Questions you'd like answering, regardless of how trivial they may seem

[ClichéGuevara]

I still think its See It, Say it, Sort It...

See It, Say it, Sore tit.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Jacob Rees Mogg named his sixth child 'Sixtus', but the Roman name was 'Sextus'. Wikipedia says JRM attended Westminster School, Eton College and Oxford University, and that he regularly attends Latin mass. So did he make a mistake or was it deliberate?

 

[AndyRM]

Jacob Rees Mogg named his sixth child 'Sixtus', but the Roman name was 'Sextus'. Wikipedia says JRM attended Westminster School, Eton College and Oxford University, and that he regularly attends Latin mass. So did he make a mistake or was it deliberate?

It's a papal nod, rather than a Roman one.

Also, to be fair, quite funny.

 

[laurentian]

I've been away on holiday for a week or so and just catching up on a few posts so apologies for taking this back a few pages but, regarding the football/rugby refereeing differences . . .

I have played rugby all of my life. I'm 61 and, due to a broken ACL, last season was the first I've missed. I also love football (though have never really played it)

Prior to kick off in every rugby match I have played, the referee will have a "chat" with the team. This used to take place in the dressing rooms but, with ever more intense warm up periods, this now tends to happen on the pitch shortly before kick off.

The referee will explain how he wants / expects scrums, lineouts etc to be conducted, his/her interpretation of the offside laws, when he/she considers the ball to be out of a ruck and so on. More often that not, this is accompanied by "I'm the ref, my decision is final and don't give me any lip or you'll be marched 10 yds, decision reversed or carded" or words to that effect.

It seems that a pre-match talk by a football referee in top flight games would be very effective in removing dissent from the game ( I say "top flight" as I believe that the results would percolate down the pyramid to Sunday/kids league - dissent at this level being a parroting of what is seen on TV).

The referee should address each team WITH THE MANAGER and any other coaches in the dressing room to say something like "my decision is final - should a player abuse me, shout or question the decision, they will get a yellow card. If the yellow card results in more dissent I will issue another one either to the previously booked player meaning he will be sent off or to a team mate or manager that dissents. Is that clear to everyone including you Mr (insert name of Premier League manager)? Good, lets go". It would take 1 minute tops.

There is no reasonable argument from the team against the ref issuing a card if they have all been party to this pre-match meeting and I would imagine the number of cases of dissent would fall dramatically within a short time.

 

[katiewlx]

But is it 6 101 6
or 610 16 ?

blame Julie Berry for that,as Id never even realised theyd tried to pick a number that was just the national non-emergency number (101) between two 6s. someone even told me they picked 6s because it was the phone number for the train, so it went clickety click like the train on the tracks.

and instead they let her record it as 610 16

 

[VinSumRox]

Why do so many players in the football world Cup wear their socks up over their knees?

 

[AndyRM]

Why do so many players in the football world Cup wear their socks up over their knees?

Henry was the first player I remember doing it back in the day, so naturally everyone was doing it at our kickabouts, with some flimsy justification.

Same reason for folding up your collar like Cantona.

 

[raleighnut]

George the 3rd, I think.
Isn't Charles the 3rd the present King?

Err yep you're right....................whoops.

 

[Jameshow]

Why do so many players in the football world Cup wear their socks up over their knees?

Aerodynamics obviously, it's such a tiring sport !🤣🤣

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

someone even told me they picked 6s because it was the phone number for the train, so it went clickety click like the train on the tracks.

Wait... Trains have phone numbers?

*Phone rings and then answers*

"Hello 150134, how are you doing?"

*Sprinter noises start being heard on the phone*.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Can we phone up a poor lonely train in a siding and cheer it up? 🤔

 

[VinSumRox]

Jacob Rees Mogg named his sixth child 'Sixtus', but the Roman name was 'Sextus'. Wikipedia says JRM attended Westminster School, Eton College and Oxford University, and that he regularly attends Latin mass. So did he make a mistake or was it deliberate?

Imagine being named either of those and not attending a posh fee paying school, you would have to toughen up! 😃

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Imagine being named either of those and not attending a posh fee paying school, you would have to toughen up! 😃

Sixtus Fistus.

 

[Yellow Fang]

You know those archaeology programmes on the telly, where they go to a field, dig two metres down and find an Iron Age settlement. Why did they have to dig 2 metres down? Is that because 2000 years of leaf fall has decayed into soil and covered it all up? In that case, why isn't the top soil several miles deep? I reckon the Biblical estimate of the Earth only being about 6000 years old might be true after all.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You know those archaeology programmes on the telly, where they go to a field, dig two metres down and find an Iron Age settlement. Why did they have to dig 2 metres down? Is that because 2000 years of leaf fall has decayed into soil and covered it all up? In that case, why isn't the top soil several miles deep? I reckon the Biblical estimate of the Earth only being about 6000 years old might be true after all.

On typical Iron Age sites only the sub-soil features survive, and the finds recovered all come from the soils and deposits that fill the foundation holes, gullies and ditches excavated.

In other words what you are finding is the buried foundations. They were buried to start with. Everything else originally above ground has not survived. In part because materials get reused.