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

[Andy in Germany]

Discovered today thwt Keir Starmer does not own a tie, and has to borrow one from a willing donor to wear in the Commons.

Are you sure that's Starmer? I thought Corbyn was known for it.

That said, any man who doesn't have a tie goes up in my estimation.

 

[lazybloke]

Are you sure that's Starmer? I thought Corbyn was known for it.

That said, any man who doesn't have a tie goes up in my estimation.

4 job interviews, 1 wedding and 2 funerals.

Those are the only occasions I've worn a tie in the last decade.

Or is it the title of a new Hugh Grant movie?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That sodium becomes clear and water a deep black at extremely high pressures (pressures that begin to collapse the atomic structure).

 

[oldwheels]

Are you sure that's Starmer? I thought Corbyn was known for it.

That said, any man who doesn't have a tie goes up in my estimation.

Need a black tie for a funeral and my old University of Glasgow one was in use recently for theatrical purposes.

 

[dicko]

Doh!! I have just realised the two Beatles CDs I was given for Christmas in the 80s, one in a blue box and the other in a red box are actually the Beatles Blue and Red albums. I feel such a fool 😳

 

[Drago]

Are you sure that's Starmer? I thought Corbyn was known for it.

That said, any man who doesn't have a tie goes up in my estimation.

Not knocking any one politico or team, but if someone wants me to tick the box so they can do business on my behalf then I expect them to look like they take business seriously. This is why I always scrawl "Roger Moore" on the bottom of the voting slip and pop a tick next to his name.

 

[Cathryn]

Two things.

1) the inner core of the earth is solid metal. I always thought it was liquid.

2) my new word ‘pishogue’ which means an incantation or a magic spell

 

[Drago]

It's only solid by virtue of the great pressure upon it, otherwise it would be a liquid due to the high temperature.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

When humans take a breath, they replace only 15% of the air in their lungs with fresh air. When dolphins take a breath, they replace 90% of the air in their lungs with fresh air

 

[Mike Ayling]

Need a black tie for a funeral and my old University of Glasgow one was in use recently for theatrical purposes.

At the funerals I attend here DownUnda ties are extremely rare and I don't wear one.

 

[Chris S]

Need a black tie for a funeral and my old University of Glasgow one was in use recently for theatrical purposes.

I wear my old RAF cadets tie. It's far too short for me but if I tie it carefully nobody notices.

 

[Cathryn]

It's only solid by virtue of the great pressure upon it, otherwise it would be a liquid due to the high temperature.

Yes, I felt better when I learned that!

 

[Beebo]

1) the inner core of the earth is solid metal. I always thought it was liquid.

And the core will never cool. So is an unlimited source of clean energy.
The sun will blow up earth before the core has time to cool.

 

[ColinJ]

I have only just learned that @SpokeyDokey is nearly as ancient as me... Enjoy your pension, old chap!

 

[captain nemo1701]

I often watch old 007 Bond flicks as they're fun, more fun IMHO than the recent 'gritty realistic (?)' stuff. Anyway, recently caught Octopussy on one channel & in the tuk tuk chase scene, an Indian bloke on a bicycle goes straight in between them ringing his bell. I recall seeing it in the cinema in 1983 and we all laughed, everyone (including myself) assumed it was a stunt rider set up as a visual gag....but no...he was a genuine innocent bystander caught up in the filming.

Also recently learned that Richard 'Jaws' Kiel did shoot some scenes as the hulk in the 70's TV pilot 'The Incredible Hulk' but got replaced by Lou Ferrigno.