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An emergency vehicle on Blue's n Two's is not allowed to cross double white lines any more than a normal car... (So only to overtake stationary vehicle, bike, etc)
You are allowed to cross double white lines to overtake a vehicle that is travelling at less than 10mph.
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Yup that comes in the etc... Same rules as a normal car, people think emergency vehicles can do anything, not true smile
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If you measure from your elbow to your wrist, its the same length as your foot!!!!

It is also physically impossible to lick your own elbow.
There are 66 books in the Bible.
1189 chapters.
31173 verses...
Apparently, didn't check.
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If you measure from your elbow to your wrist, its the same length as your foot!!!!

It is also physically impossible to lick your own elbow.
Your elbow is also one of the only parts of your body you cant touch with both hands...
The vibrator was invented in 1883
QWERTY keyboards are laid out as such to prevent the hammers on typewriters from jamming when being used by fast typists. It is a very inefficient layout to type with and generally regarded as the most efficient is the Dvorak layout.
Stewardesses is the longest English word that is typed with just the left hand and the longest word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Lybia is the only country with a flag containing one colour.
Guns don't kill people, rappers do.
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The longest word currently listed in the oxford english dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis which is a kind of lung disease! :shock:
I learnt how to say that when I was 12... still trying to learn how to spell it without looking it up redface

Hubby is a fan of this word (makes him think he's clever!) and the bastard can spell it all properly!!!
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Cats purr when they are badly injured.
Purring doesn't mean 'I'm happy", it means "I will not hurt you, it's safe to come closer"
if you measure from the inside of your elbow to your wrist it equals the length of your foot...and remember every inch counts
Oh Sh*t someone already done that one......OK her is another brain numbing trivia....American Pie is the longest playing track avaliable on any Karaoke
Goats lactate without having a baby
Heres something I have been told in a seminar recently, I must verify it, but, apparantly, so many people in the UK are on prozac, that there are now trace amounts of it in the water
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It is also physically impossible to lick your own elbow.

No it's not
/can't believe I just tried
/freak of nature :shock:
1 in 2000 live births in humans display ambiguous genitalia 'hermaphroditism'
Emergancy vehicles are only allowed to go 20 mph above the speed limit
Emergancy vehicles are only allowed to travel 20mph above the speed limit on blues and twos!!!
Calista is trying to stop watching this topic.
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yes kiss all sorted
The most boring piece of music ever written is John Cage's 4'33'' which is a piano sonata in three movements totalling four minutes and thirty three seconds of total silence. :shock:
The hovercraft was invented by Christopher Cockerell in 1956 dunno
Dawn :silly:
The speed limit for a HGV on a single or shared carriageway is actually 40 mph
Don't you DARE ask what is a shared carriageway)
The least commonly used smileys on this board are :borg: :bs: :kick: boink and whip
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The speed limit for a HGV on a single or shared carriageway is actually 40 mph

I knew that actually ....
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Don't you DARE ask what is a shared carriageway)

Do i get a smackbottom if i asked what a shared carriageway is???? dunno ;)
During the depression of the 1930 the American government wanted people to eat spinach because it had more iron then meat, which was in short supply. To do that they used Popeye to advertise it. However, what they didn't know was that the iron content was overstated because of a wrong decimal point in the calculation.
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Do i get a smackbottom if i asked what a shared carriageway is???? dunno ;)

Go for a cup of tea while CarrieAnn and me fight for the right to :smackbottom:
(I kid you not)
:bs: is a widely used expression, but I bet you didnt know that in the second world war british soldiers coined it there own with a unique meaning:
Excessive zeal, usually involving spit and polish, originally for ceremonial drill, but favoured on most occasions by such people as the Brigade of Guards. Usually shortened to Bull.
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Didnt see that, thought I had 40 points there, damn
Finally know what that smiley means smile
In 1971, IBM introduced the first "memory disk", as it was called then, or the "floppy disk" as it is known today.
The nickname "floppy" came from its flexibility lol
Dawn :silly: