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  • #32
    EoghanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    Lead is known as Pb in the periodic table .

    Plumbum is the Latin for plumbing .

    Before plumpers used lead pipes , but now we know not to as they allow dangerous ions to mix with water .

    Origin of Pb.


    Chemistry nerd:P


  • #33
    DeanAustin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    Went out with a girl once who was actually intelligent and has gone on to do well careerwise who thought Africa was a country and Nigeria was a city in it. I was gobsmacked.

    Told my current missus this, who I'd also consider clever and she is degree educated, and she thought the same.

    Worrying...


  • #34
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Anyone who can order a beer in six different languages knows all they need to know.

    Hmmmmmm (and I promise no google)
    Beer please
    Cervaza pour favour
    Un bier sil vous plait
    Birra...something.....
    Pivo....something and a smile..


  • #35
    Lawrence1895
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    Hmmmmmm (and I promise no google)
    Beer please
    Cervaza pour favour
    Un bier sil vous plait
    Birra...something.....
    Pivo....something and a smile..

    I think it's po prosze pivo ;)

    And in German: 'Ein grosses Bier bitte' :D


  • #36
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,423 ✭✭✭cml387


    An in-depth knowledge of British Rail locomotive classes is an essential requirement.
    And how do you pronounce the capital of Missouri? Is it St Looie or St Lewis?


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  • #37
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    cml387 wrote: »
    An in-depth knowledge of British Rail locomotive classes is an essential requirement.
    And how do you pronounce the capital of Missouri? Is it St Looie or St Lewis?
    Jefferson


  • #38
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,423 ✭✭✭cml387


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Jefferson

    Know all bastid.


  • #39
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Frank Lee Midere wrote: »
    That's basically stuff you know. And therefore stuff you think other people should know.

    I disagree. We are talking general knowledge. How can any adult living in this country, watching Irish TV, reading books and papers and generally living amongst the same people we all do not know that Guinness is a brand of a particular beer type, that wine is aged or have a vague notion that a food called chutney exists and what it is.


  • #40
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Lars1916 wrote: »
    I think it's po prosze pivo ;)

    And in German: 'Ein grosses Bier bitte' :D

    Ah feck. I knew the German one!!!!


  • #41
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    cml387 wrote: »
    Know all bastid.
    Na, just got caught out on it before.:p

    Kansas City is the largest city in which state is another.


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  • #42
    Lawrence1895
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    Ah feck. I knew the German one!!!!

    Yeah, but many people always forget the 'gross', you have to say that, to get a decent sized glass :D


  • #43
    ABajaninCork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    Monday.

    True. Dunshabe is Tajik for Monday! :D


  • #44
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Got into a taxi years ago, all twisted up on e and aftershock, told him where I wanted to go, he said "grand" so I hoped in and we took off. After about a couple of minutes he turns to me and goes "do you know what the capital of Tanzania is?" so naturally I said "no, of course not, why would I know that?", so he just stares at me for about 20 seconds, still driving of course at about 50 miles an hour, and finally says with the most serious look on his face, and the most intense tone to his voice, "It's Dodoma... Dodoma", then looks back at the road just in time to brake and swerve round the car in front that'd stopped at a red light. We flew on through them then sat there in silence for the next 20 mins til I reached my destination, paid and got out. That was weird.

    So I know what the capital of Tanzania is. What do I win?


  • #45
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    DeanAustin wrote: »
    Went out with a girl once who was actually intelligent and has gone on to do well careerwise who thought Africa was a country and Nigeria was a city in it. I was gobsmacked.

    Told my current missus this, who I'd also consider clever and she is degree educated, and she thought the same.

    Worrying...

    Hi! Nice to meet you again!! :)


  • #46
    ABajaninCork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    Abuja, not Lagos is the capital of Nigeria. Think it changed about 10 years ago...


  • #47
    DeanAustin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    sopretty wrote: »
    Hi! Nice to meet you again!! :)

    Haha prove it. What's your bra size?


