Something that's true no one would believe

[Lululime2024]

so Something happened this morning that's so funny to me but I can't really say it to anyone because they'll think I'm nuts so I'll start.

i genuinely turned a corner in Lidl this morning and Tracy beaker was there (dani harmer) I'd heard rumours she had moved to my town but I wasn't sure. But no, sure enough there she was.

I won't say where just incase there's some odd balls super fans but there you go. Have you ever bumped into a celeb in an odd place or something happened that no one would believe?

Neither can rabbits.

sadly for our carpets, cats can.

Ah, the actual animal Tyrannosaurus rex… I immediately thought of Marc Bolan and was trying to figure out how that could possibly be other than true!

I once saw Ant or Dec in my GP surgery waiting room. I was with my little brother who shouted bogies and he was nice enough to give him a high five.

Lightning ones are cool (or very, very hot, haha) because nobody believes the weird shit that nature does. I've seen ball lightning, upwards lightning and plasma sprites on a plane wing. Scientists only recently conceded that upward lightning does exist, after pilots had been reporting it for decades. Apparently you don't get plasma sprites on plane wings, though the stewardess told me they often see it. I loved that one, you could really imagine it was a fiery creature dancing outside in the storm.

The ball lightning flew in through the window of my gran's conservatory and out of another one. We both saw it 😳 She said "That's why I always say to open the windows when there's a thunderstorm!" (I don't - once in a lifetime's already a statistical outlier.)

I like this one.

We had a similar encounter to those cyclists when we were walking through the Angus glens once. We had to get out the way so we wouldn't get run over by a car and the driver waved his thanks to us, and it was only after it had gone past that we realised it was Charles.

Further along the path we said hello to two women walking along and my DM is adamant that one of them was Camilla, this was many years ago now, before they were officially together (but when everyone knew they were), would have been before Diana died but I'm not sure if the divorce was through yet or not.

@BurnerNC it sounds as if you have some affinity with lightening?
⚡⚡ (or do I mean plasma?)

Whaaat? Noooo! That’s incredible

As long as it doesn't get any closer 😂

Alaska separates Russia from North America.

When the Stegosaurus and Iguanodon lived on Earth, our planet was on the opposite side of our galaxy. The night sky would've been completely different. Animation on TwiX.

You win.

I'm off to bed.

My sister is into ancestry etc. Turns out we are related to the person who the road I live on is named after as well as the person the next cross street is named after. Just recently discovered. Lived here for twenty years.

I used to catch the train and chat with Australian comedian Bryan Dawe. Amazing, who'd believe that?

Wow!

Why would no one believe that an actress goes food shopping? 🤔

Wow! Now that is fascinating! That's why my granddaughter looks like me!

How is Edward I all our descendants? I believe you, but need to know more please!

Do you mean Dick and Dom ?

I think it's called the Charlemagne paradox - you have 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 great-great grandparents etc etc...eventually if you go back enough generations, you have more great great great etc grandparents than there were people alive, so you have to be related to anyone who had children back then. It's why the Danny Dyer thing about being related to the king isn't actually that impressive - we all are!

Unless he also simultaneously potted all seven red/yellow (or stripe/spot) balls at the same time, he actually instantly lost the game, as you can’t pot the black until you’ve cleared all your other balls. So to speak.

She insists it was a ball of light and they all thought it was a lightning bolt from the storm outside. I don’t think there was even a mirror in that room.

Marc Almond once picked up my Sainsbury's shopping bag full of food on the bus, thinking it was his. He was very apologetic.

You don't necessarily have to, some people's lines just die out. If you have four children, two of whom die in infancy, one of whom enters a nunnery and one who dies young in war then, nobody is descended from you.

Lots of people, especially in times of high infant mortality war and plague would have had their entire line of descent die out within a couple of generations. By the time you've got to a thousand years though, your genes are either non-existent or ubiquitous within your starting continent.

Except it doesn't double every generation. After a few, people start marrying back into their kin group and the pool narrows again. First cousin marriages are unusual for some cultures, but third and fourth cousin marriages were extremely common.