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January 6

I have a question about this picture of lgbt flag colours I found online

So I found this photo in google or yahoo images of Easter Eggs of different sexualities and gender flag colours. I recognize the Pride, transgender and genderqueer colours, but what other lgbt representation is this photo because I'm not sure what the colours on the other eggs each represent: https: https://bellagator.tumblr.com/post/115554684376/my-parents-dont-recognize-sexualities-so-i-made (talk) 04:14, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

left column, top to bottom: Bisexual flag, genderqueer flag, polysexual flag

center: pansexual flag

right column, top to bottom: trans flag, asexual flag, gay pride flag

EvergreenFir (talk) 07:28, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It makes me wonder if Jupiter represents an identity. --Lambiam 19:07, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed Moon

(bi), Mercury

and comet

(various "in-between", fluid, Hermes-Aphroditeic and other non-vanilla identities), and "2nd most common Earth glyph except rotated"

(transmale) at LGBT symbols and wouldn't be surprised if at least one symbol is (at least accidentally) an asteroid or other astro symbol since so many niche glyphs exist. One of them resembles the symbol for asteroid #3 (Juno) (

vs.

) and another a symbol for the bullshit planet Transpluto. If sugar daddies want to take Pluto that would work and there's even a Pluto symbol that looks like

. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 23:54, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Completely unrelated but I can see a connection between alchemy (including symbols like

) and trans identities. EvergreenFir (talk) 04:22, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What it means to be a joint tenant

In our article on Carol Decker, it says the following:

That same year, Decker became a joint tenant of the Cherry Tree Inn at Stoke Row near Henley, which Coates had established.

The reference that is supplied doesn't really help me (an American) understand what this, possibly British, phrase means. What does it mean to become a joint tenant of an inn? Does she live there, like the Major in Fawlty Towers? Thanks for any additional exposition that you could provide on how common this is, etc. †dismas†|^(talk) 16:11, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Reference number 10 explains: Carol and her husband were renting the pub from the nearby Brakspear Brewery, and running it together. I expect the brewery's beers were heavily promoted there as part of the deal. I can't be certain that they lived there as well, but why not? Looks nice. Card Zero (talk) 16:23, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

To add a bit to Card Zero's explanation - a lot of pubs in England are tied houses, where the brewery (a medium to large corporation) owns the building (and the name and goodwill of the pub business there) but it is rented and operated by tenants (the "landlord" or "publican") who own the business of the pub. They pay the brewery rent, and are, as Card Zero says, obligated to buy at least some of their beverages from the brewery. But they're business owners (not just managers); they'll make money if the business does well, and will lose (potentially a lot) if it does badly. A downside, for the tenant, is that they don't own the goodwill - so if they do well and are popular, and decide to move to a different pub (maybe a bigger one, or a free house where they're not beholden to the brewery) they can't take the name of the business with them. It's a bit like owning a McDonalds franchise, and also renting the building from McDonalds. The specific term "inn" isn't especially meaningful (and pub names tend toward the traditional, or faux-traditional), but one might broadly take it to mean a pub (which also sells food) and a number of hotel rooms. In such setups, it's very common for *someone* on the staff to live above the pub (because someone has to be there at night, and first thing in the morning) and that's often, but not always, the publican. It's extremely common for the tenants to be a couple, as the workload and time commitment would be overwhelming for one person. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 17:19, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

For more elaborate expositions, see here or here. In US English, "tenant landlord" is a contradictio in terminis, but see sense 2 for "landlord" at Wiktionary. --Lambiam 19:05, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It is if you're being very prescriptive, but someone might use "tenant landlord" to mean someone who lives in a building they own and rents out additional space/units in it, which is a thing that happens. --47.155.96.47 (talk) 01:57, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia covers the term "joint tenant" at concurrent estate. I have no idea whether what it says there applies correctly to British pubs. --184.144.97.125 (talk) 03:39, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No. That legal term was the first thing I thought of when I saw the question (forty years ago I was a law student). This arrangement might be a joint tenancy in law, but need not be, as tenant here means something rather different from the legal meaning of the word. --ColinFine (talk) 15:53, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you all for your assistance! †dismas†|^(talk) 12:25, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

January 8

I another question about another lgbt flag inspired egg I found online

What does the colours on this egg represent? https://me.me/i/last-post-for-a-bit-lmao-made-this-egg-and-bedbdc5f99c3433989d607190e560da1 2001:569:5262:A00:3D52:A049:D2CE:C1B8 (talk) 01:49, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'll answer here too. That's the transgender flag I think. EvergreenFir (talk) 04:18, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

January 9

Is this self-published?

