mjmooney Posted January 13, 2018 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 13, 2018 6 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: How will the world end. Not with a banger, but with a Wimpy. (© Spike Milligan) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted January 13, 2018 Moderator Share Posted January 13, 2018 On 08/01/2018 at 12:30, bickster said: Why is Germany not chock full of Atheists? An 8% or 9% tax levy to the Church of your religion would be enough for most for most people to see the light but apparently not Atheists pay nothing Thankfully I was tipped off when I moved over there, and made double certain to state that on my immigration forms. A Swedish friend of mine didn't and when he realised that he was getting charged for pretending to believe in God he had to write a letter to the church explaining that he no longer believed so he could get out of the tax. He even got a visit from the priest to try to convince him. Bonkers. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 That is bonkers. How much money a year are we talking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 2 hours ago, Rugeley Villa said: How will the world end. The Bruce thread will explode and wipe out modern civilisation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted January 13, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted January 13, 2018 2 hours ago, Rugeley Villa said: How will the world end. Depends what you mean by world. Human civilisation? You can make a few guesses. The planet itself? We can be fairly sure it'll be consumed by the sun eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 42 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: That is bonkers. How much money a year are we talking? 8% of whatever income tax you pay added on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted January 14, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted January 14, 2018 Do blue lights on ambulances and police cars really need to be that bright? Coming up the unlit M23 tonight, only car on the road and some emergency unit was coming the other way giving it the full Walsall illuminations. I was completely blinded and almost cane off the road it was so bright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid4ever Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Why @Xela went back into the Steve Bruce thread, when apparently that's how the world will end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 3 minutes ago, Sid4ever said: Why @Xela went back into the Steve Bruce thread, when apparently that's how the world will end I'm clearly a masochist! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid4ever Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 4 minutes ago, Xela said: I'm clearly a masochist! And what with you and your stomach condition, double Asacol for you tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 1 minute ago, Sid4ever said: And what with you and your stomach condition, double Asacol for you tonight. I've just shoved the bottle up there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 why passing a ball through a players legs is called a nutmeg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mjmooney Posted January 15, 2018 Author VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted January 15, 2018 4 minutes ago, a m ole said: why passing a ball through a players legs is called a nutmeg. Quote In previous Knowledges, we've examined several possible answers, including that nutmeg is 1940s cockney rhyming slang for leg. However, in his superb book Football Talk - The Language And Folklore Of The World's Greatest Game, Peter Seddon points out a far more likely etymology for nutmeg: that it comes from duplicitous practice in the nutmeg trade. As he points out, the verb nutmegged is listed by the Oxford English Dictionary as "arising in the 1870s which in Victorian slang came to mean 'to be tricked or deceived, especially in a manner which makes the victim look foolish'." The word arose because of a sharp practice used in nutmeg exports between America and England. "Nutmegs were such a valuable commodity that unscrupulous exporters were wont to pull a fast one by mixing a helping of wooden replicas into the sacks being shipped to England," writes Seddon. "Being nutmegged soon came to imply stupidity on the part of the duped victim and cleverness on the part of the trickster." Considering that so much of football's language dates from its formative years, that seems a better explanation for the word nutmeg than any we're heard before or since. It certainly sounds more convincing than Jimmy Hill's claim that nutmeg was coined during the 1940s to describe the skill of placing the ball between an opponent's legs before retrieving it the other side. Or indeed the suggestion made in Alex Leith's book, Over the Moon, Brian: The Language of Football, that nuts - a term commonly used for nutmeg in the north of England - "refers to the testicles of the player through whose legs the ball has been passed and nutmeg is just a development from this." The Knowledge 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikantcpell Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 How many bananas is it safe to eat per day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 if you've eaten more than 6 i'd call