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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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wexie

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I can't be the only one who got a good giggle from the idea of a stowaway moose:D

nope

sbsquarepants

cdeb wrote: »

Yeah, this was what I meant alright.

Also, the moose were brought in explicitly to be shot. It's not like they snuck in accidentally on a boat (as happens with smaller animals) and had to be eradicated

I can't be the only one who got a good giggle from the idea of a stowaway moose:D

VW 1

Interesting story on the eradication of invasive goats introduced to Pacific Island in the 1600s. When ground hunting failed, they resorted to sharpshooters from helicopters and what they termed "Judas Goats".

http://allthatsinteresting.com/project-isabela

greenspurs

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Ipso

Kat1170 wrote: »

Actually that is the best outcome of that situation*, introducing foreign Flora and Fauna to an area rarely works out well. :mad::mad: It is a worldwide problem and one that is here in Ireland as well.

Zebra Mussels.
Signal Crayfish.
Grey Squirrel.

The list goes on and on ………..

*Of course the best thing is not to introduce them in the first place.

Invasive species can be a massive problem, another non native species to New Zealand are Trout.
I’m conflicted in this one, as someone who fly fishes New Zealand is on the bucket list of fishing destinatios (as are other places where the fish are invasive such as Patagonia).

Rabbits wreaked havoc in Australia after they were introduced.

Sleepy

Lego manufacture more tyres per year than Dunlop, Goodyear et al combined.

Lorelli!

McDonald's are the world's largest distributor of toys.

cdeb

Kat1170 wrote: »

*Of course the best thing is not to introduce them in the first place.

Yeah, this was what I meant alright.

Also, the moose were brought in explicitly to be shot. It's not like they snuck in accidentally on a boat (as happens with smaller animals) and had to be eradicated

py2006

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

In Fairy Tales the witches house in the forest may refer to houses where menstruating women went while temporarialy banished from the village.

It still happens in India and Nepal.

and Tallaght

Kat1170

cdeb wrote: »

Yeah, basically some moose were imported in the 20s, given a sporting chance to breed, and then shot to extinction for fun in 20 years. Humans are great...

Actually that is the best outcome of that situation*, introducing foreign Flora and Fauna to an area rarely works out well. :mad::mad: It is a worldwide problem and one that is here in Ireland as well.

Zebra Mussels.
Signal Crayfish.
Grey Squirrel.

The list goes on and on ………..

*Of course the best thing is not to introduce them in the first place.

cdeb

Yeah, basically some moose were imported in the 20s, given a sporting chance to breed, and then shot to extinction for fun in 20 years. Humans are great...

Duckworth_Luas

Fiordland is a remote forested region on the South-Western tip of New Zealand's South Island.

Something of an urban myth about the region is that it is home to moose. If true it would be the only place in the Southern Hemisphere inhabited by the creatures which are native to North America and Northern Eurasia.

Many people have claimed to have seen the animals but without scientific confirmation it is considered something of a Kiwi Bigfoot..

However, unlike the Sasquatch, there is a plausiable explaination as to why they may actually be there.

Joseph Ward, New Zealand's Prime Minister in the early 20th century, wanted to make his country the world's largest game reserve. To do this he planned to collect big game aniimals from all over the globe and plant them in the New Zealand wilderness.

Ten moose were captured in Saskatchewan and shipped in crates to Fiordland where they were released..

Over the years a number have been killed by hunters but there hasn't been a confirmed sighting in over 50 years.

Fiordland, however, is large, remote and highly forested region. Very few people go there and moose are also very elusive.

A biologist who went there in the 1990s to check if the rumours were true captured the following time-lapse video.

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This is one of the last confirmed images of a Fiordland moose take in the 1950s.

Capt'n Midnight

In Fairy Tales the witches house in the forest may refer to houses where menstruating women went while temporarialy banished from the village.

It still happens in India and Nepal.

wexie

Fourier wrote: »

now with added sperm.

worst advertising slogan....ever

Fourier

Candie wrote: »

Not for the squeamish.

Menstruation taboos and myths exist in practically every culture and up until ridiculously recently even in the Western world, menstrual blood was considered a dangerous and powerful force for both good and not so good at all.

More menstruation taboo facts, now with added sperm.

Some of the boks of the Bible have various cleanliness codes, e.g Leviticus, concerning how menstruating women could not be approached or enter the temple for various periods of time. Men similarly were unclean after ejaculation (Lev 15 covers most of this) also barring them from Temple.

