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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭storker


    seagull wrote: »
    On an evolutionary theme, most people use the phrase "Survival of the fittest" in entirely the wrong context.

    It's also used in the economic sense (and usually by the financially very-fit-indeed) to justify a dog-eat-dog attitude "because nature", conveniently ignoring the countless ways in which the human race has already flung "nature" out the window.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,941 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    A good few of the old stone buildings around Dublin have a layer of stone angled at 45 degrees. Like a low skirt around it.

    It's to stop people (men) urinating against them. IIRC urine isn't good for limestone.

    In San Francisco they trialled a hydrophobic paint to dissuade men from piddling against walls. So if you do piss on the wall, it splashes straight back onto your pants.



    I think Dublin is in dire need of this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭storker


    New Home wrote: »
    Coooooool. :cool:


    (pun intended)

    I think you mean "waaaaarmm". :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    seagull wrote:
    On an evolutionary theme, most people use the phrase "Survival of the fittest" in entirely the wrong context....

    And another phrase used incorrectly is "innocent until proven guilty". If you did the crime, then you did it, ie you are guilty of doing it. It doesnt matter if it can be proved or not. You did it. Its a fact that cannot be altered. But proving it is hard, and a court assumes you are innocent until guilt can be proven. The correct phrase is "assumption of innocence until proven guilty"...... semantics, eh!

    Blood is thicker than water ..... wrong! Most think this means that family bonds (ie blood) are more important than non family (ie water). But the quote is "blood of battle is stronger than the waters of the womb", ie bonds between those that share adversity are more important than family bonds.

    (Might have posted that one before, but it fits the theme!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,301 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Blood is thicker than water ..... wrong! Most think this means that family bonds (ie blood) are more important than non family (ie water). But the quote is "blood of battle is stronger than the waters of the womb", ie bonds between those that share adversity are more important than family bonds.

    (Might have posted that one before, but it fits the theme!)

    Along the same theme. A phrase which often is used as a somewhat backhanded compliment refers to a person somewhat skilled in various ways as being a "jack of all trades", with the implication being that they are no expert as the second part of the phrase continues "and master of none".

    A 3rd part to the phrase consisting of "is oftentimes better than master of one" implies a distinctly positive view on the person being referenced in this way yet my experience is largely the phrase being used as extending polite but limited praise on someone.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    retalivity wrote: »
    The rich lads had beeswax candles to see in the dark without their sense of smell getting violated.
    In prehistory a wood fire emits a lot of heat but very little light. So you have to spend hours gathering enough to illuminate the night.

    The % of GPD spent on illumination has been roughly constant for the last seven centuries.

    From animal fat candles to Oil For The Lamps Of China to the latest electronics what's happened is that as light has gotten cheaper we've used more of it.

    https://ourworldindata.org/light


  • Registered Users Posts: 641 ✭✭✭mirrormatrix



    Blood is thicker than water ..... wrong! Most think this means that family bonds (ie blood) are more important than non family (ie water). But the quote is "blood of battle is stronger than the waters of the womb", ie bonds between those that share adversity are more important than family bonds.

    (Might have posted that one before, but it fits the theme!)

    Not that Wikipedia is an infallible resource, but a quick look at this online would suggest that there evidence to support this assertion is sketchy:

    "Modern commentators, including authors Albert Jack[5] and R. Richard Pustelniak,[6] claim the original meaning of the expression was that the ties between people who've made a blood covenant were stronger than ties formed by "the water of the womb". However, no known historical sources support this. "


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭secondrowgal


    Griffith Avenue in Dublin is the longest double tree-lined avenue in the Northern Hemisphere with no retail outlets. (courtesy of a Dublin taxi driver yesterday!)


  • Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    In prehistory a wood fire emits a lot of heat but very little light. So you have to spend hours gathering enough to illuminate the night.

    The % of GPD spent on illumination has been roughly constant for the last seven centuries.

    From animal fat candles to Oil For The Lamps Of China to the latest electronics what's happened is that as light has gotten cheaper we've used more of it.

    https://ourworldindata.org/light

    And now that it's cheap people want 26 different lights in each room :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Countries-Drive-Left-or-Right.jpg

    Most countries which were British colonies still drive on the left hand side of the road including huge land masses such as India, Australia and Southern Africa as well as the Caribbean.

    Europe generally drives on the right hand side apart from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta and Cyprus. Guyana (formerly a British colony) is the only country in South America to drive on the left.

