Chas and Dave play on “My Name is…” by Eminem
Nope, they played on Labbi Siffres "I got the" which was later sampled by Eminem.
To be fair they pop up on bloody hundreds of records as they were session musicians, Chas in particular has loads of recording for people like Jerry Lee Lewis as a member of the Outlaws. And Dave has plenty of credits too.
Matt Bellamy of Muse fame is the son of George Bellamy who, as a part of the Tornados scored the only US number 1 instrumental with Telstar.
Getting back to the etymology/linguistics stuff. I started the Swedish course in Duolingo (have a mate who’s a Swedish speaking Finn so just wanted to learn a bit of his language). In Irish, in common with some other languages, we have no indefinite article. So if you’re saying “I have a dog” you just say “I have dog” The definite articles are an (“on”) and na for singular and plural respectively. I’ve noticed that in Swedish singular nouns end in “an” and plurals end in “na” eg kvinnan and kvinna for the woman and the women. I wonder if there’s a connection somewhere. Anything similar in other Scandi languages (given that most Irish cities started out as Viking settlements)?
Yorkshire folk are really a lost tribe of Welsh folk.
Hmmm. There's more in the mix, though one of the Dales 3 peaks is called Pen y Ghent ( hill of the border I think, tho wind was what folks used to say).
that in Swedish singular nouns end in “an” and plurals end in “na” eg kvinnan and kvinna
Similar in many v different Euro languages: criterion/criteria in Latin; dendron/dendra in Greek (trees). So I'd guess pointing to a common Indo European grammatical route some time after the last ice age. Not that I've a clue, I'd love to study this stuff, linguistic anthropology? Archeological linguistic anthropology? Ok not an interesting fact.
"D'you wanna go now?" in my accent over the noise of a club sounds just like the swedish.
our brains usually perceive colours that our eyes don’t have actual receptors for (i.e. colours other than red, green and blue).
Technically, and this is a quite interesting fact, most humans actually see blue, green and yellow. Our "long" cone receptors generally pick up light in the 565-580nm range, which is definitely yellow. They're also the most numerous - and this is partly why "hi-viz" is so often yellow.
Isn't there something about being able to see blue being evolutionary speaking a very recent thing for humans and this may be an explanation for why there are (were) no separate words for blue and green in Welsh (and some other languages I think)?
[i] A mile is eight furlongs; a furlong is ten chains; a chain is 22 yards. So small handy numbers but yes the base changes weirdly.[/i]
Yes - the interesting fact was that the number base appears to change randomly with every increment of scale.
Metric = What is 10+10? 20
Imperial = What is 10 + 10? Well, that depends but probably something like three chains, a groat and 7/8ths
Graham Hill is the only person to win Le Mans, the Monaco Grand Prix, and the Indianapolis 500. He was also the first F1 World Champion father of an F1 World champion.
Hmmm. There’s more in the mix, though one of the Dales 3 peaks is called Pen y Ghent ( hill of the border I think, tho wind was what folks used to say).
I think Ghent as in the Belgian city means river confluence. Gwynt is Welsh for wind ( not sure if same in Cumbria/Elmet) so makes sense for an exposed hilltop, not hard to see it evolving to Ghent
Similar in many v different Euro languages: criterion/criteria in Latin; dendron/dendra in Greek (trees). So I’d guess pointing to a common Indo European grammatical route some time after the last ice age.
Ah, yes, of course. Now that you point it out, I see it. I was focusing too narrowly on the similarities between a language I can speak fairly fluently (or at least used to) and one I was learning anew. Fascinating stuff though. If that kind of thing interests you, I can highly recommend a podcast called Lexicon Valley. He covers stuff like this amongst loads of other quirky language stuff.
a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of gold
D'Arcy- is duolingo anything like berlingo?
a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of gold
What about a pound of golden feathers ?.
When there’s horse racing on the telly, around a lot of the track the horses are too far from the camera positions any to pick up sound - for decades horse racing has be broadcast with the same sound library recording of stampeding buffalo
The heated wing mirrors of a duolingo are much more reliable than the ones on a berlingo
D’Arcy- is duolingo anything like berlingo?
Eh? 😀
Some Turtles can (sort of) breathe through the bums when hibernating.
It's called Cloacal respiration - because they don't have ribs & a diaphragm they rely on muscles to squeeze & expand their lungs.
This uses too much energy when hibernating so they have little sacs by there bum hole that can absorb oxygen and expell CO.
