Really TRUE odd factoids
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Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
Most Muslims gain weight during Ramadan.
Chris S
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- Birmingham
Andy in Germany
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- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
My Muslim boss used to tell me this. She also got very annoyed by Muslim clients (sent by the job centre for work experience) who claimed they couldn't work because they were fasting. We always knew a client had made this excuse when we heard her shouting in Arabic...
Punkawallah
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Muslims student’s I taught claimed the same thing. I sympathised, and explained they had best go home if they were too weak to work. Unfortunately, then they would not be paid ‘attendance allowance’, so . . .
I know a chap who does this ‘intermittent fasting’ thing. Doesn’t stop him working - for a given value of ‘work’, anyway.
Andy in Germany
Guru
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She used to observe the fast, so she was generally unsympathetic on the basis she was able to work 8+ hours a day, so they should manage five. They were told the same, as they wouldn't get their attendance allowance if they didn't turn up.
Those who would try and say this were also the ones whpo generally turned up late, tried to take time of sick for a split nail et c; It was a bit obvious. They were also usually new to the programme and assumed that we'd let them get away with it, then tried to claim language problems, only to be told to stop messing about in loud Arabic...
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
<aside> I used to have an online friend who lived in a small Algerian village. He'd converted to Islam when he married his Muslim wife and made a living as an architect designing mosques. Anyway, he was writing a book about his experiences building a house in the village over a year and sent me chapters to proofread. He talked about Ramadan and how the men ate more than usual because they'd sit around all day whining that they couldn't do anything because they were weak with hunger but then expect their wives to lay on feasts at sunset. The women worked a lot harder during Ramadan preparing all these huge evening meals on top of the usual chores of cleaning, shopping etc plus anything their lazy-arsed husbands couldn't do because they were "fasting". He wasn't impressed.
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
It's not really a fast if you eat at night is it?! That's pretty much what my partner does every single day
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
Religions are great for imposing pointless imposition on their flock.
Just look at Orthodox Jews and the hoops they have to jump through to follow their observance of the sabbath.
matticus
Guru
Stoopid Sundays off work - gimme 7-day working week now!
classic33
Leg End Member
On 25th December 1937, during a football match at Stamford Bridge in London between Chelsea FC and Charlton FC, the game was abandoned in the 60th minute due to heavy fog.
Unfortunately, Charlton FC goalkeeper Sam Bartram was unaware that the match had been stopped and continued to guard his goal for another fifteen minutes. He did not hear the referee's whistle because of the noise from the crowd behind him. Believing that his teammates were attacking the opposing goal, he stood with outstretched arms, fully focused on protecting his goal amidst the dense fog.
It was only fifteen minutes later when the field police approached him and informed him that the match had been abandoned fifteen minutes earlier.
Unfortunately, Charlton FC goalkeeper Sam Bartram was unaware that the match had been stopped and continued to guard his goal for another fifteen minutes. He did not hear the referee's whistle because of the noise from the crowd behind him. Believing that his teammates were attacking the opposing goal, he stood with outstretched arms, fully focused on protecting his goal amidst the dense fog.
It was only fifteen minutes later when the field police approached him and informed him that the match had been abandoned fifteen minutes earlier.
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
Contrary to myth, loud noises do not trigger avalanches.
In the 1950s the US military experimented with this idea and ended up finally disproving the long held myth. Even flying F86 jets at very low altitudes, causing an over pressure of several PSI, failed to trigger a single avalanche on even the most vulnerable slopes.
Even later experiments in the Sixties involved jets going supersonic at 900 metres altitude and the resulting sonic boom failed to trigger any avalanches.
Despite this clear lack of evidence, the Austrian air force still modify the areas of the Alps above which they train with Eurofighters during risky avalanche periods, even though they typically train at altitudes beyond 4000M.
In the 1950s the US military experimented with this idea and ended up finally disproving the long held myth. Even flying F86 jets at very low altitudes, causing an over pressure of several PSI, failed to trigger a single avalanche on even the most vulnerable slopes.
Even later experiments in the Sixties involved jets going supersonic at 900 metres altitude and the resulting sonic boom failed to trigger any avalanches.
Despite this clear lack of evidence, the Austrian air force still modify the areas of the Alps above which they train with Eurofighters during risky avalanche periods, even though they typically train at altitudes beyond 4000M.
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Andy in Germany
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- Rottenburg am Neckar
Why is it that when the US military says "Noise doesn't trigger avalanches" I want to make a mental note to be very, very quiet in avalanche zones?
