After having their 11th child, a Liverpool couple decided that was enough, as the social wouldn't buy them a bigger bed and they weren't strong enough to nick one. The husband went to his doctor and...
Further to a topic I raised a couple of weeks ago, I was asking if there was another series of 'Are You an Egghead' coming up, as Jeremy Vine was now the presenter instead of Dermot Murnaghan, and the...
Did you see this morning's Daily Express where there was a whole page of stupid answers contestants had given on various quiz shows? My favourite one was where Anne Robinson asked, on the Weakest...
Just received my latest bill from BT. Does anyone else find their bill from BT difficult to understand?. I think they make it unnecessarily complicated.
It was windy today and I saw a council worker using a blower to blow leaves out of the gutter. As fast as he blew them out the wind blew them back in. What other pointless jobs can you think of?
Does anyone have an explanation of the following. On BBC1 at 7.30 on Mondays there is a programme called 'Inside Out'. The contents of the programme differ, depending where you live. Last Monday I set...
No question, but can't we move this topic on a bit. We have had the rant about overhead gantries for almost a month now, I am sick of seeing it when I click on 'road rules'
1. I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day and I couldn't find any. 2. I went to a seafood disco last week and I pulled a muscle. 3. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly. They lit a...
Just been watching this weeks episode of Poirot ( I had recorded it) called 'Hallowe'en Party' I am not sure what time period it is set in, but it looks as though it could be in the 1920's - 1930's....
I saw this joke on a birthday card and couldn't resist posting it on here. School teacher asks class of 7 year olds if they can give a sentence containing the word 'contagious'. Little Mary says, ' My...
Jeremy Vine has been presenting' Eggheads 'for the past few weeks. Last time he presented the programme they had another programme called 'Are you an Egghead' presented by Dermot Murnaghan, to find a...
I read in this morning's paper that we still have 20000 troops stationed in Germany and with their families it increases to 34000. Presumably other countries (US, France and Russia) also have troops...
I am fed up of receiving emails saying that my electronic Federal tax payment has been refused, because I have entered the wrong number, and asking for sensitive information. As I am a UK citizen and...
Just bought a new hot water bottle, and it says on it not to use boiling water. Why? I have been using boiling water in hot water bottles all my life, and I cannot see why boiling water should not be...
I wonder how they work out the cost of rail tickets? I have today booked 2 Senior Railcard tickets from York to Reading. I wanted to book return seats but it was going to cost me £130.20 for the...
I live quite near to an Eddie Stobart depot (Sherburn, near Leeds) and I just wonder if anyone knows what they do at this depot. We see a constant stream of vehicles going in and coming out, but I...
Did others notice that on today's Pointless, they gave the value of a 'joey' as fourpence.
I am old enough to remember the little silver threepence piece, that was always called a joey....
Did you see in today's Daily Express about the release of a new book by Frank Dikotter called 'Mao's Great Famine'? The headline is 'Mao the Mass Murderer' then it goes on to say that for the first...