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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #1262
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Blisterman wrote: »
    Immaculate conception does not actually refer to the virgin Mary getting pregnant.
    seamus wrote: »
    In Catholic mythology it refers to the birth of Mary itself, the belief that Mary was born without original sin and therefore was a holy vessel to carry Jesus.

    Well you learn something new everyday!:D


  • #1263
    locum-motion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,144 ✭✭✭locum-motion


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    and the hole is for holding a straw

    The main reason for the hole is that it reduces the amount of metal needed to make the ring-pull, and therefore reduces the cost of making the things. Any straw-related benefits are purely co-incidental. I mean, come on; who uses a straw when drinking from a can anyway?


  • #1264
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,869 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    locum-motion wrote: »
    The main reason for the hole is that it reduces the amount of metal needed to make the ring-pull, and therefore reduces the cost of making the things. Any straw-related benefits are purely co-incidental. I mean, come on; who uses a straw when drinking from a can anyway?
    How does punching the extra hole to make the ring pull make it cheaper to produce. The reason for the hole is because traditionally you used to put your finger through the hole, and pull the piece off. Then when they changed to the current system, mainly because the ring pulls were always just thrown away so it was an anti-litter initiative, they kept it the same appearance wise because it was what people were used to. Keeping the ring in it now in no way reduces the cost of making the can.


  • #1265
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 122 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    In the Simpsons Doctor Hibbert and Bleeding Gums Murphy were brothers.


  • #1266
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Quazzie wrote: »
    How does punching the extra hole to make the ring pull make it cheaper to produce.
    they can use less metal to achieve the same functional strength. Have a look at a ring pull, they punch a hole in the thin metal and then form the metal around itself, this forming gives it a lot more strength, if there as no hole (which allows this forming on 2 sides) the metal would have to be thicker. The tab is not formed equally in all places, they want it to bend at certain points and not at others.


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  • #1267
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,001 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    I have, in the last two minutes, realised that there is an irish language sub forum in AH. It's at the top of the fecking page. Must have seen it thousands of times.


  • #1268
    alb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭alb


    Not something I only just realised but it was a revelation at the time: The Berlin Wall was to keep poeple out of West Berlin not keep people in East Berlin. Also that it was in a loop and not a straight line down through the city.


  • #1269
    kiffer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    alb wrote: »
    Not something I only just realised but it was a revelation at the time: The Berlin Wall was to keep poeple out of West Berlin not keep people in East Berlin. Also that it was in a loop and not a straight line down through the city.

    Um... it was to stop people from leaving East Germany. Saying it was to keep people out of West Berlin kind of gives the impression that it was built by West Germany to stop people from the East... but it wasn't. it was built by the East to stop people defecting to the west... it was very much to keep people in.

    Though as West Berlin was totally surounded once you were there you were no longer trapped in East Germany and could go where ever you like... it was the gateway to the world.


  • #1270
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    kiffer wrote: »
    Though as West Berlin was totally surounded once you were there you were no longer trapped in East Germany and could go where ever you like... it was the gateway to the world.

    A free island in a red sea as my German friend used to describe it


  • #1271
    Wanderer2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,743 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    I only just found out that France and Spain are not separated by water, I always thought they were 2 completely separated countries with the only way of getting between both either a plane or ferry. :o:o


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  • #1272
    Burlap_Sack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 649 ✭✭✭Burlap_Sack


    That castor sugar is basically the exact same normal sugar just ground finer.


  • #1273
    Rabbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Rabbo


    Professor Knowall wrote: »
    That Hawaii was once a leper colony..

    Never really understood why Homer and Bart Simpson are treated in Hawaii when they thought they had leprosy

    Duh!

    2vbrdjd.jpg


  • #1274
    elfy4eva
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭elfy4eva


    Burlap_Sack wrote: »
    That castor sugar is basically the exact same normal sugar just ground finer.

    IS IT? My old man gave me an absolute bollocking as a kid for accidently picking up castor sugar when I was sent to the shops. He'll be hearing from me on this!!!!


  • #1275
    kiffer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    Wanderer2010 wrote: »
    I only just found out that France and Spain are not separated by water, I always thought they were 2 completely separated countries with the only way of getting between both either a plane or ferry. :o:o

    Wow... but maps?


  • #1276
    Rabbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Rabbo


    That the hilarious Arthur in King of Queens is actually Ben Stillers father


  • #1277
    Lbeard
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 311 ✭✭Lbeard


    The song "I'll be watching you" by Sting/ the Police.

    I always thought it was a romantic song, but it turns out it's more a statement of his intention to obsessively stalk his ex:

    "Every move you make
    Every step you take
    Ill be watching you
    Ill be watching you"

    http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=548


  • #1278
    Rabbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Rabbo


    Lbeard wrote: »
    The song "I'll be watching you" by Sting/ the Police.

