Showing posts with label Aluminium foil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aluminium foil. Show all posts

Friday, March 5, 2021

Odds and ends, Moon River

"Moon River"" on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/shorts/SneFlvjTS0YSongs


Aluminum foil dangers in cooking

https://www.thealternativedaily.com/3-scary-reasons-ditch-aluminum-foil/

 

10 longest rivers

https://www.thoughtco.com/longest-rivers-in-the-world-1435149?utm_campaign=wilat&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cn_nl&utm_content=23084656&utm_term=


Does the UK use toilet paper?

When I was a child, there was a little poem we used to recite:

In days of old,

When Knights were bold,

And paper weren’t invented,

You’d wipe your arse

On a piece of grass

And walk away contented.

To be serious, we have been using it a long time. Where I lived as a child, in the Northeast of England, some people still had outside toilets, because there were still lots of Tyneside flats.

Traditionally, poor working class families hung squares of newspaper on string on a peg to use as toilet paper, though that was fast disappearing even 60 years ago.

I recall that there was a special kind of shiny paper you used to get in toilets in institutions like school, which was totally non-absorbent and utterly useless. I’m glad this has now disappeared. Horrible stuff.