Never shake hands with a Geordie

[Ant van Oviedo]

Shocking news here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7667499.stm

The difference between the various cities is amazing. That's the last time I share a bowl of peanuts with anyone, though.

[Eggchaser]

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So that's why they're called Northern monkeys.

[EIM]

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All it means is people down south are too uptight to shit.

[Spearmint Rhino]

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I love this

The further north they went, the more often they found commuters with faecal bacteria on their hands - men in Newcastle were the worst offenders.

and this

In the other three cities - London, Cardiff and Birmingham - the women's hands were dirtier

It's as though (the Geordie) Mrs Rhino and I were somehow driven towards each other, to avoid having to go out with someone with shit all over their hands.

[Ant van Oviedo]

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The thing is, though, that even before washing my hands I do my best not to get shit on them. Do these people use paper, or what?

[TMA]

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Some hastily thrown together PR research, but with a genuinely good cause! Makes a nice change.

[TMA]

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I love how the BBC use carefully phrased press-release stuff like "These results are startling and should be enough to make anyone reach for the soap" as if they're genuine quotes.

They often repeat this formula of reporting unpublished research where nobody's actually seen the data and using press-release material as quotes. It's seriously lazy and it means that loads of their "most e-mailed" health stories are actually just thinly-veiled marketing exercises from private companies who are clever enough to play the system.

[Just Say No To Vorderman]

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a sample of 409 people from 5 cities doesn't sound very many to base your findings on

[Eggchaser]

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In other disgusting news -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/w...ds/7669625.stm

Mr Singh has been banned from running any food business.

I should bloody well hope so!

[Ginger Yellow]

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At least it's PR for a sensible campaign rather than some product as these surveys usually are. I had to check to see if that soap quote came from a soap maker. It doesn't.

[hobbes]

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The thing is, though, that even before washing my hands I do my best not to get shit on them.

Apparently, shit molecules or "turdicules" as I just decided to call them, can pass through the bog roll, even if you don't accidentally perforate the sheet with your finger and wind up impaled up to the 3rd knuckle.

[sw2borshch]

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I believe the phrase you're looking for hobbes is a "brown ballerina."

[hobbes]

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That does sound like something I'd say, actually.

[Etienne]

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I wonder how long sw2boro has been lurking, reading the boards, waiting for the moment when he feels he finally has to register to post...

[sw2borshch]

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The boards a few months, the mag since '89 or so.

Normally most things have been said by the time I get here, but this time, well, I am Boro, hear me roar.

[Gangster Octopus]

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sw2boro wrote:

I am Boro, hear me roar.

Excellent. We need more people from Nuneaton on here...

[My Name Is Ian]

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They're "Town", now.

[Hofzinser]

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Am I the only one who gets a Monty Python earworm from this thread title?

[E10 Rifle]

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Can I join in welcoming Viz's Professor Bernard Fuck (aka sw2boro) to the board?

[Nishlord]

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In the pub quiz I do, I asked "people from which city have the shittiest hands in the UK?"

Half an hour later, someone came up and said "I can't stay around for the results, but is the answer Mansfield? They've all got mangled-up hands up there, cos of the mining"

[Ginger Yellow]

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"Am I the only one who gets a Monty Python earworm from this thread title?"

No. When I first saw it, I assumed this would be a thread about regional slurs.

[sw2borshch]

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Nuneaton? I've never thrown a coin in my life, not even shoved a ha'penny.

A lot of the deabte on here, enjoyable though it is, gets a bit rarefied for me, but I thought seeing as I know a lot about the topic I should weigh in.

[My Name Is Ian]

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Lordy. It's not Harrow, is it?

[Gangster Octopus]

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Hope so. It'll be good fun to have someone to mock...

[Ant van Oviedo]

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I've been laughing at "brown ballerina" all day.