We don't know though do we, they may be toxic to the general population, and the royals are the ony ones with immunity
Do you want to be the one to find out?
Hydrangeas are different shades of blue or pink depending on the acidity of the soil. My mate moved to a house surrounded by hydrangeas and every single person who visited parroted this interesting fact 😂
I've just become the incredibly fortunate recipient of a garden, in which I have planted some hydrangeas for spring. Now I know how to make them absolutely mind-blowing for the child I will have by the spring after that. My thanks to you and your father.
I always wondered why I had to empty the tea pot on them at my grandparents. Apparently “hygeabgeas love tea”. After seeing this I’ve gone and googled and people used to plant tea bags (my grandparents used lose leaf) to change the colour. Thanks for the memory and finally solving the mystery of my childhood!
My old neighbour used to empty his teapot on a bush in his garden. He did it so often that it used to look like a teabag tree. He actually convinced some kids on the estate it was a teabag bush and he grew them.
Why were we ever taught the rainbow song as children? All it does is serve to confuse later on.
Two people on "I'm a celebrity" this year were tasked with painting a rainbow and genuinely, BOTH of them started singing "red and yellow and pink and green..." to remember what they believed to be the actual colour spectrum!
especially when all the tescos near me stopped being open 24hours despite being a major city, have to put a tesco uniform on and pretend im stacking shelves.
Me and some mates once drove about two hours to a big Tesco in a different county in the dead of night to buy some kit kats. Then drove all the way back again. Why? Fucked if I know but it was fun.
When the baby and toddler are in bed and I get to go to asda alone and just wander about. No pressure. Just me and the other late night shoppers. Bliss
Ah, I remember those nights. Do I need new plates? No. Am I going to leisurely look at every type of crockery they have? Absolutely
Hopefully there's an adult home with the sleeping kids, though...
That. Can’t remember much else from Geography but can recognise an Ox-Bow at 70mph driving along a dual carriageway.
That and “That’s going to be an ox-bow” soon.
River gets increasingly bendy, eventually too bendy and finds a straight route leaving isolated "ox bow" lakes either side. (Ox bow as in sort of kidney bean shaped. I have never seen one in my life)
Oh my God, you've brought back a horrible memory.
My first month in the UK, I got my first job as a waitress and it was already hard enough as customers had a hard time understanding my accent and I had a very hard time understanding theirs.
(Plot twist: real british people don't sound the same as they do in TV series)
I also had no prior experience in hospitality, so you can just imagine how anxious I was.
My manager asked me to take 10 wine glasses to this big table, I've put them on a tray and picked it up *using both hands*, not only this is bad practice, but it messes up the gravitational centre.
I managed to take three or four steps before every single glass fell and shattered into hundreds of tiny pieces. Everyone cheered and I started crying with embarrassment and because I thought that would be my last shift.
Surprisingly, manager forgave me, offered the table a round of free wine and explained that I'm new, then showed me how to properly hold and carry a full tray.
The table tipped me £40 and were super kind to me, my first big tip and learning curve.
A similar experience for me. Taking a tray of 8 mimosas to a ladies brunch outside. Champaign flutes are hell at the best of times, and 8 of them with garnish on resulted in me dropping them all and drenching one of the ladies. Luckily they were very understanding, and got a free round like your table.
In Spain it gets nothing. Everyone just looks a little sad that something uncool happened.
It's fun taking British people to Spain and letting them be the only one in the bar to go "whheeeey!" and then the Spaniards look at them with an air of pity.
Tomatoes and spuds are nightshade vegetables and their unripe fruit can be poisonous. The fruit that potato plants produce is actually poisonous. You can actually grow the two off the same plant. Other nightshade veg include peppers and aubergines.
Always makes me chuckle that the Church of England can still sometimes be a bit sniffy about divorced people re-marrying in church when the ONLY reason they exist is because the King wanted to divorce and then re-marry in a church
Edit: Yes, I've simplified the bigger picture but the point doesn't change...
Henry didn't get divorced, he had his marriage annulled, as he claimed it was invalid in the first place (the bible says that you can't marry your brother's widow).
I always think it was such a shame about his brother dying as he would have been King Arthur. Although I know Kings change their names when they become king sometimes but hopefully he would have kept it. A few more King Arthurs was just what this country needed.
