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Purple & Green

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What seemingly obvious fact did you learn after anyone else or today specifically

Well this one from yesterday, was actually Bowie related but

Gloria Jones (Tainted Love) had a son with, and was in a relationship with Marc Bolan when he died.

I’ve no idea how that one passed me by
 
Yesterday I learned that guide dugs ken the difference between mens and ladies lavvies.
Was up the eye pavilion yesterday and there was a blind lassie in there. She got up and went towards the lavvies and the dug led her past the gents and intae the ladies one.
 
My eyebrow raising moment of the week is learning that a sperm shaped bead of glass can withstand 20 tonnes of pressure and mangle a hydraulic press or obliterate a bullet at its bulbous end, while shattering into dust if you tap it's 'tail'.

Physics mentalism thread if anyone is curious.
 
Purple & Green said:
Purple & Green said:
What seemingly obvious fact did you learn after anyone else or today specifically

Well this one from yesterday, was actually Bowie related but

Gloria Jones (Tainted Love) had a son with, and was in a relationship with Marc Bolan when he died.

I’ve no idea how that one passed me by
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What seemingly obvious fact did you learn after anyone else or today specifically

Well this one from yesterday, was actually Bowie related but

Gloria Jones (Tainted Love) had a son with, and was in a relationship with Marc Bolan when he died.

I’ve no idea how that one passed me by
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I believe she was driving the car he crashed in
 
egb_hibs said:
My eyebrow raising moment of the week is learning that a sperm shaped bead of glass can withstand 20 tonnes of pressure and mangle a hydraulic press or obliterate a bullet at its bulbous end, while shattering into dust if you tap it's 'tail'.

Physics mentalism thread if anyone is curious.
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I learned today that the bead of glass you mention is known as a Prince Rupert's drop or Dutch Tear.
 
The original meaning of "anxious" in old Greek and even Proto Indo-European (supposed forerunner of nearly all European languages) was 'tight', or literally 'choking'.

Makes sense I guess.
 
hibbybilly said:
Yesterday I learned that guide dugs ken the difference between mens and ladies lavvies.
Was up the eye pavilion yesterday and there was a blind lassie in there. She got up and went towards the lavvies and the dug led her past the gents and intae the ladies one.
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Obviously a lady dug, probably called lassie 🤷‍♂👍
 
HaarlemShuffler said:
The original meaning of "anxious" in old Greek and even Proto Indo-European (supposed forerunner of nearly all European languages) was 'tight', or literally 'choking'.

Makes sense I guess.
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I didn't learn this today, but on a similar vein one I use frequently at work

The word priority came into the English language in the 1400’s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next 500 years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities.

That is, don't ask me to have two priorities, just tell me what the first and second most important things are.
 
Purple & Green said:
I didn't learn this today, but on a similar vein one I use frequently at work

The word priority came into the English language in the 1400’s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next 500 years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities.

That is, don't ask me to have two priorities, just tell me what the first and second most important things are.
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You can’t have two priorities
 
joethehibby said:
You can’t have two priorities
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You certainly can. True, the word priority originally meant what would nowadays be 'top priority' and it's meaning has evolved.

But words are just labels and it's absolutely the case that people don't go around thinking one thing is their key focus and everything else indistinguishable in importance / lack of importance.

We could have invented a new word to capture the ranking process priorities in the plural now encompasses, instead the word priority evolved. But a rose by any other name...
 
egb_hibs said:
You certainly can. True, the word priority originally meant what would nowadays be 'top priority' and it's meaning has evolved.

But words are just labels and it's absolutely the case that people don't go around thinking one thing is their key focus and everything else indistinguishable in importance / lack of importance.

We could have invented a new word to capture the ranking process priorities in the plural now encompasses, instead the word priority evolved. But a rose by any other name...
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I’ll need to ask @HaarlemShuffler, it’s all double dutch to me 😩
 
Bossie said:
I know a guy whose given name is an anagram of his family surname.
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Graham Maharg?

Reads the same backwards and forwards too.

The story I heard about the surname Maharg was they were all originally from the Graham family from the southern parts of Scotland. Sheep stealers the lot of them! Frequent raids into northern England saw every Graham with a price on their head. So to confuse the English when they were out on the chorey they said 'Me a Graham, nah theyre thieving bastards my name is Maharg!'.

Also MacHarg, McHarg.


Sheep stealing bastards 😤 😆
 
Jack said:
Graham Maharg?

Reads the same backwards and forwards too.

The story I heard about the surname Maharg was they were all originally from the Graham family from the southern parts of Scotland. Sheep stealers the lot of them! Frequent raids into northern England saw every Graham with a price on their head. So to confuse the English when they were out on the chorey they said 'Me a Graham, nah theyre thieving bastards my name is Maharg!'.

Also MacHarg, McHarg.


Sheep stealing bastards 😤 😆
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My wee brother Graham's email was maharg1964@something.com
 
Jack said:
Graham Maharg?

Reads the same backwards and forwards too.

The story I heard about the surname Maharg was they were all originally from the Graham family from the southern parts of Scotland. Sheep stealers the lot of them! Frequent raids into northern England saw every Graham with a price on their head. So to confuse the English when they were out on the chorey they said 'Me a Graham, nah theyre thieving bastards my name is Maharg!'.

Also MacHarg, McHarg.


Sheep stealing bastards 😤 😆
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Where did you rustle that up from ?
 
Leaving THE cup final, me and my lad were in the South, my sis and BIL were in the North. Walking out😎after spending an eternity in the ground with everyone else we just walked straight into each other! It was just one of the days! It seemed more than coincidence
Then some random Celtic fan gave us a lift out of the blue to our hotel in East Kilbride! ( we had booked it ages before the final to see the Manics in Glasgow).
What a day/night
 
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