  • #48
    Curly Judge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    sopretty wrote: »
    Hi! Nice to meet you again!! :)

    Tell him about the baby!


  • #49
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    Hmmmmmm (and I promise no google)
    Beer please
    Cervaza pour favour
    Un bier sil vous plait
    Birra...something.....
    Pivo....something and a smile..

    Givus a pint there please when yer ready (Irish)
    Pint a' bitter please (English)
    Una cervezza por favor (Spanish)
    Una birra per favore (Italian)
    Une bierre pour favour (French)
    Einen birren bitte (German)

    I win!


  • #50
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    strobe wrote: »
    So I know what the capital of Tanzania is. What do I win?

    A round of applause from this reader, because I thought it was still Dar es Salaam, which it isn't.


  • #51
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    sopretty wrote: »
    Givus a pint there please when yer ready (Irish)
    Pint a' bitter please (English)
    Una cervezza por favor (Spanish)
    Una birra per favore (Italian)
    Une bierre pour favour (French)
    Einen birren bitte (German)

    I win!
    Nope. The French one is wrong. Its 'Sil vous plait' HA! IN YOUR FACE!!!:D:P:P
    Oh and the irish one is wrong. You simply shout the bar mans name and very very slightly incline your head in a down wards direction toward your 2/3 empty glass.


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  • #52
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    ABajaninCork wrote: »
    Abuja, not Lagos is the capital of Nigeria. Think it changed about 10 years ago...
    Hate when they do that.

    Brother phoned me a few months ago said he was in Yangon, where the fcuks that? says I. Used to be Rangoon, says he. Ah, says I, all knowledgeable like, capital of Burma. Not any more, says he, and not of Burma.

    :confused:


  • #53
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    Well, I've learnt something from this thread.

    YHE is the International Air Transportation Association code for Hope, British Columbia, Canada.
    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    All the Canadian airports have funny airport codes
    YYZ
    YYC
    YVR

    There doesn't seem to be a reason either, they just do.

    And NZ airports' IATA codes tend to have a Z in it.

    ICAO codes are more organised. They're 4 letters and the first letter denotes the region/country. E for Northern Europe, N for the region around New Zealand, C for Canada, K for 'Murica and so on. If it's a region, the second letter denotes the country. EI is Ireland, EG is UK, ES for Sweeden, NZ for New Zealand etc.


  • #54
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    A round of applause from this reader, because I thought it was still Dar es Salaam, which it isn't.
    Same here, I thought Freddy Mercury was born in it though, I was wrong about that too. Zanzibar.


  • #55
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Brother phoned me a few months ago said he was in Yangon, where the fcuks that? says I. Used to be Rangoon, says he. Ah, says I, all knowledgeable like, capital of Burma. Not any more, says he, and not of Burma.

    :confused:

    That's very different to Astana, Abuja etc - they changed the name, not the city. Many people still call it Rangoon.


  • #56
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    DeanAustin wrote: »
    Haha prove it. What's your bra size?

    Ah no, I thought Russia was a continent. All of its own.

    My knowledge of geography, and knowledge in general, is abysmal.


  • #57
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    cml387 wrote: »
    An in-depth knowledge of British Rail locomotive classes is an essential requirement.

    Rocket. 26mph

    That's all you need to know.

    Well maybe Mallard too. 126mph ;)


  • #58
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?


  • #59
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    That's very different to Astana, Abuja etc - they changed the name, not the city. Many people still call it Rangoon.

    Nope, as well as changing the name of the old capital, they moved the capital itself to a new purpose built city, Naypyidaw.


  • #60
    DeanAustin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    sopretty wrote: »
    Ah no, I thought Russia was a continent. All of its own.

    My knowledge of geography, and knowledge in general, is abysmal.

    Ah no I wasn't asking to see if you were for real. Just wanted to know how big your boobs were.


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  • #61
    Belle E. Flops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Belle E. Flops


    My housemate years ago thought that Japan was it's own continent and that New Zealand was an island belonging to Australia.


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