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    Interesting Things

    Do we have one of these yet? If not, now we do.

    This is a guide given to American troops being stationed in Blighty during WW2 that I've shamelessly nicked from Reddit.

    http://www.hardscrabblefarm.com/ww2/britain.htm

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    It's a fucking tragedy that the term 'panty-waist' has fallen out of use.

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    Another difference. The British have phrases and colloquialisms of their own that may sound funny to you. You can make just as many boners in their eyes.


    I wonder if that was intended.

    It isn't a good idea, for instance, to say "bloody" in mixed company in Britain-it is one of their worst swear words.
    Was that ever true?

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    The British Library are digitising over 6.5m bites and recording of audio. Some of them are on really weird format like metal cylinders (!) etc. Apparently it's at risk of being lost because the equipment being used to play them is too expensive or rare to find/use.

    It's really a fascinating project and you can listen to some of the stuff they've recovered here: http://sounds.bl.uk/

    It's like a look back to a particular point in time. The guy who's heading it described it much better. It's like re-living that moment in time through sound. Pretty neat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Was that ever true?
    A colleague of mine queried my use of 'bloody' the other day, reasoning it was as bad if not worse than 'shit', so it seems there is at least one person left who still thinks like that. He's quite posh, and thus extremely childlike, so that probably explains it.

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    You wouldn't think so would you. I also like the use of 'painty waists'.

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    Is that US army thing real?

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    The great "midland" manufacturing cities of Birmingham, Sheffield, and Coventry (sometimes called "the Detroit of Britain") are located in the central part of England.
    Well this is still the same.

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    The more and more I read of this, the more I enjoy it. Absolutely wonderful. Thanks Disco.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Well this is still the same.

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    Birmingham is better than Detroit.

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    Nobody likes my sounds.

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    Takes a while to get to the truly important stuff.

    "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."

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    That should be the town motto.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magic View Post
    Nobody likes my sounds.
    Bit late to be advertising your band.

    "If British civilians look dowdy and badly dressed, it is not because they do not like good clothes or know how to wear them"

    They're really sticking to the essentials there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 7om View Post
    Birmingham is better than Detroit.
    You couldn't be more wrong.

    I fucking love the term panty-waists though haha

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    Is that US army thing real?
    Yep. The various guides produced for soldiers throughout WW2 are fucking brilliant.

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    I feel like they ought to hand that thing out in Airplanes even today (bar the war-related stuff) to any American person that crosses the Atlantic.


    Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
    Takes a while to get to the truly important stuff.

    "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
    This is a fucking preposterous claim. While The British certainly know their tea, Americans have never, and I suspect will never, know how to make coffee. Their pot coffee is fucking more watery than their beer, which says a lot and some more.

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    To be enormously pedantic it doesn't actually say they do know how to make coffee.

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    I found it was implied.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adam View Post
    You couldn't be more wrong.
    Have you been to Detroit?

    Most of eastern Michigan looks like a nuclear bomb has been dropped on it.

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    Speaking of nuclear bombs, I've been reading this today:

    https://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe...1/00329010.pdf

    It's a hastily written report from the Manhattan project on whether the detonation of nuclear bombs would ignite the entire atmosphere, probably best that they double checked that one.

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    I got linked to this by some email newsletter that's normally about far more mundane things, I think it's the quite horrific stories of such powerful athletes who were utterly destroyed and abandoned by their sport. The whitewashing and denial from the NFL is utterly shameful.

    http://www.gq.com/story/nfl-players-...ry-concussions

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
    I got linked to this by some email newsletter that's normally about far more mundane things, I think it's the quite horrific stories of such powerful athletes who were utterly destroyed and abandoned by their sport. The whitewashing and denial from the NFL is utterly shameful.

    http://www.gq.com/story/nfl-players-...ry-concussions
    Have you seen the Will Smith film about it?
    I'm a twit

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    I haven't, I might have a look and see if it's any good.

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    This 'NFL'. Generates a lot of money does it?

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    Thick end of $10 billion.

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    Bit morbid but just saw a GIF of the impact of the second 9/11 plane from ground level, for I think the first time. Looks even more crazy than the usual footage.

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    Bit haunting that. But i get the morbid curiosity.

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    I don't know how accurate or up to date this is but it looks lovely.

    https://www.windyty.com/?45.583,15.381,4

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    A weather report?

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    Think of it as a global representation of how much of your roof is going to fall off.

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    https://tuinderlusten-jheronimusbosch.ntr.nl/en

    Interactive guide of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Jheronimus Bosch. It is fucking mega.

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    I was looking through a box of my grandad's old photos and stuff today and found this. He was a gunner in the Royal Artillery, captured after Singapore fell and held as a POW in Thailand. No idea how they came to be given cards like this to fill out and he definitely soft-balled the second question because I don't think being starved half to death and forced to build a railway equates to 'usual'. Anyway, I thought it might be interesting to others as well.

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    I got one of those off Floyd the other week.

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    Good grief, that must be a hell of a thing to see.

    Recently regaled my cousins that know little of the wider family with some of the more 'interesting' characters our family, from my great grandfathers war stories (he liked to embellish somewhat), to the great uncle that escaped from prison to Ireland, having already had my great, great grandfather do time for him beforehand so that he wouldn't miss his wedding day, to the mad uncle in the TA who came across from Belfast on the Ferry in the early 90's with a mortar that he really shouldn't have taken as a present for me which some years later (having been passed from myself to other kids in the family) had to be detonated by controlled explosion by the bomb squad when my auntie contacted the TA to ask if they'd want it back.

    We've a real lack of documentation, and a lot of stories died with my great aunt last year, but a lot of the most 'interesting stuff' I've come across have been my family history, I guess because you're invested by birth.

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    Lewis

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    How did someone with that family history end up with that moustache you had?

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    It's amazing really, especially as the women get quality 'taches around the 40 mark.

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    In fairness this will only be interesting to me, but I was listening to a podcast earlier looking back over Irish managers due to it being 30 years since Charlton was appointed. I never knew the stories about both Charlton and McCarthy after him never being meant to get the jobs at all.

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    Whats that pod? Might be worth a listen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danny View Post
    Whats that pod? Might be worth a listen.
    Two separate parts of the same Off the Ball one really. One with a journalist and the usual John Giles section (who was also in for it when Charlton was hired). I'd never even heard Bob Paisley was even a candidate.


    http://www.newstalk.com/player/embed...cast&id=125069


    http://www.newstalk.com/player/embed...cast&id=125074

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    Cheers.

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    I'm really interested by the many autonomous regions within countries that have very different cultures to the 'host' country.

    I give you Yanbian, an autonomous prefecture in north-eastern Jilin province, China. The area is inhabited by ethnic Koreans and borders North Korea to the south. The population is around 2.2m, with an estimated 35% of those being ethnic Koreans. Chinese and Korean are the official languages.


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    Is that Times Square?

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    Buckingham Palace lies in the second lowest council tax band in Britain.

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    Liverpool went seven years, 145 games, not losing a game that Ian Rush scored in.

    SEVEN YEARS.

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