Things I learned today (Part 1)

You’d want your head examined not to have your own butcher slaughtering your own bayshts in this day and age.

The fourth funnel (big massive chimney) on Titanic was fake. White Star Line put it there to make it appear as fast as Cunard Line’s ships, including the Lusitania

I knew that

Like @Thomas_Brady souped up 205

Read a little bit up on Sabbatean Frankism today.

Crazy stuff going back to the 1600’s. People are mental.

Is it a bit like the Orange Order?

I havent a clue mate, just an interesting story all the same.

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Must have a read of it

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Never knew this about the white horse.

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Its crazy stuff.

Think it’s supposed to be King Billy’s horse. Would have been on houses too.

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And the Celtic crowd in Scotland hounded him out of his job

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Did Lenin and Joyce pal around a bit in Zurich before he went back to Russia?

I haven’t a clue

What’s that white statue of a woman sitting up you see in a lot of salt of the earth Dublin houses?

Child of Prague?

Certainly not

My nextdoor neighbours have one of the white statues. They are very salt of the earth. A lovely old couple.

Go in and ask them

The lady on the rock

A popular cultural artefact from pre Celtic Tiger Dubahlin