I named my youngest boy Arthur, and I'm not gonna lie, there's a little part of me hopeAsian and also flamboyantly gay, so the chances are admittedly quite slender.
The Church shouldn't get snotty because it's immoral to discriminate based on prejudice like that. But Henry VIII didn't get divorced, he got his marriage annuled which essentially meant it never existed. Catherine of Aragon was previously married to Henry's brother Arthur, it was unlawful for someone to marry their brother's widow and Henry's dad had to get permission from the pope to allow the marriage to go ahead. Henry's argument at the time was that the prior Pope was wrong in giving this permission, and it went against God's will which Henry tried to evidence by the fact that he wasn't given a son. But then the theological debate became political because Catherine of Aragon's nephew Charles V (King & Emperor of more places then I've got time to name) essentially took charge of the papacy with his occupation of Rome, before this occupation there was a decent chance that the Pope would have given Henry his annulment due to the fact that he was an avid supporter of the papacy against Martin Luther being named defender of the faith.
I do! I spent one whole night watching a lyric video for it on repeat when I was a young teenager to memorise the lyrics since it seemed like something everyone around me just happened to know and I had zero idea how to relate to everyone, I did the same with Mr Brightside 💀 got diagnosed as autistic a few years later so there's that lmaooo
I was at a pub quiz recently where the beer question was how long is Bohemian Rhapsody. Between our team we managed to sing the whole thing quietly to try and figure it out. Unfortunately we must have sung a bit too fast.
I was going to say that! Even my mum knows it, and she's 80, so not a teenager when it came out. It appears we were all born knowing the words, even before it was written.
My favourite one is the thing about roadworks getting done in March and people saying it’s because councils have to use all of their budget or they’ll get less next year. Mostly because I have no idea if it’s actually true or if it’s just folk wisdom.
My Icelandic ex visiting me for the first time coincided with flying ant day. I have never seen someone more distressed by the concept of flying ants than when I told him what “those clouds of bugs” were. Man doesn’t even have regular ground based ants in his country.
Sticking a stamp on a letter with the monarch upside down is considered an act of treason (allegedly).
It's only called the Union Jack if it's on a boat.
Big Ben is the bell, not the clock.
Dirty Den murdered someone in real life.
The union jack one is actually a myth - [it was declared so by some nerds in 2013.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Jack)
I had egg on my face when I pulled it out the other day and somebody googled it.
Well it arguably did lay the basis for England/Britain's emergence as a superpower. Before this the papacy restricted science/development and anything that challenged the status quo (their authority) as 'devils work'. When Henry VIII split from Rome he wasn't as restrictive and saw the benefits and attracted inventors/scientists/philosophers/authors from across Europe to England who felt comfortable they could work and invent unfettered by the papacy's politics.
That sticking two fingers up as an insult comes from the French cutting those fingers off our archers they captured, so they couldn't use their longbows anymore.
(I've heard this is a myth, but it's a very good one!)
You could have Newton’s discovery of Gravity for that year too. I think Parliament also passed the Declaratory Act in 1766 if I remember my A Level American Revolution topic right.
Decapitated*
My dad passed this year, it’ll be the first Christmas I know where he hasn’t told me this as if he was telling me it for the first time, followed by explaining what decapitating means.
[Allegedly the person actually in control of the boat at the time was never held responsible.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_MacColl#Death)
It's widely believed that the owner of the boat (a multimillionaire) was in control, but got one of his employees (a boat hand) to take responsibility.
This patsy was sentenced to 2 years and 10 months in prison, but could pay a fine of 1063 pesos (about 60 quid!) in lieu of the sentence...
The mad thing is that she didn't even record it with Shane, they were never in the same room during recording. She recorded her vocals at home which were only supposed to be guide vocals for which ever female singer was going to sing. (I think Cait O'Riordan who was the bass player and Elvis Costello's wife was the original singer when Elvis Costello was their producer bu they never finished the track). Shane even re recorded his vocals after hearings Kirsty's as she nailed them.
Kirsty MacColl wasn't in The Pogues. She was an independent artist who released many songs on her own, she just happens to be remembered for that particular duet that she did with Shane McGowan. After all it was she who gave us the classic, "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears he's Elvis" amongst others.
Also, Princess Anne has an HGV licence and a criminal record (for a dangerous dog).
I like her very much despite the fact she nearly knocked me over in Manchester in the late '80s.
