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Off Topic And Now for Something Completely Different

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC, Nov 20, 2015.

  1. spesupersydera

    spesupersydera Well-Known Member

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    This thread is titled ''And now for something completely different'' - it's a catch all thread, if you don't like how its going you can always do the same as I, and many others, do on threads that hold no interest, just skip by them. Never fear though, the jokes on here are like buses, there'll be at least two along before long.
     
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    Edit...i didn't see Ron's post.
     

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    35 and 34 ****ing hell just say no kids


    Pair carried on running 'cottage industry' drugs operation despite police raid
    They were bailed following the first search but brazenly continued dealing and were arrested again weeks later
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    Christopher Cowles and Melissa Thompson admitted drugs offences (Image: Humberside Police)
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    A couple who were found with cocaine and heroin after police raided their home later defiantly carried on running their "cottage industry" drugs supply business even after they were bailed following the first search.

    A passer-by found a brown substance on the ground under a window after the drugs were hastily thrown out of it in a doomed bid to avoid detection. Despite the first raid, the couple brazenly carried on drug dealing and they were arrested again at their home less than two months later, a court heard.

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    Christopher Cowles, 35, and Melissa Thompson, 34, both formerly of Denaby Court, off Holderness Road, east Hull, admitted supplying Class A drugs
     
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    reminds me of a cracking twitter thread from last year, comparing pictures of 70s and 80s footballers who look ancient, some of those old larkers looked even older than those 2 smack heads
     
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    Look like brother and sister... DELIVERANCE banjo scene.
     
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    One looks like a member of my golf club and the other Kathy Burke !
     
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    20 years of progress <laugh>
     
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    I thought Niki Lauda wasn't afraid of showing his scars off. :emoticon-0125-mmm:


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    He forgot to mention their bullshi**ing brother Skyd from down under.
     
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    Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. Since they were starting to smell, however, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

    Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women, and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it … hence the saying, “Don’t throw the baby out with the Bath water!”

    Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof, resulting in the idiom, “It’s raining cats and dogs.”

    There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed, therefore, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That’s how canopy beds came into existence.

    The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, leading folks to coin the phrase “dirt poor.”

    The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way, subsequently creating a “thresh hold.”

    In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while, and thus the rhyme, “Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.”

    Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, “bring home the bacon.” They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and “chew the fat.”

    Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

    Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the “upper crust.”

    Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up, creating the custom of holding a wake.

    They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were “piss poor.”
    But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn’t even afford to buy a pot; they “didn’t have a pot to piss in” & were the lowest of the low.

    The next time you are washing your hands & complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s.

    England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive, so they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.

    And that’s the truth. Now, whoever said History was boring?
     
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