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

[Accy cyclist]

That was on Steve Wright. He was just taking the piss.

It might've been, but he's been dead for months now. I heard it the other week from someone who's still alive.🧐

 

[Chris S]

It might've been, but he's been dead for months now. I heard it the other week from someone who's still alive.🧐

Then they would have ultimately got it from him. Like 'daylight robbery' being about the window tax in the 18th century!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Then they would have ultimately got it from him. Like 'daylight robbery' being about the window tax in the 18th century!

One has to remember that we are talking about fictitious characters and not real life ones. I doubt that many real life pirates actually wore eye patches, had a wooden leg and had a parrot on their shoulder squawking "pieces of eight' all the time . 🧐

 

[presta]

 

[lazybloke]

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I remember proving such volume formulae in Calculus lessons. I thought it was pretty neat - which is probably why i didn't have a girlfriend at the time.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I remember proving such volume formulae in Calculus lessons. I thought it was pretty neat - which is probably why i didn't have a girlfriend at the time.

I could never understand them, and I still didn't have a girlfriend at the time.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Archimedes considered his formulae for the volumes of the cylinder and the sphere to be his crowning achievement. He wanted a cylinder and a sphere to be on his tomb. I don't know whether he got them.

 

[Alex H]

Archimedes considered his formulae for the volumes of the cylinder and the sphere to be his crowning achievement. He wanted a cylinder and a sphere to be on his tomb. I don't know whether he got them.

Apparently not.

https://www.theitalianacademy.com/portfolio-posts/curious-case-tomb-archimedes/

 

[ColinJ]

I could never understand them, and I still didn't have a girlfriend at the time.

I can understand them, also think it is neat, and don't have a girlfriend at this time!

 

[lazybloke]

I can understand them, also think it is neat, and don't have a girlfriend at this time!

Perhaps we can collectively write you a Tinder profile.

Here's what i can recall of you:

Healthy mature specimen. Fondness for outdoor pursuits, especially hills, lunacy and integration. Has own OLED telly.

 

[ColinJ]

Has own OLED telly.

Speaking of television sets and ignorance of things...

I am repairing the old Samsung LCD TV that I used for over 6 years before I upgraded to the OLED set. I took the Samsung's back panel off this evening and in the process of doing that discovered that there is a tiny joystick on the back of the Samsung which can be used to control the set without a remote control. I had always thought that it was unusual that the set had no built-in physical controls!