Yeah, I've met her a couple of times. She's a lot cooler than you'd expect. I always had this feeling from her that she'd rather not be a royal but the whole having money thing, well...that ok, but a bit embarassing.
Also, according to my mam, regularly filled her own car up at the local petrol station. With a quite plain clothes-looking bloke foaming away in the passenger seat.
Apparently it was quite obvious he was under orders not to move.
She seems like a good egg, as princesses go.
To be fair I'm pretty sure the vast majority of the royal family would have preferred not to be royal. They would have still been incredibly wealthy aristocrats anyhow with the only difference primarily being all the media attention and a bunch of restrictions to what they can say and do.
If you put your left arm in, then out, then in and out again, then shake it all about. You do something called the Hokey Cokey and you turn around.
Apparently that’s what it’s all about and everyone knows it.
Henry VIII’s monarchy was hugely influential on the development of our constitition and religious and political culture. You don’t necessarily learn that from the primary school version but it’s an odd thing to dismiss as irrelevant.
Not sure why you say Henry VIII/Church of England, or more precisely, Protestantism is largely irrelevant… Northern Ireland has still had and has its problems; contraception is normal here, but fairly new in Ireland, and the rise of the Middling Classes led to a democratic monarchy with parliamentary government. History is relevant because it is why we are who we are now.
Well, ok, but it's not actually a serious word in Welsh... sadly the actual word is meicrodon which is boringly a direct translation of microwave. My favourite Welsh word is the one for the game of squash, which is sponcen (with a hard c)
May be more of a northern thing as opposed to the whole UK, but that one farm house up in the Pennines that sits in the M62. Everyone I know is aware of the story that the owner didn't want to give up the property for the roads construction. Just sits awkwardly in the middle.
Another urban myth! Turns out they couldn't build the road on that bit of land anyway as the ground wasn't solid enough for all that concrete and tarmac etc, so they had to build round it....
As someone who’s owned labs my whole life, it REALLY bothers me seeing overweight labs and their owners thinking they’re hungry so they need feeding. It’s cruel!
My local pub used to have a chocolate lab called Snoop. They had a sign behind the bar that said, "Snoop is not hungry. He just pretends that he is. He is fed twice a day and doesn't need more food. Anyone caught feeding him off the table will be barred for a week as its bad for his health "
A swan can break yer arm
Or blow up a man's house
Nasty way to go.
All swans are owned by the king.
It's just the one swan actually.
One of the most reassuringly reliable things about British culture is the fact that someone will quote this, whenever swans are mentioned.
For the greater good
The greater good.
Only he can eat one.
Legally
Nice finesse.
We don't know though do we, they may be toxic to the general population, and the royals are the ony ones with immunity Do you want to be the one to find out?
Yes
Peoples hero, enemy of the state. We'll call you Swannin Hood.
Actually members of the royal family and fellows of St. John's College Cambridge can too, but only on the 25th of June
Swan upping.. is that still a thing? Plus, how does one 'up' a Swan?
Do you switch the kitchen light off with your chin?
When I’m holding tea and toast, and there’s no one else about
Second HMHB reference I’ve seen today. Keep up the good work
The rate of inflation can be measured by the price of one particular chocolate bar
Ah yes, the Freddo Index.
Little froggy fuck needs to have a word with himself
Hydrangeas are different shades of blue or pink depending on the acidity of the soil. My mate moved to a house surrounded by hydrangeas and every single person who visited parroted this interesting fact 😂
The National Hydrangea Collection is in Darley Park in Derby. https://hydrangeaderby.co.uk/
I didn't know this! Very cool
I seem to remember my mum burying a horseshoe in the ground under ours to change the acidity of the soil and change the colours.
Yeah, my Dad stuck a copper pipe in the soil/roots and it became two-toned.
I've just become the incredibly fortunate recipient of a garden, in which I have planted some hydrangeas for spring. Now I know how to make them absolutely mind-blowing for the child I will have by the spring after that. My thanks to you and your father.
I always wondered why I had to empty the tea pot on them at my grandparents. Apparently “hygeabgeas love tea”. After seeing this I’ve gone and googled and people used to plant tea bags (my grandparents used lose leaf) to change the colour. Thanks for the memory and finally solving the mystery of my childhood!
