FabSwingers.com forum: Amazing but true factoid #1

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Ok; here's a amazing-but-true factoid for all you...er, factoidophiles out there

What country (after Thailand) has the largest number of transsexuals and sex-change operations?

Right answer gets a bottle of flat Tesco's own brand cola (opened, of course) and a statue made entirely from belly button fluff.

The answer is quite literally the last country you would expect.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

How could anyone resist this lovely statuette of Jim Bowen made entirely out of fluff?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

USA

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Brazil

Can i have the Belly Button Fluff as my Belly Button Faeries are Nesting

Gimp

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Or India

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'll go for Israel

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Uzbekistan?

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By *asmanian TigerMan
over a year ago

lala land

Iran

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By *ensualtouch15Man
over a year ago

ashby de la zouch

It has to be Scotland xx

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

I'd vote Brazil too

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Germany, they're a kinky bunch?

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By *litterbabeWoman
over a year ago

hiding from cock pics.

India

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

and the prize goes to...Tasmanian Tiger!!!

and yes, I am serious, that's the right answer.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Iirc shemale porn gets the most hits in Pakistan

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Iran

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

yep, Iran, but the prize has already gone!

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By *asmanian TigerMan
over a year ago

lala land

"and the prize goes to...Tasmanian Tiger!!!

and yes, I am serious, that's the right answer."

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By *asmanian TigerMan
over a year ago

lala land

"Iran"

To late

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cardiff. There seems to be fuck loads there. .. I need a trip up the M5 and M4

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

It's obviously Iran and I know this because it says so above

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

tut tut, everyone seems to be after a Jim Bowen fluff doll!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I take your point! Next factoid will be on the same thread

anyone got the answer for number 3?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Amazing Fact #3

Indeed

During his lifetime, he led Venezuela, Colombia (including Panama at the time), Ecuador, Peru (together with Don José de San Martín), and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire. Admirers claim that he helped lay the foundations for democracy in much of Latin America.

He is seen as the godfather of South America and Bolivia was named in his honour

LincolnJay, I demand a recount!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

That's all stuff he is renowned for but not the thing no-one else has done to this day.

(There was also generals Jose de San Martin and Bernardo o'Higgins among others)

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

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Did he score a penalty, an own goal then get sent off in a world cup qualifier

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Noo, lol

Didn't stop him from trying though (probably)

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

and the answer is...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

He was president of 4 different countries

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Bino; you get the prize!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Amazing but true factoid #4: in what year was the last execution by guillotine in France?

Right answer gets this bag of stale licourice allsorts, the only ones left being those horrible twisty ones that everybody hates, and half a postcard

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The answer is quite literally the last country you would expect."

The last country I would expect would be Iceland...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

But factoids are not necessarily true

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"Amazing but true factoid #4: in what year was the last execution by guillotine in France?

Right answer gets this bag of stale licourice allsorts, the only ones left being those horrible twisty ones that everybody hates, and half a postcard"

Is it one of those naughty seaside postcards

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

yes...yes it is

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Nobody?

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By *anchestercubMan
over a year ago

manchester & NI

"and the prize goes to...Tasmanian Tiger!!!

and yes, I am serious, that's the right answer."

There's a documentary on it on Youtube that I saw ages ago.

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

I fucking Ran

well I never saw that coming, I thought they'd be hung out to dry with their strict laws

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By *anchestercubMan
over a year ago

manchester & NI

"I fucking Ran

well I never saw that coming, I thought they'd be hung out to dry with their strict laws"

It's how they explain away the gay in a lot of cases - "you're not gay, you're really a woman, sex change!"

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"I fucking Ran

well I never saw that coming, I thought they'd be hung out to dry with their strict laws

It's how they explain away the gay in a lot of cases - "you're not gay, you're really a woman, sex change!""

Fucking hell

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By *trawberry-popWoman
over a year ago

South East Midlands NOT

OP you do know that factoid means fake fact right?!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The last use of the guillotine was fairly recent, 70's I think. I'll plum for. 1977

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"OP you do know that factoid means fake fact right?! "

yes, yes I do

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I fucking Ran

well I never saw that coming, I thought they'd be hung out to dry with their strict laws

It's how they explain away the gay in a lot of cases - "you're not gay, you're really a woman, sex change!"

Fucking hell"

Like Brian's mum in that Monty python filum ?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I fucking Ran

well I never saw that coming, I thought they'd be hung out to dry with their strict laws"

as a matter of fact Ayatollah Khomeneni issued a fatwa in support of sex-change operations after a letter from an iranian transsexual activist.

Weird; but true

Funny how they can be progressive in some respects but not others.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I fucking Ran

well I never saw that coming, I thought they'd be hung out to dry with their strict laws

as a matter of fact Ayatollah Khomeneni issued a fatwa in support of sex-change operations after a letter from an iranian transsexual activist.

