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    #1532
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Similarly red peppers are ripened green peppers.

    In French a lime is 'citroen vert' which translates as green lemon, although it's obviously a different fruit.

    Not as obvious as you might think. While lemons and limes are different species, they are extremely closely related.


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    #1533
    borderlinemeath
    Registered Users Posts: 5,339 ✭✭✭borderlinemeath


    When Sweden are playing Denmark in an international fixture the abbreviated scoreboard reads:

    SWE:DEN

    The remaining letters not used spell DEN:MARK

    Same with Cyprus V Russia

    CYP:RUS

    And the remaining letters are RUS:SIA


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    #1534
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Similarly red peppers are ripened green peppers.

    In French a lime is 'citroen vert' which translates as green lemon, although it's obviously a different fruit.

    In Spanish, there is only one word for limes and lemons- limón. They don't see them as being different fruit at all.


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    #1535
    flas
    Registered Users Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭flas


    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    In Spanish, there is only one word for limes and lemons- limón. They don't see them as being different fruit at all.

    Same with Brazilians,their lemons are green, or what they call lemons are green,like limes


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    #1536
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    borderlinemeath wrote: »
    When Sweden are playing Denmark in an international fixture the abbreviated scoreboard reads:

    SWE:DEN

    The remaining letters not used spell DEN:MARK

    Same with Cyprus V Russia

    CYP:RUS

    And the remaining letters are RUS:SIA

    Wasn't there some controversey a few years ago when Nigeria played Germany?


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    #1537
    borderlinemeath
    Registered Users Posts: 5,339 ✭✭✭borderlinemeath


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Wasn't there some controversey a few years ago when Nigeria played Germany?

    No, you would think it, but Nigeria isn't abbreviated to it's first 3 letters, it's NGA. Now if Germany were playing away to the Republic of Niger....


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    #1538
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,733 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    borderlinemeath wrote: »
    No, you would think it, but Nigeria isn't abbreviated to it's first 3 letters, it's NGA. Now if Germany were playing away to the Republic of Niger....

    Ye, it'd be RON


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    #1539
    borderlinemeath
    Registered Users Posts: 5,339 ✭✭✭borderlinemeath


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    Ye, it'd be RON

    Incorrect if it's international soccer, which is pretty much the most likely international sport that they might meet in a match, friendly or otherwise. The FIFA code for Republic of Niger is NIG.


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    #1540
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    In Spanish, there is only one word for limes and lemons- limón. They don't see them as being different fruit at all.

    And that is why the wonderful Linnaean binomial system was created - every species has a single Latin name , so everyone knows exactly what plant they are talking about without worrying about local variants. 😊


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    #1541
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    Our eyes have evolved to see the visible light range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    Want to see Infrared which is invisible to our vision?

    Get a TV remote control and a smart phone camera.
    Point the bulb of the remote control at the camera and press any button.

    You can now 'see' the electromagnetic waves emitted at the invisible infrared frequency.


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    #1542
    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,815 ✭✭✭stimpson


    valoren wrote: »
    Our eyes have evolved to see the visible light range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    Want to see Infrared which is invisible to our vision?

    Get a TV remote control and a smart phone camera.
    Point the bulb of the remote control at the camera and press any button.

    You can now 'see' the electromagnetic waves emitted at the invisible infrared frequency.

    Only works on phones without an IR filter (ie. not iPhones)


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    #1543
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,175 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    valoren wrote: »
    ...You can now 'see' the electromagnetic waves emitted at the invisible infrared frequency.

    Don't forget to make the "WHOMP-Bzzzz..." sound like when the Predator's mask changes frequency. :pac:


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    #1544
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    valoren wrote: »
    Our eyes have evolved to see the visible light range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    Want to see Infrared which is invisible to our vision?

    Get a TV remote control and a smart phone camera.
    Point the bulb of the remote control at the camera and press any button.

    You can now 'see' the electromagnetic waves emitted at the invisible infrared frequency.

    I seen this somewhere before - tried it on 2 different androids and a windows phone, didn't work with any of them:mad:


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    #1545
    Thargor
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    Remember when ITV and the rest used to have those stupid ghost programmes like Most Haunted and a couple of others, a lot of them focused on orbs, as in they'd review the footage and suddenly see an "orb" floating across a room etc? Well if you shine an IR remote into a cctv camera and look at it on the monitor you'll see where those chancers were getting their floating orbs, its a really eerie effect.


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    #1546
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I seen this somewhere before - tried it on 2 different androids and a windows phone, didn't work with any of them:mad:

    Either the phone has a good infrared filter or the remote wasn't IR.

    Cones it our eyes are sensituve up to around 700 nanometre wavelength light. Infrared remote controls emit at 850-1000nm. Silicone sensors in typical cameras are sensitive up to around 1100nm.

    Cameras are usually equipped with an infrared filter to block out the IR wavelengths but they're not always 100% effective — especially if it's a cheap camera. That's why a lot of cameras can sense some of the infrared light from remotes.

    If you've got a camera that you're not too fond of, it's not too difficult to remove the IR filter altogether and take images with visible light and infrared up to ~1100nm.


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    #1547
    Hagar7
    Registered Users Posts: 724 ✭✭✭Hagar7


    Thargor wrote: »
    Remember when ITV and the rest used to have those stupid ghost programmes like Most Haunted and a couple of others, a lot of them focused on orbs, as in they'd review the footage and suddenly see an "orb" floating across a room etc? Well if you shine an IR remote into a cctv camera and look at it on the monitor you'll see where those chancers were getting their floating orbs, its a really eerie effect.