Nope, they played on Labbi Siffres “I got the” which was later sampled by Eminem.
I know. But that's not quite as fun now, is it?
this may be an explanation for why there are (were) no separate words for blue and green in Welsh (and some other languages I think)?
I don't think so, evolution of physical human attributes takes way longer than evolution of languages. We haven't changed much for many tens of thousands of years.
The words for blue/green are the same in quite a few languages. This sounds confusing but this means they consider green to be a shade of blue (or vice versa). This isn't as weird as it sounds - for example, we would say cherry is a shade of red, as is strawberry But if you'd been brought up with cherry and strawberry as different colours (as most of us can clearly differentiate between the two) then you'd think us using one word was madness.
Isn’t there something about being able to see blue being evolutionary speaking a very recent thing for humans
No - the majority of primates (definitely all apes and most old-world monkeys) are trichromatic. So, being able to see blue wavelengths likely predates the split between apes and old-world monkeys and that was around 25Mya.
Interestingly, most other mammals are dichromatic, except marine mammals which are generally monochromats. Most fish, birds and reptiles are tetrachromats.
may be an explanation for why there are (were) no separate words for blue and green in Welsh (and some other languages I think)?
Not unless Welsh (and come other languages) predate our simian ancestors...
a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of gold
You're gonna have to elaborate on that...!
Wm. Shakespeare was the first person to be banned from a pub (several, actually, in and around Stratford upon Avon)
a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of gold
You’re gonna have to elaborate on that…!
Tis the other way round.
A Troy ounce weighs 31g, regular ounce 28g
What we know as Bitter did not become the most popular beer in England until 1963.
Prior to that it was Mild.
Before that it was Porter.
Ordering a beer in Australia can get complicated. A pint in South Australia is only 425ml, and the names for different measures vary from state to state.
Think of it as like the breadcake, barm, bap, roll debacle.
Wm. Shakespeare's birth is celebrated on 23rd April, which is also the date of his death in 1616. In fact this is a nice coincidence and probably untrue because birth records weren't required during Elizabethan times, only church records, i.e. baptisms, marriages and deaths.
23rd April is also St. Georges Day
We call a collection of recorded songs an 'Album' because 78rpm records only could only hold 3 minutes of sound per side. Selling a recording longer than that meant packaging a collection of disks in an album
So when 'Long Player' records came along the name 'Album' stuck.
'Long Players' typically hold approx 22 minutes per side with the exception of two copies of 'The Golden Record' each travelling on the two Voyager space probes. They contain field sound recordings (waves, wind, thunder) spoken greetings from people all around the world in 55 languages, an hour of music from navaho chants , symphonies, and Chuck Berry, various analogue encoded photos of the earth and the things and people on it and an hour of the recorded brainwaves of Ann Duryan falling in love.
Due to a piece of text being engraved on the disks being of the wrong specification the decision was almost made to just put blank disks on the space probes instead.
Wm. Shakespeare’s birth is celebrated on 23rd April, which is also the date of his death in 1616. In fact this is a nice coincidence and probably untrue because birth records weren’t required during Elizabethan times, only church records, i.e. baptisms, marriages and deaths.
23rd April is also St. Georges Day
Dunno if it's probably untrue, it's just unknown - since baptisms were carried out pretty sharpish because infant mortality was so high, and he was baptised on the 26th, it's as likely as the 22nd or 24th, etc.
Only six examples of his actual hand writing are known, all of them signatures on legal documents. He spelled his surname differently on all six, and none of them are spelled the way we spell it today.
Robert Burns is probably best known globally for the work 'Auld Lang Sine'. But he didn't write it.
Stallone never said "Don't push me!" in Rambo
Bogart never said "Play it again Sam" in Casablanca
There are loads of 'most famous quotes' that were either never said or mis-attributed.
I used this as the theme for an amazingly dull presentation to the sixth form explaining that "Truth is in the Majority" meaning that if enough people believed something then it became true. I followed this the following week with "Truth is in the Individual" which argued the opposite. Somewhat confusingly I won both of those debates but lost "Truth is undefined" in the third week, possibly because the audience had died of boredom.
a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of gold
You’re gonna have to elaborate on that…!
Measurement of weight versus a measurement of value I imagine
In the Rambo book, he dies.
[i]a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of gold
You’re gonna have to elaborate on that…!
