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    The uk experiances about 50 tornadoes a year.
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    That's interesting.
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    1. There are 32 billionaires based in the UK who pay no personal tax here.

    2. The space programme in the UK relies upon Indian and Chinese graduates to provide 80% of the scientific staff, MPs were told.

    3. Stripping is, officially, an art form (in Norway at least).

    4. Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from their rural counterparts.

    5. Left-handed people are better at computer games.

    6. Bristol is the least anti-social place in England, says the National Audit Office.

    7. It's only 62 years since the last person was prosecuted for witchcraft in the UK.

    8. Standard-sized condoms are too big for most Indian men.

    9. King Tutankhamun probably died from a broken leg, rather than being murdered with a blow to the head, say scientists.

    10. The London tornado was one of 40 to hit the UK this year. More details

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    7. It's only 62 years since the last person was prosecuted for witchcraft in the UK.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a007376
    what? you mean you haven't had a proper witchcraft trial in 62 years? No wonder English kids have to get drunk and do drugs, seeing as there's no other entertainment.
    I'll be in England in January in case you want to arrest me
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    no laughing matter really she was found guilty and hung....over witch craft, welll actually it was an excuse because she somehow found out about the D-day bombing plans and they were afraid she'd leak them...according to the article I read anyway.
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    wow, I didn't know spiritualism was illegal till 1952.
    er? how can she be a traitor? I mean she only told her friends about the sunken war ship, right? don't you have to spill secrets to the enemy/someone from another country to be a traitor? weird

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    It was the middle of WWII and they actualy had a gvertment department of censorship, they thought she was a spy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SleepyWitch View Post
    what? you mean you haven't had a proper witchcraft trial in 62 years? No wonder English kids have to get drunk and do daisy chains, seeing as there's no other entertainment.
    I'll be in England in January in case you want to arrest me
    At the risk of sounding old, what's a daisy chain?
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    daisy chain
    The elementary meaning of daisy chain is a garland created from the daisy flower, generally as a children's game

    A daisy chain refers to sexual relations between three or more people, with each person both performing and receiving oral sex simultaneously.

    This is directly out of wikipedia I had to look it up I didn´t know.

    Some interesting trivia, I have never successfuly made a daisy chain accorrding to the first defintion. Daisys are tricky.

    "So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, whe
    n suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her."

    then again she might have been refering to chain smokeing of some kind i don´t know. Maybe it was literally makeing daisy chains it´s terrible time consuming adn with just daisys no wire or any darn near imposible.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Virgil View Post
    At the risk of sounding old, what's a daisy chain?
    Wow, I didn't know people didn't know that! hehe it's been around in England for hundreds of years. In the summer when little daisies grow all over the grass, kids at school (and others *points at self*) make slits in the daisy stalks with their fingernails and tie daisies together to form bracelets, anklets, and other things

    Good eh? Ahaha.

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    and its not so obvious as all that it took me years to figger out you had to slit the stalks Id just tie grest knots in them and then wonder why mine always looked wrong. But yeah Daisy chains are cool. My sister makes great daisy chain jewlery, she seems to be constatly covered in flowers in the spring and let me tell you carrying off daisy when your all in gothblack is no mean feat
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    Quote Originally Posted by mockingbird View Post
    Wow, I didn't know people didn't know that! hehe it's been around in England for hundreds of years. In the summer when little daisies grow all over the grass, kids at school (and others *points at self*) make slits in the daisy stalks with their fingernails and tie daisies together to form bracelets, anklets, and other things

    Good eh? Ahaha.
    Oh, OK. The obvious. I thought it was some crazy drinking/drug/ thing. It was originally mentioned along with getting drunk.

    edit: Just saw Alhara's post and it does refer to some kinky behavior.
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    ahh nooo but thats not the kind she meant as far as I know the teens go out get smashed/hammered/legless and decide it will be fun to uproot all the daisys( very annoying acctually to everyone else who wants to make daisy chains.

    Hummm but yeah they just go sit in the park and do nothing somtimes ( even without alchol) but make daisy chains, then occaionally We can see the park from the library ) Ive seen girls sit on a boy while the rest plat daisy chains into his hair....
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    1. Just 20 words make up a third of teenagers' everyday speech.

    2. Children whose parents have an OBE can marry at St Paul's cathedral.

    3. Murders of prostitutes have the lowest clear-up rates of all killings.

    4. The world's tallest man has arms that are 1.06m long.

    5. The top six high street banks in the UK made an estimated £4.5bn from penalty charges in 2005 .

    6. About 40% of the mango trees planted to offset the carbon emissions from Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head album have died - which releases carbon into the atmosphere.

    7. About 85% of Sandhurst's cadets are university graduates.

    8. Half a million passengers will pass through Heathrow alone this weekend as the Christmas getaway begins.

    9. There are 200 million blogs which are no longer being updated, say technology analysts.

    10. Half of prison inmates do not have the reading skills expected of an 11 year old child.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a007616
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    What's "OBE"?

    9. There are 200 million blogs which are no longer being updated, say technology analysts.
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