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Lobby wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:38 pm the first known commercial transaction using Bitcoin was in 2010, when Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 BTC. Had he held on to his Bitcoin, they would now have a value of around $446m

Saint wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:41 pm

Lobby wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:38 pm the first known commercial transaction using Bitcoin was in 2010, when Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 BTC. Had he held on to his Bitcoin, they would now have a value of around $446m

I'll bet they were Hawaiians as well - both expensive and shit

mat the expat wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:12 am

Saint wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:41 pm

Lobby wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:38 pm the first known commercial transaction using Bitcoin was in 2010, when Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 BTC. Had he held on to his Bitcoin, they would now have a value of around $446m

I'll bet they were Hawaiians as well - both expensive and shit

A mate also bought Pizzas with his.

He got paid in them for hosting services (One of the customers were some Cam girls).

He didn't think that one through

Niegs wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:45 pm

notfatcat wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:18 pm Ian McGlinn loaned Anita Roddick £4k in 1977 in return for 50% of the business at the time. When L'Oreal bought The Body Shop in 2006 McGlinn made £146m from his shares.

Reminds me of a story I heard on QI about one of the early inventors of the bra...

In her later autobiography, The Passionate Years, [Caresse Crosby] maintained that she had "a few hundred (units) of her design produced." She managed to secure a few orders from department stores, but her business never took off. Harry, who had a distaste for conventional business and a generous trust fund, discouraged her from pursuing the business and persuaded her to close it. She later sold the brassiere patent to The Warner Brothers Corset Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut for US$1,500 (roughly equivalent to $23,000 in current dollars). Warner manufactured the "Crosby" bra for a while, but it was not a popular style and was eventually discontinued. Warner went on to earn more than US$15 million from the bra patent over the next thirty years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caresse_C ... _brassiere

GuLi wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:39 am Take all the other planets in the Solar System.
Line them up tightly.
Place them between the Earth and the Moon:
It fits just right.

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When the Moon is at its closest, you'd miss some 3%, but have 2% left when at its farthest.

dpedin wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 12:40 pm

Niegs wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:45 pm

notfatcat wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:18 pm Ian McGlinn loaned Anita Roddick £4k in 1977 in return for 50% of the business at the time. When L'Oreal bought The Body Shop in 2006 McGlinn made £146m from his shares.

Reminds me of a story I heard on QI about one of the early inventors of the bra...

In her later autobiography, The Passionate Years, [Caresse Crosby] maintained that she had "a few hundred (units) of her design produced." She managed to secure a few orders from department stores, but her business never took off. Harry, who had a distaste for conventional business and a generous trust fund, discouraged her from pursuing the business and persuaded her to close it. She later sold the brassiere patent to The Warner Brothers Corset Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut for US$1,500 (roughly equivalent to $23,000 in current dollars). Warner manufactured the "Crosby" bra for a while, but it was not a popular style and was eventually discontinued. Warner went on to earn more than US$15 million from the bra patent over the next thirty years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caresse_C ... _brassiere

In 1984 Thomas Horseburgh, blacksmith, a founding member and previous captain of my golf club Baberton in Edinburgh took out a patent on steel shafted golf clubs. They were so good that he was banned from using them in competitions. Despite warnings from the patent office he let the patent lapse in the 1920's and missed out on his fortune! His original clubs are on display in our clubhouse.

mat the expat wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:12 am

Saint wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:41 pm

Lobby wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:38 pm the first known commercial transaction using Bitcoin was in 2010, when Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 BTC. Had he held on to his Bitcoin, they would now have a value of around $446m

I'll bet they were Hawaiians as well - both expensive and shit

A mate also bought Pizzas with his.

He got paid in them for hosting services (One of the customers were some Cam girls).

He didn't think that one through

sorCrer wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 1:07 pm

dpedin wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 12:40 pm

Niegs wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:45 pm

Reminds me of a story I heard on QI about one of the early inventors of the bra...



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caresse_C ... _brassiere

In 1984 Thomas Horseburgh, blacksmith, a founding member and previous captain of my golf club Baberton in Edinburgh took out a patent on steel shafted golf clubs. They were so good that he was banned from using them in competitions. Despite warnings from the patent office he let the patent lapse in the 1920's and missed out on his fortune! His original clubs are on display in our clubhouse.

