Urban myths that somehow, people still believe

[Dr Jekyll]

Mrs Thatcher said 'Rejoice rejoice' when the Belgrano was sunk.

Solid white lines mean 'no overtaking'.

Socialism would work if only it was properly tried.

[4x4Tyke]

McVities said:

Not quite......two cars approaching each other at 50mph each have a closing speed of 100mph, but do not posess the same kinetic energy as one car travelling at 100mph.

Kinetic energy = 1/2 x mass x velocity (m/s) squared

Double the speed and the kinetic energy goes up by a factor of 4.

I know this is car forum but surely we shouldn't ignore the effects of peak deceleration on the occupants.

[Oakey]

Ari said:

Schoolboys steal penguin at zoo. Been told that one by someone claiming it was their mate's son that did it. If you search for it, this apparently has happened all over the world, legions of schoolboys making off with hundreds of penguins!


On the subject of penguins, army helicopter apparently flies slowly over flock(? - waddle apparently, according to Google) of penguins in the Falklands. All penguins turn to look at helicopter, 'copter flies slowly over them, all penguins look up, fall over backward, can't get up. The guy who told me this one 'was there', and 'was ordered, along with his colleagues, to go and stand the penguins back up again'. Still has the scars from where they pecked at him apparently!

Oh, and woman goes home to empty house, puts Winalot on her ladygarden and lies on her back on the kitchen floor while her dog pleasures her licking it off. Only for the surprise party hiding in her lounge to discover her mid act. Happened to a women in the factory where a bloke I know worked. She never came to work again. Apparently. Riiiight...

Edited by Ari on Thursday 22 June 16:29

The penguin one did happen, but they weren't schoolkids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji0nJ6pttjg

[nonsequitur]

AH33 said:

"It's a limit, not a target"

Fully endorsed by the police, IAM and me. So it must be true.

[meehaja]

"The secret mobile phone game that 'trains' teenagers to undertake increasingly dangerous activities until they instructed to do something leads to their death in what appears to be suicide."

Aah the blue whale game... Apparently saying "that's clearly BS" in a safeguarding meeting is not professional!

[4x4Tyke]

Oakey said:

The penguin one did happen, but they weren't schoolkids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji0nJ6pttjg

Somehow that link led to this, which sort of fits the bill,

TV court rooms offer justice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7bEW8bXp64

Edited by 4x4Tyke on Thursday 22 June 20:53

[mybrainhurts]

TheLuke said:

I'm rusty

Try spraying yourself with WD40

[DanielSan]

Madeline McCann was kidnapped

[TheLuke]

mybrainhurts said:

TheLuke said:

I'm rusty

Try spraying yourself with WD40

Done, very slippy, fell and crackd mi ed open.

Dunt feel any smartter?

[CanAm]

Pickled said:

In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to go topless in public, unless she is a clerk in a tropical fish store.

This one started in an American college rag magazine together with various other "Strange Laws From Around the World", which then spread around the web. I even had it in a pub quiz where they insisted it was true.

[Gareth1974]

That Danny Baker 'killed' Bob Marley. Not true, but a good story.

[Zerotonine]

Letting your car run low on petrol drags the st out of the bottom of the tank into your engine.

[Ki3r]

See it every now and then. Even at work a few times...

If you are being asked to stop by a unmarked police vehicle you should get your phone out and dial 112. This was put you through to the Police as 999 does, but at the same time pinpoint your position to the phone op. Katie phoned 112 when a unmarked vehicle wanted her to stop. Because she phoned 112 they were able to pinpoint her location and stop her being attacked. Or something along those lines.

[briang9]

Ari said:

Oh, and woman goes home to empty house, puts Winalot on her ladygarden and lies on her back on the kitchen floor while her dog pleasures her licking it off. Only for the surprise party hiding in her lounge to discover her mid act. Happened to a women in the factory where a bloke I know worked. She never came to work again. Apparently. Riiiight...

Edited by Ari on Thursday 22 June 16:29

...... but these sort of similar things might happen apparently

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4399506/Wo...

[Zoobeef]

nonsequitur said:

AH33 said:

"It's a limit, not a target"

Fully endorsed by the police, IAM and me. So it must be true.

But spouting that means that you can do whatever speed you want even if it's safe to get up to the limit.

Try failing to get up to the limit on your driving test and see what happens.

[Zoobeef]

Jeremy Kyle was 45 Commando Recce.

[caelite]

https://www.infowars.com/

Holocaust, 9/11, sandyhook, chemtrails.

innit.

[nonsequitur]

mybrainhurts said:

TheLuke said:

I'm rusty

Try spraying yourself with WD40

Or even WD39!

[nonsequitur]

Zoobeef said:

nonsequitur said:

AH33 said:

"It's a limit, not a target"

Fully endorsed by the police, IAM and me. So it must be true.

But spouting that means that you can do whatever speed you want even if it's safe to get up to the limit.

Try failing to get up to the limit on your driving test and see what happens.

Sorry Zoobeef, your first sentence, I don't follow.

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

droopsnoot said:

Ari said:

Dr Doofenshmirtz said:

Chalk marks on your house means you're about to be burgled by the local diddycoys.

Even got released as a warning by one particularly dopey police force!

Currently being passed around FB by Greater Manchester Police.

Ha - not seen all those symbols before. When I was a lad we just put the chalk X on the houses of the people we didn't like at school, that was many years ago. Kids obviously carry on the tradition, but now we've got local Facebook groups and thousands of incredibly gullible people who take it very seriously indeed. If you try and tell them it's just kids mucking about you get properly lambasted.