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  • #1202
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,887 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Index of skin tones by location on a global scale.

    11417_30262806_6667ec55-d4a4-4793-9040-ee1e0ba796f8.jpeg


  • #1203
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,490 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Are there really that many green people?

    While I may be being glib, the map doesn't help itself.


  • #1204
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,938 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    https://twitter.com/MarshsLibrary/status/1284494788297924609?s=09


  • #1205
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Index of skin tones by location on a global scale.

    11417_30262806_6667ec55-d4a4-4793-9040-ee1e0ba796f8.jpeg


    no way that irish people have the same skin tone as French people.


  • #1206
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Victor wrote: »
    Are there really that many green people?

    While I may be being glib, the map doesn't help itself.

    Also, all the blue people in the middle of Greenland. From the cold? Or "fir gorm"?


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  • #1207
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,485 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Must be to do with indigenous skin colour, because there's no way the average skin tone in Australia is at that end of the scale.


  • #1208
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,265 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    Also, all the blue people in the middle of Greenland. From the cold? Or "fir gorm"?
    I think that's just uninhabited.

    You don't live in the centre of Greenland unless you have a death wish. (Though you could probably say the same for a good number of the Arctic Canadian islands)


  • #1209
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    Also, all the blue people in the middle of Greenland. From the cold? Or "fir gorm"?

    Smurfs.


  • #1210
    New Home
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    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    Smurfs.


    Avatars?


  • #1211
    Fogmatic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Fogmatic


    Further to post #1204, Ireland looks even more laid-back here (though perhaps in better shape).

    Mapping must have been difficult if the sun was shrouded in rain and mists. (And I wonder if the word Hibernia was suggesting it was to the north of Wales etc?)

    (Sorry, can't seem to embed image from phone today - probably just me?)

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=520554&stc=1&d=1595244106


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  • #1212
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,152 ✭✭✭✭josip


    520554.jpg


    Are those islands on the East Coast the Arklow Bank ?


  • #1213
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,497 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    josip wrote: »
    attachment.php?attachmentid=520554&d=1595244106


    Are those islands on the East Coast the Arklow Bank ?

    Yes they are.

    It's suggested too that Arklow is referred to as Menapia on Ptomley's map of Ireland.


  • #1214
    New Home
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    I had always associated the word Hibernia with hibernation, meaning Land of Winter.


  • #1215
    Barna77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    Fogmatic wrote: »
    Mapping must have been difficult if the sun was shrouded in rain and mists. (And I wonder if the word Hibernia was suggesting it was to the north of Wales etc?)
    The land of -always- winter


  • #1216
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    The claim I've heard is that Hibernia actually came from the old Celtic word for the island *Iveriu (where Ériu and subsequently Éire come from) that was then altered in Latin to Hibernia, as it sounded like the latin hibernus, meaning winter. Other lesser used classical names for Ireland like Ierne, Iouernia and Iberio/Hiberio come from the same stem.

    So it wasn't that they directly called it Hibernia because of the weather, but more because the Celtic name sounded "wintery" to them.


  • #1217
    New Home
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    I'm sure the weather didn't help. :D


  • #1218
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Is irish weather so different to the weather in parts of england that the romans would have noted it?


  • #1219
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    The claim I've heard is that Hibernia actually came from the old Celtic word for the island *Iveriu (where Ériu and subsequently Éire come from) that was then altered in Latin to Hibernia, as it sounded like the latin hibernus, meaning winter. Other lesser used classical names for Ireland like Ierne, Iouernia and Iberio/Hiberio come from the same stem.

    So it wasn't that they directly called it Hibernia because of the weather, but more because the Celtic name sounded "wintery" to them.

    Yeah. Think the really old word is something like piwerjon meaning fertile or land of plenty. There was a group in Kerry that were called the Iverni that retained this old name and then the Romans tried to force it to Hinernia which meant Winterland.


  • #1220
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,152 ✭✭✭✭josip


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Is irish weather so different to the weather in parts of england that the romans would have noted it?


    I think it is.

    I spend some time each year in Berkshire and Kent and late spring/summer is usually just warmer than over here.
    Our weather here is more variable; when the sun breaks through the clouds it can be fairly hot, but 2 minutes later a cloud comes across, a south easterly wind pops up and it feels cold. Rinse and repeat 7 times an hour.


  • #1221
    forgottenhills
    Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭forgottenhills


    josip wrote: »
    I think it is.

    I spend some time each year in Berkshire and Kent and late spring/summer is usually just warmer than over here.
    Our weather here is more variable; when the sun breaks through the clouds it can be fairly hot, but 2 minutes later a cloud comes across, a south easterly wind pops up and it feels cold. Rinse and repeat 7 times an hour.

