Things you can't understand

[scooter1]

Russian, or in fact any Eastern European languages

 

[Seagull73]

What is the point of:

Arthur
Ernest
Bonnie Langford
Kate Thornton
Jade Goody
Peter Andre

Any help to answer this greatly received

 

[Titanic]

...where all the money goes!

 

[Easy 10]

I don't understand why there is not, and has never been, a black Olympic swimmer.

 

[steward 433]

I don't understand why there is not, and has never been, a black Olympic swimmer.

Eric the eel. Didn't he do the olympics or was that the world championships?

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

I don't understand why there is not, and has never been, a black Olympic swimmer.

Because there aint no pools in the hood?
Because Afro hair causes excessive drag?
Because their knobs wont fit in speedos?

Wasnt there a black bloke in the US 100m relay thing the other day or had I been nudging the turps?

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Eric the eel. Didn't he do the olympics or was that the world championships?

Wasnt he the one that sank before he had done a length becuse he had been practicing in a 25ft paddling pool

 

[steward 433]

Wasnt he the one that sank before he had done a length becuse he had been practicing in a 25ft paddling pool

Dunno but by the time he actually finished all the others were out of the pool showered and dressed again

 

[CHAPPERS]

Wasnt he the one that sank before he had done a length becuse he had been practicing in a 25ft paddling pool

He won his heat because the two other swimmers were disqualified. It took him over a minute more than everyone else to complete his 50m freestyle heat because he had never even seen an Olympic sized pool before. He admitted to be struggling towards the end to keep afloat. Good on him though.

 

[Flavor Flav]

Northern accents

 

[Dr Q]

Norwegian railway ticketing systems!! Just got back from a few days in Oslo and bought the wrong ticket for the wrong train on a coupel of occassions!

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Ah, this sounds like the beginning of the phenomenon known as the phantom traffic jam, as explained by Andrew Marr on Britain From The Air a couple of nights ago.

Phantom traffic jams are the queues that you sit in for ages, and then when you finally get to the front, you find there's nothing there- like roadworks, an accident, a merging of junctions etc- to actually cause the jam, and it seems everyone's bunched up for no reason.

The cause of this, according to the esteemed Mr Marr (and lots of traffic boffins) is principally drivers travelling too close to the vehicle in front. One brakes, causing the next one to touch the brakes, the one behind sees the brake lights come on and automatically brakes themselves, and so on, going back and back down the line of cars until everyone comes to a virtual stop.

So the lesson, punters, is don't drive so close to each other, then you'll dramatically reduce the number of jams you get stuck in.

I have been in many phantom traffic jams normal along the A27 west Bound between our inbred hampshire friends.

However, this incident was weird as the drivers pulled half off the road on a dual carriage way without warning - i could understand if they had a child being ill in the back of the car but for 3 separate cars in the space of 1mile.

Weird.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Dunno but by the time he actually finished all the others were out of the pool showered and dressed again

except he won his heat

stop making things up

 

[sod1]

why today there are more threads about Man City than Brighton on a Brighton forum !

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Eric the eel. Didn't he do the olympics or was that the world championships?

It was Sydney 2000, I believe.

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