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    #6272
    wally79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭wally79


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    I still don’t get the white toothed portfolios thing.

    Types of shrew

    Poster typoed shrew investors rather than shrewd investors


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    #6273
    New Home
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    Ipso wrote: »
    Money makes for strange bed fellows.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Calvi


    They'd be rats, more than shrews, though.


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    #6274
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Bandana boy wrote: »
    The COI and their counterparts in UK are very shrew investors and have investments in many companies that would suprise many of their followers ,and seemingly at odds with their beliefs , including arms companies

    According to rumour the Vatican (through the Institute for the Works of Religion) used to own shares in both Durex and Beretta at some stage.

    Can't find any sources for either though.

    (mind I haven't spent much time looking)


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    #6275
    joeguevara
    Registered Users Posts: 8,050 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    wexie wrote: »
    According to rumour the Vatican (through the Institute for the Works of Religion) used to own shares in both Durex and Beretta at some stage.

    Can't find any sources for either though.

    (mind I haven't spent much time looking)

    They are the main shareholder in an arms company

    https://www.skepticink.com/tippling/2012/12/16/guns-and-violence-vatican-bank-is-the-main-shareholder-in-pietro-beretta-arms-company/

    Shareholders in durex seems to be a myth

    http://www.kgbanswers.co.uk/is-true-catholic-church-own-share-in-durex-company/16824991


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    #6276
    Chev_Chelios
    Registered Users Posts: 148 ✭✭Chev_Chelios


    This thread is great for a binge read.


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    #6277
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,966 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    On January 31st 1997 the French Navy sent out this message

    “CALLING all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence.”



    Apart from amateur radio it was the last use of Morse code.


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    #6278
    New Home
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    wexie wrote: »
    According to rumour the Vatican (through the Institute for the Works of Religion) used to own shares in both Durex and Beretta at some stage.

    Can't find any sources for either though.

    (mind I haven't spent much time looking)
    joeguevara wrote: »
    They are the main shareholder in an arms company

    https://www.skepticink.com/tippling/2012/12/16/guns-and-violence-vatican-bank-is-the-main-shareholder-in-pietro-beretta-arms-company/

    Shareholders in durex seems to be a myth

    http://www.kgbanswers.co.uk/is-true-catholic-church-own-share-in-durex-company/16824991


    The Beretta one apparently is a myth, too - I was sure I had read that on a reputable source years ago, but either it's been removed (:eek:) or it was never there in the first place, I could only find references to it being a myth.


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    #6279
    the purple tin
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    Cleopatra used an early version of the vibrator. It was a vessel filled with bees for good vibrations.


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    #6280
    Capt'n Midnight
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    If you measure by the northernmost point then Uruguay is the most southern nation.


    If you measure by the southmost point then it's the UK.


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    #6281
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    If you measure by record high temperature, Ireland is the second coldest country in the world (behind Iceland).

    (That's considering Scotland as part of the UK and not a country in its own right, which technically it is)


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    #6282
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users Posts: 10,851 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    If you measure by the northernmost point then Uruguay is the most southern nation.


    If you measure by the southmost point then it's the UK.
    Eh, what's the UK in that?


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    #6283
    wally79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭wally79


    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    Eh, what's the UK in that?

    Falklands maybe

    Edit: nope


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    #6284
    wally79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭wally79


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    If you measure by the northernmost point then Uruguay is the most southern nation.


    If you measure by the southmost point then it's the UK.

    Looking at a map it looks to me like New Zealand’s northernmost point is south of Uruguay but that could just be the map


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    #6285
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    wally79 wrote: »
    Falklands maybe

    Edit: nope

    South Georgia?


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    #6286
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    If you measure by the northernmost point then Uruguay is the most southern nation.


    If you measure by the southmost point then it's the UK.

    If you measure by its most southernmost point then the U.K. is the most southern nation?