Weird; but true

At the risk of derailing this trivia thread ...does this work in reverse ? , would that woman have been OK watching volleyball is she was wearing y-fronts ?

Funny how they can be progressive in some respects but not others."

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Weird but true factoid number 5:

What-unexpected- country did King George VI send a letter of condolence to on the death of their Head of State near the end of World War 2?

Right answer gets a warm can of tizer that's been dropped several times and has gone out of date.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Italy or the US or Germany or Japan

Scratch the US that leaves

Italy or Germany or Japan

Don't think the emperor died till recently so Italy or Germany.

Can't be old Adolf so that leaves

Mussolini

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

King's Crustacean

Is it Iran ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ohhh I was thinking enemies!.

Is the answer to all factoids Iran?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

No, no and no.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd say Iran,

I live in Iraq and they are pretty much being pushed across the boarder, that's how many of them there are!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Don't think the emperor died till recently

1989, but Britain was at war with Japan in 1945 so he wouldn't have sent the letter even if Hirohito died then.

Can't be old Adolf so that leaves

Mussolini "

-Mussolini was only ever Head of Government (Prime Minister) under King Victor Emmanuel III, Italy's Head of State at the time. Italy switched sides in 1943 when the King sacked Mussolini, but il Duce headed an German puppet regime called the Italian Social Republic but as Britain didn't recognise the government King George wasn't going to be sending any condolence letters.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I'd say Iran,

I live in Iraq and they are pretty much being pushed across the boarder, that's how many of them there are! "

Nope, but the allies got rid of the Shah of Iran at the time (because he was pally with Hitler) and replaced him with his son (the one who was overthrown in the revolution in 1979 by Ayatollah Khomenei) during WW2 though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hungary. But no idea who the head of state was

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Ferenc Szalazi.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Although I'd be tempted to guess at a Hungarian geezer

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

And still no

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'd say Iran,

I live in Iraq and they are pretty much being pushed across the boarder, that's how many of them there are!

I always had my suspicions.......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was it the head of the Greek Nazi party.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Scratc that he's still married to the queen

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hang on a moo.

King of Egypt died sometime around then

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

King Farouk?

Nope

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Who knew we had this many enemies

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The Irish Prime Minister also travelled to the embassy of this particular country and signed a condolence book.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wait a minute...

Argentina or Brazil

Brazil were fascists and I think a few of them Nazis escaped there

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And there'd have royalty

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So they were probably Nazis too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was it Pele

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Wait a minute...

Argentina or Brazil

Brazil were fascists and I think a few of them Nazis escaped there"

Nope, both Argentina and Brazil were on the Allied side (though Argentina admittedly only right at the end of the war).

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"And there'd have royalty"

Brazil hasn't had a monarchy since 1889, and Argentina has always been a republic

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fucking Americans all the same

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Give up?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No.

We've only got half of Asia Australia new Zealand Canada most of Europe and Russia left

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mexico.

Never trusted them since swine flu

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Australia, Russia, New zealand and Mexico were all on the allied side, so no.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Can't be Canada

Can't be Russia

China? Noo

Korea? Nah

Australia or new Zealand well they wouldn't be big news would they.

Not Hungary

Not Brazil or Argentina not Italy.

Wait a minute obviously obvious.

A German monarch. Got to be

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Close, but Germany didn't have a monarch in 1945.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Willhiems kids

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There'd have been cousins

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nobility or what ever they called them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They lost it all in the republic but there'd have been a few hanging around some titles somewhere.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Nope, the German monarchy had been overthrown in 1918.

Germany did have several Presidents afterwards though. And who was President of Germany towards the end of the war?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Willhiem the 2nd..

Ohhh I knew it all along

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If its not I give up.

Where's 170 when you need it

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Nope, he died in 1941 and hadn't been Germany's head of state since 1918.

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By *arry247Couple
over a year ago

Wakefield

Last time I looked neither London or Essex were countries.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The president of Germany in 1945 was Hitler no.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

All the button mushrooms in the shops come from the same mushroom strain. The flat mushrooms are just the button mushrooms a few days older.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What a bizarre thread.

I love it

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The answer is...Hitler.

Britain may have been at war with Germany at the time, but George VI was (like his daughter is today) not just King of Britain. He was also (quite separately) King of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, South Africa and Ireland. All of the above countries joined the Allies with the exception of Ireland, which remained neutral and hence never severed diplomatic ties with Germany. As George VI thus remained King of Ireland til after the end of the war, and as a constitutional monarch is required to be both politically neutral and to represent the country of which they are head, he was constitutionally required to send a letter of condolence to the German people and government on behalf of the Irish people and government on the death of Hitler.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's always the obvious ones that get yer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Here's another factoid...surreal in nature

Buy your own Salvador Dali.......

Spend around 50p in a sweet shop and buy a Chupa Chups Lollipop

Dali did the logo

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