Uninteresting Trivial Facts

[Bleep1673]

Got a new pair (of blue, obviously) reading glasses yesterday.

[graveyard johnny]

been to toolstation twice today, once this morn and again this aft

[longboard]

22 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Thanks to Pointless, I now know that the correct term for a hashtag or sharp (in musical notation) is an 'octothorp'.

The correct term is sharp. Isn't octothorp a neologism? 

[Futtocks]

The official Kentucky Fried Chicken Twitter account only follows 11 people; 6 people called Herb and all the Spice Girls.

In another word, 11 herbs and spices: https://twitter.com/kfc/following

[timtum]

I discovered yesterday that one of my longest standing (suffering?) customers is the mother in law of Radio 4 Today stalwart, Sarah Montague.

 

 

[ckn]

Tesco are selling packs of both milk and dark chocolate Hobnobs for 75p.

[Futtocks]

The fire alarm went off this afternoon. It turned out to be an electrical fault.

[Futtocks]

The first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel was, judging by this photograph, Harry Redknapp.

[graveyard johnny]

16 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

The first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel was, judging by this photograph, Harry Redknapp.

I thought it was mrs cooper?

[Bleep1673]

round at my ex-s for my daughters 9th birthday (I can't believe I typed that statement) it only seems like last week.

So I brought my computer up with me, so I could do a job search, but after an hour of searching the usual sites & applied for 10 jobs that I'm not qualified for, I've given up and come on here again.

[Farmduck]

It's Jacaranda time in Grafton

 

[ckn]

Someone just tried to connect with me on LinkedIn from "fivefingerfitness.com"  Erm.  No.  I'm not even going to try that link on a sandboxed machine.

[Futtocks]

14 minutes ago, ckn said:

Someone just tried to connect with me on LinkedIn from "fivefingerfitness.com"  Erm.  No.  I'm not even going to try that link on a sandboxed machine.

Fitness, of course, requires a suitable diet.

[ckn]

5 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Fitness, of course, requires a suitable diet.

I've been told that that Five Finger Fitness lot are a legit company.  I wonder how much business they've lost through people like me going "I'm not clicking on that!"  I'm still not going to the website...

[JonM]

Our local council gritters all have names painted on them, like Eddie Stobart Lorries.  So far, I have seen Gritney Spears, Brad Grit, Vanilla Ice, Snow Patrol & Usain Salt

[Shadow]

5 minutes ago, JonM said:

Our local council gritters all have names painted on them, like Eddie Stobart Lorries.  So far, I have seen Gritney Spears, Brad Grit, Vanilla Ice, Snow Patrol & Usain Salt

Is there one called Gary or would that be inappropriate? 

[JonM]

2 minutes ago, Shadow said:

Is there one called Gary or would that be inappropriate? 

I looked the whole naming thing up on the council website and it seems like the names were suggested by local schools. So I think that's a no.

[Farmduck]

The Sydney Harbour Ferries had a competition to name their new ferry. The breakaway winner was Boaty McBoatface. Since that name was already taken, they decided to name it "Ferry McFerryface."

Most of the disapproval came from people who saw it as joke-recycling.

Quote

"Three of the vessels named Victor Chang, Kathryn Hamlin and Fred Hollows are iconic Australians, Bungaree and Pemulwuy are two iconic Indigenous leaders and now we go with this nonsense which was a rejected joke in the United Kingdom."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-14/ferry-mcferryface-decision-splits-sydney/9149348

Kathryn Hamlin was in fact so iconic that nobody at the ABC noticed that her name is Catherine.

Edited November 17, 2017 by Farmduck

[Shadow]

24 minutes ago, JonM said:

I looked the whole naming thing up on the council website and it seems like the names were suggested by local schools. So I think that's a no.

It's probably for the best

[Wolford6]

On 11/6/2017 at 4:48 PM, Futtocks said:

The first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel was, judging by this photograph, Harry Redknapp.

 

I hope that barrel had a bung.

[JonM]

2 hours ago, Farmduck said:

The Sydney Harbour Ferries had a competition to name their new ferry. The breakaway winner was Boaty McBoatface. Since that name was already taken, they decided to name it "Ferry McFerryface."

Bit of googling says that 3 (at least) local councils have Gritty McGritface.

Looks like our local council is behind the times. Surrey did this a couple of years ago and have "Snow Surrender" "Roger Spreaderer" and "Gritty Gritty Bang Bang."

[Moose]

Just managed to bag a couple of seats to see Peter Kay at Leeds Arena in October 2018. Box office opened today selling Mon, Tues and Weds tickets, the initial tour dates. These sold out immediately ( the majority no doubt being bought by touts with computerised buying systems ). As I prepared to leave the website they announced two more dates, Thursday and Friday. Got two for the Friday. 

Mrs Moose is one happy lady☺

 

 

 

 

[Farmduck]

25% of men who die during autoerotic asphyxiation are cross-dressed at time of death.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5893630_What_Many_Transgender_Activists_Don't_Want_You_to_Know_and_why_you_should_know_it_anyway

[Gswan]

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Edited November 21, 2017 by Gswan
Can't do full twitter things!

[ckn]

The non-shiny side of aluminium foil is the non-stick side.