Things that you learned recently

I have learned that Conor is getting tucked wrong.

Doing it wrong man.

 

china hides most of her submarines in the sea

 

The Lisbon stadium we won the Cup in is not actually in Lisbon.

Went there a few weeks ago and it was quite a trek from Lisbon in a place called Oieras, very remote in the middle of a forest, * all anywhere near it bar a motorway, took ages walking from the nearest train station

 

How MUCH i love Celtic!

 

Bush did 9/11.

 

Bump

I have just mastered the Rubik's cube

 

being out in cold weather doesnt actually give you the cold.

if that were the case eskumos would be snottery basterds but they never get colds cause the don't come in contact with the cold virus seee

 

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Ive learned faw cough needs to spellcheck his posts :smiley-laughing002:

 

Probarbly.

 

that antartica is a desert

 

Nah. You're thinking of a baked Alaska.

 

Today I learned if your on your phone and hold space, you can move where the courser is to delete text, add letters etc instead of constant poking it and getting the wrong part of the word to correct it.

 

I'm going to teach you a few things about my city of Lyon :

Lyon was the capital of the Gauls (territories corresponding to present-day France as far as the Rhine) under the name "Lugdunum" during the Roman period. From -27 to 297, i.e. 323 years. Everything that came from Gaul, Brittany and Germania passed through this city. Two emperors were born here: Claudius and Caracalla.

Napoleon, on his way back from the island of Elba, said to the people of Lyon: "Lyonnais, I love you! "Napoleon had made a major contribution to reviving the local economy after the city had been severely hit (thousands of lives lost) by the revolution and the Jacobins. The people of Lyon had given him back to him.

Lyon was a great city of the Renaissance, as its old quarter bears witness. During this period, the city hosted a poetry "school" which inspired the Pléiades: the Ecole de Lyon. The poets of Lyon have the peculiarity, contrary to the habit of praising the powerful in their works at that time, to speak about themselves and their peers in their poems. The School of Lyon is also a school of painting.

Lyon is a city where some inventions were created. First the steamboat and the hot-air balloon, then the bateau-mouche and the cinematograph.

During the Revolution, Lyon rose up against the Convention (centralist Jacobins). The Lyonnais defended a more moderate idea of the Republic, more federalist. It had a siege of Lyon in 1793. The battle was bitter. The Lyonnais were brave, but the Jacobins were fighting 7 to 1, not to mention the cannons. Then they had thousands of Lyonnais executed "in the name of freedom". That's why anti-Parisianism is part of Lyon's culture. Today a large part of the political class is shamelessly inspired by the ideology of the Jacobins.

Lyon has several titles of capital: capital of the Gauls - capital of gastronomy - capital of the Resistance - capital of silk - capital of roses - capital of the strange

Lyon is a capital of the strange: many things have happened in the city. Extraterrestrials are said to have descended (from a spaceship) on the main square of the city in the 9th century. There is even a unique underground network in the world, and nobody knows anything about its origin. But really nobody! It is in old Lyon that witchcraft was born. Moreover still today, there are black masses, sessions, strange things. It happens that, in the evening, you can see blood bags hanging from the blinds.

Lyon is the city of the Festival of Lights. It is the first one to have done so. During this festival, the city drapes itself in multicoloured lights. It is magical. Lyon is the real city of light. In a few days, several million visitors invade the city. I swear, they literally step on it!

Lyon gathers a lot of contrasts, more than any other city. The city has two hills. One represents spirituality (surmounted by a large basilica), and the other represents work (a district of silk workers). Two rivers. One represents virility (with its strong current), the other represents femininity (with its weak current and curves). Two populations. A bourgeois town, but with a very large population of silk workers. In fact, it is one of the cities where the first social demands appeared.

The Confluence Museum, located at the tip of the city's peninsula, looks like a large spaceship, or a stealthy hunter.

The Parc de la Tête d'Or is located in the heart of the city. It has one of the largest and most varied rose gardens in the world. The lake in the park contains an island (the Island of Remembrance) where there is a war memorial, where the names of the missing are engraved.

The writer Stefan Zweig wrote a short story about the repressions that followed the siege of Lyon in 1793. In it he tells a superb love story between a man and his fiancée, which the revolutionary court of the Jacobins is going to mow down. A short but moving story.

 

Maybe no * was interested in listening to you

 

QUOTE="PaulM1888, post: 6855157, member: 11896"]You been banned since March 2016 ya *?[/QUOTE]

Ye know I can't even remember these days, just assumed you've been talking pish since 2016

 

You can go back a few year further than that [/QUOTE]

What year were you born?