what I have learned today.

[rafletcher]

It's certainly been said in the UK

That link just gets me the Google Books splash page.

[Cudzoziemiec]

It's certainly been said in the UK

That link just gets me the Google Books splash page.

Sorry. Try this.

[T42]

"Oh goody, let's have lots." - Connie Sachs

I hope, when I go to my grave after a few years of dribbling and worse, I shall still remember this milestone in the evolution of the televisual experience in the English-speaking world.  I thought the original series was simply life-changing, and the remake almost as good. I thank you T42 for reminding me.  I thank you JLeC for changing my world.  I thank you George Smiley, Control and the rest.  Simply stunning.

Ranks up there with the attack ships on the shoulder of Orion.

We aim too, please.

[pcolbeck]

That the KEF Coda III speakers I bought are much bigger than they looked in the pictures on eBay. I really should have looked up the dimensions ....

[Mr Larrington]

Pope Francis used to be a bouncer in a Buenos Aires nightclub.

[thebicyclist]

In Scotland they have 421 words for "snow".

[cygnet]

That Fenix (the lamp manufacturer) is pronounced Phoenix, and not Fen-ix

[Jurek]

Pope Francis used to be a bouncer in a Buenos Aires nightclub.

Also..... He only has one lung.

[Basil]

That Butlins still exists.

[Canardly]

That the second largest single use plastic waste culprit is car tyre erosion. Half a million tonnes in Europe alone.  Clever gismo invented by Students to stop this and recover the waste for recycling.
https://www.euronews.com/living/2020/09/20/student-s-invention-to-stop-microplastic-pollution-wins-dyson-award

[T42]

The river that flows through Paris and continues to Le Havre should really be called the Yonne.  At Montéreau-Fault-Yonne, where the Seine and Yonne meet, the flow of the Yonne is greater than that of the Seine, which is therefore a tributary and should end there.

I've been through Montéreau-Fault-Yonne three times & been rained on every time.  Miserable hole.

[Mr Larrington]

The river that flows through Paris and continues to Le Havre should really be called the Yonne.  At Montéreau-Fault-Yonne, where the Seine and Yonne meet, the flow of the Yonne is greater than that of the Seine, which is therefore a tributary and should end there.

I've been through Montéreau-Fault-Yonne three times & been rained on every time.  Miserable hole.

Similar thing with the Mighty Mississippi.  The Ohio River has the greater flow at Cairo* IL, which is also a miserable hole, at least according to Illinois native Pokey LaFarge.

Also, the Fairly Mighty Missouri is longer above its confluence with the Mississippi.

* pronounced “Kay-ro”

[T42]

The whole North & South thing, that.

[mark]

That the second largest single use plastic waste culprit is car tyres. Half a million tonnes in Europe alone.  Clever gismo invented by Students to stop this and recover the waste for recycling.
https://www.euronews.com/living/2020/09/20/student-s-invention-to-stop-microplastic-pollution-wins-dyson-award

Interesting concept, and definitely a problem that needs solving. What about roads with mud, snow, gravel and other debris on them? Unpaved roads with massive holes in them? I could definitely see this being applied first to large vehicles that stay on paved roads, and spreading from there.

[Basil]

The river that flows through Paris and continues to Le Havre should really be called the Yonne.  At Montéreau-Fault-Yonne, where the Seine and Yonne meet, the flow of the Yonne is greater than that of the Seine, which is therefore a tributary and should end there.

I've been through Montéreau-Fault-Yonne three times & been rained on every time.  Miserable hole.

Yeahbut.  That would ruin the "In Seine" joke.

[T42]

The river that flows through Paris and continues to Le Havre should really be called the Yonne.  At Montéreau-Fault-Yonne, where the Seine and Yonne meet, the flow of the Yonne is greater than that of the Seine, which is therefore a tributary and should end there.

I've been through Montéreau-Fault-Yonne three times & been rained on every time.  Miserable hole.

Yeahbut.  That would ruin the "In Seine" joke.

If you pronounce it properly it's already buggered.

[philip]

Today will be the first time the Tour de France has been won on a Colnago that is visibly a Colnago -- their only other wins were when rebranded as some other make.

[Basil]

The river that flows through Paris and continues to Le Havre should really be called the Yonne.  At Montéreau-Fault-Yonne, where the Seine and Yonne meet, the flow of the Yonne is greater than that of the Seine, which is therefore a tributary and should end there.

I've been through Montéreau-Fault-Yonne three times & been rained on every time.  Miserable hole.

Yeahbut.  That would ruin the "In Seine" joke.

If you pronounce it properly it's already buggered.

But we're Brittons.  We don't let silly foreign stuff like correct pronunciation worry us.

[quixoticgeek]

The whole North & South thing, that.

Cartographers for social equality would agree...

J

[Chris S]

I thought I knew things, when it came to Weather.

Then I saw scenes from Iowa recently, and I learnt the word Derecho. Never heard of it before. Looks fucking terrifying.

[Cudzoziemiec]

The whole North & South thing, that.

Cartographers for social equality would agree...

J

As would Elizabeth Gaskell (though IMO she might as fittingly have called it Town and Country).

[Andrij]

I thought I knew things, when it came to Weather.

Then I saw scenes from Iowa recently, and I learnt the word Derecho. Never heard of it before. Looks fucking terrifying.

I grew up in the US, and (relatively) not too far from that part of the country, and I only just learned that word a few weeks ago.

[T42]

The river that flows through Paris and continues to Le Havre should really be called the Yonne.  At Montéreau-Fault-Yonne, where the Seine and Yonne meet, the flow of the Yonne is greater than that of the Seine, which is therefore a tributary and should end there.

I've been through Montéreau-Fault-Yonne three times & been rained on every time.  Miserable hole.

Yeahbut.  That would ruin the "In Seine" joke.

If you pronounce it properly it's already buggered.

But we're Brittons.  We don't let silly foreign stuff like correct pronunciation worry us.

Just as well. You won't be allowed to want to after 31st December.

[citoyen]

I thought I knew things, when it came to Weather.

Then I saw scenes from Iowa recently, and I learnt the word Derecho. Never heard of it before. Looks fucking terrifying.

Fucking hell! Looks like something done with implausible CGI in a disaster movie.

[ian]

I thought I knew things, when it came to Weather.

Then I saw scenes from Iowa recently, and I learnt the word Derecho. Never heard of it before. Looks fucking terrifying.

Fucking hell! Looks like something done with implausible CGI in a disaster movie.

The Americans do proper weather, especially in the middle and south bits. Mostly they build trailer parks and wooden houses to tempt them.