    The other two thirds of the countries in the world drive on the right including the USA, China and Russia. Canada used to drive on the left but changed to the right to make border crossings with the USA more manageable.

    The reasons for these distinctions are historical. British horseback riders used to ride on the left hand side of the road, thus keeping their right arm free to offer greetings to passersby or, if needs be, draw their sword. However, in The USA teamsters used to sit on the left hand horse while driving a wagon and therefore keep their right hand free for whipping the other horses. They decided to start driving on the right so that they could see the passing wheels of other wagons and avoid collisions.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,301 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    ^^^^^^

    Along the same lines. (I read this somewhere lately, apologies if it was on this thread, I did search to see if it was).

    countries which use metric verus those that use imperial

    p7rri0trqbpy.jpg

    There is a suggestion that Thomas Jefferson was actively looking in to using Metric and requested a meeting with a French representative who set out to travel to the US but his ship was blown off course and he ended up being captured by pirates and dying in captivity so the meeting never happened.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭Carry


    gozunda wrote: »

    Most countries which were British colonies still drive on the left hand side of the road including huge land masses such as India, Australia and Southern Africa as well as the Caribbean.

    Europe generally drives on the right hand side apart from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta and Cyprus. Guyana (formerly a British colony) is the only country in South America to drive on the left.

    The other two thirds of the countries in the world drive on the right including the USA, China and Russia. Canada used to drive on the left but changed to the right to make border crossings with the USA more manageable.

    The reasons for these distinctions are historical. British horseback riders used to ride on the left hand side of the road, thus keeping their right arm free to offer greetings to passersby or, if needs be, draw their sword. However, in The USA teamsters used to sit on the left hand horse while driving a wagon and therefore keep their right hand free for whipping the other horses. They decided to start driving on the right so that they could see the passing wheels of other wagons and avoid collisions.

    Not quite. Driving (or riding or walking) on the left side goes back to the ancient world when Roman, Egyptian and Greek troops marched on the left side, since most soldiers were right-handers (drawing the sword, see above). That was the norm for centuries or even millenias.

    During the French Revolution the French changed this rule (as they did with many others) to the right side, and after the Napoleonic Wars every conquered European country was forced to change to the right as well. As did the now USA (since 1792 enforced by law) that was supported by French troops during the War of Independence - probably to spite their former British overlords. Same was in all French colonies during the colonial era.

    So it wasn't a question of practicality or due to American teamsters, it was enforced initially by the French who during the French Revolution decided that all old rules have to go and must be dramatically changed.
    Only the UK and British (former) colonies drive on the left hand side because they were never conquered by the French.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,186 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    Back in 2008 Seanad Leader fianna fails Donie Cassidy came up with the idea we should start driving on the right to accommodate immigrants and tourists who were mainly from right hand drive countries.

    He also thought it a bright idea to enforce a 50mph/80kph speed limit on those people who hailed from right hand drive countries.

    How in the name of God he thought it possible to enforce that is beyond me and probably everyone else bar him.

    There was also joke doing the rounds that he thought it might be easier to move to right hand drive if we did only some counties at any one time.

    I know it is not an astounding piece of scientific trivia or an example of human ingenuity, rather it is the opposite and highlights just how mentally limited some of our elected representatives are.
    BTW he was once an elected TD.

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    These are from 1967, taken on the day Sweden switched from left- to right-hand drive.

    8232560-WeirdPeople04-1482221869-650-9d9580f909-1482395159.jpg

    the-day-sweden-changed-from-left-hand-drive-to-right-7186616.png


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭nim1bdeh38l2cw


    jmayo wrote: »
    Back in 2008 Seanad Leader fianna fails Donie Cassidy came up with the idea we should start driving on the right to accommodate immigrants and tourists who were mainly from right hand drive countries.

    He also thought it a bright idea to enforce a 50mph/80kph speed limit on those people who hailed from right hand drive countries.

    How in the name of God he thought it possible to enforce that is beyond me and probably everyone else bar him.

    There was also joke doing the rounds that he thought it might be easier to move to right hand drive if we did only some counties at any one time.

    I know it is not an astounding piece of scientific trivia or an example of human ingenuity, rather it is the opposite and highlights just how mentally limited some of our elected representatives are.
    BTW he was once an elected TD.

