Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[Gough]

This bad boy first went on sale on this day in 1979.

 

[worbod]

I remember hearing once that W.G. Grace is the only FC cricketer in history to be dismissed for every score between 1 and 100.

Can anyone confirm this? Gough?

This question was dealt with on Cricinfo earlier in the week. It looks as though Grace remained 93 not out on one occasion, but was not dismissed on that score.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/1104979.html

 

[Freofalcon]

This bad boy first went on sale on this day in 1979.

My generations iPod.

 

[Cruyff14]

Today is the middle of the year.

 

[Moonwatcher]

The American flag appears 'backwards' on their army uniforms because the American army always marches forward (never retreats), thus it appears as a flag on a flag pole would, if it were moving forward.

 

[Moonwatcher]

The highest point of the Maldives is 2.4m meaning that they are the flattest country in the world with much of the country elevated at sea level. This is their capital Male (pronounced Mah-lay)

So it's perfectly understandable why they would be concerned about the rising sea levels.

That's amazing.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Interesting experiment this morning.

I was making toast and a piece dropped to the ground and landed on the unbuttered side. So I dropped it again and again to see what the result would be. Every time it landed on the unbuttered side.

Why?

I hadn't buttered yet

I don't believe you. Surely it would have hovered above the ground spinning as it would have no side to fall on. A type of perpetual motion if you will.

 

[GreyCrow]

I don't believe you. Surely it would have hovered above the ground spinning as it would have no side to fall on. A type of perpetual motion if you will.

Haha have you seen toast cat? Strap a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat and drop it from 6 storeys up. Does the cat always land on its feet or does the toast land on the butter?

 

[Moonwatcher]

Haha have you seen toast cat? Strap a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat and drop it from 6 storeys up. Does the cat always land on its feet or does the toast land on the butter?

Haha, I knew I was stealing the joke from somewhere. Still managed to stuff it up

 

[Rod Stroker]

Forward Press
Singapore and Bahrain are connected to Malaysia and Saudi Arabia respectively by a bridge.

2 bridges actually.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

In Florida, there's 2 rows of houses separated by a fence but, to drive around to those houses, it would take 20min.

 

[iluvparis]

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The American flag appears 'backwards' on their army uniforms because the American army always marches forward (never retreats), thus it appears as a flag on a flag pole would, if it were moving forward.

Geez they are flogs

 

[GeelongFTW]

Geez they are flogs

 

[iluvparis]

Delicious

 

[Scotland]

The American flag appears 'backwards' on their army uniforms because the American army always marches forward (never retreats), thus it appears as a flag on a flag pole would, if it were moving forward.

Old mate has the flag badge on his right shoulder. Are all badges on the right shoulder, or do they manufacture 'forwards' flags for left shoulders?

 

[Moonwatcher]

Old mate has the flag badge on his right shoulder. Are all badges on the right shoulder, or do they manufacture 'forwards' flags for left shoulders?

If the flag is worn on the left shoulder then it appears 'normal'. Though it does appear that most uniforms choose to have the American flag on the right hand side.

 

[Scotland]

I wonder if anyone has ever found a stash of 'normal' badges and sewn them onto the left shoulder thinking that was OK. Probably a court marshal offence in 'murica.

 

[Moonwatcher]

I wonder if anyone has ever found a stash of 'normal' badges and sewn them onto the left shoulder thinking that was OK. Probably a court marshal offence in 'murica.

Gutierrez had the reverse American flag on the left side of his F1 car. He's in Guantanamo now.

 

[Predator35]

ZZ TOP.

2 bearded guys are Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons. The guy without the beard is Frank Beard.

 

[Hinkler]

The flags of Chad and Romania are identical aside that Chad has a darker shade of blue.

 

[akkaps]

Probably already brought up, but on the topic of flags:
1. The flags of Liechtenstein and Haiti were the same and only discovered to be the same at the 1936 Olympic Games.
2. Between 1977 and 2011, Lybia hav been the only country to have a single colour (green) flag. They have since changed their flag.
3. Nepal is the only country flag not to have four sides.
4. San Juan, Argentina; Stara Zagora, Bulgaria; Moldova (1990-2010); Transnistra, Moldova; Paraguay, Philippines (1898-1901); Sahrawi Republic; Soviet Union (1923-1991); Arapiles, Spain; Alabama (1861-1865), Massachusetts (1908-1971), Minnesota (1893-1957), and Oregon, USA all have alternate designs of the reserve side of their flags.

 

[bresker]

The average American eats 0.25% of the range of edible foodstuffs on the planet.

 

[ioppolo]

Probably already brought up, but on the topic of flags:
1. The flags of Liechtenstein and Haiti were the same and only discovered to be the same at the 1936 Olympic Games.
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How awkward that would've been.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Reg Varney (Stan in On The Buses) was the first person in the world to use an ATM back in 1967.

Harry Houdini was the first person to fly an aeroplane in Australia at Digger's Rest in 1910.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

How awkward that would've been.

Not as awkward as the 1896 Olympics when Australia won a gold and they put up the Austrian flag.

Or that one a few years ago where they played the Borat version of the Kazakhstan national anthem.