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I bet you didnt know that

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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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IvyTheTerrible

[Deleted User] wrote: »

A study found that the overall odds of waking up during surgery is about one in 19,600. In Ireland in 2011 there were 8 cases reported of people waking up during anesthesia.
http://www.nationalauditprojects.org.uk/NAP5report - full study for those who are nervous about anesthesia.

On a similar theme, red heads are less reactive to anaesthetic. So they need more of it to get knocked out.
I'd be interested to know the hair colour of the 8 people who woke up.

ArnoldJRimmer

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

On a similar theme, red heads are less reactive to anaesthetic. So they need more of it to get knocked out.
I'd be interested to know the hair colour of the 8 people who woke up.

As a redhead, I discovered this was a thing the first time I had a root canal. It was torture and a friend sent me a link about redheads and anaesthetiic afterwards which explained a lot. I'd had a minor surgery a few years before and felt every bit of it, but I put that down to an incompetent doctor.

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/the-pain-of-being-a-redhead/

368100

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

On a similar theme, red heads are less reactive to anaesthetic. So they need more of it to get knocked out.
I'd be interested to know the hair colour of the 8 people who woke up.

I'm a Ginge and never knew this......explains a lot though when I go to Dentist! you'd think they should know

New Home

I think I may be a red-head in disguise - my dentist always shakes her head when she has to use a second, and sometimes a third, vial of anaesthetic!

Realt Dearg Sec

stimpson wrote: »

I remember being in Holland in the 90's and there was a big clock in each station and the train would come to a stop as the second hand hit 12, so apparently it's not that hard to do (except here)

Similarly, I lived in Zurich for a while and once a local commuter train was twenty minutes late and it made the news.

If it was Ireland, if a train was twenty minutes late the driver would probably get a photo with the Taoiseach and a ticker-tape parade.

stimpson

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Similarly, I lived in Zurich for a while and once a local commuter train was twenty minutes late and it made the news.

If it was Ireland, if a train was twenty minutes late the driver would probably get a photo with the Taoiseach and a ticker-tape parade.

I used to work with a Swiss lad and he had a hard time adjusting to the laid back attitude here. Having said all that, I wouldn’t swap Swiss efficiency for our way of life as he was a big of a dry shite.

Wibbs

Candie wrote: »

Neil Armstrongs space suit was made by a company best known for making bras.

The International Latex Company's original spacesuit design was a disaster and roundly rejected by NASA, but a rogue group of that company's designers worked non stop for weeks and presented NASA with a revised design, which then went into production.

The International Latex Companys best known subsidiary was called Playtex - a major manufacturer of womens underwear, their most successful product was called The Cross Your Heart Bra which was launched in 1954 and is still sold today.

yep and their very best seamstresses were tasked with sewing the suits together. Internally they used the acronym "LOL" made, "little old ladies". As they were mostly craftswomen at the very top of their game and the most experienced. The astronauts who the met regularly were in awe of their skills and dexterity.

Some of the computer systems on the Apollo used rope memory which was also "knitted".

Mountainsandh

On this topic, I remember reading about some spacesuits found in a second hand shop.
Found the story there https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/spacesuits-thrift-store

New Home

The word "CLUE" goes back to the 1590s. It was a spelling variant of "clew", i.e. "a ball of thread or yarn", which made reference to the one Ariadne gave Theseus to use as a guide out of the Labyrinth in Knossos.

Junkyard Tom

A fully equipped spacesuit is really a one-person spacecraft.

www.nasa.gov

sbsquarepants

368100 wrote: »

I'm a Ginge .....

Are you the real ALF?:D

I used to love your show!

368100

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Are you the real ALF?:D

I used to love your show!

I'm not as good looking as him

Lorelli!

Carol Hersee or BBC Test Card girl is the most aired face in British television history appearing for several hours a day every day for over 30 years.

https://www.google.ie/search?client=ms-android-h3g-ie&biw=320&bih=222&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=Dg0PWseUGaSOgAbx5LbAAQ&q=carole+hersee&oq=carol+hersee&gs_l=mobile-gws-img.1.0.0i13k1l4.6033.7737.0.8784.5.5.0.0.0.0.192.740.1j4.5.0....0...1.1j4.64.mobile-gws-img..0.4.647...41j0i24k1j0i8i30k1j0i10i24k1.0.qMasBukk-78#imgrc=lvgJqvyiV1g1qM:

sbsquarepants

368100 wrote: »

I'm not as good looking as him

He was a handsome divil alright.

But I always did have a thing for redheads, and hooky noses strangely enough - not a full on gonzo now, just a slight sexy one, you know like Gillian Anderson or Alf:D:D

Fourier

fergiesfolly wrote: »

Lads, read the first few pages of this thread.
That's the kind of interesting fact we're looking for.
The last few pages here reminds me of the time I tried to read Ulysses. Me heads melting.
Maybe a new thread for all the space/time stuff.

For those interested, ye could open a thread in Physics and Chemistry and I'd be happy to continue.
Cheers.

Bandana boy

Lorelli! wrote: »

Carol Hersee or BBC Test Card girl is the most aired face in British television history appearing for several hours a day every day for over 30 years.

https://www.google.ie/search?client=ms-android-h3g-ie&biw=320&bih=222&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=Dg0PWseUGaSOgAbx5LbAAQ&q=carole+hersee&oq=carol+hersee&gs_l=mobile-gws-img.1.0.0i13k1l4.6033.7737.0.8784.5.5.0.0.0.0.192.740.1j4.5.0....0...1.1j4.64.mobile-gws-img..0.4.647...41j0i24k1j0i8i30k1j0i10i24k1.0.qMasBukk-78#imgrc=lvgJqvyiV1g1qM:

the cast of friends must have well passed that record out by now its always feckin on

[Deleted User]

A friend told me earlier that the word drag - as in drag artist - comes from Shakespearian direction, when the leading lady would be played by a boy or young man since acting was considered a rather racy profession for a young lady to enter, little better than prostitution.