your priest... some of the figures for food containing dangerous stuff is brilliant, dont ever be tempted to eat 35kg of marzipan, cyanide poisoning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 17, 2018 Moderator Share Posted January 17, 2018 7 hours ago, villa4europe said: if you've eaten more than 6 i'd call your priest... some of the figures for food containing dangerous stuff is brilliant, dont ever be tempted to eat 35kg of marzipan, cyanide poisoning You are Karl Pilkington, I claim my £5 Quote Can eating more than six bananas at once kill you? By David Rhodes BBC NEWS It's sometimes said that eating a lot of bananas at once could be dangerous - it has even been suggested that eating more than six in one sitting could kill you. Can this really be true? Bananas are one of the world's most popular fruits, stuffed with vitamins and minerals. On the face of it they are good for you, so why do some people think they could be fatal? One well-known figure who has spread this idea around is Karl Pilkington, the grumpy friend of comedian Ricky Gervais. "Before when you were talking about bananas... I had that fact, about if you eat more than six, it can kill you," he said in one of his conversations with Gervais and fellow comedian Stephen Merchant. "It is a fact. Potassium levels are dangerously high if you have six bananas... I saw a bowl of bananas. There's six bananas there. You know why there's only six? Seven would be dangerous." So how dangerous is potassium? Actually, it is crucial for survival and can be found "within every single cell of the body," says Catherine Collins, a dietitian at St George's Hospital in London. "We use it to help generate an electrical charge which helps the cell function properly. It helps keep your heart rate steady, it helps trigger insulin release from the pancreas to help control blood sugars, and more importantly keeps blood pressure in check." On the other hand, if the level of potassium in the body is too low or too high it can result in an irregular heartbeat, stomach pain, nausea and diarrhoea. Potassium chloride is even one of the chemicals used in lethal injections in the US, as extremely high doses can cause cardiac arrest. THINKSTOCK But for a healthy person, "it would be impossible to overdose on bananas," says Collins. "You would probably need around 400 bananas a day to build up the kind of potassium levels that would cause your heart to stop beating... Bananas are not dangerous - and in fact they are, and always have been, very good for you." Adults should consume about 3,500mg of potassium per day, according to the UK's National Health Service. The average banana, weighing 125g, contains 450mg of potassium, meaning a healthy person can consume at least seven-and-half bananas before reaching the recommended level There are some people who should steer clear of foods that are high in potassium though, warns Collins - those with kidney disease. "These patients have a very low kidney function which can potentially see a build-up of harmful potassium levels in their blood stream because they can't get rid of the mineral when they pass urine," she says. "So in theory it is possible for someone with kidney disease to die of a high blood potassium level if they decided to consume lots of different food types rich in the mineral." She once had a patient on dialysis who had a heart attack after eating too many tomatoes - another fruit rich in potassium. His kidneys had already stopped working so he was unable to get rid of the excess. Another thing that could cause some to worry about bananas is radiation. Like many foods, bananas naturally contain some radioactive isotopes - enough for the US-based think tank, Nuclear Threat Initiative, to warn that they can trigger sensors used at US ports to detect smuggled nuclear material. A typical banana contains 0.1 microsieverts of radiation. To put that in context, a typical CT scan in a hospital exposes humans to between 10 and 15 millisieverts - about 100,000 times more. "The levels of radioactivity are negligible," says Collins. "Bananas are not as radioactive as Brazil nuts and they are safe to eat in moderation." The BEEB 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikantcpell Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 I read in a health book recently that you shouldn't eat more then 4 bananas a day because it would be really bad for your stomach... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 17, 2018 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 17, 2018 1 hour ago, Ikantcpell said: I read in a health book recently that you shouldn't eat more then 4 bananas a day because it would be really bad for your stomach... That's OK then, as I eat about four bananas a year. Some years. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted January 17, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted January 17, 2018 One banana with weetabix for breakfast, most mornings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 (edited) On 17/01/2018 at 14:58, mjmooney said: That's OK then, as I eat about four bananas a year. Some years. That's about two more than me then. My son on the other hand, is an absolute fruit bat. He loves the stuff. Edited January 19, 2018 by Rugeley Villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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