You better believe it...
1. IN the 1400s, a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb, hence we have 'The rule of thumb'.
2. Many years ago, in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled 'Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden', and thus the word GOLF entered the English language.
3 Each King in a deck of playing cards, represents a great 'King' in history;
Spades - King David
Hearts, Charlemagne
Clubs, Alexander the Great
Diamonds, Julius Caesar
4. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bedframes by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress support tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on, hence, the phrase 'Goodnight, sleep tight'.
5. It was accepted practice in Babylon 4000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son in law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the 'Honey month', which we know of today as the 'Honeymoon'.
6. Since 1966, English fans have said they are going to win the cup at the start of every football competition, hence the phrase, 'Deluded twats'.
Genius idea from South Korea: stores sell “one-a-day” bananas packaged together at different ripeness stages.
That way, you can eat one perfectly ripe banana each day without the rest going brown too fast.
James O'Brien completely dismantles Nigel Farage on LBC. He exposes a glaring contradiction where Farage calls Olly Robbins the enemy within in 2018, only to praise him as a highly professional civil servant today. The political hypocrisy is undeniable.