Author Topic: what I have learned today.  (Read 846951 times)

billplumtree

  • Plumbing the well of gitness
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1150 on: 24 June, 2016, 02:14:21 pm »
Loving your under-avatar line, billplumtree.  :thumbsup:

I have Ruthie to thank for that one  ::-)

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1151 on: 24 June, 2016, 02:30:50 pm »
Irish flag colours = Indian flag colours.
Italian flag colours = Hungary, Bulgaria, Uruguay, Mexico - except I think some of greens are a bit darker.

Most of them the stripes go different ways or are different widths or have some kind of emblem on them.

I only found out the Irish and Italian flags weren't identical when discussing the other nights football match with a colleague.
I don't think that any flags of proper countries (I don't count Monaco) are identical.
"A woman on a bicycle has all the world before her where to choose; she can go where she will, no man hindering." The Type-Writer Girl, 1897

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1152 on: 24 June, 2016, 02:32:50 pm »
The origin of the phrase, Ship of Fools.  I had a vague idea of its meaning, but was inspired to find out more when it sprang to mind as I listened to Cameron's resignation speech about needing a new captain to steer us in this new direction...

I didn't know it either but I was certainly thinking it this morning.

I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Dibdib

  • Fat'n'slow
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1153 on: 24 June, 2016, 02:53:57 pm »
I'm entitled to Irish citizenship if I want it, and it's only a couple of hundred quid. I might take them up on it...

Kim

  • Timelord
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1154 on: 24 June, 2016, 03:15:11 pm »
I'm entitled to Irish citizenship if I want it, and it's only a couple of hundred quid. I might take them up on it...

*peers*

Interesting.  I might be, if I could somehow acquire a whole load of paperwork I don't have access to.  Hopefully it won't come to that.

Vince

  • Can't climb; won't climb
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1155 on: 24 June, 2016, 03:23:44 pm »
That the Italian Flag and ROI flags are different colours. Seems the red bit on the Irish flag is actually orange.

#colourblind

One time I was wondering through Rome and thought I had found the Irish embassy...
216km from Marsh Gibbon

Dibdib

  • Fat'n'slow
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1156 on: 24 June, 2016, 03:34:01 pm »
Interesting.  I might be, if I could somehow acquire a whole load of paperwork I don't have access to.  Hopefully it won't come to that.

I think either my mum or my aunt will have the documents I'd need, possibly my uncle as a last resort. I hope it doesn't come to it either, but if nothing else travelling to Europe from the UK might end up being easier with an EU rather than UK passport.

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1157 on: 24 June, 2016, 03:37:21 pm »
Loving your under-avatar line, billplumtree.  :thumbsup:

I have Ruthie to thank for that one  ::-)
Stands to reason. I'll bet she was the one who persuaded you into that arduous and deeply unrewarding of the extremely unpicturesque islands too...
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

ElyDave

  • Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society member 263583
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1158 on: 24 June, 2016, 11:29:19 pm »
Only one flag has just one colour, an only one flag is not rectangular.
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

Tim Hall

  • Victoria is my queen
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1159 on: 24 June, 2016, 11:37:11 pm »
Libya? Switzerland?
There are two ways you can get exercise out of a bicycle: you can
"overhaul" it, or you can ride it.  (Jerome K Jerome)

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1160 on: 24 June, 2016, 11:38:00 pm »
Libya and Nepal I think.
Rust never sleeps

ElyDave

  • Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society member 263583
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1161 on: 24 June, 2016, 11:44:07 pm »
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

Tim Hall

  • Victoria is my queen
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1162 on: 24 June, 2016, 11:52:21 pm »
Arse. Falls for "square is a rectangle " move.
There are two ways you can get exercise out of a bicycle: you can
"overhaul" it, or you can ride it.  (Jerome K Jerome)

PaulF

  • "World's Scariest Barman"
  • It's only impossible if you stop to think about it
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1163 on: 25 June, 2016, 12:07:10 am »
But that's the old Libyan flag, post Gadaffi it's a bit different https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Libya




ElyDave

  • Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society member 263583
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1164 on: 25 June, 2016, 07:35:08 am »
But that's the old Libyan flag, post Gadaffi it's a bit different https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Libya

shhhh, don't tell 'em
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1165 on: 25 June, 2016, 08:18:09 am »
All the blether about the Irish flag had me looking it up to see if what I knew from my youth still accorded with the latest official history.  This bit on Wiki strikes me as about as reliable as a USSR school atlas :

Quote
Occasionally, differing shades of yellow, instead of orange, are seen at civilian functions. However the Department of the Taoiseach state that this is a misrepresentation which "should be actively discouraged", and that worn-out flags should be replaced. In songs and poems, the colours are sometimes enumerated as "green, white and gold", using poetic licence. Variants of different guises are utilised to include -for example, various emblems of Ireland, such as the presidential harp, the four provinces or county arms.

When I was a child I never heard it described as anything other than green, white and gold, and the idea that the flag of a nation which had spent years and lives trying to throw off union with GB should enshrine in its flag the colour of its greatest antagonist in doing so is about as daft as the idea that the Orange Order still stands for religious freedom.

As the line used to go: "Yes, Mr. Paisley, we know the grass is green, the daisies are white and the dandelions are golden but there's not a fucking thing we can do about it."
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Andrij

  • Андрій
  • Ερασιτεχνικός μισάνθρωπος
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1166 on: 25 June, 2016, 09:48:05 am »
[insert Ian Paisley "no pot pourri" joke]
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

Mr Larrington

  • A bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1167 on: 25 June, 2016, 09:48:29 am »
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Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1168 on: 25 June, 2016, 10:35:55 am »
No one outside Northern Ireland thinks of orange as a British colour though. Or fruit.
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tiermat

  • According to Jane, I'm a Unisex SpaceAdmin
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1169 on: 25 June, 2016, 04:00:31 pm »
The difference between an artists proof and a limited edition.

This came about from ordering a limited edition bronze and being supplied with an artists proof. No I am not going to tell the gallery of their mistake...
I feel like Captain Kirk, on a brand new planet every day, a little like King Kong on top of the Empire State

Mr Larrington

  • A bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1170 on: 26 June, 2016, 12:23:57 pm »
That Art Tripp III, aka Ed Marimba, formerly of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, is now a chiropractor.
External Transparent Wall Inspection Operative & Mayor of Mortagne-au-Perche
Satisfying the Bloodlust of the Masses in Peacetime

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1171 on: 26 June, 2016, 01:14:23 pm »
...is now a chiropractor.

Why does that word always summon the mental image of something that is a cross between a dinosaur and a helicopter?

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1172 on: 26 June, 2016, 01:47:30 pm »
A hotel where I once spent a couple of months hosted a chiropractors' conference one weekend. The place stank of sweat and chalk the whole time.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Ruthie

  • Her Majester
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1173 on: 26 June, 2016, 05:09:08 pm »
I found the cycle path to the five pound note bridge :)  First railway bridge in the world, apparently.  It's right near my house, only lived here for two years  ;D
Milk please, no sugar.

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1174 on: 27 June, 2016, 09:04:16 am »
Five pound note bridge? Deserves more than just a photo! What is it? How come the name?
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