Monday, 30 August 2010
Friday, 6 August 2010
6/8/45 / what do think of HIROSHIMA
When the bikini became fashionable it recieved perhaps as you can imagine an explosive reactionn, as it was not long before this that people were more or less completly covered up!!
We tend to think of a bomb as a device that has not been around to long but as actually been around since 1588 ( told you I was wide awake in history)so not really a new fangled thing of the last century although saying that only used as a word then !! c.onfused ( good ) like cofusing people.
I am hopeless at lanuages but most words we use originate in other landsand a lot of words originate from THE GREEK , i was useless at FRENCH but lets give this a go
BOMB comes from the word BOMBOS which means a humming sound i have never thought what sound a bomb makes but doubt a humming sound as I think of something which is happy hums
In the swinging 6os the word to bomb out came into being as to fail in somthing but lots of uses of the word bomb such as driving a round in one , or wish I had a bomb (Money) dont take all what I say literally.I have never heard of these two expressions as a long pass in football is a bomb or a mass of Lava!!
Oh well I am practically Bombed out and I dont try to think of EINSTEINS quote
"I do not believe that civilisation will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb'.Perhaps two thirds of the people of the earth will be killed>
Hope I have not worried you and everyone sleeps well and think will of brighter thoughts next time
Thursday, 5 August 2010
Monday, 2 August 2010
Sunday, 1 August 2010
stockholm
WHY DONT YOU DRIVE
I am not allowed to drive for health reasons, but I get a free bus pass which I make good use of
but sometimes it would be nice to look at views and places that are inaccessible by public transport ,hence the photo below!!!
It is actually 100 years ago that the co-founder of rolls Royce died ( and no I am not related to him but people who know me know I have a brain full of facts useful information , i have been known to drive lots of people crazy with.
The way CHARLES died was slightly moving (spot the pun)as he became the first Briton to die in a flying accident as he was in a display when the plane tail flew off,their are alot of hidden dangers in showing off!!
Although I an diabetic have been known to succumb to the odd MARS Bar but then run around madly to burn the sugar off but their is a certain company who works out how many mars bars it would cost to buy something and the answer is 347,0000, how they work these thing out and as i failed maths miserably I am glad not me as would definitely be in hospital!!
Another useless fact is the average person takes 645 car journeys a year who finds thes info is astounding and how do they know what a car journey they may have to make the same journey twice in one day of left their house keys behind.
I often think looking out on my street that we are being overtaken over by cars and one day will be stuck in a massive big TRAFFIC JAM if by chance all went out at the same time but what a shock if people in SOMALIA and LOS ANGELES swapped lands for the day as there are more
cars in L ANG than people in SOMALIA, but in SOMALIA there are 200 times more camels than cars .I Think if I had the choice of camels or cars , i would go with the humped variety but I suppose depends on distance travelled and the weather!
Although we tend to think drunken loutish behaviour is a thing of today,, I think there has nearly been drunks and louts since time began as the it first became the first drink
driving law thing happen way back in 1872, I would love to know what people were like at this time and I cant really imagine many people having transport.
People tend to complain about speeding and i know for my dad has been caught countless times for being just slightly over and always in the land of song WALES , as is so difficult when driving along on an A road but all of a sudden come across a squashy bendy thing, but speed limits are their for a reason 25 million people have lost their lives in road accidents, I know of two people who have died in crashes but never the less it is always a shock and so many people think will not happen to me or my friend or relative . MY mum was in a very bad crash when someone else went through the lights and hit her friends car and is still a very nervous driver.
Speeding laws have been around centuries but it would have been amusing to see cars travelling about in 1865 with a man walking in front with a red flag so luckily not happening today imagine cars ambling along today with every car with a man walking in front
So next time you are ambling about at a snail pace think of this!!!
The red flag was done away in1878 maybe to many cars correspond with the flag wavers but the speed limit was still at a rate of a tortoise with 2mph in the cities and 4mph in the country
You will never moan about traffic speed or jams again after reading this
All cars have number plates but you would need alot of dosh to buy the most unique which is just one number of course 1as is the one and only one but cost 7.1million back in 2008 so being unique does not become cheap.
Oh well if you cant make your mind whether to get a burger from a well known chain it actually works out cheaper to get a Car BROOOOOOOOOm!
FOR someone who does not drive or takes little interest in transport i don't half do a lot of road miles , oh well off on my buss pass