Things I learned today (Part 1)

The altar in Oola faces south west, ditto the one in Templebraden. St Michaelā€™s in Tipp Town seems west facing. The altar in Knicker does point east though

Cathedral in Waterford - west. St Patrickā€™s - North. St Johnā€™s North West. Ballybricken North. Holy Family East. St Paulā€™s North. The Folly South. St Joseph and Benildus South.

Iā€™ve been mugged off by the Catholic Church.

Mugged off good and proper. Does the holy see post here? They came up with a brand new phrase ā€œliturgical eastā€ to avoid having to build churches oriented according to their scripture when it didnā€™t suit.

Heathens

The next time I bump in to Eddie Iā€™ll have a very interesting conversation about rigour

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Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 67 goals in 79 matches for Juventus, including 31 last season.

At 35.

Ridiculous.

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im sure thereā€™s a logical explanation

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He takes the penalties for a team who buy the refs?

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Pity for him the rest of the team is gone to shite

thatā€™s a lovely little dig at art going to the trouble of individually bold typing letters :+1:

Yea, burials are always easy fading the rising sun.

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East orientation means the altar is at the eastern end of the church. Plenty examples where it does not.

Dec Ng east for a grave means the grave dug east-west with the foot of the coffin at the eastern end.

Some bunch of heathens

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Cristiano Ronaldo - Penalty goals | Transfermarkt

They have made a few strange loan signings. Chiesa from Fiorentina and an American guy from Schalke. I presume there are financial reasons why they are not buying them outright - in particular Chiesa.

Ah lad.

Omfg :scream:

So I was in specsavers today. Hadnā€™t had an eye test in about three years. Anyways they now have some new fandango of a test that more or less takes a picture of all the shit that goes on at the back of the eyes.
After it she says to me that there was a few bits and pieces that were showing up thinner then normal. Then she asked me if I had had chemo recently. Told her the score and she was able to trace it back to that.

Scary shit

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The modern game of polo was first played in Silchar in India in early 19th century.

Michael Palin visit the Shandur Pass Polo Festival in his Himalaya series, I always thought it looked like a right good sesh.

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VW Polos?

M&Ms were created by Mars in 1941 as a way of allowing American soldiers in WWII carry a chocolate snack that wouldnā€™t melt. The product was first sold exclusively to the US Army for the duration of the war.

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I listened to a business wars podcast recently about Mars and Hersheyā€™s, apparently the guy who came up with m and mā€™s was frank mars troublesome son who went to Europe during the 1930ā€™s to start his own candy empire and whilst in England he came across a sweet maker called roundtree who made smarties so he basically copied their concept

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