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A fun fact about you….

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Still1nLove · 14/10/2021 22:36

Inspired by another thread, I was trying to think of a fun fact about me. I finally thought of one:

I used to work at the treasury and, apparently, my office used to be Winston Churchill’s bedroom. I’m not sure how true it is but I love to think it is.

Tell us a fun fact about you……

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TopCatsTopHat · 15/10/2021 14:10

I had a faithful very obedient large fit dog when my children were born, which means they have been waking the dog daily since day one and when they were able to walk they would follow him, as a result both of my children come when I whistle. they are now tweens and my gorgeous dog passed away last year at a very very old age. He is much missed but the kids still come when I whistle which is really handy if you lose them in a crowd / they go out of sight at the supermarket etc etc basically any situation where other parents would have to holler their children's names at the top of their voice I can let out one good whistle and I'm done. It is much more discreet. 😆

lollipopsandrainbows · 15/10/2021 14:27

@Kb2942 that has literally just happened in my daughters primary school. They've literally just found out and they're in year 4.

LaBellina · 15/10/2021 14:50

I honestly thought everyone could do this @Sausagedogsarethebest until I got some weird responses when I accidentally did it in the presence of others. Here’s a picture that I just took doing my little trick

KilledByWitches · 15/10/2021 14:57

I am (or was I let it lapse) a fully fledged member of the 501st Legion and an official Stormtrooper with my own TK number.
Covid and cake kind of put paid to me getting the thigh armour on, but I'm working on it 😂

Mommabear20 · 15/10/2021 15:12

I know every word to 'we didn't start the fire'

I was born on what would have been Henry viii 500th birthday, and my DH was born on Cathrine of Aragon's 500th birthday.

QueenBee52 · 15/10/2021 15:15

@LaBellina

I honestly thought everyone could do this *@Sausagedogsarethebest* until I got some weird responses when I accidentally did it in the presence of others. Here’s a picture that I just took doing my little trick

omg I just spat out my tea 🤣😂😱

Sillawithans · 15/10/2021 15:44

You may have heard me singing a song on your radio. I will never forget the day I heard myself singing on the radio.

Granllanog · 15/10/2021 16:02

When I was 16 my dad worked in the UAE, I visited often but didn't live there. I attended a small missionary church that had been in Al Ain prior to the oil wealth and had a clinic and a maternity unit serving local Bedouin families. I used to bath the newborn babies, change nappies etc ........some of the "mothers" were younger than me.
I went with some of the staff one day to help a family harvest their crop of dates from a local village. The dates were drying on the flat roof of a house and we had to carry them in baskets on our heads down a stony path to the minibus. I didn't make it look easy and the villagers were falling over laughing at me (in a nice way).
Later the family cooked a meal for us and we ate it traditional style sat on the floor of their home, I struggled using my right hand.......the family made it look so easy. Later the father joined us, he was being trated for leprosy.
It was an incredible day and a journey into another world!

Porfre · 15/10/2021 16:15

I've had my house raided by the UK immigration police.

That was fun being woken up at around 7am

Seafog · 15/10/2021 16:18

I can roll my tongue up, and blow through it, making a perfect owl hooting sound.
Haven't found a purpose for it yet, but you never know!

Ineedmysay · 15/10/2021 16:19

A group of us were in San Sebastián for a wedding and decided that it would be a great idea to go skinny dipping on the way home from a night out, the local police not so happy, we nearly got arrested, interesting walk back to our clothes while having guns pointed at us !

GoingOutOutNEVER · 15/10/2021 16:23

I’m as boring as I am funny

KimmyKimdoo · 15/10/2021 16:27

I’ve been evacuated from another country

amusedbush · 15/10/2021 16:29

DH and I eloped (sort of) to New York, which is usually interesting enough to some people.

However, when we went to check in to our hotel we noticed that there seemed to be an unusual amount of security at the door. We realised that Hillary and Bill Clinton were doing an election event (it was 2016) in the main event space of the hotel and we had actually been stopped by a secret service agent, not a security guard. That was a pretty cool way to start the honeymoon!

thegreywoman · 15/10/2021 16:31

I had a French penfriend visit when we were in our teens. Took her up the Round Tower at Windsor Castle and while we were looking at the view an elderly man in uniform came up and asked me if I was my mother's [name] daughter. Surprised, I said I was. Turned out he'd known my grandad who had a similar job to his after he retired. He took us up inside the smaller tower where the flags were kept and where the massive flag pole goes through and onto the very top. Told us to keep our heads down as we weren't supposed to be up there, and that we were standing at the highest point between there and Russia.

friendlycat · 15/10/2021 16:43

When I was 15 I was on the cover of the Pontins brochure in a bikini with a giant bear who had his arm around me. The photo had been taken the year before when we were on holiday there. I wasn't paid for my modelling work!

Idontlike · 15/10/2021 16:47

@GeorgieFlame

I once sang "Hey Hey, it's a monkeeee" to Mickey Dolenz.

What was his response @GeorgieFlame

CyclingUpHill · 15/10/2021 16:47

As a student I had at a catering company and attended (in a working capacity) several of the ManU celebration events in the early 90s. I didn't follow football or know most of the players. I was shocked at the time how much they drank! Wow!

I had my first orgasm riding on the back of a motorbike. I was young teenager doing something stupid. I really had no idea what was happening :)

LowlandLucky · 15/10/2021 17:20

A violent thug jumped the wall into my garden, he ran straight through my house knocking me out of the way in the process, he was followed by 3 coppers. He ended up pinned to my front lawn by a police dog. We had police cars, vans and the police helicopter overhead. The coppers even offered to mop my floor as they had trailed mud through the kitchen.

butterflyze · 15/10/2021 18:21

A very famous person came to my wedding (before they were famous though).

QueenBee52 · 15/10/2021 18:22

@butterflyze

A very famous person came to my wedding (before they were famous though).

oh oh.. do we guess 😂🤣

AmandaHoldensLips · 15/10/2021 19:46

I sat next to Robert De Niro at dinner once, except I didn't know it was Robert De Niro because he had a beard and the other people at the table called him Bob. No wonder he was so amused.

nancybotwinbloom · 15/10/2021 20:34

@Justcallmebebes that sounds amazing and terrifying. Can you tell me what happened please?

QueenBee52 · 15/10/2021 21:57

@AmandaHoldensLips

I sat next to Robert De Niro at dinner once, except I didn't know it was Robert De Niro because he had a beard and the other people at the table called him Bob.

No wonder he was so amused.

omg I love this hahahahaaa so funny 😂

TAKESNOSHITSHIRLEY · 15/10/2021 22:00

ive got a few

i had 2 babies naturally(ie no ivf) without every having a period.
ive got severe pcos and at 40 ive never seen a period. yet i got pregnant twice.

another one is im a female with size adult 12 feet. i was 11 yeas old and i was already an 11 shoe.

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