16-02-2022, 04:27 AM
TIL olympic ice skaters wear tights in performance. I alawys though they were bare legged.. Coooool, glad they have some leg coverage with those skimpy looking outfits.
(16-02-2022, 09:28 PM)Butty Brennan Wrote: til that some banks have height charts inside the doors so if they get robbed they can tell the exact height of the robbers from the cctv.Last month I learnt that professinoal bankers actually need visual reminders to lock the vault. There is a BIG note taped to the bankers side of the door (that clients can clearly view when the inner door is opened and the banker walks through after depositing your funds.)
(19-02-2022, 12:45 AM)osh Wrote: This was new to me, might be well knownits multiply the two numbers and knock off two decima; places.
(25-02-2022, 09:59 PM)Butty Brennan Wrote: TIL that some of the top scientists of the day were saying that a powered human flight was impossible right up until the Wright brothers did it. Then the scientists said 'oh but he will never be able to do it again with a passenger'.Many, many scientists had been working on it beforehand. I thought most believed it possible, just they thought that it was too complex for a couple of bike salesmen with no money and no engineering background
(25-02-2022, 09:59 PM)Butty Brennan Wrote: TIL that some of the top scientists of the day were saying that a powered human flight was impossible right up until the Wright brothers did it. Then the scientists said 'oh but he will never be able to do it again with a passenger'.
(25-02-2022, 09:59 PM)Butty Brennan Wrote: TIL that some of the top scientists of the day were saying that a powered human flight was impossible right up until the Wright brothers did it. Then the scientists said 'oh but he will never be able to do it again with a passenger'.I read atht as human powered not powered human and got confussed
(26-02-2022, 12:59 AM)Tigger Wrote:I think we need another big war to give engineering a boost. (just kidding)(25-02-2022, 09:59 PM)Butty Brennan Wrote: TIL that some of the top scientists of the day were saying that a powered human flight was impossible right up until the Wright brothers did it. Then the scientists said 'oh but he will never be able to do it again with a passenger'.I read atht as human powered not powered human and got confussed
Science 100 years ago was quite unsophisticated. Modern scientific theory is far more accurate and its hyper little brother engineering no longer beats it like it used to.
(26-02-2022, 03:09 PM)Butty Brennan Wrote:Engineers with no accountants can do amazing things that scientists are far to busy trying to model. I'm dual discipline applied science and engineering and it still happens when a more agribebgineer comes up with a more rustic solution that I remember fail many times untill it's perfect is the best and fastest way to get new things done.(26-02-2022, 12:59 AM)Tigger Wrote: I read atht as human powered not powered human and got confussedI think we need another big war to give engineering a boost. (just kidding)
Science 100 years ago was quite unsophisticated. Modern scientific theory is far more accurate and its hyper little brother engineering no longer beats it like it used to.
WW2 and the cold war made a lot of advancements, new technology always starts out as weapons and then they start looking for other applications.
It's just like the Wright brothers story all over again, some of the best and brightest pre WW2 thought that space travel was centuries or thousands of years in the future and the spaceships would need to be enormous to have enough power to break orbit.
And rockets were seen as a waste of time until WW2 kicked off. Look up podcasts about Jack Parsons for good entertainment, he was sort of the evolution of the Wright brothers, he pioneered solid state rocket fuel but he was then airbrushed out of history because he had a VERY weird lifestyle.
https://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/aero...roots-jpl/
(10-03-2022, 04:35 PM)Butty Brennan Wrote: til that Angela Landsbury and Charles Manson used to be friends!
What the
(10-03-2022, 04:45 PM)nothing Wrote:Yes but a nasty piece of work too. He was a pimp who would pick up young runaway girls and then go up and down the west coast prostituting them.(10-03-2022, 04:35 PM)Butty Brennan Wrote: til that Angela Landsbury and Charles Manson used to be friends!
What the
Woah! Though apparently he was very charming
(26-03-2022, 09:50 PM)Butty Brennan Wrote: til that gardai are finally allowed to have beards when I saw one who looked like Conor McGregor.Still not fly enlightened it seems. It has to be a full beard (if of course their partners allow them to have one 🙄) or clean shaven.
(31-03-2022, 07:06 PM)Leg End Reject Wrote:(26-03-2022, 09:50 PM)Butty Brennan Wrote: til that gardai are finally allowed to have beards when I saw one who looked like Conor McGregor.Still not fly enlightened it seems. It has to be a full beard (if of course their partners allow them to have one 🙄) or clean shaven.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/033...s-warning/
(31-03-2022, 07:57 PM)Necro Wrote:Admit it, you're not allowed. 😂😂(31-03-2022, 07:06 PM)Leg End Reject Wrote: Still not fly enlightened it seems. It has to be a full beard (if of course their partners allow them to have one 🙄) or clean shaven.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/033...s-warning/
I was reading that. I thought the comment about some of them looking like a badly watered lawn in a heatwave was class. And very accurate 😂
Ive no issue with facial hair at all but some fellas (including some of my mates) have tufts of bum fluff protuding from everywhere and no proper growth, if you can't grow a proper beard/goatee etc then just don't do it at all.
(31-03-2022, 08:03 PM)Leg End Reject Wrote:(31-03-2022, 07:57 PM)Necro Wrote: I was reading that. I thought the comment about some of them looking like a badly watered lawn in a heatwave was class. And very accurate 😂Admit it, you're not allowed. 😂😂
Ive no issue with facial hair at all but some fellas (including some of my mates) have tufts of bum fluff protuding from everywhere and no proper growth, if you can't grow a proper beard/goatee etc then just don't do it at all.
(31-03-2022, 09:40 PM)E.N. Wrote:(31-03-2022, 09:18 PM)Kol Wrote: Finished my Nasuni 4 day training course today, apparently I'm now a Nasuni qualified professional.I would say "today I learned what Nasuni is" but I googled it and still don't really understand
Thats my til.
(31-03-2022, 08:42 PM)E.N. Wrote:(31-03-2022, 08:36 PM)Necro Wrote: I wouldn't say not allowed more that it's frowned uponMy wife told me that if I ever shave my beard off, she would punch me in the face! 😜