I bet you didnt know that

harry Bailey esq · 11-10-2017 2:24am

At any given time, it's estimated that 0.7 are drunk. That means 50 million people across the globe are pissed now.

Widdershins · 11-10-2017 11:35am

Tigger wrote: »

there are a good few tigers in Africa

Not native to there though?

job seeker · 11-10-2017 1:30pm

App is short for absolutely.

Chancer3001 · 11-10-2017 1:43pm

job seeker wrote: »

App is short for absolutely.

Say what?

job seeker · 11-10-2017 2:15pm

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Say what?

Someone told me that Apps, you know what's on phones and laptops? Is short for absolutely.

EDIT: Oh no, it seems that it's short for Application.. Never mind..

stimpson · 11-10-2017 2:20pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Philip Noel-Baker won an Olympic Medal for the 1500 metres.

And a Nobel Prize.

There's a Nobel Prize for Athletics?

sentient_6 · 11-10-2017 2:30pm

job seeker wrote: »

Someone told me that Apps, you know what's on phones and laptops? Is short for absolutely.

EDIT: Oh no, it seems that it's short for Application.. Never mind..

I bet you didn't know why you're a job seeker you know now.

Im a terrible person sorry but I couldn't help it.

sbsquarepants · 11-10-2017 2:45pm

job seeker wrote: »

App is short for absolutely.

Abs, you mean surely.

Coming for scoops tonight?
Abs.

Don't ever go drinking with anyone who speaks like this by the way

DaeryssaOne · 11-10-2017 2:49pm

job seeker wrote: »

Someone told me that Apps, you know what's on phones and laptops? Is short for absolutely.

EDIT: Oh no, it seems that it's short for Application.. Never mind..

This honestly made up crack up laughing, I really hope that was the innocent misunderstanding it seems to be! :pac:

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 11-10-2017 3:11pm

America's number-one Irish place is the Boston suburb of Milton, where 38 percent of residents are Irish (decent).
Link to the census data which shows the top Irish places by state.

Six of the 10 cities in our list of most Irish areas are in Massachusetts, and all of them are in the Northeast.

The top 10 list.

Milton, MA 38%
Pearl River, NY 38%
Braintree, MA 36%
Collingdale, PA 35%
Marshfield, MA 35%
Scituate, MA 35%
Gloucester City, NJ 34%
Drexel Hill, PA 34%
Pembroke, MA 34%
Weymouth, MA 33%

Large cities with the highest percentage of Irish ancestry:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 16.74%
Boston, Massachusetts 15.80%
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 14.2%
Louisville, Kentucky 13.2%
Buffalo, New York 11.23%
Nashville, Tennessee 9.8%
Kansas City, Missouri 9.66%
Raleigh, North Carolina 9.5%
Cleveland, Ohio 9.43%
Baltimore, Maryland 9.14%

But according to Wikipedia - Holly Bluff, Mississippi (with a population of 189 individuals) is the only area in the US where the majority of the people living there are of Irish decent at 58.33%. Wikipedia Link.

(The first link seems reliable, the second one maybe a little less so)

Martina1991 · 11-10-2017 3:30pm

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

America's number-one Irish place is the Boston suburb of Milton, where 38 percent of residents are Irish (decent).
Six of the 10 cities in our list of most Irish areas are in Massachusetts, and all of them are in the Northeast.

I always assumed the large population of Irish descendants in USA is related to the Famine and the mass emigration.

But why are there so many Italian Americans as well? What caused the mass emigration of the Italians?

joe stodge · 11-10-2017 3:36pm

Martina1991 wrote: »

I always assumed the large population of Irish descendants in USA is related to the Famine and the mass emigration.

But why are there so many Italian Americans as well? What caused the mass emigration of the Italians?

they heard there was no traditional Italian chippers in America.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 11-10-2017 4:01pm

Martina1991 wrote: »

I always assumed the large population of Irish descendants in USA is related to the Famine and the mass emigration.

But why are there so many Italian Americans as well? What caused the mass emigration of the Italians?

