Anyway, how did we get from 'The Biggest Loser' television programme to dumdum bullets ? Ok, It was first mentioned that The Biggest Loser seems to be about a load of obese people in a blubbing contest and from that we got onto the subject of diet and calories and then the health of people on rations in the second world war. The question was asked, were fish and chips available during the second world war? The answer is yes, amazingly fish was not rationed and potatoes must have been readily available. The attention was then turned to fish, do vegetarians eat fish? Well some do but some don't and we supposed that vegans don't as they don't consume animal products. Now from vegans not consuming animal products we got to wondering if they wore leather shoes etc? We didn't know but the discussion on animal products quite naturally moved to the Indian or Sepoy mutiny of 1857. Now this kicked of partly because of a rumour that the new cartridge for the latest British Enfield musket was coated in animal grease. This pissed off the Hindus who thought it might be cow fat, and the Muslims who thought it might be pig fat. Now the arsenal where the cartridges were distributed was at Dum Dum near Calcutta and later on a hollow nosed expanding bullet was produced at this arsenal and that's where the name for this type of bullet comes from !
So there you have it, from The Biggest Loser to dumdum bullets. What a centre of enlightenment Beddington SF is (as well as getting lots of good birds).
Iceland Gull on the south lake. Don't forget to check the south lake for Gulls and other stuff if you're visiting. It's held many good birds.
All intellectual stuff, Johnny, not at all like the conversations at Holmethorpe which normally consist of discussions on bodily functions and sex (whatever that is)!
ReplyDeleteThis was one of our better days Graham, quite often our conversations drift into the realms of bolloks :-)
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