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  • #1232
    New Home
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    Case in point: tonight's weather forecast.


  • #1233
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,715 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    map of Real Time Lightning Strikes (click image to view)

    index.php?map=0


  • #1234
    Capt'n Midnight
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  • #1235
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
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    So the Sphinx was build in 100,000 AD? The good old precession of the equinoxes, a reason, apart from the obvious, that horoscopes are nonsense.


  • #1236
    JupiterKid
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    Racial distribution in the San Francisco Bay Area, 2010.
    Red = white; blue = black; green = Asian; brown= Hispanic; grey = other.

    11417_14886813_fc2945f0-ea22-4255-9c7e-0d838fb37b0c.jpeg


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  • #1237
    storker
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    The Battle of Rathmines

    battle-of-rathmines-PJTX1D.jpg


  • #1238
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    storker wrote: »
    The Battle of Rathmines

    battle-of-rathmines-PJTX1D.jpg

    Did Roddys win?


  • #1239
    Hego Damask
    Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Hego Damask


    https://twitter.com/terriblemaps/status/1287383491840299010?s=21


  • #1240
    BonnieSituation
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    Ipso wrote: »
    Did Roddys win?

    Grace's is by far the better establishment


  • #1241
    Tell me how
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    https://jakubmarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/mcdonalds-year.jpg

    mcdonalds-year.jpg


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  • #1242
    Gregor Samsa
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    ^^^^

    McDonalds closed down in Iceland in 2009. Some guy bought the last Cheeseburger and fries from the outlet just before it did, to keep as a historic artefact. It was on display for a number of years in the National Museum of Iceland, before ending up where it currently resides behind glass in a hotel in Þykkvibær, South Iceland.

    c1_3390709.jpg

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-50262547


  • #1243
    Oops!
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    Some bang of it by now i'd say!


  • #1244
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,715 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Oops! wrote: »
    Some bang of it by now i'd say!
    At least the flavour couldn't get any worse than it did back in the day!


  • #1245
    Dufflecoat Fanny
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭Dufflecoat Fanny


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    At least the flavour couldn't get any worse than it did back in the day!

    Ah come on. We all know it's ****e food but it's tasty ****e.


  • #1246
    sligojoek
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    Even bacteria won't go near it


  • #1247
    New Home
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    Miss Havisham's wedding banquet right there.


  • #1248
    c.p.w.g.w
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    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    ^^^^

    McDonalds closed down in Iceland in 2009. Some guy bought the last Cheeseburger and fries from the outlet just before it did, to keep as a historic artefact. It was on display for a number of years in the National Museum of Iceland, before ending up where it currently resides behind glass in a hotel in Þykkvibær, South Iceland.

    c1_3390709.jpg

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-50262547

    Scary that there is no mould on the bread


  • #1249
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    c.p.w.g.w wrote: »
    Scary that there is no mould on the bread

    McDonalds claim that it’s because the burger was first stored in a dry environment that took all the moisture out if it. Mould needs humidity to grow. In fairness, while you will get mould growing on bread, you don’t get it growing on toast (I’ve three kids, I find archaic toast regularly).


  • #1250
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    storker wrote: »
    The Battle of Rathmines

    battle-of-rathmines-PJTX1D.jpg
    What a great map. It's hard to place some of the locations due to road changes, but if Ormonde's Camp and the Bloody Fields are approx halfway between Mount Pleasant and the Dodder, does that mean they would be around Palmerston Road now? Close to the park I suppose?

    The site of Ranelagh must have been around Mountain View Road, or near Mortons. I think I remember hearing that before.

    Also, you wouldn't think it because the slope is so gradual, but Mountain View and Beechwood Rd are actually on quite a height compared to the surrounding land. From here, you can see the spire lit up at night, and I'm sure I've been told there was a camp established there (I thought it was the irish, on their approach from the south) where they set up camp on a small hill.. probably where the Catholic Church is at Beechwood Rd


  • #1251
    The Nal
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    The site of Ranelagh must have been around Mountain View Road, or near Mortons. I think I remember hearing that before.

    Yeah would've made sense to settle near the LUAS


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  • #1252
    [Deleted User]
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    The Nal wrote: »
    Yeah would've made sense to settle near the LUAS
    Hence the "green line" of attack against the brits.

    Obvious history is obvious.


  • #1253
    New Home
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  • #1254
    New Home
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  • #1255
    New Home
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  • #1256
    Daibheid
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    If you’ve ever wondered why with the Earth rotating Eastwards, i.e. into the Lunar induced bulge of water, High Tides in Ireland occur - counter intuitively- earlier in Valentia than Wexford, this animated map shows why. There’s also other effects e.g. land masses and existing ocean currents.
    http://volkov.oce.orst.edu/tides/pic/tpxo8.gif


  • #1257
    Capt'n Midnight
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    An updated model suggests the shape of the Sun’s bubble of influence, the heliosphere (seen in yellow), may be a deflated croissant shape, rather than the long-tailed comet shape suggested by other research.

    https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/uncovering-our-solar-system-s-shape


  • #1258
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    An updated model suggests the shape of the Sun’s bubble of influence, the heliosphere (seen in yellow), may be a deflated croissant shape

    “Your theory of a donut shaped universe is intriguing, Homer. I may have to steal it.”

    images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTbKR7zgknNQohni0TRSi0rFwmek3nitwmDzA&usqp=CAU


  • #1259
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Burgess_and_Webb.jpg

    The routes taken by the first recorded people to swim la Manche


  • #1260
    killbillvol2
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Burgess_and_Webb.jpg

    The routes taken by the first recorded people to swim la Manche

    Looks like Burgess stopped for a pint!


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  • #1261
    Fogmatic
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    killbillvol2 wrote: »
    Looks like Burgess stopped for a pint!
    Yes!

    There are some fierce tides in the Channel (and that's just the start, before taking into account the shifting currents caused by the shallow bits and so on).


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