Does anybody know @Eric1 from Gidea Park?

What make and model of electric car is only available in Yorkshire?

Isn't it funny how all those things that were good for us when we were kids, the scientists are now telling us are out to get us. Bacon, eggs, bananas, rice, sugar, salt, milk, cheese, Brazil nuts, butter, fizzy drinks, the list is almost endless. Now they're telling us that orange juice is no good for us either, at least the French are, who I guess don't produce a huge amount of orange juice. Even the good things have plastic in them which is going to kill us. With all these harmful foodstuffs around it's a wonder there's anyone left alive.

Then we have the politicians telling us that we've got to carry on working extra years for a meagre state pension because everyone is living longer.

So who's kidding who ?

There was a message on Orpington Gossip facebook group. A mother was asking where was the cheapest place to get her 9 week old daughters ears pierced?
I think that's way too young, what do you think?
For me the right age would be when the daughter asks her mum, "can I get my ears pierced". And even then the mum could say, "thnk you are a bit too young, wait a bit longer"

My new favourite is Peanut Butter flavour.
Was in Sainsburys the other day and fancied getting a tub of ice cream. Looked inside the freezer cabinets and spotted Judes peanut butter flavour and thought sounds yummy.
Tried it and it is really good. Looks like a vanilla but with the peanut butter taste. Also there are pieces of frozen real peanut butter which add to the taste experience. Also it is British produced.
Went back to the shop for more but they had sold out. So picked up another brand called Halo Top. Still nice but nothing like Judes. It's more of a chocolate flavour with hints of peanut but when you have the right mouthful.
Also when I looked on the tub it is made in the USA and imported by Halo Top UK ltd.
So what is your favourite ice cream flavour and brand?

Saw this on CNN last night. An Asian couple having IVF had 2 embryos implanted into the mother. She gave birth to twins that didn't look Asian. She asked for a DNA test and the results were, they were not her babies and also they were not related to each other. Also the clinic didn't know where the mothers embryos are.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48908133

Anyone see this on Channel 4 tonight?
That woman having her teeth sharpened - wow.
And cooking that monkey.

Apparently, the decision for this year's Glastonbury Festival to ban the use of unnecessary plastic was a success. I hope other major events will follow suit, eg, Wimbledon, other rock festivals, flower shows, etc.

Sharron Davies) and Martina Navratilova have both been trolled online for saying that trans women, that's men that have tranitioned to women or just identify as female, shouldn't be allowed to compete against real women. This is because they still have the advantage of male attributes that makes them faster and stronger.

What do you think?

Who was the German author who won the 1946 Nobel prize for literature?
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'Can I get my own breakfast?' said my ten year old granddaughter.
'Of course' I said 'As long as it isn't a bowl of peanut butter, like last time'.
'Can you cut the toast into fingers for me?' I noticed she had a pot of Houmous, so no problem.
By the time I came back from getting dressed, she had:
A jar of Nutella
A spoon
and a glass of water!
'Afters!' she said.
(and she's as thin as a rake).

Who was the sister of Hansel in a German fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm?
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Just came across another unusual cake.

"Pina Colada"

Anyone else heard or even tried this cake?

Annabelle ---Bottomless---Breathelessness---Brittleness—Buttress---Cannonball--Commonness--Cassette—Connectedness---Coolness---Dizziness---Embarrassment ---Fizziness---Gazetteer --- higgledepiggledy---Immortelle --- jazziness --- keenness -- Looseness -- Millwall --- needless --- offenceless -- puppeteer --- quizzically -- rattiness -- Success---Teehee -- Ullapool ---Voodoo---Woolly--- Xooloo---Zooxanthella

Accessorize --- Bookkeeping --- Colletta --- Doorless -- Effortless -- Fleetness -- Greediness – Happiness--- Immediateness...Jaggedness ---Kittenhood---Llanelli ---Moonless -- Noodleless---Ooziness --- Possession – Queenswood --- Restlessness --- Sleepiness ---Toothless -- unhappiness --- Voodoo – Woodless --- Xylophonelessness --- Yellowhammer--- Zipadeedoodah

Allotted

The co-chair of the London Pride event is named Ali Camp.

Anyone have any others?

What was the Beach Boys first US number one single?
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Was on tv news tonight. He is in court accused of perverting the course of justice and being a fantasist. He is still claiming he was abused by Jimmy Savile and the vip paedophile ring.
Must be hard for the jury not to laugh at him.

---Any---- town, river, county, mountain, lake in alphabetical order.

