£600m of plaster (the stuff that goes on walls) was sold in the UK in 2019. Gypsum, the mineral that it is made from, was created around 200m years ago.
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Interesting trivia thread
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Stop, you'll have the Greens banning plaster and the snowflakes after you.
Jimmy Savile was a regular visitor to see Peter Sutcliffe in Broadmoor.
Bizarrely he took Frank Bruno with him on one occasion
Even more Bizarrely Debbie Harrie also visited Sutcliffe.
Bizarrely he took Frank Bruno with him on one occasion
Even more Bizarrely Debbie Harrie also visited Sutcliffe.
You know what I mean, ‘Arry. He didn’t know it was Debbie ‘Arry
The Raleigh Chopper, the Bond Bug and Reliant Scimitar were all designed by the same man; Tom Karen, an Austrian Jew who fled his homeland as a refugee in 1939 after ‘annexation’ ( in the loosest possible terms) by the Nazis.
2270 Bond Bugs were sold, all orange except for six in white that promoted Rothmans Cigarettes and six in lime green that promoted Rose’s lime juice cordial. As you would imagine the white and green are highly collectible. Albeit as absolutely rubbish as the orange ones.
2270 Bond Bugs were sold, all orange except for six in white that promoted Rothmans Cigarettes and six in lime green that promoted Rose’s lime juice cordial. As you would imagine the white and green are highly collectible. Albeit as absolutely rubbish as the orange ones.
I attended the Queen’s hall motor show in Leeds when the bond bug was first introduced, as it was only a three wheeler it didn’t qualify for the show so they stuck two together back to back, I also got to sit in the needle, a drag racer owned by DLT.
Raleigh produced a drop handlebar ‘racing bike’ edition of the Chopper, the GT Sprint.
it is rumoured that a mint condition example of this rare edition of the icon sold recently for over £4000.
The Chopper was as useless as a bike as the Bond Bug was as a car.
i.e. ‘totally’.
it is rumoured that a mint condition example of this rare edition of the icon sold recently for over £4000.
The Chopper was as useless as a bike as the Bond Bug was as a car.
i.e. ‘totally’.
No shit!!
Serves him right for going to Newark.
No, quite the opposite! Too much!
That was when it was shown in Britain but it had been in Italy for a few years already I believe
The Idiots Act was introduced in 1886 and repealed in 1913 when it was superseded by Mental Deficency Act, itself superseded by The Mental Health Act in 1959.
There are 6,696 recognised languages in use on planet earth at present, including Klingon.
Belt buckles were first worn by the British Navy, they were usually made of gold so they always had money with them.
Aston Villa,v Everton is the most played fixture in English Leage football history at 206 games.
arsenal v Manchester United and Everton v Liverpool both 204
arsenal v Manchester United and Everton v Liverpool both 204
Bill Withers had a brother called “Bear” who wrote telephone call hold music.