Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Pilks]

So what happens to razors then?

They're probably thrown away furtively under cover of darkness. Without giving in to the temptation to walk backwards.

 

[WA Toffee]

Blackstone in the US. Eric Prince's outfit.

And let's face it, our armed forces and security services are there to protect "British interests" abroad.
Those interests are usually commercial. Oil and gas being the most prominent.

Isn't that what they have always been for though? We didn't colonise half the world for no reason

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

Isn't that what they have always been for though? We didn't colonise half the world for no reason

That's what every nation's foreign policy is for.

 

[Bilko]

can we get a fact check on this one please. My dog poos in any direction

Mine would poo on my shoe !

 

[WA Toffee]

Mine would poo on my shoe !

Not if you were standing East West it wouldn't

 

[canuckblue]

Dogs use the earths magnetic fields to navigate which way they poo, they will only poo following a north-south magnetic field and never in a east-west

Not mine. He always did it in a circle.

 

[chrismpw]

Not mine. He always did it in a circle.

My dog generally uses an aerosol technique.

Frankly I could have saved money on buying a compressor had I known.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Canadian snooker player Big Bill Werbeniuk used to warm up for a session down the crucible with 8 pints of strong lager (which he successfully claimed as a tax deductible, legit business expense), continue drinking though the frames and was capable of, and regularly did, drink 40 pints in a day. Documented necking 43 pints against John Sinclair, before Sinclair passed out. Allegedly this ocean of ale was on doctors orders, to calm a congenital tremor he had in his arm which affected his cueing. He switched to beta blockers later in his career but was thrown off the tour, as they are banned PED substances on the green baize.

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

In the first few days of a newborn's life, baby poo has very little or no smell. It's the bacteria in the gut that makes poo smell, and of course from birth a baby's stomach hasn't as yet been colonized with bacteria.

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

A fake Paris was being built to fool German bombers but the war finished before the build was completed.

Presuming this was World War One, but surely it would have been an awful lot cheaper and less labour-intensive to have just had better anti-aircraft defences.

 

[Billysgingham.]

Presuming this was World War One, but surely it would have been an awful lot cheaper and less labour-intensive to have just had better anti-aircraft defences.

Yes mate ww1.

 

[summerisle]

Will Hay, the comedy actor, was also an astronomer who discovered the Great White Spot on Saturn. He was also a qualified air pilot.

 

[summerisle]

 

[carlos21]

My dog generally uses an aerosol technique.

Frankly I could have saved money on buying a compressor had I known.

What dog you got.

 

[chrismpw]

What dog you got.

Rescue bitsa. Bitsa staffie, bitsa collie, full of unconditional hunger.