Bowers, Gordon (23 June 2016). The Great Diamond Heist - The Incredible True Story of the Hatton Garden Diamond Geezers. Kings Road Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78606-078-5. .......0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 02:09, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You may get better results asking at WP:RSN, which is a message board more directly designed to answer questions about the reliability of sources. --Jayron 32 02:35, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Kings Road Publishing is a division of Bonnier Book UK,^[1] itself a subsidiary of Bonnier AB.^[2] I could not readily figure out how to submit a book for publication, which strongly suggests they are not into self-publishing. The book referenced above appeared under their John Blake imprint. --Lambiam 07:50, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

January 11

Longest straight flight only in a single nation's airspace plus international waters.

Thinking about the North Korea Missile Launch, I was wondering what nation could do the longest straight flight from a point in their country travelling only over their own country and international waters. The US seems to be able to be one of the best launching from Northern Alaska to the South South East avoiding Easter Island and the Galapagos and ending where the Antarctic Treaty starts 60 degrees south. I guess the Chileans could launch something along a similar track but I don't think it would be that long. Could we get from Western Russia over the pole/Siberia staying north of Japan and ending *somewhere* in the Pacific that would be longer? I'm not sure you can thread the needle down the Atlantic though. (And I don't think Eastern Australia heading west south west and landing near the falklands works.Naraht (talk) 15:26, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

~~WHAAOE: World's longest domestic flight#Current record.~~ Clarityfiend (talk) 17:18, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Surely the answer would have to be this path over water, continued across eastern Russia until it hits the border with Mongolia or Kazakhstan. --Amble (talk) 17:55, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

WDHAAOE. Okay, I see that this is a theoretical question. So you can start and end in the drink? My guess would be starting just off the coast of Greenland, across Russia and over the Pacific to just off the west coast of the United States or Canada. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:20, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you had to begin on land, then my Mark I eyeball would say start from Murmansk to maximize the distance across the Pacific. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:32, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's also what I thought, before I saw the all-water path that I linked. It is quite a remarkable great circle path over water -- it goes from the coast of Pakistan down around Africa and South America, threading inside of Madagascar and Antarctica, then back up the Pacific to Russia. The part of the great circle that's over land is mostly Russia. I would be amazed if it can be beat. Here's another view: [3]. If I understand correctly, this path is already 80% of a great circle continuously over water, and it should be more like 90% once you include the part over Russia. I took the rules to be based on the ballistic missile test scenario, where your launcher is land-based, splashdown is OK, and you just want to be able to tell other countries to mind their own business. --Amble (talk) 21:44, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's not straight, though. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:44, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sure it is: it's a great circle, which is a geodesic on the sphere. --Amble (talk) 22:48, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

😲 Clarityfiend (talk) 22:55, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a version where I tried to pick about the best point on the Russia-Mongolia border: [4]. The great circle has a total length of 39941 km, with 36237 km over ocean + Russia, and another 3704 km over Mongolia, Pakistan, and other countries. --Amble (talk) 23:14, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Earth's surface is curved, not flat.[citation not needed] This means the rules of Euclidean geometry don't apply. A geodesic is just a geometry thing: the generalization of "straight line", or shortest distance, to any general geometric surface, including non-Euclidean ones. Suggested reading: Non-Euclidean geometry § Models of non-Euclidean geometry. As shown, on a sphere, the angles of a triangle sum up to more than 180 degrees. --47.155.96.47 (talk) 00:56, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Amble If the planet was tilted so that that great circle route was the Equator, what would be the lat/long of the poles? I think one of the poles would be around Bermuda???Naraht (talk) 23:15, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Naraht The poles seem to be in the north Atlantic northeast of Bermuda, and near Sydney. Unfortunately the great circle plotting site I used doesn't directly show this, but you can get a good guess by switching to the azimuthal-equidistant map projection. --Amble (talk) 00:34, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Other than seaplanes, don't all flights begin on land? -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 22:11, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No and no. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:49, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

OP said missile, not aircraft. Submarine-launched ballistic missiles exist too. --Amble (talk) 22:51, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The most northerly part of Norway is Rossøya, a lot further north than anywhere in Alaska, and Queen Maud Land ends at the South Pole, so assuming that it was a civilian missile (descending harmlessly by parachute) it would be hard to beat I think. It might need some course corrections on the way to keep it over the water, but Norwegians are clever people. Alansplodge (talk) 23:52, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If it needs course corrections, it is not a straight flight. --Lambiam 10:20, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Claims to national territory in Antarctica are not very sturdy. Hayttom (talk) 17:00, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Launch from Thule Island (British) 59°27′S 27°18′W and fly straight East as far as you like. Philvoids (talk) 17:15, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense. Just pick an island with nothing else along the same longitude and you can circumnavigate the world as many times as you want as long as the fuel lasts. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:09, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's not a "straight line", it's powered flight in a circle. --Amble (talk) 22:28, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Reggie Kray's glasses - what type/brand were they?

