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jamesclarke555
03-01-2005, 15:22
BBC News (http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4134329.stm)

1. Street brawlers sometimes arm themselves with potato peelers, according to the Home Office, which wants to make them banned weapons.
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Theodoric
03-01-2005, 16:53
BBC News (http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4134329.stm)

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I take it that we're talking good, old fashioned Lancashire potato peelers here, and not some ultra-modern, state of the art, anyone seen the manual peeler.
Chris W
03-01-2005, 16:56
5. 52% of households have five or more remote controls.

i've just been round and counted... we have 18 :shocked: :disturbd:
Graham M
03-01-2005, 16:58
The sharp pointy ones i assume :)
Chris W
03-01-2005, 17:08
The sharp pointy ones i assume :)

only 5 sharp pointy ones ;)
Theodoric
03-01-2005, 17:15
BBC News (http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4134329.stm)
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4. Crows apparently like the taste of windscreen-wiper blades.
When we visited New Zealand we were warned about wind-shield wiper destroying parrots at certain car parks on South Island.

15. UK scientists have developed a clock which ticks 1,000,000 billion times a second. Technically that's a quadrillion.
Petaherz, or PHz, sounds even more technical


21. The word "electricity" was first used in English in about 1600 by Elizabeth I's physician.
Namely, William Gilbert. It's from electron, the Greek for amber; you can generate static electricity by rubbing a piece of amber.


24. Germany has an 18-year-old MP - Julia Bonk, a member of the Saxony legislature. Her name is not funny in German.
The German for fox is Fuchs. You will occasionally see it used as a surname with the 'h' replaced by 'k'.


36. One in five British homes has a foot spa, although mostly they lie idle, among more than £3bn of "useless gadgets" to be found in UK homes, according to insurance firm Esure.
Very true. We gave ours away years ago.


39. More Brits die each year falling from their hotel balcony than do in diving accidents, according to Foreign Office statistics.
Possibly because even more Brits are drunk in their room than by the pool.

59. Britons throw away enough rubbish every hour to fill the Royal Albert Hall.
And occasionally you can hear some of it playing in the Albert Hall.