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November 26
[edit]Aviation: Who designed these 2 liveries?
[edit]Hello. Who are the designers behind Kuwait Airways' current livery and MEA's livery from 2008 to 2021? I had researched but I could not find any answer. The closest leads were a newsroom article that celebrated the delivery of MEA's first Airbus A330[1] and a Kuwait Times article that celebrated the delivery of Kuwait Airways' first Boeing 777-300ER[2]. Both of the articles mentioned that the delivered airplanes were the first ones of the 2 airlines with the aforementioned liveries; however, the articles did not reveal the designer(s)/design agency behind the liveries. I would appreciate if someone did the research and/or knew the designers.FSlolhehe (talk) 21:47, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
References
November 27
[edit]Race and ethnicity
[edit]Why most Eastern European countries collect data on race and ethnicity but most Western European countries do not? And of Western European countries, why however UK and Ireland collect such data, despite having similar immigrant populations to rest of Western Europe? Which is the reason for that? --40bus (talk) 20:05, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
- Do they? Nanonic (talk) 20:09, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
- What's the basis of your premise? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 21:18, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
- I have wondered that in recent times. I find odd that UK and Ireland collect, whereas other Western European countries do not? --40bus (talk) 06:07, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- What's the basis of your claim? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:53, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- I have wondered that in recent times. I find odd that UK and Ireland collect, whereas other Western European countries do not? --40bus (talk) 06:07, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- The French Republic is officially colorblind making collection of data on "race" and "ethnicity" (whatever those might mean) essentially impossible and in many contexts illegal. I've heard, but cannot confirm, that this is in large part due to the sorry history of the use of certain ethnic data during the second world war. 2A01:E0A:CBA:BC60:78A5:3BD8:C150:36D (talk) 14:32, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- I would have thought it has a lot more to do with the principle of laïcité. See Secularism in France. --Viennese Waltz 14:40, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- However, census data was used by the Nazis to identify Jewish people in Germany and occupied European countries including France; see The dark side of census collections. Alansplodge (talk) 22:28, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- In 1941, french social security numbers had an extra digit added 1 and 2 [depending on sex] designate French citizens including Jews, 3 and 4 “Natives of Algeria and all French subject colonies, with the exception of Jews”, 5 and 6 “Indigenous Jews French subjects », 7 and 8 “foreigners including Jews”. Not our finest hour. 78.244.166.180 (talk) 00:47, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- However, census data was used by the Nazis to identify Jewish people in Germany and occupied European countries including France; see The dark side of census collections. Alansplodge (talk) 22:28, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- From a European perspective, I'd guess the whole concept of "race" feels a bit fuzzy. There might also be historical reasons. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 16:39, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- I would have thought it has a lot more to do with the principle of laïcité. See Secularism in France. --Viennese Waltz 14:40, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- In the UK, race and ethnicity data is collected by institutions in order to demonstrate that the services they provide are available to, or used by, customers of varying origins in proportion to the incidence of those origins in the general population (or the target need's population). It is driven by anti-discrimination legislation. -- Verbarson talkedits 18:55, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
Reliable sources
[edit]Is the NRA (National Rifle Association) considered a reliable source for firearm topics? They issue a magazine that I get and was wondering if they could be used. If you have any questions or need more information just let me know. User Page Talk Contributions Sheriff U3 20:35, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
- The best place to ask this question is at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard. --Lambiam 14:46, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- Ok thank you for your answer. I will ask there then. User Page Talk Contributions Sheriff U3 20:41, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
November 28
[edit]Clock questions
[edit]- Does 12-hour clock have a written numeric form in any of continental European countries? Does it have a written numeric form in Finnish, Polish, Italian and Swedish, for example?
- How do English speakers say leading zero of times such as 01:15?
