Just looking at the BBC news website today & found the 10 things we know now that we didn't know last week:-


10 things we didn't know last weekPosted on Friday at 16:03 UK time
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.

1. Boris Yeltsin lost a thumb and index finger on his left hand while playing with a hand grenade as a child.

2. Runner's World, Wilfred Owen poetry and Uncle Tom's Cabin are restricted in Guantanamo Bay, lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith says.

3. Neighbours is the most watched daytime telly show other than the BBC's One o'clock news.
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4. Scouting for Boys by Lord Baden-Powell is the fourth bestselling book of the 20th Century, after the Bible, the Koran and Mao's Little Red Book.

5. We each get a completely new skeleton every 10 years, because of cell renewal.

6. Smoking will be banned in police interview rooms in England when the new law takes effect, although it is not banned in Scotland. More details

7. Kryptonite exists.
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8. Nearly half of all cases handled by top divorce lawyers last year involved a private detective to check on alleged infidelity.

9. £26m of pennies have been lost on UK streets since 1971.

10. North Korea is the least visited country in the world – only 1,800 Westerners make the trip each year.



I personally find number 4 very sad and worrying.

And we could have built at least 2 NHS hospitals if someone had literally picked up on number 9!


Steve M

Very interesting Steve,
However I have given up listening to any Media since Easter and feel all the better for it.
First the TV went as we could no longer afford the licence,it fell off actually as it was being moved so that was that.
Anyway our TV consumption had probably dwindled to about 1 hour a week.
Next went the habit of constantly being tuned in to "the radio"faulty buttons and all.
Just couldnt stand the smug iditoic presenters any longer..................
As a result we all feel much more relaxed,less twitchy and fell the troubles and cares of the world lifted.
If the country is invaded tomorrow no doubt some body will tell us and Church Bells
will be rung so even supposedly "huge"news stories like Yeltsin?...make 0 impact.
Its amazing how you can sit there drinking a cup of tea whilst the world is supposedly crashing in around your ears according to panicky verbal dirrorhea afflicted
faceless "presenters"repeating evereything in unwanted micro detail.
Hopefully when we next turn the "media"back in about 5 years time on again the bores and
all the rest will have long vanished!

Steve

I think I can allay your fears re 'Scouting for Boys'

Whilst this is an instruction book of sorts, it is not, as the name could suggest, a paedophile's manual! My son had a copy, and it's full of interesting and useful hints, such as how to get stones out of horse's hooves etc. I actually find it quite reassuring to know that it's a best-selling book.
However, picture the scene when one of the older males amongst us orders it over the counter at ther local bookshop. A quick phone call from behind the door, nee nah nee nah, and before you know it, you're down your local nick being put on the paedophile register - such is the preoccupation with paedophilia in the police system these days.

Steve

It takes a small percentage of the world’s population to be influenced by the later three, of 4, and for the population as a whole, to suffer the consequence of that influence, in one form or another.


Baden Powell’s Scouting had a lot to answer for, as a girl guide abandoned in a remote field, in some unknown county in England, not a boy scout in sight, ............... WHY England’s Immortal World cup win 66, ging gang goolie dropped to the sound of Lonnie’s well sung, World Cup Willie


Bevan’s dream. NHS, How he might have looked on it now, 26m might buy you one hospital, and fund only half of it.


Not surprising the west avoid North Korea, has one of the worst human rights records of any nation,



Falling Star

Tim Jeal’s Biography, Baden Powell, questions

Powell’s sexuality in some detail, some of his early scouting manuals had to be toned down by the publisher, on there incorporated graphic prohibition against masturbation , scouts to control their urge for self abuse, ??

K

KETTA

After all this,I'm now wondering whether JR Hartley didn't go down big in boystown areas like Brighton, with his famoue oeuvre!

Or am I just getting into double entendres 30 years after Carry ons?


Steve M