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Post by clemfandango on Aug 12, 2024 15:47:21 GMT
The last line to ‘we are the champions’ is not ‘of the world….’
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Post by rawshark on Aug 12, 2024 15:55:04 GMT
Wut?
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Post by rawshark on Aug 12, 2024 15:56:56 GMT
I learnt that the word Arctic (as in the polar region) comes from the Greek work for bear (arktos) and that is why it is named the Arctic - because it has polar bears. The Antarctic is so called because it is the anti or opposite of bears so no bears at the Antarctica. This just reminded me of the Apprentice candidate that made a game called "Artic Quest". [sic] It had penguins in it, obviously. |
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Post by dmukgr on Aug 12, 2024 18:49:46 GMT
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Post by 😎 on Aug 12, 2024 19:38:52 GMT
Arctic and Antarctic mean North/South (the North Star, or Bear Constellation), nothing to do with the inhabitants.
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Post by cubby on Aug 12, 2024 20:17:42 GMT
Maybe they named the bear constellation after the bears that the Greeks saw on their polar expeditions?
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Post by clemfandango on Aug 12, 2024 20:40:26 GMT
I’m not… proper Mandela effect |
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Post by rawshark on Aug 12, 2024 20:44:50 GMT
I’m not… proper Mandela effect I had to actually play it to verify, but by God he’s right. Freddie just cuts off after “We are the Champions” the last time around. |
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Aug 30, 2024 17:07:59 GMT
That Linus Tech Tips Anthony is now Emily. Apparently this all happened a year ago but I just found out cos she's leaving.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Aug 31, 2024 23:49:05 GMT
Huh. The theme music from Moonbeam City is actually a full track by Night Club.
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Post by JuniorFE on Sept 1, 2024 0:26:59 GMT
Hey folks, Greek guy here to report that the only etymology I could find for the Ancient Greek word for bears (árktos/άρκτος) is a very similar word with the same meaning, from the even more ancient (to the point of it only being a hypothetical reconstruction ) Proto-Indo-European language... As for why it also means "north" (thus, the Arctic and Antarctica), it's because the constellation we named after the bear (Ursa Major, or Μεγάλη Άρκτος/Big Bear) is in the northern part of the sky, towards where the Arctic is (the "Arctic" is just "the land under the constellation of the bear"). Bottom line, we kinda BSed everyone on this one, but we were cool like that so no one minded  |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Sept 1, 2024 13:41:04 GMT
I’m not… proper Mandela effect I had to actually play it to verify, but by God he’s right. Freddie just cuts off after “We are the Champions” the last time around. It is in the Live Aid version
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Post by Vandelay on Sept 1, 2024 14:40:59 GMT
I had to actually play it to verify, but by God he’s right. Freddie just cuts off after “We are the Champions” the last time around. It is in the Live Aid version
Yeah, think I've heard before that the reason everyone thinks it ends with "of the world" is because they are remembering this version. |
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Post by mothercruncher on Sept 1, 2024 18:36:57 GMT
Tides don’t go in and out.
The moon pulls the earth’s oceans out from being a perfect circle and the earth rotates around *through* those high and low points daily.
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Post by zephro on Sept 2, 2024 22:18:23 GMT
Though the moon is also moving relative to the earth so the points are also moving about.
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Post by Nanocrystal on Sept 3, 2024 6:26:34 GMT
Also, weirdly, the water bulges towards the moon as you'd expect due to the gravitational attraction, but it also bulges away from the moon on the Earth's opposite side. Hence two tide cycles per day.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Sept 3, 2024 6:36:21 GMT
That's because of the anti-moon on the other side.
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Post by dfunked on Sept 3, 2024 6:40:30 GMT
This is all a bit far fetched. It's obviously due to the flat earth tipping back and forth like a seesaw.
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Post by dmukgr on Sept 3, 2024 6:53:08 GMT
There is no tipping - those elephants keep it steady
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Sept 3, 2024 7:02:41 GMT
I thought we were all balancing on the head of a giant, Time Bandits style
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Post by robthehermit on Sept 3, 2024 9:11:23 GMT
Speaking of which, has anybody bothered looking at the new series?
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