The chap would be given his lines and the direction to be dressed as a girl - or in drag.

It's probably only news to me, but I'm surprised it's not something that was mentioned by any English teacher I had over the years.

Lorelli!

Bandana boy wrote: »

the cast of friends must have well passed that record out by now its always feckin on

maybe they're in with a shout!

70,000 hours so almost 8 full years

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Candie wrote: »

A friend told me earlier that the word drag - as in drag artist - comes from Shakespearian direction, when the leading lady would be played by a boy or young man since acting was considered a rather racy profession for a young lady to enter, little better than prostitution.

The chap would be given his lines and the direction to be dressed as a girl - or in drag.

It's probably only news to me, but I'm surprised it's not something that was mentioned by any English teacher I had over the years.

The actual stage instruction was 'Dressed Resembling A Girl' which is closer the mark.

368100

sbsquarepants wrote: »

He was a handsome divil alright.

But I always did have a thing for redheads, and hooky noses strangely enough - not a full on gonzo now, just a slight sexy one, you know like Gillian Anderson or Alf:D:D

Alf and gillian......sure they could be brother and sister :-)

Capt'n Midnight

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

"Then finally 11,703 years before 2000 AD the climate flipped back into a warmer mode where it has remained ever since."

Personally I like to imagine it would have ended during the warmest part of the day.

So the ice age ended some time around 3pm on July the 19th 9,704 BC

No Dougal, they can't be that precise about the ice age!

Actually thinking about it , the Ice Age would have ended at the point where the ice stopped increasing. Which would have been when sun light started warming it.

So the ice age ended at 4:21 am on July the 19th 9,704 BC

Capt'n Midnight

Back in the day the tax on alcohol made drink very expensive.

So people took to imbibing ether instead.

Also as this wasn't alcohol you weren't breaking the pledge.

And it didn't give you hangovers.

Trick one was to burp ASAP. You see ether boils at a very low temperature and the pressure builds up something fierce in the warmth of your stomach.

Trick two was not to burp facing an open flame. :eek:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-compass-pleasure/201106/the-irish-ether-drinking-craze-0
https://www.herald.ie/entertainment/drink-the-rise-and-fall-of-ether-27890549.html

foxy farmer

A pair of binoculars can be used as a primitive microscope by reversing it and looking through one objective lens (the big one) and getting the item to be viewed close to the eyepiece lens. The field of view is small but the detail can be amazing. Better than a magnifying glass.

Mountainsandh

Lorelli! wrote: »

Carol Hersee or BBC Test Card girl is the most aired face in British television history appearing for several hours a day every day for over 30 years.

Speaking of which, the China girls were the ladies who posed for the first frames of a film reel. Their image would be used by the lab technician to calibrate colours when developing the film.
Because they weren't intended to be seen by the public, some of these ladies look grumpy, they're not really posing as for a magazine shoot. They often wear bright colours (sometimes the same outfit with Kodak) or pose beside colours. Some are familiar faces (ie actresses), some are unknown.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-forgotten-china-girls-hidden-at-the-beginning-of-old-films

Just the video if you don't have time for the article. https://youtu.be/-nVBDX3P5TY

server down

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Actually thinking about it , the Ice Age would have ended at the point where the ice stopped increasing. Which would have been when sun light started warming it.

So the ice age ended at 4:21 am on July the 19th 9,704 BC

I bet you didn’t know that the last ice age hasn’t in fact ended.

IvyTheTerrible

Candie wrote: »

A friend told me earlier that the word drag - as in drag artist - comes from Shakespearian direction, when the leading lady would be played by a boy or young man since acting was considered a rather racy profession for a young lady to enter, little better than prostitution.

The chap would be given his lines and the direction to be dressed as a girl - or in drag.

It's probably only news to me, but I'm surprised it's not something that was mentioned by any English teacher I had over the years.

Most of "some old word is actually an acronym" are apocryphal and have no basis is etymological history, so take them with a pinch of salt.

Greybottle

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Most of "some old word is actually an acronym" are apocryphal and have no basis is etymological history, so take them with a pinch of salt.

Which reminds me that salt comes from the very very old acronym for 'Stuff Adds Lotsa Taste'. *

*May or may not be true.

cdeb

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Most of "some old word is actually an acronym" are apocryphal and have no basis is etymological history, so take them with a pinch of salt.

Yep. Wiki says the term "drag" appeared in print "as early as 1870", which means it's highly unlikely to be Shakespearean, given that was 250+ years earlier

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_(clothing)

New Home

According to etymonline.com,

"drag (n.)
c. 1300, "dragnet," perhaps from a Scandinavian source (compare Swedish dragg "grapnel") or from Old English dræge "dragnet," related to dragan "to draw" (see drag (v.)).

Sense of "annoying, boring person or thing" is 1813, perhaps from the notion of something that must be dragged as an impediment. Sense of "women's clothing worn by a man" is said to be 1870 theater slang, from the sensation of long skirts trailing on the floor (another guess is Yiddish trogn "to wear," from German tragen); drag queen is from 1941"

I preferred the Shakespearian theory, though.

Capt'n Midnight

Acronyms for their own sake can be scary

Look at the BRICKS countries
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/archive/building-better.html
There was an influential report and later on the countries formed a group.

Nigeria should have been included but the N didn't fit the acronym.
So missed out on lots of investment and news items

But hey, catchy name.