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

[Mike Ayling]

Watching the rugby it occurs to me that Darcy is another male and female name. Darcy Graham. I note the other female famous one is spelled slightly differently - Darcey Bussell

Afew years back there was a Melbourne Magistrate called Darcy Dugan and at the same time a well known crim in Sydney with the same name!

 

[Punkawallah]

Afew years back there was a Melbourne Magistrate called Darcy Dugan and at the same time a well known crim in Sydney with the same name!

I would’ve thought Sydney was a fairly common name, then?

 

[Mike Ayling]

I would’ve thought Sydney was a fairly common name, then?

Melbourne Magistrate's name =Darcy Dugan
Sydney Crim's name = Darcy Dugan

 

[Dogtrousers]

Sydney is another gender neutral name isn't it? But I can't bring any famous female Sydneys to mind. Cyd Charisse I suppose, but I don't know what (if anything) Cyd is short for.

 

[figbat]

Sydney is another gender neutral name isn't it? But I can't bring any famous female Sydneys to mind. Cyd Charisse I suppose, but I don't know what (if anything) Cyd is short for.

If you do a search for “Sydney” in IMDB, the first 6 actors are female.

 

[Dogtrousers]

If you do a search for “Sydney” in IMDB, the first 6 actors are female.

I can only think of Sid James right now.

Wah-ha-ha-ha

 

[Profpointy]

I would’ve thought Sydney was a fairly common name, then?

My dad still recounts the story of my telling him I was going to Sydney for a week. "Who's sydney then?". Subsequently went foe a year. We put in a new passenger information system including all the info screens, doubtless replaced a couple of times since then

 

[ColinJ]

I have been using Memory Map OS maps for over 20 years. I only just discovered forwards and back buttons right next to the map scale buttons, which I click pretty much every time that I use the software! I have spent 20+ years repeatedly panning maps about, changing scale, and zooming in and out, when I could have often done that over and over just by clicking forwards and back to select between the different choices...

 

[Chris S]

My electricity meter only has 6 digits. Once it reaches 999999 it goes back to zero.

 

[Chris S]

'Armada' is the Spanish word for navy.

 

[Willd]

Kinetic watches need their batteries changing, which either costs more than the watch is worth if you send it back to the manufacturer or a right PITA if you do it yourself

 

[ColinJ]

The Halifax branches in Todmorden and Hebden Bridge have been closed down, which isn't exactly handy for me, but I just found out that I can access my account via the local Post Office if I need to.

That shouldn't be necessary most of the time though because I finally got round to installing the Halifax banking app on my phone.

I don't use cheques much these days, but I just received one for £30 in the post ***. I needed to pay that into my account so I thought I would have to do it at the P.O. but then found out that the Halifax app is set up to process cheques after taking photos of them. Super convenient!


*** My traditional thanks go to @DCLane, who got me back into entering competitions a few years ago by telling me about some of his big prize wins. I was just thinking that I had not won anything for a year or so and then postie dropped off a prize notification letter including the cheque.

 

[Chris S]

One slice of supermarket bread contains about 6% of your recommended daily intake of salt.

 

[Dogtrousers]

One slice of supermarket bread contains about 6% of your recommended daily intake of salt.

So 17 slices should take you to the total. That's roughly a whole sliced loaf.

Make of that what you will.

 

[Chris S]

Or the 4 slices for the sandwiches that I eat at lunch time will give me 24% of my RDI of salt. Then there's the filling and the rest of the food that I eat during the day. It's really easy to go over the limit.