Just going completely away from footie as I like to do from time to time (er... often). Anyway just wanted to state one of the most obvious things anyone has ever said, but IMHO it is worth mentioning from time to time...
You can't believe everything you read on the internet
I know, shocking, eh? It's just I've come across a few examples recently of things I knew were wrong, but were presented in such as way so that people would think otherwise unless they knew. Which leads me to believe how many things have I "learned" from the internet that were also wrong but I didn't have the wit to realise?
Anyway, consider these examples.
Firstly something that appears completely genuine, and is probably reported in good faith, but is completely wrong. I was googling the distance between Dover and Calais for reasons not relevant here, but I came across this "information" on a website called "Distancefromto" net, so you would think they would be accurate and have no reason to mislead.
https://www.distancefromto.net/between/Calais/Dover, UK - Calais, FR
Basically it says it is about 9 miles between Dover and Calais.
Secondly (and thirdly) are instances of Google (I think) answering the question
it thinks I am asking rather than the one I actually am. Having come across this in the past week I guess this is a standard thing.
> I wanted to know what the mountains between Spain and Portugal were called. I phrased the question different ways because I kept on getting the answer The Pyrenees. Now it never directly said they were between Spain and Portugal, but it did seem to think that I actually wanted to know the mountains between Spain and France so kept on giving me that answer. And if you didn't read the answers carefully however, you might get the wrong answer. Not that many people want to know the answer to the question I was answering, but if you did...
> I wanted to know when decimal coins were first used in the UK. I knew it was before decimal currency became legal tender, but again despite phrasing the question differently I kept on being told February 1971. I did eventually find the answer way down on one of the links which is what I was looking for (10p and 5p coins were first circulated in 1968). But again I was given the answer to the less likely question, but the question (I think) I was actually asking was answered wrongly.
Maybe this is just grumpy older guy picking up on unimportant stuff, but perhaps this idea of the internet not giving the right answers is more common than I thought.
