Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[laurentian]

Just realised that you can use the reverse of a chain checker to hold the ends of a chain when you refit a speed link, didn't need the bit of bent coat hanger I usually use 🙄

My life has just changed . . . thanks

 

[ColinJ]

I woke up in the middle of the night and was a bit freaked out to see a small creepy face peering at me out of the gloom. It turned out to be a woman's face on a Canadian 10 dollar banknote left lying around by my sister after she returned from a recent holiday.

The reason that the face looked creepy was a crease in the note. It looked something like this...

Once uncreased, this is what the note looked like...

I was curious. I had never heard of Viola Desmond and was therefore unaware of her political and social importance in the history of Canada. I did a search and discovered that she had been prosecuted for sitting in 'Whites Only' seating in a Canadian cinema. See the Wikipedia article on her HERE.

I didn't know that Canada had segregation laws like those of the USA at the time.

 

[ColinJ]

Ah, I just read more of the Wikipedia article - There wasn't officially a segregation law, 'they' just didn't want black people in 'their' part of the cinema... The authorities prosecuted her instead for tax evasion because she hadn't paid 1 cent extra tax on the difference in price between the 2 parts of the cinema!

 

[albion]

Seems that the Messia Foundation predicted a world ending asteroid collision this year.
Their prior name 'Rags International' might be more known.

It seems a triply busy world end period, 2026.

 

[albion]

Things just reminded me of 'The Kipper and the Corpse' Fawlty Towers episode.
I wonder if Cleese also see the parallels over there in his US home regarding a corpse.

Much today is 'shroud_ed' in mystery.

 

[presta]

Peltzman Effect is yet another name for Risk Compensation/Risk Homeostasis/Moral Hazard.