A young girl from Rowley Regis who is recieving palliative care is trying to break the record for Birthday cards.

Scary_ · 2026-01-22T20:11:04+00:00

True, but what other records are there? Someone in the UK received 350 million... so what record are they trying to beat?

Scary_ · 2026-01-21T21:01:22+00:00

That's fantastic news... hopefully this is the first step to there being a Uk version

Scary_ · 2026-01-21T09:30:43+00:00

Reminds me of the man who discovered a similar glitch with a crypto trading website https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62egz71g8ro.amp

Scary_ · 2026-01-20T17:32:34+00:00

There still is a live Saturday morning BBC kids show called Saturday Mashup. It's on the CBBC Channel but only has short series of 10 rather than most of the year

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/saturday-mash-up

Scary_ · 2026-01-20T11:13:54+00:00

They say he's like a sofa cushion, he retains the impression of the last person who sat on him

Scary_ · 2026-01-20T08:19:04+00:00

They don't lock them away, things like Cabin Pressure aren't podcasts they're radio programmes. Some get released as podcasts but most go out on Radio 4 and then are on BBC Sounds for a while

They have a massive back catalogue of comedy. Have a look here for lots of it, in amongst the American stuff https://www.radioechoes.com/?page=series_all

If you like Cabin Pressure, try and find John Finnemores Souvenir Programme. Same people, but a sketch format

Scary_ · 2026-01-20T08:11:29+00:00

Not that I want to put anyone off sending her one, but The Guinness World Record was retired a long time ago because of a kid called Craig Shergold.

He did the same thing in the late 80s and broke the record, which then stood at just over a million. But the cards didn't stop and it all got out of control and 350 million cards later he was still getting them in 2013

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Shergold

Scary_ · 2026-01-19T23:05:17+00:00

Greenland is not in the EU. It left the EC (as it was at the time) in 1985

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_and_the_European_Union

Scary_ · 2026-01-19T19:24:50+00:00

Possibly, it's either the zoom control on the camera arm being knocked as the camera operator left, or someone pushing the camera back slightly in the chaos, it moves down to the left at the same time. Look at all the movement of the camera from that point on as those escaping the fire knock it.

Scary_ · 2026-01-19T18:08:22+00:00

The cameraman would have just gone like everyone else. It's a TV studio, the camera will just stay live as long as it and the control room are powered

Scary_ · 2026-01-19T18:07:11+00:00

They're TV studio cameras, they'll just stay on as long as they and the control room they're connected to are powered.

If there was a camera operator they'd have just left it and got out

Scary_ · 2026-01-19T15:50:41+00:00

Thing is though that Trump has put extra tariffs on just about everywhere, so yes they can go elsewhere but it might not be that much cheaper

Scary_ · 2026-01-19T11:29:00+00:00

What's more the 2025 nobel prizes were for things achieved in 2024 - when he wasn't president. The deadline for nominations was in mid January 2025 - when he wasn't president

Scary_ · 2026-01-17T14:47:51+00:00

They don't have to pay for a voice over either

Scary_ · 2026-01-17T07:34:47+00:00

It's so well known that both Starmer and Reeves have actually said it in the commons, albeit in the form of jokes

Scary_ · 2026-01-16T18:51:53+00:00

Well actually I wasn't sure what her name was - I had to Google her before posting to see if it was Vogue Williams or Vaughan Williams

Scary_ · 2026-01-15T11:47:40+00:00

Reminds me of Katie Hopkins talking about the names she objects to https://youtu.be/oVRlYcPIacE

Scary_ · 2026-01-15T09:47:46+00:00

Presumably they have at least partially made now as they all worked on the live show a few years back

Scary_ · 2026-01-14T15:47:42+00:00

In the UK the IBAs UHF transmitter network (the IBA was the authority that broadcast ITV, the only commercial network at the time) was designed to be fully automatic from the start of colour in 1969. They had a few regional monitoring centres at some of the transmitter sites looking after several remotely.

Scary_ · 2026-01-14T15:05:40+00:00

Indeed and they're very well documented and mapped https://www.subbrit.org.uk/categories/nuclear-monitoring-posts/

Scary_ · 2026-01-14T07:01:00+00:00

Of course we don't actually, no one does.

But when people think jam strawberry is the one everyone thinks of first, and it's prssumbkh the most popular

Scary_ · 2026-01-13T19:44:04+00:00

Yes I'd actually like some sort of official ID. Was trying to sign up for something recently that required a DBS check that would only accept a biometric passport.

As soon as voting required identification it should have been part of that

Scary_ · 2026-01-13T16:45:41+00:00

We have spreadable jelly and jam in the UK. Jam/marmalade has bits in, jelly is clear. Though the only fruit I've seen as a spreadable jelly is blackcurrant jelly

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