Its a disgrace.
http://www.buchanobserver.co.uk/community/business-directory/absolute_disgrace_1_1952614 (http://www.buchanobserver.co.uk/community/business-directory/absolute_disgrace_1_1952614)
"restrictions on fresh air" in Peterhead you are havin a Giraffe
IT’s THAT time of year again. Weather forecasters promise the first flurries of Blue Toon snow in the coming weeks and Christmas is just around the corner.
But as children write their letters to Santa and mums begin to plan their fabulous festive feasts, a dark shadow looms over the town centre which threatens to dampen that community Christmas spirit.
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/9525681.Mum_says_fishy_diet_led_to_birth_of_12lb_12oz_daughter/?ref=mr
Second comment ;D
It sums up Swindon, though, in its sheer crassness. The story and the comments.http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/9525681.Mum_says_fishy_diet_led_to_birth_of_12lb_12oz_daughter/?ref=mr
Second comment ;D
That's absolutely lovely. Okay, it's a total non-story, but WTF is wrong with people? Two comments, one making schoolboy jokes about the possible size of her vagina (vaginas are like concertinas, they can stretch and then return to normality) and the other one criticising a woman WHO HAS JUST GIVEN BIRTH FFS for being FAT. Jeez.
Although for total non-stories, I think this one's got to be in the running:Bzzzt. Even in the most London-Centric view of the universe, Ealing doesn't count as provincial. ;D
http://www.ealinggazette.co.uk/ealing-news/local-ealing-news/2012/02/01/severe-delays-on-piccadilly-line-after-mystery-illness-at-north-ealing-64767-30246103/
Funny in that they believe this is actually newsworthy: -
http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/news/pupils-walk-to-school-after-bus-crash-1.1000967?referrerPath=home
When the Thames Barrier was being designed in the 1970s, global average sea levels were rising at about 1.8 millimetres a year and global warming was not seen as a threat, but in the past 15 years the rate has nearly doubled to about 3.1mm a year and many scientists expect it to accelerate still further.
6mm per year or per millennium?
When the Thames Barrier was being designed in the 1970s, global average sea levels were rising at about 1.8 millimetres a year and global warming was not seen as a threat, but in the past 15 years the rate has nearly doubled to about 3.1mm a year and many scientists expect it to accelerate still further.
An earthquake struck the Lake District last night.
According to the British Geological Survey, the quake - which had a magnitude of 2.1 on the Richter Scale - originated about 6km underground at Patterdale at 9.37pm.
...
It was the fourth largest quake around the British Isles in the last 50 days, says the BGS
Its a disgrace.Oi! I am not rimming slang!
http://www.buchanobserver.co.uk/community/business-directory/absolute_disgrace_1_1952614 (http://www.buchanobserver.co.uk/community/business-directory/absolute_disgrace_1_1952614)
"restrictions on fresh air" in Peterhead you are havin a Giraffe
Its a disgrace.Oi! I am not rimming slang!
http://www.buchanobserver.co.uk/community/business-directory/absolute_disgrace_1_1952614 (http://www.buchanobserver.co.uk/community/business-directory/ :hand:absolute_disgrace_1_1952614)
"restrictions on fresh air" in Peterhead you are havin a Giraffe
Is "squelch" rimming slang?Its a disgrace.Oi! I am not rimming slang!
http://www.buchanobserver.co.uk/community/business-directory/absolute_disgrace_1_1952614 (http://www.buchanobserver.co.uk/community/business-directory/ :hand:absolute_disgrace_1_1952614)
"restrictions on fresh air" in Peterhead you are havin a Giraffe
We really don't want to know who you are rimming. :hand:
http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/lake-district-hit-by-earthquake-1.1018068?referrerPath=homeActually, it "Rocked Cumbria" ::-)QuoteAn earthquake struck the Lake District last night.
According to the British Geological Survey, the quake - which had a magnitude of 2.1 on the Richter Scale - originated about 6km underground at Patterdale at 9.37pm.
...
It was the fourth largest quake around the British Isles in the last 50 days, says the BGS
Never mind though, a dog caught a shark on Seascale beach!
http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/news/catch-of-the-day-1.1018103?referrerPath=home
*Doffs cap*
Jahmene?He's a bit furrinish-looking, so it could be a normal name (also has v. good control over his voice).
When did they start to just make up names for babies?
I can't tell you how excited we are at that news.Because it's Jahmene or because it's not Cheggers?
No, literally, I cannot tell you.
Don't you read the newspapers?
Jahmene? ???
Who is he???
Jahmene? ???
Who is he???
He is a popular beat combo, My Lord.
Helen Hayward, 60, of Tintern, said she prefers to travel to Cribbs Causeway in Bristol where parking is free
He's actually a male version of the wailing Mariah Carey, who has mastered one song but does everything else in the same OTT style. And he has the inevitable sob story.Jahmene? ???
Who is he???
He is a popular beat combo, My Lord.
All by himself! :o
He must be very good.
Our local rag is currently moaning about free car parking. (http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/newport_parking/10085304.NEWPORT_PARKING__Argus_campaign_nets_strong_support_from_County_fans/)The Bridge is worth £6 for the views. And the winds.
The highlight of that report, for me, was:QuoteHelen Hayward, 60, of Tintern, said she prefers to travel to Cribbs Causeway in Bristol where parking is free
So, lets get this straight; Ms Hayward would rather pay £6 to cross the Severn Bridge and get free parking, than pay £1 for three hours parking? :facepalm:
Is his fringe painted on?Someone certainly used a set square.
Live by-the-minute coverage;
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10089249.Jahmene_comes_home_to_Swindon/
;D
http://www.nwemail.co.uk/home/isle-of-anglesey-seen-from-walney-1.1015911?referrerPath=news/walneyIt's...er...pretty close. Is it normally foggy, or something?
http://www.nwemail.co.uk/home/isle-of-anglesey-seen-from-walney-1.1015911?referrerPath=news/walneyIt's...er...pretty close. Is it normally foggy, or something?
It's all happening in Warwick... (http://www.warwickcourier.co.uk/news/local/chimney-fire-in-warwick-1-4547843)
http://www.nwemail.co.uk/home/isle-of-anglesey-seen-from-walney-1.1015911?referrerPath=news/walney
But the photo is of a police car, not the actual car, so we don't know if it was "damn" or something ruder.
Live coverage of the Apocalypse from the Swindon Advertiser.
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10122759.Mayan_Calendar__World_ends_December_21___L
Live coverage of the Apocalypse from the Swindon Advertiser.
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10122759.Mayan_Calendar__World_ends_December_21___L
Article not found! The end of the world must be nigh!
Jahmene has bought a Christmast (sic) tree.
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10125412.First_real_Christmast_tree_for_Jahmene_and_family/?ref=mr
Jahmene has bought a Christmast (sic) tree.
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10125412.First_real_Christmast_tree_for_Jahmene_and_family/?ref=mr
http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/10136456.Have_you_been_hit_by_a_sewage_smell_in_Caerwent_/
http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/10136456.Have_you_been_hit_by_a_sewage_smell_in_Caerwent_/
Ladies and gentlemen, if it's "Poorly parked mo-ped in toppling horror" or "Vicar - no cycle clips shock" or "Plwmp community jumble sale raises £13.25 for pet hamsters in war-zones", you want, then I give you my favourite local- The Tivey Side Advertiser (http://www.tivysideadvertiser.co.uk/news/)Yebbut yebbut yebbut! What about this?
We but it every week for the hilarity.
Ladies and gentlemen, if it's "Poorly parked mo-ped in toppling horror" or "Vicar - no cycle clips shock" or "Plwmp community jumble sale raises £13.25 for pet hamsters in war-zones", you want, then I give you my favourite local- The Tivey Side Advertiser (http://www.tivysideadvertiser.co.uk/news/)
We but it every week for the hilarity.
Teddies takenhttp://www.tivysideadvertiser.co.uk/news/10123043.Teddies_taken/
10:31am Friday 21st December 2012 in News
Two small 'Jellycat' teddies were stolen from Elliana's store in Cardigan on December 17.
The theft took place at approximately 2.30pm, and the suspect is described as a white female in her mid to late 20's.
She is of a large build and was wearing a dark jacket with a heart shaped union jack emblem on the chest.
The female was holding a distinctive large Sports Direct / Lonsdale plastic bag.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Cardigan Police Station on 101.
Okay, it's old. And the principle has been well documented elsewhere. But worth it for the photo:
Classical music deters teenagers from shopping centre (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-16307364)
Since the scheme went live, fewer young people are gathering on the ramp and we've seen a dip in the number of people who are asking us to move them on.
Okay, it's old. And the principle has been well documented elsewhere. But worth it for the photo:"the Pallasades"? Is that a typo or is actually called that? (In a minute we can deal with whether teenagers hanging round is actually a problem)
Classical music deters teenagers from shopping centre (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-16307364)
They did the same thing in Swindon to stop the scratters swarming over IK Brunel's statue:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3157494.stm
Obligatory crap joke at the end.
The headline should have read "Aromatherapist kicks up a stink".1, :thumbsup:
Is aromatherapy not a subsection of the wide and diverse field of science which comes under the heading "Utter Bollocks"?
Do her ten students from Japan (i.e. 40% of her course) really want to drive? Have they all hired cars? Hmm. Morpeth has a population of 14000, so it's small enough that everywhere should be in easy walking distance from the centre, & it looks pretty compact on the map. Perhaps she's seriously inconveniencing them by moving the course to Cramlington.Well quite. If fewer loons drove over trivial distances into the centre to work every day the town's congestion and parking over-subscription problems would be solved at a stroke. Room enough for her students, room enough for the golden-egg laying shoppers to drive in for 46miles of knicker elastic from the Sewing Shop, a pallet of E L James from Appleby's Bookshop and a 100gallon drum of E45 cream from the Wellway Pharmacy.
This pile of shit went national:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9778470/Health-warning-as-manure-fire-burns-in-Duchess-of-Cambridges-home-village.html
Storm in GogThat's a killer outfit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-20860465
Storm in GogThat's a killer outfit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-20860465
Has it been removed yet? Has anyone had the decency to help this poor lady get out and about? News update required!!!
Using a dog as the "best man" - That's funny even for Swindon.
£1800 for a dog!
Found this today:It was them spacewowbadgers, I reckon.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10198186.UFO_over_York__Police_probe_reports_of_space_debris_falling_in_York/
“An officer attended the scene and found a hole in a grass verge approximately 1ft deep,” she said.
“There was no debris inside the hole and we are not in a position to confirm how or when the hole was made. The City of York Council will be made aware of the hole."
Found this today:It was them spacewowbadgers, I reckon.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10198186.UFO_over_York__Police_probe_reports_of_space_debris_falling_in_York/
“An officer attended the scene and found a hole in a grass verge approximately 1ft deep,” she said.
“There was no debris inside the hole and we are not in a position to confirm how or when the hole was made. The City of York Council will be made aware of the hole."
Sentamu: Pope will be missed
THE shock resignation of Pope Benedict XVI has saddened Catholics in York.Quote
Sentamu. That would be the Archbishop of York.
Not the brightest pikey-do-as-you-likeys; dumped their crap in the entrance of a car park, then realised they couldn't get out.
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10219693.Shock_over_flytipping_at_park/?ref=mr
Sounds as if parts of it may be attractive to doggers.
...the Wong Kee Fish Bar...
It's a load of windswept gravel pits with "second home only" (keeps the poor people out) flats around the edge of some of them.
This (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-21577948) just in from one of the further-flung provinces.Marriage... it's all about providing a stable environment for kids to grow up in.
Obviously, in Didcot or Swindon you can see this any Saturday in summer.
And in Bayworth Down in Boars Hill, a cyclist was logged at 46mph along a 40mph road, approaching speeds Tour de France and Olympic gold medallist Bradley Wiggins regularly clocks during sprints.
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10256214.Police_use_robber_s_mobile_phone_to_call_his_mother__court_told/?ref=mr (http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10256214.Police_use_robber_s_mobile_phone_to_call_his_mother__court_told/?ref=mr)
"Unsophisticated"= Your honour, I wish to point out that my client is not likely to be considering membership of MENSA in the near future.
Since the Police have released such a full description: 'black', I guess everyone is now looking out for it.
Oh dear...I hope this isn't the fault of a certain YACFer :o
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10265441.Bomb_scare_in_West_Swindon/
/compulsory Swindon joke
It was a bomb scare because they were scared it might not go off, then they'd have to keep living and working in West Swindon.
Slow news day on the outskirts of Swansea (http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Tables-stacked-differently-Llwchwr-council/story-18365075-detail/story.html#axzz2NEEKaOxu).
