I love Qi.

"Svend" (svend) 05/19/2019 at 02:25 • Filed to: None

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I love Qi.

Did you know the Cyrilic alphabet was invented by a guy called Cyril,

A Flemish weaver who lived in the U.K. called Mr Blanket, invented the blanket

Praline was invented by a guy called Mr Lasagne. 

pip bip - choose Corrour > Svend 05/19/2019 at 03:25

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i didn ’t know that, but i do now

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour 05/19/2019 at 03:46

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I love it because it’s educating, interesting and often corrects misnomers people have. 

MrDakka > Svend 05/19/2019 at 03:52

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VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Svend 05/19/2019 at 04:26

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QI is my favourite show over the pond. Sandi has done well hosting the show after Stephen left. I think she and Alan have a great rapport.

Svend > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 05/19/2019 at 04:34

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Ye’, Sandi has taken to Qi very well.

Sort of Stephen Fry in Danish female form.

I do miss Stephen though. I hope he comes back as a guest. 

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Svend 05/19/2019 at 04:43

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Now that would be Quite Interesting. I'm unsure if it would happen though.

Svend > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 05/19/2019 at 04:47

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Lol. I see what you did there. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > Svend 05/19/2019 at 09:15

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The modern flushing toilet was invented by Mr. Crapper. 

Svend > TheRealBicycleBuck 05/19/2019 at 09:47

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Not quite. 

Thomas Crapper didn’t invent the flushable toilet (he did invent the ballcock and improved on Alexander Cumming’s ‘S’ bend in 1880 with the ‘U’ bend. Mr Crapper died in 1910 of colon cancer.

The first flushable toilet was by Sir John Harington (Queen Elizabeth I godson) in 1596 and was installed in Richmond P alac e (Her Majesty it has been said refused to use it as it was too loud) . It was a two foot deep bowl fed be an upstairs cistern and used over seven gallons of water tow flush but could be used up to 20 times between flushes.

“If water be plenty, the oftener it is used and opened, the sweeter,” Harington wrote of his contraption. But if water was scarce, he continued, “once a day is enough, for a need, though twenty persons should use it...And this being well done, and orderly kept, your worst privy may be as sweet as your best chamber.”

In 1775 an English inventor, Alexander Cumming was granted a patent for the first flushable toilet and also invented the ‘S’ bend to stop sewer gases from entering into the building.