Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[adammania9]

Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman


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[worbod]

Just heard this yesterday from somebody who works in the MCG Library: Mick Jagger owns two complete sets of Wisden.

 

[Gough]

Just heard this yesterday from somebody who works in the MCG Library: Mick Jagger owns two complete sets of Wisden.

That's not fair. George Bailey is said to be one edition off a complete run too.

 

[Billy ray]

More people in the world have a mobile phone than a flushing toilet.

 

[kickazz]

More people in the world have a mobile phone than a flushing toilet.

That has grown so fast. Back in the late nineties when I was studying telecommunications among other things, we were informed that for all the advancements in the area, more than half the world's population had never made a phone call.

Not sure if still true.


Open defecation still a massive issue in India.

 

[ioppolo]

Open defecation still a massive issue in India.

I'd say most of the third world

 

[kickazz]

I'd say most of the third world

Yeah but Modi has made it a big issue, commissioning lots of toilets, etc.

The problem is that the perception of toilets for many is based on bad experiences with the few they've encountered in the past being extremely filthy and disease ridden.

 

[Mofra]

I'd say most of the third world

There's a 'turd world' joke in there somewhere.

More people in the world have a mobile phone than a flushing toilet.

In the Kebela slum in Nairobi everyone has a phone - phone credit is their defacto currency and if they want to buy goods from the makeshift shops there they just punch a few numbers into their phone and transfer phone-credit to the shop-keepers phone.

FWIW after the Shergold review of social services in Victoria you basically need a phone to connect to social services in this state. The single contact model is actually a positive provided you can contact that support person.

 

[Gough]

Just heard this yesterday from somebody who works in the MCG Library: Mick Jagger owns two complete sets of Wisden.

Anya Shrubsole is about to become the first women on the cover of Wisden.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Antarctica is the world's largest desert as defined by its limited rainfall.

https://geology.com/records/largest-desert.shtml

 

[Moonwatcher]

Anya Shrubsole is about to become the first women on the cover of Wisden.

Did she get her MBE for winning the world cup?

 

[Moonwatcher]

Stephen Hawking was born on the 8th January 1942 exactly 300 years after Galileo Galilei died, and died on the 14th March 2018 the 139th anniversary of Einstein's birth.

 

[Power Raid]

Stephen Hawking was born on the 8th January 1942 exactly 300 years after Galileo Galilei died, and died on the 14th March 2018 Einstein's 139th birthday.

have they ever been seen in the same room together?

 

[Moonwatcher]

have they ever been seen in the same room together?

Hawking was 13 when Einstein died, so unlikely.

 

[The Filth Wizard]

have they ever been seen in the same room together?

 

[the_interloper]

Stephen Hawking was born on the 8th January 1942 exactly 300 years after Galileo Galilei died, and died on the 14th March 2018 Einstein's 139th birthday.

I don't think birthdays count after you die.

 

[Moonwatcher]

I don't think birthdays count after you die.

Pretty sure Hawking proved they do.

 

[the_interloper]

Pretty sure Hawking proved they do.

Well in that case let's celebrate Shakespeare's 454th birthday next month!

 

[radiojake]

Well in that case let's celebrate Shakespeare's 454th birthday next month!

That's my birthday too!

 

[Power Raid]

Well in that case let's celebrate Shakespeare's 454th birthday next month!

how old is jesus?

 

[SwampCreature]

2,051

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[the_interloper]

That's my birthday too!

It could have been you!

how old is jesus?

That's a grey area, he kind of had 2 innings.

 

[SwampCreature]

Just subtract three days. Not ****in rocket surgery

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[TheLoungeLizard]

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[GreyCrow]

Stephen Hawking was born on the 8th January 1942 exactly 300 years after Galileo Galilei died, and died on the 14th March 2018 the 139th anniversary of Einstein's birth.

Did you adjust for the 11 days subtracted?