Slow news day on the outskirts of Swansea (http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Tables-stacked-differently-Llwchwr-council/story-18365075-detail/story.html#axzz2NEEKaOxu).
Not local to me, but an absolute corker nevertheless
Amazing... (http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/Man-tried-making-love-ambulance-Barnstaple-bus/story-18137026-detail/story.html#axzz2Ku10WhjP)
Those poor peanuts....
An investigation has been launched as officials try to get to the bottom of who is responsible for the foul play in Kings House, Hove.
Anger as faeces found in Brighton and Hove council opposition office (http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10254190.Anger_as_faeces_found_in_Brighton_and_Hove_council_opposition_office/)QuoteAn investigation has been launched as officials try to get to the bottom of who is responsible for the foul play in Kings House, Hove.
Those poor peanuts....
<envisions photo of peanuts looking sad in front of phone box>
Chicken kidney? Perfectly edible. Makes very good gravy. What's the idiot whining about?
he has masturbated in a muck spreader and set fire to outbuildings
The child came across him naked in a field amongst cow dung and mud.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21875431They might not be pretty enough for supermarkets but they look much like the parsnips labelled "dirty parsnips" in the greengrocer's, except less muddy.
NFN.
What, again? Surely the slurry's a bit cold for that sort of thing...
Anger as faeces found in Brighton and Hove council opposition office (http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10254190.Anger_as_faeces_found_in_Brighton_and_Hove_council_opposition_office/)QuoteAn investigation has been launched as officials try to get to the bottom of who is responsible for the foul play in Kings House, Hove.
Forecast dismay. (http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/10316822.Snow_falling_in_Stroud/?ref=mr)The headline doesn't really sell the story. MET OFFICE SUCK would have done it so much better.
she and her teenage son “have been eyewitnesses to the most terrible behaviour imaginable” from McDonald’s customers.
residents were kept awake by “a constant flow of taxis”
We all drowned in a yellow duckmarine (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news//tm_headline=iconic-yellow-duckmarine-sinks-in-liverpool-s-albert-dock%26method=full%26objectid=33090240%26siteid=100252-name_page.html)
Thankfully not, but that must have been scary.
(http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/liverpoolecho/mar2013/9/1/duckmarine-sinking-in-liverpool-s-albert-dock-pic-roger-o-doherty-379515767.jpg)
Good thing it didn't happen when Brenda & Phil went for a spin last year (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2145240/Your-carriages-await-Maam-Brave-Queen-cruises-Mersey-duck-rides-monorail-Chester-Zoo-Diamond-Jubilee-tour.html)
As a student I never even considered using a taxi. Far, far too expensive.
As a student I never even considered using a taxi. Far, far too expensive.
As a student I never even considered using a taxi. Far, far too expensive.Whereas in Manchester at the end of the 70s it was cheaper to use a taxi if there were four of you (or two once the night buses started) as long as you stayed within the city boundaries, so we used them quite frequently.
I see DUKWs on the water regularly during my lunchtime runs along the embankment and entering and leaving the river by a slip at Vauxhall Bridge. They appear to have only a few inches of freeboard and be quite under-powered; I have been waiting for something like this to happen on the Thames. I am surprised that they have been granted a licence to operate to be honest; they look distinctly dodgy to me.
Self driving cars down south apparently
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/10386967.Miracle_escape_for_elderly_couple_after_car_plunges_from_car_park_roof/?ref=rss
"We don't use Chlorophyll now" (http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/don-t-use-chlorophyll/story-18799319-detail/story.html#axzz2S2KTiQEV)
The slide was blown across Ripley Cricket Club, near Harrogate, shortly after 10am yesterday and was later seized by investigators.
Parkham WI embarrassed by dressing as pirates for talk by former Somali pirate hostage (http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/Parkham-WI-embarrassed-dressing-pirates-talk/story-18871181-detail/story.html#axzz2S8f4xQXu)
"Police hunt Incredible Hulk after McDonald's assault"
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10403755.Police_hunt_Incredible_Hulk_after_McDonald_s_assault/ (http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10403755.Police_hunt_Incredible_Hulk_after_McDonald_s_assault/)
"Police hunt Incredible Hulk after McDonald's assault"
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10403755.Police_hunt_Incredible_Hulk_after_McDonald_s_assault/ (http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10403755.Police_hunt_Incredible_Hulk_after_McDonald_s_assault/)
Well, I'll keep an eye out, shouldn't be too hard to spot!
"Police hunt Incredible Hulk after McDonald's assault"
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10403755.Police_hunt_Incredible_Hulk_after_McDonald_s_assault/ (http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10403755.Police_hunt_Incredible_Hulk_after_McDonald_s_assault/)
Well, I'll keep an eye out, shouldn't be too hard to spot!
Looking at the photo, I'd have said Princess Fiona from Shrek, rather than the Hulk.
KILLER TRIED TO CUT FRIEND'S HEAD OFF
More hard-hitting news from the Northern Echo:
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/darlington/10410655.Man_ordered_to_pay_compensation_after_stealing_lager/
Baby named after car in which she was born.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-22479134
Classy.
The ever reliable Express & Echo:-
Crews called to ride on lawnmower fire in Cuckoo Down Lane (http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Crews-called-ride-lawnmower-Cuckoo-Lane/story-19006111-detail/story.html)
The ever reliable Express & Echo:-I wouldn't like to ride on a lawnmower fire but I guess that's how some people get their kicks.
Crews called to ride on lawnmower fire in Cuckoo Down Lane (http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Crews-called-ride-lawnmower-Cuckoo-Lane/story-19006111-detail/story.html)
I can't afford to pay for a Lamborghini Aventador. Should I plead this in mitigation, should I ever be caught stealing one? Or would my sentence be increased for taking the piss?More hard-hitting news from the Northern Echo:
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/darlington/10410655.Man_ordered_to_pay_compensation_after_stealing_lager/
"Mike Clark, mitigating, said Thompson had stolen the lager because he could not afford to pay for it."
Have I been misunderstanding the definition of 'mitigating' all these years?
It's a "Milk float crashes into wall, no-one hurt"* kind of story.
*Anyone know where that came from?
“Ben has done a good job at looking like him and the good thing about him is he hasn’t had plastic surgery done"
It's a "Milk float crashes into wall, no-one hurt"* kind of story.
*Anyone know where that came from?
When I was 12 or so, a milk float crashed into the telegraph pole outside our house, at 5 in the morning. I don't know how many of you have ever heard several crates of milk bottles fall off the back of a milk float, but it's quite a noise! Mum and Dad went out and checked the driver was ok, let him use our phone to ring the dairy, gave him a cuppa while he waited for the back-up float and recovery crew. He gave them a pint of double cream - an unheard-of quantity of luxury for us then.
He (a witness) said: “They were very, very lucky, I think. A couple of feet to the side, and it could have been a different story.
“It just came out of nowhere. I was typing away and heard people shouting others to get out of the way, quite frantically. It was quite dramatic, because there were quite a lot of people in the way. People were shouting from both sides of the river. The van lifted a couple of feet at the back because it really walloped the bollard.”
A spokeswoman for North Yorkshire Police confirmed that officers had attended the scene, and said no damage had been done to any property or structures, and that nobody had been injured.
I see DUKWs on the water regularly during my lunchtime runs along the embankment and entering and leaving the river by a slip at Vauxhall Bridge. They appear to have only a few inches of freeboard and be quite under-powered; I have been waiting for something like this to happen on the Thames. I am surprised that they have been granted a licence to operate to be honest; they look distinctly dodgy to me.
Liverpool DUKW drivers claim unfair dismissal over raising safety issues (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2013/04/03/exclusive-yellow-duckmarine-drivers-claim-unfair-dismissal-over-safety-fears-100252-33108126/)
Oops...
I can't afford to pay for a Lamborghini Aventador. Should I plead this in mitigation, should I ever be caught stealing one? Or would my sentence be increased for taking the piss?More hard-hitting news from the Northern Echo:
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/darlington/10410655.Man_ordered_to_pay_compensation_after_stealing_lager/
"Mike Clark, mitigating, said Thompson had stolen the lager because he could not afford to pay for it."
Have I been misunderstanding the definition of 'mitigating' all these years?
I can't afford to pay for a Lamborghini Aventador. Should I plead this in mitigation, should I ever be caught stealing one? Or would my sentence be increased for taking the piss?More hard-hitting news from the Northern Echo:
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/darlington/10410655.Man_ordered_to_pay_compensation_after_stealing_lager/
"Mike Clark, mitigating, said Thompson had stolen the lager because he could not afford to pay for it."
Have I been misunderstanding the definition of 'mitigating' all these years?
I'm off to Epic Cycles of Ludlow tomorrow to steal a Bianchi Oltre.
If I get caught, I'll offer the fact that I can't afford to buy it as mitigation.
Unbelievable.
And probably, we were all paying for Mike Clark via the Legal Aid system.
Bah !
Mike Clarke mitigating said Wilson was waiting for his benefits to re-start after being released from prison and had no money.
Kettering man sticks random objects together. (http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/top-stories/symbol-designed-to-wish-good-luck-to-andy-murray-1-5241559)
I especially like how he's not particularly a supporter of Andy Murray.Kettering man sticks random objects together. (http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/top-stories/symbol-designed-to-wish-good-luck-to-andy-murray-1-5241559)
Poor bugger.
Erm unless I've misread that story, the copyright belongs to a charity and they were objecting to a commercial organisation using it.
I know Catford doesn't count as provincial, but I think the hilarious photoshop job makes up for it:
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/10534660.Catford_fox_horror_for_man_on_toilet/
I know Catford doesn't count as provincial, but I think the hilarious photoshop job makes up for it:
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/10534660.Catford_fox_horror_for_man_on_toilet/
"It was like a wild animal."
It WAS a wild animal, you twonk!
Sheepdog dies (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-23476324).
...the animal then grabbed and savaged his television remote control.
Herd of cows from Stockport farm head to housing estate (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-23654993)
http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Janet-James-cyclists/story-19654215-detail/story.html#axzz2bwQXRbQk
In the Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser: Unremarkable men walk 40 miles for no particular reason (http://www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk/Unremarkable-men-walk-40-miles-particular-reason/story-19658769-detail/story.html#ixzz2c7FeMTcz?1588245343&redirected=true)That's wonderful!
via everybody on Twitter.
"Bunch of Leatherheads go Dorking", if you prefer.
In the Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser: Unremarkable men walk 40 miles for no particular reason (http://www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk/Unremarkable-men-walk-40-miles-particular-reason/story-19658769-detail/story.html#ixzz2c7FeMTcz?1588245343&redirected=true)
via everybody on Twitter.
"Bunch of Leatherheads go Dorking", if you prefer.
Men find a bone! (http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2013/08/17/bone-found-by-builders-at-bishops-castle-town-hall/)
Not even human FFS
In the Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser: Unremarkable men walk 40 miles for no particular reason (http://www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk/Unremarkable-men-walk-40-miles-particular-reason/story-19658769-detail/story.html#ixzz2c7FeMTcz?1588245343&redirected=true)That's wonderful!
via everybody on Twitter.
"Bunch of Leatherheads go Dorking", if you prefer.
Bearing such solid British names as Chris, Ian and Simon, the "50-ish" Dorking residents picked a random Saturday and a meaningless route and walked 40 miles just because they could. Ian Giles, spokesman for the group of "accountants, surveyors, that sort of thing", explained: "we thought we should do something for no particular reason.
Nasty rituals on Dartmoor (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23454912).
My 4x4 is like a monster truck, stands about 7ft (2.2m) high and is fitted with a snorkel exhaust. We'd already driven through some flooding, but as I went into this I thought 'It's deep' so put the car into reverse.
Does that mean I have a disability discrimination case against northern chippies with brown sauce in ketchup-shaped bottles? :hand:You've got more of a case than he has!
CONSERVATIVES: TESCO QUEUE IS DANGEROUS
Northallerton hits the headlines.Little four-eyes of the provinces.
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10645994.Northallerton_glasses_wearer_in_running_for_award/?ref=la
In a similar vein
Ram torched in sick arson attack (http://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/ram_torched_to_death_in_sick_arson_attack_near_welwyn_garden_city_1_2330746)...
...may not, in fact, have been torched (http://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/mystery_over_what_killed_torched_ram_police_now_say_1_2332957)
A ram (not involved in the attack)
Cow grazing on common. (http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/10636382.Stunned_commuter_spots_pantomime_cow_grazing_on_the_common/)Jaded could have been the head, but the arse end must have been Flatus. ;D
'Semi-erect' OAP caught shampooing his genitals on a bus claims he's 'no hardened criminal' (http://www.mkweb.co.uk/News/Man-74-shampoos-genitals-on-Bedford-bus-after-having-issues-with-his-briefs-20130903121453.htm)
Apparently not a real post box, which is a pity (I quite like the idea of a post box for boaters and barge dwellers).
