Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[Dogtrousers]

You know the skinny plastic ferrule arrangement on the end of a shoelace that enables it to be threaded easily through eyelets?

It's called an aglet

https://www.backthenhistory.com/articles/the-history-of-aglets

 

[figbat]

You know the skinny plastic ferrule arrangement on the end of a shoelace that enables it to be threaded easily through eyelets?

It's called an aglet

https://www.backthenhistory.com/articles/the-history-of-aglets

It’ll always be a flugelbinder to me.

 

[Plantymon]

Mildly embarrassed to confess that I recently learned that the baby Jesus was not born on 25 December! Its ruined Christmas for me
And don't get me started on Easter...........

 

[MontyVeda]

The cardboard price labels on the shelves at my local Aldi are not cardboard price labels!

I was looking at one this afternoon when it suddenly (literally) went on the blink. I realised that they are all actually small LCD screens!

It makes sense but it came as a surprise to me.

I repaired the display for them - I tapped the display a couple of times and it came back to life.

They're the latest paper saving innovation from the bods at the top... but it's a pity they couldn't design the plastic strip they clip into better, as they keep falling off, and the sticky back strips themselves keep falling off in the chiller because the sticky doesn't stick so well in the cold. Every solution comes with a new PITA.

 

[Mike Ayling]

Mildly embarrassed to confess that I recently learned that the baby Jesus was not born on 25 December! Its ruined Christmas for me
And don't get me started on Easter...........

Yes, 25 December was a decision by the Catholic Church.
Easter however is historically accurate because it occurred at the time of the Jewish Passover.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

They're the latest paper saving innovation from the bods at the top... but it's a pity they couldn't design the plastic strip they clip into better, as they keep falling off, and the sticky back strips themselves keep falling off in the chiller because the sticky doesn't stick so well in the cold. Every solution comes with a new PITA.

Fix them up with the 8 bar nailer and compressor on special in the centre aisle

 

[TheDoctor]

Yes, 25 December was a decision by the Catholic Church.
Easter however is historically accurate because it occurred at the time of the Jewish Passover.

I don't see how it's historically accurate since it varies quite a lot!
"Anywhere between March 22 and April 25" doesn't strike me as all that accurate.

 

[raleighnut]

Mildly embarrassed to confess that I recently learned that the baby Jesus was not born on 25 December! Its ruined Christmas for me
And don't get me started on Easter...........

Both Pagan festivals appropriated by the Church, Yule and Eostre, longest night (well nearly and beginning of spring (again nearly)

 

[Chris S]

I don't see how it's historically accurate since it varies quite a lot!
"Anywhere between March 22 and April 25" doesn't strike me as all that accurate.

It's based on a lunar calendar not a solar one. From memory Easter is on the first Sunday on or after the first full moon after the Spring equinox.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I don't see how it's historically accurate since it varies quite a lot!
"Anywhere between March 22 and April 25" doesn't strike me as all that accurate.

I think it's because we know Easter is about the right time, as the events in the story took place during Passover so you can argue that's the reason for the timing, whereas Christmas, as @raleighnut says, was built on an existing pagan festival.

 

[raleighnut]

I think it's because we know Easter is about the right time, as the events in the story took place during Passover so you can argue that's the reason for the timing, whereas Christmas, as @raleighnut says, was built on an existing pagan festival.

I would have thought the Eostre festival was more pertinent in Germany after all it is named after the Germanic/Saxon Goddess of Spring and was celebrated long before the christians hijacked it, hence the features of Rabbits and Eggs both symbols of fertility.
Likewise Yuletide is still celebrated with a Log which at the time would have been burnt in the enormous fireplace of a Saxon Castle with all the serfs invited to attend and feast on all the meat from the livestock they couldn't afford to feed through the cold months to come.

 

[Mike Ayling]

It's based on a lunar calendar not a solar one. From memory Easter is on the first Sunday on or after the first full moon after the Spring equinox.

Yes, that is my understanding.

 

[DaveReading]

Yes, that is my understanding.

Coding the algorithm for determining the date of Easter in any given year is fun.

 

[Beebo]

Coding the algorithm for determining the date of Easter in any given year is fun.

that would be an ecumenical matter

 

[winjim]

I think it's because we know Easter is about the right time, as the events in the story took place during Passover so you can argue that's the reason for the timing, whereas Christmas, as @raleighnut says, was built on an existing pagan festival.

Christmas was calculated as being 9 months after the crucifixion, on the assumption that Christ was conceived on the same day of the year that he died.