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[tommydazzle]

Four thousand weeks is a pretty good life span for a bloke.

 

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[Brighton Sky Blue]

I’m not saying I didn’t believe you, but I had to watch a video of it, that’s brilliant!

Easy to do at home if you've got some budding young scientists in the household-get them to explain

 

[tommydazzle]

Counting to a million (1 per second) is around 11 days, counting to a billion over 30 years.

 

[tommydazzle]

There are only three common words in the English language that end in ceed. Don’t google it, work it out.

 

[tommydazzle]

Football used to be a posh game played by the upper classes before it became culturally working class.

 

[fernandopartridge]

There are 9 million bicycles in Beijing

Sounds like the Irish Centre on a Saturday night

Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk

 

[Tommo1993]

There are only three common words in the English language that end in ceed. Don’t google it, work it out.

Succeed, proceed, exceed?

 

[wingy]

Aniseed.

 

[tommydazzle]

Wingy.
See me.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Bananas glow under UV light, but only when ripe.

 

[thekidfromstrettoncamp]

Mike Hailwood (motorcycle and car racer for the younger 1's) when practicing on the bikes his hands get very cold and he would warm them up on a woman called Elizabeth McCarthy's boobs .Very often carried a clarinet to play whén not riding.Already told about him and a fortune teller on 1 of my posts saying he would be killed by a truck before he was 40 and not on the track.

 

[Otis]

The average number of legs per person is less than two.

Don‘t believe the dog factoid - my dog looks up at planes and geese flying over. She also looks up at her toy stuck in a tree with sad eyes...

Yeah, but my dog has got no neck.

 

[JAM See]

There are only three common words in the English language that end in ceed. Don’t google it, work it out.

Succeed, proceed, exceed?

This is a City forum mate.

Succeed is NOT a common word in our parlance.

 

[Frank Sidebottom]

A shark will only attack you if you're wet.

 

[thekidfromstrettoncamp]

Norman Wisdom was the Chairman of The Charity Brickworks in Bedworth that made breeze blocks on the Old Charity Mine site in Collycroft .

 

[dutchman]

Football used to be a posh game played by the upper classes before it became culturally working class.

And the word "soccer" is derived from the latin "socio" meaning to associate.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

You can boil water using ice

Get some very hot water, pour it into a screw top bottle and close. Turn upside down, rub ice around the air space. The pressure drop boils the water

At the top of Mt Everest water boils at 68°C

 

[Blind-Faith]

You can’t melt a cadburys flake

 

[dutchman]

I read once we share 60% of our DNA with a lettuce but I never thought in a million years it would ever become relevant.