[Dufflecoat Fanny]

Originally Posted by Seth Brundle

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.

[sligojoek]

Even bacteria won't go near it

[New Home]

Miss Havisham's wedding banquet right there.

[c.p.w.g.w]

Originally Posted by Gregor Samsa

^^^^

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.



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

Scary that there is no mould on the bread

[Gregor Samsa]

Originally Posted by c.p.w.g.w

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).

[A Tyrant Named Miltiades!]

Originally Posted by storker

The Battle of Rathmines

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

[The Nal]

Originally Posted by A Tyrant Named Miltiades!

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

[A Tyrant Named Miltiades!]

Originally Posted by The Nal

Yeah would've made sense to settle near the LUAS

Hence the "green line" of attack against the brits.

Obvious history is obvious.

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[Daibheid]

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

[Capt'n Midnight]

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...system-s-shape

[Gregor Samsa]

Originally Posted by Capt'n Midnight

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.”

[Capt'n Midnight]

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