Interesting Things

[Disco]

The Peters Projection is what you want.

[Queenslander]

In the 2011 when we had a once in a generation flooding inland the news kept going on about that there was an inland sea of flood water in central Queensland the size of France and Germany combined.

That map definitely helps with that claim.

[hfswjyr]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY

[Giggles]

Never seen one of these inflatable things before. If you could get a few more fans in it's the future.


https://youtu.be/pxS9T8Zgbfs

[Ian]

No idea where to put this but has anybody seen a better trophy than the Korean baseball one?

https://img.koreatimes.co.kr/upload/newsV2/images/202011/93731593c2084c888e56937fad4e7605.jpg

[Jimmy Floyd]

That whole picture is peak Korea.

[Ian]

I just hope it's a tradition for the winning captain to bellow BY THE POWER OF BASEBALL as he lifts it.

[Manc]

Lifting your material from Football Weekly. Shame on you.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They will be shouting something like DINOS FIGHTING, YEAH!

[Ian]

Lifting your material from Football Weekly. Shame on you.

Not so much 'lifting my material from' as 'Googling a thing they mentioned' or do you expect full Wikipedia-style citations?

[Ben]

To be fair, Football Weekly have lifted it themselves. The sword pictures do the rounds every year after their championship game or whatever it is.

[Ian]

Yeah I was a little surprised I'd never seen it before.

[Kikó]

To be fair, Football Weekly have lifted it themselves. The sword pictures do the rounds every year after their championship game or whatever it is.

I was going to say, this picture has been doing the rounds for loads of years

[Manc]

Didn't realise you had ties with The Group, Ian. My apologies.

[Kikó]

Ian is the originator of the group.

[Ian]

It was originally for real ale chat but now it's all tee heeing and talking GS down.

#group'sgone

[Baz]

Is it called The Grout?

[Pepe]

Why do their uniforms have holes on the armpits?

[John Arne]

Today I learnt that Luc Longley is the brother-in-law of Ben Elton.

How random.

[Manc]

Makes you think.

[Baz]

Rock Paper Scissors simulator: http://peterganunis.com/game3.html

[-james-]

That's some 2006 shit.

[Disco]

I've been reading about the battle of Tannenburg (Germany vs Russia in WW1, nowhere near anywhere called Tannenburg) and it has the usual WW1 insanity but with the added fun of bicycle units and orders conveyed to troops through leaflet airdrops. But the most mental thing about it is the commemorative coin the Germans minted to honour the fallen (ie starved or clubbed to death by Russian artillerymen who had run out of ammo and sharp implements) which features Paul von Hindenburg completely naked murdering a bear with a giant sword.

https://i.imgur.com/AhihGP1.png

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They could have given him a larger member.

[Disco]

They've been extremely kind already on the body shape but they did include a roid belly I'm almost certain he didn't have.

[Spikey M]

They could have given him a larger member.

They're keeping it real. It's cold over there and he didn't just forget his coat.

[Disco]

It took place in August, he's dressed for the season.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Small dicks were seen as preferable in the classical world, as most of the statues will attest. Not sure if it's because they were all paedos or for some other cultural reason.

[Adramelch]

That's why I always describe my body type as "classical" and if they take the hint so be it.

[Lewis]

Some local kid died unexpectedly (https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/people/portsmouth-schoolboy-ace-rewcastle-has-died-after-shocking-illness-on-holiday-family-announce-3987163) earlier in the year, and it became a bit of a good mourning story in the city. People raised a load of money for treatment/his family to spend on a big gypo funeral, and this is the grave:

https://i.imgur.com/YKpRJRw.png

[Shindig]

At least they'll have no bother picking it out.

[Jimmy Floyd]

From the shot we have there it looks as though Ronald is lying in state.

[Lofty]

That's positively dignified compared to Archie Battersbee and Azalea Cain's efforts. Do the family get pissed at the grave on the regular? Chav standard apparently.

[igor_balis]

There're some pretty gaudy headstones in the big cemetery my Polski grandad is buried in, but they're pretty sweet and evocative - quite a few Cov City crests and the like. That McDonalds one is pretty legendary though, especially as it seems like it's surrounded by proper solemn, old school headstones.

[John Arne]

The Soviet missions to Venus. Hardly ever talked about, but the complexity and success is pretty awesome.

[niko_cee]

Yesterday I learned about Troposheric Ducting (https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/help-guides/freeview/effect-of-tropospheric-ducting-on-freeview) which we seem to be getting a lot of here at the moment.

And look, someone's made a real-time map (https://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo_eur.html) of this weird and annoying phenomenon.

[Spikey M]

Why didn't I know about this when my mum caught me watching BabeStation?

[niko_cee]

It seems to have wiped out most of the non-core channels off my freeview tv guide thing, but they are still there if you just put the channel number in.

You'll be glad to know the adult section was still intact, and a lot easier to access as all of the channels north of 5 have been husked out of the guide save for the CBBC/Cbeebies ones. At this point I suspect this tv is just a bit shit, which seems to be a prevailing theme with modern smart tvs, I guess they must be made out of the most ludicrously bare minimum materials/components imaginable.

[Baz]

No aerial gang whaddup

[Ben]

My new house, and the rest of the neighbourhood, all have old massive aerials on the roof with ports in every room. My previous house was a new build so I never had such shenanigans. I've taken all the ports out and plastered over them, but getting up on the roof to take down the aerial is going to be a right cunt. I was thinking I'd just leave it, but it seems the birds enjoy perching on it so my patio is covered in shit.

All my television is through the internet now, and surely it won't be too long before everyone's is.

[Baz]

Even Sky doesn’t need a dish now does it? Streaming era in full swing.

