Well I never knew that.

[MintTrav]

Even in those days, with virtually nothing on the telly, Dick Emery was pretty crap. Just the same jokes repeated week after week after week after week.

[jgcblack]

If you go onto google and type in 'google gravity' search on 'i'm feeling lucky' your webpage will fall apart. Literally.

that is fun!

[jgcblack]

I didnt know Stephen fry was gay
Just thought he was super posh

must be joking?




Here's some randoms off the top of my head
Richard Gere's middle name is Tiffany

The highest mountain is actually below sea level.

To be considered 'literate' in mandarin, you need to know between 3-5k characters, however over 30k exist in 'common' usage.

One of the first FOI requests for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was genuinely "how much ferrero roche do you buy worldwide each year using taxpayers money"
(that was well spent tax payers money finding out.... #wpsir)

There is one episode of "Only Fools and Horses" where the van doesn't say 'Trotters independent trading' - instead it says 'Trotters international trading'.

There are two landlocked by landlocked countries in the world - Uzbekistan and Lichtenstein.

The Caspian Sea, is a lake.

Vietnamese has 14 different tones for most words

Mandarin has 4 tones

(im remembering this from a while back, might be a little sketchy on exact details, but the theory is correct - apparently)
Theoretically you could travel forward in time... if you could create a train that could travel around the world 17 times /minute then over '10 years' on the train for you, it would actually have been 100 years in the outside world.  - or something...


too tired, going to bed.

[kinboshi]

The tallest mountain might be below sea level, but the highest, by definition certainly isn't.

[RED-DOG]

Even in those days, with virtually nothing on the telly, Dick Emery was pretty crap. Just the same jokes repeated week after week after week after week.

What, you mean like Little Britain or that "Am I bovvered" bird?

[MintTrav]

Even in those days, with virtually nothing on the telly, Dick Emery was pretty crap. Just the same jokes repeated week after week after week after week.

What, you mean like Little Britain or that "Am I bovvered" bird?

Exactly. I agree with you that things haven't changed. There has been a lot of repetition in many comedy programmes, but it was extreme in his case. I blame him for programmes like The Fast Show and the ones you mention.

[bobAlike]

When accessing the bbc news website in America there are loads of advertisements.

[Tal]

When accessing the bbc news website in America there are loads of advertisements.

I am pretty sure BBC America or whatever TV channel it is over there is commercial too. It must be one of their best revenue streams.

[smashedagain]

When accessing the bbc news website in America there are loads of advertisements.

how is the holiday going?

[leethefish]

When accessing the bbc news website in America there are loads of advertisements.

Thin

[Royal Flush]

In 2012 a single required approx 6000 sales in a week to make the Top 40 - the same figure was over 100,000 units in 1969.

Obviously the Clinton line was BS but this has to be as well surely? Only 4 singles in the history of British music have sold more than 2m copies.

[Royal Flush]

Q) How many copies does a title have to sell to be a hit?
A) This obviously varies annually and from month-to-month. But, in a typical 2006 week...

Singles: A number 1 record has sold around 30,000 copies per week. Sales of around 13,000 have been sufficient to hit the top 10. A title selling over 2,500 copies would make the Top 40. These figures have approximately halved since 2002 - more at the no.1 position.

[bobAlike]

When accessing the bbc news website in America there are loads of advertisements.

how is the holiday going?

Ok so far but only arrived last night. Had a lovely Italian meal where the service was exceptional and frankly puts a lot of restaurants in England to shame.

[bobAlike]

When accessing the bbc news website in America there are loads of advertisements.

Thin

It's the only time my name can be associated with the word thin Lee.

[leethefish]

When accessing the bbc news website in America there are loads of advertisements.

Thin

It's the only time my name can be associated with the word thin Lee.

There is always
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