Measurement of weight versus a measurement of value I imagine[/i]
I refer you to my earlier answer about the randomness of the non-metric system where they just randomly pick stuff and call it a measurement. "I want a 32 ounce pound" - fine but I am having a 28 ounce pound at the same time, just depends what substance you are weighing
[i]In the Rambo book, he dies.[/i]
Probably explains why Rambo 2 - xxxxx were such poor films compared to the original 🙂
It was my wife's birthday yesterday. It was also a colleague's birthday. Most folk think that's pretty unlikely what with there being 365 days to have a birthday on.
But in fact you only need a group of 23 people before it becomes more likely that there's at least one shared birthday than everyone having discrete ones.
(Ignoring leap years and seasonality of sexy times and hence birthdays)
Another maths one. If you add up all the integers 1+2+3+4......up to infinity.
The sum adds up to -1/12
TBF the PO-2 dropped a bomb on it while it (an F86) was parked.
The version the story that I know is that F86 stalled whilst slowing down behind it
a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of gold
It's cos the feathers are cheaper, obvs.
The version the story that I know is that F86 stalled whilst slowing down behind it
The story you know is made up, the event is pretty well recorded
Another maths one
The contentious one? .999(to infinity) is exactly the same as 1
[runs away]
a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of gold
An ordinary pound is approx 454g. Gold is weighed in troy units, a troy pound is only about 373g.
From your source
But while hunting night intruders, the Starfires were so fast that they closed too rapidly and often made repeated passes, unsuccessfully attempting to line up the propeller planes in their gunsights. The commander of the 319th perished when he fell below his Starfire’s stall speed of 110 miles per hour while attempting to slow down enough to fall in behind a Po-2—a circumstance some consider the only biplane-on-jet “maneuver kill” in history.
So is your source made up?
a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of gold
You’re gonna have to elaborate on that…!
...whereas I'd just assumed it was practical versus theoretical legerdemain:
- we define the weight of a kilo (balls to imperial) of feathers as being just the weight of the beta keratin that the feathers are actually made of,
- the kilo of gold is just the weight of its atoms of gold.
- and then actually real world weigh them, the kilo of feathers will be heavier because it will contain a few grammes of air, depending on how fluffed up it is.
NASA almost killed Big Bird from Sesame Street.
They wanted to engage with the youth, wanted to send someone kids could relate to into space. So lined up the Big Bird character and actor to go through testing... which went ahead.. However they swapped to a school teacher towards the end of the process. The shuttle was "Challenger"... and it blew up killing all the crew.
Another maths one. If you add up all the integers 1+2+3+4……up to infinity.
The sum adds up to -1/12
no it bloody doesn't.
IT can be made to approximate -1/12 if you do some simplification in a manner that allows everything to collapse down.
and then actually real world weigh them, the kilo of feathers will be heavier because it will contain a few grammes of air, depending on how fluffed up it is.
I'm struggling with this...if you have a kilo of feathers then it should be a kilo, not a kilo of feathers and then a bit more due to air...you'd remove feathers until the weight of what you were weighing was a kilo...Real world will be on a set of scales and you add/remove material until it reads 1 kilo, therefore what is on the scale at that time is the weight it claims.
and then actually real world weigh them, the kilo of feathers will be heavier because it will contain a few grammes of air, depending on how fluffed up it is.
I’m struggling with this…if you have a kilo of feathers then it should be a kilo, not a kilo of feathers and then a bit more due to air…you’d remove feathers until the weight of what you were weighing was a kilo…Real world will be on a set of scales and you add/remove material until it reads 1 kilo, therefore what is on the scale at that time is the weight it claims.
Well if you're going to insist on kilos, then the joke's over. Point is that, as someone has explained, although troy ounces are heavier than yer typical ounce there are fewer (12?) in a troy pound, which is thereofre lighter
’m struggling with this…if you have a kilo of feathers then it should be a kilo, not a kilo of feathers and then a bit more due to air…you’d remove feathers until the weight of what you were weighing was a kilo…
Hence legerdemain over the defacto change in definition as to what constitutes the weight of a feather. This wasn't my 'fact' anyway, it was my wrong assumption about a fact. But bugger it I'm up for a fight 🙂
That think about dogs facing a particular direction to 💩. This morning, Bella 💩 south west for the first and east forthe second.
Do I need to rub her with a magnet to reset her?
I think that just means she's comfortable in her surroundings. Take her somewhere new and try it.
(or of course, Myth Busted!)
So is your source made up?
