technology and still I see ****ty framing, out of focus muck and shaky video footage. Pricks!

    People know this already, so sorry.


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    #160
    dar100
    Registered Users Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭dar100


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Post traumatic stress disorder changes the structure of the brain. The amygdala may grow in size. The smallest of things appear threatening. The hippocampus may shrink. Short term memory is converted to long term memory.
    The blood flow in the pre-frontal cortex changes. There may be less blood flowing to the left resulting in less ability for language and memory. Blood flow to the right may increase causing more feelings of sorrow and anger.

    Psychopaths are born. Sociopaths are made.

    No evidence to support any of this


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    #161
    [Deleted User]
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Post traumatic stress disorder changes the structure of the brain. The amygdala may grow in size.

    Not sure that conclusion is supported by the research atm.

    According to research carried out by anthrozoologists, enthnobiologists and neuroscientists, specific neurons in the amygdalae respond consistently to images and interactions with animals, leading to speculation that our brains have developed not only to analyze the threat from predators and the dynamics of hunting for food, but also to facilitate animal/human cooperation and partnership.


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    #162
    FrKurtFahrt
    Registered Users Posts: 899 ✭✭✭FrKurtFahrt


    Percy Shaw patented the 'cat's eye' reflector in 1934, as a road safety aid. He got the idea while driving one night and a cat walked towards his car, the eyes lighting up brightly.

    It is thought that if the cat was walking in the opposite direction, Shaw would have invented the pencil sharpener.


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    #163
    Cartouche
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭Cartouche


    Before the mid-19th century dentures were commonly made with teeth pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers


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    #164
    Hammer89
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    The sun is 93 million miles away. I'm sure a lot of people know that, but think about how unfathomably hot it is. It burns us from 93 million miles away! That's great.


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    #165
    Miss Demeanour
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    Hammer89 wrote: »
    The sun is 93 million miles away. I'm sure a lot of people know that, but think about how unfathomably hot it is. It burns us from 93 million miles away! That's great.

    You're ginger right? :p

    My fact....blue eyes aren't really blue.....its just a trick of the light.


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    #166
    Senna
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    Hammer89 wrote: »
    The sun is 93 million miles away. I'm sure a lot of people know that, but think about how unfathomably hot it is. It burns us from 93 million miles away! That's great.

    Sure couldn't be that hot, there ne heat of it at all at night


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    #167
    Cartouche
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭Cartouche


    The Fermi paradox or Fermi's paradox, named after physicist Enrico Fermi, is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence and high probability estimates, e.g., those given by the Drake equation, for the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations. The basic points of the argument, made by physicists Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) and Michael H. Hart (born 1932), are:

    There are billions of stars in the galaxy that are similar to the Sun, many of which are billions of years older than Earth.
    With high probability, some of these stars will have Earth-like planets, and if the Earth is typical, some might develop intelligent life.
    Some of these civilizations might develop interstellar travel, a step the Earth is investigating now.
    Even at the slow pace of currently envisioned interstellar travel, the Milky Way galaxy could be completely traversed in a few million years

    According to this line of reasoning, the Earth should have already been visited by extraterrestrial aliens. In an informal conversation, Fermi noted no convincing evidence of this, leading him to ask, "Where is everybody?"There have been many attempts to explain the Fermi paradox, primarily suggesting either that intelligent extraterrestrial life is extremely rare, or proposing reasons that such civilizations have not contacted or visited Earth.


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    #168
    gitzy16v
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,093 ✭✭✭gitzy16v


    Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »
    This is where this type of thread becomes untrustworthy. That is utter nonsense.

    Genesis 7 says "Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth."

    Hook,line and sinker....it's AH.


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    #169
    Frynge
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    Outside of dogs, books are a mans best friend, inside of dogs, it is too dark to read.


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    #170
    dresden8
    Registered Users Posts: 3,289 ✭✭✭dresden8


    CINCLANTFLT wrote: »
    There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't!

    There are 2 types of people in this world. Those who can extrapolate.


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    #171
    pedigree 6
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    The word Automobile comes from greek auto meaning self and the latin word moblis meaning movable.

    The word Car comes from the Old Irish word Carr meaning wheeled vehicle and before that it was supposed to come from Old Celtic.

    Any farmers or old people will know this but in Ireland horse or ass drawn carts were never called carts (English) in Ireland they were always called cars i.e the Haycar and Sidecar.