Arlberg

Updated --in Austria

Someone in Orpington Sainsburys has lost the co-operation of the rest of the staff. He is the guy who often makes the announcements like "can all till trained staff come to the front end post". Usually because there is a queure building at the only till that is open.
I reckon he has done or said something to upset the girls as on two occassions now he has made that announcement and been ignored.

What was the song from the 2013 Disney film Frozen performed by Olaf?
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This just came in to my news feed.

Police have begun digging up a field in search for missing estate agent Suzy Lamplugh who vanished in 1986.
Police vans were reported in a layby off the A44 just outside Pershore, Worcestershire.
Suzy Lamplugh went missing in July 1986 in Fulham, London.
In 1944, she was declared dead and presumed murdered.
The last clue to Lamplugh's whereabouts was an appointment to show a house in Shorrolds Road to someone she referred to as "Mr Kipper".

Can you identify the well-known song that contains the lyrics:
"You might refuse to stay. And so the best that I can do is pray"?

Can you identify who I was sketching here? Initials only please.

My sister was checking her online banking account yesterday and noticed a debit of £31.99 with the name ReportScore.co.uk next to it. She looked up their website and it was nothing she recognised and is totally sure she hadn't signed up for anything like their service.
She tried to send them an email to ask for a refund and cancel any more payments. The sending failed saying it was spam.
I said to her, go into the bank tell them what happened and get them to stop the direct debit as the website says its £31.99 per month. Well the lady in the bank knew exactly who my sister was talking about. So much that she got ushered into a room to talk to a member of the fraud team. He asked her if she had been looking at any payday loan websites. She said she had looked at QuickQuid just out of curiosity to see how much it would cost, but had not taken out a loan. He said QuickQuid use ReportScore to do their credit checks and also sell your information to them to sign you up to their monthly payment scheme.

Name the British pop group whose hit singles include Deeper Shade of Blue and Stomp?
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A few short weeks ago we were supposed to be in the biggest Parliamentary crisis for a bit of a while !!! Government was set to implode and the end of the world predicted !!! so whats happening now?.........urmmm ....not a lot as far as I can see ! Brexit seems to be forgotten......no rush, its months till the end of August ! The Conservative Party seem to be lining up their next sacrifice.....MP's are probably getting set up for their mid-summer break......Anyone laying odd's on which comes first ? Brexit or General Election? and whose bum's will no longer be polishing green leather benches in the near future ???!!!

My nephew has recently come back from a holiday in Tenerife. They had a lovely time most of the time, but there was a few things that went wrong.
He has been on holiday abroad before, with me when he was a teenager, and more recently with his giirlfriend. But this was the first time to be him, his pregnant girlfriend and a one year old son.
Firstly a minor hiccup on the day of departure. His girlfriend suddenly remembered she has a medical condition, something to do with high phosphate levels in the blood. I said I'd call Insure&go and get it added to their policy. Jobworth said, can't do that, you have to cancel then buy new insurance and pick from the list of medical conditions. It wasn't listed, so that was time wasted. emailed new policy to nephew.
Flight went well, got coach transfer to Adeje, walked into hotel reception with luggage, nephew suddenly realised he had left his manbag on the coach. It contained hotel vouchers, their passports, their money and his girlfriends Iphone. The receptionist phoned the transfer company and they contacted the driver who had seen the bag and kept it safe. Nephew had to take taxi to the airport to collect it. 50 Euros each way.
A few days before the end of the holiday his girlfirend got a urine infection similar to what she had with her first baby. So it was off to the hospital. Taxi to them to the nearest private hospital where they asked for 200 Euros before doing anything. They decided to go to the public hospital instead. There he was not allowed to be in the room with his girlfriend and had to wait outside.
On the plane home she still felt unwell and when the plane landed at Gatwick at 23.55 they went straight to their local hospital in Medway. Finally getting home at 4am. But they had to get up again 7am as she had an appointment for a scan.

Anyone else got any holiday stories good or bad?

Who was the executed British nurse who claimed that "patriotism is not enough" ?
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Any idea who I was sketching here from the eyes only? Initials only please - I will post the full sketch later.