This however is not what it seems, as "unclean" is not remotely accurate to the Hebrew, which literally means "common/normal", i.e. common to mortal life.

The idea was that Yahweh, existing outside of the cycle of life and death, could not be approached when one was still too recently connected with that cycle. Menstruation wasn't being described as "wrong", but more incapatible with or foreign to Yahweh, too mortal, preventing you approaching him in Temple (Yahweh was thought to live in the Temple).

The very strict code required for priests was to strip them of mortal trappings (washing to remove dead skin, an aspect of physical non-divine life).

This removes some confusion from a reading of the Bible. Yahweh commands proper burying of the dead, not doing so is immoral. However you are barred from Temple as common due to this, simply because you've too recently been involved in a mortal process. Most of Leviticus is not about what is moral, but is a code for removing traces of mortality.

Reference: Christine Hayes, Introduction to the Old Testament, Yale Press

Shemale

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Commendable, but how do the goats get to the lawns? If it entails a couple of 40 ft trucks over say 20 miles, once per week it's probably much the same thing. Though I'm sure they gave it some thought.

I would imagine they are left there....

castletownman

The Dundonald was a Belfast ship that got shipwrecked in 1907. Sailing from Sydney to Falmouth, UK with a cargo-load of wheat, it was decided to sail around New Zealand to avail of the winds and save them time on the return journey. But it got into difficultly and crashed into rocks on the appropriately named Disappointment Island, just north of Auckland Island.

Only seventeen of the 28 crew managed to escape the wreck and reach shore (although one slipped off the cliffs and fell to his death), and would end up surviving seven months on the uninhabited, inhospitable island. They initially had to eat the local wild seabirds raw as their matches hadn't dried out and they had no other source of fire. There was no trees on the island so sustainable fires, or decent shelter was a no-go. The dug holes in the ground and covered them with canvas from the wreckage which sheltered them from the wet but not from the cold. Blankets and shoes etc. were made from the skins of local seals.

Eventually, with limited supplies dwindling, they fashioned a primitive boat out of branches and left-over canvass and managed to get to Auckland Island knowing that there was a food depot there. It took a couple of tries before the depot was eventually discovered, along with a boat which they used to ferry the remaining party to Auckland Island.

They were finally rescued by passing steamer in November of that year, which happened to be visiting the island to replenish the food depot and dropping scientists off for a sub Antarctic Scientific Expedition. The crew were shipped to New Zealand, but were asked to bring some of their improvised tools with them so they could be exhibited in a museum and raise funds for the survivors.

I came across this particular story when I began part-time work in the Arklow Maritime Museum. The connection to the town is that there were two Arklow men on the Dundonald, including one of the Disappointment Island posse. I really think it's a story worthy of a film.

Incidentally three other factoids I have learned since starting are that Arklow Shipping is the third biggest shipping company in Europe, Ireland's first lifeboat station was opened in Arklow in the first-half of the nineteenth century, and the town had a "moving pictures" house (AKA cinema) before Dublin did.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

maudgonner wrote: »

You're obviously not old enough...she's Denise from Glenroe!

Who?

maudgonner

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I'm the same - in fact I've just googled her and her brother, photos, what show she presents, their songs and so on and I still haven't a clue - never seen her, never seen him, never heard of the show, never heard of the band......:mad:

I'm obviously old, I'm going home.
Actually fúck it, I'm going to sign myself into a home:D

You're obviously not old enough...she's Denise from Glenroe!

mzungu

Mobile phone throwing is an international sport played in Finland. It started back in 2000 and now Finland is host to The Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships. Current world record holder is Tom Philipp Reinhardt from Germany with a throw of 136,75m. There are four categories: Original (over the shoulder throw with the winner being who throws it the farthest), Freestyle (marks for aesthetics and choreography), Team (three competitors on each team, longest combined distance from three throws wins) and Juniors (over the shoulder throw).

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[Deleted User]

Not for the squeamish.

Menstruation taboos and myths exist in practically every culture and up until ridiculously recently even in the Western world, menstrual blood was considered a dangerous and powerful force for both good and not so good at all.