Probably made a fortune in time travel technology and will be back sometime in the future.

In 1872, Bates and her husband purchased 130 acres (53 ha) of land and had furniture made to their specifications. Martin supervised the construction of the house. The main part of the house had fourteen-foot (4.3 m) ceilings, while the doors were extra wide and were eight feet (2.4 m) tall. The back part of the house was built an average size for servants and guests.

Bates conceived two children with Martin. The first was a girl born on May 19, 1872; she weighed 18 pounds (8.16 kg) and died at birth.[5] While touring in the summer of 1878, Anna was pregnant for the second time. The boy was born on January 18, 1879, and survived only 11 hours.[6] He was the largest newborn ever recorded, at 23 pounds 9 ounces (10.7 kg) and nearly 30 inches tall (ca. 75 cm); each of his feet was six inches (152 mm) long.

Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, Bates joined the 5th Kentucky Infantry Confederate States Army, as a private, in 1861. His ferocity in battle and imposing figure saw him quickly promoted to the rank of captain. Bates was severely wounded in a battle around the Cumberland Gap area and captured and imprisoned at Camp Chase in Ohio, although he later escaped.

His huge size soon caught the attention of opposing Union troops, who referred to the Confederate giant as a man large enough to make five men, with the fight of 50. He and his unit saw action throughout the Appalachian mountains of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, distinguishing himself enough to be made a Captain.

It was at one of the numerous battles at the Cumberland Gap that he was wounded and captured, then sent off to be imprisoned at Camp Chase in Ohio. He didn’t stay there for long, as he managed to escape and make his way back to his unit to fight another day.

GuLi wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:39 am Take all the other planets in the Solar System.
Line them up tightly.
Place them between the Earth and the Moon:
It fits just right.

Spoiler

Show

When the Moon is at its closest, you'd miss some 3%, but have 2% left when at its farthest.

Grandpa wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 10:09 pm

GuLi wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:39 am Take all the other planets in the Solar System.
Line them up tightly.
Place them between the Earth and the Moon:
It fits just right.

Spoiler

Show

When the Moon is at its closest, you'd miss some 3%, but have 2% left when at its farthest.

Does that include the asteroid belt? And Pluto?

Biffer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 10:12 pm

Grandpa wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 10:09 pm

GuLi wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:39 am Take all the other planets in the Solar System.
Line them up tightly.
Place them between the Earth and the Moon:
It fits just right.

Spoiler

Show

When the Moon is at its closest, you'd miss some 3%, but have 2% left when at its farthest.

Does that include the asteroid belt? And Pluto?

Pluto is pretty small. Smaller than the moon in fact.

Its diameter is less than 1% of the earth-moon distance, so it’s in the noise

Niegs wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 5:27 pm

mat the expat wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:12 am

Saint wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:41 pm

I'll bet they were Hawaiians as well - both expensive and shit

A mate also bought Pizzas with his.

He got paid in them for hosting services (One of the customers were some Cam girls).

He didn't think that one through

Could be worse ... they could have been stunning Hawaiian cam girls!

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 8:22 pm Lily Allen is scum

Openside wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 11:17 pm

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 8:22 pm Lily Allen is scum

That’s just a simple fact!!

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 12:24 pm She laughed at some memes about Diana and Philip, I think.

Must say I thought Openside was one of those types who enjoyed a bit of dark humour - seem to recall him loving the Beslan jokes, for example.

Openside wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:54 pm

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 12:24 pm She laughed at some memes about Diana and Philip, I think.

Must say I thought Openside was one of those types who enjoyed a bit of dark humour - seem to recall him loving the Beslan jokes, for example.

I love dark humour, its got nothing to do with Prince Philip I just she is leftie scum and for the record the Beslan jokes were before anyone got killed....

Surely with your encyclopaedic knowledge of everything you would have known that.?

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:07 pm

Openside wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:54 pm

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 12:24 pm She laughed at some memes about Diana and Philip, I think.

