AS A MATTER OF FACT - share your random but interesting facts!

cruais

GOLF means...

Gentlemen
Only
Ladies
Forbidden

stupidusername

1ZRed wrote: »

The top is the penetrator, the bottom is the reciever.

There's your gay sex lesson for the day! Haha

thanks i'm learning lots

Jesus Wept

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

You could save 4,000L of water a year by peeing in the shower.

Even more if you sh1t in the shower.

MaroonAndGreen

FA Cup final tomorrow sooo....

What is the only item brought to the cup final and never used?

The loser's ribbons! :P

Andrewf20

alwaysadub wrote: »

You can lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs

Not with that attitude. : P

DEFTLEFTHAND

Speaking of the FA cup final I've another bit of useless info to share, the large Arch structure over Wembley contains a number of rolled up Swedish flags placed there by builders obviously from Sweden.

Daisy M

Honey is the only food that never goes off.

mikemac1

Boyne Valley Honey has nothing to do with Louth or Ireland
It's imported from abroad

I find this sly and don't like it at all

Daisy M

mikemac1 wrote: »

Boyne Valley Honey has nothing to do with Louth or Ireland
It's imported from abroad

I find this sly and don't like it at all

Are you sure? http://www.boynevalley.com/ourcompanies/index.php?cPath=22

mikemac1

I saw a thread on it before

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055478780

The original Boyne Valley Honey is 100% pure honey blended from suppliers over Ireland. The flavoured honeys are blended from around the world.

http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?t=166550&page=2

Boyne Valley Honey is imported - only packed in Louth. I'm not running it down, use it on my porridge most mornings, just pointing out it's not Louth honey.

admiralofthefleet

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The original recipe for Coca Cola did indeed include cocaine.

and it was green

and in reply to the above post about honey not being from louth, thats true. jacobs fig rolls are made in malta and tesco value strawberry jam is made by chivers

Toby Take a Bow

stupidusername wrote: »

Ooh I thought of an actual fact that I wouldn't mind more people knowing - seagull is a disambiguation, there is no such thing as a seagull. they are all gulls, and then there are different types of gulls. the ones people probably refer to as seagulls are likely most commonly herring gulls. there are also black headed gulls and common gulls.

They've also been known to attack the heads of postmen in Edinburgh. They've always creeped me out a little.

1ZRed

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The original recipe for Coca Cola did indeed include cocaine.

and it was green

and in reply to the above post about honey not being from louth, thats true. jacobs fig rolls are made in malta and tesco value strawberry jam is made by chivers

The famous brown colour of coke was added to hide dirt and other impurities while it was being perfected by the creator. It remained because it became a distinct part of the brand.

Daisy M

Another honey fact, apparently if you have allergies hayfever etc, if you get a jar of locally produced honey and take this it will cure the allergy. Now I would take local honey to be in your own town county but given that Ireland is so small maybe honey from any hive in Ireland would do?????????????

Daniel2590

Daisy M wrote: »

Another honey fact, apparently if you have allergies hayfever etc, if you get a jar of locally produced honey and take this it will cure the allergy. Now I would take local honey to be in your own town county but given that Ireland is so small maybe honey from any hive in Ireland would do?????????????

Funny thing is, since I started using my granny's home made honey I haven't suffered from hay fever (which until then I would get every summer without fail).

thebuzz

Whiskey is spelt with an 'e' in Ireland and USA.

It's spelt whisky in Scotland and Canada.

numbnutz

spiders explode when you throw them in the fire

admiralofthefleet

there are more wallabies than people on lambay island

IM0

at least 11 kittens will die tonight. and four dingos

Samich

Remote out of range? Point it upwards under your chin, your skull sends the energy further.

Want to sneeze but it's coming slowly, look at a bright light.

Next time you stay in a hotel and there's a nokia tv system, put in the code 2-2-1 down arrow, then ok. Free hotel porn.

To go directly to your floor in an elevator, even if other levels have been pressed, press the door close and your level button at the same time to go straight to your level.

stupidusername

Samich wrote: »

Remote out of range? Point it upwards under your chin, your skull sends the energy further.

Want to sneeze but it's coming slowly, look at a bright light.

Next time you stay in a hotel and there's a nokia tv system, put in the code 2-2-1 down arrow, then ok. Free hotel porn.

To go directly to your floor in an elevator, even if other levels have been pressed, press the door close and your level button at the same time to go straight to your level.

