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As people here work in various jobs / professions they might know things from work or study no one here knows yet. this is what this topic is about.

what do you know that we have never heard of?

Eg: you don't need to be great at maths to be an architect

this is obvious to me but everyone says to me "i wanted to be an architect but i was bad at math,i can barely add"

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Tigger

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Less than 1% of the earth is water.

If you travel south from Detroit you'll end up in Canada.

Ireland is Europe's biggest exporter of bananas

There are more trees on earth than stars in the milky way

A 17 inch pizza is more pizza than two 12 inch pizzas.

Read these today and they blew my mind a little

he earth water thing is it by mass?

Tigger

Widdershins wrote: »

Not native to there though?

native smative
there are 50 million white people in africa that arent technically native but they are still in africa

Ipso

Dean Martin could have wrote a song about that.

Capt'n Midnight

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

This one took me ages to accept, but ever since I've started thinking of pi X r squared when ordering pizza.

Pro Tip to get the most you need to think of volume rather than area.

If the radius is z and the thickness is a then the volume is pizza

Ipso

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Less than 1% of the earth is water.

If you travel south from Detroit you'll end up in Canada.

Ireland is Europe's biggest exporter of bananas

There are more trees on earth than stars in the milky way

A 17 inch pizza is more pizza than two 12 inch pizzas.

Read these today and they blew my mind a little

I think technically it's the biggest manufacturer of bananas.
The pizza one is a good one.

Realt Dearg Sec

Chancer3001 wrote: »

A 17 inch pizza is more pizza than two 12 inch pizzas.

This one took me ages to accept, but ever since I've started thinking of pi X r squared when ordering pizza. It's surprising how often this kind of thing happens. I know, the more you order the cheaper it's likely to be in any situation, but I'm pretty sure the pizza makers aren't aware of it a lot of the time, but invariably the bigger pizzas on the menu are exponentially better value than you would be expecting, once you consider the formula for the area of a circle.

Also if the crust on a pizza isn't particularly good, then the bigger pizza gives you a much better pie:crust ratio.

This is literally the only practical application for Leaving Cert geometry I've ever had in my life. But Mr. Kavanagh would be very proud all the same.

Chancer3001

Less than 1% of the earth is water.

If you travel south from Detroit you'll end up in Canada.

Ireland is Europe's biggest exporter of bananas

There are more trees on earth than stars in the milky way

A 17 inch pizza is more pizza than two 12 inch pizzas.

Read these today and they blew my mind a little

New Home

Chancer3001 wrote: »

W.B Yeats' younger brother Jack won Ireland's first Olympic medal (Ireland as a free state)

He won us an Olympic medal.....for painting .

From Wikipedia:

Yeats holds the distinction of being Ireland's first medalist at the Olympic Games in the wake of creation of the Irish Free State. At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Yeats' painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games. In the competition records the painting is simply entitled Swimming.

See, after reading Chancer's post I thought something similar might have taken place with the Nobel prize. Obviously not.

harry Bailey esq

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

I was a joint Nobel Prize winner in 2012 and Time Magazine's Person of the year in 2006.

I've also won the Tour De France as times as Lance Armstrong.

Some of us can do well in both intellectual and athletic fields.

Well that clears a few things up.
Some people have all the luck.

stimpson

New Home wrote: »

Did you also win the Pulitzer for creative writing? :pac:

Jokes aside, I didn't know Nobel prizes had been awarded for sports either - I think Stimpson's question was a genuine one.

Nope. Was just for the lols. Sorry

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Squall Leonhart wrote: »

I looked it up.. well done Capt'n.

For those who have yet to check it out..

Time person of the year 2006 was "you"
Nobel prize winner 2012 was the European Union.
Lamcee Armstrong officially won no Tour de France after being stripped of titles.

Brilliant

I went back and thanked his post. And yours.

New Home

Let's play "Spot the eejit" - I win, it's me!

:rolleyes:

Realt Dearg Sec

New Home wrote: »

Did you also win the Pulitzer for creative writing? :pac:

Jokes aside, I didn't know Nobel prizes had been awarded for sports either - I think Stimpson's question was a genuine one.

There aren't Nobel prizes for sports, I think the point is he won it for something else (Peace, as it happens). I took Stimpson to be joking because the way the original post had been phrased could be read as saying he won a gold medal and a Nobel Prize for running the 1500 metres.

Squall Leonhart

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

I was a joint Nobel Prize winner in 2012 and Time Magazine's Person of the year in 2006.

I looked it up.. well done Capt'n.

For those who have yet to check it out..

Time person of the year 2006 was "you"
Nobel prize winner 2012 was the European Union.
Lance Armstrong officially won no Tour de France after being stripped of titles.

New Home

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

I was a joint Nobel Prize winner in 2012 and Time Magazine's Person of the year in 2006.

I've also won the Tour De France as times as Lance Armstrong.

Some of us can do well in both intellectual and athletic fields.

Did you also win the Pulitzer for creative writing? :pac:

Jokes aside, I didn't know Nobel prizes had been awarded for sports either - I think Stimpson's question was a genuine one.

