what I have learned today.

[Clare]

In Pompey din is an insult.

[Mr Larrington]

Today I are learning that following a not terribly successful career in Formula 1 in the 1970s, driver and professional descendant Rikky von Opel moved to Thailand and became a Buddhist monk.  He's apparently still at it too.

[T42]

In Pompey din is an insult.

Wonder where that originated.  I did look it up but got sick of cookie dialogues before finding out.

[Clare]

Din and dinny are from dinlo which, I think, is Romany for idiot.

[Kim]

What bee poo looks like.

HT: Auntie Helen

[Legs]

Today I are learning that following a not terribly successful career in Formula 1 in the 1970s, driver and professional descendant Rikky von Opel moved to Thailand and became a Buddhist monk.  He's apparently still at it too.

One of our clients is Georg von Opel, second cousin of the aforementioned Rikky, and great-grandson of the großer Käse Adam Opel.

[Sergeant Pluck]

I realised yesterday that I had not fully understood the meaning of the word normative.

[Auntie Helen]

What bee poo looks like.

HT: Auntie Helen

And I have learned, after washing the car, how quickly 4 beehives’ worth of bees can cover a car with poop in 2 hours.

[Cudzoziemiec]

It's not poop, it's honey by-product!

[rogerzilla]

According to Wikipedia:

Rotherham United's supporters hold the record for the most pies consumed at a football match, with a consumption 40% above the Football League average.

[ian]

According to Wikipedia:

Rotherham United's supporters hold the record for the most pies consumed at a football match, with a consumption 40% above the Football League average.

I'm only disappointed to learn that there's a data team analysing this kind of thing and it's not mine.

[geraldc]

They even have a DIN standard for English¹.

They certainly do in Portsmouth.

At school we had to do cadets, so we were sent to Portsmouth for a training camp, where we heard the the proper way to say block and tackle for the first time. However being young, rather than accepting the navy had a specific way of saying "tackle", we just assumed everyone from Portsmouth were a little slow and a very specific speech impediment

[Cudzoziemiec]

A few days ago, I had lunch in a little cafe inside a chapel built by/for John Wesley in the early 18th century. In fact, part of it is still used as a Methodist chapel now. There was also a little bookshop there, so naturally I had a browse. I spotted a pamphlet reprinting Wesley's treatise on tea. I expected this to be along the lines of "alcohol is evil, so let's encourage people to drink tea instead". But no! It turns out Wesley viewed tea as being at least as bad for you, physically, morally and socially, as alcohol.

[Kim]

They even have a DIN standard for English¹.

They certainly do in Portsmouth.

At school we had to do cadets, so we were sent to Portsmouth for a training camp, where we heard the the proper way to say block and tackle for the first time. However being young, rather than accepting the navy had a specific way of saying "tackle", we just assumed everyone from Portsmouth were a little slow and a very specific speech impediment

Both those things seem equally probable to me.  Indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if the former were a consequence of the latter.

Anyway, for the benefit of those with limited experience of Portsmouth^[1] (or for that matter, the Navy), what's the specific way of saying "tackle"?


_{[1] It took me several years of reading this forum to work out what a Pompey was^[2].
[2] Which by rights should be some sort of Roman fixed-wheel bike, but seemed to be a sportsball thing, except when it wasn't.}

[Efrogwr]

They even have a DIN standard for English¹.

They certainly do in Portsmouth.

At school we had to do cadets, so we were sent to Portsmouth for a training camp, where we heard the the proper way to say block and tackle for the first time. However being young, rather than accepting the navy had a specific way of saying "tackle", we just assumed everyone from Portsmouth were a little slow and a very specific speech impediment

Both those things seem equally probable to me.  Indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if the former were a consequence of the latter.

Anyway, for the benefit of those with limited experience of Portsmouth^[1] (or for that matter, the Navy), what's the specific way of saying "tackle"?


_{[1] It took me several years of reading this forum to work out what a Pompey was^[2].
[2] Which by rights should be some sort of Roman fixed-wheel bike, but seemed to be a sportsball thing, except when it wasn't.}

I think that it's pronounced "taykle".

However, that may be an old, generic, seadogs' thing (I read it in an article on traditional sailing boat rigging).

[T42]

They even have a DIN standard for English¹.

They certainly do in Portsmouth.

At school we had to do cadets, so we were sent to Portsmouth for a training camp, where we heard the the proper way to say block and tackle for the first time. However being young, rather than accepting the navy had a specific way of saying "tackle", we just assumed everyone from Portsmouth were a little slow and a very specific speech impediment

Both those things seem equally probable to me.  Indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if the former were a consequence of the latter.

Anyway, for the benefit of those with limited experience of Portsmouth^[1] (or for that matter, the Navy), what's the specific way of saying "tackle"?


_{[1] It took me several years of reading this forum to work out what a Pompey was^[2].
[2] Which by rights should be some sort of Roman fixed-wheel bike, but seemed to be a sportsball thing, except when it wasn't.}

I think that it's pronounced "taykle".

However, that may be an old, generic, seadogs' thing (I read it in an article on traditional sailing boat rigging).

My dad, an old generic armchair sea-dog, always insisted it was taykle.

[Mr Larrington]

Today I are learning that Gary Lineker is three years older than Nigel Farage.  The obvious conclusion to be drawn from this is “eat MOAR crisps”.

[Tim Hall]

My thing wot I learned is that the Hifi shop sketch off of TV's Not The Nine O'Clock News first saw life on The Burkiss Way, a sketch show on The Home Service Radio 4 in 1977.

[Captain Nemo]

My thing wot I learned is that the Hifi shop sketch off of TV's Not The Nine O'Clock News first saw life on The Burkiss Way, a sketch show on The Home Service Radio 4 in 1977.

'Twas on the wireless this evening.

[Tim Hall]

My thing wot I learned is that the Hifi shop sketch off of TV's Not The Nine O'Clock News first saw life on The Burkiss Way, a sketch show on The Home Service Radio 4 in 1977.

'Twas on the wireless this evening.

Also earlier in the day, when I heard it, which prompted some frantic googling.

[T42]

How to use a smartwatch to obtain multichannel electrocardiograms.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2770022

[rafletcher]

That Shropshire Blue cheese isn’t an “old” cheese, it was invented (FCVO invented) in the 1970’s, and that that invention was most likely in Inverness, but “Inverness-shire Blue” didn’t cut it.

[Kim]

How to use a smartwatch to obtain multichannel electrocardiograms.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2770022

That's quite clever, though I had to look up what a "digital crown" was.  It turns out that the general purpose twiddle-knob on the latest Mega-Global Fruit Co watches also serves as an electrode (the other being the back of the watch) for single-channel ECG purposes.

[T42]

How to use a smartwatch to obtain multichannel electrocardiograms.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2770022

That's quite clever, though I had to look up what a "digital crown" was.  It turns out that the general purpose twiddle-knob on the latest Mega-Global Fruit Co watches also serves as an electrode (the other being the back of the watch) for single-channel ECG purposes.

On my Withings it's the bezel, ditto El Prez's 36€ chinesium knock-off.

[robgul]

That the National Trust Car Park near Beachy Head now has a "Drop-off point" 

(Unashamedly by courtesy of one of my daily reads, Diamond Geezer)