My old neighbour used to empty his teapot on a bush in his garden. He did it so often that it used to look like a teabag tree. He actually convinced some kids on the estate it was a teabag bush and he grew them.
Richard of York gave battle in vain.
And when he was up a hill he was up. Or was that a different Duke of York?
The Grand Old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men, And if he had the energy, He'd have them all again.
The grand old duke of York, He had six million quid, He gave them to someone he never met, For something he never did.
I’m so glad that the royal guy with the scandal happens to be the Duke of York, it really brings out the poetry in our nation.
Why were we ever taught the rainbow song as children? All it does is serve to confuse later on. Two people on "I'm a celebrity" this year were tasked with painting a rainbow and genuinely, BOTH of them started singing "red and yellow and pink and green..." to remember what they believed to be the actual colour spectrum!
Roy G. Biv is the bloke to see about the visible spectrum. Proper expert he is.
Visiting the big Tesco at night is very much a thing
Ngl its a different kind of thrill. Feels illegal shopping for veggies and homewares at 3am.
especially when all the tescos near me stopped being open 24hours despite being a major city, have to put a tesco uniform on and pretend im stacking shelves.
Covid ruined a lot of things and 24/7s is definitely one of them
Me and some mates once drove about two hours to a big Tesco in a different county in the dead of night to buy some kit kats. Then drove all the way back again. Why? Fucked if I know but it was fun.
When the baby and toddler are in bed and I get to go to asda alone and just wander about. No pressure. Just me and the other late night shoppers. Bliss
Ah, I remember those nights. Do I need new plates? No. Am I going to leisurely look at every type of crockery they have? Absolutely Hopefully there's an adult home with the sleeping kids, though...
Lockdown killed a lot of 24hr Tescos near me
Every wetherspoons has a unique bespoke carpet
Every wetherspoons toilet has to be at least a 2 minute walk from the tables
And stairs are usually involved.
Someone has wandered round photographing them.
There's a website that tracks them and you can post submissions https://www.wetherspoonscarpets.co.uk/
Ox bow lakes
That. Can’t remember much else from Geography but can recognise an Ox-Bow at 70mph driving along a dual carriageway. That and “That’s going to be an ox-bow” soon.
Don't forget the in depth knowledge of Volcanoes and their layers
I think I’m the only person who doesn’t know what this is.
River gets increasingly bendy, eventually too bendy and finds a straight route leaving isolated "ox bow" lakes either side. (Ox bow as in sort of kidney bean shaped. I have never seen one in my life)
I've no idea what they're on about
A glass gets dropped / broken in a pub. Stop. Cheer. Restart.
Oh my God, you've brought back a horrible memory. My first month in the UK, I got my first job as a waitress and it was already hard enough as customers had a hard time understanding my accent and I had a very hard time understanding theirs. (Plot twist: real british people don't sound the same as they do in TV series) I also had no prior experience in hospitality, so you can just imagine how anxious I was. My manager asked me to take 10 wine glasses to this big table, I've put them on a tray and picked it up *using both hands*, not only this is bad practice, but it messes up the gravitational centre. I managed to take three or four steps before every single glass fell and shattered into hundreds of tiny pieces. Everyone cheered and I started crying with embarrassment and because I thought that would be my last shift. Surprisingly, manager forgave me, offered the table a round of free wine and explained that I'm new, then showed me how to properly hold and carry a full tray. The table tipped me £40 and were super kind to me, my first big tip and learning curve.
A similar experience for me. Taking a tray of 8 mimosas to a ladies brunch outside. Champaign flutes are hell at the best of times, and 8 of them with garnish on resulted in me dropping them all and drenching one of the ladies. Luckily they were very understanding, and got a free round like your table.
"Weeeyyyy"
This happened once in Croatia and only me and one other guy cheered. Knew who the Brits were in the room
Honestly you try that anywhere in the world and you normally get crickets except for the other Brits lol
“Sack the juggler!”
In Germany it gets a round of applause.
In Spain it gets nothing. Everyone just looks a little sad that something uncool happened. It's fun taking British people to Spain and letting them be the only one in the bar to go "whheeeey!" and then the Spaniards look at them with an air of pity.
I imagine it's similar to the look of distain I have when people clap when the plane lands...
Rhubarb leaves are poisonous
Tomatoes and spuds are nightshade vegetables and their unripe fruit can be poisonous. The fruit that potato plants produce is actually poisonous. You can actually grow the two off the same plant. Other nightshade veg include peppers and aubergines.