Capt'n Midnight

stimpson wrote: »

There's a Nobel Prize for Athletics?

I was a joint Nobel Prize winner in 2012 and Time Magazine's Person of the year in 2006.

I've also won the Tour De France as times as Lance Armstrong.

Some of us can do well in both intellectual and athletic fields.

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Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

But according to Wikipedia - Holly Bluff, Mississippi (with a population of 189 individuals) is the only area in the US where the majority of the people living there are of Irish decent at 58.33%. Wikipedia Link.

(The first link seems reliable, the second one maybe a little less so)

I think when you go south you are looking at Scots Irish, rather than Irish.

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job seeker wrote: »

I have a job, I hadn't got a job when I set up this account..

Mobile developer?

sentient_6

job seeker wrote: »

I have a job, I hadn't got a job when I set up this account..

Im messing with you lad.

partyguinness

I generally urinate in the sink to save water...

[Deleted User]

job seeker wrote: »

I have a job, I hadn't got a job when I set up this account..

Heaven knows you're miserable now?

job seeker

sentient_6 wrote: »

I bet you didn't know why you're a job seeker you know now.

Im a terrible person sorry but I couldn't help it.

I have a job, I hadn't got a job when I set up this account..

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The story about how Italians came to dominate a food retail industry not common at all in their homelands is as interesting as it is murky. According to the article below a guy called Giuseppe Cervi arrives in Cobh in 1880, likes the cut of its jib, and decides to stay in Ireland rather than continue to the US. He works in Dublin as a labourer until he earns enough money to buy a mobile cooker and sell fish and chips at closing time, eventually getting his own place on Pearse St where his wife Palma frequently asks her customers ‘Uno di questo, uno di quello?’, meaning ‘one of this and one of the other?’ In doing so, Palma helped to coin a Dublin phrase, ‘one and one’

He wasnt the first Italian to come up with this idea, Italians dominated the trade in Scotland and northern England before that. Glasgow alone consumed 800,000 fish suppers every week. Interestingly despite their scottish connections, this didnt spread to Belfast until later, where oysters and shrimps dominated as an after pub stable. Posh gits.

All taken shamelessly from this article.

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/how-fish-and-chips-enriched-a-nation-1.765095

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joe stodge wrote: »

they heard there was no traditional Italian chippers in America.

There are also no traditional Italian chippers in Italy.

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Martina1991 wrote: »

I always assumed the large population of Irish descendants in USA is related to the Famine and the mass emigration.

But why are there so many Italian Americans as well? What caused the mass emigration of the Italians?

In the late 1800s the kingdom of the two Sicilies was united and had a high population of poor farming communities who were actively encouraged to emigrate to the US to ease pressure on the state. Post civil war United States encouraged their arrival, to fill labour shortages after the losses from the war.

joe stodge

Martina1991 wrote: »

I always assumed the large population of Irish descendants in USA is related to the Famine and the mass emigration.

But why are there so many Italian Americans as well? What caused the mass emigration of the Italians?

they heard there was no traditional Italian chippers in America.

Martina1991

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

America's number-one Irish place is the Boston suburb of Milton, where 38 percent of residents are Irish (decent).
Six of the 10 cities in our list of most Irish areas are in Massachusetts, and all of them are in the Northeast.

I always assumed the large population of Irish descendants in USA is related to the Famine and the mass emigration.

But why are there so many Italian Americans as well? What caused the mass emigration of the Italians?

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

America's number-one Irish place is the Boston suburb of Milton, where 38 percent of residents are Irish (decent).
Link to the census data which shows the top Irish places by state.

Six of the 10 cities in our list of most Irish areas are in Massachusetts, and all of them are in the Northeast.

The top 10 list.

Milton, MA 38%
Pearl River, NY 38%
Braintree, MA 36%
Collingdale, PA 35%
Marshfield, MA 35%
Scituate, MA 35%
Gloucester City, NJ 34%
Drexel Hill, PA 34%
Pembroke, MA 34%
Weymouth, MA 33%

Large cities with the highest percentage of Irish ancestry:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 16.74%
Boston, Massachusetts 15.80%
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 14.2%
Louisville, Kentucky 13.2%
Buffalo, New York 11.23%
Nashville, Tennessee 9.8%
Kansas City, Missouri 9.66%
Raleigh, North Carolina 9.5%
Cleveland, Ohio 9.43%
Baltimore, Maryland 9.14%

But according to Wikipedia - Holly Bluff, Mississippi (with a population of 189 individuals) is the only area in the US where the majority of the people living there are of Irish decent at 58.33%. Wikipedia Link.

(The first link seems reliable, the second one maybe a little less so)

DaeryssaOne

job seeker wrote: »

Someone told me that Apps, you know what's on phones and laptops? Is short for absolutely.

EDIT: Oh no, it seems that it's short for Application.. Never mind..

This honestly made up crack up laughing, I really hope that was the innocent misunderstanding it seems to be! :pac:

sbsquarepants

job seeker wrote: »

App is short for absolutely.

Abs, you mean surely.

Coming for scoops tonight?
Abs.

Don't ever go drinking with anyone who speaks like this by the way