Topic: Gulleysucker's 'well I never knew that' thread

[Crosby Nick]

if you stretch out your arms and measure that length from fingertip to fingertip then that is usually equal to your height

Not if you’re Jordan Pickford.

[tubby]

The top row of letters on the WhatsApp keyboard can be held down to input the numbers above them.  Has that always been the case, I've literally only just noticed the little numbers.

[lfcred1976]

The top row of letters on the WhatsApp keyboard can be held down to input the numbers above them.  Has that always been the case, I've literally only just noticed the little numbers.

Is the WhatsApp keyboard different from the default iOS keyboard, as if I hold down any key on the top row it just capitalises it with no number visible?

Or are you running Android?

[tubby]

Oh shit you're right, it does it everywhere.  How have I never noticed this before.

[lfcred1976]

Oh shit you're right, it does it everywhere.  How have I never noticed this before.

Yeah was going to say the Android keyboard always has the numbers on the top row. One thing I miss on my iPhone from my Android days.

[liverbloke]

The top row of letters on the WhatsApp keyboard can be held down to input the numbers above them.  Has that always been the case, I've literally only just noticed the little numbers.

good tip that man 

google images was created after jennifer lopez wore a dress at the 2000 grammys - so many people were searching for it that the search engine added an image search

...and here's me thinking it was because of porn

[red_Mark1980]

good tip that man 

google images was created after jennifer lopez wore a dress at the 2000 grammys - so many people were searching for it that the search engine added an image search

...and here's me thinking it was because of porn

You say potato, I say potato

[Saltashscouse]

The architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott  who designed Liverpool Anglican Cathedral also designed the old red telephone box , he was also a Catholic and the  architect of Christ the King Metropolitan Cathedral Frederick Gibberd was a Protestant

[liverbloke]

The architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott  who designed Liverpool Anglican Cathedral also designed the old red telephone box , he was also a Catholic and the  architect of Christ the King Metropolitan Cathedral Frederick Gibberd was a Protestant

and he was also a part of the team on the iconic battersea power station (see below floyd fans) and did you know he also designed this church (st paul) in derby lane liverpool



https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4192549,-2.9155706,3a,75y,136.34h,99.29t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sMmaXuMn4j5trRkRsJv3GQw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DMmaXuMn4j5trRkRsJv3GQw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D157.60114%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

[AndyInVA]

Nothing compares to you made famous by Sinead O’Connor was written by Prince.

[BarryCrocker]

Nothing compares to you made famous by Sinead O’Connor was written by Prince.

As was Manic Monday by The Bangles.

[Nobby Reserve]

Nothing compares to you made famous by Sinead O’Connor was written by Prince.

And Purple Rain was written by Jimi Hendrix as a meteorologically-themed follow-up to one of his earlier hits?

[liverbloke]

at an average of 80 beats per minute your heart will beat 115,200 times a day

but after some of the recent results mine is double that 

[liverbloke]

the coolest man in music johnny cash once wrote and released a song about his brain being planted in a chicken's body and called it chicken in black

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/tBEK53Kgm7s" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/tBEK53Kgm7s</a>


...okay it was a ploy by cash to get his label to drop him

[AndyInVA]

As was Manic Monday by The Bangles.

did not know that

[bradders1011]

There's a fast food chain in Singapore called Heavenly Wang.

They knew what they were doing surely.

[Armand9]

at an average of 80 beats per minute your heart will beat 115,200 times a day

but after some of the recent results mine is double that 

while a Blue Whale on a dive has a heartrate of 4–8 beats per minute with a minimum of two beats per minute

[KillieRed]

The top row of letters on the WhatsApp keyboard can be held down to input the numbers above them.  Has that always been the case, I've literally only just noticed the little numbers.

Dunno if already posted here, but if you hold down the space key you can move your cursor anywhere in your message to save having to delete loads to fix a typo or other errors.

[Chakan]

Dunno if already posted here, but if you hold down the space key you can move your cursor anywhere in your message to save having to delete loads to fix a typo or other errors.

I think that only works on iPhones though. I think, not 100% sure.

[bradders1011]

Works on my Samsung, although I use Swiftkey keyboard.

[Barneylfc∗]

I've an Oppo. I can just tap anywhere on the message to move the cursor without having to hold down the space bar. No idea what keyboard I'm using though.

[liverbloke]

every minute of your life you shed between 30,000-40,000 dead skin cells - approx 4 kgs a year!

[liverbloke]

qatar's ruling that homosexuality is illegal in their country...

in 1966 when we won the world cup...

...homosexuality was illegal

[John C]

I think that only works on iPhones though. I think, not 100% sure.

Boss tip that though, any others?

[farawayred]

Boss tip that though, any others?

Shake your iPhone to "undo". That saved my ass more than once.

