Things I learned today (Part 2)

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So I reckon we have another American murderer in Munster this evening

That will leave us with 03 white American killers on this island in the past year.

  1. Killed his father in Laois
  2. Chopped a farmer up in Kerry
  3. Killed an old lady in Waterford?

The Africans will need to up their game if they want to compete with these pros

That couldn’t be true. There was very few black immigrants with machetes in Ireland in 1994.

It was obviously the basketball players, have Terry Strickland and Kelvin Troy accounted for all their movements

Deora Marsh may have been a serial killer.

I had to look that up.

27 murders for 1994
40 murders for 2025.
As per CSO figures.

That’s a murder rate of 0.7 per 100,000 for both years. So they’re pretty much the same. Given the increase in population, I’m a little surprised at that.

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I will watch the shit out of this and I never watch anything except matches and the Today Show and the 6.1

It’s a thing you learned today. I was surprised by it too. It’s a perfect example of how we’ve been fed a narrative that everything is awful today and was great in the past as that suits a certain agenda

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Apparently on Earth, phosphine is mostly found in places like swamps, sewage, and animal guts — basically anywhere microbes are active (including penguin droppings). [spacecentre.co.uk], [space.scie…earray.com]

The wild bit is that scientists also detected phosphine in the clouds of Venus. And here’s why that’s a big deal:
On Earth, the only processes that produce large amounts of phosphine are biological — non‑living chemistry tends to make much smaller amounts. [ras.ac.uk]

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So it’s only made biologically, but also chemically? What sort of drivel are you scaring the children with now?

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I was asked in WWTBAM pub quiz once, on which planet is the highest proportion of methane found. I think the answers were Earth, Mars, Mercury or Neptune?

So there’s me thinking methane is derived from pig shit so Earth must be the answer. But seemingly there a shit load of methane on Neptune. So I was out.

Gives a whole new meaning to ‘Pigs in Space’……

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Turkey has undergone a rebrand and is not known internationally as Türkiye.

Smarties were invented because of and during the Spanish Civil War.

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Oh yes it is.

In the spirit of Stephen Alkin, they want to be known as Türkiye but we’ll call them Turkey.

Roberto Carlos and R9 lived together for a good number of years and wager they’ve slept in the same room more than with their wives between that and international duty

Head to head not goal difference is the primary tiebreaker in the World Cup. That means dark Turkeys Turkey are officially OUT.

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Collina left the 2002 World Cup final run long because he was waiting for a play where the ball was close to him so he could pick up the ball and keep it for himself

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Rome gets more rain than London

Cymru the same, in relation to football. Thanks to a Carkie.