Question as title. If you've seen pictures of him, his glasses had thick lenses and a thick frame, but only along the top. Was discussing this with someone today who said they were "Michael Caine glasses", but they definitely weren't. No, Caine's glasses were thick frames all the way around. Anyone have any idea what Reggie's specs were called? --Iloveparrots (talk) 23:16, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The type is 'browline glasses'.[5] --107.15.157.44 (talk) 23:25, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hard to believe that Sir Michael is older than the twins. But of course he was born in lovely, leafy Rotherhithe, not awful, 'orrble, 'Aggerston. But Michael must be a bit hard up, as he's putting his own "iconic specs" up for sale. "Not a lot of people know that." Martinevans123 (talk) 18:33, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

January 12

Are asexual or aromantic people sometimes people who hate dating

Does anyone think I might be asexual or aromatic due to the fact I never at all want to date anyone even though I'm attracted to men? If someone asks me out in the future I will say no, and would rather be friends. I'm just curious about what counts to be considered asexual or aromantic. 2001:569:5262:A00:883F:7E4C:58E1:C6FA (talk) 01:58, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest you read our articles on Asexuality and Aromanticism and decide for yourself.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:19, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) – We have an article Asexuality, which gives two different senses of the term: (1) lack of sexual attraction to others; (2) low or absent interest in or desire for sexual activity. I find either definition unsatisfactory; if a person has sexual fantasies, that established (IMO) that they are a sexual being – yet they can still not be sexually attracted to others in real life and have no desire for their fantasies to become reality. See also the article Gray asexuality – it is a spectrum without clear boundaries.

Although dating customs vary across cultures, engaging in dating always involves to some extent being assessed for suitability as a mate, and people may find the inherent scrutiny, the idea of being judged, so disagreeable that it already turns them off before romantic interest can develop. Rejection sensitivity may also play a role. The concept of Romantic attraction is also vague – in some definitions it is the same as limerence, in other definitions having warm feelings for someone and a desire to bond with them is enough. --Lambiam 09:44, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Matt Walsh Early life

Ive been working on a draft of a article, and i submitted it for a review. I got a comment saying i need sources in his early life section. While i understand if some of the claims arent verifiable, i cant even find birth date from a secondary source. (talk) 07:57, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy link: Draft:Matt Walsh (pundit) – not this Matt Walsh. We cannot report statements without reliable sources supporting them. Is this meant to be a request for finding such sources? --Lambiam 10:08, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that is what I mean. I cant find any sources on anything on this guy. I understand if claims cant be supported but i cant even find a birthdate source. My apologies for the lack of link, new to editing (talk) 16:59, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well, then there isn't going to be an article. It's really not that complicated; not everything that exists in the universe meets the minimum standards for having a Wikipedia article about it. In order to merit a stand-alone article, something needs sufficient reliable source material to have already been written about it. If that source material doesn't exist, then there's nothing to use to help research and write a Wikipedia article, and the Wikipedia article probably shouldn't exist. --Jayron 32 20:39, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I am not certain the subject is notable, but the noted lack of sources concerns only his personal life, including his early life. The draft has many references to what we consider reliable sources, but these pertain to the subject's public persona. --Lambiam 22:39, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed: it's not mandatory for an article to include such details; they are, after all, not what makes a subject notable. If they cannot be sourced, they should, as one commenter has said, be removed.

However, LuNaCy, I am concerned that the current Early life section, despite having no references, nevertheless contains a number of details that would likely be known only to the subject – who, it is stated, "tries to keep his personal life private" – or to someone close to him who would have a Conflict of interest, unless he or they have published them in some way. Where did these details come from? Published sources that are not considered sufficiently independent of the subject as to contribute to Notability might nevertheless be acceptable as sources of minor facts, but they do need to be cited.

I must say that the statement "Matt was born . . . to his parents" made me smile, but I understand that it is probably intended as a placeholder pending the discovery of further details. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.195.175.103 (talk) 02:16, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I adopted the article as someone stopped editing it, and it was postponed deletion. Whoever started the article was incredibly bias towards Walsh. This is my first significant contribution, and as you can see im struggling. Thank you for the advice, I will edit the article more and fix these errors. (talk) 05:52, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Cat fountain?

What is a cat fountain? Thanks. 86.188.121.70 (talk) 14:14, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A pet supply for domestic cats that dispenses water; see these images.

On the other hand, This work of art is called the "dog fountain". "Cat fountain" could obviously be the name of a similar work with cats insread of the dogs (or to be exact, instead of the dogs and one cat), if it existed. --184.144.97.125 (talk) 22:24, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

How amazing. Does not have it's own article yet? But you know what always happens later.... Martinevans123 (talk) 22:41, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

See the "what links here". The fountain doesn't, but the park does. --184.144.97.125 (talk) 05:37, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

January 13

Is 150 pounds for a 5'3 or 5'4 woman with a large bust a healthy size? 2001:569:5262:A00:C5F0:4EE4:D8AD:9643 (talk) 05:33, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That would be speculation on our part but you may find body mass index useful. 41.165.67.114 (talk) 05:54, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]