    I always thought it was a romantic song, but it turns out it's more a statement of his intention to obsessively stalk his ex:

    "Every move you make
    Every step you take
    Ill be watching you
    Ill be watching you"

    http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=548

    I used to think Puff Daddys version "I'll be missing you" was a censored version due to the obvious stalkerous undertones of the original.


  • #1279
    XxMCRxBabyxX
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,442 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    Lbeard wrote: »
    The song "I'll be watching you" by Sting/ the Police.

    I always thought it was a romantic song, but it turns out it's more a statement of his intention to obsessively stalk his ex:

    "Every move you make
    Every step you take
    Ill be watching you
    Ill be watching you"

    http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=548

    I once read an interview with Sting where he talks about that and how worried / freaked out he gets when people tell him that the song was their wedding song.


  • #1280
    Eathrin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    Just realised the word in Arabic for desert is Sahara.
    The Sahara desert is Desert desert.


  • #1281
    Liamalone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Liamalone


    Only noticed this thread a few days ago and have realised this country is full of numptys


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  • #1282
    7ofBrian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭7ofBrian


    That no means no.


  • #1283
    Kold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    locum-motion wrote: »
    The main reason for the hole is that it reduces the amount of metal needed to make the ring-pull, and therefore reduces the cost of making the things. Any straw-related benefits are purely co-incidental. I mean, come on; who uses a straw when drinking from a can anyway?

    People in developing countries. So like... Most people.


  • #1284
    MurdyWurdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭MurdyWurdy


    According to my nerdy husband the S on superman's front does not stand for Superman but is something to do with his father.

    Mind blown! ;)


  • #1285
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,313 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    alb wrote: »
    Not something I only just realised but it was a revelation at the time: The Berlin Wall was to keep poeple out of West Berlin not keep people in East Berlin.

    It most definitely was to keep them in East Berlin/Germany, that is, not to cross the borders to West Berlin/Germany. I suppose you could argue it was to keep people out of West Berlin, but I don't think the argument would last very long!

    It's almost as if West Berlin was a bad area, so the GDR just wanted to safeguard the people by building high, thick walls, with swathes of barbed wire on top, then hundreds of feet of a waste land in between, with armed guards at sentry points along both walls.

    It wasn't a Berlin Wall, it was 2 Berlin Walls, if you got past the first, the guards had a shooting range 100's of feet long to aim at, then you had to scale another wall, with more barbed wire on top. That's why the people who tried to escape over the wall are held in high esteem, but those that actually achieved it are revered as heroes.

    Before the wall was built, West Berlin had hundreds of thousands of people coming there every year from the Eastern Bloc, but it had free movement, Britain, France and the U.S controlled West Berlin after the war. It was a propaganda thing, the GDR and the Soviet Bloc had to stop hoards of people freely moving to the West, their best and their brightest in particular.
    Also that it was in a loop and not a straight line down through the city.

    Borders are very difficult to define by straight lines, our own with N.I. a perfect example. I think farms got divided by the Boundary Commission. Some U.S States have them, I don't know the reason, but straight line borders are the exception, not the rule.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #1286
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    K-9 wrote: »
    Borders are very difficult to define by straight lines, our own with N.I. a perfect example. I think farms got divided by the Boundary Commission. Some U.S States have them, I don't know the reason, but straight line borders are the exception, not the rule.

    Parts of Africa and Australia also. I presume the reason for the these and the US states is they're arbitrary borders drawn in remote/desert regions.


  • #1287
    Mr.Prodston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    Wanderer2010 wrote: »
    I only just found out that France and Spain are not separated by water, I always thought they were 2 completely separated countries with the only way of getting between both either a plane or ferry. :o:o

    And you call yourself a wanderer? :eek:


  • #1288
    con___manx1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,682 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    I didn't no what a manikin was until recently. i felt like such a dummy


  • #1289
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,313 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    NiallSparky wrote: »
    Parts of Africa and Australia also. I presume the reason for the these and the US states is they're arbitrary borders drawn in remote/desert regions.

    Syria has them too.

    It's a colonial thing. Unfortunately, I can't blame the Brits on this one, twas the French here.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #1290
    Austmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭Austmcc


    Rabbo wrote: »
    That the hilarious Arthur in King of Queens is actually Ben Stillers father

    and in zoolander, both ben stiller and his dad are in it, but the reporter girl is also his wife!


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  • #1291
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    NiallSparky wrote: »
    Parts of Africa and Australia also. I presume the reason for the these and the US states is they're arbitrary borders drawn in remote/desert regions.

    Think its to do with rivers, lakes and other natural landmarks being used as the borders. If it isnt a straight line border in the US then its probably along a river or lake.


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