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cygnet

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2975 on: 30 December, 2022, 11:08:15 pm »
Hot on the heels of Rightmoves "most expensive streets in the country" comes this:
London's worst place to live ranked and it's even worse than Luton, Slough and Hull

Things I have learned today:  Dagenham is Laardan, not Essex
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2976 on: 31 December, 2022, 10:34:31 pm »

https://twitter.com/davidmbarnett/status/1609243508224794629

Scarborough fireworks cancelled due to Walrus...

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« Reply #2977 on: 01 January, 2023, 09:13:38 am »
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2978 on: 05 January, 2023, 08:24:21 pm »
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2979 on: 10 January, 2023, 03:49:35 pm »
Britain's first multistorey car park, or so they claim, without much evidence: https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-oldest-multi-storey-more-than-a-car-park/

That's Britain's first Evans too*.

*Britain's first branch of Evans to be opened in Bristol.
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JonBuoy

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« Reply #2980 on: 10 January, 2023, 04:18:51 pm »
Linked from that page:  https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/cyclist-breaks-collarbone-after-flipping-off-bike-metre-wide-pothole/

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The pothole was over half a foot deep at its lowest point and a metre-wide length ways

There are probably several topics where that could have gone.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2981 on: 10 January, 2023, 05:39:37 pm »
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 10 January, 2023, 03:49:35 pm
Britain's first multistorey car park, or so they claim, without much evidence: https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-oldest-multi-storey-more-than-a-car-park/

That's Britain's first Evans too*.

*Britain's first branch of Evans to be opened in Bristol.

https://www.britishparking.co.uk/News/first-uk-multi-storey-car-park/188317  thinks differently - and I know (from having been in it, with my father driving) there was one in the City of London in 1958 . .  not sure where.

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rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2982 on: 10 January, 2023, 05:44:27 pm »
Basingrad used to claim it had Europe's largest, but that was probably hyperbole.  Possibly the largest with a shopping centre underneath, or the largest in a town ending in -stoke.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2983 on: 10 January, 2023, 06:05:39 pm »
Quote from: robgul on 10 January, 2023, 05:39:37 pm
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 10 January, 2023, 03:49:35 pm
Britain's first multistorey car park, or so they claim, without much evidence: https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-oldest-multi-storey-more-than-a-car-park/

That's Britain's first Evans too*.

*Britain's first branch of Evans to be opened in Bristol.

https://www.britishparking.co.uk/News/first-uk-multi-storey-car-park/188317  thinks differently - and I know (from having been in it, with my father driving) there was one in the City of London in 1958 . .  not sure where.
That sounds more likely. The contemporary Pathe newsreel and the leaflet say "first of its kind" but don't talk about "multistorey". The newsreel says "Multidek garage" but that seems to be more of a brand name, a specific design, than the mere fact of having several floors. Perhaps referring to the spiral ramp as they seem to make rather a feature of that.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2984 on: 10 January, 2023, 06:13:19 pm »
How is Europe's largest multi-storey car park not Birmingham?
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andrewc

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2985 on: 10 January, 2023, 06:40:53 pm »
Don't be greedy.  You've got the Grade 2 listed public loos.   https://twitter.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1612382294408314883









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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2986 on: 10 January, 2023, 11:52:42 pm »
That's clearly a TARDIS that got stuck when the council installed electric lighting.

https://goo.gl/maps/QifEGwxZwDkRFxru7
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2987 on: 11 January, 2023, 07:47:35 am »
Quote from: Kim on 10 January, 2023, 11:52:42 pm
That's clearly a TARDIS that got stuck when the council installed electric lighting.

https://goo.gl/maps/QifEGwxZwDkRFxru7

Ah, being Birmingham I see that there is an adjacent, fully-glazed urinal for night-time use .. . .
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2988 on: 11 January, 2023, 12:52:37 pm »
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/11/anglers-despair-as-trapped-seal-eats-essex-lakes-stocks

Not content at coming out as the straightest town in Britain, Rochford now boasts a seal in a fishing lake. Scarborough beat that recently with a masturbating walrus.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/103e0jt/a_walrus_named_thor_stopped_by_scarborough/

Edit: bugger! Since I posted that someone has insisted that you have to be over 18 to see a walrus having a wank.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2989 on: 11 January, 2023, 05:38:44 pm »
I was wondering why Dave Lee Travis was trending in the BRITISH parts of the Twittersphere...

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A mum from Cornwall claims to have discovered a famous face in the grease of her pizza box. But who is it?
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1:40 pm · 11 Jan 2023

Kim Ellis said her 'first thought was Jesus because of the flowing hair and beard’ - though you might argue it looks a bit more like Charles Manson...
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Mum finds ‘face of Jesus’ in greasy Domino’s pizza box, but is it Hagrid?
Is that you, Jesus?
https://t.co/EuKSWrNccw
https://twitter.com/MetroUK/status/1613168894948085761

Worth scrolling through the replies for the alternative suggestions.  ;D
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2990 on: 11 January, 2023, 06:13:37 pm »
CAT!
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2991 on: 11 January, 2023, 06:45:08 pm »
Quote from: Wowbagger on 11 January, 2023, 12:52:37 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/11/anglers-despair-as-trapped-seal-eats-essex-lakes-stocks

Not content at coming out as the straightest town in Britain, Rochford now boasts a seal in a fishing lake.

“Rescuing the seal is going to be a completely different kettle of fish” said Seal Rescue Man on the BBC earlier.  No, mate, it’s a seal of fish and the local anglers are FUMMIN’!
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2992 on: 11 January, 2023, 09:35:03 pm »
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 11 January, 2023, 06:45:08 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 11 January, 2023, 12:52:37 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/11/anglers-despair-as-trapped-seal-eats-essex-lakes-stocks

Not content at coming out as the straightest town in Britain, Rochford now boasts a seal in a fishing lake.

“Rescuing the seal is going to be a completely different kettle of fish” said Seal Rescue Man on the BBC earlier.  No, mate, it’s a seal of fish and the local anglers are FUMMIN’!

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Seals live in the sea, not freshwater lakes.

I think there are freshwater common seals in Canuckistan.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2993 on: 12 January, 2023, 01:45:28 am »
There’s also the Baikal seal wot lives in, er, Lake Baikal in that Russia that they have now.  And Wikinaccurate tells of other pinnipeds lurking in fresh water, including a very lost sea lion in Merced CA.  Trying to hitch a lift at the roadside a hundred miles from San Francisco Bay and half a mile from the nearest river.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2994 on: 12 January, 2023, 07:10:09 am »
And there's that one wot used to be married to Heidi Klum.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2995 on: 13 January, 2023, 11:56:22 am »
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2996 on: 21 January, 2023, 12:09:07 am »
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2997 on: 21 January, 2023, 12:39:48 am »
Oooh, goodie, somewhere to go next week  ;D
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rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2998 on: 21 January, 2023, 07:21:40 am »
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2999 on: 21 January, 2023, 11:36:08 am »
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