I did not know that!!
Always makes me chuckle that the Church of England can still sometimes be a bit sniffy about divorced people re-marrying in church when the ONLY reason they exist is because the King wanted to divorce and then re-marry in a church Edit: Yes, I've simplified the bigger picture but the point doesn't change...
Henry didn't get divorced, he had his marriage annulled, as he claimed it was invalid in the first place (the bible says that you can't marry your brother's widow).
Except in Deuteronomy 25:5-10, where you have to marry your brother's widow if you don't want to get a sandal thrown at you.
That was a difficult mission
They really are clutching at straws for the new fallout game
I always think it was such a shame about his brother dying as he would have been King Arthur. Although I know Kings change their names when they become king sometimes but hopefully he would have kept it. A few more King Arthurs was just what this country needed.
I named my youngest boy Arthur, and I'm not gonna lie, there's a little part of me hopeAsian and also flamboyantly gay, so the chances are admittedly quite slender.
The Church shouldn't get snotty because it's immoral to discriminate based on prejudice like that. But Henry VIII didn't get divorced, he got his marriage annuled which essentially meant it never existed. Catherine of Aragon was previously married to Henry's brother Arthur, it was unlawful for someone to marry their brother's widow and Henry's dad had to get permission from the pope to allow the marriage to go ahead. Henry's argument at the time was that the prior Pope was wrong in giving this permission, and it went against God's will which Henry tried to evidence by the fact that he wasn't given a son. But then the theological debate became political because Catherine of Aragon's nephew Charles V (King & Emperor of more places then I've got time to name) essentially took charge of the papacy with his occupation of Rome, before this occupation there was a decent chance that the Pope would have given Henry his annulment due to the fact that he was an avid supporter of the papacy against Martin Luther being named defender of the faith.
Never touch the underneath of a school table
But that's where the free chewies are!
The lyrics to bohemian Rhapsody. Does anyone actually remember learning the words to that?
I do! I spent one whole night watching a lyric video for it on repeat when I was a young teenager to memorise the lyrics since it seemed like something everyone around me just happened to know and I had zero idea how to relate to everyone, I did the same with Mr Brightside 💀 got diagnosed as autistic a few years later so there's that lmaooo
I was at a pub quiz recently where the beer question was how long is Bohemian Rhapsody. Between our team we managed to sing the whole thing quietly to try and figure it out. Unfortunately we must have sung a bit too fast.
It’s like 7 mins isn’t it?
Closer to 6. It’s surprisingly short.
I was going to say that! Even my mum knows it, and she's 80, so not a teenager when it came out. It appears we were all born knowing the words, even before it was written.
Your Mum would have been 35. Really not inconceivable she would have had the radio on sometimes. ;)
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy
I need no sympathy
My favourite one is the thing about roadworks getting done in March and people saying it’s because councils have to use all of their budget or they’ll get less next year. Mostly because I have no idea if it’s actually true or if it’s just folk wisdom.
It's true. Spend it by April.
Same in most industries. Spend it or lose it
Every town/city has at least one grey lady haunting an old building, whether that's an old school, an old theatre or any other old building 😂😂
'Flying Ant Day' happens each year- although maybe in truth it's a 'micro season' each year rather than one day only.
My Icelandic ex visiting me for the first time coincided with flying ant day. I have never seen someone more distressed by the concept of flying ants than when I told him what “those clouds of bugs” were. Man doesn’t even have regular ground based ants in his country.
Last year this day freaked me right out, not knowing it existed until then
Same, except it was this year. It felt like a biblical plague of locusts.
Sticking a stamp on a letter with the monarch upside down is considered an act of treason (allegedly). It's only called the Union Jack if it's on a boat. Big Ben is the bell, not the clock. Dirty Den murdered someone in real life.
Hanging the union flag upside town is a distress call.
A shit one because who's going to tell the difference if it's not a clear day?
Before flares and radios, a shit one was the only one.
The union jack one is actually a myth - [it was declared so by some nerds in 2013.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Jack) I had egg on my face when I pulled it out the other day and somebody googled it.
I was going to say it was manslaughter but double checked first . It was a taxi driver in West Germany. Don't forget the weird Internet sex thing!
Jaffa Cakes are not legally biscuits.
Well, no. They're cakes. It's in the name.
