Things I learned today (Part 1)

[Il_Bomber_Destro]

[QUOTE=“Colin Montgomerie, post: 1063041, member: 9”]Yes, it was a couple of days ago.

Boxing Day.

Boxing Day.

Boxing Day.[/QUOTE]

Good one, Britaindage.

[Bandage]

@Il Bomber Destro

Good one, Britaindage.

Thank you, Sir.

[Keith_Houchen]

@TheUlteriorMotive

while in space a person will grow two inches and eyesight deteriorates by about 20 per cent - the latter is permanent and the former is temporary.

The Ulterior Motive read the Sunday Times Magazine today.

[carryharry]

@Il Bomber Destro

Good one, Britaindage.

http://new4.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/3887958+_984123c35d70d2ce07ac6ed41aeb85f1.jpg

[TheUlteriorMotive]

@Keith Houchen

The Ulterior Motive read the Sunday Times Magazine today.

I did. Interesting aer tickle.

Piece about Liverpool FC academy players in sports section was also good.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Colin Montgomerie

+1. I recorded the Boxing Day edition of MoTD and was watching it this morning. The commentator Jonathan Pearce made the reference during the West Brom-Manchester City commentary and I said to myself, “That was something new I learnt today”.

My circumstances were precisely the same except I was watching the St Stephens Day edition.

[Fagan_ODowd]

TK Whitaker, the renowned Irish Civil Servant joined the Civil Service at the lowest entry grade for a male - Clerical Officer and remains the only person to have entered the Service at that grade to rise all the way to Secretary General.

[glasagusban]

@Fagan ODowd

TK Whitaker, the renowned Irish Civil Servant joined the Civil Service at the lowest entry grade for a male - Clerical Officer and remains the only person to have entered the Service at that grade to rise all the way to Secretary General.

Did he go in after the inter cert or what Fagan?

[Fagan_ODowd]

@glasagusban

Did he go in after the inter cert or what Fagan?

Leaving cert. he wanted to do medicine but the parents couldn’t afford it.

[glasagusban]

@Fagan ODowd

Leaving cert. he wanted to do medicine but the parents couldn’t afford it.

Wouldn’t happen nowadays. In fact, probably unlikely to see anyone coming in at any entry level grade reaching that far in the future. Did you read that from his biography? Good?

[Fagan_ODowd]

@glasagusban

Wouldn’t happen nowadays. In fact, probably unlikely to see anyone coming in at any entry level grade reaching that far in the future. Did you read that from his biography? Good?

I did glas. It’s a touch hagiographic but a good read all the same.

[glasagusban]

@Fagan ODowd

I did glas. It’s a touch hagiographic but a good read all the same.

I had to look up hagiographic, excellent word Fagan.

[myboyblue]

Frank Leboeuf has a role in Stephen Hawking biopic, The Theory of Everything.

[Fagan_ODowd]

Ken Bates set up Irish Trust Bank which collapsed in scandalous fashion in 1976. The Irish taxpayer picked up the tab.

[Distended_Red_Anus]

@Fagan ODowd

Ken Bates set up Irish Trust Bank which collapsed in scandalous fashion in 1976. The Irish taxpayer picked up the tab.

I remember reading that a while back.
Jesus, the cunt has some history.

[Declan_Moffat]

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You should read this. Bates was some corrupt fucker. It’s actually a very good book.

[Rocko]

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You should read this. Bates was some corrupt fucker. It’s actually a very good book.[/QUOTE]
Looks like you’ve bent your thumb at an uncomfortably acute angle for that grip - signs of pressure on the thumbnail and the taut skin around the knuckle. Why not just let the thumb lie flat along the bottom of the book without the strain of that bend? Were you afraid of obscuring the “Now Updated” tagline?

[Declan_Moffat]

@Rocko

Looks like you’ve bent your thumb at an uncomfortably acute angle for that grip - signs of pressure on the thumbnail and the taut skin around the knuckle. Why not just let the thumb lie flat along the bottom of the book without the strain of that bend? Were you afraid of obscuring the “Now Updated” tagline?

I was Rocko. I wanted to make sure that the full cover was seen. There was no strain put on my thumb but thanks for pointing it out.

[TreatyStones]

@glasagusban

I had to look up hagiographic, excellent word Fagan.

I’d never heard of that word in my life and less than two minutes later I read it in an amazon review.

[Declan_Moffat]

That the average family in the UK spend £2650 on takeaways and ready meals a year.

I wonder what the Irish equivalent is.