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    #172
    Outlaw Pete
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    When Leslie Grantham (Dirty Den in Eastenders) was 19 (1966) he murdered a taxi driver in West Germany. Shot him in the head while trying to rob him. Claimed it was an accident but the jury didn't believe him and he was sentenced to life imprisonment, but only served ten years.

    In 1997 Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son got a puncture and as he was repairing it a guy came along and tried to car jack a female friend of his that came to help. She took off and the guy shot Cosby's son in the head killing him.

    In 1985, the parents of Patrick Duffy (who played Bobby Ewing in Dallas) were both shot dead during an attempted robbery of the bar they ran in Montana.

    In 1968 when Kelsey Grammer was 13 some lunatic set his father's car on fire and then shot him dead when he came out to confront him. Then seven years later his eighteen year old sister was abducted, raped, stabbed and subsequently died despite managing to flee from her attackers:
    The murdering duo committed their final and most publicized killing on July 1, 1975. Glenn, Corbett, and two other men decided to rob the Red Lobster restaurant on South Academy Boulevard. They left without any money, but on their way out they grabbed Karen Grammer, an 18-year-old who worked there and was waiting for her boyfriend to get off work, because they feared she could identify them.

    After robbing a convenience store, the men took Grammer to the apartment they shared, where they raped her repeatedly. They promised to take her home, then sat her in the car, put a cloth over her head and let her out in a mobile home park on South Wahsatch Avenue.

    Then Glenn, who, according to court testimony, had taken LSD, stabbed her in the throat, back and hand, and left her to die. In a desperate attempt to save herself, she ran toward the back porch of a nearby home where there was a light, but the homeowners were out.

    She died there, leaving bloody hand prints and fingerprints where she tried to reach the doorbell for help. She had almost reached the doorbell when she collapsed. Police photographs show a bloody hand print on the wall, inches from the doorbell.

    Police did not know her name for a week, until her brother Kelsey Grammer arrived to identify the body.


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    #173
    HamsterFace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 832 ✭✭✭HamsterFace


    Wow ^^

    Kind of explains why he's a hardline Republican


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    #174
    StupidLikeAFox
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    pedigree 6 wrote: »
    The word Car comes from the Old Irish word Carr meaning wheeled vehicle and before that it was supposed to come from Old Celtic.

    The original irish word for car was gluaistean so i looked this up. Don't think you are correct:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car#Etymology

    I wish the term "horseless carraige" had stuck tbh


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    #175
    Shannon757
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    If you replace the "W" in "where", "what" and "when" with a "t" you get the answers.


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    #176
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    The word "slang" is slang for short language.


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    #177
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    The word "SWIMS" upside down is still "SWIMS"


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    #178
    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    Cartouche wrote: »
    The word Marmalade comes from Mary, Queen of Scots

    When the queen was ill; the servants would bring her an orange preserve they made that seemed to help with her ailment. They would say “Marie est malade,” this was changed to Mariemalade, and later just pronounced Marmalade

    Nope : late 15th century: from Portuguese marmelada ‘quince jam’, from marmelo ‘quince’, based on Greek melimēlon (from meli ‘honey’ + mēlon ‘apple’).


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    #179
    Wibbs
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    StupidLikeAFox wrote: »
    The original irish word for car was gluaistean so i looked this up. Don't think you are correct:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car#Etymology
    "gluaistean" is more recent, literally "fast thing" IIRC. "Car" was an old Celtic language word the Romans nicked, a word to describe a wheeled vehicle that would have been present in Celtic language Ireland that far back.

    EDIT I just clicked the link you posted to support your idea and it seems you didn't actually read it? :confused:

    "The word "car" is believed to originate from the Latin word carrus or carrum ("wheeled vehicle"), or the Middle English word carre (meaning two-wheel cart, from Old North French). In turn, these originated from the Gaulish word karros (a Gallic chariot). The Gaulish language was a branch of the Brythoic language which also used the word Karr; the Brythonig language evolved into Welsh (and Gaelic) where 'Car llusg' (a drag cart or sledge) and 'car rhyfel' (war chariot) still survive" Emphasis mine.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #180
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,849 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    The US gov is still paying for 2 civil war pensions (at least up to a few months ago)

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #181
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    Imagine someone going to watch Back to the Future part 2 in November 1989.
    They see Doc Brown give Marty a pair of Nike shoes in Oct 2015.
    The viewer thinks "If Nike still exists in 2015, then I ought to buy some stock today".
    The day after the film, they invest $1,000 in NKE stock.

    As of October 2015, the investment is worth $87,443 with an annual income of $865.

    All thanks to Doc Brown's discerning taste in sneakers. Great...Scott!!!!


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