Throughout history the blood itself was almost universally considered to have a mana - a powerful magic, supernatural quality. Menstruating women were kept apart from those they most endangered - young men - in case the essence of femaleness contaminated them and diluted their virile, manly potential. Menstruating women were barred from contact with crops lest their aura of decay doom them to failure, and were kept from food since their unclean presence turned milk sour, turned wine to vinegar, and poisoned meat. The vile vapours of menstruation also rusted metals, rotted wood, and drove people insane (that part's probably true). Native American tribes had taboos about the proximity of menstruating women to hunters, their evil girly cramps weakened the manly ability to kill stuff for food and made cissies of even the most masculine and brave men. Taboos concerning proximity are still quite common, and in modern day Tibet there are family homes with outside huts (in which girls and women freeze to death every year to this day) to which menstruating women are banished for the duration, as they can cause all kinds of terrifying havoc, particularly to pregnant women who's unborn children are at risk of defect from the effects of a bleeders presence. In Uganda, if a woman even touched a cooking utensil while menstruating then the whole lot would be ditched just in case they were cursed by the curse, and an orthodox Jewish woman is prohibited from quite a few things during menstruation including planting or harvesting.

At the same time, menstrual blood also harboured contradictory magical healing and restorative properties. A bloody cloth could keep marauding animals from the very fields the same blood could rot, could cure warts, treat leprosy, even heal a broken leg. The first menstrual blood of a virgin - the champagne of menses, as it were - could even cure the plague. In the Middle Ages it was harnessed as a cure for demonic possession (not a cause!). At a few points in history it's power has been utilized in medicines and potions, not something Big Pharma has harnessed yet. Yum.

In the early 1920's, scientists Schick and Macht attempted to prove the dangerous power of discarded uterine lining and devised illuminating experiments that proved beyond doubt that menstruation caused decay in all it touched and all that came within range of it's terrifying supernatural vapours. Girls were given flowers when menstruating, and lo and behold, those flowers wilted. Aparently 'menotoxins' also prevented bread from rising and beer from fermenting. Convincing stuff.

The fear and respect that menstrual blood inspires is, as Freud proposed, likely to be a result of the healthy and necessary human difficulty with blood. Blood usually means injury or illness to men so the long history of menstrual taboos is likely to have it's roots in our natural antipathy towards things that could harm us - disease carrying animals, decaying flesh, blood, bodily fluids and functions and all the other things that challenged our lives before modern standards of hygiene made us the safest we've ever been.

TL:DR Women are dangerous beings who simply refuse to relinquish their selfish habit of emitting the most toxic substance ever known thus putting all humanity at risk, can rob you of your masculinity, sanity and facial hair, and any failures can safely be blamed on their presence. For pity's sake, keep your distance.

P.S. Tampon is French for plug.

Professor Moriarty

During the troubles, security forces and Loyalists murdered twice as many Catholics as the IRA.

Source: http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/troubles/troubles_stats.html#communityperpetrator

Greybottle

During the Troubles, the IRA killed more Catholics than the British Army and the RUC combined.

Source: http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/troubles/troubles_stats.html#communityperpetrator

greenspurs

Graces7 wrote: »

I have never heard of any of the "celebrities" mentioned in thread titles and care not one iota!

excellent... thanks for coming on to tell us :rolleyes:

Graces7

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I'm the same - in fact I've just googled her and her brother, photos, what show she presents, their songs and so on and I still haven't a clue - never seen her, never seen him, never heard of the show, never heard of the band......:mad:

I'm obviously old, I'm going home.
Actually fúck it, I'm going to sign myself into a home:D

I have never heard of any of the "celebrities" mentioned in thread titles and care not one iota!

sbsquarepants

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

Should it concern me that I never heard of her nor the band?

I'm the same - in fact I've just googled her and her brother, photos, what show she presents, their songs and so on and I still haven't a clue - never seen her, never seen him, never heard of the show, never heard of the band......:mad:

I'm obviously old, I'm going home.
Actually fúck it, I'm going to sign myself into a home:D

Ipso

Very prestigious.

mzungu

There's a Nikola Tesla statue in Palo Alto that provides free Wi-Fi.

Gloomtastic!

Pete Waterman, of Stock, Aiken & Waterman fame, used to manage The Specials.

Are Am Eye

Colombia Mills was also a music venue in Dublin.
Colombia is a South American country that was conquered by the Spanish in the sixteenth century.
Near Toledo in Spain are the windmills which inspired La Mancha in Don Quixote.