What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

emeldc · 27-01-2015 01:23PM

Dial Hard wrote: »

I made a point of checking my toaster when this chestnut started doing the rounds online and I can categorically state that it's not true, for my toaster at least. All settings take the exact same amount of time - three minutes, the elements just get hotter at the higher settings.

Yes, I am that pedantic that I got the kitchen timer out.

Ah, you've just gone and fcukin' ruined it all now :mad::mad:

Into The Blue · 27-01-2015 01:26PM

FunLover18 wrote: »

I never really thought about it I suppose

You get so mouldy that your bottom ends facing up while you sleep it off?

27-01-2015 02:01PM

that half the things that people just realised are not true

fiachr_a · 27-01-2015 06:40PM

andrew wrote: »

That if you say 'Ghost Bus Tours' (they have them in Dublin) fast, it sounds like 'Ghostbusters'.

The theme song is a copy of I want a new drug by Huey Lewis.

bren2001 · 05-02-2015 02:26PM

Dial Hard wrote: »

I made a point of checking my toaster when this chestnut started doing the rounds online and I can categorically state that it's not true, for my toaster at least. All settings take the exact same amount of time - three minutes, the elements just get hotter at the higher settings.

Yes, I am that pedantic that I got the kitchen timer out.

So you are saying, it is a crispiness setting? Meaning in my life has been restored. I will unfollow the thread in case of a follow up.

valoren · 05-02-2015 02:36PM

The actual lyric is "...Love lift us up where we belong"

And not "The lift goes up where we belong"

The Cool · 05-02-2015 02:55PM

That people say "be there or be square"
because if you're not there you won't be a-round....

birdwatcher · 05-02-2015 02:56PM

kylith wrote: »

Yeah, 'things that are new' - news.

Actually...collecting stories from all directions (or so I heard recently anyway)
N...orth
E...ast
W...est
S...outh

Michael D Not Higgins · 05-02-2015 03:03PM

birdwatcher wrote: »

Actually...collecting stories from all directions (or so I heard recently anyway)
N...orth
E...ast
W...est
S...outh

No it's plural of new

seamus · 05-02-2015 03:06PM

birdwatcher wrote: »

Actually...collecting stories from all directions (or so I heard recently anyway)
N...orth
E...ast
W...est
S...outh

No, that's a common myth, it is actually derived from the word "new"

This is borne out in other languages where the words for "newspaper" and "news" are derived from the word "new" rather than from any directional acronyms.

Also, the word in the 1100s - 1500s was "newes". Which doesn't really work with the acronym above

cruizer101 · 05-02-2015 03:15PM

JaseBelleVie wrote: »

When watching a YouTube video, pressing the 'K' key on your keyboard will instantly pause/unpause the video.

There are some other letters do stuff also, j brings the video back 10 seconds, handy in case you just missed something, l brings forward 10 seconds.

The way I discovered this was, and I might ad it kinda freaked me out a bit initially, I was watching videos in work and pretending to type when the video starting skipping around.

Michael D Not Higgins · 05-02-2015 03:16PM

seamus wrote: »

No, that's a common myth, it is actually derived from the word "new"

This is borne out in other languages where the words for "newspaper" and "news" are derived from the word "new" rather than from any directional acronyms.

Also, the word in the 1100s - 1500s was "newes". Which doesn't really work with the acronym above

You only have to look at the Irish news on RTE. Nuacht is plural of nua.

QuantumP · 05-02-2015 03:45PM

That it's influential not influencial. :eek:

Potential Underachiever · 05-02-2015 03:52PM

Well, lately I only discovered that Stephen Fry was gay, I felt a wee bit silly I must confess, I suppose it seems obvious enough now in hindsight!

Triboro · 05-02-2015 04:41PM

cruizer101 wrote: »

There are some other letters do stuff also, j brings the video back 10 seconds, handy in case you just missed something, l brings forward 10 seconds.

The way I discovered this was, and I might ad it kinda freaked me out a bit initially, I was watching videos in work and pretending to type when the video starting skipping around.

