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So...what have you learned this week?
Posted by magneticfields on 17 February 2009 - 7:46pm.
When Mark and David get to record this week's podcast, will they have learnt anything as unusual as this, from Charlie Brooker in the Guardian yesterday:
"according to The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices by Brenda Love [ISBN 0 349 10676 2], "faeces supposedly has a charred or sour flavour but otherwise tastes similar to whatever was consumed"."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/16/walkers-crisps-new-f... for the full article. Wonder how Matt Hall is getting on in the new job....
What have you learned this week that beats this?
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Top spot.
Mister Brooker comes up trumps again.
That'll teach him to sample 'Fart & Duvet' flavoured crisps.
The same is true for dogs
Discovered by accident rather than in a sexual arena. Predictable but true, in a house with 2 untrainable Yorkies: "has Melly (grand-dter dear) dropped chocolate on the carpet?" No. Thank Christ they eat largely tasteless Eukanuba gravel........
Still yecccch...............
a late entry
the Jade Goody memorial bag of 'nosh 'em down' flavas
I should stick to opening cans of beans (see thread passim)
Today i learned the best fact i have EVER heard.
I live in a village in Warwickshire called Polesworth.
Today i learned that Stevie Wonder touched a cow for the first time ever in Polesworth whilst visiting Edwin Starr who lived here in the 80s and 90s...
there's not really much else to do for entertainment round here...
Braided Blind Bard in Crazy Cowpoke Caper
Cows! What are they good for? Absolutely plodding! Say it again....
That's a story so brilliant that words can't describe it. We want pictures!
Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-MOO-Da-Day? Pa
Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-MOO-Da-Day?
Part Time Prodder?
You Are The Bovine Of My Life?
Electricity
I learnt that the bloke in charge of the electricity supply on the national grid, watches Eastenders whilst doing the job so when the end credits roll he can push all the right buttons to cope with the nations kettles being put on en masse.
Hmmm
I have heard this one before (but about Coronation St) and it makes me wonder why it isn't possible to simply program it like one would with a video recorder?
Electricity
The electricity thing was on the documentary "Britain from the Air", apparently this fella has to manually press the buttons to get extra power from different stations. Has to be constantly monitored in case of fluctuations. You're right though it's a regular occurence so you think it would be automatic, although it would probably end up recording Coronation street.
Nice work if you can get it
"er...yeah...I have to watch telly at work to, er, make sure that the grid is primed for tea breaks. When's the football on?"
Hmm...
...I don't have to push any buttons when I turn the oven on, or a hair dryer, though proportionally, these must be a similar increase in load. Surely this old canard is an urban legend?
Nope
They actually showed the bloke at work. Unless(and this would never happen)the BBC lied.