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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    1. If housewives got salaries at the going rate for doing household chores, they would on average earn £30,000.
    Is that counting the pay a prostitute makes for bed time sex or is that over time?
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    Virgil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Shame on you!!!!!
    In Ireland they estimated €40,000.
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    Virgil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Shame on you!!!!!
    In Ireland they estimated €40,000.
    Well, apparently whoever did the study didn't account for all the services a wife provides ands were actually under estimating her possible net worth.
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    Well, they say certain activities dimish after marriage so it is possible that whatever left of it is not worth taking into account.
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    1. 23% of plastic bags used in the UK are from Tesco.

    2. Someone is deported every eight minutes, according to the Home Office.

    3. In 1752, the day after 2 September was 14 September.

    4. Ugandan tribes recognise and deal with depression.

    5. 70% of mental health inpatients are smokers.

    6. For the first time in US history, more than one in every 100 American adults is behind bars.

    7. There are 200-300 quakes in the UK every year.

    8. Teenagers are having fewer babies.

    9. Web browser Netscape Navigator once commanded 90% of internet traffic. Now it is 0.6%.

    10. It is possible to donate half a liver.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a023923
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    3. In 1752, the day after 2 September was 14 September.
    Oh wow.

    10. It is possible to donate half a liver.
    Another wow!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    Well, they say certain activities dimish after marriage so it is possible that whatever left of it is not worth taking into account.
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

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    1. The Duchess of Cornwall once watched Bob Marley in concert.

    2. Archimedes was murdered over pi.

    3. Forty years after colour TV was introduced to the UK there are still 34,700 people with black and white television licences.

    4. Late running trains cost the country 14 million minutes last year.

    5. A 4cm hole in the heart is not necessarily fatal.

    6. Short men are more likely to be jealous.

    7. Toasters are banned in Cuba.

    8. Yasmin Le Bon is an anti-counterfeit campaigner.

    9. Dolphins can communicate with whales.

    10. The difference between vines within France's Champagne region and those just outside is 995,000 euros.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a024517
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    2. Archimedes was murdered over pi.
    Apple pie or peach?

    3. Forty years after colour TV was introduced to the UK there are still 34,700 people with black and white television licences.
    One needs a licence to have a TV in UK? Amazing how innovative governments can be at taking money from people. Amazingly they haven't thought of that here.

    5. A 4cm hole in the heart is not necessarily fatal.
    Oh my God. I can't believe this woman is alive.

    7. Toasters are banned in Cuba.
    The marvels of communism. You need permission to buy a toaster.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post

    6. Short men are more likely to be jealous.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a024517
    This is publicity for women to have relationships with tall men .

    Actually,this doesn't sound very strange to me.Have you noticed that most of the world's greatest leaders were short?...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Virgil View Post
    One needs a licence to have a TV in UK? Amazing how innovative governments can be at taking money from people. Amazingly they haven't thought of that here.
    It's all for the BBC, which of course is State Sponsored & not allowed to run commercials (except for BBC materials) over TV or Radio in the UK. Dont know what a licence costs nowadays but it was 125 pounds/year (I think) last time I had one. It gave 2 channels & 6 radio stations then, now it is something like 8 channels & a stackload of radio channels. I would be more than happy to pay that again to avoid constant commercial interruptions.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Virgil View Post
    One needs a licence to have a TV in UK? Amazing how innovative governments can be at taking money from people. Amazingly they haven't thought of that here.
    We have it in Ireland as well. But its to do with RTE here. Pretty much the same reason as Kilted said about the BBC. If you are caught without a licence, you can be brought to court and fined....
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
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    Quote Originally Posted by kilted exile View Post
    It's all for the BBC, which of course is State Sponsored & not allowed to run commercials (except for BBC materials) over TV or Radio in the UK. Dont know what a licence costs nowadays but it was 125 pounds/year (I think) last time I had one. It gave 2 channels & 6 radio stations then, now it is something like 8 channels & a stackload of radio channels. I would be more than happy to pay that again to avoid constant commercial interruptions.
    Hmm. Do you pick those channels out of a bunch? Or is it the same channels for everyone? I guess it's not too bad if you get to choose. Here on cable TV we have th option to go with premium channels which are commercial free for something like $10/month. That's about the same amount as that licence. Well, I realized I haven't been watching these channels for a year, so i decided to end them. What am I paying for if I'm not interrested in their content? Plus I'd rather save the money. It always bugs me when one is forced to pay for something.
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    Well, it's all relative. The licence is a must, as Niamh says, fines are handed out for not having one. However, that is the only fee - all other channels are free - unless of course you choose to subscribe to Sky or a similar satellite service. Just now I think without a Sky subscription you can get around 50 channels for a yearly fee of around 125 pounds, not a bad deal altogether.
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    1. Up to one quarter of the sand on shorelines can be composed of plastic particles.

    2. Snakes can give you salmonella poisoning.

    3. Barack Obama was known as "Barry O'Bomber" at school because of his basketball prowess.

    4. Lions were kept in the Tower of London in the 14th century.

    5. In Brighton and Hove, there are 46 takeaway outlets and sweet shops for every secondary school.

    6. Sharks can be used to predict storms.

    7. Italy produces 33,000 tonnes of mozzarella each year.

    8. Somalia, ranked the third most unstable country in the world in a recent stability index, has eradicated polio.

    9. Hillary Clinton, Madonna, Angelina Jolie and the Duchess of Cornwall are all distantly related.

    10. Human beings can detect danger through smell.

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