Bizarre Fact of the Day

viz

38000 people commit suicide a year in the US - more than die in road accidents

Phil_aka_Pip

viz said:

38000 people commit suicide a year in the US - more than die in road accidents

would you like the road death toll to be higher?

(memories of a Rowan Atkinson(?) sketch on Secret Policeman's Ball on the subject of driving in France: apparently 2000 frenchmen dying on the roads every year was "not enough")

ICBM

Perhaps more surprisingly it's higher than the number of firearms deaths in the US too, although sadly there is some overlap.

breakstuff

You could fit the entire population of the planet into a cube with sides one kilometre long.

Otherwise known as Ukips policy on housing immigrants.

EricTheWeary

Phil_aka_Pip said:

viz said:

38000 people commit suicide a year in the US - more than die in road accidents

would you like the road death toll to be higher?

(memories of a Rowan Atkinson(?) sketch on Secret Policeman's Ball on the subject of driving in France: apparently 2000 frenchmen dying on the roads every year was "not enough")

that was funny, although quoting it usually just brings strange looks. I saw him live once, did a whole thing playing crazy air guitar to ACDC.

Jalapeno

Shimon Peres was a cousin of Luaren Bacall.  (With thanks to Evan Davies on R4 this morning)

Bucket

There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.

VimFuego

Bucket said:

There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.

meh, pretty sure the same can be said of gnomes.

PolarityMan

If you took all of the guitar leads shipped in fender started packs and laid them end to end you would have loads of tone suck.

holnrew

Your mum is a bit filthy.

richardhomer

PolarityMan;320280" said:

If you took all of the guitar leads shipped in fender started packs and laid them end to end you would have loads of tone suck.

Paradoxically, Vince 'Cable' has announced legislation today to make this illegal.

It is expected to (true by) pass the House of Commons without opposition.

Some resistance is anticipated by The Lords....

HAL9000

If a tree falls over in a forest and no-one is there to hear it, Gibson will use it to build guitars.

boogieman

George Foreman has no fingerprints.

CabbageCat

If you walked in a straight line from Earth to Mars and back at the closest point between their orbits you would impress a lot of people.

Phil_aka_Pip

Well isn't that funny?
A rabbit's a bunny!

thisisguitar

If you could fold a single sheet of paper 42 times it would reach the moon.

Grunfeld

thisisguitar said:

If you could fold a single sheet of paper 42 times it would reach the moon.

I've just scrunched a sheet of paper into a ball and it's got loads more than 42 folds.  And it's still here.

VimFuego

wrong moon possibly?

holnrew

boogieman said:

George Foreman has no fingerprints.

Because he burned them off on a George Foreman grill.

Nitefly

"Lord bless us and save us!" said old Mrs Davis

"I never knew kippers was fishes afore!"