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Stinky, you never fail to amaze me!

I certainly did not! you lyin!

Kin 'ell, I hope I hope i get that question in the pub quiz.

Stinky wrote:Did you know a cameleon can change it's colours to the surrounding enviroment even if it's blind!

Not STRICTLY true.....

"Contrary to popular belief, chameleons do not usually adjust their colour specifically to blend into their surroundings. Most colour changes are thought to be involved in identification of species types and in social displays. Chameleons are quite difficult to detect in the wild under any circumstances. This, coupled with the fact that they can change colour, has probably led to the myth that chameleons can change colour to match their surroundings.

The normal colour of many chameleons is a cryptic green-brown. The long periods they spend without moving make them difficult to see--except at night, when they become very pale. A further trick is the chameleon's walk, which mimics leaves moving in the wind. They move very slowly and each time a foot is lifted off the branch their body sways gently as if rocked by air currents.

Blind chameleons could still change colour as long as their mechanisms for colour change remained intact. But they would not be able to see their surroundings, and so would be unable to adjust their own colour to match them. Any colour changes would most likely correspond to stress coloration as the animal discovered it could not feed.

Stuart Humphries Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Glasgow"

Every day's a school day...

sportbilly42, don't expect me to lend you shoe polish when you run out. Also did you know butterflys taste with their feet!

How about that a pigs orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

OR! that polar bears are left handed, how the jerriatrics they found that out I'll never know.

Illustrious wrote:.....that polar bears are left handed, how the jerriatrics they found that out I'll never know.

Chuck a Rubiks Cube at one next time you're at the zoo... ALWAYS use their left paws so they do...


Oh.... and butterflies taste with their HIND feet (apparently) Too busy fiddling with Rubiks cubes with their front ones I s'pose.....

Expanding on the "WHAT and WHERE?" This is a WHY?? Are the police determined to make themselves look like muppets....? This is an official 'police vehicle' in operation 'somewhere in UK' (and it's not Legoland) Suddenly coppers on bikes and stab vests don't look so silly....

"Icecream!! Choc Ices!!"

Is it a police vehicle used to chase down hit and run mobility scooters:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ooter.html

A pensioner died after she was knocked over by a mobility scooter.

The 84-year-old grandmother was crossing a road in Sunderland when she was hit.


Although the woman riding the electric-powered buggy said she was going to call for an ambulance, it is thought she left the scene and never came back.

As RL would say "Mind how you go".

SportBilly, that's in Brighton. I should know, I live here. And yes, they do look like complete muppets and they cause accidents! I rode into a metal railing while gawking at one.

For future reference, notice the pier in the background + the railings, there's only a few places with a stone beach, cyan railings + a pier.