- Why does English not use word "clock" in expressions of time? Why is it not "Clock is five" but "It is five"? --40bus (talk) 06:21, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- 2. Usually we do not when the context is clear, and if it isn't we would usually add ". . . a.m." or ". . . in the morning." In some contexts (for example, in relation to a train or similar timetable) we might say "Oh-one fifteen"; "Zero-one fifteen" would be understood but is not usual. In a militarily related context "One-fifteen Zulu" might be used (my father, a retired soldier, sometimes uses this convention when talking to me).
- 3. We do. The usual expression is "It is five o'clock"; "It's five" is also used in hasty or informal conversation when the context is clear. However, this only applies to 'on the hour' times; we normally say "It's five-thirty" or "It's half-past five, for example. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.211.243 (talk) 07:15, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- To clarify o'clock is an abbreviation for "of the clock", used in English since the 15th-century. Alansplodge (talk) 22:20, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- 3. The expression is not "Clock is five" for the same reason one does not say "Thermometer is 40 degrees". The measuring instrument is not the measurement. One can say, "The clock shows five in the morning."[1] --Lambiam 14:42, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- Although not "it's 40 o'thermometer". Card Zero (talk) 17:17, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- Although some say "40 degrees on the mercury", like this for example. Alansplodge (talk) 23:04, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- For the same reason, there's no such thing as a hot or cold temperature. Temperature is a pure number with no attributes. What's hot or cold is the thing you're measuring. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 21:06, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- That's a matter of opinion. And temperature has units rather than being a pure number. --142.112.149.206 (talk) 23:28, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- Correction noted. But it's still wrong to refer to a hot or cold temperature. We can talk of temperatures being high or low, but not hot or cold. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 10:55, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- That's a matter of opinion. And temperature has units rather than being a pure number. --142.112.149.206 (talk) 23:28, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- For the same reason, there's no such thing as a hot or cold temperature. Temperature is a pure number with no attributes. What's hot or cold is the thing you're measuring. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 21:06, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- Although some say "40 degrees on the mercury", like this for example. Alansplodge (talk) 23:04, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- Although not "it's 40 o'thermometer". Card Zero (talk) 17:17, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
December 2
[edit]Viktor Yanukovych overthrown by the US?
[edit]Both John Mearscheimer and Jeffrey Sachs have said that Viktor Yanukovych was overthtrown by the US. I browsed the Viktor Yanukovych article and a few related articles, but I could not see any support for this. Did I miss something? Star Lord - 星爵 (talk) 15:26, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- They can say what they like. Wikipedia articles are based on WP:Reliable sources. Are there any reliable sourcces that say this? Shantavira|feed me 19:14, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- Had I found any reliable sources, I would not have had to ask here.
I would like to add that both of them usually have good and reliable references in the books I have read, but neither of them have written any books written about this. Star Lord - 星爵 (talk) 19:45, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- Who are those guys? Are they pro-Russia? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:17, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- John Mearsheimer (presumably), Jeffrey Sachs. --Wrongfilter (talk) 19:47, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, I have corrected the spelling to John Mearscheimer, Star Lord - 星爵 (talk) 20:06, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mearsheimer
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs Star Lord - 星爵 (talk) 19:48, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- John Mearsheimer (presumably), Jeffrey Sachs. --Wrongfilter (talk) 19:47, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- If it was done secretly, we wouldn't have access to reliable sources, now would we? Clarityfiend (talk) 01:16, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- It depends on how reliable you consider Putin to be. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:29, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Putin is not mentioned. Star Lord - 星爵 (talk) 08:54, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Now that I look back, they don't mention "secretly". I have corrected this. Star Lord - 星爵 (talk) 08:52, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- It depends on how reliable you consider Putin to be. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:29, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
So, one of them had better write a book about it, so I can get some reliable source. I have read several reliable sources that ChatGPT claims to support the thesis with good references, but I find the conclusion to weak to entertain. They mostly seem to focus on individual US representtives supporting the demonstrators in Kiev in 2014, and discussion whom they preferred as a successor ,which indeed they did, but which seems a to me not to be enough for the full accusation. Star Lord - 星爵 (talk) 11:52, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- In his 2014 essay "Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault: The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin", Mearsheimer wrote,
Although the full extent of U.S. involvement has not yet come to light, it is clear that Washington backed the coup. Nuland and Republican Senator John McCain participated in antigovernment demonstrations, and Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, proclaimed after Yanukovych's toppling that it was "a day for the history books." As a leaked telephone recording revealed, Nuland had advocated regime change and wanted the Ukrainian politician Arseniy Yatsenyuk to become prime minister in the new government, which he did. No wonder Russians of all persuasions think the West played a role in Yanukovych's ouster.
[2]
- This does not (IMO) fit the qualification of a claim of Yanukovych being overthrown by the US, but at best being overthrown with approval by the West and moral support from some US politicians. What are the sources that claim that Mearsheimer claimed something substantially stronger than the quoted passage? What do they state, exactly? --Lambiam 16:25, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- It's funny to see McCain being characterized as a "liberal". Maybe the author is the one who's deluded. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 16:47, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- In the essay, everyone who is not a realist is considered a liberal. --Lambiam 08:25, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
Bugs, since this is coming from JSTOR it's presumably an academic article. In academic parlance "liberal" does not mean "center-left relative to the Overton window of United States politics". It means liberalism in the broad sense, which covers pretty much the entire US political spectrum prior to Trump, certainly everyone from Reagan to Sanders. --Trovatore (talk) 20:22, 4 December 2024 (UTC)- So "liberal" as in "lover of freedom". I guess you can't be a realist and believe in freedom. :( ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 07:07, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- Actually maybe it has a slightly different meaning in this context. Following links from John Mearsheimer took me to anarchy (international relations)#Schools of thought, which contrasts realism, neorealism, liberalism, neoliberalism, and constructivism. In case anyone cares, my own alignment, from a brief reading of the blurbs, would probably be closest to neoliberalism. However I couldn't really follow the "constructivism" description, so who knows; maybe I'd prefer that one if I understood it. --Trovatore (talk) 20:56, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- So "liberal" as in "lover of freedom". I guess you can't be a realist and believe in freedom. :( ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 07:07, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- It's funny to see McCain being characterized as a "liberal". Maybe the author is the one who's deluded. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 16:47, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
December 3
[edit]Etiquette
[edit]Normally, when you need to pass gas in a public place, you excuse yourself and exit the room. What if you're somewhere where you can't leave spontaneously, like halfway during an interview? TWOrantulaTM (enter the web) 03:18, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Then you just don't. If you have incontinence of flatus see a doctor. Shantavira|feed me 10:06, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Plan ahead. Arrive early. Use the restroom. Check yourself in the mirror. Use the restroom again just in case. Clean your teeth. Fix your hair. Check all your buttons and zippers. Then, start the interview. Overall, it looks much better than being the guy who comes running in at the last second. But, if you have to fart and absolutely cannot help it, you simply do it and politely appologize. Nobody is perfect. Giving a common fault to interviewers is better than letting them dig for weird faults. In the end, it makes you memorable. Nobody will forget the guy who let a big one rip in the middle of an interview. 12.116.29.106 (talk) 16:45, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Snooker
[edit]In snooker, what is "a shot to nothing"? 205.239.40.3 (talk) 11:03, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- It's somewhat subjective, but essentially it's a pot taken on with safety in mind: an attempted pot which, if missed, will leave no easy pot for one's opponent. It's quite common at the start of frames, when a player breaks off and leaves a long red to a corner pocket. Instead of committing fully to the pot, the player could play it in such a way that the cue ball will return to the baulk end and be left safe behind the baulk colours. It's defined at Glossary of cue sports terms#S under "shot for nothing", its alternative name. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 11:24, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. I have never heard ""shot for nothing". John Virgo and pals, on the BBC, always say "shot to nothing". 205.239.40.3 (talk) 11:28, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Agreed. In British English, "a shot for nothing" would imply having made a shot for no purpose when one needn't have shot at all, which makes no sense in the context of snooker. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.211.243 (talk) 17:55, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. I have never heard ""shot for nothing". John Virgo and pals, on the BBC, always say "shot to nothing". 205.239.40.3 (talk) 11:28, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
December 4
[edit]Wood
[edit]What is the kind of wood that makes wooden planks? Informationappeared (talk) 03:40, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- There are probably hundreds. Common ones are pine, maple, cherry, walnut, teak, oak, kiaat and many more. It will vary from country to country. The are 2 main categories - hardwoods and softwoods. 196.50.199.218 (talk) 05:03, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- The lumber article may be of interest. 196.50.199.218 (talk) 05:06, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- In Europe, nearly all floorboards and general-purpose wood sold in DIY stores is spruce, mostly Norwegian spruce or Sitka spruce - it's known in the timber trade as "white deal", although actually a very pale yellow colour. Scots pine or "red deal" is sometimes also used and can be distinguished by its prominent grain and darker colour (pine kitchen furniture was popular in the 1980s). Larch is used for fence panels, pallets and other purposes where a smooth finish is not required. Alansplodge (talk) 21:30, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- Besides spruce, beech is also popular for furniture in Europe. The really heavy furniture designed to last for centuries (i.e., mostly antique by now) is usually made of oak. PiusImpavidus (talk) 11:46, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- In Europe, nearly all floorboards and general-purpose wood sold in DIY stores is spruce, mostly Norwegian spruce or Sitka spruce - it's known in the timber trade as "white deal", although actually a very pale yellow colour. Scots pine or "red deal" is sometimes also used and can be distinguished by its prominent grain and darker colour (pine kitchen furniture was popular in the 1980s). Larch is used for fence panels, pallets and other purposes where a smooth finish is not required. Alansplodge (talk) 21:30, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- It appears the user is writing a new draft article for planks, but Wikipedia already has plank (wood). 64.53.18.252 (talk) 22:21, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
19th century American blind schools
[edit]Were there blind schools in 19th century America? 81.152.221.213 (talk) 20:09, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- Googling "19th century American blind schools" easily found Educating The Senses In The Second Great Awakening which mentions Perkins School for the Blind. Alansplodge (talk) 21:36, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- {ec} Yes, see e.g. [3], [4], [5]. --Lambiam 21:57, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- In the Bonanza episode Gabrielle, the 11 year old title character is blind has never went to school. See the episode on Youtube and the scene of her talking to her foster brother at 25:10 to 26:07. 81.152.221.213 (talk) 23:24, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- The Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School, mentioned in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie novel By the Shores of Silver Lake, opened in 1852. Clarityfiend (talk) 14:21, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
Stereo balance/phase correlation meter in surround sound
[edit]I've finally implemented stereo balance (level difference between left and right channels) and phase correlation (level difference between mid and side representations) metering into my own peakmeter project so I'm wondering, are correlogram/pan meters still useful for surround sound? Basically if you put something like this into my own peakmeter, there are 2 phase correlation and stereo balance meters for each pair in 5.1 and quadraphonic sound when shown. 2001:448A:3070:D641:A0A3:AF2:596E:8A96 (talk) 23:49, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
December 5
[edit]Encoding "rebassed" songs into 2.1 stereo
[edit]Why rebassed songs like this one involves replacing bass from original with a "new" one (essentially applying a highpass filter on original signal), instead of encoding the rebassed part into the LFE channel and keeping the original two channels intact (essentially making it a 2.1 stereo)? By 2.1 stereo, I mean 3 separate channels (first two are left and right channels respectively with the last one is dedicated LFE channel). 2001:448A:3070:D641:A0A3:AF2:596E:8A96 (talk) 00:28, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- The OP's example sound-only video is a remix called "rebassed" of a sound-only video popular a decade ago. The normal lossy audio coding on YouTube videos stand in the way of attempts to boost the dynamic ranges of loudness or frequency. The "rebassist" may hope to have increased the song's dramatic effect but I regret that on my audio system his manipulated low frequency tones intrude as unpleasant distortions. I don't see that this "rebassing" example was more than a poorly controlled re-coding of an analog mashup that fails the claim to make bass notes "much louder without any audible distortion". The OP can be correct in proposing that bass tones could be mixed with better control in the dedicated LFE (Low-frequency effects) channel of a 2.1 stereo system. However encoding and reproducing the dramatic result will likely go beyond the capabilities of both YouTube and my ordinary loudspeakers. Philvoids (talk) 13:27, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Creating jersey images
