I bet you didnt know that

The record time for Carrauntoohil is 1 hour 11 minutes, set by John Lenihan back in 1988.

That's from the base to the summit...and back down again.

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Tough folks the Japs.

Had a code of honour for a warrior/soldier who was about to be captured. They were supposed to fall on their sword or put the last round into their head.

This is why Allied soldiers were treated so badly in their POW Camps.

Cowards in their culture.

Pretty sure that's considered an ethnic slur, along the lines of Paki. I know it's used when speaking about car imports but applying it to people apparently isn't the most appropriate.

FanadMan

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I've been in England numerous times and have never been abused, Always treated quite well in fairness.

The one and only time I ever got guff in Britain was in Holyhead Wales.

I was drinking in a bar with an associate when I noticed some fat bald Taff eyeballing me.

When we got up to leave the bald fat fcuk grabbed my arm as I passed him and said. "The Ferry is that way Paddy"

I lived and worked there in the 90s and there were quite a few times that my accent wasn't liked. Told amongst other things to go back where I was born to which I replied - "That was Hammersmith"

It shut a couple of yobs but others weren't quite as civil.

In fairness, I was mostly treated fine but you'll always get the scummy knuckledraggers everywhere.

Very rude of the fat bald taff fcuk.

DEFTLEFTHAND

FanadMan wrote: »

Wonder if that was where the English got the same nickname for the Irish? Was called it quite a few times along with Paddy and a strange one......kaaant

I've been in England numerous times and have never been abused, Always treated quite well in fairness.

The one and only time I ever got guff in Britain was in Holyhead Wales.

I was drinking in a bar with an associate when I noticed some fat bald Taff eyeballing me.

When we got up to leave the bald fat fcuk grabbed my arm as I passed him and said. "The Ferry is that way Paddy"

FanadMan

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote:

The stateside slur for the Irish 'mick' (as in you stupid mick bastard, or you fcking dumb mick cnut ) comes from the North Eastern Americans initial inability to pronounce the Mc surnames.

Wonder if that was where the English got the same nickname for the Irish? Was called it quite a few times along with Paddy and a strange one......kaaant

DEFTLEFTHAND

New Home wrote: »

What a life, poor man. It's like that chap from Nagasaki who went to Hiroshima and was there when the atomic bomb was dropped; he survived it, and went back home in time for the second bomb, which he also survived.

Tough folks the Japs.

Had a code of honour for a warrior/soldier who was about to be captured. They were supposed to fall on their sword or put the last round into their head.

This is why Allied soldiers were treated so badly in their POW Camps.

Cowards in their culture.

What a life, poor man.

It's like that chap from Nagasaki who went to Hiroshima and was there when the atomic bomb was dropped; he survived it, and went back home in time for the second bomb, which he also survived.

Duckworth_Luas

An ethnic Korean, Yang Kyoungjong was living in Manchuria when hostilities began between Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union at the start of World War II.

As Manchuria was controlled by the Japanese, Yang was conscripted into their army and sent to fight against the Soviets and their Mongolian allies.

During the Battle of Khalkhin Gol he was captured by the Red Army and sent to a labour camp where he could live out the remainder of the war. No such luck.

By now the Soviets were at full stretch against Nazi Germany. To replenish manpower POWs were being drafted into the Red Army as fresh cannon fodder. In 1942 Yang swapped his Imperial Japanese uniform for that of the Red Army.

After a year of fighting on the eastern front he was captured during the Third Battle of Kharkov, this time by the Wehrmacht. Once again Yang found himself a POW in a prison camp where he could live out the remainder of the war. No such luck.

The Germans found that they too had manpower issues and also began to conscript POWs. Yang was now coerced into wearing a Nazi uniform.

As a member of the Wehrmacht's Osteinheiten, or eastern units, Yang was sent to Normandy in 1944.

During the D-Day landings in June of that year he was captured by United States army paratroopers and sent to a POW camp where he did live out the remainder of the war.

Yang Kyoungjong, a Korean from Manchuria, an historic part of the Chinese Empire, who was an Imperial Japanese Army veteran, a member of the Soviet Union's Red Army, as well as a soldier in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht, died in Chicago in 1992.

DEFTLEFTHAND

The stateside slur for the Irish 'mick' (as in you stupid mick bastard, or you fcking dumb mick cnut ) comes from the North Eastern Americans initial inability to pronounce the Mc surnames.

everlast75

The first westerner to learn of Stalin's death was Johnny Cash. he was an air force Morse Code operator and intercepted a Russian Message

retalivity

Iso country codes are 2 digit standard codes used to represnt each country in the world. For example, ireland is IE, usa is US and so on. They are used in a wide range of areas, like call signs, shipping, sports etc. However they are primarily used in IT as a standard to represent countries. As time goes by and countries come and go, some get old and retired, e.g. bu for burma, yu for yugoslavia; some have been retired, re-used and retired again - cs was czechoslovakia, then wss used later for serbia and montenegro, now is obsolete again. As a sign of the times, 3 codes have now actually been assigned to whatsapp emoji flags - xe for england, xs for scotland and xw for wales.