And I think that Uri Geller is in a permanent state of puzzlement... he clearly has no grasp on the real world.
Life hasn't been good since the end of the Mary Whitehouse Experience.
Man bites cock. (http://www.kentonline.co.uk/east_kent_mercury/news/man-bites-into-neighbours-penis-5997/)
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Shock-as-man-streaks-in-Ely-20130917143858.htm
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Shock-as-man-streaks-in-Ely-20130917143858.htm
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Shock-as-man-streaks-in-Ely-20130917143858.htm
It's all happening down in Cambridgeshire....
Bondage fear at Trumpington Village Hall sparks event cancellation (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-24240287)
Mr Long’s solicitor Angus Mathieson told the Old Bailey: “It was a stupid thing he has done. He was not getting a stupid amount, not substituting champagne or anything like that, but just getting an avocado and claiming it was an onion.”
Mr Boa, who formerly lived in Edinburgh but now lives on Skye, said the trick to producing a world-class porridge was to "keep stirring", using a spurtle - a rod-shaped tool, traditionally used to stir porridge.
Nestle has won a court battle with confectionery rival Cadbury, over Cadbury's attempt to trademark the purple colour of its Dairy Milk bars.
Anyway - Purple? I know I'm colour blind, but surely the Dairy Milk bars are blue?
Oh no. How will I know what I'm stuffing into my face?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24401249QuoteNestle has won a court battle with confectionery rival Cadbury, over Cadbury's attempt to trademark the purple colour of its Dairy Milk bars.
Anyway - Purple? I know I'm colour blind, but surely the Dairy Milk bars are blue?
What the hell is the name of the colour that I call purple, then? ???
Thing about having dodgy colour perception, when an object's colour is completely arbitrary you won't think to question what you're seeing unless it comes up in conversation.
Thing about having dodgy colour perception, when an object's colour is completely arbitrary you won't think to question what you're seeing unless it comes up in conversation.
Well isn't that the truth? We've been married for 30 years, both of us were surprised. Good to know that in all that time we've never struggled so much for a topic of conversation as to descend to a discussion on the colour of chocolate wrappers. :smug:
But what about The Purple Ones in a boks of Kwolitea Streight?
...We've been married for 30 years, both of us were surprised...
But what about The Purple Ones in a boks of Kwolitea Streight?
;D...We've been married for 30 years, both of us were surprised...
Surely there must have been some clues in that time?
It's taupe, and it's what wankers call pale beige.But what about The Purple Ones in a boks of Kwolitea Streight?
Now that is purple. (to me)
Good, I was worried that that colour was going to turn out to be, erm, tope?
(Please don't try to explain tope to me. People have tried.)
One of the effects of "red-green colour blindness" (deuteranomaly - reduced function in detection of green wavelengths) is the mixing up of blues and purples. This affects about 6% of white men, so you are not alone.
I did not read this in the Trowbridge Gazette.
Oh no. How will I know what I'm stuffing into my face?They're purple. Milka bars are lilac.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24401249QuoteNestle has won a court battle with confectionery rival Cadbury, over Cadbury's attempt to trademark the purple colour of its Dairy Milk bars.
Anyway - Purple? I know I'm colour blind, but surely the Dairy Milk bars are blue?
The acid test of colour perception is Jaguar's Black Amethyst Metallic, which looks black...but then you look again and there is a definite tinge to it. Weird colour.
Mucky goings on in Aberdeen (http://i.imgur.com/caEpBHW.jpg)That's not real, Shirley?
Mucky goings on in Aberdeen (http://i.imgur.com/caEpBHW.jpg)That's not real, Shirley?
The acid test of colour perception is Jaguar's Black Amethyst Metallic, which looks black...but then you look again and there is a definite tinge to it. Weird colour.
Assuming 'amethyst' means something bluey-green, I'd probably be really good at that[1].
Mucky goings on in Aberdeen (http://i.imgur.com/caEpBHW.jpg)That's not real, Shirley?
You mean I've been hoodwinked :o
Usually.The acid test of colour perception is Jaguar's Black Amethyst Metallic, which looks black...but then you look again and there is a definite tinge to it. Weird colour.
Assuming 'amethyst' means something bluey-green, I'd probably be really good at that[1].
amethysts are purple
Usually.The acid test of colour perception is Jaguar's Black Amethyst Metallic, which looks black...but then you look again and there is a definite tinge to it. Weird colour.
Assuming 'amethyst' means something bluey-green, I'd probably be really good at that[1].
amethysts are purple
How can you be president of the Roundabout Appreciation Society without changing your name to Zebedee or Ermintrude?
Funniest. Mugging. Ever. (http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10740015.Would_be_muggers_chose_cage_fighter_as_victim/?ref=ar)
Sorry for the late response to all the discussions of colour, but this seems relevant:
This appears to be a real news story (http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Llwchwr-Town-Council-considers-colour-photocopier/story-19896596-detail/story.html#axzz2i391lGV1)
Sorry for the late response to all the discussions of colour, but this seems relevant:
This appears to be a real news story (http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Llwchwr-Town-Council-considers-colour-photocopier/story-19896596-detail/story.html#axzz2i391lGV1)
Llwchwr is clearly an exciting place to live (http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Tables-stacked-differently-Llwchwr-council/story-18365075-detail/story.html#axzz2i5sQeTYG)
Story useless withoutThe ones at Oxford are glass, which would appeal to the hardened doggers.picsvideo. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-24623976)
Story useless withoutThe ones at Oxford are glass, which would appeal to the hardened doggers.picsvideo. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-24623976)
"Police are appealing for information, especially about anyone trying to sell large quantities of Heinz baked beans in suspicious circumstances," a force spokesman said.
"Several police at scene of kebab van incident"Presumably very drunk policemen, who can only blurt out the words "kebab" and "everyfink" when being served.
[nr sleepy Burford,Oxon.]
Blimey, get me back to Birmingham. It's too bloody dangerous down here. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-24763013)
Tea towel fire (http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/inbrief/10804952.Tea_towel_catches_fire/?ref=la). No one hurt.
LEE, Chillmoister, Keeks and I met Keith Chegwin in the Jack Russell in Faccombe, at the end of the Faccombe Haul a few years back.
I can confirm he was wearing clothes at that time.
They must be made to wear Hi-Viz vests and have number plates fitted. I'm sick to death of the damage done to my car by these louts.
... the usual architect with no sense of practicality you might assume ....Like the one who designed buildings for a housing co-op in Reading with stairwells lit by windows that didn't open, which could only be accessed from the outside by putting up complicated & expensive scaffolding to get over roofs, & were shielded from rain so didn't even get a good rinse every now & then?
Blouse stolen (http://ww.stamfordmercury.co.uk/news/local/blouse-stolen-from-oxfam-in-stamford-1-5722707)Webpage stolen :P
Webpage returned now!! :PBlouse stolen (http://ww.stamfordmercury.co.uk/news/local/blouse-stolen-from-oxfam-in-stamford-1-5722707)Webpage stolen :P
http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/14/artificial-leg-prompts-paedophile-panic-at-swimming-pool-and-evacuation-of-children-4230694/
http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/14/artificial-leg-prompts-paedophile-panic-at-swimming-pool-and-evacuation-of-children-4230694/
Oh FFS! :facepalm:
Swindon has a new car park, with slightly wider spaces than all the others.
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10886361.Wide_bay_car_park_seen_as_fresh_start_for_town/
Seriously, since every successive generation of a car seems to be 2" wider than the last one, this is probably necessary. It's quite hard to walk between cars in most car parks now.
Swindon has a new car park, with slightly wider spaces than all the others.
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10886361.Wide_bay_car_park_seen_as_fresh_start_for_town/
Seriously, since every successive generation of a car seems to be 2" wider than the last one, this is probably necessary. It's quite hard to walk between cars in most car parks now.
I've never been to Giles Latcham ;D
Okay, there's a storm on the way. So let's have the photos of broken umbrellas from all your local news sources...
Okay, there's a storm on the way. So let's have the photos of broken umbrellas from all your local news sources...
If it floods we may get the ob. plucky cyclist pics.
https://twitter.com/brookejarvis/status/416992861293252608/photo/1*bzzzt*
and also from that source, in non-fire related news: Man told to paint stripy beach hut more 'uniformly' (http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/10902366.Ex_soldier_hits_out_at_council_staff_calling_for_him_to_repaint_beach_hut_in_more____uniform____colours/?ref=mr)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-25561410
Probably following a tip off from a grass..VG.
Dry Lane Crawley
road Live travel
Dry Lane both ways closed due to flooding near Leafield Road / Farm Lane / Witney Hill / Foxburrow Lane.
Last updated 9 hours ago
Painkillers? McDonald's? Drooling? 1000 yard stare? I think we all know what was going on here...A 600km audax?
http://www.wane.com/news/crime/man-arrested-after-passing-out-on-mcdonalds-table
Fridge sends spam"I am empty, buy more spam."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25780908 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25780908)
Man Subjected To Multiple Rectal Searches And Enemas By Police Officers Receives $1.6 Million Settlement (http://www.freshnews.org/feeds/techdirt/posts/man-subjected-to-multiple-rectal-searches-and-enemas-by-police-officers-receives-1-6-million-settlement)
Those cops didn't take no for an answer. Repeatedly.
Oh uggber, I mean rubber! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-25852322)
Crocodile terrorising bus drivers in Bristol docks (http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/LIVE-BLOG-Croc-spot-latest-Bristol-s-crocodile/story-20555985-detail/story.html)
Possessed by the urge to dial 999. (http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/999-calls-ghosts-Torquay-witches-Newton-Abbot/story-20375766-detail/story.html)
One unfortunate man believed there was a ghost in his house and had found blood on the bathroom door. It later turned out his friends had played a prank.;D Gits.
Possessed by the urge to dial 999. (http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/999-calls-ghosts-Torquay-witches-Newton-Abbot/story-20375766-detail/story.html)
The Police should take ghosts far more seriously. Once caught they should be unmasked. How many crimes are committed by people pretending to be ghosts ! There was the old man from the amusement park, there was the janitor, there was old man smithers, there was the old woman from the lighthouse, there was the guy who was looking for buried treasure in the old mine although he dressed up as the miner 49er, they would have all gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling kids and that dumb dog. The Police need to take Ghost crime more seriously or run the risk of looking like a cartoon force.Tee, and what is more, hee.
A PLYMOUTH woman who cancelled her brother's wedding in what a court heard was like an “EastEnders plot line” has been sent to prison. (http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Jail-Plymouth-woman-cancelled-brother-s-wedding/story-20604856-detail/story.html#ixzz2t2RntRhD)
...and also:-
Exeter's Dr Emily Bernhard Jackson, author of The Coma Sutra, is writing to the rescue of those unable to compose a truly romantic love letter. (http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Exeter-Coma-Sutra-author-comes-rescue-lovelorn/story-20604884-detail/story.html#ixzz2t2WYwQrW)
In a world where the popularity of Twitter has reduced everyday conversation to a mere 140 characters, she is determined to breath new life into the dying art of composing a love letter.::-)
She's saved a whole letter there....and also:-
Exeter's Dr Emily Bernhard Jackson, author of The Coma Sutra, is writing to the rescue of those unable to compose a truly romantic love letter. (http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Exeter-Coma-Sutra-author-comes-rescue-lovelorn/story-20604884-detail/story.html#ixzz2t2WYwQrW)QuoteIn a world where the popularity of Twitter has reduced everyday conversation to a mere 140 characters, she is determined to breath new life into the dying art of composing a love letter.::-)
Over the last few years the café has had a number of famous customers including jazz legend Jools Holland, a Cash in the Attic presenter, Dragon’s Den judges Deborah Meaden and Theo Paphitis and a former president of Zambia who surprised diners with an impromptu go on the piano.
Bumper crop this week.Dogma bites karma.
Collie dog eats Somerset builder's £80k Aston Martin car. (http://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/10983785.Dog_eats_Somerset_builder_s___80k_Aston_Martin/?ref=ms)
Orpington man got really drunk (http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/11029025.Orpington_man_wakes_up_in_Amsterdam_after_getting_really_drunk_at_funeral/?ref=rss)
Single Bromley woman auctions herself on eBay to find Valentine's Day dinner dateClassy place, Bromley.
Woman outraged at 'inappropriate' lingerie-clad mannequins in window of Debenhams, Bromley
Bromley girl's Valentine's Day eBay auction winner refuses to pay
I was up in my bedroom having a bit of lunch when suddenly my big three-door wardrobe started vibrating.
It went on a little while.
It merely reflects the politics of the County Council.As many faces as Lord Brahma or Greek finances?
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/11039130.Second_parking_vote_lost_as_Rochford_Tory_resigns/?ref=mr
Councillor resigns over something that really matters.
What I found strange was that the Green councillor voted for the suspension of parking charges in that second motion (or more accurately, for the motion delaying the introduction)http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/11039130.Second_parking_vote_lost_as_Rochford_Tory_resigns/?ref=mrYeah - defending the rights of people to park for free is really important...
Councillor resigns over something that really matters.
I note that Sheffield, one of the country's most fertile musical hubs, rates 176. Did someone just take a list of places and a random number generator?
I note that Sheffield, one of the country's most fertile musical hubs, rates 176. Did someone just take a list of places and a random number generator?Sheffield fails to make top 175 shock!
Norfolk: Fire station destroyed in fire. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-26525149)
Norfolk: Fire station destroyed in fire. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-26525149)
It's not uncommon (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-20577549). (My other half's parents lived next door).
In the top 185 in the country (http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Bristol-184th-musical-place-live-UK/story-20773042-detail/story.html)
Crashed a van full of dead badgers into a bustop (http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/11071240.Kelly_Brook_s_ex_boyfriend_crashed_van_full_of_dead_badgers_into_bus_shelter_in_Gloucester/?ref=var_0).He loves badgers (http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/11073788.Kelly_Brook_s_ex_boyfriend_David_McIntosh_says_he_loves_animals_and_is_against_culling_badgers/)
Meanwhile in Canterbury, no bus stops were harmed: http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentish_gazette/news/blubberneckers-13296/
Being a fish royal, it can only be disposed of by the Receiver of Wreck, on behalf of the Queen. Maritime and Coastguard Agency rules are here (http://www.dft.gov.uk/mca/mca920.pdf).Meanwhile in Canterbury, no bus stops were harmed: http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentish_gazette/news/blubberneckers-13296/
Hmmm... I'd have said that was illegal transportation of animal waste. Also, I'd be interested to see whether they had correct permission to dispore of the carcass.
The headline for this one should be the start of a music hall joke: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-26864338
Chris Ammonds, of West Mercia Police said: “The offenders seem to be targeting properties that seem to be insecure."
Romance is dead in Darlington (http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11009173.Man_who_harassed_embalmer_had__an_unhealthy_interest_in_the_dead_/?ref=mry).
Popular knob competitions. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-27259589)
The longest throw was by Dave Morrison, who tossed his knob 21.8m (71ft).
They know how to have a good time in Ely:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/ziggycat/1D0665EF-567F-4D45-BF6D-E0D7661B3DC3_zpsad4uekyx.jpg)
They know how to have a good time in Ely:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/ziggycat/1D0665EF-567F-4D45-BF6D-E0D7661B3DC3_zpsad4uekyx.jpg)
We went to that yesterday. Didn't toss any knobs, but the food fair associated with it was rather good.Popular knob competitions. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-27259589)QuoteThe longest throw was by Dave Morrison, who tossed his knob 21.8m (71ft).Hurrah!
I wonder how Cockermouth celebrates.
Water tanker on fire
http://www.shetnews.co.uk/newsbites/8489-tank-on-fire
A spokesman for West Midlands Fire Service said: “Fire crews were called out at 4.08pm and are still at the scene and liaising with the builder who was on site.
Morris dancers scare dog.
Go to page 9 of the Honiton edition. (http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?PBID=03a901df-0b77-4e35-90e6-93ca8d117094)
Morris dancers scare dog.
Go to page 9 of the Honiton edition. (http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?PBID=03a901df-0b77-4e35-90e6-93ca8d117094)
The man said the family would now stand elsewhere.
http://m.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11264412.Naked_Tour_de_France_cyclist_who_answered_call_of_nature_in_farmer_s_field_prompts_toilet_plea/?ref=mrQuoteThe man said the family would now stand elsewhere.
It is understood that when professional cyclists competing in the Tour de France need to go, they will often relieve themselves while still on their bikes.
http://m.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11264412.Naked_Tour_de_France_cyclist_who_answered_call_of_nature_in_farmer_s_field_prompts_toilet_plea/?ref=mrQuoteThe man said the family would now stand elsewhere.
http://m.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11264412.Naked_Tour_de_France_cyclist_who_answered_call_of_nature_in_farmer_s_field_prompts_toilet_plea/?ref=mrQuoteThe man said the family would now stand elsewhere.
Man locked in lavatory and released unharmed.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/man-rescued-liverpool-toilet-fire-7416102 (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/man-rescued-liverpool-toilet-fire-7416102)
Pity it wasn't seven old ladies.
Not sure if Upminster counts as the provinces (it is inside the M25), but someone there seems to think it's appropriate to fly-tip a horse:
http://www.brentwoodgazette.co.uk/Horse-broken-leg-dumped-flytipping-hotspot/story-21644443-detail/story.html
WTF? >:(
'The education lawyer said: "It was a little bit surprising, I don't think I've ever seen anything like it before - that's for sure."'
That's what Michael Gove has done for us!
Suspected human body parts have been found at a recycling plant in Bristol.
The force was called to the Biffa depot in Avonmouth at approximately 11:00 BST after being alerted by staff.
Jedi light sabres in Bristol.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-28610691
mind you, this could be in the grammar thread.QuoteSuspected human body parts have been found at a recycling plant in Bristol.
The force was called to the Biffa depot in Avonmouth at approximately 11:00 BST after being alerted by staff.
Suspected burglar of bike shop & pursuing policeman both run over by police car: suspect killed, policeman taken to hospital.
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/wokingham-road-reopened-after-fatal-7571401 (http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/wokingham-road-reopened-after-fatal-7571401)
It happened about 200 metres from here.
When sewage sludge passes from one person to another the Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) Regulations apply.
A man from Shap in Cumbria has pleaded guilty to the theft of chocolate, crisps and a cake valued at £4.79 from a shop at Centre Parcs holiday village near Penrith.
Nobody tested in Lincolnshire for deadly virus (http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/Ebola-outbreak-tested-Lincolnshire-deadly-virus/story-22300278-detail/story.html)Absolute classic! ;D
Mobile hookers Roxy, 25, and friend Ronnie, 27, say Sidmouth’s elderly population won’t deter their self-styled ‘passion wagon’ from dropping in on the Regency seaside resort as they embark on a road-trip across the South West.
Astonished residents this week said ‘no thanks’ to the saucy duo and warned: “There’ll be uproar over this. People will be livid.”
The pair offer spanking, threesomes, humiliation and exhibitionism from their ‘service station with a difference’- a white camper van.
Who new that farriers had to be registered.
http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/11498064.Illegal_farrier_fined/?ref=mr
I love The Gazette, it's the only actual physical paper I get every week.
Hapless thief tries to steal from car parked outside training course for BOUNCERS (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/watch-hapless-thief-tries-steal-7870303)
Hapless thief tries to steal from car parked outside training course for BOUNCERS (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/watch-hapless-thief-tries-steal-7870303)
Note that the thief is described as 'dim witted' but no comment is made on the wits of the person who left a satnav in view in an unlocked car...
Regardless of whether the car is locked or the item is on display, it is still attempted theft.
"Police officers attended and bravely investigated. The beast turned out to be an inflatable toy crocodile. Police have apprehended the crocodile."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-29640363
Invocations of 1963 and 1987.
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/11585886.Brace_yourselves_for_icy_gales_and_snow/?ref=mr
No,we don't usually get much snow in SE Essex.
Hotel 'fines' those who post bad reviews.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30100973 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30100973)
Hotel 'fines' those who post bad reviews.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30100973 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30100973)
Are Trip Advisor as rigorous as the Mega-Global Walled Garden Corporation of Menlo Park, USAnia when it comes to a "real names only" policy, then?
POLICE had to shut down an S&M and M&S-themed fancy dress party after finding 250 students dressed in bondage and grandpa outfits.
That looks like Fern Avenue.
Where I used to live. ;D
Wasn't full of well-to-do studebts then.
Police were called at about 6.15pm after the collision between an Aldi A4 and a Mercedes C200 Kompressor
The quake occurred at 8:21am with a magnitude of 2, at a depth of 13km
Sun shining through snow globe ignites fake reindeer food in Bournemouth.
Sun shining through snow globe ignites fake reindeer food in Bournemouth.
To be fair, that's a rare but under-appreciated fire risk that could do with more publicity. See also: magnifying mirrors and other household optical devices that really shouldn't be left on windowsills (or where they might focus the sun's rays on a cardboard Ed Milliband).
Sun shining through snow globe ignites fake reindeer food in Bournemouth.
To be fair, that's a rare but under-appreciated fire risk that could do with more publicity. See also: magnifying mirrors and other household optical devices that really shouldn't be left on windowsills (or where they might focus the sun's rays on a cardboard Ed Milliband).
Indeed, but fake reindeer food...
Phew!
(http://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/B4_e-25CQAA0lLc.jpg)
Revellers re-model Camden's Primrose Hill to look more like Birmingham's (http://www.camdennewjournal.com/Primrose-Hill-wrecked)
Shefford cafe's singing polar bear probed over noisehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-30475642 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-30475642)
Shefford cafe's singing polar bear 'not gagged' after probehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-30932975 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-30932975)
Goats eat anything.
Occasionally unwisely.
They eat anything. They eat your clothing if you stand still for too long, they eat almost any vegetation. They also have a digestion that can cope.Goats eat anything.
Occasionally unwisely.
I have it on good authority that this is an old wive's tale.
They are actually quite picky about what they eat...
They eat anything. They eat your clothing if you stand still for too long, they eat almost any vegetation. They also have a digestion that can cope.Goats eat anything.
Occasionally unwisely.
I have it on good authority that this is an old wive's tale.
They are actually quite picky about what they eat...
There are companies in the USA making use of this to eliminate invasive species, nice vid about it on bbc last week.
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They eat anything. They eat your clothing if you stand still for too long, they eat almost any vegetation. They also have a digestion that can cope.Goats eat anything.
Occasionally unwisely.
I have it on good authority that this is an old wive's tale.
They are actually quite picky about what they eat...
There are companies in the USA making use of this to eliminate invasive species, nice vid about it on bbc last week.
Peddling children by the looks of it. :o
Woah - lets put the breaks on that idea right now. :hand:Peddling children by the looks of it. :o
Well, if you can't send them down the mines or up chimneys anymore...
Traffic misery for Birmingham commuters with gridlock hitting rush-hour routes (http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/traffic-misery-birmingham-commuters-gridlock-8577011)
Traffic misery for Birmingham commuters with gridlock hitting rush-hour routes (http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/traffic-misery-birmingham-commuters-gridlock-8577011)
Particularly helpful picture captioned "Traffic queueing in Birmingham" to help those of us that were wondering what queueing traffic looks like.
Traffic misery for Birmingham commuters with gridlock hitting rush-hour routes (http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/traffic-misery-birmingham-commuters-gridlock-8577011)
Particularly helpful picture captioned "Traffic queueing in Birmingham" to help those of us that were wondering what queueing traffic looks like.
It looks a lot like Birmingham.
A spokesperson for the fire and rescue said: "One appliance from Honiton was mobilised to assist with scene safety at a road traffic collision involving one vehicle and a wall."No-one was hurt.
For every simple problem there's a solution that's clear, complex and wrong: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/tiny-pony-gets-periscope-help-8701564
But there are big plans on the horizon for vertically-challenged Pedro, as the Ebony Horse Club is eventually saving up to transport him to a specially adapted stable.Rather than just cutting the door down?
Cutting the door down would be hard - but it would be pretty easy to put a mesh panel in there. why did producing a rectangular box require a 3D printer? What's wrong with 4 bits of ply?For every simple problem there's a solution that's clear, complex and wrong: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/tiny-pony-gets-periscope-help-8701564QuoteBut there are big plans on the horizon for vertically-challenged Pedro, as the Ebony Horse Club is eventually saving up to transport him to a specially adapted stable.Rather than just cutting the door down?
And I wonder how the pony copes with finding that all the tiny people he sees in the green box are actually normal humans? It must upset his equilibrium.
why did producing a rectangular box require a 3D printer? What's wrong with 4 bits of ply?
Why would it be so difficult to cut down a wooden door? Or perhaps better, replace it with a smaller one?Not a wooden door, it is a metal, pipe framed door with wooden slats. Very easy to remove some slats and bolt/weld on some heavy mesh.
I'm wondering now if the prisms in the periscope are equilateral.