Must say I thought Openside was one of those types who enjoyed a bit of dark humour - seem to recall him loving the Beslan jokes, for example.

I love dark humour, its got nothing to do with Prince Philip I just she is leftie scum and for the record the Beslan jokes were before anyone got killed....

Surely with your encyclopaedic knowledge of everything you would have known that.?

The Beslan jokes were before anyone got killed? What?

Apologies, I thought you had some sort of reason for thinking someone was scum. Good to know I can happily call all right-wingers scum without you throwing a hissy fit about it

mat the expat wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:12 am

Saint wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:41 pm

Lobby wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:38 pm the first known commercial transaction using Bitcoin was in 2010, when Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 BTC. Had he held on to his Bitcoin, they would now have a value of around $446m

I'll bet they were Hawaiians as well - both expensive and shit

A mate also bought Pizzas with his.

He got paid in them for hosting services (One of the customers were some Cam girls).

He didn't think that one through

Mr Bubble Gum wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:05 pm

mat the expat wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:12 am

Saint wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:41 pm

I'll bet they were Hawaiians as well - both expensive and shit

A mate also bought Pizzas with his.

He got paid in them for hosting services (One of the customers were some Cam girls).

He didn't think that one through

Where were all these pizza joints that accepted Bitcoin back then? My local ones still don’t even accept Amex. Also, I imagine most people would have cashed out at a few grand, so it’s a bit of a moot point in IMO. And I’d happily give Lily a portion.

laurent wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:06 pm

Mr Bubble Gum wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:05 pm

mat the expat wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:12 am

A mate also bought Pizzas with his.

He got paid in them for hosting services (One of the customers were some Cam girls).

He didn't think that one through

Where were all these pizza joints that accepted Bitcoin back then? My local ones still don’t even accept Amex. Also, I imagine most people would have cashed out at a few grand, so it’s a bit of a moot point in IMO. And I’d happily give Lily a portion.

Amex is shit ...

Niegs wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 5:16 pm This man is only 49 and once was an international fly half / full back!

GogLais wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 4:15 pm “No side” derives from no side having possession. News to me but I suppose everyone else knew.

laurent wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:06 pm

Mr Bubble Gum wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:05 pm

mat the expat wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:12 am

A mate also bought Pizzas with his.

He got paid in them for hosting services (One of the customers were some Cam girls).

He didn't think that one through

Where were all these pizza joints that accepted Bitcoin back then? My local ones still don’t even accept Amex. Also, I imagine most people would have cashed out at a few grand, so it’s a bit of a moot point in IMO. And I’d happily give Lily a portion.

Amex is shit ...

Yr Alban wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 6:25 pm

GogLais wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 4:15 pm “No side” derives from no side having possession. News to me but I suppose everyone else knew.

Not me! I’ve been wondering about that one for decades. Thanks for clearing it up.

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:15 pm

Yr Alban wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 6:25 pm

GogLais wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 4:15 pm “No side” derives from no side having possession. News to me but I suppose everyone else knew.

Not me! I’ve been wondering about that one for decades. Thanks for clearing it up.

I still don't understand this one. What sport is it referring to?
Can someone explain it using short words please?

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:18 pm

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:15 pm

Yr Alban wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 6:25 pm

Not me! I’ve been wondering about that one for decades. Thanks for clearing it up.

I still don't understand this one. What sport is it referring to?
Can someone explain it using short words please?

Rugby. It apparently represents the end of the match. I've never heard it before.

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:20 pm

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:18 pm

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:15 pm

I still don't understand this one. What sport is it referring to?
Can someone explain it using short words please?

Rugby. It apparently represents the end of the match. I've never heard it before.

Ah, ok. Weird. Maybe just a Celt thing?

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:20 pm

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:18 pm

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:15 pm

I still don't understand this one. What sport is it referring to?
Can someone explain it using short words please?

Rugby. It apparently represents the end of the match. I've never heard it before.

Ah, ok. Weird. Maybe just a Celt thing?

PornDog wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 5:26 pm

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:20 pm

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:18 pm

Rugby. It apparently represents the end of the match. I've never heard it before.

Ah, ok. Weird. Maybe just a Celt thing?

Not in our parts - never heard of it before!