In the late 1800s the kingdom of the two Sicilies was united and had a high population of poor farming communities who were actively encouraged to emigrate to the US to ease pressure on the state. Post civil war United States encouraged their arrival, to fill labour shortages after the losses from the war.

server down · 11-10-2017 4:27pm

joe stodge wrote: »

they heard there was no traditional Italian chippers in America.

There are also no traditional Italian chippers in Italy.

server down · 11-10-2017 4:40pm

The story about how Italians came to dominate a food retail industry not common at all in their homelands is as interesting as it is murky. According to the article below a guy called Giuseppe Cervi arrives in Cobh in 1880, likes the cut of its jib, and decides to stay in Ireland rather than continue to the US. He works in Dublin as a labourer until he earns enough money to buy a mobile cooker and sell fish and chips at closing time, eventually getting his own place on Pearse St where his wife Palma frequently asks her customers ‘Uno di questo, uno di quello?’, meaning ‘one of this and one of the other?’ In doing so, Palma helped to coin a Dublin phrase, ‘one and one’

He wasnt the first Italian to come up with this idea, Italians dominated the trade in Scotland and northern England before that. Glasgow alone consumed 800,000 fish suppers every week. Interestingly despite their scottish connections, this didnt spread to Belfast until later, where oysters and shrimps dominated as an after pub stable. Posh gits.

All taken shamelessly from this article.

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/how-fish-and-chips-enriched-a-nation-1.765095

job seeker · 11-10-2017 4:52pm

sentient_6 wrote: »

I bet you didn't know why you're a job seeker you know now.

Im a terrible person sorry but I couldn't help it.

I have a job, I hadn't got a job when I set up this account..

11-10-2017 5:11pm

job seeker wrote: »

I have a job, I hadn't got a job when I set up this account..

Heaven knows you're miserable now?

partyguinness · 11-10-2017 5:15pm

I generally urinate in the sink to save water...

sentient_6 · 11-10-2017 5:31pm

job seeker wrote: »

I have a job, I hadn't got a job when I set up this account..

Im messing with you lad.

server down · 11-10-2017 5:57pm

job seeker wrote: »

I have a job, I hadn't got a job when I set up this account..

Mobile developer?

server down · 11-10-2017 6:00pm

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

But according to Wikipedia - Holly Bluff, Mississippi (with a population of 189 individuals) is the only area in the US where the majority of the people living there are of Irish decent at 58.33%. Wikipedia Link.

(The first link seems reliable, the second one maybe a little less so)

I think when you go south you are looking at Scots Irish, rather than Irish.

Capt'n Midnight · 11-10-2017 7:12pm

stimpson wrote: »

There's a Nobel Prize for Athletics?

I was a joint Nobel Prize winner in 2012 and Time Magazine's Person of the year in 2006.

I've also won the Tour De France as times as Lance Armstrong.

Some of us can do well in both intellectual and athletic fields.

New Home · 11-10-2017 7:15pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

I was a joint Nobel Prize winner in 2012 and Time Magazine's Person of the year in 2006.

I've also won the Tour De France as times as Lance Armstrong.

Some of us can do well in both intellectual and athletic fields.

Did you also win the Pulitzer for creative writing? :pac:

Jokes aside, I didn't know Nobel prizes had been awarded for sports either - I think Stimpson's question was a genuine one.

Squall Leonhart · 11-10-2017 7:28pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

I was a joint Nobel Prize winner in 2012 and Time Magazine's Person of the year in 2006.

I looked it up.. well done Capt'n.

For those who have yet to check it out..

Time person of the year 2006 was "you"
Nobel prize winner 2012 was the European Union.
Lance Armstrong officially won no Tour de France after being stripped of titles.

Realt Dearg Sec · 11-10-2017 7:37pm

New Home wrote: »

Did you also win the Pulitzer for creative writing? :pac:

Jokes aside, I didn't know Nobel prizes had been awarded for sports either - I think Stimpson's question was a genuine one.

There aren't Nobel prizes for sports, I think the point is he won it for something else (Peace, as it happens). I took Stimpson to be joking because the way the original post had been phrased could be read as saying he won a gold medal and a Nobel Prize for running the 1500 metres.

New Home · 11-10-2017 7:40pm

Let's play "Spot the eejit" - I win, it's me!

