http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8204 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:46:25 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8204#post-22235 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:13:18 +0000 edward hack 22235@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>around here we just get asked for any old bank notes or unwanted coins we are not using </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8204#post-22233 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:07:54 +0000 The All New Jeni B 22233@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Quaz, is it the women or the knickers that are used? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8204#post-22211 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:44:25 +0000 Quaz 22211@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Maybe some perv is just collecting female underware for his own purposes. I'm sure I read somewhere once that in Japan there are vending machines for used womens knickers, maybe that's the business model. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8204#post-22132 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:57:01 +0000 rickwestwell 22132@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Common mistake, Stoopy - it's not widely known to the general public how valuable used bras are in the manufacture of gas masks.</p> <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8285380.stm">No, really</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8204#post-22093 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:08:53 +0000 The All New Jeni B 22093@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Erm, not in mine. Not unless some very small, bald, siamese twins need a hat... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8204#post-22092 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:08:32 +0000 Mary Evans 22092@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The combination lock on the back that foils all of mankind is probably worth a few quid. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8204#post-22091 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:06:50 +0000 StoopyDeGunt 22091@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Is there any scrap value in bras?</p> <p>Are there microchips that can be re-used or something? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8204#post-22086 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:01:25 +0000 The All New Jeni B 22086@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Is it perhaps a wind-up air ambulance, like the balsa wood, elastic band driven ones?<br /> If so, I can perhaps understand the need for old and unwanted bras. They can re-use the elastic to power the ambulance. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8204#post-22082 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:32:26 +0000 Dickens or Shakespeare 22082@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Talk about backward!<br /> Would get the whole job done quicker and easier if they just collected them in a van. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8204#post-22076 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:51:50 +0000 StoopyDeGunt 22076@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I just received this on email. It seems a rather odd way of raising money for charity. Where's the value in what they're doing?</p> <p>Am I being too cynical?</p> <p>BIKE 4 BRA'S!<br /> The team from Solutions 4 Recruitment are cycling around the Isle of Wight tomorrow and Sunday to collect the Island’s unwanted and discarded bras, in aid of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance </p>