An airplane slowing down and falling out of the sky isn't really being shot down by your enemy. P51s and F86s being bombed to destruction on a run way pretty much is being destroyed by your enemy. Biplanes being involved in a war in the 1950's is impressive, bombing an airfield and getting away with it is more impressive still. You don't need to make up stuff to make it sound even more impressive.
Wm. Shakespeare was the first person to be banned from a pub (several, actually, in and around Stratford upon Avon)
"Get out, you're bard"?
Probably explains why Rambo 2 – xxxxx were such poor films compared to the original 🙂
There wasn't a Rambo 2.
The "original" was First Blood. Rambo was the second film (fully "Rambo: First Blood Part II") then it went straight to Rambo 3.
Ok - I was young and don't remember the details.
I know that the original "Star Wars" got renamed "Star Wars (Part 4)" about 5 years after it was originally launched
I’m struggling with this…if you have a kilo of feathers then it should be a kilo, not a kilo of feathers and then a bit more due to air…you’d remove feathers until the weight of what you were weighing was a kilo…Real world will be on a set of scales and you add/remove material until it reads 1 kilo, therefore what is on the scale at that time is the weight it claims.
You're getting mass and weight confused. A kilogramme is a measure of mass. So the feathers that weigh what a kilogramme of gold would weigh actually contains more than a kilogramme of mass due to the encapsulated air - the air has mass but is neutrally bouyant so doesn't affect the scales.
That think about dogs facing a particular direction to 💩. This morning, Bella 💩 south west for the first and east forthe second.
Do I need to rub her with a magnet to reset her?
I don't know why people are surprised, every morning I sit in exactly the same orientation!!
^^^I was never confused 🤔 I said I thought it was a trick. But the kilo with air in will be heavier. Check this short, fun experiment:
Mass vs weight distinction isn't relevant here. The kilo with air in will have more of both, just like the balloon that has air in.
I know that the original “Star Wars” got renamed “Star Wars (Part 4)” about 5 years after it was originally launched
Pretty much. It was renamed Episode IV - A New Hope when it was rereleased in cinemas after the success of The Empire Strikes Back.
Apocryphally, it was always intended to be episode 4 but it wasn't included in the original release because Lucas wasn't sure whether it was going to be successful.
Patrick Moore believed that he was the only person to have met with Orville Wright, Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong - the first aviator, the first into space and the first on the moon.
Apocryphally, it was always intended to be episode 4 but it wasn’t included in the original release because Lucas wasn’t sure whether it was going to be successful.
I don't remember any mention of this when Star Wars was first released - and there was tons of stuff everywhere about that first film. It only got talked about later on after it had become successful. Maybe Lucas had it in the back of his mind that he could make sequels, but, as I remember it, when Star Wars was being made most people thought it would disappear into obscurity including the actors themselves. (I might be wrong though..)
Apocryphally, it was always intended to be episode 4 but it wasn’t included in the original release because Lucas wasn’t sure whether it was going to be successful.
I thought the scrolling wordy bit at the start always had 'Episode IV - A New Hope' as the title, but the film itself was just called "Star Wars".
most people thought it would disappear into obscurity including the actors themselves
I believe Sir Alec Guiness was the only one of the main cast to sign up for a %age of the royalties rather than a flat fee.
But the kilo with air in will be heavier. Check this short, fun experiment:
No it won't. In that balloon experiment, there is more tension in the balloon that has been inflated more, so the pressure is higher and the air is more dense. If you do the same thing with two identical cylinders with plungers where one plunger is pulled out more to enclose more air at the same pressure, it would balance even if there's more volume of air in it.
Air is neutrally buoyant at the same pressure as other air, because of course it is, it's identical. So the air in the feathers affects the mass but not the weight.
Lucas was talking about three trilogies pretty early, like before Empire early. How much farther back that notion went in his mind I guess only The Beard knows for sure.
No it won’t.
I'm glad you said that, cos I wrote a whole reply and then second-guessed myself and deleted it. I wasn't quite on the same page as you but I knew it didn't feel right. I was thinking about surface area and atmospheric pressure but it's not is it - it's the fact that the balloon contains compressed air which is denser than regular air.
I bet if you did the experiment with water balloons underwater the balance would not tip, because water won't compress (much).
Lucas was talking about three trilogies pretty early, like before Empire early. How much farther back that notion went in his mind I guess only The Beard knows for sure.
It was my understanding that he wrote the whole story arc in nine brief outlines, and selected the middle three as the most interesting. I don't know how brief those outlines were though. It might explain why ANH starts right in the middle of things and apparently has a well developed story up to that point. Then again maybe not, given it's partly inspired by war films and they obviously start in the middle of the war.
