Louise Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Check this out http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7540648.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joojoo Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 What an idiot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 It was in the **Daily Mail** too. I'd be inclined to at least google it before trying a tip like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 what a plonker! He was probably reading from a script prepared by a researcher who is probably 'signing on' as we speak! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggy Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 plonker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rhapsody Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Anthony Garden-Gnome. What a Numpty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Doesn't suprise me in the least He literally lives down the road from me & is a bit of a twit,for want of better word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilda-and-evadne Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Check this out http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7540648.stm When I heard that, I thought - duh, AWT, the clue is the "bane" bit of the word. AWT had a public school education, too, dipstick. Bane means something that causes misery or death, derived from Old English/Old Norse word for death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scramble Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 People can be so stupid sometimes... Especially me... But I don't think I'd ever do that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 AWT had a public school education, too, dipstick. .... Doesn't mean one is going to necessarily be more intelligent just because one went to public school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lapinou Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 AWT had a public school education, too, dipstick. Why would that make one more likely to know about wild plants? Or anything, for that matter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddie Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 just as aside, what difference does yr education make as to whether you know the names of edible plants???? my mother taught me, not any school, and I know quite a lot of people on this forum are struggling away, finding the money somehow, to send their kids to a "private" school, to give them a decent start. you pay for class sizes, more than anything else, and there's very few parents who would turn away the oppportunity to give their children the best they can, if they can. Rant over!! My mum died, and left me enough to get mine through until after gcse level. I could have paid off the mortgage, bought a camper, and had a holiday, and sent them to the not so hot comp down the road. Guess what I did. And now tell me it's not right. I work all hrs to earn money to pay the mortgage, and will continue to do so.the only thing that changed is no mum any more, and I get taxed even more heavily on my being sensible and not blowing the lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 I just wanted to say that AWT meant to say a weed called fat hen, so I read. Wrong name popped into his mind Buffie x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 I'd worry if his hobby was natural remedies and he wanted me to try his new tea It does make you think though - there are lots of people who would take his word as gospel and it wouldn't cross their minds to check. I wouldn't have known about henbane regardless of state school education v independent. It should, however, force people to double check but as folks are generally lazy, I doubt it. Anyway, is henbane widely available? If it's as dangerous as they say it is, it probably will be now so they've shot themselves in the foot there! Causes hallucinations, drowsiness and disorientation. Hmm, greenhouses around the country are preparing their shelves for a new arrival with it's friend the ciggie paper I'm with you Poet, a researcher hasn't slept a wink since this hit the fan. Poor thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsallen08 Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 What a div! Stop trying to be Hugh F.W! It will never happen! Plonker! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
