Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[GreyCrow]

So many of those near misses type stories from 9/11

Apparently Fergie (the royal kind not singer), Seth McFarlane, Michael Jackson, Marky Mark were all close calls re. flights or being in the twin towers at the time of.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Australian Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe was in New York. He went for a jog, planning to visit the observation deck at the World Trade Center. On the way, Thorpe suddenly realized that he had forgotten his camera. He hailed a cab and returned to his hotel to grab it. When he entered his hotel room, he flipped on the TV—and saw the World Trade Center on fire. Read More: Anecdotage

 

[raskolnikov]

So many of those near misses type stories from 9/11

Apparently Fergie (the royal kind not singer), Seth McFarlane, Michael Jackson, Marky Mark were all close calls re. flights or being in the twin towers at the time of.

I've told this story before but I grew up in the Blue Mountains. My dad used to catch the train to Sydney for work. On the 18th of Jan 1977 he missed the train.

 

[Gralin]

 

[cats_09]

I can't remember even seeing a KFC/PFC when I was in Montreal

I did go to McDonald's though and the guy who served me was an arrogant dick

 

[Gralin]

I can't remember even seeing a KFC/PFC when I was in Montreal

I did go to McDonald's though and the guy who served me was arrogant dick

If my name was Arrogant Dick I probably wouldn't work at McDonald's

 

[Mofra]

I can't remember even seeing a KFC/PFC when I was in Montreal

I did go to McDonald's though and the guy who served me was an arrogant dick

Wow an arrogant Frenchie!
What are the odds ...

 

[cats_09]

Wow an arrogant Frenchie!
What are the odds ...

And they get even worse if you call them French or Canadian...

 

[raskolnikov]

The city Gdansk in Poland is called so because it faces Denmark ( g = Polish prefix meaning "towards" and Dansk = Danish).

 

[troybe]

Lou Richards is the captain of the Greek Team of the Century

 

[Gough]

Two of the defining albums of the 90s were released on the same day, Nevermind and Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

 

[JackOutback]

Three… also released that day was Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden. In fact, those three capped off seven big albums in 44 days, including Black by Metallica, Ten by Pearl Jam and Use Your Illusion I and II by Guns n Roses.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

It was a good year 1991.

I was born.

 

[Gough]

Three… also released that day was Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden. In fact, those three capped off seven big albums in 44 days, including Black by Metallica, Ten by Pearl Jam and Use Your Illusion I and II by Guns n Roses.

I don't think of Guns n Roses as a 90s band, more an 80s band who hung on a bit longer than the others.

 

[Gralin]

I don't think of Guns n Roses as a 90s band, more an 80s band who hung on a bit longer than the others.

Yet they were arguably bigger in the 90s than 80s

 

[Shell]

It was a good year 1991.

I was born.

I was in Grade 6

 

[troybe]

It was a good year 1991.

I was born.

I was a year out of high school

 

[Plugger35]

Yet they were arguably bigger in the 90s than 80s

Not sure about that, their big breakthrough album was Appetite for Destruction which was released in 1988, they were still big in the early 90s with Use Your Illusion but Appetite for Destruction was a better album.

 

[Gralin]

Not sure about that, their big breakthrough album was Appetite for Destruction which was released in 1988, they were still big in the early 90s with Use Your Illusion but Appetite for Destruction was a better album.

Fortunately for me I don't care what you think

 

[emuboy]

Both Australia and the UK have only had one Prime Minister each who were born in the 1940s - Paul Keating and John Major respectively. This contrasts with America, where four US Presidents were born in the 1940s - Bill Clinton, George Bush Jnr, Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Neither Australia nor the USA have had a Prime Minister or President born after the 1960s, but while Australia has had a PM born in every decade from the 1900s to the 1960s, there was never an American President born in the 1930s.

The United Kingdom has had a PM born in every decade but one from the 1900s to the 1980s, and like America this was the 1930s, with 10 Downing Street passing from Margaret Thatcher (born 1920s) to John Major (born 1940s) to Tony Blair (born 1950s) during the 1980s and 1990s, when somebody born in the 1930s might have been in the position to be England's Prime Minister.

While Australia and the USA are yet to see a Prime Minister or President born in the 1970s, the UK's only 1970s-born PM only had a fleeting tenure in the top job. This was Liz Truss, who was born in 1975 and held the office for just 50 days from early September to late October 2022 following the resignation of Boris Johnson. However, in her short time in 10 Downing Street Liz Truss became the first UK PM since Winston Churchill to serve under two monarchs, sworn in by the late Queen Elizabeth II just days before the monarch's death and handing her resignation to King Charles III six short weeks later.

 

[raskolnikov]

Coming back home and work after a great 4 weeks in Europe. I highly recommend Poland for anyone considering an overseas trip. Awesome country and very inexpensive.

 

[Gough]

My ma and one of her mates went to Poland a few years ago and loved it.

 

[raskolnikov]

Oops. That was meant to go in the things that shit me thread.

 

[JackOutback]

Oops. That was meant to go in the things that s**t me thread.

Or Beautiful Cities of the World thread?

 

[Shell]

Coming back home and work after a great 4 weeks in Europe. I highly recommend Poland for anyone considering an overseas trip. Awesome country and very inexpensive.

Welcome back.

Are you straight back into in on Monday, back to school?

 

[raskolnikov]

Welcome back.

Are you straight back into in on Monday, back to school?

Tuesday. Public holiday in Queensland on Monday to celebrate the Lions winning.