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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #3902
    Etc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Etc


    Enda Kenny would roll back on his whingers remark.......


  • #3903
    riclad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    This government has done little to improve the economy ,
    the recovery is 95 per cent due to the drop in oil prices, the recovery in
    the usa and the international economys around the world .
    People are still going to prison for not paying the tv licence ,
    what a waste of time and money .
    Use the prison,s for drug dealers, robbers and burglars .


  • #3904
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    riclad wrote: »
    This government has done little to improve the economy ,
    the recovery is 95 per cent due to the drop in oil prices, the recovery in
    the usa and the international economys around the world .
    People are still going to prison for not paying the tv licence ,
    what a waste of time and money .
    Use the prison,s for drug dealers, robbers and burglars .

    They spend literally one hour in there and are let back out on 'temporary' release.


  • #3905
    Paz-CCFC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭Paz-CCFC


    It's called Ecuador because it's on the Equator.


  • #3906
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Paz-CCFC wrote: »
    It's called Ecuador because it's on the Equator.


    That's news to me. That's more of a ''Today I Learned'' thing than an obvious thing I think. Thanks :)


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  • #3907
    Paz-CCFC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭Paz-CCFC


    Omackeral wrote: »
    That's news to me. That's more of a ''Today I Learned'' thing than an obvious thing I think. Thanks :)

    It felt kinda obvious when I thought about it. Not necessarily knowing the geography of it, but rather just the name. "Ya know, Ecuador kinda sounds like...hold one, what part of South America is it?".

    Ecuador literally means Equator in Spanish.


  • #3908
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    I only found out recently (seperate to this thread, but co-incidentally) that it's spelled Ecuador and not Equador!


  • #3909
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    I've always assumed that the word 'outlaw' was just another word for a criminal. But it's actually got a specific meaning - in old legal systems people who had committed crimes could be cast outside the law and denied its protection. So anyone could then torture or kill them, with no legal consequences. It was practically a death sentence.

    Maybe if I had watched more westerns I'd have copped this sooner :)


  • #3910
    get a room
    Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭get a room


    Chin Stroker wrote: »
    What things have you just found out that would be seemingly obvious to everyone else?

    Up untill last year I thought Washington DC was in Washington State :o

    That the Labour Party is gone !!!!!!


  • #3911
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    If you say "wow " repeatedly in a deep voice, you get the intro to livin on a prayer.


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  • #3912
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Etc wrote: »
    David Davin Power's curls have a life of their own.....!

    He also never blinks, NEVER


  • #3913
    franer1970
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭franer1970


    With respect to using nail clippers, everyone's ambidextrous.


  • #3914
    Ciderswigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Ciderswigger


    franer1970 wrote: »
    With respect to using nail clippers, everyone's ambidextrous.

    Not in my family. My brother can't use his non dominant hand and neither could my dad.


  • #3915
    Wabbit Ears
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    franer1970 wrote: »
    With respect to using nail clippers, everyone's ambidextrous.


    Nope, There is no way I could nail clip my right hand with my left, not without copious amounts of bloodshed.


    Nail biting FTW


  • #3916
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,779 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    That we were literally in the first World War.

    Like, we all know this, but I'd never really thought about it as such.

    Like poltically, we were part of Britain, and in it as much as Scotland or Wales or England.

    Also, obviously, I feel i'm going to regret this post.


  • #3917
    HardenendMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 583 ✭✭✭HardenendMan


    That the words of the song are "I like big butts and I cannot lie" and not "I like big butts and a can of lard". Always thought it was a strange lyric.


  • #3918
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    franer1970 wrote: »
    With respect to using nail clippers, everyone's ambidextrous.

    Most definitions would say that means using the hands equally well. I am significantly worse at using clippers or scissors with my non dominant hand.


  • #3919
    Ciderswigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Ciderswigger


    HardenendMan wrote: »
    That the words of the song are "I like big butts and I cannot lie" and not "I like big butts and a can of lard". Always thought it was a strange lyric.

    Hahahahaha :D


  • #3920
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    People born in 1958 are 58 this year, babies of '58 become 58.


  • #3921
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    The actress Bryce Dallas Howard, out of Jurassic World, is Ron's daughter.


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  • #3922
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,285 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    The actress Bryce Dallas Howard, out of Jurassic World, is Ron's daughter.
    That wasn't really obvious though, was it? :)

    Not your ornery onager



  • #3923
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Esel wrote:
    That wasn't really obvious though, was it?

    They're both ginger


  • #3924
    edbrez
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 214 ✭✭edbrez


    Most classical music that won the Pulitzer Prize is not available on YouTube. It's obvious why when you listen to it!


  • #3925
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,032 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    edbrez wrote: »
    Most classical music that won the Pulitzer Prize is not available on YouTube. It's obvious why when you listen to it!

    give us a clue


  • #3926
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,197 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Apart from the Pulitzer prize being a journalism award I don't get it either.

    Edit: never knew there was a music award too


  • #3927
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,032 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Apart from the Pulitzer prize being a journalism award I don't get it either.

    they also give awards for musical composition.


  • #3928
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    edbrez wrote: »
    Most classical music that won the Pulitzer Prize is not available on YouTube. It's obvious why when you listen to it!

    The first one I looked up was there, I guessed that edbrez is trying to educate us on classical music, I just realised, and so I stopped falling for his/her sneaky underhanded teacher tactics... :rolleyes:


  • #3929
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭storker


    Wabbit Ears wrote: »
    Nope, There is no way I could nail clip my right hand with my left, not without copious amounts of bloodshed.

    You should keep practicing until you get the hang of it. If you ever lost your right hand it would be useful to be able to cut your nails with your left.


  • #3930
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,078 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    storker wrote: »
    You should keep practicing until you get the hang of it. If you ever lost your right hand it would be useful to be able to cut your nails with your left.


    If you 'lost' your right hand you wouldn't be able to cut your nails with your left hand anyway... :D



    But I know what you mean, and I agree. :)


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  • #3931
    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


    New Home wrote: »
    If you 'lost' your right hand you wouldn't be able to cut your nails with your left hand anyway... :D



    But I know what you mean, and I agree. :)

    Toenails?


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