Author Topic: Little Eye On The Provinces  (Read 374825 times)

rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1300 on: 01 November, 2016, 01:18:42 pm »
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

mattc

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1301 on: 01 November, 2016, 01:53:59 pm »
Has never ridden RAAM
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No.11  Because of the great host of those who dislike the least appearance of "swank " when they travel the roads and lanes. - From Kuklos' 39 Articles

Jaded

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1302 on: 01 November, 2016, 01:55:44 pm »
A file and polish sounds a bit extreme.
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1303 on: 01 November, 2016, 04:06:14 pm »

Kim

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1304 on: 01 November, 2016, 04:09:53 pm »
Sort of on-topic, this amused us :)

http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/10/woman-accidentally-steals-identical-subaru-in-portland.html

Postman Piers's kevved-up Nova had the same key as my old Corsa.  This would have been much more amusing if they weren't fitted with additional security devices.

I suppose back in the day the only thing stopping people stealing cars by brute-force searching a car park with a handful of keys was that it was quicker to steal them by other methods.

rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1305 on: 01 November, 2016, 06:01:46 pm »
A cow-orker once heard her car alarm going off, She rushed to the car park at the back of the branch ti find a befuddled customer sitting in the wrong dark blue Maestro.
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

mcshroom

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1306 on: 01 November, 2016, 06:19:04 pm »
Two from our local: -

Town Council has a meeting (Seriously, that was the entire story)

Whitehaven post box to be replaced - Driver crashes car into post box and breaks it, Royal Mail say they will put a post box back there again
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mattc

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1308 on: 01 November, 2016, 06:53:35 pm »
Mystery solved over why tourists were visiting a village
Worryingly, I immediately guessed what that story was about.

Boringly, the bbc have used almost all the same text+photos as when they ran the story in July
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36733450
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rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1309 on: 01 November, 2016, 06:58:57 pm »
China must be a festering hellhole.
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Guy

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Jaded

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1311 on: 02 November, 2016, 04:58:01 pm »
Some good mangling of the language there.
It is simpler than it looks.

rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1312 on: 02 November, 2016, 05:25:07 pm »
Some good mangling of the language there.
ITYM mangling of the phalanges.
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.


rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1314 on: 15 November, 2016, 08:08:30 pm »
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

mcshroom

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1315 on: 20 November, 2016, 12:35:04 am »
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The pheasant that thinks it's a sheepdog
A pheasant has been showing up to work everyday on a Cumbrian farm, and trying to join in with the sheepdogs.

http://www.itv.com/news/border/update/2016-11-18/the-pheasant-that-thinks-its-a-sheepdog/
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Kim

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1316 on: 20 November, 2016, 01:56:58 pm »
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The pheasant that thinks it's a sheepdog
A pheasant has been showing up to work everyday on a Cumbrian farm, and trying to join in with the sheepdogs.

http://www.itv.com/news/border/update/2016-11-18/the-pheasant-that-thinks-its-a-sheepdog/

Looks more like a pheasant using standard pheasant predator-avoidance tactics on a farmer's quad bike, to me.

benborp

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1317 on: 20 November, 2016, 04:07:27 pm »
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The pheasant that thinks it's a sheepdog
A pheasant has been showing up to work everyday on a Cumbrian farm, and trying to join in with the sheepdogs.

http://www.itv.com/news/border/update/2016-11-18/the-pheasant-that-thinks-its-a-sheepdog/

Looks more like a pheasant using standard pheasant predator-avoidance tactics on a farmer's quad bike, to me.

Speaking as the natural prey animal of the homing pheasant, the prospect of encountering one with the intellect of a collie is terrifying
A world of bedlam trapped inside a small cyclist.

Tim Hall

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1318 on: 24 November, 2016, 01:31:43 pm »
There are two ways you can get exercise out of a bicycle: you can
"overhaul" it, or you can ride it.  (Jerome K Jerome)

Kim

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1319 on: 24 November, 2016, 01:56:38 pm »
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The pheasant that thinks it's a sheepdog
A pheasant has been showing up to work everyday on a Cumbrian farm, and trying to join in with the sheepdogs.

http://www.itv.com/news/border/update/2016-11-18/the-pheasant-that-thinks-its-a-sheepdog/

Looks more like a pheasant using standard pheasant predator-avoidance tactics on a farmer's quad bike, to me.

Speaking as the natural prey animal of the homing pheasant, the prospect of encountering one with the intellect of a collie is terrifying

Our neighbours have a collie with the intellect of a pheasant...

Jaded

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1320 on: 27 November, 2016, 09:54:48 am »
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1321 on: 29 November, 2016, 01:18:04 am »
Breaking news in Rosedale:


rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1322 on: 29 November, 2016, 08:59:06 am »
Ah yes, they do chew up the grass a bit.

Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1323 on: 01 December, 2016, 12:44:53 am »
That picture of a bloated motor vehicle leads nicely into this week's gem from the Portsmouth News:

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politics/bentley-driving-travellers-given-notice-to-leave-portsmouth-tax-office-site-1-7706754
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche

rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1324 on: 01 December, 2016, 08:34:29 am »
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Bentley with a tow bar Class

 ;D
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.