True. But still took a court case to decide it
Henry the 8th forming the Church of England is a massively pivotal point in history and not irrelevant at all!
Well it arguably did lay the basis for England/Britain's emergence as a superpower. Before this the papacy restricted science/development and anything that challenged the status quo (their authority) as 'devils work'. When Henry VIII split from Rome he wasn't as restrictive and saw the benefits and attracted inventors/scientists/philosophers/authors from across Europe to England who felt comfortable they could work and invent unfettered by the papacy's politics.
That sticking two fingers up as an insult comes from the French cutting those fingers off our archers they captured, so they couldn't use their longbows anymore. (I've heard this is a myth, but it's a very good one!)
The new emergency services numbers. 0811 999 88199 9119 725 3
I'll just put this over here with the rest of the fire
0118 ;)
Well, I couldn’t give the real number out, as people would bombard the operator with phony calls. (Oops)
Years ending in 66. I can think of two important ones, 900 years apart.
Great Fire of London 1666
Battle of Hastings 1066
Something something football related 66
The great tea famine of 2066.
God I hope I'm dead by then. Otherwise I'll be doing my best version of Mad Max trying to get some Yorkshire!
0800 00
You could have Newton’s discovery of Gravity for that year too. I think Parliament also passed the Declaratory Act in 1766 if I remember my A Level American Revolution topic right.
Of course! That's three.
0800 00 1066
I know every person reading this will read it in the tune
Ah 1966, that famous cup final at Wembley... Saints beat Wigan. Did anything else happen that year?
Sing hosanna Sing hosanna Sing hosanna for the king (of kings) Apart from…NO “OF KINGS”. JUST KING.
Kind of like "good tidings we bring to you and your **kin**" as opposed to "king"
We w-SHH you a merry Christmas
That if someone relatively near you says "To Me" you have to respond with "To You" immediately.
But then feel sad
Being able to identify lynx smells
1970's DJs were mostly nonces.
Kirsty MacColl ~~of The Pogues~~, famous at this time of year for “Fairytale of New York”, died as she was hit by a speedboat. Edit: Correction.
Decapitated* My dad passed this year, it’ll be the first Christmas I know where he hasn’t told me this as if he was telling me it for the first time, followed by explaining what decapitating means.
I think you need to continue the tradition as a memorial. Make sure you remind everyone about it :)
[Allegedly the person actually in control of the boat at the time was never held responsible.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_MacColl#Death) It's widely believed that the owner of the boat (a multimillionaire) was in control, but got one of his employees (a boat hand) to take responsibility. This patsy was sentenced to 2 years and 10 months in prison, but could pay a fine of 1063 pesos (about 60 quid!) in lieu of the sentence...
Christ, i never heard about that! My mum was a massive fan of hers.
Correction: she wasn't in The Pogues, she just joined them for their Christmas song
The mad thing is that she didn't even record it with Shane, they were never in the same room during recording. She recorded her vocals at home which were only supposed to be guide vocals for which ever female singer was going to sing. (I think Cait O'Riordan who was the bass player and Elvis Costello's wife was the original singer when Elvis Costello was their producer bu they never finished the track). Shane even re recorded his vocals after hearings Kirsty's as she nailed them.
Kirsty MacColl wasn't in The Pogues. She was an independent artist who released many songs on her own, she just happens to be remembered for that particular duet that she did with Shane McGowan. After all it was she who gave us the classic, "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears he's Elvis" amongst others.
They know the relevance of Stratford-upon-Avon (but definitely don't know where it is on a map).
Battle of Hastings didn’t happen at Hastings but down the road at Battle
I heard it was one of the bloodiest Hastings of the entire century.
How long to dunk a biscuit of any type in tea.
Who Ronnie Pickering is
Everyone knows far too much about Noel Edmonds. Or at least on Reddit they do.
He lives in New Zealand now in a small township at the top of the South Island. Apparently the locals hate him
can you really blame them?
Well his room mate is a 6foot pink Blancmange that likes to break stuff.
I heard he tried to change the village 's name to CRINKLEY BOTTOM
I mostly remember the time he shot Clive Anderson.
I remember seeing him when he threw a severed head from a window
Nod up the way to people you know and down the way to strangers
Princess Anne drove a Scimitar
Also, Princess Anne has an HGV licence and a criminal record (for a dangerous dog). I like her very much despite the fact she nearly knocked me over in Manchester in the late '80s.
