Spotty's Little Known Facts

[wigan white]

The "scientific/medical" difference between a dwarf and a midget is that a dwarf has a full size torso and head, with smaller not to scale arms/legs, whereas a midgets body is fully in proportion with arms and legs being correct in scale to the torso and head.

[KeyserSoze]

Today I learned that the Americans call diving...'flopping'.

[TANGODANCER]

Today I learned that the Americans call diving...'flopping'.

Gooner Floppers and Scouser Floppers have nice interesting rings to them, and a ref who becomes known as a Flopper Stopper..will become a legend.

[Prufrock]

I like it.

Could go well in a lexicon of middle-class football too. The biggest insult to honour is being accused of being a 'Fosbury'.

Fits in nicely alongside Kinty's own story of hearing a team-mate at a corner they were defending shout 'who's marking whom?'. I love that.

[Bruce Rioja]

Today I learned that the Americans call diving...'flopping'.

Gooner Floppers and Scouser Floppers have nice interesting rings to them, and a ref who becomes known as a Flopper Stopper..will become a legend.

Being a Muff Flopper has a wholly disappointing concept of its own though.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Today I learned that the Americans call diving...'flopping'.

Strictly in basketball I believe. In hockey it is called diving and in football and baseball it is just not done, you know.

[KeyserSoze]

Today I learned that the Americans call diving...'flopping'.

Strictly in basketball I believe. In hockey it is called diving and in football and baseball it is just not done, you know.

Aye, I believe you're right. Got it from this article - http://grantland.com/features/how-to-wa ... ccer-nerd/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - which is basically a 'How to watch football for US people' guidebook. Flopping bit is lower down (ooh er)

[LeverEnd]

Today I learned that the Americans call diving...'flopping'.

Gooner Floppers and Scouser Floppers have nice interesting rings to them, and a ref who becomes known as a Flopper Stopper..will become a legend.

Being a Muff Flopper has a wholly disappointing concept of its own though.

[Bruce Rioja]

Now, this might not actually be a little known fact, it might just be me, but here goes;

Hong Kong Phooey's real name was not Henry (The mild-mannered janitor) But in actual fact was Penry, as in Penrod "Penry" Pooch.

I feel as though another little piece of my childhood has been chipped away at.

What kind of a name's Penry anway? fecking rubbish. Booooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

[Gary the Enfield]

Now, this might not actually be a little known fact, it might just be me, but here goes;

Hong Kong Phooey's real name was not Henry (The mild-mannered janitor) But in actual fact was Penry, as in Penrod "Penry" Pooch.

I feel as though another little piece of my childhood has been chipped away at.

What kind of a name's Penry anway? fecking rubbish. Booooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

I knew it was Penry, the mild-mannered janitor. Sorry

[KeyserSoze]

Someone has just said that, for example, if you have a lorry on a giant set of scales, and a bird in the back of it flying around (essentially hovering inside the lorry) then the weight of the bird would still contribute to the scales.

can someone explain this to me please.

[Gary the Enfield]

Someone has just said that, for example, if you have a lorry on a giant set of scales, and a bird in the back of it flying around (essentially hovering inside the lorry) then the weight of the bird would still contribute to the scales.

can someone explain this to me please.

I presume they mean a closed body lorry? Doesn't the mass of the bird displace the air around it? So the amount it displaces it (the air) by affects the mass of the whole? Lorry + air + Bird in the air?

[LeverEnd]

The amount of downward force exerted by the birds' wings on the air to keep them up there is equal to the weight of the bird, so the weight is effectively transferred through the air to the floor of the truck and keeps the overall weight the same. Yes it has to be closed.

[Gary the Enfield]

The amount of downward force exerted by the birds' wings on the air to keep them up there is equal to the weight of the bird, so the weight is effectively transferred through the air to the floor of the truck and keeps the overall weight the same. Yes it has to be closed.

That's what I meant. Right there. I think.

[LeverEnd]

The amount of downward force exerted by the birds' wings on the air to keep them up there is equal to the weight of the bird, so the weight is effectively transferred through the air to the floor of the truck and keeps the overall weight the same. Yes it has to be closed.

That's what I meant. Right there. I think.

Mythbusters!

[KeyserSoze]

thank you guys!

[thebish]

file next to - "if you jump up in the air just as the plummeting disaster-lift hits the bottom then you'll be fine"!

[Gary the Enfield]

Right. Now if I walk at 3 mph up the aisle of a train travelling at 100mph am I travelling at 103 mph?

[thebish]

Right. Now if I walk at 3 mph up the aisle of a train travelling at 100mph am I travelling at 103 mph?

if measured by someone on the train - no. if measured by someone who is stationary outside the train - then, yes.

[Bruce Rioja]

Right. Now if I walk at 3 mph up the aisle of a train travelling at 100mph am I travelling at 103 mph?

if measured by someone on the train - no. if measured by someone who is stationary outside the train - then, yes.

See, you've fallen into the trap of assuming that he's walking in the same direction as which the train is headed.