(http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640x360/p01hxp08.jpg)I say, get a move on, chop chop
?
http://www.cheddarvalleygazette.co.uk/Jeremy-Clarkson-fired-just-years-aftyer-Gear/story-26230188-detail/story.htmlAnd it turns out they were spoofing local newspapers
That's good to see your local is a proper English pub, Wow.But, in typical pub-business fashion, a pub at the far end of what appears to be the London Tilbury & Southend Railway (bought out by the Midland, later grouped into the LMS) has a sign depicting a GWR loco ::-):facepalm:
I was more interested in this one...
http://www.cheddarvalleygazette.co.uk/Rare-stripeless-badger-bite-bum-toilet/story-26222386-detail/story.html
That's good to see your local is a proper English pub, Wow.But, in typical pub-business fashion, a pub at the far end of what appears to be the London Tilbury & Southend Railway (bought out by the Midland, later grouped into the LMS) has a sign depicting a GWR loco ::-):facepalm:
I am *not* an anorak, I tell you
Womble destroyed by fireI'm glad it wasn't Arch!
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/12899584.Womble_destroyed_in_fire/?ref=mr
Another week of non-stop excitement in Kendal:
http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/12919818.Express_lanes_introduced_at_Kendal_supermarket
Morrisons are to introduce a 10 items or fewer queue..................
Mr Parkes was elected to Whitby Town Council in 2012. He later hit the headlines when he claimed his mother was an alien and that he had experienced numerous extraterrestrial encounters, including one in which he lost his virginity to an alien at the age of just five.
Earlier this year he attracted national media attention once again when he claimed a race of alien reptiles called ‘the Nordics’ were to blame for the ongoing crisis in the Ukraine as they were advising Russian president Vladimir Putin on foreign policy.
A 71-YEAR-OLD woman was bitten in a “nasty attack” by a goose on Whitehaven harbour.
Visitor Mary Jones sustained a bruise on the top of her thigh in the attack, says her friend Ru Lochlea.
Exciting new shop opens (http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/local_sponsored_content/12939663.An_exciting_new_shop_has_opened_in_York_city_centre/?ref=mr&lp=9)
I can barley contain my excitement ! It sells picture frames FFS.
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/12944601.Swarm_of_bees_cover_bike_in_Southend_town_centre/?ref=mr&lp=2the end of the article says
A better class of person just happens to turn up in Southend, obviously. :P
Edit: I am remarkably angry having read the rest of that article and the btl comments. It seems some utter moron went into Sainsbury's for two tins of aerosol flyspray and killed the bees, a protected species. If I'd suspected anything like that was going to happen I would have gone and collected them myself.
They were later gathered up and taken to Leigh by Ann Cushion of the Southend division of Essex Beekeepers.
and they offer a mount-cutting service! :oExciting new shop opens (http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/local_sponsored_content/12939663.An_exciting_new_shop_has_opened_in_York_city_centre/?ref=mr&lp=9)
I can barley contain my excitement ! It sells picture frames FFS.
To be fair they claim it's an "amazing range".
Of picture frames.
Fine cyclists (for not using a cycle track) (http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/opinions/letters/12951106.Fine_cyclists/?ref=mr&lp=4)Remarkably coherent (for a babbling idiot).
Wanker in a BMW (http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/12956756.Man_arrested_on_suspicion_of_masturbating_inside_a__car_in_Cirencester/?ref=mr&lp=5)
9 bizarre World Records broken in Bedfordshire
Unless I've been wrong all these years and Silverstone really is in Beds ::-).
Swindon...Good headline (on the assumption its a man from Wooton Bassett, its quite witty!)
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/12890701.Bassett_man_sent_video_of_himself_having_sex_with_dog_to_girlfriend__court_hears/
Unless I've been wrong all these years and Silverstone really is in Beds ::-).
I believe the county boundary passes through the motor-racing circuit.
Police said cattle were not believed to be involved in this incident. So far this year, no collisions involving cattle have been reported.http://www.stroudlife.co.uk/car-crash-busy-junction-near-Stroud/story-26598303-detail/story.html
Woman in Birmingham jailed after making 'loud sex noises' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-32961127)
Wake me up before you go go (http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/i-trying-wake-boyfriend-up-9397311)Alarming
Sadly not on the website, but a Kenilworth garage was burgled and they got away with the biscuit tin. Mayhem.
Wake me up before you go go (http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/i-trying-wake-boyfriend-up-9397311)
Exeter woman claims to have built time machine in her garage and is searching Gumtree for a travel companionIsnt this the plot of a just-released movie?
(http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Exeter-woman-claims-built-time-machine-garage/story-26699707-detail/story.html)
Victim surcharge? Was there a licensed tissue seller who was undercut or something?
Victim surcharge? Was there a licensed tissue seller who was undercut or something?
Video shows bus stop argument between motorist and bus driver after he blocks her in (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/video-shows-bus-stop-argument-9602461)He wins the super twat thread as well. What an utter cock.
Bee Swarm on Locked Bicycle (http://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/bee_swarm_on_locked_bicycle_in_welwyn_garden_city_1_4133372)
I'm not sure why the lockedness of the bicycle was important.
Bee Swarm on Locked Bicycle (http://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/bee_swarm_on_locked_bicycle_in_welwyn_garden_city_1_4133372)OTP? :D
I'm not sure why the lockedness of the bicycle was important.
A woman walking her dog in the area, who did not want to be named, said: “I don’t know what’s happened.
“The first I knew about it was when my son came home from college and asked ‘Have you been out with the dog yet?’ I said no not yet and he said it was all taped off by police.
“I had a look on Facebook and that but haven’t seen anything about it.”
Couple's suburban banananana plant does not die.
http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/13410099.Couple_go_bananas_after_discovering_tropical_fruit_growing_in_their_back_garden/?ref=eb (http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/13410099.Couple_go_bananas_after_discovering_tropical_fruit_growing_in_their_back_garden/?ref=eb)
The pedant in me disputes that this plant was 'discovered' by the couple.
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Mini-driver-smashes-fish-van-pleasuring-sex-toy/story-26891651-detail/story.html
“He said on the return journey Miss Watling said she was feeling horny and started doing things she shouldn’t have been.
“He said she put her bottom on the dashboard and went to climb across him but stressed while he didn’t have a full view of the road that he was in control.
“He told police that he did not view her behaviour as being sexual in any way and that he did not engage with her.
MP: MOVE THE HOMELESS OFF OUR BEACH
Exciting sandals. (http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Mum-Sophie-Grantham-gets-surprise-addition-used/story-26905517-detail/story.html)(click to show/hide)
The mum-of-two has refused to touch the shoes or the five-inch purple Durex vibrator, because the kinky love instrument appeared to have been used.
While wearing rubber gloves.Exciting sandals. (http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Mum-Sophie-Grantham-gets-surprise-addition-used/story-26905517-detail/story.html)(click to show/hide)QuoteThe mum-of-two has refused to touch the shoes or the five-inch purple Durex vibrator, because the kinky love instrument appeared to have been used.
So why does every picture show her holding the offending article?
And you thought they were a bit limited in Norfolk. Welcome to Suffolk (http://www.suffolkgazette.com/news/amateur-robbers-target-sperm-bank/)
You know, I'm not entirely sure that website is legit. If this wasn't suspicious enough:
Police Apache helicopter blows up vicarage (http://www.suffolkgazette.com/news/police-apache-helicopter-blows-up-vicarage/)
then this one kind of gives away the game entirely:
Women secretly find cycling MAMILs sexy (http://www.suffolkgazette.com/sport/women-secretly-find-cycling-mamils-sexy/)
Probably the most appropriate failure to understand chemistry headline in the history of journalism:
First nitrogen oxide ice-cream parlour opens in Birmingham (http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/omg-desserts-small-heath-opens-9678857)
Probably the most appropriate failure to understand chemistry headline in the history of journalism:NO!!!!!!!!!!
First nitrogen oxide ice-cream parlour opens in Birmingham (http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/omg-desserts-small-heath-opens-9678857)
Ok, so for the benefit of those of us who are chemically ignorant, the gas they are (hopefully) using is presumably nitorous oxide, N2O, 'laughing gas' and 'cream supplies', rather than for instance nitrogen dioxide, NO2? Or is the point something else? Wiki describes both those and many others as 'nitrogen oxide'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_oxideProbably the most appropriate failure to understand chemistry headline in the history of journalism:
First nitrogen oxide ice-cream parlour opens in Birmingham (http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/omg-desserts-small-heath-opens-9678857)
Ignorance of SCIENCE at the most basic level is commonplace and worrisome.
HUGE sections of the public are totally clueless...
Twitter account @RDHWatercolour tweeted: "@surreymirror I see Nandos as the first step to Redhill to greatness.
Ok, so for the benefit of those of us who are chemically ignorant, the gas they are (hopefully) using is presumably nitorous oxide, N2O, 'laughing gas' and 'cream supplies', rather than for instance nitrogen dioxide, NO2? Or is the point something else? Wiki describes both those and many others as 'nitrogen oxide'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_oxideProbably the most appropriate failure to understand chemistry headline in the history of journalism:
First nitrogen oxide ice-cream parlour opens in Birmingham (http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/omg-desserts-small-heath-opens-9678857)
Ignorance of SCIENCE at the most basic level is commonplace and worrisome.
HUGE sections of the public are totally clueless...
Ok, so for the benefit of those of us who are chemically ignorant, the gas they are (hopefully) using is presumably nitorous oxide, N2O, 'laughing gas' and 'cream supplies', rather than for instance nitrogen dioxide, NO2? Or is the point something else? Wiki describes both those and many others as 'nitrogen oxide'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_oxideProbably the most appropriate failure to understand chemistry headline in the history of journalism:
First nitrogen oxide ice-cream parlour opens in Birmingham (http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/omg-desserts-small-heath-opens-9678857)
Ignorance of SCIENCE at the most basic level is commonplace and worrisome.
HUGE sections of the public are totally clueless...
Unclothed man rides bicycle.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/shocked-wildlife-photographer-captures-naked-9780190#ICID=FB-MEN-main (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/shocked-wildlife-photographer-captures-naked-9780190#ICID=FB-MEN-main)
“I thought it was brilliant. It made me proud to be British.”
Want more nudity?
Moss Vale pub locals pose in the nude to raise money for charity
Police called to three naked men washing clothes in city centre fountain
Hundreds take part in Manchester's annual Naked Bike Ride
We were obviously quite concerned when the fellas said they had been chased by wild animals, especially given all the recent reports of wild cats in Cumbria.
Once we arrived it quickly became apparent that men had been chased by a couple of Herdwicks.
I have no idea (obv) about what's actually on this CD.Perhaps deliberately? Must be satanic!
The 'symbolic writing' on it is merely 'Hallelujah' and 'Jehovah' scrawled in Hebrew.
Shame the CD is upside down.
You might have thought the BBC would have just about enough people to spot this in London or Hertfordshire...
... even if you don't read Hebrew, that crucifix seems the wrong way up!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-34243828 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-34243828)
I have no idea (obv) about what's actually on this CD.Perhaps deliberately? Must be satanic!
The 'symbolic writing' on it is merely 'Hallelujah' and 'Jehovah' scrawled in Hebrew.
Shame the CD is upside down.
You might have thought the BBC would have just about enough people to spot this in London or Hertfordshire...
... even if you don't read Hebrew, that crucifix seems the wrong way up!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-34243828 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-34243828)
Officers will be making house-to-house inquiries to retrieve any discs they may have been given.
Seen in Horley station on a billboard:
HORLEY MAN KEEPS ALBINO MOLE IN FREEZER
Here's the story
http://www.surreymirror.co.uk/Horley-mole-catcher-strikes-gold/story-27766326-detail/story.html
Not going to live for ever, are you? Besides, it would make a very nice basket for a large dog to sleep in. Anyway, what else are you doing on Halloween?
http://www.stroudlife.co.uk/Pictures-Weave-coffin-Stroud/story-27893556-detail/story.html
I don't know who is responsible for this, but it is rather good:That is one of the best pictures I have seen since Tenerife 2003. Excellent.
http://southendnewsnetwork.com/
I never realised he was a cyclist, although owning all those gyms I should have guessed. But he never seemed very 'alternative' to me, very much a traditional capitalist with that glasgow rough thing and the self made man backstory.Not going to live for ever, are you? Besides, it would make a very nice basket for a large dog to sleep in. Anyway, what else are you doing on Halloween?
http://www.stroudlife.co.uk/Pictures-Weave-coffin-Stroud/story-27893556-detail/story.html
Richard Ballantine had one of of those, carried to the crem on a bike trailer.