Deleted User wrote: »

begbysback wrote: »

Onionbelt copied/pasted - endahonesty obviously put more effort in searching for the appropriate picture

I found the relevant figures by googling but I did the calculations myself. Harder than you might think.

It clearly wasn't a copy and paste job, had all the hallmarks of someone explaining as they go. Actually, it's an odd thing to be wrongly criticized for in a thread mostly made up of copy pastes straight out of Wikipedia.

Anyway I learned from your post. But I laughed at endas.

begbysback wrote: »

Onionbelt copied/pasted - endahonesty obviously put more effort in searching for the appropriate picture

I found the relevant figures by googling but I did the calculations myself. Harder than you might think.

Peig is to blame for the misery that was Peig.

ohnonotgmail

islandlady wrote: »

Many people know that the Great Blasket Island was visited by various scholars who encouraged the residents to write and record their lives, and it was their encouragement that led to the classic works of Tomás Ó Criomhthain, Peig Sayers and Muiris Ó Súilleabháin among others. One of the scholars who visited was George Thomson (very close friend of Muiris) who was a Greek scholar from London. He was also a leading Marxist scholar and respected philosopher. Toward the end of his life, he credited his understanding of these highly academic subjects to the time he spent with the Blasket people. He commented on how the island residents were engaged in a form of primitive communism. There was no division of goods based on a top down hierarchy - it was community of mutual support and sharing and is evident from the clachan structure of the village to the ancient farming system used by the islanders. He also attributed his pioneering work on Homer as coming from his understanding of the oral traditions and folk tales of the islanders.

Perhaps not the most exciting fact but I always find it fascinating that such a small community could inspire so much in both each other and themselves.

So he is the one i should blame for the misery that was Peig?

begbysback

everlast75 wrote: »

Can someone point out why Endahonesty got more thanks than Onionbelt. Clearly I am missing something here

Onionbelt copied/pasted - endahonesty obviously put more effort in searching for the appropriate picture

islandlady

Many people know that the Great Blasket Island was visited by various scholars who encouraged the residents to write and record their lives, and it was their encouragement that led to the classic works of Tomás Ó Criomhthain, Peig Sayers and Muiris Ó Súilleabháin among others. One of the scholars who visited was George Thomson (very close friend of Muiris) who was a Greek scholar from London. He was also a leading Marxist scholar and respected philosopher. Toward the end of his life, he credited his understanding of these highly academic subjects to the time he spent with the Blasket people. He commented on how the island residents were engaged in a form of primitive communism. There was no division of goods based on a top down hierarchy - it was community of mutual support and sharing and is evident from the clachan structure of the village to the ancient farming system used by the islanders. He also attributed his pioneering work on Homer as coming from his understanding of the oral traditions and folk tales of the islanders.

Perhaps not the most exciting fact but I always find it fascinating that such a small community could inspire so much in both each other and themselves.

Are Am Eye

Peregrine wrote: »

It was just the style at the time, NH.

My story begins in 19 Dickity 2. We had to say Dickity cause the Kaiser had stolen our word for twenty.

I see. Like the mullet. I hope it was only a phase.

Peregrine

New Home wrote: »

Wait... is Onionbelt a pun on Orion's Belt?? :eek: Wow... :pac:

It was just the style at the time, NH.

New Home wrote: »

Wait... is Onionbelt a pun on Orion's Belt?? :eek: Wow... :pac:

Unfortunately not, I'm far too unsophisticated - my username simply refers to a peculiar fashion from times gone past where people tied onions to their belt. Only big yellow ones mind.

Wait... is Onionbelt a pun on Orion's Belt?? :eek: Wow... :pac:

Deleted User wrote: »

This means that one planck time is to 152 femtoseconds (1.52 x 10^-13 seconds) as 152 femtoseconds is to the age of the universe since the big bang.

Bloody feminists, renaming time after themselves now.

Does anyone know how long HammerTime is?

I thanked you OnionBelt.

KERSPLAT!

Aye, meme is slow to load for me. Missed it first time around

everlast75

New Home wrote: »

People like puns - deal with it. :cool:

I wasn't having a go - I was saying I don't know what the reason for the likes was. If there was a pun - I missed it?

EDIT - the meme wasn't showing previously - I can see it now.

everlast75 wrote: »

Can someone point out why Endahonesty got more thanks than Onionbelt. Clearly I am missing something here

Brevity.