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Diogenes 29 Oct 1:25pm, 29 Oct 2024 89,027 posts	0 Diogenes [In a match against Bury at Roker Park on 26 December 1962, in icy conditions and torrential rain, Clough was put through on goal and collided with goalkeeper, Chris Harker. Clough tore the medial and cruciate ligaments in his knee, an injury which in that era usually ended a player's career. He returned two years later, but could manage only three games and then retired from playing at the age of 29. Wikipedia, source, this UEFA article: uefa.com ]
macca 53 29 Oct 1:26pm, 29 Oct 2024 32,961 posts	0 macca 53 [medial and cruciate apparently - always thought it was a break - as local popular history has it. I watched my first game at Gigg Lane in 1964]
MudMeanderer 29 Oct 1:50pm, 29 Oct 2024 2,670 posts	0 MudMeanderer Sam Jelfs wrote:Soy beans get their name from their use to make Soy sauce, not the other way around as might be expected. You've been listening to Lateral! 😁
Raemondo 29 Oct 4:41pm, 29 Oct 2024 12,202 posts	0 Raemondo (he actually told me this before we heard it on lateral, I think maybe from Fish?)
ThorntonRunner 30 Oct 6:15am, 30 Oct 2024 7,840 posts	0 ThorntonRunner OK. We're on holiday about 150 miles north of home and I've just checked sunrise/sunset times for both locations. Here it's 07:12/16:38, at home it's 06:58/16:38. That's what I now know, but what is bugging me is why is the sunset time the same? I'm happy with days being longer further south between the autumn and spring equinox, but can't get my head round the asymmetry. Anyone know why?
ThorntonRunner 30 Oct 6:25am, 30 Oct 2024 7,841 posts	0 ThorntonRunner Aha - I'm also west of home, so that's shifted the sunrise/sunset times, whereas being further north adjusts the length of the day. Just happens that I'm sufficiently west to exactly offset the difference in daylength. As you were.
57.5 Degrees of Pain 30 Oct 6:27am, 30 Oct 2024 24,584 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain I was about to suggest Longitude!
Cerrertonia 30 Oct 8:52am, 30 Oct 2024 22,183 posts	0 Cerrertonia If you're interested, it's more complicated than that. @Flatlander did some blogs about it IIRC.
pedroscalls 30 Oct 8:57am, 30 Oct 2024 107,022 posts	0 pedroscalls That the jump Beecher's Brook on the Grand National course was named after a jockey. Stienbeck's book Of Mice and Men takes it's title from Rabbie Burns's poem Ode To a Mouse.
Nellers 30 Oct 9:03am, 30 Oct 2024 44,114 posts	0 Nellers That it's because of the awful Panamanian jungles that Scotland had to unite with England and form the UK. Also Leather Cannons were a thing, but only for a shot or two for what seem obvious reasons!