Just post a link to the Twitter feed you're reading.
Just post a link to the Twitter feed you're reading.
I'm not reading a Twitter feed. Just read the Buckingham Palace thing, and it reminded me of the Ian Rush thing.
Yeah JA. Stop posting interesting things in the interesting things thread you cunt.
Sorry
I'll make sure that there are at least 3 other posts between mine, next time.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is the second largest political party in Russia with 92 of 450 seats in the Duma.
I feel like there's probably an inverse bell chart for how much you know about Russian politics and how surprising that is to you. I'm definitely towards the left side of the horizontal axis.
Which axis is which?
Horizontal being knowledge of Russian politics and vertical being surprise*. So I am relatively unknowledgable and therefore relatively unsurprised.
*That's the only way it can work, shirley.
I don't know. I've always been terrible at visualising graphs.
Although is that shape ot a regular bell curve rather than an inverse one? It's an 'n' shape rather than a 'u' shape, right?
I don't know much about Russian politics but I still found it surprising. You'd think after the Soviet Union failed they'd have given up on it, or at least the brand.
No I meant a U shape, in that people who know nothing would think "Russia = Communism", and people who know a lot would know already, leaving only those who know Russia isn't so into communism any more and perhaps thought the Communist Party would have died out a bit more.
Sorry for taking your point of interest and turning it into rambling nonsense.
China has over 100 cities with a population of over 1,000,000. Depending on sources, the next highest is India with 46, then Indonesia with 18. The US has 10 and the UK and Vietnam have 2 each.
In the top 20, China have...
Shanghai
Beijing
Tianjin
Guangzhou
Shenzhen
Not particularly interesting, but Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashed in 1986 when the pilot claimed he could land the plane 'blindfolded', so he drew the curtains before landing the plane, which subsequently crashed and killed a lot of people. Insane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_6502
Read these while doing a bit of waiting around in work and, as the thread title would imply, I found them interesting.
http://www.thejournal.ie/cso-easter-...37261-Mar2016/
http://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpubl.../introduction/
That was interesting. Surprised by the relatively low population growth.
For comparisons, a similar sized country such as Sri Lanka had a population of 4.2 in 2016, and now has 20.5m.
Actually, having check against a more developed country, Czech Rep., the growth is pretty similar.
You can't really compare Ireland to Sri Lanka. Asian population growth in the past century has been enormous, whereas Europe has been slowing for decades now.
I still thought it was pretty low, especially with all the EU immigration. Emigration has been rather large too though I suppose.
I remember some lecturer of mine talking about some study that compared Ireland and Finland for something. Can't exactly remember what for now but it was seen as the most similar country.
Incest per capita
Just in case the Japs invade Asia again they can all do a Russia and keep coming until they run out of ammo.
Don't want to start a thread for this, as I know exactly how that will pan out, so this seems as good a place as any to share it:
An Unbelievable Story of Rape: An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins.
A long and at times uncomfortable read but definitely worth reading.
That was interesting (although I'm not sure I want to listen to her own account), a good insight into the nuts and bolts of an investigation like that.
Not so much the subject, though I seen it linked in a tweet and decided to have a read as I know nothing about Corbyn, but I have never came across an article as long on a news site. I got 10% into it and had to give up. I know it's called a 'Sunday long read' but that's a fucking novel.
http://www.thejournal.ie/jeremy-corb...41205-Mar2016/
Extraordinarily strong aurora right now for anybody interested in the northern lights. Six on the KP index, which means visibility in south of England if it's particularly clear.
steamed hams
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...oration-mocked
I think that looks quite good.
"Theyve got builders in rather than restorers and, like we say round here, theyve cocked it up.
Proper Spaniard.
If we all lived in the same density housing as Hong Kong, you could fit the entire human race in Egypt.
Given the state of most Spanish building sites that castle is probably less sturdy than before.
It being a load of empty desert isn't really relevant, given I don't think it's a suggestion that we actually implement that change.
On the topic of interesting things in Dublin, what's with the mop people in Copper Face Jacks? They're everywhere. Is it a gimmick?
GTA Springfield.
I'm having to build a map of certain Eastern European nations and found this. Someone explain
That's part of old prussia isn't it? The Russians land grabbed it or something from Poland.
Kalingrad - Russia's easy access to the Baltic.
So if you're born there, you're Russian? So weird.