I don't know who is responsible for this, but it is rather good:That is one of the best pictures I have seen since Tenerife 2003. Excellent.
http://southendnewsnetwork.com/
Italian (well Tyrolean) art gallery cleaners mistake art installation for rubbish.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-installation-cleared-away-by-cleaners-who-mistook-it-for-rubbish-a3099966.html (http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-installation-cleared-away-by-cleaners-who-mistook-it-for-rubbish-a3099966.html)
I don't know who is responsible for this, but it is rather good:
http://southendnewsnetwork.com/
"Joanna Areola of the Nudist Tourism Alliance of Britain":facepalm:
Excavation unearths rare Saxon finds
Pagan burials containing rare pieces of jewellery and other graves goods have been found in a small Saxon Cemetery near Leighton Buzzard.
The excavation began after chance find by a local metal-detectorist of some Anglo-Saxon shield bosses dating from around AD600.
To protect the site from night-hawks during the excavation a member of the Leighton Buzzard and District Archaeological and Historical Society slept in a tent on the site for two weeks.
Following a geophysical survey of the area, members of the society led by site director, Bernard Jones, have completed a two-week excavation which has revealed the graves of four individuals, one female and three males. They appear to have been quite young, within the age range of 15 to 25 years old...
I believe that sir may be thinking of Duncan Ballentine. Unrelated and slightly less dead.I never realised he was a cyclist, although owning all those gyms I should have guessed. But he never seemed very 'alternative' to me, very much a traditional capitalist with that glasgow rough thing and the self made man backstory.Not going to live for ever, are you? Besides, it would make a very nice basket for a large dog to sleep in. Anyway, what else are you doing on Halloween?
http://www.stroudlife.co.uk/Pictures-Weave-coffin-Stroud/story-27893556-detail/story.html
Richard Ballantine had one of of those, carried to the crem on a bike trailer.
I believe that sir may be thinking of Duncan Ballentine. Unrelated and slightly less dead.Duncan Ballentine is undead
Exciting television. (http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Racy-Poldark-fans-descend-Cornwall/story-27909916-detail/story.html)
Doughpy theives cut through a wall of a Subway sandwich store... in Sandwich yesterday morning.
CRUMBS! Sandwich shop in Sandwich raid – but not a sandwich was taken (http://www.dover-express.co.uk/f/story-28234076-detail/story.html)Are you moonlighting as a reporter in Kent now, Kim? Surely non-Yacfers could not be responsible for such puns?
Decomposed frog found in Nando's salad (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-35111514)
Today's surreal news - Man Steals Vacuum (http://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/man_in_custody_over_alleged_vacuum_theft_in_welwyn_garden_city_1_4358306)
http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/hurt-car-suffers-handbrake-failure-rolls-hill/story-28267975-detail/story.html (http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/hurt-car-suffers-handbrake-failure-rolls-hill/story-28267975-detail/story.html)it's not in the spirit of this thread to trump your story with one from India, but i think it's too good to not share:
Handbrake failure in unattended car causes partial obstruction to road, but no damage. Warning issued that there may be traffic in both directions.
It all excitement in Bath.
It gets even more exciting near Bath - man goes for lunch at pub
http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Phillip-Schofield-pops-George-Inn-Bathampton/story-28457534-detail/story.html (http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Phillip-Schofield-pops-George-Inn-Bathampton/story-28457534-detail/story.html)
Man taken to court for putting his feet up on a train seat.
Good - but why is this so extraordinary that it's newsworthy? Why was a fixed penalty ticket not sufficient?
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14182759.Ringwood_man_taken_to_court_for_putting_his_feet_on_a_train_seat/
It gets even more exciting near Bath - man goes for lunch at pub
http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Phillip-Schofield-pops-George-Inn-Bathampton/story-28457534-detail/story.html (http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Phillip-Schofield-pops-George-Inn-Bathampton/story-28457534-detail/story.html)
How many pints did he have, and did he visit the toilet?
These journalists are rubbish.
ETA: I was thinking of John Craven, a completely different national treasure, famed for his legendary bladder control :facepalm:
I'm pretty sure that the final comment "It is believed that ..." wasn't there when I first saw the story, though I'm by no means certain.Man taken to court for putting his feet up on a train seat.
Good - but why is this so extraordinary that it's newsworthy? Why was a fixed penalty ticket not sufficient?
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14182759.Ringwood_man_taken_to_court_for_putting_his_feet_on_a_train_seat/
It is in the article. The subtext of the article is that the commuter was a cnut and refused to take his feet off the seat, thus getting a penalty. Quite right too - dog shit on seats :sick:
There are queues on the M25 this morning
Castle Cary resident Godfrey Hall has concerns that bus consultations and rail services are inadequate for isolated people in the area
a woman in her 20s was treated by paramedics for neck pain.
She was driving a Nissan Micra.
Any confirmation from our correspondent on the spot? (http://southendnewsnetwork.com/news/shoppers-horror/)
Can't see a Nissan Leaf in the picture, mind . . .
Maybe 'absconding' is beyond their vocabulary?I think they were trying to express that it's not simple luxury, it's deviant luxury. ;)
Meanwhile, in today's Standard, a pricy home is described as 'luxuriant'. It's not a beard, mane or hedge FFS...
newsthump (http://newsthump.com/2016/01/19/newcastle-population-facing-deportation-after-failing-to-learn-english/) :thumbsup:Looks like they'll have to declare independence. I don't know who'll be the more relieved - the Geordies, or the English.
It's all kicking off in Sherborne:
http://www.centralsomersetgazette.co.uk/Drive-yoghurt-attack-crochet-teacher-s/story-28590287-detail/story.html
It's all kicking off in Sherborne:
http://www.centralsomersetgazette.co.uk/Drive-yoghurt-attack-crochet-teacher-s/story-28590287-detail/story.html
The hunt is on for a yoghurt throwing convertible driver after two drive-by dairy attacks in Dorset.
It's all kicking off in Sherborne:
http://www.centralsomersetgazette.co.uk/Drive-yoghurt-attack-crochet-teacher-s/story-28590287-detail/story.html
How did you choose? There are some belting links on that page.
Looks like it wasn't just me in me jammies all day today!
Apparently Darlo has now gone global with this. I am very proud.
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/headteacher-asks-parents-stop-wearing-10790129
Gibbon Forest unveiled at Twycross Zoo
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-35482909 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-35482909)
BBC London Live: Latest
16 minutes ago
Paddington trainspotters in the 1950s
It's all kicking off in Sherborne:
http://www.centralsomersetgazette.co.uk/Drive-yoghurt-attack-crochet-teacher-s/story-28590287-detail/story.html
Man carrying gnome sparks police alert on M60 in Greater Manchester
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-35648583 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-35648583)
Some kindred spirits here (if at work, warning some "rude words")...
http://www.getbucks.co.uk/news/local-news/what-rudest-addresses-buckinghamshire-10953650 (http://www.getbucks.co.uk/news/local-news/what-rudest-addresses-buckinghamshire-10953650)
Have we had http://birminghamupdates.com/post/139984348918/police-called-after-two-men-got-trapped-in-stolen ?
From my Twitter feed:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ccs2L2UW4AAPoQc.jpg)
Saw this about the Isle of Man yesterday
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-35706002 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-35706002)
Couple of things puzzled me
While it doesn't say whose WW2 bomb it was the IoM isn't the kind of place you would bomb by accident unless you were very lost.
And 2 I didn't think there was anything worth bombing on the IoM anyway.
Saw this about the Isle of Man yesterday
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-35706002 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-35706002)
Couple of things puzzled me
While it doesn't say whose WW2 bomb it was the IoM isn't the kind of place you would bomb by accident unless you were very lost.
And 2 I didn't think there was anything worth bombing on the IoM anyway.
The Isle of Man had several RAF training bases during WW2 - including a bomber training station.
It was also targeted several times. Although Orford Ness is often most commonly linked with the development of radar, a lot of the R&D actually went on the Isle of Man.
http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/14352203.Woodland_hermit_ordered_out_of_house_made_of_clay/?ref=ebln (http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/14352203.Woodland_hermit_ordered_out_of_house_made_of_clay/?ref=ebln)Um - the nasty comments under that article do seem to be correct. He does have a youtube channel, a large part of which is videos of him doing martial arts in a house - they say it's his mum's house. He certainly isn't homeless without the clay house.
Poor chap!
http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/14352203.Woodland_hermit_ordered_out_of_house_made_of_clay/?ref=ebln (http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/14352203.Woodland_hermit_ordered_out_of_house_made_of_clay/?ref=ebln)
Poor chap!
It is - and very impressive.http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/14352203.Woodland_hermit_ordered_out_of_house_made_of_clay/?ref=ebln (http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/14352203.Woodland_hermit_ordered_out_of_house_made_of_clay/?ref=ebln)
Poor chap!
Wow, I lived for many years 5 minutes walk from those woods.... neat little place he made for himself
The hotel said unless "you were abseiling down a side of the building you wouldn't be able to see in".
Asked about window cleaners, general manager Robin Ford said: "I think we probably need to think about those don't we?"
He did go on to say that, for a while, an 18 foot golden cock was looking likely to be erected,
http://m.cambridge-news.co.uk/8203-Stop-hogging-lanes-cyclists-Cambridge-area/story-28986775-detail/story.html (http://m.cambridge-news.co.uk/8203-Stop-hogging-lanes-cyclists-Cambridge-area/story-28986775-detail/story.html)
Not sure where this one should be. Hadn't realised Cambridge drivers were such arses until the Pork Pie, when two of us side by side in the middle of nowhere were getting more abuse that I've had in ten years in the fens
LOCH NESS MONSTER spotted near EXPLOSIVE SS Montgomery wreck in Thames
Didn't Harrod's ban Lycra cycling shorts?
Is this for real?
http://southendnewsnetwork.com/news/southend-lidl-starts-selling-waitrose-bags-to-fight-against-supermarket-shame/ (http://southendnewsnetwork.com/news/southend-lidl-starts-selling-waitrose-bags-to-fight-against-supermarket-shame/)
I checked the date and everyfink...
THE LATEST NEWS FROM SOUTHEND, HONEST...
Soulbury stone: White lines 'horrific' and 'an eyesore';D ;D :facepalm: ;D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-36024009 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-36024009)
White lines painted around a boulder, thought to have been in place 11,000 years in an attempt to make it safer, have been described as an "eyesore" and "horrific" on social media.
The stone in Soulbury, Buckinghamshire, was under threat of being moved after a car allegedly crashed into it.
The county council has since painted white chevrons around it.
Photos of the new look on the Soulbury News Facebook page have attracted dozens of negative comments.
One person described it as a good compromise, but the vast majority of those responding have criticised the chevrons, labelling them as "shocking" and "dreadful".
Villagers had threatened to chain themselves to the stone, known as the Soulbury Boot, after the crash put its position in the middle of Chapel Hill in jeopardy.
"I have found it all very distressing and I haven't been able to sleep,'' she said. "I'm not sure what they are going to do next"
A mystery graffiti artist dubbed the "Phantom Aerosol" has spayed a series of DIY road markings to highlight dangers to cyclists.
It's all kicking off in Henley this week: Bin repainted (http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?tabp=y&id=199167)
Horrified shopper Jemima Clenge said: ‘I am one of the fortunate ones who only wanted a simple and elegant black coffee, but the people in front of me turned into absolute animals when it emerged that there would be an extra wait for any milk-based coffee drinks. After a bit of pushing and shoving, a man in a The North Face waterproof jacket threw a punch at another man in a Cotton Traders rugby jersey, and two ladies were trying to strangle each other with hemp-based ethical carrier bags. It was like a scene from Platoon or something like that.’
Miss Jollop’s suspension means that there will no longer be any outlets for Giusloppi Ice Cream in Southend On Sea, and other local ices traders are getting ready to apply for exclusive trading rights on her patch. This isn’t the first time that an ice cream van owner has been suspended in Southend for getting involved in illegal activities, with more than 500 complaints being made in 2014 after Westcliff licensee Nigel Mugabe was caught funnelling profits from his soft scoop operation into Zimbabwean arms exports.
Man trapped for 9 hours under cheese
http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2016/05/06/search-for-missing-person-after-shropshire-warehouse-collapse/free-lead2/
“The shelves were 80 metres high stacked full of cheese.”
Read more at http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2016/05/06/search-for-missing-person-after-shropshire-warehouse-collapse/free-lead2/#oCEoKjcPaurLq00i.99
It would work in a fair few towns; the Northampton goths used to hang out in St Giles' churchyard.
Well, Hmm, yebbut.
I'd not expect a member of the general public to recognise mathematical notation.
A propos of the Waitrose barney as described in Southend News Network, above, I give you this:-
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/14480816.Police_called_to_break_up_fights_over_parking_spaces_as_thousands_flock_to_Southend_seafront/?ref=mrb&lp=2
Sadly, I fear that fighting over parking spaces is quite normal in England.
