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Expand as then the balls fall off, I Think it expands brass?

There's no useless information Steve, and that little nugget you just dropped is ace 👍 Every day is a school day 😅

Urban myth. It is widely believed that a brass monkey is a brass tray used in naval ships during the Napoleonic Wars for the storage of cannonballs (piled up in a pyramid). The theory goes that the tray would contract in cold weather, causing the balls to fall off. This theory is discredited by the US Department of the Navy and the etymologist Michael Quinion and the OED's AskOxford website for five main reasons: The Oxford English Dictionary does not record the term monkey or brass monkey being used in this way. The purported method of storage of cannonballs (round shot) is simply false. Shot was not stored on deck continuously on the off-chance that the ship might go into battle. Indeed, decks were kept as clear as possible. Such a method of storage would result in shot rolling around on deck and causing a hazard in high seas. Shot was stored on the gun or spar decks, in shot racks (longitudinal wooden planks with holes bored into them, known as shot garlands in the Royal Navy), into which round shot were inserted for ready use by the gun crew. Shot was not left exposed to the elements where it could rust. Such rust could lead to the ball not flying true or jamming in the barrel and exploding the gun. Indeed, gunners would attempt to remove as many imperfections as possible from the surfaces of balls. The physics do not stand up to scrutiny. All of the balls would contract equally, and the contraction of both balls and plate over the range of temperatures involved would not be particularly large. The effect claimed possibly could be reproduced under laboratory conditions with objects engineered to a high precision for this purpose, but it is unlikely it would ever have occurred in real life aboard a warship.

@@MLVL312 Brass instruments get sluggish and may expand. But the brass plates contract and the iron balls fall off :)

@@SyMchale Thank you and agreed.

And completely unnecessary too. My wife's father flew Lancaster bombers during the war. When he was engaged in conversation by two teenage girls from Germany he was asked if he had been Germany. He said yes. Where they asked. He told them. He did not tell them he went to drop bombs. No one is responsible for other people's actions like that.

Excellent film. Watch it once a year, at least...

Ello matey peeps!

@@rossshepherd9836 Your reaction was all we needed Ross.

Disgraceful

It was Harry 🥴

That is 1 of the best

He mentioned it once but I think he got away with it.

Man Down! Man Down! Man Down!

@@KingBoomer pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease King Boomer! You're missing out as I know you and Queen Boomer will totally love it. 🙏

Stavros is Greek-Cypriot.

The driving one too

I think it was Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer who did the fishing show. Very funny even if you don't do fishing

His last appearance was on Friday Night Live Fri 21 Oct 2022 and did two characters, Loads-a-money and Stavros.

You don’t watch it for the fishing

Yes I watch for Paul so seriously fishing. While bob gets as excited like a kid or his constant falling over. It works well for none fishers and you end up relaxed from the peaceful camera shots of rivers and wildlife And two old friends chatting about life.

Cuddle lulu cuddle 😂

It’s timeless comedy, social norms change. Sad to see that it’s not as relatable as it once was.

I'm not so sure that British people obsess about Germany in WW2 these days. That in itself is a stereotype.

With Rik Mayall as his father...