A friend that me and dad often meet for coffee is a regular churchgoer. Last week she handed us a leaflet about a Cultural Carnival organised by her church happening today. The leaflet said there would be a parade at 9.30 this morning starting at the end of the road the church entrance is in.
so we got there with minutes to spare expecting to see participants liniing up ready to start marching, but instead there was a group of about 20 people standing around chatting. One lady asked, "are you here for the parade? we are still waiting for the band to turn up".
Then the band turned up, a 3 piece Afro-Caribbean ensemble of trumpet, drum and something else (I forget) At the same time three members of the clergy arrived including the vicar and the Bishop of Rochester.
The Vicar said which way the parade would go so as to go past most houses and annoy most people. They asked the band to lead the way, and obvioiusly had told them what hymn to play. And the parade started.
Thought it would be more embarrasing for just me and dad to say, we're not taking part just watching, when there was nobody else watching. So we decided to tag along near the back.
The band played and the clergy bringing up the rear right behind us lead the singing of "We're marching in the name of God, marching in the name of God". Halfway along the road, one of the women came to the back to tell them, the band had changed its tune to When the Saints go Marching in.
We left the parade when it got to the church and made our way to the High Street.

One of the reasons people said they voted to leave the EU was to stop workers from the EU coming here and taking "our" jobs. Mostly farm labouring jobs. Well most of the EU workers from Poland, Romania and Bulgaria have gone home and not enough UK workers are taking their place.
So now the farms are having to bring in workers from beyond the EU and it has government backing. There are now farm workers here from Ukraine, Kazakstan and Moldova.

Name the 1940 song by Mexican songwriter Consuela Velazquez whose title translates as "kiss me generously"?
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Where idid the Chinese joke go? Was Tomasz's punchline that bad?

It's the No Nonsense Coffee Guide. It's outside a cafe in Sandbanks, Dorset.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mickhuett/36840344811/

Just got some TePe Interdental brushes, recommended by my dentist. I got a pack of 8, but you can get larger amounts.
I am fairly sure each one can be used more than once, but how many times would you use one brush before throwing it away?

Name the US state whose capital is Baton Rouge?
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Games

Alphabetical games ---Words ending and words with "two double" letters.

Please join in

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Academical

Both Sainsburys and Tesco have run out of baby beetroot. Think there must be a shortage, or an importation issue.

Sainsburys put little union jack flags on their fresh produce to make you think its British. Looked at the label on my spring onions - grown in Senegal.

Now some good news. Bought a PieMinister steak and ale pie. Says on the box 100% recyclable. But its got a plastic window thinks I. Surely that part goes in the bin? But no, that is made from wood pulp and can go in the paper recycling box or on the compost. Who knew that wood could be see through.

I watched Top Gear last night and the whole show was putting electric cars through their paces.
The conclusion was they are still not good enough, except for the Tesla
The Nissan Leaf that Paddy was driving claimed to have a range of 100 miles but in reality it was 50 miles and sometimes only 35 miles.
However the Tesla that was tested had a genuine range of 250 miles. The downside is it's £40k, but who buys a car outright these days?

Name the 1991 comedy spoof starring Charlie Sheen as Topper Harley?
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Name the country whose capital is Seoul?
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What was the pen name of Tintin creator Georges Prosper Remi?
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23/06/19 ---FUL----
Awful

Mia Austin started this petition to British Airways and 5 others and is appealing for more support and signatures. Please sign

https://www.change.org/p/allow-wheelchairs-on-flights/u/24450461?cs_tk=AptySQIGfS69Al0Xv1wAAXicyyvNyQEABF8BvEI__0rILI6BP3N9JWPdpoA%3D&utm_campaign=b415a10b75064d2a9ccb3d919c0dd5c1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=petition_update&utm_term=cs

Has anybody ever eaten or seen "red bananas"?

Googled:
Despite being smaller than their yellow counterpart, red bananas excel in every other area. They contain approximately 110 calories and are packed with fiber, potassium, Vitamin B6 and Vitamin C. ... They taste like a crossover between a regular banana and a ripe, tangy raspberry.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/113610746/mali-womens-side-dismissed-for-six-by-rwanda-in-new-international-twenty20-record

Mali 6 all out, but the devil is in the detail. Only one player score a run off the bat, the other 5 runs were from byes or wides.

What is the insectivorous plant, Dionaea Muscipula?
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Could we try something new please.
Copy and paste the previous answers and add your new word so we can easily look back if word was already mentioned. Have fun

Annabelle

Been watching the televised games only. It's been quite entertaining at times and some of the players have some good skills. Like in the men's game, its the latin countries that are more prepared to play a bit dirty to get the end result.

But a lot of the refereeing has been awful. Clearly offside goals have been given, even after seeing it on VAR. Both Nigeria (versus France) and Scotland (versus Argentina) were stitched up by the ref making their goalkeepers face a retaken penalty.

I switched channels to see the end of the Scotland game when Jonathan Pearce said about Argentina having a last minute penalty. Didn't realise until reading todays newspaper about the refereeing fiasco that led to the penalty. Scotland were making a substitution but the referee allowed Argentina to carry on playing.