Just don't :demon:So I can't mention First Ministers of Scotland? ;D
What's really important to the people of St Albans?
http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/14518188.REVEALED__UK_s_top_10_rudest_place_names___Does_south_Bucks_make_it_in_/ (http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/14518188.REVEALED__UK_s_top_10_rudest_place_names___Does_south_Bucks_make_it_in_/)
Good to see Bell End in top position.
What's really important to the people of St Albans?
http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/14518188.REVEALED__UK_s_top_10_rudest_place_names___Does_south_Bucks_make_it_in_/ (http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/14518188.REVEALED__UK_s_top_10_rudest_place_names___Does_south_Bucks_make_it_in_/)
Good to see Bell End in top position.
What's really important to the people of St Albans?
http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/14518188.REVEALED__UK_s_top_10_rudest_place_names___Does_south_Bucks_make_it_in_/ (http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/14518188.REVEALED__UK_s_top_10_rudest_place_names___Does_south_Bucks_make_it_in_/)
I used to ride through Bell End quite often with Beacon RCC but never saw an actual sign. It does appear on an OS map, though.What's really important to the people of St Albans?
http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/14518188.REVEALED__UK_s_top_10_rudest_place_names___Does_south_Bucks_make_it_in_/ (http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/14518188.REVEALED__UK_s_top_10_rudest_place_names___Does_south_Bucks_make_it_in_/)
Good to see Bell End in top position.
I used to ride through Bell End quite often with Beacon RCC but never saw an actual sign. It does appear on an OS map, though.What's really important to the people of St Albans?
http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/14518188.REVEALED__UK_s_top_10_rudest_place_names___Does_south_Bucks_make_it_in_/ (http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/14518188.REVEALED__UK_s_top_10_rudest_place_names___Does_south_Bucks_make_it_in_/)
Good to see Bell End in top position.
I'm indebted to mattc for pointing out the truly obscene Cumnor Rise Road (say it quickly) in Oxford.
and if you cycle up Gospel Pass, you are sure to admire Lord Hereford's Knob
(twmpa in Welsh)
I think some forumites admired his outline on a Saturday morning foray.....
Twmpa, Twmpa, you'd better bring a jumper
It gets pretty chilly on top of Lord Hereford's Knob
What's really important to the people of St Albans?
http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/14518188.REVEALED__UK_s_top_10_rudest_place_names___Does_south_Bucks_make_it_in_/ (http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/14518188.REVEALED__UK_s_top_10_rudest_place_names___Does_south_Bucks_make_it_in_/)
and if you cycle up Gospel Pass, you are sure to admire Lord Hereford's Knob
(twmpa in Welsh)
I think some forumites admired his outline on a Saturday morning foray.....
http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/honeymoon-ends-tears-after-visit-11420094That woman needs to get some f**king perspective in her life.
Too "good" a news story for this thread, but also too good not to post *somewhere*:
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/seagull-turned-bright-orange-after-11448715
Speeder caught doing 110mph "wanted to get home to see his dog" (http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/14550627.Speeder_caught_doing_110mph__wanted_to_get_home_to_see_his_dog_/?ref=mr&lp=14) See picture of Dog.Library picture of generic dog, in fact.
Speeder caught doing 110mph "wanted to get home to see his dog" (http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/14550627.Speeder_caught_doing_110mph__wanted_to_get_home_to_see_his_dog_/?ref=mr&lp=14) See picture of Dog.Library picture of generic dog, in fact.
Anti-Polish cards in Huntingdon after EU referendum
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-36633388 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-36633388)
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/middlesbrough-train-late-after-escaped-11622537
Worth it for the Pokemon reference at the end.
TransPennine Express says Friday’s train from Manchester to Middlesbrough was late by 14 minutes after it escaped from a farm which caused “mayhem” on the track.
"Put a chip shop at the top. That way people will use it."It's like the Southend News network, except that it is real.
I reckon Middlesbrough is a pretty good place for a train farm. Or have I misunderstood and it was actually a mayhem farm? Is that a variety of maize?QuoteTransPennine Express says Friday’s train from Manchester to Middlesbrough was late by 14 minutes after it escaped from a farm which caused “mayhem” on the track.
Shirley, if it hadn't escaped from the farm it wouldn't have got to Middlesbrough at all. ???
I thought that Doncaster was, traditionally, where the train farms were?
Children find Sheffield burglary victim's jewellery:thumbsup:
A woman who had jewellery stolen in a burglary three years ago has been reunited with it thanks to children who found it in woodland.
Doris Wilcock, 93, from Sheffield, said she was over the moon after South Yorkshire Police returned some of the stolen items.
They were found by Tyler and Amelia Exelby, who thought they had found some lost treasure.
Mrs Wilcock met with the children to thank them.
She told Tyler, 10, and Amelia, nine,: "You are my heroes."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-36860621 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-36860621)
I thought that Doncaster was, traditionally, where the train farms were?
Or Derby. Maybe that's just battery trains, rather than the free-range ones.
It has, rather.I thought that Doncaster was, traditionally, where the train farms were?
Or Derby. Maybe that's just battery trains, rather than the free-range ones.
Whither Crewe?
I thought that Doncaster was, traditionally, where the train farms were?
It is says something for Swindon that it was shouting and making a nuisance of himself that got the members of public to take action, not the nakedness.Painful as it is to say something positive about Swindonites, I must agree.
Investigating officer PC Bear Grilli said: "The victim has stepped in and tried to stop the group of youths from taking the motorbikes and has ended up being assaulted for his trouble.
Out of all the hordes of mobility scooters in East Lincolnshire, it's inevitable that some drivers are over the limit:
http://lincolnshirereporter.co.uk/2016/08/man-charged-with-mobility-scooter-drink-driving-after-skegness-mcdonalds-standoff/
Out of all the hordes of mobility scooters in East Lincolnshire, it's inevitable that some drivers are over the limit:
http://lincolnshirereporter.co.uk/2016/08/man-charged-with-mobility-scooter-drink-driving-after-skegness-mcdonalds-standoff/
I note that they've avoided committing journalism and not said anything about *why* the staff refused to serve him. Was he too drunk and obnoxious to purchase a McNasty burger, or did he fall foul of some zero tolerance audaxer policy? The public wants to know...
To which I will add "a taciturn Mexican with a pickup truck full of sturdy giant toe straps to haul damnfool tourists' cars out of soft sand".Ya godda hand it to dem Mexicans; they sure do have 'em some stuuurdy toe straps! /badtexanaccent
And I'll add "absence of smokers".
Seriously, there are few things in life as repulsive as wading barefoot through someone else's ash tray. :hand:
Ealing Based North Korean Deputy Ambassador Defects To South
Why does Hull smell?
And I'll add "absence of smokers".
Seriously, there are few things in life as repulsive as wading barefoot through someone else's ash tray. :hand:
Oh, yes. Building a sandcastle in someone else's ash tray comes close though.
I thought that Doncaster was, traditionally, where the train farms were?
It was for 150 years. The A3 Pacifics (Flying Scotsman etc) and the A4 Pacifics (Mallard etc) were built there and diesel locos after the end of steam. I visited several times for open days with my Dad who worked for BR for decades. It was closed in 2007 and demolished to make way for a housing estate :(
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/were-hundreds-cyclists-riding-through-11826347
This from a city where Critical Mass regularly struggles to achieve double figures. :o
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/were-hundreds-cyclists-riding-through-11826347
This from a city where Critical Mass regularly struggles to achieve double figures. :o
Very good. :thumbsup:
I thought that Doncaster was, traditionally, where the train farms were?
It was for 150 years. The A3 Pacifics (Flying Scotsman etc) and the A4 Pacifics (Mallard etc) were built there and diesel locos after the end of steam. I visited several times for open days with my Dad who worked for BR for decades. It was closed in 2007 and demolished to make way for a housing estate :(
Last time I was passing through king's cross I noticed a new statue of Nigel Gresley, looks like your typical engineer to me.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/were-hundreds-cyclists-riding-through-11826347
This from a city where Critical Mass regularly struggles to achieve double figures. :o
He said: “A hang-on-the-back and do wheelies on the Coventry Road charity bike ride. There were 200 of them, all across the road, no helmuts or anything on. It was pretty dangerous. I was on the bus and there were a couple of them banging on the bus.”
Laundering (http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/egan-170k-in-mint-gold-allegedly-smuggled-in-body-cavity-judge-hears), you say...
Laundering (http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/egan-170k-in-mint-gold-allegedly-smuggled-in-body-cavity-judge-hears), you say...
'Painful erection' spiders found in family's fruit
An employee at Abingdon Health and Wellbeing Centre, who wished to remain anonymous, said: "There is something going on but I do not know what.
"Somebody came in and said police cars are outside but I have not seen any.
"We are open as normal."
Blimey, I hope the people of Exmouth don't learn where those children once emerged from.
Isn't there's an entire dino-sex thing going on anyway?
And where's the head?
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/14791078.UPDATE__Multiple_clown_sightings_cause_panic_across_Swindon/?ref=ar
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/14791078.UPDATE__Multiple_clown_sightings_cause_panic_across_Swindon/?ref=ar
The Shadow Cabinet have been out canvassing, then? :demon:
I tell you what, I'd be bricking it if I were booked to open a new fast-food outlet as Ronald McDonald in the next three weeks.
I tell you what, I'd be bricking it if I were booked to open a new fast-food outlet as Ronald McDonald in the next three weeks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-37630460
Model company aims for realism (http://www.suffolkgazette.com/business/hornby-rail-replacement-bus-set/) :D
You couldn’t make it up. Suffolk is full of strange and wonderful stories, and our tales explode across social media and get repeated by gullible mainstream media, including Sky News and national newspapers.
Join our vibrant Facebook page for updates and ensuing hilarity whenever someone comments after believing something we have written.
Model company aims for realism (http://www.suffolkgazette.com/business/hornby-rail-replacement-bus-set/) :D
You do realise that it's a (mostly) fake news site, don't you? ;)QuoteYou couldn’t make it up. Suffolk is full of strange and wonderful stories, and our tales explode across social media and get repeated by gullible mainstream media, including Sky News and national newspapers.
Join our vibrant Facebook page for updates and ensuing hilarity whenever someone comments after believing something we have written.
http://www.suffolkgazette.com/about/
;)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37761668 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37761668)
It is a phrase synonymous with 1990s ladette culture, used to define brash party girls in one part of England.
http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/14833308.Carnforth_Civic_Hall_gets_new_vacuum_cleaner/
Welcome to my world...
Sort of on-topic, this amused us :)
http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/10/woman-accidentally-steals-identical-subaru-in-portland.html
Mystery solved over why tourists were visiting a village (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-37820663)Worryingly, I immediately guessed what that story was about.
Some good mangling of the language there.ITYM mangling of the phalanges.
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.
QuoteThe 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/ (http://www.itv.com/news/border/update/2016-11-18/the-pheasant-that-thinks-its-a-sheepdog/)
QuoteThe 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/ (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.
QuoteThe 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/ (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
Bentley with a tow bar Class
Immigrants are going to steal Christmas (http://m.plymouthherald.co.uk/immigrant-moths-are-threatening-steal-brussels-sprouts-off-your-christmas-dinner-table/story-29946939-detail/story.html#U5480jjqMBLyss7s.99)
QuoteBentley with a tow bar Class
;D
I *THINK* the stories are genuine, and no dafter than many local papers.Immigrants are going to steal Christmas (http://m.plymouthherald.co.uk/immigrant-moths-are-threatening-steal-brussels-sprouts-off-your-christmas-dinner-table/story-29946939-detail/story.html#U5480jjqMBLyss7s.99)
I can't decide whether that site is another Southend News Network or whether it's just been infiltrated by the readers of Angry People In Local Newspapers.
Ah, Trago - where peacocks roam the ground and there's a grotesque statue of an Atlas-like figure groaning under the weight of EU regulation (I'm not making this up...)
I'm sure I remember a similar story from a few years back from up that way, with a seal showing up in a field about ten miles from anywhere seal-friendly and speculation that it had followed a boat up the Leeds-Liverpool canal.
I'm sure I remember a similar story from a few years back from up that way, with a seal showing up in a field about ten miles from anywhere seal-friendly and speculation that it had followed a boat up the Leeds-Liverpool canal.
That was an adult which turned up in a field in St Helens. There was a stream running through the field which despite only being 6 inches deep had a distant connection with the sea.
In this case the ice rink is on the Pier Head right next to a deep river. The only mystery is why it decided to climb several flights of steps.
