Banter 2021 Off-Topic Chat Thread - PART II

[FredLeDeux]

Did you know gold can be hammered so thin it becomes transparent?

How would anyone know you've done it?

 

[Cataholic]

How would anyone know you've done it?

Gold leaf.

If I remember correctly, it's hammered and rolled to 1/14000th of a mm to form gold leaf, which is transparent.

 

[Cataholic]

No!!!!!!!! I did not. But that is an awesome piece of trivia.

They designed a new navigation system for the A380, and it proved a bit TOO accurate, so they factored in a 'glitch' so each touchdown would be in a slightly different spot.

 

[cats_09]

 

[Shell]

Spazz Cat what was that show- Westworld???

I shouldnt be too far away from watching it now- maybe 2-3 weeks. Only got 3 more Seasons of the Sopranos to go now.

 

[Down at K Park]

Some f’ed up weirdo hippies put that in a blender and eat that sh*t.

I know of a guy who put it on pizza.

There was another soccer tragedy in England where the grandstand burnt down.
Terrifying. The whole thing was on TV.

I remember watching a work safety video on that. It looked like nothing to worry about. But within a few minutes it was a mass inferno. And most of the people who went downstairs died. The ones who didn’t, lived.

Did you know they had to build a deliberate glitch into the landing software for the A380 because it was so accurate repeated landings would wear a hole through the tarmac?

Did you know that modern fighter jets are designed aerodynamically unstable, for increased manoeuvrability, and if it wasn’t for fly by wire control continually adjusting it, no pilot could control it?

 

[Cataholic]

I know of a guy who put it on pizza.



I remember watching a work safety video on that. It looked like nothing to worry about. But within a few minutes it was a mass inferno. And most of the people who went downstairs died. The ones who didn’t, lived.



Did you know that modern fighter jets are designed aerodynamically unstable, for increased manoeuvrability, and if it wasn’t for fly by wire control continually adjusting it, no pilot could control it?

Like the bee..... according to the law of physics it can't fly, yet they do.

 

[Down at K Park]

Like the bee..... according to the law of physics it can't fly, yet they do.

I’m not sure how accurate it is, but i was watching cricket one day and they did a story on sports science. And one of the claims they made was a batsmen should not physically be able to pick the ball up out of the bowlers hand with the eye, and react to it before it reaches him. It should be technically impossible to have reaction times that fast.

 

[Cataholic]

I’m not sure how accurate it is, but i was watching cricket one day and they did a story on sports science. And one of the claims they made was a batsmen should not physically be able to pick the ball up out of the bowlers hand with the eye, and react to it before it reaches him. It should be technically impossible to have reaction times that fast.

I remember hearing or reading something to the same effect.

Back in the day, they say batsmen only had 0.25 seconds to hit the ball against Thommo..... How the hell they saw it, let alone picked its line and length before deciding what to do in that window of time has me beat.

I faced one guy who was clocked as bowling in the 140's and the bloody ball was a blur...... When I saw it.

Thommo was much quicker than that. Viv Richards said he was the fastest and meanest he ever faced before he wrecked his shoulder.

 

[Spazz Cat]

Spazz Cat what was that show- Westworld???

I shouldnt be too far away from watching it now- maybe 2-3 weeks. Only got 3 more Seasons of the Sopranos to go now.

Yeah Westworld S1 Shell. Get on it.

 

[Spazz Cat]

Not sure if you've seen Fargo. (The show not the movie). But it's really, really good.
Billy Bob is fantastic in it.

 

[Shell]

Not sure if you've seen Fargo. (The show not the movie). But it's really, really good.
Billy Bob is fantastic in it.

Ive only seen the movie and i remember hating it

 

[Shell]

What's the tv series about

 

[Spazz Cat]

What's the tv series about

The guy out of the English office is a real pussy until one day he manages to run into Billy Bob Thornton who is a total mad campaigner.
And crime and snow and shit.
Faarken great show. Worth watching.

 

[Spazz Cat]

Billy Bob seriously good

 

[cats_09]

Not sure if you've seen Fargo. (The show not the movie). But it's really, really good.
Billy Bob is fantastic in it.

Are they up to season 4 or 5 of that?

 

[Spazz Cat]

Are they up to season 4 or 5 of that?

I'm honestly not sure. I only saw up to season3. They were all really good in different ways.

 

[Braklet]

I was truly shocked it happened in 1989, like in "my lifetime". I honestly assumed it occured in like the 60s/70s or something.

It's now 2021, we just had a bunch of people die in a concert crush:

Criminal probe opened into stampede at rap concert in Houston that killed 8

A stampede of fans surging toward the stage during rap star Travis Scott's Astroworld music festival in Houston killed at least eight people and injured dozens more as panic rippled through the crowd of largely young concertgoers, officials said on Saturday.

www.reuters.com

The lawsuits are piling up...

 

[Braklet]

Two, three days of almost no banter. This morning, I wake up to 5 new pages.

I think y'all were saving it up.

 

[FredLeDeux]

I remember hearing or reading something to the same effect.

Back in the day, they say batsmen only had 0.25 seconds to hit the ball against Thommo..... How the hell they saw it, let alone picked its line and length before deciding what to do in that window of time has me beat.

I faced one guy who was clocked as bowling in the 140's and the bloody ball was a blur...... When I saw it.

Thommo was much quicker than that. Viv Richards said he was the fastest and meanest he ever faced before he wrecked his shoulder.

The fastest seppo pro baseball pitchers throw it at 160kph (100mph) or more (and it doesn't get slowed down by hitting the deck).

Ted Williams, arguably the greatest hitter of all time, claimed that at his peak he could actually read the writing on the ball as it came towards him, and nobody ever seems to have doubted his word.

 

[Braklet]

Spazz Cat what was that show- Westworld???

I shouldnt be too far away from watching it now- maybe 2-3 weeks. Only got 3 more Seasons of the Sopranos to go now.

Don't forget about Justified! Or Deadwood...

... all Olyphant, all the time

 

[Braklet]

The fastest seppo pro baseball pitchers throw it at 160kph (100mph) or more (and it doesn't get slowed down by hitting the deck).

I know that term...

Baseball pitchers also tend to destroy their shoulders and elbows quickly. I've watched slow-motion video of many pitches, you can actually see the joints stretch out. They are definitely hitting the limits of the human body.

 

[Shell]

It's now 2021, we just had a bunch of people die in a concert crush:

Criminal probe opened into stampede at rap concert in Houston that killed 8

A stampede of fans surging toward the stage during rap star Travis Scott's Astroworld music festival in Houston killed at least eight people and injured dozens more as panic rippled through the crowd of largely young concertgoers, officials said on Saturday.

www.reuters.com

The lawsuits are piling up...

Yeah we know

 

[Partridge]

Bradford city stadium fire. 1985. 56 died.

Remember that vividly. They actually had a few other crowd crushes as well. There was one at Ibrox I believe in Scotland in I think the early 1970s when a stairwell collapsed. And another from the late 1940s (again, I think) at maybe Burnley. Hillsborough was the most recent and the worst.

As Shell said, even then it was 100% panic by the police that caused it. In the book Fever Pitch (much, much better than the movie), Nick Hornby said every single fan he knew who had been to Hillsborough (Arsenal were playing the same day) immediately predicted what end the trouble was at and why.

 

[Partridge]

More trivia. Gas doesn't actually have a smell.
They added the smell to it after a school blew up in America after a gas leak and killed most of the kids.

Depends on the gas. Some absolutely do.