Useless Facts

I once worked at a job where hours were broken down into units of 100. If you clocked out at exactly 1557 (3:57 P.M.), it printed 15.95 on your time card, but if you clocked out 47 seconds later, it printed 15.96. You needed a team of Enigma code breakers just to figure out if you got paid in full for the hours worked.

 

Lord have mercy! I think I'll have nightmares of that thing running me over in the street.

 

There was a time when a bag that size would last me almost a week. Now I'm not sure I could get through a handful.

 

Oh, come on. You've got prawn cocktail flavoured . . . damn, I don't remember what they were, some kind of corn puff thing . . . anyway, that was always my go-to.

Or maybe I'm getting the prawn ones mixed up with something else. What are the ones that kind of look like a flower?

 

5 pounds of nachos from Costco

 

But that's costco.

 

Useless does not mean uneducational.

 

Skips. One of my absolute favourites, and yes, they're prawn flavour. You see that picture of the giant bag of Cheetos I posted? I could probably eat that in one sitting if they were Skips.

 

And me. If it was my call the 12 hour system would be done away with. I honestly can't understand why 24 isn't standard as it totally eliminates the AM/PM confusion. I mean, what sort of dumb ass system has two points of the same day, twelve hours apart, which are written identically?

 

I'm not sure if I could go for prawn puffs or not. It sounds just bizarre enough for me to try, but I dunno...

 

Do it. But don't blame me when you get addicted. And don't go for any old 'prawn puff' clone. Make sure it's KP Skips.

That's if KP still exist. Probably merged/taken over by Walker's or someone.

 

I think it has to do with the first clocks and watches made with a 12hr face.
Then they have that saying: A broken clock is right twice a day.

But I agree that 24hr time does cut out the confusion (and the semicolon).

 

Yep, there we go. Give me those, a few cases of Jaffa cakes, and bring back Romany creams, and I'm in British junk food heaven.

 

Have you watched any of these 'Americans trying British chocolates' videos? They can be quite amusing.

I like how the intelligent looking one with the glasses has to explain to his friend what 'toffee' is

 

Useless fact... I just polished off a British sized bag of cheese popcorn.

 

Oh my goodness! I can't quite believe they asked this question. I know Hawaii is an island, but you'd think it was a different planet from this

 

The only popcorn I'll eat is the sweet stuff - the one that's almost glazed in sugar (can't remember the name, Butterkiss or something)

But, the one thing I can't stand about popcorn - and it's a mystery to me why it doesn't seem to bother anyone else - is those nasty husk flakes that plaster themselves to the back of your throat and roof of your mouth, so that you spend the next hour making horrible rasping noises as you try to clear them.

 

They never get caught my throat, but they do get under my gums and take forever to extricate. Which probably suggests something wrong with my gums.

 

Cigarette butts take between 5 and 400 years to break down.

 

Should they really be calling them British Chocolates if they're available pretty much everywhere but America? I fikking love Malteasers.

 

Well yes, because most of the chocolate bars they try (maybe not all) are British-made products. And with those that aren't made by British companies, the bar itself is (or maybe was) unique to the British isles.

Anyway, what makes you think they're available everywhere but America?

Anyway anyway, the best chocolate bar ever is Butterfingers. I have no idea what that stuff is inside those bars, but it's the best.

 

Under your gums? How does anything get under your gums?