[edit]I have a personal project for which I'd like to make images of jerseys and put player numbers on them. Basically what WP has on the page for any sports team. I only need the jersey and not pants, socks, etc. The project is for creating digital flashcards. For instance, if I were making a card for Michael Jordan, I'd grab my template of a basketball jersey, change the colors to the appropriate colors for the team, overlap a "23" on the jersey, and save that as an image to use on my flashcard. Optimally, I'd like to have different jersey templates for US sports (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, PWHL, NWSL). How can I do this most easily? As you probably suspected, I have no image manipulation experience. FWIW, I'm on a Mac. Thanks! †dismas†|(talk) 20:53, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- I wonder if Template:Basketball kit helps.
- In theory you could use it (in a sandbox) to produce arbitrary jersey images and take screenshots of the results. But it's gone wrong here, evidently it wants some data from some kind of context. Well, it works fine in a sandbox, just not here. Card Zero (talk) 06:36, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- It did not work because of the indentation colons inside the template body. This should work:
- AFAIK there is no way to overlay the number 23. --Lambiam 07:41, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks. I suppose there's no way to scale these up nicely, either. The number could potentially be added in an image editor (in Impact (typeface), most likely), if imprecise centering is acceptable. There's Category:Kit_and_uniform_templates for other sports.
- Using
subst:
before the template name makes the SVG code visible upon editing, but I can't think of a lazy way to then scale the whole image up to something approaching fullscreen. (This is best done at the SVG stage rather than in a raster editor, to avoid jaggies or blurred edges. An alternative would be to save the svg and open it in Inkscape for scaling and further modification.) - Oh, what am I saying, it's not one SVG, it's CSS with several SVGs arranged within it. Maybe a screenshot followed by crappy raster upscaling is the best way, depending on tolerance for low quality in whatever this project is. Or ... there are upscaling algorithms suitable for simple images that maintain sharp edges, but I'm not sure what software allows their use. Imagemagick?
- This whole thing might be a valid use for AI, if you can get it to behave itself.
- OTOH the SVGs are on commons, of course: see Kit_body_basketball.svg and the categories that it belongs to (Sports_kit_templates is several levels up from there). And, organized separately in typical Commons style, SVG_association_football_kit_templates. Card Zero (talk) 09:20, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! I'll look into those options. The images don't have to be big. They're going on flashcards, so maybe a few hundred pixels per side. †dismas†|(talk) 13:24, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- I don't really know what a digital flashcard is. If this is for Anki (software), it seems that its flashcards are essentially webpages and would probably accept svg images, making pixel size irrelevant. (Or maybe not, its manual is vague, I can't find a list of supported image formats.) Card Zero (talk) 14:54, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Yes. It is for an Anki deck. And yes, SVG is supported. †dismas†|(talk) 22:23, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
- I don't really know what a digital flashcard is. If this is for Anki (software), it seems that its flashcards are essentially webpages and would probably accept svg images, making pixel size irrelevant. (Or maybe not, its manual is vague, I can't find a list of supported image formats.) Card Zero (talk) 14:54, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! I'll look into those options. The images don't have to be big. They're going on flashcards, so maybe a few hundred pixels per side. †dismas†|(talk) 13:24, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- AFAIK there is no way to overlay the number 23. --Lambiam 07:41, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Might there be licensing / trademark issues? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 17:46, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Not for a personal project. --Lambiam 08:23, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- I'm not clear. I'm not recreating the uniforms exactly. Using my Michael Jordan example again, I'm just making a red basketball jersey with the number 23. That could be anyone's. Why would I run into any legal issues if it weren't for a personal project? †dismas†|(talk) 22:26, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