    Other than the speed limit, Sweden did just that in 1967

    http://realscandinavia.com/this-day-in-history-swedish-traffic-switches-sides-september-3-1967/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,735 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    In 1788, the Austrian army accidentally attacked itself, losing around 10,000 men


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭reap-a-rat


    Some might have learned this on the Top Gear Burma special like I did but others might not know!

    In Myanmar (formerly Burma) they used to drive on the left given they were a British colony. The guy in charge decided that he wanted to switch, so they now drive on the right. Except they still have right-hand drive steering! A lot of the vehicles are very old, including busses. So even to this day, if you're in a RHS bus(most likely) and the bus is driving on the right as it is required to, thenot you are getting out of the bus onto a lane of traffic instead of a path or the side of the road. It's mental!

    Apparently the infrastructure still hasn't caught up either and in many places the signage is facing the wrong way. So seems if you're tired of mundane driving then Myanmar could be a destination to make you feel alive again!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭Meanaspie


    Carry wrote: »
    Not quite. Driving (or riding or walking) on the left side goes back to the ancient world when Roman, Egyptian and Greek troops marched on the left side, since most soldiers were right-handers (drawing the sword, see above). That was the norm for centuries or even millenias.

    During the French Revolution the French changed this rule (as they did with many others) to the right side, and after the Napoleonic Wars every conquered European country was forced to change to the right as well. As did the now USA (since 1792 enforced by law) that was supported by French troops during the War of Independence - probably to spite their former British overlords. Same was in all French colonies during the colonial era.

    So it wasn't a question of practicality or due to American teamsters, it was enforced initially by the French who during the French Revolution decided that all old rules have to go and must be dramatically changed.
    Only the UK and British (former) colonies drive on the left hand side because they were never conquered by the French.

    I picked it up somewhere over the years that it was Napoleon himself that changed it as he was left handed and wished to pass people on the opposite of the road with his weapon hand closest to them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,941 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    reap-a-rat wrote: »
    Some might have learned this on the Top Gear Burma special like I did but others might not know!

    In Myanmar (formerly Burma) they used to drive on the left given they were a British colony. The guy in charge decided that he wanted to switch, so they now drive on the right. Except they still have right-hand drive steering! A lot of the vehicles are very old, including busses. So even to this day, if you're in a RHS bus(most likely) and the bus is driving on the right as it is required to, thenot you are getting out of the bus onto a lane of traffic instead of a path or the side of the road. It's mental!

    Apparently the infrastructure still hasn't caught up either and in many places the signage is facing the wrong way. So seems if you're tired of mundane driving then Myanmar could be a destination to make you feel alive again!
    For a little while at least


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,268 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Meanaspie wrote: »
    I picked it up somewhere over the years that it was Napoleon himself that changed it as he was left handed and wished to pass people on the opposite of the road with his weapon hand closest to them
    Heard that one alright.

    Also heard that the US changed just to be different from Britain, around the time they were asserting themselves as an independent entity and not a colony


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    65% of the world population is lactose intolerant. With some countries coming in at near 100% rates.

    Ireland has a rate of 4%, the joint least with Denmark in the world.

    I have no idea if this is a good or bad thing. But it is remarkable enough nonetheless.

    Source: About 2/5's down this page.

    *Ireland has a range of prevalence of 0-8, with Denmark 0-9. So you can make an argument that Ireland is the least lactose intolerant country in the world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭Carry


    Meanaspie wrote: »
    I picked it up somewhere over the years that it was Napoleon himself that changed it as he was left handed and wished to pass people on the opposite of the road with his weapon hand closest to them

    Yeah, that was the anecdote, because Napoleon etc., but as with many an anecdote....

    In fact it was the government of Robespierre that decreed right-hand traffic. Napoleon just adopted it afterwards for his campaigns.

    A little fact I came across: There are around 29 million kilometers of roads in the world, only on 8 million kilometers people drive on the left side.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭BailMeOut


    To grow a seedless fruits you need to stop bees getting to the flowers when growing which means the fruit crops need to be covered in huge nets if grown outside.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    Carry wrote: »
    Yeah, that was the anecdote, because Napoleon etc., but as with many an anecdote....

    In fact it was the government of Robespierre that decreed right-hand traffic. Napoleon just adopted it afterwards for his campaigns.

    A little fact I came across: There are around 29 million kilometers of roads in the world, only on 8 million kilometers people drive on the left side.

