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Modern Urban Legends?

I was feeding my youngest babyfood out of a jar (it's fine, she was a baby, not, like, fifteen or something) and suddenly noticed that the whole of the middle of the jar was just a load of colourless sludge. I instantly stopped giving it to her, and returned it to the manufacturer.

Now, bearing in mind that I didn't know what the hell it was in that jar, and the child was less than a year old, I was slightly discomfited to receive a fairly offhand 'you'll be happy to know that the substance was cornflour' and a voucher for another jar. I mean, I wasn't after a lifetime's worth of babyfood, but even so.
 
escargot said:
Not a problem when nobody can get an appointment! :dunno:
They don't need a prescription.

You and I are both old enough to remember when contraception was made free through the NHS. :nods:
April 1974. I was still at school.
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I mean they've never been allowed on prescription, something to do with the old laws in prostitution. That may have changed, I don't know. You have to pay for them or get them from family planning or a sexual health place.
 
Floyd1 said:
Are they?
I need XXXXXXXX Large.

(They're not for me, they're for Swifty).
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Actually, given that there are many men with larger-than-average endowments, there are larger condoms sold - but they are expensive! The first Mr J was such a one, and trying to get hold of them in the early days of the Internet was ... interesting. Similarly, there are snugger condoms for smaller-sized chaps.

Huge penises are not a totally positive attribute IMO, they can be attached to some total dicks!
 
There was a question posted on my Metal Detecting forum a few months ago concerning a Pilgrim Ampulla. I've whittered on about these previously in the Detectoring thread : sealed lead alloy pouches containing oil that were hung on shrines. The oil became sanctified by the prayers and devotions directed to the in-house Saint and the ampullae sold on to the visiting pilgrims. Dating around 1350 (development of alloy suitable for mass production) until 1530 (when Henry VIII I am I am did something naughty).
Never heard of one found with the contents intact.
Anyway:

Poster: Hey everyone, what's the best way to cut open a Pilgrim ampulla ?
Us: Hello - why would you want to do that ?
Poster: I've got one that rattles and I want to get the gold coin out.
Us: Probably a bit of gravel got in it, do you really need to cut it open ?
Poster: (increasingly defensive) I found it, I reported it to the FLO so it's mine to do what I want - and I want to get the gold coin out.
Us: What makes you think there's a gold coin in it ?
Poster: My mate has found loads of ampulla and he said all of them had a coin in them.
One of Us: Yeah I've heard that - you could try a hot blade ..
Rest of Us: What the f... ?

Can't find the original postings so probably deleted by a Mod.
Hope this UL doesn't spread via YouTube.
 
Over on Mumsnet at the moment there's a discussion going on about whether children are being sold vapes laced with Spice. Apparently it's an epidemic and children are dying and being carted off to hospital all over the place, OR it's not a thing and the children are overindulging in normal vapes or stronger-than-legal vapes which is what is having the effect.

It has all the makings of a new urban legend. Or a medical emergency. Hard to tell which.
 
Bad Bungle said:
There was a question posted on my Metal Detecting forum a few months ago concerning a Pilgrim Ampulla. I've whittered on about these previously in the Detectoring thread : sealed lead alloy pouches containing oil that were hung on shrines. The oil became sanctified by the prayers and devotions directed to the in-house Saint and the ampullae sold on to the visiting pilgrims. Dating around 1350 (development of alloy suitable for mass production) until 1530 (when Henry VIII I am I am did something naughty).
Never heard of one found with the contents intact.
Anyway:

Poster: Hey everyone, what's the best way to cut open a Pilgrim ampulla ?
Us: Hello - why would you want to do that ?
Poster: I've got one that rattles and I want to get the gold coin out.
Us: Probably a bit of gravel got in it, do you really need to cut it open ?
Poster: (increasingly defensive) I found it, I reported it to the FLO so it's mine to do what I want - and I want to get the gold coin out.
Us: What makes you think there's a gold coin in it ?
Poster: My mate has found loads of ampulla and he said all of them had a coin in them.
One of Us: Yeah I've heard that - you could try a hot blade ..
Rest of Us: What the f... ?

Can't find the original postings so probably deleted by a Mod.
Hope this UL doesn't spread via YouTube.
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Reminds me of the bloke who swigged the contents of an antique bottle. :rollingw:

Antiques Roadshow expert drinks 180-year-old urine, rusty nails and a human hair after mistaking liquid for port

An Antiques Roadshow expert, Andy McConnell, accidentally drank 180-year-old urine, rusty nails and a human hair during an appearance on the show.

The glass specialist had mistaken the mystery liquid for 1840s port or red wine when he drank from the bottle in a 2016 episode of the BBC series.

Inserting a syringe in the bottle’s cork, McConnell tasted some of the “very brown” liquid and remarked: “I think it’s port – port or red wine... or it’s full of rusty old nails and that’s rust.”
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catseye said:
Over on Mumsnet at the moment there's a discussion going on about whether children are being sold vapes laced with Spice. Apparently it's an epidemic and children are dying and being carted off to hospital all over the place, OR it's not a thing and the children are overindulging in normal vapes or stronger-than-legal vapes which is what is having the effect.

It has all the makings of a new urban legend. Or a medical emergency. Hard to tell which.
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If it was in the US, I'd say it's yet another election year scare tactic.
 
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