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Aug 2018
10:34pm, 18 Aug 2018
17,063 posts
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ChrisHB
That Arthur Lowe (Captain Mainwaring ) lived nect door but three to my grandmother and therefore about a quarter of a mile from us.
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Aug 2018
11:24pm, 19 Aug 2018
17,064 posts
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ChrisHB
Speed limits on motorway overhead gantries may show different speeds for each lane.
They can also show speeds below 40.
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Aug 2018
12:37am, 20 Aug 2018
16,540 posts
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Dvorak
Do you not have sophistication like that in England, Chris? I was enjoying the M8 through Glasgow today (I really was, it's fine when it's not full of traffic :-)).
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Aug 2018
7:11pm, 20 Aug 2018
17,068 posts
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ChrisHB
If you want to break an egg outdoors, dropping it will only make it bounce. You really have to throw it high in the air for it to break on landing.
Kudos to anyone who can tell me why that is a reasonable thing to do.
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Aug 2018
9:00am, 21 Aug 2018
1,421 posts
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TomahawkMike
[I was camping at a friends house in Suffolk in June and her elderly father told us on the Saturday night that his own father had always declared that you could throw an egg over a house and it won't break. We thought this worthy of a try and he offered a bottle of wine if anyone could try it. So I threw one over his 2.5 storey house and it landed on the patio and broke. On the second attempt I threw it higher and further and it landed on the lawn intact. He was really chuffed and quite sentimental about his father being right. I got a bottle of Rioja and lots of kudos]
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Aug 2018
10:22am, 21 Aug 2018
15,164 posts
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Carpathius
I beg to differ Chris, none of the eggs I've dropped have bounced, even on grass.
Mike, that's impressive!
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Aug 2018
11:28am, 21 Aug 2018
17,073 posts
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ChrisHB
The answer is that eggs found in odd places could be ancient, so they are recycled as chicken food. But they have to be smashed first. The chickens eat the shells as well.
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Aug 2018
12:59pm, 21 Aug 2018
7,343 posts
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Markymarkmark
Cannibal chickens! 
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Aug 2018
1:44pm, 21 Aug 2018
15,166 posts
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Carpathius
Chickens *love* eggs. If one breaks I have to clear it up really fast before they start eating it or they'll get a taste for them and break them on purpose.
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Aug 2018
5:10pm, 21 Aug 2018
7,349 posts
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Markymarkmark
Evil baby eating cannibal chickens!
I knew there was probably a reason why I didn't like them much (except cooked).
If a human did such a thing to their own young it'd be a horror movie.
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