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I realised this watching Ghosts last night.

Did you know that the boy's name "Pipes" comes from "Philipipes".

[touchingcloth]

Most of Hong Kong is not on an island.

[Ferris]

The Beegees aren't American.

[Cold Meat Platter]

 Mikka Hakkinen is not from Hong Kong

[Mister Six]

The line in "Deck the Halls" talks about "our gay apparel" and not "our day of peril".

It did seem odd, for a Christmas song.

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The line in "Deck the Halls" talks about "our gay apparel" and not "our day of peril".

It did seem odd, for a Christmas song.

This one should have been in spoiler tags.

[JesusAndYourBush]

The line in "Deck the Halls" talks about "our gay apparel" and not "our day of peril".

It did seem odd, for a Christmas song.

When I hear that song I imagine leather chaps with the arse cut out.

[jamiefairlie]

When I hear that song I imagine leather chaps with the arse cut out.

Yeah but you also do that to every other Christmas song.

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while shepherds watch their flocks by night
all seated with leather chaps with the arses cut out

[touchingcloth]

There's no hot air balloon in Around the World in 80 Days.

[jenna appleseed]

^ WILLY FOG (AND SOME OF THE FILM ADAPTIONS) LIED!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!

[Dex Sawash]

Isn't it usually a gas* balloon?






*Hydrogen/helium/other

[Cerys]

The perennially funny (for the puerile) women's name 'Fanny' is short for Stephanie (or Epifania/Epiphania but that's not so obvious).

Or Frances.  That's what I've believed for years, and I refuse to be proved wrong, dammit.

[Icehaven]

The name of the vape shop in Newcastle-under-Lyme, A Fistful of Vapes, is not a play on a fistful of apes, because a fistful of apes isn't a thing.

[touchingcloth]

I love that Larry David film, Sour Apes.

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The name of the vape shop in Newcastle-under-Lyme, A Fistful of Vapes, is not a play on a fistful of apes, because a fistful of apes isn't a thing.

How many apes would make a fistful?

[jamiefairlie]

How many apes would make a fistful?

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[touchingcloth]

I watched that Spencer film about her who married Didi Fayed, and there was a scene where they went on "a shoot". I've never seen what those things involve before, and I was surprised to learn it revolves around some people chasing some pheasants basically right into the barrels of the guns. I'd always assumed it would involve challenges of skills such as aiming.

[Paul Calf]

Nah. Lazy, bloodthirsty cunts.

[seepage]

IIRC there was a bit that shocked me in a Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall prog where he had trouble with pheasants or similar on his roof, and rather than solve the issue another way, used that as an excuse to invite a local landed gentry and his wife 'round to shotgun the birds to dust at point blank range.     

[touchingcloth]

I've seen more challenging fairground shooting galleries.

IIRC there was a bit that shocked me in a Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall prog where he had trouble with peasants or similar on his roof, and rather than solve the issue another way, used that as an excuse to invite a local landed gentry and his wife 'round to shotgun the birds to dust at point blank range.     

FTFY

[Icehaven]

IIRC there was a bit that shocked me in a Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall prog where he had trouble with pheasants or similar on his roof, and rather than solve the issue another way, used that as an excuse to invite a local landed gentry and his wife 'round to shotgun the birds to dust at point blank range.     

How is having pheasants on your roof even any trouble? Were they dropping fag ends and catcalling his wife or something?

[seepage]

Maybe they were damaging the thatch, or they were wood pigeons instead and Hugh was fed up with their row. Do pheasants make much noise? Anyway it was just a pretence so that Hugh had some gamebirds to cook supper for Mr & Mrs Shotgun Bastard.

[Voltan (Man of Steel)]

If I remember the episode correctly they were pigeons not pheasants and were congregating on this bloke's roof in large number and making wanker signs at visitors. So Hugh killed them and put them in a Moroccan-style pie with icing sugar and cinnamon. We've all done it.

[touchingcloth]

You can highlight text when writing a post and hit ctrl+b to make it bold or ctrl+i to make it italic or ctrl+u to make it underlined, just like you can in most text editing software. Has it always been this way, or is that part of the new theme?

[phantom_power]

I think it is new, just like how you can now highlight some text on someone's post and an option appears to quote only the selected text

[Hex Triplet]

Nah, it's been like that for ages, I think. You can't do it when you use 'quick edit' though if you want to edit a post, which is annoying.

Or I can't anyway (on laptop), have to go into Modify to do this.

[Darles Chickens]

My 020210us thing for the day: we can finally retire this dreadfully-named thread, and replace it with a new "Obvi2022 things" thread for the new year.

[touchingcloth]

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[olliebean]

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