Urban myths

[dronefromsector7G]

Wetherspoons buy all their beer just as its going out of date.
Bob Holness played sax on Baker St.
John Lennon was asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world and replied he wasnt even the best drummer in the Beatles.

Wetherspoons buy already out of date beer I reckon

 

[LGWIO]

Katie Prices muff

Along the lines of the great Derek & Clive "Joan Crawford" skit.

And then the myth around Debbie McGhee and the Alsation

 

[Oystercatcher28]

The number of bicycles in Beijing is far lower than the rumoured numbers.

 

[bennyboy]

I don’t know that one?

A big one at school was that Nigel Benn was walking through a side street in London in a suit and someone tried to mug him. In reality, Chris Eubank foiled a robbery and held the thief until the police arrived. He was so strong that the man couldn’t escape.

Were rumours about Marc Almond in the 80s true?

In the 80s there was a story going around that Marc Almond had been taken to hospital to have his stomache pumped whereupon they removed from his gut aproximately two pints of biff, Does anybody know if this was really true or if it was just one of those urban myths like Bob Holness playing the...

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[Mr Kobayashi]

People who claim to know someone that shit themselves at a girlfriends house, try to throw it out of the bathroom window and it splatters on the conservatory below.

There's always something similar (and worse) though.

Woman trapped in window trying to retrieve poo after Tinder date

She tried to dispose of the unflushable waste out of a window and got stuck trying to get it back.

www.bbc.com

 

[KS55]

One close to home is the stubborn Yorkshire farmer refusing to sell up when they were building the M62 so they built it around him.

Yes, it’s actually a fault in the rock they avoided. Not too sure I’d want to live at that farm. Wagons to the left, coaches to the right…...

 

[aguero93:20]

Yes, it’s actually a fault in the rock they avoided. Not too sure I’d want to live at that farm. Wagons to the left, coaches to the right…...

Here I am, stuck in the middle with ewe...

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Were rumours about Marc Almond in the 80s true?

In the 80s there was a story going around that Marc Almond had been taken to hospital to have his stomache pumped whereupon they removed from his gut aproximately two pints of biff, Does anybody know if this was really true or if it was just one of those urban myths like Bob Holness playing the...

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I worked at a company that made modems in the early 90's and one of the women who worked there was a nurse in the 80's (left the NHS when she had kids and never went back). She claimed to have been at the hospital where this is alleged to have occurred and said it was true. He was brought in seriously ill having consumed unknown substances, and when his stomach was pumped there was all sorts in there, and not the Basset's kind either.

 

[bluebc]

One close to home is the stubborn Yorkshire farmer refusing to sell up when they were building the M62 so they built it around him.

Am I the only one who’s just found out ?

 

[East Level 2]

Lingard is still 18

Silly. Everyone knows he's 17.

WHAT??? Only Jude Bellingham is 17 and has been for a few years now.