    Talking of which,Derek Acorah's mum always knitted his son's jumpers,he was a medium.


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    #1548
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,771 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Jim opens a cafe selling fish and chips. He has a sign made. It arrives and it says "fishandchips". So he rings up the sign company and says:

    You need to put more space between "fish" and "and" and "and" and "chips"

    IIRC you can get 18 and's with the spacing on the sign for Roland & Anderson.


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    #1549
    Four Phucs Ache
    Registered Users Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Four Phucs Ache


    We know him as Sting thanks to the slagging he got by a group called the Phoenix jazzmen.He used to wear a black and yellow striped jumper when he played with them.


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    #1550
    thee glitz
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    Over 530,000 people live in Co.Down - it's the 2nd most densely populated in Ireland.


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    #1551
    ryaner777
    Registered Users Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭ryaner777


    Probably already been said but

    Leap years are every 4 years *

    2096 will be a leap year but 2100 won't

    Turn of the century years are only leap years if divisible by 400

    Eg years 1600 & 2000 yes but not 1700,1800,1900,2100


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    #1552
    dinneenp
    Registered Users Posts: 8,108 ✭✭✭dinneenp


    the numbers 'one' all the way to 'fifty' don't contain the letter 'a'!


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    #1553
    Cianmcliam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Cianmcliam


    dinneenp wrote: »
    the numbers 'one' all the way to 'fifty' don't contain the letter 'a'!

    What about 50 to 100? Is one hundred and one not the first number with an 'a'?


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    #1554
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    What I need to know is ... is there a name for that excited shiver thing you do when you jump in bed after a long day and pull the duvet over yourself?


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    #1555
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,173 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Cianmcliam wrote: »
    What about 50 to 100? Is one hundred and one not the first number with an 'a'?

    If you count the a in and then one hundred and one is the first number to contain an a. If you ignore the ands then the first number is one thousand. the first number to contain the letter b is one billion.


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    #1556
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    The way we speak numbers as opposed to the way Asians do, is thought to be the main reason why Asians tend to be much better at mental arithmetic than westerners.
    There are loads of irregular names and odd sounding names that need to first be translated into pure numbers before we can do the sum.

    We have 1-10, then eleven, twelve, thirteen only then do the numbers sound like what they are 4-teen, 5-teen, so on. We have odd sounds for twenty, thirty + fifty but sixty, seventy, eighty and ninety sound like they number they represent.

    Chinese for example say 1-10 then 11 is ten-one, 12 is ten-two and so on. 13 is ten-three, 54 is five-tens-four.

    For us to to add 13+54 in our heads we need to first decode the words into numbers, then do the sum and finally check does that need to translated into an odd sounding word.

    To add ten-three and five-tens-four it's a much simpler and faster mental process to end up with six-tens-seven


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    #1557
    ScrubsfanChris
    Registered Users Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    thee glitz wrote: »
    Over 530,000 people live in Co.Down - it's the 2nd most densely populated in Ireland.
    Are you talking about "people per square km" when you say most densely populated?
    Its 4th overall otherwise.


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    #1558
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,173 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    The way we speak numbers as opposed to the way Asians do, is thought to be the main reason why Asians tend to be much better at mental arithmetic than westerners.
    There are loads of irregular names and odd sounding names that need to first be translated into pure numbers before we can do the sum.

    We have 1-10, then eleven, twelve, thirteen only then do the numbers sound like what they are 4-teen, 5-teen, so on. We have odd sounds for twenty, thirty + fifty but sixty, seventy, eighty and ninety sound like they number they represent.

    Chinese for example say 1-10 then 11 is ten-one, 12 is ten-two and so on. 13 is ten-three, 54 is five-tens-four.

    For us to to add 13+54 in our heads we need to first decode the words into numbers, then do the sum and finally check does that need to translated into an odd sounding word.

    To add ten-three and five-tens-four it's a much simpler and faster mental process to end up with six-tens-seven


    could be worse. we could do it the same way as the french. 80 = quatre-vingts


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    #1559
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    The way we speak numbers as opposed to the way Asians do, is thought to be the main reason why Asians tend to be much better at mental arithmetic than westerners.
    There are loads of irregular names and odd sounding names that need to first be translated into pure numbers before we can do the sum.

    We have 1-10, then eleven, twelve, thirteen only then do the numbers sound like what they are 4-teen, 5-teen, so on. We have odd sounds for twenty, thirty + fifty but sixty, seventy, eighty and ninety sound like they number they represent.

    Chinese for example say 1-10 then 11 is ten-one, 12 is ten-two and so on. 13 is ten-three, 54 is five-tens-four.

    For us to to add 13+54 in our heads we need to first decode the words into numbers, then do the sum and finally check does that need to translated into an odd sounding word.

    To add ten-three and five-tens-four it's a much simpler and faster mental process to end up with six-tens-seven

    People from Denmark would be utterly hopeless at maths in that case.


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    #1560
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,154 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    could be worse. we could do it the same way as the french. 80 = quatre-vingts
    We used to.

    "Four score and seven years ago..."

    I think the same was true in Irish; ochtó is a relatively new word


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    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    cdeb wrote: »
    We used to.

    "Four score and seven years ago..."

    I think the same was true in Irish; ochtó is a relatively new word

    I think some people still use scór in Irish.

    scór = twenty
    dha scór = forty
    thrí scór go leath (three score and half) = seventy
    cúig déag agus ceithre scór = ninety-five


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