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wheelnut wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 6:01 am The most dangerous sport in the world is bowls.
The game itself isn't dangerous, it's the demographic of old codgers dropping dead because of age & other health issues.

ISTR that buggering about with horses is top of the list that is actually dangerous to participants.
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Polar bear's skin is black.
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In the Victorian days, blue was for girls and pink was for boys.
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Ant wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 8:30 am In the Victorian days, blue was for girls and pink was for boys.
It's getting a bit like that again......
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The man who invented the Biro (Lazlo Biro) also invented an auto gearbox.....
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The first electrical multimeter was invented by a British telephone engineer.
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ZRX61 wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 7:23 am
wheelnut wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 6:01 am The most dangerous sport in the world is bowls.
The game itself isn't dangerous, it's the demographic of old codgers dropping dead because of age & other health issues.
Really? 😯
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Ant wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 10:02 am The first electrical multimeter was invented by a British telephone engineer.
Mega idea that !!
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A blue whale has a 8' penis and ejaculates about 29 pints.... :shock:

Thats one hell of a pearl necklace....
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Wreckless Rat wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 1:08 pm A blue whale has a 8' penis and ejaculates about 29 pints.... :shock:

Thats one hell of a pearl necklace....
Probably explains why the sea tastes so salty.....
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Laurent Fignon woud have beaten Grg Lemond aand won the Tour by 8 seconds if he'd have cut his pony tail off.

According to this article:

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The mild euphoria you experience before and while you pass a large stool has been called poophoria by Princeton University's Dr. Anish Sheth, co-author of "What's Your Poo Telling You?
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Beer can doesn't mean beer can in Jamaica. 😉
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Wreckless Rat wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 1:08 pm A blue whale has a 8' penis
A whale's penis is called a 'dork'.

They used to be made into novelty golf bags.
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Ant wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 2:30 pm The mild euphoria you experience before and while you pass a large stool has been called poophoria by Princeton University's Dr. Anish Sheth, co-author of "What's Your Poo Telling You?
A state of faecstasy.
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Cheddar Man the mesolithic skeleton discovered in 1903 at Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset has a relative who lives in the village, a school teacher called Adrian Targett.
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You can't wash slug slime off of you, should you get it on you.
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Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 12, 2023 10:41 am You can't wash slug slime off of you, should you get it on you.
Friend went on one of those outdoorsy courses and she said the bloke got them to rub slug slime on their lips as a v persistent lip balm. They rubbed a slug on their lips! 💋 Euwww. :D

(It works apparently).
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Count Steer wrote: Wed Jul 12, 2023 10:54 am
Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 12, 2023 10:41 am You can't wash slug slime off of you, should you get it on you.
Friend went on one of those outdoorsy courses and she said the bloke got them to rub slug slime on their lips as a v persistent lip balm. They rubbed a slug on their lips! 💋 Euwww. :D

(It works apparently).
Pretty sure "they" harvest snail slime as an alternative, sustainable, green etc. thickener for make up and the like.

It kills the snails though, so not entirely sure how eco friendly that makes it :D
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Count Steer wrote: Wed Jul 12, 2023 10:54 am
Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 12, 2023 10:41 am You can't wash slug slime off of you, should you get it on you.
Friend went on one of those outdoorsy courses and she said the bloke got them to rub slug slime on their lips as a v persistent lip balm. They rubbed a slug on their lips! 💋 Euwww. :D

(It works apparently).
I nearly always barefoot at home and trod on one in the garden. Tried to wash the snotty slime off my foot and I couldn't. Gross! I looked it up and apparently, you have to wait for it to dry out and then rub hard enough for the friction to make it break up! :sick:

I wouldn't be rubbing no slug on my lips!!

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/05/heal ... index.html