Groucho's Fact Hunt

[hibbo'sclass]

The Defence of the Realm Acts passed in the UK during WW1 led to the closure of pubs in the afternoon.
Not changed until the Licensing Act 1988.

 

[COYBL25]

The Defence of the Realm Acts passed in the UK during WW1 led to the closure of pubs in the afternoon.
Not changed until the Licensing Act 1988.

I think the closing times up until the recent amendments were due to this act too ?.

 

[hibbo'sclass]

I think the closing times up until the recent amendments were due to this act too ?.

You are correct mate.
It also banned flying kites!!!

 

[COYBL25]

You are correct mate.
It also banned flying kites!!!

I also think the expression " one over the eight " was coined during that time too ?.

During World War One it was illegal to serve workers more than eight pints, as it was deemed that they wouldn't be able to function the following day if they had more than eight !

 

[hibbo'sclass]

Censorship too.

Bit of a drag our Dora!

 

[TheOldLady]

Tutankhamun's parents were brother and sister.

From the wirral then

 

[Kurt.]

Not really a fact as such, more a quirk..... when Sweden play Denmark at football the scoreboard in the corner of your TV shows SWE - DEN.....
the unused letters left over are DEN - MARK.

 

[summerisle]

From the wirral then

 

[Ashtonian]

Did you know......

the beatles wanted to make their own version of Lord of the Rings, and if they had got their way then the director would have been.......Stanley Kubrick!

 

[Tramps_mate]

And why not, eh? Time is just a social construct, it doesn't really stop anyone doing anything. That's what makes me laugh about daylight savings - pushing the clock forward an hour doesn't create extra daylight. The farmers would've got up at dawn anyway, whether dawn be 5am or 6am, so I just don't get the point of it.

I thought it was so children went to school in the light instead of the dark...

 

[Groucho]

I thought it was so children went to school in the light instead of the dark...

They have to come home in the dark though. It was originally for farmers, I thought.

 

[ToffeeDoug]

Daylight saving.......WW1 and farmers, no?

And during WW1, pub hours were restricted to a smaller lunchtime session, so as not to impair factory work, particularly in armanents with the risk of explosion.

One over the eight....sounds more nautical?

 

[degsy]

And why not, eh? Time is just a social construct, it doesn't really stop anyone doing anything. That's what makes me laugh about daylight savings - pushing the clock forward an hour doesn't create extra daylight. The farmers would've got up at dawn anyway, whether dawn be 5am or 6am, so I just don't get the point of it.

DLS would fade the curtains and confuse the cows here in queensland... official reasons for not doing DLS

 

[degsy]

They have to come home in the dark though. It was originally for farmers, I thought.

sunrise on 22nd Dec is 0713, sunset 1619 plenty of time for the kiddywinks to come home in the light. Especially as they no longer finish at 1600 like we used to.

It did all turn to custard when some bright spark decided to keep BST all through the winter.

 

[Groucho]

sunrise on 22nd Dec is 0713, sunset 1619 plenty of time for the kiddywinks to come home in the light. Especially as they no longer finish at 1600 like we used to.

It did all turn to custard when some bright spark decided to keep BST all through the winter.

Hmm. It's still quite dark before 1619 on that date though.