Cool, handy bit of info! Never knew

Joe Doe · 05-02-2015 04:52PM

The mince in xmas mince pies, isn't real mince, 'tis only mashed up fruity sultana type stuff.

Joe Doe · 05-02-2015 05:01PM

#1.The sun and moon appear the same size from the earth (hence ability to view perfect total eclipses, here).
The sun’s diameter is about 400 times larger than that of the moon but the sun is also about 400 times farther from Earth, random coincidence?

#2 The number '273.2' is fairly cool. One of the recurring numbers in this whole exploration of the underlying mathematics 'linking the Earth, Moon and Sun' is 273, or 0.273.

• The ratio of Earth diameter to moon diameter is 0.273
• The ratio of moon diameter to Earth diameter is 3.66
• 27.32 earth days in Sidereal period of the moon ( one moon day ).
• 27.32 freezing point of water on Kelvin scale (K)
• 273 days in an average human pregnancy. (10 lunar months)
• 2,730,000 the circumference of the sun in miles.
• -273.2 degrees celcius is the temperature of absolute zero.
• Gasses expand by 1/273 of their volume with every degree on the Celcius/centigrade scale.
• 366 lunar days (27.32 earth days) = 10,000 earth days.

If you were to draw a circle inside a square, with the circle's diameter the same as the square's length,
the area outside the circle is 27.32% of the square, cool like.

Digital Solitude · 05-02-2015 05:08PM

Water freezes at 273.2K, just change your decimal :P

Gloomtastic! · 05-02-2015 05:10PM

Joe Doe wrote: »

#1.The sun and moon appear the same size from the earth (hence ability to view perfect total eclipses, here).
The sun’s diameter is about 400 times larger than that of the moon but the sun is also about 400 times farther from Earth, random coincidence?

#2 The number '273.2' is fairly cool. One of the recurring numbers in this whole exploration of the underlying mathematics 'linking the Earth, Moon and Sun' is 273, or 0.273.

• The ratio of Earth diameter to moon diameter is 0.273
• The ratio of moon diameter to Earth diameter is 3.66
• 27.32 earth days in Sidereal period of the moon ( one moon day ).
• 27.32 freezing point of water on Kelvin scale (K)
• 273 days in an average human pregnancy. (10 lunar months)
• 2,730,000 the circumference of the sun in miles.
• -273.2 degrees celcius is the temperature of absolute zero.
• Gasses expand by 1/273 of their volume with every degree on the Celcius/centigrade scale.
• 366 lunar days (27.32 earth days) = 10,000 earth days.

If you were to draw a circle inside a square, with the circle's diameter the same as the square's length,
the area outside the circle is 27.32% of the square, cool like.

We'll take your word for it!

Joe Doe · 05-02-2015 05:20PM

• The 'lady fertility cycles' of earth ladies is round about every 27.32 days.
• Old time farmers like to plant their sees every 27.32 days during planting seasons (on the full moon only) for the best crop return.

runawaybishop · 05-02-2015 05:22PM

JaseBelleVie wrote: »

Maybe not so obvious, but useful.

When watching a YouTube video, pressing the 'K' key on your keyboard will instantly pause/unpause the video.

If its buffering you can use the arrow keys to play snake also.

runawaybishop · 05-02-2015 05:24PM

Your Superior wrote: »

Nonsense, first day of Spring is March 20th

The next meteorological spring begins on 01 March 2015 and runs until 31 May 2015.

The meteorological seasons consists of splitting the seasons into four periods made up of three months each. These seasons are split to coincide with our Gregorian calendar making it easier for meteorological observing and forecasting to compare seasonal and monthly statistics. By the meteorological calendar, spring starts on 1 March.

The seasons are defined as Spring (March, April, May), Summer (June, July, August), Autumn (September, October, November) and Winter (December, January, February).

Nonsense yourself!

We use the Gaelic calendar in Ireland fpr the seasons, not the meteorological, and the first day of spring is indeed February.

Michael D Not Higgins · 05-02-2015 05:44PM

Joe Doe wrote: »

#1.The sun and moon appear the same size from the earth (hence ability to view perfect total eclipses, here).
The sun’s diameter is about 400 times larger than that of the moon but the sun is also about 400 times farther from Earth, random coincidence?