    ** looks at map **

    :confused:


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    #6287
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    joeguevara wrote: »
    They are the main shareholder in an arms company

    https://www.skepticink.com/tippling/2012/12/16/guns-and-violence-vatican-bank-is-the-main-shareholder-in-pietro-beretta-arms-company/

    Shareholders in durex seems to be a myth

    http://www.kgbanswers.co.uk/is-true-catholic-church-own-share-in-durex-company/16824991

    I was once nearly thrown out of catholic school for asking did they not think it was hypocritical that the Vatican was a shareholder in Durex. (Which I read in one of my fathers business magazines) They did not take it well at all.

    But that was a long time ago and have never read it anywhere since.

    So I can't say for sure if it is (or was) true. But I definitely read it at the time and caused quite some ructions in school. Was the start of my downfall as a good Catholic boy :o


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    #6288
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    If you measure by its most southernmost point then the U.K. is the most southern nation?

    ** looks at map **

    :confused:

    The UK still has a few bits and pieces of empire left. (Mostly the bits nobody else really wants)

    https://www.google.ie/maps/place/South+Georgia+Island/@-43.7279578,-72.415843,3z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0xbecb0d04d60d1019:0xde9df3c446380561!8m2!3d-54.4138333!4d-36.5827165


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    #6289
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Cleopatra used an early version of the vibrator. It was a vessel filled with bees for good vibrations.

    (f)risky beesiness


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    #6290
    Capt'n Midnight
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    wally79 wrote: »
    Looking at a map it looks to me like New Zealand’s northernmost point is south of Uruguay but that could just be the map
    Both New Zealand and the UK have islands ;)


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    #6291
    Kat1170
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    Don't see the problem myself :D:D:D

    Il-Salame-Piccante-Beretta.jpg


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    #6292
    Skylinehead
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    If you measure by the northernmost point then Uruguay is the most southern nation.


    If you measure by the southmost point then it's the UK.

    South Georgia etc aren't technically part of the UK.


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    #6293
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,966 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Just in case anyone was worried.


    No positive leap second WILL be introduced at the end of June 2018.




    They can be added at the end of June or December if needed, 'cos science.


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    #6294
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Nixonbot wrote: »
    South Georgia etc aren't technically part of the UK.
    can't remember offhand but it was one of those funny islands just north of Antartica so just outside the area where everyone has renounced claims for now.


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    #6295
    New Home
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    Cleopatra used an early version of the vibrator. It was a vessel filled with bees for good vibrations.


    Is that where the word 'honeymoon' comes from? :pac:


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    #6296
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,796 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Nixonbot wrote: »
    South Georgia etc aren't technically part of the UK.

    Neither are the Channel Islands nor the Isle of Man. They are not in the EU either.


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    #6297
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Neither are the Channel Islands nor the Isle of Man. They are not in the EU either.

    Gibraltar, on the other hand, is in the EU. Still not UK though.


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    #6298
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,796 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    A rarely used abbreviation is UKOGBANI. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.


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    #6299
    4068ac1elhodqr
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    Gritters have been out this week in some places, to prevent roads melting and tyres sticking.





    But using crushed rock dust, not salt.


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    #6300
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Nixonbot wrote: »
    Gibraltar, on the other hand, is in the EU. Still not UK though.
    Yeah,

    about that ... 271 days to go.



    They are In (for now) with opt-outs.
    So even though 96% voted remain they will be out after Brexit. And so far the UK has been too busy not sorting out NI to do anything for them.

    The Isle of Man on the other hand is Out, with opt-ins for customs union but not the other freedoms. Also has other data arrangements with the EU that the UK will still have to negotiate. So moving a UK data centre there might be an option even though the Isle will be out post-Brexit.


    Manxmen don't have automatic EU rights unless they have it through UK status too.


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    #6301
    loyatemu
    Registered Users Posts: 14,848 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Cleopatra used an early version of the vibrator. It was a vessel filled with bees for good vibrations.

    that's an old Viz "Top Tip":

    An empty aluminium cigar tube filled with angry wasps makes an inexpensive vibrator.


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