I thought the scrolling wordy bit at the start always had ‘Episode IV – A New Hope’ as the title, but the film itself was just called “Star Wars”
No, it was added later - 1981 is suggested by Google. I would have remembered this, because my friends and I would have been unbearably excited about the fact that it wasn't just one film!
I thought the scrolling wordy bit at the start always had ‘Episode IV – A New Hope’ as the title, but the film itself was just called “Star Wars”.
Honestly, I always thought the same but it was a long long time ago so who knows.
I clearly remember going to see Empire at the cinema (with my gran) but the original Star Wars I've no idea. I'm pretty sure I'd seen Star Wars first by then but I don't recall how.
I said
"The version the story that I know is that F86 stalled whilst slowing down behind it!
You said
"The story you know is made up, the event is pretty well recorded"
But your source agreed with what I said
"The commander of the 319th perished when he fell below his Starfire’s stall speed of 110 miles per hour while attempting to slow down enough to fall in behind a Po-2—a circumstance some consider the only biplane-on-jet “maneuver kill” in history."
You then said
"An airplane slowing down and falling out of the sky isn’t really being shot down by your enemy. P51s and F86s being bombed to destruction on a run way pretty much is being destroyed by your enemy. Biplanes being involved in a war in the 1950’s is impressive, bombing an airfield and getting away with it is more impressive still. You don’t need to make up stuff to make it sound even more impressive"
You have now twice accused me of making things up.
Where did I say "Shot down"?
Why did you say they story about the stall is made up when you clearly accept it as true?
The term "junkie" originated from the 1920's when heroin addicts would sell scrap metal and other junk to pay for their habit.
Sorry if it's been done (I am not going to trawl through every page to check) but...
The world's largest manufacturer of tyres is Lego.
But the kilo with air in will be heavier. Check this short, fun experiment:
No it won’t. In that balloon experiment, there is more tension in the balloon that has been inflated more, so the pressure is higher and the air is more dense. If you do the same thing with two identical cylinders with plungers where one plunger is pulled out more to enclose more air at the same pressure, it would balance even if there’s more volume of air in it.
Air is neutrally buoyant at the same pressure as other air, because of course it is, it’s identical. So the air in the feathers affects the mass but not the weight.
Right then 🙂 the point of the fun experiment is to show that air has weight. Regardless of pressure/buoyancy or whatever the kilo of feathers has more air in it than does the kilo of gold, and so will weigh more (and have more mass fwiw).
If all the economists in the world were laid end-to-end they wouldn't reach a conclusion.
Definitely a fact, honestly...
the point of the fun experiment is to show that air has weight
Air at the same pressure and temperature as its surroundings does NOT have weight. But it does have mass.
Actually I've confused myself. It has no net weight, because the downward force from gravity is cancelled out by the pressure around it. But does that mean there is no weight, or just that it is cancelled out?
EDIT definitions suggest that weight is simply gravity, so yes it would have weight, however then the question is one of semantics because it might have weight (as a noun) but not weigh anything (as a verb). We say that astronauts in orbit are weightless even though they are still being acted on by gravity.
EDIT2 I think I am going to say that 'weight' is not a scientific term, because in all my physics education we simply said 'downward force due to gravity' instead.
Weight is gravity-dependent, mass is not.
People walking on the moon have less weight, their mass hasn't changed.
EDIT2 I think I am going to say that ‘weight’ is not a scientific term
There's going to be a lot of upset engineers. A good thing, obv 🙂
Sorry if it’s been done (I am not going to trawl through every page to check) but…
The world’s largest manufacturer of tyres is Lego.
The third or fourth time it's been posted, I think.
Does this make it THE most commonly known 'interesting fact'?
There’s going to be a lot of upset engineers.
Physicists do not care what engineers think 🙂
Patrick Moore believed that he was the only person to have met with Orville Wright, Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong – the first aviator, the first into space and the first on the moon.
That's fantastic. 😀
Wm. Shakespeare was the first person to be banned from a pub (several, actually, in and around Stratford upon Avon)
You’ve been misled by a joke.
He wasn’t banned, he was bard.
A majority of the hands you shake on a daily basis have had at some point a penis in them.
There are at least two sizes of infinity. The number of fractions (rational numbers) is provably smaller than the number of irrational numbers (decimals that can't be expressed as a fraction), but both are infinite.