#2 The number '273.2' is fairly cool. One of the recurring numbers in this whole exploration of the underlying mathematics 'linking the Earth, Moon and Sun' is 273, or 0.273.

• The ratio of Earth diameter to moon diameter is 0.273
• The ratio of moon diameter to Earth diameter is 3.66
• 27.32 earth days in Sidereal period of the moon ( one moon day ).
• 27.32 freezing point of water on Kelvin scale (K)
• 273 days in an average human pregnancy. (10 lunar months)
• 2,730,000 the circumference of the sun in miles.
• -273.2 degrees celcius is the temperature of absolute zero.
• Gasses expand by 1/273 of their volume with every degree on the Celcius/centigrade scale.
• 366 lunar days (27.32 earth days) = 10,000 earth days.

If you were to draw a circle inside a square, with the circle's diameter the same as the square's length,
the area outside the circle is 27.32% of the square, cool like.

Lots of rounding errors to get these numbers. The circle and square one isn't even close, it's about 21.5%.

Edit: The gas one is only true at 0 degrees Celcius. Perceived size is directly proportional to distance so the fact that the size of the moon and sun and their respective differences are so similar makes logical sense. The fact that you can round it to 400 is coincidence (and a rounding error). Also none of these are really obvious.

franer1970 · 06-02-2015 01:16PM

The "spelt out" way of writing numbers (one, two, three, sixty nine etc.) is really pointless.
It's always much easier just to write the numeral version.
Why did they even invent it?
It's not like anyone's ever felt to need to have spelt out versions of letters (e.g. double u, ex, why, zed).

franer1970 · 06-02-2015 03:29PM

franer1970 wrote: »

The "spelt out" way of writing numbers (one, two, three, sixty nine etc.) is really pointless.
It's always much easier just to write the numeral version.
Why did they even invent it?
It's not like anyone's ever felt to need to have spelt out versions of letters (e.g. double u, ex, why, zed).

I take that back - it's a good idea for big numbers. Try figuring out what 18000000000 is.

(18 billion)

seamus · 06-02-2015 03:31PM

runawaybishop wrote: »

Nonsense yourself!

We use the Gaelic calendar in Ireland fpr the seasons, not the meteorological, and the first day of spring is indeed February.

There is no legally recognised or required calendar of the seasons in Ireland.

You can continue to tell yourself that February is the first day of spring, that doesn't make it so

It's the seasonal equivalent of using cups as a measure of weight; you can do it, but it makes no sense.

emeldc · 06-02-2015 03:37PM

seamus wrote: »

There is no legally recognised or required calendar of the seasons in Ireland.

You can continue to tell yourself that February is the first day of spring, that doesn't make it so

It's the seasonal equivalent of using cups as a measure of weight; you can do it, but it makes no sense.

All the SPRING flowers poking their heads up in my garden tells me it's fuggin' spring

runawaybishop · 06-02-2015 03:42PM

seamus wrote: »

There is no legally recognised or required calendar of the seasons in Ireland.

You can continue to tell yourself that February is the first day of spring, that doesn't make it so

It's the seasonal equivalent of using cups as a measure of weight; you can do it, but it makes no sense.

It being generally acknowledged as spring makes it so though, which is the case in Ireland. Your analogy is bad and you should feel bad.

FunLover18 · 06-02-2015 03:43PM

emeldc wrote:

All the SPRING flowers poking their heads up in my garden tells me it's fuggin' spring ï¿¼

Don't forget the leaves comibg out on the trees. So much more to the seasons than the weather especially in Ireland where the weather is all over the place.

It BeeMee · 06-02-2015 03:44PM

franer1970 wrote: »

The "spelt out" way of writing numbers (one, two, three, sixty nine etc.) is really pointless.
It's always much easier just to write the numeral version.
Why did they even invent it?
It's not like anyone's ever felt to need to have spelt out versions of letters (e.g. double u, ex, why, zed).

Yankee Echo Sierra
Tango Hotel Echo Yankee
Hotel Alpha Victor Echo

What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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