:rolleyes:

server down · 11-10-2017 7:41pm

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

I looked it up.. well done Capt'n.

For those who have yet to check it out..

Time person of the year 2006 was "you"
Nobel prize winner 2012 was the European Union.
Lamcee Armstrong officially won no Tour de France after being stripped of titles.

Brilliant

I went back and thanked his post. And yours.

stimpson · 11-10-2017 7:41pm

New Home wrote: »

Did you also win the Pulitzer for creative writing? :pac:

Jokes aside, I didn't know Nobel prizes had been awarded for sports either - I think Stimpson's question was a genuine one.

Nope. Was just for the lols. Sorry

harry Bailey esq · 11-10-2017 7:45pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

I was a joint Nobel Prize winner in 2012 and Time Magazine's Person of the year in 2006.

I've also won the Tour De France as times as Lance Armstrong.

Some of us can do well in both intellectual and athletic fields.

Well that clears a few things up.
Some people have all the luck.

New Home · 11-10-2017 7:45pm

Chancer3001 wrote: »

W.B Yeats' younger brother Jack won Ireland's first Olympic medal (Ireland as a free state)

He won us an Olympic medal.....for painting .

From Wikipedia:

Yeats holds the distinction of being Ireland's first medalist at the Olympic Games in the wake of creation of the Irish Free State. At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Yeats' painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games. In the competition records the painting is simply entitled Swimming.

See, after reading Chancer's post I thought something similar might have taken place with the Nobel prize. Obviously not.

Chancer3001 · 11-10-2017 11:19pm

Less than 1% of the earth is water.

If you travel south from Detroit you'll end up in Canada.

Ireland is Europe's biggest exporter of bananas

There are more trees on earth than stars in the milky way

A 17 inch pizza is more pizza than two 12 inch pizzas.

Read these today and they blew my mind a little

Realt Dearg Sec · 11-10-2017 11:26pm

Chancer3001 wrote: »

A 17 inch pizza is more pizza than two 12 inch pizzas.

This one took me ages to accept, but ever since I've started thinking of pi X r squared when ordering pizza. It's surprising how often this kind of thing happens. I know, the more you order the cheaper it's likely to be in any situation, but I'm pretty sure the pizza makers aren't aware of it a lot of the time, but invariably the bigger pizzas on the menu are exponentially better value than you would be expecting, once you consider the formula for the area of a circle.

Also if the crust on a pizza isn't particularly good, then the bigger pizza gives you a much better pie:crust ratio.

This is literally the only practical application for Leaving Cert geometry I've ever had in my life. But Mr. Kavanagh would be very proud all the same.

Ipso · 11-10-2017 11:44pm

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Less than 1% of the earth is water.

If you travel south from Detroit you'll end up in Canada.

Ireland is Europe's biggest exporter of bananas

There are more trees on earth than stars in the milky way

A 17 inch pizza is more pizza than two 12 inch pizzas.

Read these today and they blew my mind a little

I think technically it's the biggest manufacturer of bananas.
The pizza one is a good one.

Capt'n Midnight · 11-10-2017 11:49pm

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

This one took me ages to accept, but ever since I've started thinking of pi X r squared when ordering pizza.

Pro Tip to get the most you need to think of volume rather than area.

If the radius is z and the thickness is a then the volume is pizza

Ipso · 11-10-2017 11:51pm

Dean Martin could have wrote a song about that.

Tigger · 12-10-2017 12:01am

Widdershins wrote: »

Not native to there though?

native smative
there are 50 million white people in africa that arent technically native but they are still in africa

Tigger · 12-10-2017 12:03am

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Less than 1% of the earth is water.

If you travel south from Detroit you'll end up in Canada.

Ireland is Europe's biggest exporter of bananas

There are more trees on earth than stars in the milky way

A 17 inch pizza is more pizza than two 12 inch pizzas.

Read these today and they blew my mind a little

he earth water thing is it by mass?

Purple Mountain · 12-10-2017 1:19am

Ipso wrote: »

I think technically it's the biggest manufacturer of bananas.
The pizza one is a good one.

How does one manufacture a banana?

