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Andrij

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1250 on: 23 July, 2016, 05:34:52 pm »
'Footpath' often really does mean footpath.

Who am I kidding?  This isn't the first time I've 'learned' this lesson, and I'm sure I'll learn it many times more.  ::-)
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1251 on: 23 July, 2016, 05:42:10 pm »
According to Wikipedia, sticking a finger up your arse cures hiccups.  Does anyone care to try it and report back?
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Andrij

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1252 on: 23 July, 2016, 05:46:42 pm »
According to Wikipedia, sticking a finger up your arse cures hiccups.  Does anyone care to try it and report back?

Aren't there easier ways to startle someone?
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1253 on: 23 July, 2016, 06:17:31 pm »
According to Wikipedia, sticking a finger up your arse cures hiccups.  Does anyone care to try it and report back?

Aren't there easier ways to startle someone?

 ;D
Andrij.  I've just lost an entire swig of my ale.  Git.   ;D
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1254 on: 23 July, 2016, 06:22:35 pm »
According to Wikipedia, sticking a finger up your arse cures hiccups.  Does anyone care to try it and report back?

Aren't there easier ways to startle someone?

 ;D
Andrij.  I've just lost an entire swig of my ale.  Git.   ;D

And I have just had to turn myself back the opposite of inside-out after an incident involving Brown Drink, a fondleslab and Andrij's soaring heights of gittery ;D
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Andrij

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1255 on: 23 July, 2016, 06:29:42 pm »

;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1256 on: 23 July, 2016, 08:32:08 pm »
That the lady opposite us is not Welsh (he is), she is from Birmingham.  Perry Barr to be exact.  35 years ago, mind.
No. That's not true.  I found that out last week, not today.
What I learned today was that the lady 4 doors down on our side also originates from Brum.
 Guess which part.

 Yes. Perry Barr.

Also that they were both unaware of this.

Llandysul Brum club?  No, sorry.  We're from Sarf brum, dontcha know?
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1257 on: 24 July, 2016, 12:50:42 am »
According to Wikipedia, sticking a finger up your arse cures hiccups.  Does anyone care to try it and report back?

No way am I sticking my finger up your arse. Keep asking though, somebody might?
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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1258 on: 24 July, 2016, 08:02:58 am »


One of these, maybe?
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1259 on: 24 July, 2016, 08:25:43 pm »
That plastics trauma does not necessarily mean a nightmare caused by watching Spitting Image.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1260 on: 24 July, 2016, 08:43:20 pm »
That a really inexpensive wire saw gives me a neat solution for cutting an awkwardly placed waste pipe in situ.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1261 on: 24 July, 2016, 09:44:59 pm »
That an air powered pop riveter is the coolest tool evah!
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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1262 on: 25 July, 2016, 08:08:40 am »
Bolivian players of Pokémon Go are being enticed into uncleared minefields.
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Andrij

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1263 on: 25 July, 2016, 08:36:58 am »
There are minefields in Bolivia.
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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1264 on: 25 July, 2016, 08:47:51 am »
See H&F post re fatigue/brain death.  Bosnia.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1265 on: 25 July, 2016, 09:23:38 am »
There are minefields in Bolivia.
And between Chile and Peru too, which got flooded which washed them out on the roads doing a storm in 2012.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1266 on: 25 July, 2016, 09:37:04 am »
"Cool Running" the film about a Jamaican bob-sleigh team was released as "Rasta Rocket" in France.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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« Reply #1268 on: 25 July, 2016, 11:50:17 am »
Ethnic minority (like just over half the population of Liangshan prefecture) & probably low priority for the local Han authorities.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1269 on: 25 July, 2016, 12:27:44 pm »
Do they get to miss PE at school?  They don't really need it, do they?
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1270 on: 25 July, 2016, 08:29:28 pm »
That the river Teifi formed one of Britain's Retreat To And Defend lines in the second world war. 
I always wondered at the pill box which still exists.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1271 on: 25 July, 2016, 09:20:24 pm »
That the lady opposite us is not Welsh (he is), she is from Birmingham.  Perry Barr to be exact.  35 years ago, mind.
No. That's not true.  I found that out last week, not today.
What I learned today was that the lady 4 doors down on our side also originates from Brum.
Guess which part.

Yes. Perry Barr.
35 years ago I was 16 and desperate to leave Perry Barr.

Wales would have done, but I was determined to go to more exotic climes.

I'm in Derby now...

If you get the chance have a sneaky peek in her shed in case she has an incongruous red racing bike in there. The timing is about right, though I admit that moving to Wales after a single like theft is less likely than fencing it as quickly as possible. Even with a red bike. Still, you could pump her for information?

I know, I know, you're probably trying to settle in and make friends.

Maybe you could do it subtly? I'll leave it with you. I'll give you till the weekend before I alert the fuzz.

 ;)

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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1272 on: 26 July, 2016, 09:28:41 am »
That the river Teifi formed one of Britain's Retreat To And Defend lines in the second world war. 
I always wondered at the pill box which still exists.
I sometimes wonder how they decided where to put those pill boxes. They don't always seem to be in particularly strategic or defensible places. For instance, there's a line of them along the Fosse Way just north of Malmesbury, at which point it's just a gravel byway, and others on the Frome south of Bath, which is a small river with little villages. I guess there might have been important structures though and also it's a matter of chance which ones have survived.
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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1273 on: 26 July, 2016, 09:55:02 am »
Heh.  We live in the middle of the Maginot Line.  In a local fort there's a map of the area showing the guns' arcs of fire and the lines of the German advance, right through the spots that weren't covered.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1274 on: 27 July, 2016, 06:48:05 pm »
Staying with forts, on 2 September 1645 Oliver Cromwell very nearly died at the end of my street. Admittedly it was the other end and, okay, there wasn't actually a street then – and of course he didn't actually die – but a shot "passed within two handbreadths" of him during an attack on a fort that was there at the time.
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