Things I learned today (Part 1)

Things
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Keith Gillespie is weird even for a nordy.

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Gianluca Zambrotta has a gaff somewhere near Dublin and wouldn’t mind playing for a LOI side.

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The average speed on the record lap of the Isle of Man TT is 130.354 miles per hour.

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The FAI were invited by FIFA to send a team to Brazil for the 1950 World Cup but declined as they couldn’t get enough players together, what with holidays and so on.

Money wasn’t the issue because at that time the FAI was a very profitable organisation.

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[QUOTE=“Fagan ODowd, post: 963644, member: 706”]The FAI were invited by FIFA to send a team to Brazil for the 1950 World Cup but declined as they couldn’t get enough players together, what with holidays and so on.

Money wasn’t the issue because at that time the FAI was a very profitable organisation.[/QUOTE]
They still are though, no? They would have to be considering they pay their Chief Executive €430k per year?

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Since When do you have to be well off in Ireland to pay directors over the top wages.
Get with the program FFS.

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[QUOTE=“caoimhaoin, post: 963764, member: 273”]Since When do you have to be well off in Ireland to pay directors over the top wages.
Get with the program FFS.[/QUOTE]

I don’t think @Horsebox was being entirely serious…?

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Correct as always, my friend.

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We’re on the same wavelength, my man.

And, most importantly, it’s a different wavelength to Kev.
Yay!

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If you have 23 people in a room there is a 50% chance that two of them will share the same birthday

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Where did you get that from?

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@Peter G is this not correct any more?

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John McGuniuss or however you spell his surname 133.// mph. This is a 4 or 5 year old record flaty.

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The internet, they then applied that theory to the world cup panels (as there is 23 players per panel) and would you believe that of the 32 teams, 16 of them contained players sharing the same birthday.

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You missed my sarcasm so ya? It was a comment as opposed to a response.

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Does anybody on your panel share a birthday?

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Were they mostly Geminis, because of the twins thing?

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Did you see “closer to the edge”? Great documentary, but they are all fucking loons. Proper loons.

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But let’s work out the probability that everyone in that group of 23 has a unique birthday.

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[]For person 1, the chances are 100% because every date is clear. For person two, there’s one day they would share with person 1, but the other 364 are clear, so their chance of a unique birthday is 364/365. For person 3 it’s 363/365, and so on through to person 23, whose probability of having a unique birthday is 343/365.
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[]To find the probability of everyone in the group having unique birthdays, we multiply all those 23 probabilities together, and if we do we end up with a probability of 0.491.
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[*]The probability that a birthday is shared is therefore 1 - 0.491, which comes to 0.509, or 50.9%.
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I watched a very good one recently on Guy Martin. A noble headcase and endlessly likeable fellow. He has yet to win a tt race. Unbelievable isn’t it.

I may have seen that movie you’re on about flaty but I can’t recall at the minute.