After browsing Facebook recently when looking for a second-hand car, I came across the curious term ‘NaN miles’ for the vehicle’s mileage but didn’t have a clue what it meant. The thought flitted through my mind to contact the seller and ask them directly but, at the risk of appearing to be a dimwit, I … Read more
We stumbled upon this wonderful and funny video the other day by YouTube user Skylar Marie Gray which provides a fairly comprehensive list of slang words for vagina. In the video, the Scottish lassie lists off a plethora of slang terms that are sometimes used to describe the ‘lady garden’. In just under a minute, … Read more
It seems to me that the ‘big questions’ in life change with time. At different ages, mine have included: a) Is Santa real? b) Will Charles Atlas’s ‘dynamic tension’ training really give me muscles as big as those in his adverts on the back of my Superman comic? c) Will anyone ever want to have … Read more
Anyone who drives a car, van, truck or motorcycle will probably be familiar with the sight of spiders setting up home in their wing mirrors. You get rid of one and another miraculously appears a few days later. Perhaps if you’re one of those people who has that obsessive-compulsive disorder of having to wash their car weekly … Read more
Bitcoin, that crazy cryptocurrency that many people still haven’t heard of, is going bonkers. In UK terms, if you had bought just £100 of Bitcoins 50 years ago when the price was 1 shilling and sixpence, you’d be a Ga-Jillionaire in today’s money. Apparently, Richard Branson bought 3 Bitcoins when he was 17 and he now owns … Read more
Indeed, it’s a curious word that only seems to have entered our vocabulary fairly recently. But, what does it mean to ‘shart’? Firstly, it’s a verb – a doing thing, an action… To shart. Context: “Oh dear, I think I’ve sharted” “My guts are dodgy, I can’t stop sharting” And so on… So, to shart is … Read more