    And 7 million kilometres of that are back roads in Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,941 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    BaZmO* wrote: »
    And 7 million kilometres of that are back roads in Ireland.

    Yeah but people only drive on the left on the straight parts, from what I can tell they take the bends on the right.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,573 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Yeah but people only drive on the left on the straight parts, from what I can tell they take the bends on the right.


    but you have to take the bend on the right because of all the eejits doing the same thing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,735 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    65% of the world population is lactose intolerant. With some countries coming in at near 100% rates.

    Ireland has a rate of 4%, the joint least with Denmark in the world.

    I have no idea if this is a good or bad thing. But it is remarkable enough nonetheless.

    Source: About 2/5's down this page.

    *Ireland has a range of prevalence of 0-8, with Denmark 0-9. So you can make an argument that Ireland is the least lactose intolerant country in the world.

    most cats are also lactose intolerant


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    BailMeOut wrote: »
    To grow a seedless fruits you need to stop bees getting to the flowers when growing which means the fruit crops need to be covered in huge nets if grown outside.

    Not at all. Seedless fruit varieties are obtained from grafted species selected for a genetic mutation that stops the protective coating forming on the seed. If a conventional flowering fruit plant is prevented from it's flowers being pollenated then no fruit will form at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    65% of the world population is lactose intolerant. With some countries coming in at near 100% rates.

    Dont know if its true, but sounds true....that humans are the only mammal that drinks milk as an adult. Maybe we shouldn't be drinking it if we aren't designed for it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,941 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    We're not designed to hurtle through the sky at 600 miles an hour, but here we are.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Dont know if its true, but sounds true....that humans are the only mammal that drinks milk as an adult. Maybe we shouldn't be drinking it if we aren't designed for it.


    :)


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Dont know if its true, but sounds true....that humans are the only mammal that drinks milk as an adult. Maybe we shouldn't be drinking it if we aren't designed for it.


    More like "other animals don't have opposable thumbs to open the fridge and pour themselves some or to milk the cows themselves", because I can assure you that if young but adult cats (for instance) get a chance, they'll suckle from their mother even when they're bigger than she is. And lots of animals love milk, only their lactose intolerance makes it unsuitable for them as a food. Give cats, dogs, hedgehogs, etc a saucer of goats milk (or to the first two even lactose-free cows milk) and they'll most definitely drink it, they love it. Also, in some temples (Hindu ones, IIRC), offerings of milk are made to one of their gods (the elephant one, I think - sorry but I can't remember the name), and thousands of rats can be seen drinking it from the saucers left out for them.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,309 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    The polar bear and the Kodiak brown bear are the worlds largest land predators.

    ansgar_walk_pb_1.jpg2010-kodiak-bear-1.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    "The majority of trainee primary school teachers are white, Irish and Catholic and do not reflect our diverse population"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Sciprio wrote: »
    "The majority of trainee primary school teachers are white, Irish and Catholic and do not reflect our diverse population"

    In Pakistan?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,186 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    Sciprio wrote: »
    "The majority of trainee primary school teachers are white, Irish and Catholic and do not reflect our diverse population"

    Ehh you forgot to mention then the majority would also be female or would that not suit the political point you are trying to make

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    In Pakistan?


    "Could be Cork for all i know." :pac::pac::pac:

    Look at Sciprio's location
    :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    jmayo wrote: »
    Ehh you forgot to mention then the majority would also be female or would that not suit the political point you are trying to make.:rolleyes:
    It's actually just a joke taking on the other current thread.
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057915186 :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,558 ✭✭✭✭Fourier


    In Pakistan?
    It's in quotes, I think he's giving the polar bear in mzungu's post dialogue.

    And quite right too, very few polar bears are Irish or Catholic. Though they're all white. Hybrids with "Brown" bears to use mzungu's PC terminology are rare, because polar bears are racist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,186 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    mzungu wrote: »
    The polar bear and the Kodiak brown bear are the worlds largest land predators.

    ansgar_walk_pb_1.jpg2010-kodiak-bear-1.jpg

    I do hope they used a very long telephoto lens otherwise they may have ended up like Timothy Treadwell.

