ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
About a million billion snowflakes fall each second, averaged over a typical year. That's enough snow to make one snowman for every person on earth every ten minutes.
Odd factoids
- Thread starter Blue Hills
- Start date
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Today, every 5 minutes a car broke down in the UK.
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
The practice of altering the clocks for daylight saving was introduced so that we had something put by for a rainy day.
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
To ensure equality, the day after Boxing Day is to be called Christmas Adam, to balance Christmas Eve.
classic33
Leg End Member
Know it as St. Stephens Day.
Andy_R
Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
- Location
- County Durham
The phrase "many hands make light work" was introduced in the 1920's when bakelite light switches were really hard to operate one handed without breaking them as they were so delicate, and because so few people had indoor electric lighting no one knew exactly what was required of the new technology
Andy_R
Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
- Location
- County Durham
Delivered in a Bristol accent......amazeballs....
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
The phrase "red sky at night, shepherds delight" dates back to the Great Fire of London. The owner of the pudding Lane bakery, Samuel Shepherd, was massively over insured, and was indeed delighted when he saw the sky aglow.
Do people in Bristol know about the subjunctive case?
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
They do indeed, but some eye drops cleared it up.
Andy_R
Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
- Location
- County Durham
Do people in Crawley actually give a flying humunculus about peope in Bristol?
Racing roadkill
Guru
If you’re feeling cold, sitting in the corner of any room will warm you up, because it’s always ninety degrees.
Racing roadkill
Guru
You can always see your own nose, your brain chooses to ignore it.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
The remaining senses of deaf or blind people are no more acute than their full Y functioning brethren. They are simply better practiced at exploiting their full potential.
Racing roadkill
Guru
There is a small sculpture on the moon, called ‘fallen astronaut’ which was made by an artist called Paul Van Hoeydonck, from Belgium. It was placed by the astronauts of Apollo 15.