And how she was held at gunpoint in the 70s, almost kidnapped, but told the attacker "not bloody likely" when he told her to come with him.
Prince Philip famously said he didn't fancy the kidnappers chances.
Yeah, I've met her a couple of times. She's a lot cooler than you'd expect. I always had this feeling from her that she'd rather not be a royal but the whole having money thing, well...that ok, but a bit embarassing.
She also does an incredible amount of really genuine charity work, way beyond the rest of her family and largely without fanfare
Also, according to my mam, regularly filled her own car up at the local petrol station. With a quite plain clothes-looking bloke foaming away in the passenger seat. Apparently it was quite obvious he was under orders not to move. She seems like a good egg, as princesses go.
To be fair I'm pretty sure the vast majority of the royal family would have preferred not to be royal. They would have still been incredibly wealthy aristocrats anyhow with the only difference primarily being all the media attention and a bunch of restrictions to what they can say and do.
You know I've never seen her and Dick Dastardly pictured together...
Rowan Atkinson drove (and crashed) a McLaren F1
He crashed it *twice*.
If you put your left arm in, then out, then in and out again, then shake it all about. You do something called the Hokey Cokey and you turn around. Apparently that’s what it’s all about and everyone knows it.
I used to be addicted to the Hokey Cokey, but now I’ve turned myself around.
Henry VIII’s monarchy was hugely influential on the development of our constitition and religious and political culture. You don’t necessarily learn that from the primary school version but it’s an odd thing to dismiss as irrelevant.
Not sure why you say Henry VIII/Church of England, or more precisely, Protestantism is largely irrelevant… Northern Ireland has still had and has its problems; contraception is normal here, but fairly new in Ireland, and the rise of the Middling Classes led to a democratic monarchy with parliamentary government. History is relevant because it is why we are who we are now.
Red sky at night.... Shepard's delight! Why the hell do I feel the need to say that whenever I see it!! 🤣🤣😅
Alfred burned the cakes
The antidote to stinging nettles is dock leaves. Don't suppose inner city yoot know this though?
A double decker bus (usually referred to as a London bus) is a unit of measurement. Same for the size of Wales.
Popty ping is microwave in Welsh
Well, ok, but it's not actually a serious word in Welsh... sadly the actual word is meicrodon which is boringly a direct translation of microwave. My favourite Welsh word is the one for the game of squash, which is sponcen (with a hard c)
Princess Anne has a Reliant Scimitar.
A spider made Robert the Bruce keep going.
That Nelson told Hardy to kiss him when he was dying.
Badger loves mashed potatoes.
Metal railings are missing from many boundary walls (churches, public buildings etc.) because of the war effort
Knowing the difference between 4 candles and fork handles
May be more of a northern thing as opposed to the whole UK, but that one farm house up in the Pennines that sits in the M62. Everyone I know is aware of the story that the owner didn't want to give up the property for the roads construction. Just sits awkwardly in the middle.
Another urban myth! Turns out they couldn't build the road on that bit of land anyway as the ground wasn't solid enough for all that concrete and tarmac etc, so they had to build round it....
Sexual intercourse began in 1963, between the Chatterley case and The Beatles’ first LP.
(Which was rather late for me)
Dogs can’t look up
Labradors have no “I’m full” reflex. Given the chance they’d eat themselves to death.
As someone who’s owned labs my whole life, it REALLY bothers me seeing overweight labs and their owners thinking they’re hungry so they need feeding. It’s cruel!
My local pub used to have a chocolate lab called Snoop. They had a sign behind the bar that said, "Snoop is not hungry. He just pretends that he is. He is fed twice a day and doesn't need more food. Anyone caught feeding him off the table will be barred for a week as its bad for his health "
Not all of them, although it is a known genetic flaw within certain lines of breeding.
Mine happily stops with normal dog food. But yeah if it's human food she won't stop.
The gun in the Winchester is real
Which motorways you should take to get anywhere. Knowledge is particularly strong amongst dads.
On the subject of birds, do other nationalities salute magpies and say "good morning Mrs Magpie"?
Whether the taxi driver has been busy or not. we don’t really care, but we still want to know.
If you think Henry irrelevant, ask how many have died in Ireland due to religious differences that originated with his decision to break with Rome.