Pointless, Randon yet quite interesting facts...

[mexico1970]

The secret of the offensive 'V' sign now revealed. It dates from the battle of Agincourt in 1415. The strength of the English army was the archers (actually most were Welsh). They used to grip the arrow with the index and middle finger before drawing back the bow and firing. The strength of the French army was their cavalry - the horses protected by heavy armour. The leader of the cavalry promised that they would win the day and cut off the archers' firing fingers. However, the battle commenced in pouring rain, the cavalry got stuck in the heavy mud and were a sitting target for the bowmen. When the leader, seriously wounded, was dragged into the English camp at the end there was a long waiting line of archers thrusting two fingers in his face.

Only 400 of the archers were Welsh, still 400 is a decent number from the valleys :)

At Agincourt in 1415, following Owain Glyndwr's Welsh Revolt of 1400-1410, not many Welsh were taken to France at all: of the 6-7,000 archers in Henry V's army at Agincourt, recruitment records show that only 400 were Welsh.

Longbow Origins Before Crecy - Was It Really Welsh?​

 

[Bluemanc100]

At minus 273 degrees all molecular motion stops.

Is that you Kelvin?

 

[Scottyboi]

Only 400 of the archers were Welsh, still 400 is a decent number from the valleys :)

Sick of reading about this Welsh myth the desperate cunts.

 

[mexico1970]

Sick of reading about this Welsh myth the desperate cunts.

LOL :)

 

[Scottyboi]

LOL :)

It is everywhere, does my head in! Still highly debated if the V sign even came from Agincourt too.

A commonly repeated legend claims that the two-fingered salute or V sign derives from a gesture made by longbowmen fighting in the English army at the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War, but no written historical primary sources support this contention.

So is not a fact.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

Nottingham Forest are the only English team to have won more European Cups (2) Than top flight League titles (1).

 

[KS55]

Nottingham Forest are the only English team to have won more European Cups (2) Than top flight League titles (1).

Are they the only club in Europe to whom this applies?

 

[feelymcfeel]

T Rex was alive closer to today than it was to Stegosaurus.
Cleopatra was alive closer to today than to the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

 

[m7mcfc]

Man United don't have one player on their books who has won a league title. Tell them that on Monday at work.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

T Rex was alive closer to today than it was to Stegosaurus.
Cleopatra was alive closer to today than to the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

I was born closer to the outbreak of the second Boer war than today.