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Best examples of The Domino Effect

  • 26-08-2013 11:16PM
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭


    When a person/an event/etc lead to something major happening.

    I'll start: Franz Ferdinand*















    *not the Glasgow band, the other one


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    A simply enquiry about getting a torch repaired .......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I went to the pub for a pint a half an hour ago, heading for the Lamas Fair now. :)


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,276 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell




  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,689 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Somebody discovering a safe...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Obesity


    No, wait thats the Dominoes Effect


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    When Homer travelled back in time and squished a bug.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭BOHtox


    Here lads I'm getting Dominos, anyone want anything?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    antodeco wrote: »
    Somebody discovering a safe...

    Just pray to god the next time somebody finds a safe that their LED torch doesn't break in the process.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭Duff


    When you're half way through building a card house and you knock one over.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Like this?



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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Did Henry Paulson trigger the world banking crises by refusing to bail out Lehman Brothers?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,447 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Best example I can think of is the time I saw a row of dominos set up. Somebody knocked over the first one. That knocked over the second one as it fell...


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    The Big Bang?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    A gutful of dough, indegestion and a sleepless night


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    I owed my mate Jim a fiver. He needed it to help pay back his mate the tenner he owed for a packet of smokes. He needed the tenner to make up the wages for the saturday girl, who needed the wages to pay the rent to her parents, who needed the rent to pay the mortgage, to the bank who needed the mortgage payment to pay the bondholders, who needed the Bond money to pay the ECB.


    I kept the fiver. Feck Jim. I doubt anything much came of it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    Henry Tandey was a British soldier in WWI who had a chance to shoot a young Austrian soldier fighting for Germany, but he didn't , it turned out the soldier was Adolf Hitler. Tandey went on to become the most decorated British private in WWI.

    Hard to say if the German Nationalist movement of the 1920's would have remained splintered or united as it did under Hitler under a different leader. If WWII had never been fought, or if a different war had started then European, and indeed world history of the past 80 years would/could have been totally different.

    More on the wiki page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Tandey


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Michael Smith and Colm Mac Eochaidh offering 10 grand reward for information leading to a convictions for planning corruption.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahon_Tribunal#.C2.A310.2C000_reward


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    endacl wrote: »
    Best example I can think of is the time I saw a row of dominos set up. Somebody knocked over the first one. That knocked over the second one as it fell...

    What happened to the third one?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    Then there's the Football War between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969. There were many causes, war was brewing anyway, but the dry tinder was sparked by a qualification match for the 1970 World Cup.
    http://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/feb/21/theknowledge.sport
    The 'Football War' was fought by Central American countries El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. In fact, it also went by the name of the '100 Hours' War', and in reality there were a host of issues at the root of the troubles. Migration, trade and simmering land disputes on the border all conspired to spark social unrest between the two, but it wasn't until the best-of-three World Cup qualifiers in 1969 that the tipping point was reached.

    The first game - a 1-0 win for Honduras - in Tegucigalpa witnessed disturbances but things deteriorated significantly come the second in San Salvador: visiting Honduran players, according to Ryszard Kapuściński's 1978 book Wojna Futbolowa, endured a sleepless night before the game, with rotten eggs, dead rats and stinking rags all tossed through the broken windows of their hotel; Honduran fans were brutalised at the game, and the country's flag and national anthem were also mocked. "Under such conditions the players from Tegucigalpa did not, understandably, have their minds on the game," admitted the Honduras coach Mario Griffin after his team lost 3-0. "They had their minds on getting out alive. We're awfully lucky that we lost."

    Tension continued to increase before the decisive third match in Mexico, with the press stoking the frenzy. And on June 27 - the day of the play-off - Honduras broke off diplomatic relations with their neighbour. El Salvador eventually triumphed 3-2 after extra-time, booking their place in the 1970 World Cup (where they would lose all three of their group games without scoring). By July 14, El Salvador had invaded Honduras.

    When the Organisation of American States negotiated a ceasefire on July 20, approximately 1,000 to 2,000 people had lost their lives and 100,000 more had become refugees. Troops from El Salvador were withdrawn in August, but it wasn't until 11 years later that a peace treaty between the nations was agreed. A civil war in El Salvador ensued between 1980 until 1992, when the International Court of Justice awarded much of the originally disputed territory to Honduras.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭KyussBishop


    Saw the Wiki article on Thomas Midgley Jr. just earlier today; he discovered that 'tetraethyllead' mixed with petrol (i.e. leaded petrol), improved the performance of engines, and with this invention he contributed enormously to the pollution of cities and the atmosphere around the world for decades (even, with recent discoveries, triggering a significant increase in violent criminal behaviour in countries using leaded petrol).

    He also was part of the team that invented CFC's, thus also personally contributing to the massive depletion of the Ozone layer and to global warming; a good quote on the wiki page:
    J. R. McNeill, an environmental historian, has remarked that Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."

    Another one of his inventions, which he developed after contracting polio, was "an elaborate system of strings and pulleys to help others lift him from bed" - which he eventually got entangled in, strangling himself to death.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    I think Midgley Jnr wins this thread.
    Still a winner in death as in life; what a man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭Brego888


    When someone throws a trident


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    The break-in at the Watergate Hotel.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Mary of Nazareth's little white lie about Gabriel the door-to-door salesman


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭DwightSchrute1


    If we can hit that bullseye the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards, checkmate!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭my my my


    thyis is one thing i agree with you on, the domino effect doesnt start because it becomes out of reach or tantalising, it' s teenage psychology


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,917 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    I think Midgley Jnr wins this thread.
    Still a winner in death as in life; what a man.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    I think Midgley Jnr wins this thread.
    Still a winner in death as in life; what a man.

    As the inventor of CFCs? :confused:


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,917 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    As the inventor of CFCs? :confused:
    And adding lead to petrol.


    From QI
    Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."


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