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

[Dogtrousers]

You think that's a shock - I just found out Eva Green IS French! :O

Wasn't she married to ...

Oh no, that was Braun. I get them mixed up. Colour blind, you see.

 

[Chris S]

One of my local roads has had bollards placed across it to help create a LTN. It's now more dangerous in icy weather, gritter lorries can't get down it anymore.

 

[Chris S]

Greenland is about a quarter of the size of Australia. It just looks bigger on a map because of the way that the earth's spherical surface is projected on to a flat page.

 

[Fastpedaller]

Greenland is about a quarter of the size of Australia. It just looks bigger on a map because of the way that the earth's spherical surface is projected on to a flat page.

But aren't they both depicted in the same way on maps?

 

[Chris S]

But aren't they both depicted in the same way on maps?

Size is distorted exponentially as you get further from the equator. Australia is nearer to it than Greenland.

 

[Chris S]

Traditional Doctor Marten's shoes only had three pairs of eyelets. I wore them constantly for about 20 years.

 

[albion]

Production of the , in the news, TS Verge Superbike with Donut wheel and as of 2026, an 'in production' 400Wh/kg Solid State battery was likely enabled by a massive UK industrial grant.
To be learned, John DeLorean is a secret advisor?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Traditional Doctor Marten's shoes only had three pairs of eyelets. I wore them constantly for about 20 years.

Why did you stop?

I'm curious because they were my only shoes for 30 or so years and then, around 2005-2010 or thereabouts I stopped and swapped to walking shoes, or trainers and I'm not quite sure why.

I think it was because I got sick of carrying trainers round and swapped to black trainers that were smart enough for work (and dress codes at work were rapidly disappearing or had disappeared at the time) and also I could wear them in the gym. Also the last pair of docs that I had didn't feel the same and I didn't like them.

 

[albion]

Granted? I fully missed this invention. Donut anyone ?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilgJKjiDLV8

 

[Chris S]

Traditional Doctor Marten's shoes only had three pairs of eyelets. I wore them constantly for about 20 years.

Why did you stop?

The soles kept splitting. They were also getting rather pricey just as cheap, decent quality chainstore shoes were becoming widley available.

 

[Moon bunny]

Random is not the name of a town in France. When someone says they picked something at random, they do not mean they went to a specific location to choose it.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Random is not the name of a town in France.

You are quite correct.

It is the name of an island off the Atlantic coast of Canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_Island

 

[raleighnut]

Granted? I fully missed this invention. Donut anyone ?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilgJKjiDLV8

One step closer to 'Skynet'