Shit you just learned (probably from the internet.)

[ICHM]

Ye Kash.

[Valvebloke]

@Kevin

As in old English?

The artist now known as The.

[freefallrob]

I think he would fit right in here…

Moped rider's rude name place tour finishes in Bell End

[Ruprecht]

[J_B]

He forgot Minge Lane in Upton-on-Severn.

[malbec]

And Scunthorpe

[omsoc]

Can’t believe he missed out Fingringhoe near Colchester.

[Kevin]

Missed this one too,

[ICHM]

Cock Lane near me.

The pub on this road is called… The Cock Inn.

[anon14766838]

'I've eaten the same breakfast for the last 22 years'

[Wayward]

Guy up the pub last night, friend of a friend sat opposite me, started to discuss our local doctor prescribing cannabis oil for phantom pain. I started really listening when he was talking about how he was getting industrial quantities of it.

When he got up to use the facilities I noticed that he had a prosthetic limb - lower half of his left leg. Another friend who’d also not met him before asked him when he’d returned to the table, how he had lost his leg. Fuck. There followed an absolute nightmare tale of a car crash where he was in the passenger seat whilst out with a friend on a sober, normal, everyday jaunt to the shops. Not speeding, not going mad, just a lapse in concentration. The car clipped the nearside kirb, the driver lost control, crossed the white line and the car was T-boned by a Jag coming in the opposite direction.

I’ll spare everyone the description of his injuries, suffice to say that his left leg was only part of it. He spent months and months in hospital and went through hell. The left leg was amputated by choice a couple of years later because he realised that he’d be more mobile on a prosthetic limb than on his own leg. You can’t just choose to have your leg cut off. He went through a long legal battle and many psychological assessments to get his way. Part of the reason his leg was not working properly was that the original surgery was a bodge and sometime later a significant amount of car windscreen was removed from his ankle. I think this lead to how he has managed to fund his treatment privately…

His ownership of his situation is massively impressive, he really has it all in place. I think that has taken a huge amount of work with lots of professional help. I also think, if you have something like that happen to you, you have a choice and this guy is bright enough to understand that accepting his situation and getting on with it makes things easier, even though this must have seemed the more difficult road at the beginning.

I’m writing this because it has affected me deeply and afterwards I just wanted to remind everyone I know to be careful out there, there is a possible accident around the corner whatever we do, and cars crashing together have the potential for unimaginable forces. His description of the accident and what it felt like, had me gripping the bottom of my jacket with fists and white knuckles. He never lost consciousness.

Please, please, please be careful everyone.

[octh]

On this day in 1959 was broadcast the first episode of The Saga of Noggin the Nog

[Kevin]

Do you want to see what your DNA looks like?

What you need:

• 500ml tap water

• 1 tbsp salt

• 100ml rubbing alcohol

• 1 drop of clear soap

• 2 cups​

​​The Experiment

• Step 1: Stir 1 tbsp of salt into the 500ml tap water until it dissolves
• Step 2: Transfer 3 tbsp into a clear cup
• Step 3: Gargle the saltwater for 1 minute
• Step 4: Spit the water back into the cup
  • Cells from your cheek are now in the water!
• Step 5: Gently stir in 1 drop of soap, avoiding bubbles​
  • The soap bursts the cells in the water, and releases their DNA
• Step 6: Put 100ml rubbing alcohol into a new cup
• Step 7: Add 3 drops of food colouring to the alcohol
• Step 8: Tilt the saltwater cup and slowly pour the coloured alcohol down the side
  • The coloured alcohol should form a layer on top of the saltwater
• Step 9: Wait 2.5 minutes
  • ​See those white clumps? You’ve just seen your DNA!

[Kevin]

And the voice over from 38 secs to 40 sec is…?

You Know When You've Been Tango'd - Advert (SLAP)

[Rob998]

I had to Google it, but when I found out, I said out loud, No. Fucking. Way! Claire said “What’?” Then rolled her eyes and said, “It’s OK, I’m not interested now.” when I tried to explain who he was!

[malbec]

Ray Wilkins.
My mate was the creator of the Tango ads.
I’m in one of them

[Kevin]

@malbec

Ray Wilkins.

[Rob998]

Not the commentary bit.

Also, video please!

[Kevin]

@Kevin

voice over from 38 secs to 40 sec

This