Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
10% of people have had sex at work
Odd factoids
- Thread starter Blue Hills
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Profpointy
Legendary Member
Doesn't that depend on whether by yourself counts?
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
The other 90% watched
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Jason Stratham is the last of the clan now simply known as The Mechanic. His dad is Mike from Mike and the Mechanics.
classic33
Leg End Member
Quantum Computing?
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
In the 1960's the Beatles campaigned for an extra day to be added to the week. Their campaign song was Eight Days a Week. The campaign ultimately failed, but was revived in heavily modified form in the 1970s, when the unions instead settled for shortening the working week to 3 days.
LeetleGreyCells
Un rouleur infatigable
- Location
- Whitehaven Mansions
Originally, a year was divided into ten months. This is why the latter months are named as they are: SEPTember (7), OCTober (8), NOVember (9) and DECember (10). Then the big wig Romans of the time wanted to seal their immortality, so they added two extra months based upon their names. Julius Caesar gave us July, and Augustus Caesar, August. As they wanted the people to remember them fondly, they put their two extra months in the summer.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
In olden times, fishermen would discard bags of unwanted flies behind hedges or in ditches, tipping them out of their buckets. This is the origin of the term fly tipping.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
So what was March named after, the God Mars or was it the month when they Marched to invade other countries (cos the weather was getting better)
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
The Apollo programme was named in honour of Apollo Creed. The NASA Boss of the time was a huge fan of the Rocky films.
Neither. The chocolate bar manufacturers got a good deal on sponsorship.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Snickers ?
Have you have ever wondered why the tax year in Britain starts on the unlikely date of 6th April, rather than 1st January?
The official start of the year on the old Julian calendar used to be Lady Day (25th March), and this was also the official start of the tax year. However the introduction of the new Gregorian calendar and the loss of the eleven days in 1752 meant this date was changed to 5th April in 1753, to avoid losing 11 days of tax revenue. Another change was made to the date in 1800, as this would have been a leap year in the Julian calendar but not in the new Gregorian calendar. So again the tax year was extended and the date changed to 6th April where it remains to this day.
The official start of the year on the old Julian calendar used to be Lady Day (25th March), and this was also the official start of the tax year. However the introduction of the new Gregorian calendar and the loss of the eleven days in 1752 meant this date was changed to 5th April in 1753, to avoid losing 11 days of tax revenue. Another change was made to the date in 1800, as this would have been a leap year in the Julian calendar but not in the new Gregorian calendar. So again the tax year was extended and the date changed to 6th April where it remains to this day.
Threevok
Growing old disgracefully
- Location
- South Wales
It's the other way around where I work