I know your 1,2 and 4 work, so if i'm ever in a hotel with a nokia tv i'll be trying 3

FanadMan

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

FA Cup final tomorrow sooo....

What is the only item brought to the cup final and never used?

The loser's ribbons! :P

I'm sure I've seen both teams ribbons on the cup in the bbc studio when the match has been on. Could be just the beer/nostalgia talking tho....

if I sent a duplicate post just there, am sorry

mikemac1

The building with the most toilets in the world is Wembley Stadium

Jordan 199

Jordan's first F1 car, the Jordan 191 was originally called the Jordan 911. Porsche said that Jordan couldn't use '911', so Jordan changed the number of their car to 191.

As a result of that, Porsche gave Eddie Jordan a Porsche 911 car.

RichieC

There are more Death Metal bands in Sweden per square inch than there are humans.

face1990

Can't remember where I heard this, but when Ron Howard was a child Liza Minnelli used to babysit him.

micropig

Daniel2590 wrote: »

Funny thing is, since I started using my granny's home made honey I haven't suffered from hay fever (which until then I would get every summer without fail).

The bees are using the local pollen to make the honey. Depending on what flowers they take from the properties of the honey will vary slightly....

manuka honey---honey made from pollen from manuka flowers etc

aston wrote: »

Navan spelt backwards is Navan

Also Race car

bijapos

face1990 wrote: »

Can't remember where I heard this, but when Ron Howard was a child Liza Minnelli used to babysit him.

Possible, his parents were actor too.

Liza Minelli, whose mother played Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz married Jack Haley Jr, whose father played the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz !

grenache

cruais wrote: »

GOLF means...

Gentlemen
Only
Ladies
Forbidden

ah another one bites the dust on this dinosaur. Golf comes from the Old Scots Gaelic word 'galf'. Golf was invented in Scotland.

3ndahalfof6

frogs cant jump backwards

paddyandy

When it pours heavy rain ...one drop will never touch another .
Some plants will travel to a wall or fence in order to climb .

tdv123

Lies make baby Jesus cry.

3ndahalfof6

frogs cant jump they leap you fool

Mynamehere

Australia originally imported Camels from Saudi Arabia in the late 1800s. Nowadays due to a shortage of Camels in Saudi Arabia the Australians now export descendants of these camels back to the Saudies.

AudreyHepburn

The Irish accent is considered the most attractive in Europe, if not the world.

The Donegal accent is the most attractive in Ireland.

The Brummie/Bermingham accent is considered the most unattractive.

Brussels Sprout

97% of men and 93% of woman in Nauru are obese. They also (not surprisingly) have the highest rate (40%) of type II diabetes in the world.

Pottler

"Posh" comes from the tradition of ladies and gentlmen(the rich) choosing their berths on cruise liners - port out, starboard home - sunrise in the morning, cool in the evening. So the rest of us are Sophies...

efb

mikemac1 wrote: »

The building with the most toilets in the world is Wembley Stadium

Is it not the pentagon?

Infallable

Hugo Boss designed the Nazi uniform.

bleg

Infallable wrote: »

Hugo Boss designed the Nazi uniform.

Which one?

Wacker The Attacker

The neanderthals had bigger brains than us.

face1990

bleg wrote: »

Which one?

The SS uniform I believe. According to wikipedia he also supplied the hitler youth uniforms and various others.

RUCKING FETARD

Monsanto Weedkiller and GM Maize Linked to Tumor Risk

Smidge

Platypuses are venomous

Ziphius

RUCKING FETARD wrote: »

Monsanto Weedkiller and GM Maize Linked to Tumor Risk

This paper's got a lot of criticism in it's 24 hours of life. Not really a fact.

But I guess I should add one:

0.9999... is equal to 1

bbam

RUCKING FETARD wrote: »

Monsanto Weedkiller and GM Maize Linked to Tumor Risk

That's not a fact, the first line says the data SUGGESTS there MAY be a link. Hardly conclusive stuff.

Capt'n Midnight

Smidge wrote: »

Platypuses are venomous

Morphine doesn't relieve the pain.

The pain can last for months

In Bloom

The average fat person weighs twice as much as the average skinny person.

Capt'n Midnight

The world's tallest dwarf is the same height as the world's smallest giant.

FACT !

Anotherducky

The man whose company first mass produced flush toilets...Thomas Crapper.