[John C]

On the November 26th 1977, viewers of a news bulletin on the ITV region Southern Television were interrupted by a distorted voice, claiming to be from an alien, with a message to viewers hoping that our planet gives up weapons so that we could “achieve a higher state of evolution.” The six minute message was an elaborate hoax. It not only scared some viewers, it also baffled television executives and technicians.

Podcast about it here
https://stak.london/shows/the-interruption/

[AndyInVA]

Chesney Hawkes singing 'I am the one and only' was the half time act during the England Wales game. FACT

WTF

[24/7]

Dunno if already posted here, but if you hold down the space key you can move your cursor anywhere in your message to save having to delete loads to fix a typo or other errors.

On the Huawei, you just tap anywhere in the already-written text and brings up a movable cursor, which also magnifies as you move it around, which is great for middleg aged farts like me with fat fingers and deteriorating eyesight.

You can also change keyboard to include an always-visible number row.

[24/7]

The architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott  who designed Liverpool Anglican Cathedral also designed the old red telephone box , he was also a Catholic and the  architect of Christ the King Metropolitan Cathedral Frederick Gibberd was a Protestant

Indeed - and in the Anglican Cathedral, the first part to be fully complete was St Mary's Chapel. If you visit the Cathedral, you can see a scale model of the originally intended design for the whole Cathedral - personally I prefer the one we ended up with. Oh and apparently it's the largest single enclosed space in the whole of Europe. Apparently. I've not fact-checked that though.

[Buck Pete]

Never realised until about 10 minutes ago that SCUBA (as in Scuba diving) was an acronym.

self-contained underwater breathing apparatus

[So… Howard Philips]

qatar's ruling that homosexuality is illegal in their country...

in 1966 when we won the world cup...

...homosexuality was illegal

And the death penalty was only abolished the year before the 1966 World Cup.

[Nobby Reserve]

Hitler invented the microphone

[Andy @ Allerton!]

Hitler invented the microphone

The first carbon-button microphone was patented by Emile Berliner in 1877. Hitler was born in 1889.

Although Emile is credited for inventing it, in an 1892 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court gave the credit to Thomas Edison, reports

Fucking Americans.

[Barneylfc∗]

Hitler invented the microphone

And highways.

[Stubbins]

qatar's ruling that homosexuality is illegal in their country...

in 1966 when we won the world cup...

...homosexuality was illegal

Homosexuality was decriminalised in Uruguay in 1934. Yes 1934. Enlightened Uruguay eh?

Uruguay has the longest national anthem in the world.

Don't think the two are linked in any way.

[rob1966]

There is an area in Alaska, goes from Anchorage in the west, up to what used to be called Barrow and down to Juneau, known as the Alaska Triangle or the Devils Graveyard. Since they started keeping records in 1988, over 16,000 people have disappeared in the area, twice the missing persons rate of the US and a huge amount are never found.

[Barneylfc∗]

A goal scored direct from a corner is called an 'Olympic Goal'

[rob1966]

A goal scored direct from a corner is called an 'Olympic Goal'

Any idea why? Never heard that expression before.

[Barneylfc∗]

Any idea why? Never heard that expression before.

Never heard it before today either. Some Argentine scored direct from a corner against Uruguay when they were Olympic champions back in the 20s.

https://olympics.com/en/news/what-is-an-olympic-goal

The Olympic goal is a rarity in football and, as such, whenever one is scored it occupies a special place in the hearts of the fans who witnessed it.

While scoring a goal from a corner set piece is a very common occurrence, scoring one directly from a corner is far less frequent.

As you can probably guess from the name, the term Olympic goal has a direct relationship with the Olympic Games.

In order to find out about the origins of the Olympic goal you need to head back to Paris 1924, the last Olympics to have taken place in the French capital. During those Games, which doubled as a World Cup, Uruguay were crowned Olympic champions in the men’s football tournament.

Just a month after their victory they lined up against Argentina in a double header of friendlies. The second match, which took place in Buenos Aires, is the one that changed the history of football.

In the 15th minute, Argentina’s Cesáreo Onzari took a corner kick that flew directly into the Uruguayan net without anyone else touching it. It was the first goal of its type to be recorded in history.

At the time, the goal was named 'Onzari's goal against the Olympians', but eventually, this name was shortened to just 'Olympic goal'.

“As a tribute, or ironically, that rare thing was called the ‘Olympic goal’. And it still maintains that name on the few occasions it happens. Onzari spent the rest of his life swearing that the ‘Olympic goal’ had been on purpose and, while many years have passed, the mistrust continues: every time a corner kick hits the net with nobody touching it the public celebrates with an ovation - but they don’t believe it,” the famous author Eduardo Galeano wrote in his book 'Soccer in Sun and Shadow' in 1995.

[rob1966]

Never heard it before today either. Some Argentine scored direct from a corner against Uruguay when they were Olympic champions back in the 20s.

https://olympics.com/en/news/what-is-an-olympic-goal

Cheers.

Fucking hell, Burnley have scored an Olympic Goal at Anfield