• The average British lunch lasts 19 minutes and 42 seconds;
• The sale of sandwiches cut diagonally and packed in rigid plastic containers originated with Marks & Spencers in 1980 (apparently they are easier to stack);
• In 1986 there were 86,000 fax machines. Two years later there 250,000;
• In 1949, 81% of British men smoked;
• James Callaghan, as a junior minister at the Department of Transport in the late 1940s, invented the term “zebra crossingâ€;
• In the 1950s, half the population suffered from chilblains (usually caused by lowering frozen feet onto hot-water bottles);
• The British tea break – and the equally British shop-floor “tea strike†provoked by a substandard brew – was killed off in the 1960s by the first hot-drinks vending machines, invented in America and marketed to factories as a way of avoiding industrial strife;
• In a 1992 BBC documentary about the weather, a statistician rang people immediately after they had watched the weather forecast and discovered 70% of them could not remember a thing about it.
I'm mainly positive about life and like to see the good in people. If I wasn't, I'd get bogged down in all the shit that goes on.
"I bring you a tale of broken seas and I'm drowing in whiskey and beer. My doctor reports that if I dont stop soon that i'll drown in an ocean of tears. I looked at you and saw my desire, went from the frying pan into the fire."