[Giggles]

If you've decent internet. I'm 2 years running off a 4G sim in a router.

[Ben]

I found out about this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Line,_Saudi_Arabia) yesterday because a relative of a workmate is heading out there to work on its construction and earn silly money. I've just read up on it and it's absolutely batshit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I know someone who is employed in this country doing PR for that. I can't think of a more sell-out shill job than that and I told him so, he didn't even deny it.

[wullie]

I remember seeing the video for it and thinking how shit it looks, but it'll appeal to people who love Dubai and all that bollocks.

[niko_cee]

Sounds great.

Linear city sounds like something that would either come from the mouths of or significantly aggravate the crackpot brigade.


In October 2022, Shadli, Ibrahim, and Ataullah al-Huwaiti, of the Howeitat tribe, were sentenced to death when they refused to vacate their village as part of the NEOM megaproject.

:happycry:

[Disco]

The line is separate from Neom right? They wiped out a bunch of people who didn't want to make way for that too, then MBS lost his shit because everyone wanted a street plan while he didn't want streets at all. I'm assuming it will all be covered by the desert in 10 years like most of that big dumb airport they started but only ever used one tiny corner. You'd think it was all a big con if you hadn't seen what they've done (and plan to continue doing) to Mecca.

[John Arne]

The line is separate from Neom right? .

The Line and another smaller mountain retreat combine to form NEOM. I applied for a job there and was rejected. Cunts.

[Disco]

Maybe you should have written your cv in a single line on one long piece of paper.

I was also wrong about the airport, it's Dubai and apparently they thought they needed this (one runway of the planned six has actually been built) rather than say, a sewage system.

https://i.imgur.com/JtuwLbe.png

[Pepe]

Seen the Starlink satellites train fly by last two nights in a row.

[John Arne]

Paris Jackson being an adult, quite attractive and very much white passed me by.

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[Lewis]

She's also sufficiently immersed in the gimmick that he was her actual dad that she considers herself to be black.

[niko_cee]

Being a wildly out of touch sort of person, I stumbled upon this (https://www.thecut.com/article/erewhon-smoothie-boston-los-angeles-history.html) after skimming an Uncle Roger video on youtube.

Utter madness.

[Baz]

If you’re ever after something to do to raise a smile, go on Stephen Merchants Instagram and read the comments on any of his posts. It’s just hundreds of people quoting the [hilarious] radio show/podcast he did with Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington, with zero context.

[Disco]

There are two versions of Dennis the Menace and they were first published on the same day in March 1951 completely independently of each other.

[Manc]

Phwoar.

[Baz]

Similarly, Humpty Dumpty isn’t an egg.

[Shindig]

Yeah, it makes a lot more sense than an egg with a split head.

[Baz]

How have I only just heard of the ‘Paul McCartney died in a car accident and was replaced in the Beatles’ conspiracy theory?

[Pepe]

We saw a bald eagle on the park yesterday. :cool:

[Lewis]

I was today years old, as igor would say, when I learned this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ketchup_Song_(Aserej%C3%A9)#Content).

[Shindig]

Me too. In hindsight, it's fucking obvious. Shows how much I pay attention to lyrics. :D

[Spikey M]

That's incredible :D

[John Arne]

This is cool.

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[Spikey M]

I was going to say it'd be better without the music, but the unedited version is in the comments and to be honest I hadn't realised that Portuguese was such an unattractive language.

[John Arne]

I'm on mute, so didn't even realise it had music :)

[Ben]

I was going to say it'd be better without the music, but the unedited version is in the comments and to be honest I hadn't realised that Portuguese was such an unattractive language.

Yeah it's like Spanish being spoken by a Russian.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Whilst trying not to gob.

[Spikey M]

Portugal is basically just the Liverpool of Spain then? Got it.

[John Arne]

Today I learnt that Rafa Nadal is Miguel Angel Nadal's nephew. Heh.

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[Jimmy Floyd]

My school Spanish textbook had as a colour piece (this is in about 2000 obviously) a 12 year old Rafael Nadal being interviewed about his tennis prospects, including reference to his tio being a deportista. I don't know if he was some kind of Freddy Adu style prodigy even at that age, but I remember thinking it was a pretty remarkable bit of journalism by the good folks at Edexcel or whichever faceless body writes school textbooks.

[niko_cee]

Thought Nadal's link to the beast or the butcher or whatever he was was well known

[Kikó]

Aye as Nadal was still a relevant football name at the start of Rafa's career.

[Lewis]

I had never heard of this (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz99yr6dq41o) before. It's easy to blame the organisers, but what was he doing keeping in that long? To quote manc sean 'They're absolute nonces to a man, the Japanese'.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

As the show progressed, Nasubi was successful in many of the competitions he entered - but the prizes he won weren't always of much use.

Among them were tyres, golf balls, a tent, a globe, a teddy bear and tickets to Spice World: The Movie.



Surprised Spice World didn't finish him off.

[Shindig]

"Let's see if I can survive for a year on competition prizes." would be a 20 minute youtube video now.

[John Arne]

I never realised just quite how wet Finland was...

https://gyazo.com/64a11857a24e881d524fa5a97b3b4e29.jpeg

[Jimmy Floyd]

Holland feels a bit like that. So many bodies of water around I'm surprised there are any women left alive.

[Spikey M]

:D

[John Arne]

Basile Boli has a nephew named Roli Boli.

[Disco]

The logo for the Iraqi Air Defence Command is quite the piece of work.

https://i.imgur.com/V4Z4Myh.png

[John Arne]

This is pretty insane.


https://youtu.be/A5aLyQaNf_Y?si=rnLL4LdWYtQOqJtk