GordonD Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 When the Jubilee was first being planned, the Queen was asked how she wanted to celebrate the occasion. She said, "Och, I just fancy a quiet night in, I don't want a lot of fuss." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 Covid was over as a public health crisis in August 2020 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 45% of Paraguayan women are left handed 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 54 minutes ago, GordonD said: When the Jubilee was first being planned, the Queen was asked how she wanted to celebrate the occasion. She said, "Och, I just fancy a quiet night in, I don't want a lot of fuss." Which is RoyalSpeak for "get me the Chippendales but do it discretely." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 Billie Jean King was brought up in Rigside. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDoddyKane Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 On 30/05/2022 at 13:11, GordonD said: The fake Champions League tickets were distributed by Boris Johnson, who knew they would create an uproar that would divert media attention away from himself. That sounds possible 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 1 hour ago, TheScarf said: Billie Jean King was brought up in Rigside. .. and Michael Jackson was the boy next door. Amazing to think how being teased about it at school led to one of his greatest hits. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Gary Lineker strongly dislikes the taste of crisps and has only been the face of walkers for many years due to being paid a handsome salary for doing so. His dislike of them is so strong that he has to be replaced by a stunt double if a TV advert requires him to be filmed eating a crisp. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Liverpool fans are all cheerful people who will happily accept defeat without complaining or making excuses. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 The villainous President Bill Mitchell in the film Dave (starring Kevin Kline) is the half-brother of Pete Mitchell in the film Top Gun (starring Tom Cruise). Apparently Pete is so ashamed of his corrupt half-brother, he vowed to be the greatest pilot the US military had ever known. Who would have thought it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 (edited) 12 hours ago, Fullerene said: The villainous President Bill Mitchell in the film Dave (starring Kevin Kline) is the half-brother of Pete Mitchell in the film Top Gun (starring Tom Cruise). Apparently Pete is so ashamed of his corrupt half-brother, he vowed to be the greatest pilot the US military had ever known. Who would have thought it? Both characters are called “Mitchell” because the films were supposed to form part of the XEECU (Extended EastEnders Cinematic Universe) but that never really took off. It was very much an idea ahead of it’s time as it turns out. Pete Mitchell’s estranged identical twin (Brian Flanagan from Cocktail) was due to enter witness protection and wind up working in the Queen Vic on Albert Square for his Aunt Peggy who he’d find out was his Auntie on Christmas Day after kissing under the mistletoe just before Carole (Goose’s widow) arrived to inform him that Maverick his long lost brother needed a kidney. The Columbian Mob then track Brian down by following Carole only for Phil and Grant to kick seven shades of shit out of them because “Family’s important, in it” By the time of the Mitchell family’s long delayed arrival on Albert Square in 1990 Tom Cruise had received an Oscar nomination and thought he was better than that and started the Mission Impossible series instead. Even recasting Peggy Mitchell with Barbara Windsor in 1992 wasn’t enough to tempt him back to the project despite cruise being a long term fan of the carry on movies. Whether Kevin Kline’s president Bill Mitchell will ever be finally incorporated into the EastEnders universe is doubtful but scriptwriters are still forbidden from writing dialogue that refers to ‘90s US politics just in case. Edited June 8, 2022 by topcat(The most tip top) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Cement mixers in the southern hemisphere have to rotate the concrete in the other direction to avoid crashing into a wall because of the Coriolis effect. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 28 minutes ago, Fullerene said: Cement mixers in the southern hemisphere have to rotate the concrete in the other direction to avoid crashing into a wall because of the Coriolis effect. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Although the MFP was referred to as the 'Main Force Patrol' in Mad Max 2, it was only referred to as MFP in the original film, which the writers used as an in-joke for the 'Mother Fvcking Police'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 After an overwhelming positive response (98%) to an Aberdeenshire survey asking whether Banff should be renamed, as of Jan 1st 2023 it will be formally known as Bamff. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 At the 1960 Belfast Blues Festival, at the Belfast Dockyard, American Blues legend Howlin' Wolf proved so popular he did five encores. In honour of the great man, the management decided to rename the yard after him. Unfortunately the London sign-writers misheard the instructions and the yard remains Harland Wolff. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Ferrino Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 The last words Icarus said were “it’s fine, I remember 1976”. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 On 21/06/2022 at 16:46, Fullerene said: Cement mixers in the southern hemisphere have to rotate the concrete in the other direction to avoid crashing into a wall because of the Coriolis effect. that would be the case here or Taranaki but apparently it’s. only a serious issue for the far northern and far southern bits of the world. In the tropics it makes no practical difference so in sub Saharan Africa and South America they all go the southern way regardless of which side of the equator they are. The exceptions are Ecuador and equatorial Guinea which are so proud of their central latitude that builders prefer to have a reverse gear on their cement mixers so they can always be spinning the “correct” way round for the site they happen to be on. This was actually a legal requirement in Ecuador until 1997 but these days it’s more of a superstition or tradition 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Ballerinas and figure skaters also a problem with visiting the southern hemisphere that this hardly ever gets mentioned. Also tuba players. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
House Bartender Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 There's another problem related to this effect. The Earth's polarity swaps North & South at irregular intervals - this could happen at any time. Every device (or person) calibrated to work in their current hemisphere will require to be traded with equivalent machines from across the great equatorial divide when this happens. Existing compasses will continue to be usable by you must remember to hold them upside down when in use or you may end up descending mountains via the 1000 foot sheer drop to the (new)north as opposed to the steady stroll (new)south. Oh - and the Southern Cross becomes the Northern Cross, the Northern Lights the Southern Lights, the NC500 the SC500 etc etc etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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