Realt Dearg Sec · 12-10-2017 1:29am

Purple Mountain wrote: »

How does one manufacture a banana?

Check out this SHOCKING documentary! Banana manufacturers HATE him...

Widdershins · 12-10-2017 7:47am

Tigger wrote: »

native smative
there are 50 million white people in africa that arent technically native but they are still in africa

Fair enough...how many, roughly? In the wild?

Maybe I should have said there are no wild tigers native to Africa. I didn't know this (until recently)

Captain_Crash · 12-10-2017 7:52am

The Atlantic lock in the Panama Canal is at its western end, and the Pacific lock is at its eastern end.

Omackeral · 12-10-2017 11:20am

The term ''that really takes the biscuit'' stems from the pillaging days of the Vikings. When the brutes tore through villages up-ending and ransacking everything in their path, sympathetic neighbours would all rally around and leave a token for the heaviest hit victims, more often than not, with a batch of homemade bread or a type of sweet biscuit. Sometimes, the lowest of the low opportune thieves would come along and literally take the biscuit from the victims and that's where we get the term. I also made all of that up.

StupidLikeAFox · 12-10-2017 2:47pm

Purple Mountain wrote: »

How does one manufacture a banana?

Fyffes had this one out with revenue. Basically they are importing bananas which aren't quite ripe and "processing" them to make them ripe. They argued that because of this process they are not a distributor, they are a manufacturer. Obviously there is a tax benefit to this. I hope the guy who figured it out is a wealthy man.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 12-10-2017 3:39pm

chakotha wrote: »

The pacific end of the Panama Canal is further east than the Atlantic end.

Captain_Crash wrote: »

The Atlantic lock in the Panama Canal is at its western end, and the Pacific lock is at its eastern end.

Did you know that many people have short memories?

Captain_Crash · 12-10-2017 4:34pm

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

Did you know that many people have short memories?

Haha... I was actually going to say the gool ol' " I don't know if its been mentioned before" but decided against it lol

Well we all know now :cool:

Ipso · 12-10-2017 5:14pm

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

Fyffes had this one out with revenue. Basically they are importing bananas which aren't quite ripe and "processing" them to make them ripe. They argued that because of this process they are not a distributor, they are a manufacturer. Obviously there is a tax benefit to this. I hope the guy who figured it out is a wealthy man.

Yes, the ripening process is considered manufacturing for tax reasons.

https://www.charteredaccountants.ie/taxsource/1997/en/act/pub/0039/tb/sec0443-1-tb.html

DJIMI TRARORE · 12-10-2017 5:16pm

Omackeral wrote: »

The term ''that really takes the biscuit'' stems from the pillaging days of the Vikings. When the brutes tore through villages up-ending and ransacking everything in their path, sympathetic neighbours would all rally around and leave a token for the heaviest hit victims, more often than not, with a batch of homemade bread or a type of sweet biscuit. Sometimes, the lowest of the low opportune thieves would come along and literally take the biscuit from the victims and that's where we get the term. I also made all of that up.

Thats pretty believable in fairness,but i am a little thick:):):):)

Ipso · 12-10-2017 5:19pm

On the Viking theme, Oxmantown is actually named after Vikings. Apparently the Oxman comes form the word Ostro meaning East which is what they called themselves. I always associated North/Norse with Vikings and not East.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxmantown

Realt Dearg Sec · 12-10-2017 5:58pm

Ipso wrote: »

On the Viking theme, Oxmantown is actually named after Vikings. Apparently the Oxman comes form the word Ostro meaning East which is what they called themselves. I always associated North/Norse with Vikings and not East.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxmantown

A quick look at the names of the streets in the area around Stoneybatter is interesting in this regard: Sitric Road, Sigurd Road, Olaf Road and Viking Road, Ostman Place. I know the Irish Historic Towns Atlas Dublin volumes have a proper record of the names given to the city's streets down through the centuries, but I haven't got a copy to hand here, but I'd be interested to know how old those street names actually are.

Chancer3001 · 12-10-2017 6:27pm

Leixlip is from biking words too

Leix was a Salmon

Lip became leap

The place where the salmon leap

I bet you didnt know that

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