Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 5]
Discussion
How long will English football continue with The Knee ?
They can't slowly drop it, that would look bad, but on the other hand, they can't do it forever, can they ?
They seem to have foolishly committed themselves wholeheartedly to this gesture
with no agreed face-saving armistice or cancellation.
They can't slowly drop it, that would look bad, but on the other hand, they can't do it forever, can they ?
They seem to have foolishly committed themselves wholeheartedly to this gesture
with no agreed face-saving armistice or cancellation.
coppernorks said:
How long will English football continue with The Knee ?
They can't slowly drop it, that would look bad, but on the other hand, they can't do it forever, can they ?
They seem to have foolishly committed themselves wholeheartedly to this gesture
with no agreed face-saving armistice or cancellation.
I didn't know they were still doing it.They can't slowly drop it, that would look bad, but on the other hand, they can't do it forever, can they ?
They seem to have foolishly committed themselves wholeheartedly to this gesture
with no agreed face-saving armistice or cancellation.
Do they all do it?
steveo3002 said:
at what point in history was some sort of instant fire maker available ...you know no longer had to rub sticks etc
Interesting question, so I have Googled briefly and here are my findings:Iron Age (roughly 1500BC) onwards, people were using a flint/steel type of arrangement to make fires (as well as non instant techniques)
Matches were invented in China c. 900AD, Western world invented them at the start of the 19th century.
Pre 19th century people would want to keep a fire burning constantly, e.g. in a house, because it was not so simple to start one.
steveo3002 said:
at what point in history was some sort of instant fire maker available ...you know no longer had to rub sticks etc
Really the invention of the match.Prior to that you had fire steels, which were really good at giving off sparks if you hit them in the right way with flint or something equally hard. They'd be shaped for this purpose and we used them from (at least) Roman times until matches. Still do use them in some camping contexts!
Plus the more Ray Mears-esque bow drills, wood ploughs etc.
Or you just kept a fire burning all day and transferred it around!
HTP99 said:
Why is a nautical mile different to a mile that one would do on a road?
Why is speed on water referred to as "knots" as opposed to MPH or KPH and what relation is a knot to a nautical mile?
The road mile evolved from the Roman mile which was supposed to be a thousand paces. A nautical mile is one minute of latitude so convenient for navigation. Pity really, it would be simpler to use nautical miles on land as well.Why is speed on water referred to as "knots" as opposed to MPH or KPH and what relation is a knot to a nautical mile?
StevieBee said:
I think that speed was determined by tying knots at equal distances along a length of rope tethered to a static object and count the number of knots that passed through a marker in a given time.
In Nelson's time, the log consisted of a long thin cord with knots at regular internals. This had a triangular board attached. The board would be thrown overboard and a rating would let the cord run out through his fingers, counting the knots during the period a sandglass measured the time. The rating would then tug a second cord, which pulled out a peg, allowing the log board to drop to the horizontal and lose most its drag in the water.
This activity was called 'casting the log'.
Frank7 said:
What, if anything, did Bobby Gentry and Billy-Joe McAllister throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge?
Why did Billy-Joe jump off the same bridge?
It's a conundrum, Frank. There have been many theories in the last 50 years, and Bobbie Gentry wasn't spilling the beans over what happened. Billie-Joe did jump off the bridge and was an apparent suicide, but for what reason - there have been many put forward - is not clear.Why did Billy-Joe jump off the same bridge?
Also many suggestions offered for what was thrown from the bridge.
So I guess it remains a mystery .
nonsequitur said:
t's a conundrum, Frank. There have been many theories in the last 50 years, and Bobbie Gentry wasn't spilling the beans over what happened. Billie-Joe did jump off the bridge and was an apparent suicide, but for what reason - there have been many put forward - is not clear.
Also many suggestions offered for what was thrown from the bridge.
So I guess it remains a mystery .
The miscarried baby of the incestuous coupling of Bobbie and Billy-Joe.Also many suggestions offered for what was thrown from the bridge.
So I guess it remains a mystery .
It's all in the lyrics, no mystery.
glazbagun said:
steveo3002 said:
at what point in history was some sort of instant fire maker available ...you know no longer had to rub sticks etc
Really the invention of the match.Prior to that you had fire steels, which were really good at giving off sparks if you hit them in the right way with flint or something equally hard. They'd be shaped for this purpose and we used them from (at least) Roman times until matches. Still do use them in some camping contexts!
Plus the more Ray Mears-esque bow drills, wood ploughs etc.
Or you just kept a fire burning all day and transferred it around!
coppernorks said:
The miscarried baby of the incestuous coupling of Bobbie and Billy-Joe.
It's all in the lyrics, no mystery.
I beg to disagree coppernorks, I Googled the complete lyrics to “Ode to Billy-Joe”, and there’s no mention of a miscarried baby, nor of an incestuous relationship between the girl narrating the song, and Billy-Joe, Bobby Gentry said in an interview, that the girl and Billy-Joe were “connected.”It's all in the lyrics, no mystery.
According to Wiki, Billy and the girl were both white, and that Billy jumped after a drunken homosexual encounter.
Bobby Gentry explained that the song was inspired by the 1954 murder of Emmet Till, a 14 y.o. black kid who was shot and thrown over the Black Bayou Bridge in Mississippi, for allegedly offending a white woman in a grocery store.
She went on to say that she was constantly asked what was thrown off the bridge, and suggestions had ranged from drugs, flowers, a baby, a draft card, to an engagement ring, but she said that the real message of the song revolves around the nonchalant way that the family talks about the suicide
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