Am I the only one who is fed up with it already. I went out today armed with a list of things for the grandchildren and every shop I went into either did not have the item I was looking for, or did...
If someone is listening in to a cell phone conversation via one of those receivers, can they also hear the conversation from a person on a landline talking to someone on a cell phone. In other words,...
I work with a girl from Stockport and she has usedthe following phrases that bewilder me as I have never heard of them. They are... Ronny Roundhead Percy Filth Selfish Stanley Does anyone know of any...
Why is it now considered, by the thought police, that asking for black coffee in a restaurant is a racist remark? To what race does black coffee belong? Would asking for white coffee also be...
A "double whammy" is, apparently, a situation where two bad things happen at the same time. What's the phrase where two good things happen at the same time?
While watching the film 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrells', I heard one sentence which included the phrase 'The botangtiddly of the nuclear sub'. There were subtitles which explained that this...
Anyone know where this phrase originated? I am originally from Cheshire and we used to say "You're like a cat on 'ot bricks!" if someone was pacing about restlessly.
At work today someone mentioned an 'early bath' most people didn't know what it meant. Three of us did but we did all used to work in the same department together were we must have picked it up. So...
when answering the door or the phone and the other person asks 2 speak 2 sum1 that isnt in....y do we say im afraid there not in....what r we afraid of???
A thought just popped into my head! What is the general law/meaning of a neutral country during war time? Hitler never invaded or ruled a neutral country in WW2, they seemed to be out of bounds, no go...