    :D

    I am not allowed discuss …



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭BailMeOut


    Not at all. Seedless fruit varieties are obtained from grafted species selected for a genetic mutation that stops the protective coating forming on the seed. If a conventional flowering fruit plant is prevented from it's flowers being pollenated then no fruit will form at all.

    just read a very long article about the largest pomegranate producer in world, Stewart Resnick who is also the biggest farmer in the United States in California who also produces a lot of seedless mandarin oranges. They talked a lot of about they have huge nets to stop the bees so the oranges would have no seeds. Made sense when reading but I guess article could be wrong.
    Resnick’s billions rely on his ability to master water, sun, soil, and even bees. When he first planted seedless mandarins in the valley 17 years ago, the bees from the citrus orchards around him were flying into his groves, pollinating his flowers, and putting seeds into the flesh of his fruit. He told his neighbors to alter the flight of the bees or he’d sue them for trespassing. The farmers responded that the path of a bee wasn’t something they could supervise, and they threatened to sue him back. The dispute over the “no fly zone” was finally resolved by the invention of a netting that Resnick sheathes around his mandarins each spring. The plastic unfurls across the grove like a giant roll of Saran Wrap. No bee can penetrate the shield, and his mandarins remain seedless.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Resnick’s billions rely on his ability to master water, sun, soil, and even bees. When he first planted seedless mandarins in the valley 17 years ago, the bees from the citrus orchards around him were flying into his groves, pollinating his flowers, and putting seeds into the flesh of his fruit. He told his neighbors to alter the flight of the bees or he’d sue them for trespassing. The farmers responded that the path of a bee wasn’t something they could supervise, and they threatened to sue him back. The dispute over the “no fly zone” was finally resolved by the invention of a netting that Resnick sheathes around his mandarins each spring. The plastic unfurls across the grove like a giant roll of Saran Wrap. No bee can penetrate the shield, and his mandarins remain seedless.

    Reminds me of the fable (Aesop's? La Fontein? -sp.) of the wolf who accused the lamb (who was drinking water downstream from him) of making his drinking water murky. :/

    I'd be curious to see the "shield", because if bees can't get in, as sure as hell there's some other insect pollinating the plants. The "seedlessness" is obtained by selecting and crossing plants that will eventually produce sterile fruit.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Fourier wrote: »
    polar bears are racist.




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Sciprio wrote: »
    It's actually just a joke taking on the other current thread.
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057915186 :p

    I'd safely bet we all knew that. ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    From 1864 to 1870, Paraguay fought a war against Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. It was a disaster- "almost 70% of its adult male population died, according to some counts, and it was forced to cede territory to Argentina and Brazil. According to some estimates, Paraguay's pre-war population of 525,000 was reduced to 221,000, of which only 28,000 were men."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_War


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    BailMeOut wrote: »
    just read a very long article about the largest pomegranate producer in world, Stewart Resnick who is also the biggest farmer in the United States in California who also produces a lot of seedless mandarin oranges. They talked a lot of about they have huge nets to stop the bees so the oranges would have no seeds. Made sense when reading but I guess article could be wrong.

    That's a completely different scenario, the mandarin grower. He was growing seedless varieties and was paranoid about the risk of cross pollination - which was unfounded. He was, let's be kind and say, eccentric.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Sciprio wrote: »
    "The majority of trainee primary school teachers are white, Irish and Catholic and do not reflect our diverse population"
    A fact that has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that the vast majority of primary schools were setup by Catholic or Protestant churches with predictable biases.

    Also back in the day primary school teachers weren't allowed to vote. Because dealing with so many children on a daily basis would affect their judgment.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    BailMeOut wrote: »
    just read a very long article about the largest pomegranate producer in world.


    I can be so thick, at times... :rolleyes: I got this the first time around I read it, but I've just re-read this a second ago, and I immediately thought, "Wait, how would you even get seedless pomegranates? What would be the point? To get hollow pods??"


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    From 1864 to 1870, Paraguay fought a war against Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. It was a disaster- "almost 70% of its adult male population died
    It was insane.

    One in three soldiers below the rank of captain were allowed shoot anyone they suspected of desertion or treason or some such.

    After the war monogamy was suspended so they say due to a lack of me.


    And all the fault of Corkwoman Eliza Lynch depending on who you believe.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    From 1864 to 1870, Paraguay fought a war against Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. It was a disaster- "almost 70% of its adult male population died, according to some counts, and it was forced to cede territory to Argentina and Brazil. According to some estimates, Paraguay's pre-war population of 525,000 was reduced to 221,000, of which only 28,000 were men."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_War

    On a happier note Paraguayan men in the 1870's had a gooooooood time! :D


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