- We cannot provide legal advice. Trademark laws vary by jurisdiction. In Vermont, United States trademark law would apply. --Lambiam 07:06, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
- I'm not clear. I'm not recreating the uniforms exactly. Using my Michael Jordan example again, I'm just making a red basketball jersey with the number 23. That could be anyone's. Why would I run into any legal issues if it weren't for a personal project? †dismas†|(talk) 22:26, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
- Not for a personal project. --Lambiam 08:23, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
December 7
[edit]Australian companies
[edit]Are there any Australian multinational companies? None comes to mind. There are many American multinational companies, but are there any Australian ones? --40bus (talk) 10:12, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Googling "Australian multinational" suggests numerous companies. Shantavira|feed me 12:18, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- BHP, Bailey Nelson, Boost Juice, Breville Group, CSL Limited, Canva, Commonwealth Bank, Donut King, Gloria Jean's Coffees, Harvey Norman, Incitec Pivot, Lendlease, MYOB (company), Macquarie Group, Ramsay Health Care, The Coffee Club, Westpac, Woolworths Group (Australia), Zambrero. --Lambiam 22:52, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
December 8
[edit]What's the process regarding submitting a record-breaking joke to Guinness World Records?
[edit]I'd like for my mother's 600-Bitcoin joke to be submitted to Guinness World Records for the most expensive joke ever told to anyone in the world, because 600 Bitcoin is now worth >$60,000,000.
She told me in 2014 that she had invested 600 Bitcoin in 2011. Years later, getting desperate about figuring out a way out of my student loans, I asked her to cash out a little of her bitcoin investments in order to pay off my loans, and my siblings', because it appreciated so much. She didn't know what I was talking about. So I reminded her about her 600 bitcoin investment claim that she told me in 2014.
Then she said "I was only joking."
Now I wonder whether that was the most expensive joke anyone has ever made in recent history. If there were more expensive jokes than that, may I know about them? But if not, how do I submit that joke to GWR for being the most expensive joke ever? What criteria do jokes have to meet to be recorded on Guinness World Records? Thanks. --2600:100A:B037:56CA:C994:6FC:E8CE:B0CE (talk) 04:08, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- I don't know what you're talking about. How is that an expensive joke? What's expensive about it, anyway? An expensive joke would be a joke that led to some expenditure. --Viennese Waltz 06:39, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- As it happens, I personally own the asteroids in the solar system, no joke. They contain quadrillions worth of gold. Reveal your identity, and I'll bestow all this wealth to you in my will. --Lambiam 07:43, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Shipping and handling extra. Clarityfiend (talk) 14:30, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- I think you'll find it's dwarfed by Russia's "joke" fine of Google to the tune of $20,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. April foolski! Clarityfiend (talk) 14:29, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Chamberlain's joke turned out to be pretty expensive. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:23, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
Question about the bust of Lenin in the Tallinn City Museum
[edit]In this photo I saw a bust of Lenin in the Tallinn City Museum, who know about its origin? -- Great Brightstar (talk) 06:14, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Tallinn City Museum know about its origin. Contact details are on their website. Shantavira|feed me 09:43, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- A reasonably thorough Google search failed to find anything. They have a whole park full of old Soviet statuary at Maarjamäe Palace.
- Our Soviet-era statues article says: Statues of prominent socialist figures - particularly of Lenin - were mass-produced and installed in villages, towns and cities across the Soviet Union.
- Alansplodge (talk) 14:50, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
December 10
[edit]Photo of a family of four enjoying a meal
[edit]Is anything known about the members of the family in this photo? Mcljlm (talk) 04:21, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
- They are (probably unrelated) photo models hired for this lifestyle photo shoot. Here you can see another photo from the same shoot. --Lambiam 06:56, 10 December 2024 (UTC)