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

[FishFright]

Remembrance Day wasn't invented in the UK. It wasn't even invented by a government. The first ever remembrance ceremony was organised by the general public in South Africa, and it spread around the world from there. (According to the commentator on Sky News this morning.)

And was previously called Armistice Day.

 

[Raging_Pixie]

And was previously called Armistice Day.

Still is isn't it? The invite I got to the work ceremony was Armistice Day Service

 

[FishFright]

Still is isn't it? The invite I got to the work ceremony was Armistice Day Service

I remember that the Sunday was Remembrance day and the 11th of the 11th etc was Armistice Day. So shrug.

 

[Dave7]

The American word dime equaling 10 cents or 1/10th of a dollar comes from..........

Latin roots. Decima meaning10th part.
It also has French influence.....disme (modern French, dime) meaning the church tithe of 10%.

 

[DRM]

I think it's Armistice Day as WW1 ended by Germany giving up, hence signing the Armistice, and surrendering in France, WW2 they were defeated with Germany being occupied until reunification in 1991

 

[Jameshow]

Earlier I found out:
a) Why single use quick links are single use, and
b) that you don't need to wipe down your chain after it rains if said chain is is in your pocket.

And the look pedals are a pain to walk in!

Don't be smug and say you were wearing flats!

 

[Webbo2]

And the look pedals are a pain to walk in!

Don't be smug and say you were wearing flats!

 

[Webbo2]

And the look pedals are a pain to walk in!

Don't be smug and say you were wearing flats!

I’d be impressed if he was walking in his pedals. Just to be pedantic 🫣

 

[Dogtrousers]

The American word dime equaling 10 cents or 1/10th of a dollar comes from..........

Latin roots. Decima meaning10th part.
It also has French influence.....disme (modern French, dime) meaning the church tithe of 10%.

And "dime" isn't a nickname for a 10¢ coin, like "nickel" is for a 5¢ coin.

Dimes actually have "one dime" written on them, not 10¢.

Dime is officially a subunit of the dollar, like a shilling was of the pound. But because the currency is decimal no one would ever say "3 dimes and 6 cents", (like we would have said "3 shillings and sixpence ") they'd just say 36 cents.

So dime effectively just became the name of the 10¢ coin.

Nickels have "five cents" on them. Nickels are so called because they replaced an equal valued silver half dime, which was also worth 5¢

 

[figbat]

It also has French influence.....disme (modern French, dime) meaning the church tithe of 10%.

Strictly in modern French it is «dîme». The circumflex in French indicates that the vowel was followed by an ‘s’ in old French. When you know this, some English words make more sense (eg fête = feast, hôtel = hostel etc).

 

[Raging_Pixie]

I’d be impressed if he was walking in his pedals. Just to be pedantic 🫣

I was going to say I'd have unclipped from the pedals before walking

 

[Aravis]

You beat me to it. That was drilled into us by our maths teacher about 60 years ago!

(Before calculators or computers were available to school kids, so we were doing the calculations ourselves and therefore needed to know this rule. We used slide rules and books of log tables to help us with calculations that did not need to produce precise answers.)

Yesterday I was watching a film called Moonfall. I struggled to follow it, but it did remind me that one thing I've never learned to use is a slide rule. I think they were dropped from the syllabus in my O Level year.

A trip to eBay, put a few on watch, and wait for the offers to come in. It's on its way!