    Yes but the Romans were in Northern England too and that is not much different to here. Scotland's is worse, maybe that is why the built the wall.


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  • #1222
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    forgottenhills wrote: »
    Yes but the Romans were in Northern England too and that is not much different to here. Scotland's is worse, maybe that is why the built the wall.

    I don’t think the Romans really knew what the weather was like in Ireland. They just knew it was out there and mysterious.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • #1223
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    forgottenhills wrote: »
    Yes but the Romans were in Northern England too and that is not much different to here. Scotland's is worse, maybe that is why the built the wall.

    Or because of the Wildlings.


  • #1224
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Victor wrote: »
    Are there really that many green people?

    While I may be being glib, the map doesn't help itself.
    They're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.


  • #1225
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Ipso wrote: »
    Yeah. Think the really old word is something like piwerjon meaning fertile or land of plenty.
    A Greek lad by the name of Strabo reckoned that Ireland's land was so fertile that cattle risked exploding from eating to much of the grass. :D
    Brian? wrote:
    I don’t think the Romans really knew what the weather was like in Ireland. They just knew it was out there and mysterious.
    They'd have had a fair idea of general things about the place as trade was going back and forth between here and Britain and the continent, so would have heard things about Ireland.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #1226
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Strabo obviously didn’t make it to West Donegal.


  • #1227
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Solar_Orbiter_spots_campfires_on_the_Sun_annotated_article.jpg
    Remember the solar probe we launched a while back ?


    Solar Orbiter’s first images reveal ‘campfires’ on the Sun

    Maps of the sun don't stay current that long :o


  • #1228
    Capt'n Midnight
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    KevRossi wrote: »
    You could run the lighting in a niteclub just by showing Italy. Over 60 changes of government.

    italy-prime-ministers.png
    Colours are national flags, they missed a trick.

    Italy's up to 70 now.


  • #1229
    Markcheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,566 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    Could really put Spain on the list , it would have been Franco ,Franco Franco till 70 whatever ..

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • #1230
    New Home
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Is irish weather so different to the weather in parts of england that the romans would have noted it?


    I'd say different enough - sure look at the amount of rain that falls in the West in comparison to Dublin, or even Wexford.


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  • #1231
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    I've often predicted the end of Evelyn Cusack or Siobhán Ryan's prediction of heavy rain as "Especially in the North and West"


  • #1232
    Fogmatic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Fogmatic


    sligojoek wrote: »
    I've often predicted the end of Evelyn Cusack or Siobhán Ryan's prediction of heavy rain as "Especially in the North and West"

    And here in NW Donegal 'most areas will stay dry/settled', means it's time to shut a few doors.

    Interesting discussion (I love exploring words and language!)

    But I was forgetting how recently in the history of maps having north at the top of became the convention. Maps of Ireland with N to left or right would have been a convenient shape to hold up/study on a table, and West at the top handy if approaching from Britain. Just had a quick search and got loads of articles on it (this one's a fairly quick read)
    https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160614-maps-have-north-at-the-top-but-it-couldve-been-different


  • #1233
    New Home
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    Case in point: tonight's weather forecast.


  • #1234
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,290 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


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

    index.php?map=0


  • #1235
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,471 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    propmotion.gif


  • #1236
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    propmotion.gif

    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.


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  • #1237
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,887 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    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


  • #1238
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,688 ✭✭✭storker


    The Battle of Rathmines

    battle-of-rathmines-PJTX1D.jpg


  • #1239
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    storker wrote: »
    The Battle of Rathmines

    battle-of-rathmines-PJTX1D.jpg

    Did Roddys win?


  • #1240
    Hego Damask
    Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Hego Damask


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


  • #1241
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,085 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Ipso wrote: »
    Did Roddys win?

    Grace's is by far the better establishment


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  • #1242
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,938 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    https://jakubmarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/mcdonalds-year.jpg

    mcdonalds-year.jpg


  • #1243
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭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.

    c1_3390709.jpg

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


  • #1244
    Oops!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,266 ✭✭✭Oops!


    Some bang of it by now i'd say!


  • #1245
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,290 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!


  • #1246
    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.


  • #1247
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Even bacteria won't go near it


  • #1248
    New Home
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    Miss Havisham's wedding banquet right there.


  • #1249
    c.p.w.g.w
    Registered Users Posts: 4,994 ✭✭✭c.p.w.g.w


    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


  • #1250
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭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).


  • #1251
    [Deleted User]
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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


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