Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
It might've been, but he's been dead for months now. I heard it the other week from someone who's still alive.🧐
Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned
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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
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
Then they would have ultimately got it from him. Like 'daylight robbery' being about the window tax in the 18th century!
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
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 . 🧐
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lazybloke
Today i follow the flying spaghetti monster
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
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
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
I could never understand them, and I still didn't have a girlfriend at the time.
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Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
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.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I can understand them, also think it is neat, and don't have a girlfriend at this time!
lazybloke
Today i follow the flying spaghetti monster
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
Perhaps we can collectively write you a Tinder profile.I can understand them, also think it is neat, and don't have a girlfriend at this time!
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
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
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!
Tail End Charlie
Well, write it down boy ......
- Location
- In green and pleasant hills.
Croissants are so called because of their shape, croissant being the French for crescent. I had always thought it was something to do with cross, but couldn't see why.
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
And in Italy they are called cornetto. You are allowed just one.
Seevio
Guru
- Location
- South Glos
After about 9 months and 40k miles, today I found out my van has heated wing mirrors.
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
Not me but my fiancée (who has been driving for 13 years) had always complained about being dazzled in her rearview when driving at night. As she wears glasses I assumed it was something to do with that, but it was particularly bad on a long trip yesterday so I asked if she'd flicked the little switch at the bottom of the mirror.
"The what now?"
"That thing, it changes the angle of the mirror somehow so you don't get blinded. I don't know how it works or what it's called, but it works."
"Oh. My. God. I thought it was just for adjusting it! This is amazing!"
"The what now?"
"That thing, it changes the angle of the mirror somehow so you don't get blinded. I don't know how it works or what it's called, but it works."
"Oh. My. God. I thought it was just for adjusting it! This is amazing!"