:thumbsup: Or maybe it was looking for someone to complain to about the buttons in the lift being too high.I'm sure I remember a similar story from a few years back from up that way, with a seal showing up in a field about ten miles from anywhere seal-friendly and speculation that it had followed a boat up the Leeds-Liverpool canal.
That was an adult which turned up in a field in St Helens. There was a stream running through the field which despite only being 6 inches deep had a distant connection with the sea.
In this case the ice rink is on the Pier Head right next to a deep river. The only mystery is why it decided to climb several flights of steps.
The lift was out of order?
In a Southend News Network exclusive, a group of 90’s construction workers have revealed the horrific conditions that were subjected to on a regular basis – they hope that the same mistakes won’t be repeated on building sites in the future.
Stuart Lamming has been elected as the unofficial spokesperson for the group, and he met our Chief Reporter to describe the ‘sheer hell’ that him and his colleagues were subjected to.
He said: ‘Our boss didn’t care whether we lived or died. Many of my friends were blown up, crushed, or were simply encouraged to walk off a cliff and plummet to a horrific death. I can still hear them all scream ‘oh no!’
‘I remember one site where they tried to cover up this terrible existence by playing motivational music for us. In my opinion, The Can Can on a constant 8-bit loop actually did a lot more harm than good.’
‘I finally decided that enough was enough when I walked into a wall and hundreds of other workers just followed me. I was behind a pick axe operator who couldn’t work fast enough and the sheer pressure from the advancing crowd made me pass out.’
‘My brother was lucky enough to get scouted into Sensible Soccer from an early age, and he even managed to win the Champions League with Southend United on 46 separate occasions – my destiny was horrendous in comparison.’
We managed to speak to one construction site manager who was involved in these conditions, and he agreed to speak to our news team if we kept his identity anonymous.
He said: ‘In my defence, we were under huge pressure from the company owner. For every project, our only target was to ensure that a certain percentage of workers returned alive. If we kept within these limits, the upper management were happy.’
‘This sort of carry on would never happen these days with all of the paperwork involved. It was a simpler and happier time.’
http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/pigeons-now-defecating-from-telegraph-pole-onto-footpath-in-frome-instead-of-from-railway-bridge/story-29976288-detail/story.html (http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/pigeons-now-defecating-from-telegraph-pole-onto-footpath-in-frome-instead-of-from-railway-bridge/story-29976288-detail/story.html)/Oxford joke
Pigeons now defecating from telegraph pole onto footpath in Frome instead of from railway bridge
It's a tough life in Frome. People can't even pronounce the name of the town properly.
Sheep gets head stuck in traffic cone on Hertfordshire farm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-38264883 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-38264883)
Giant Lego polar bear built by Huntingdon couple
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-38268048 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-38268048)
QuoteGiant Lego polar bear built by Huntingdon couple
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-38268048 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-38268048)
Birmingham jumps the shark: http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/boxing-day-sales-start-early-12326514
Although Essex Police originally thought he died of natural causes, it emerged he had been shot six times.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-38377329 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-38377329)
...by a man on the run?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/04/yorkshires-bookseller-from-hell-regrets-calling-customer-a-pain-in-the-arse?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=207007&subid=13875851&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2 (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/04/yorkshires-bookseller-from-hell-regrets-calling-customer-a-pain-in-the-arse?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=207007&subid=13875851&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2)
Maintaining Yorkshire's reputation.
Snow has already fallen once this month and and now the Met Office has forecast light snow to fall tonight.
Temperatures will drop to -1C at around 9pm.
http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/watford/15046504.It_s_snow_joke__Forecast_worsens_for_Watford/ (http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/watford/15046504.It_s_snow_joke__Forecast_worsens_for_Watford/)
Surely the whole point of dogging there is to come across a gruffalo?I imagine, if you come across a real gruffalo, the best thing to do is to wipe it off and say sorry.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/718853/Gruffalo-Trail-dogging-site-Horsenden-Hill-Ealing-Council
Maybe one of our Ealing/Perivale posse could confirm this shocking revelation?
I guess it could be added to the "looking for badgers" excuse? ;D
Donkey gets old and dies (http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/britains-oldest-donkey-died-age-12597711)That got a whole slot on the TV news yesterday.
Donkey gets old and dies (http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/britains-oldest-donkey-died-age-12597711)That got a whole slot on the TV news yesterday.
Donkey gets old and dies (http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/britains-oldest-donkey-died-age-12597711)
Donkey gets old and dies (http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/britains-oldest-donkey-died-age-12597711)
I present this without comment[1]: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/signs-your-child-computer-hacker-12626527
[1] Plenty of comments available at El Reg (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/20/is_your_child_a_hacker_liverpudlian_parents_handed_cyber_checklist/)
I present this without comment[1]: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/signs-your-child-computer-hacker-12626527Gotten? Is there a Liverpool in USAnia?
[1] Plenty of comments available at El Reg (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/20/is_your_child_a_hacker_liverpudlian_parents_handed_cyber_checklist/)
A former colleague and I bonded over our shared love of local newspaper restaurant reviews. I've not heard from him for a while but I was tickled when this popped up in my inbox today from him:;D
http://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Review-Harvesters-Halifax
Well done the Yorkshire Times for getting in there before the Michelin inspectors discovered it.
Amazing piece of writing!
Would be GREAT if the could give the correct name for the restaurant and the correct URL!
But I am a pedant...
That line had me literally laughing out loud.A former colleague and I bonded over our shared love of local newspaper restaurant reviews. I've not heard from him for a while but I was tickled when this popped up in my inbox today from him:;D
http://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Review-Harvesters-Halifax
Well done the Yorkshire Times for getting in there before the Michelin inspectors discovered it.
"better than what you get at some of the cheaper burger chains" is pure genius.
Motorist complains about legal use of mobility scooter (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-39138968):o In fairness, she'd got a good point. That part of the north Derby ring road is really busy! Riding a mobility scooter on there would be like, I dunno, riding a bike along the A63 on a Saturday afternoon. ;)
Upping the speed of road/cyclepath-going scooters to 25kph in line with e-bikes would seem reasonable TAAW.TBH, this strikes me as a very poor idea. Even at 25kph a mobility scooter is going to be a sitting duck amidst regular traffic (like a milkfloat on a motorway), yet way too fast for footway use on anything but an empty, well-surfaced, straight footway (even 8mph on my M-I-L's scooter alongside the die-straight Avenues of Hull feels pretty zippy, and I wouldn't want to corner at that speed). There's a fundamental difference in manoeuvrability between an e-bike and a scooter.
Upping the speed of road/cyclepath-going scooters to 25kph in line with e-bikes would seem reasonable TAAW.TBH, this strikes me as a very poor idea. Even at 25kph a mobility scooter is going to be a sitting duck amidst regular traffic (like a milkfloat on a motorway), yet way too fast for footway use on anything but an empty, well-surfaced, straight footway (even 8mph on my M-I-L's scooter alongside the die-straight Avenues of Hull feels pretty zippy, and I wouldn't want to corner at that speed). There's a fundamental difference in manoeuvrability between an e-bike and a scooter.
Rather you than me.Upping the speed of road/cyclepath-going scooters to 25kph in line with e-bikes would seem reasonable TAAW.TBH, this strikes me as a very poor idea. Even at 25kph a mobility scooter is going to be a sitting duck amidst regular traffic (like a milkfloat on a motorway), yet way too fast for footway use on anything but an empty, well-surfaced, straight footway (even 8mph on my M-I-L's scooter alongside the die-straight Avenues of Hull feels pretty zippy, and I wouldn't want to corner at that speed). There's a fundamental difference in manoeuvrability between an e-bike and a scooter.
I mean for road/cyclepath use. It'd still have to run according to Class 2 rules (4mph limit) on a footway.
Seems to work in the Netherlands.
There are reasons I never replaced my Class II 3rd hand scooter when it died...I mean for road/cyclepath use. It'd still have to run according to Class 2 rules (4mph limit) on a footway.Upping the speed of road/cyclepath-going scooters to 25kph in line with e-bikes would seem reasonable TAAW.TBH, this strikes me as a very poor idea. Even at 25kph a mobility scooter is going to be a sitting duck amidst regular traffic (like a milkfloat on a motorway), yet way too fast for footway use on anything but an empty, well-surfaced, straight footway (even 8mph on my M-I-L's scooter alongside the die-straight Avenues of Hull feels pretty zippy, and I wouldn't want to corner at that speed). There's a fundamental difference in manoeuvrability between an e-bike and a scooter.
Even at 25kph a mobility scooter is going to be a sitting duck amidst regular traffic
It'd still have to run according to Class 2 rules (4mph limit) on a footway.
It'd still have to run according to Class 2 rules (4mph limit) on a footway.
One thing I'm not sure about, not being a user of mobility scooters - do scooters intended for footway use have built-in speed limiters or are they like cars, reliant on the operator to observe the rules? I've often encountered scooters going somewhat quicker than that on the pavement...
Maybe the scooter I ditched was particularly poor but its response to my requests for it to both stop and go seemed very tardy, much slower than on a bicycle. Then there's the extra mass...
It'd still have to run according to Class 2 rules (4mph limit) on a footway.
One thing I'm not sure about, not being a user of mobility scooters - do scooters intended for footway use have built-in speed limiters or are they like cars, reliant on the operator to observe the rules? I've often encountered scooters going somewhat quicker than that on the pavement...
It's apparently illegal for an able-bodied person to use these things but partner still used my scooter to schlep 50kg building supplies half a mile home.
It's apparently illegal for an able-bodied person to use these things but partner still used my scooter to schlep 50kg building supplies half a mile home.
How is a 25kph scooter any worse in traffic than a tricycle? Sure, I'd try to pick a route that avoided the Derby ring-road, but many of us ride trikes in urban traffic and can attest that it isn't instant DETH (indeed, if anything, it's safer than a bicycle, as you're more likely to be seen).Did I ever mention tricycles? Nice straw man.
I'm not so sure. Personally, I'd not much like to ride on the A601, but if I did I'd be riding fast (faster than 25kph) and not in the primary position (except where it is unsafe to pass). Even with a scooter being driven as close to the nearside as possible, its offside still juts significantly into the lane. 25kph is simply too slow to be integrated into regular flowing traffic on an urban dual carriageway.Even at 25kph a mobility scooter is going to be a sitting duck amidst regular trafficNo more so than cyclists, surely?
How is a 25kph scooter any worse in traffic than a tricycle? Sure, I'd try to pick a route that avoided the Derby ring-road, but many of us ride trikes in urban traffic and can attest that it isn't instant DETH (indeed, if anything, it's safer than a bicycle, as you're more likely to be seen).Did I ever mention tricycles? Nice straw man.
25kph is simply too slow to be integrated into regular flowing traffic on an urban dual carriageway.
25kph is simply too slow to be integrated into regular flowing traffic on an urban dual carriageway.
25kph is simply too slow to be integrated into regular flowing traffic on an urban dual carriageway.
I cycle on urban roads at that sort of speed - and below - all the time (various bicycles, sometimes with a trailer, sometimes a recumbent trike). IME the multi-lane dual carriageways[1] are somewhat better, because the motorists have another lane to perform a proper overtake in. But as I said above, I'd try to avoid the Derby Ring Road.
[1] This sort of thing: https://goo.gl/maps/HNks6EaUzo72
25kph is simply too slow to be integrated into regular flowing traffic on an urban dual carriageway.
I cycle on urban roads at that sort of speed - and below - all the time (various bicycles, sometimes with a trailer, sometimes a recumbent trike). IME the multi-lane dual carriageways[1] are somewhat better, because the motorists have another lane to perform a proper overtake in. But as I said above, I'd try to avoid the Derby Ring Road.
[1] This sort of thing: https://goo.gl/maps/HNks6EaUzo72
I've noticed your judicious cropping of my post.
Perhaps I shouldn't have economised on words and emphasised that my particular point about speed integration follows on from the previous sentence about wide vehicles. On most urban roads it is perfectly okay to ride a bike at lowish speed if your lane placement is appropriate.
I'm firmly of the view that the best way to further road safety for vulnerable users is not to unduly hamper other road users (check this link from another place (https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/nearly-taken-out-by-sportive-nutcases.187527/page-8#post-3909519)).
Besides everything else, I would be bricking myself if I found myself plonked onto a busy A38 in Brum (or Princess Road) on a trike or a mobility scooter. If you're not as chicken as me, then I can only wish you good luck.
Sometimes a motorist only has to see a pedal-powered vehicle to imagine it's hampering their progress.
Taking the piss in Cardiff (http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/two-women-dropped-trousers-urinated-12716102.amp)
Sign of the End Times appears in FinchleyLovely!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-39214332 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-39214332)
Taking the piss in Cardiff (http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/two-women-dropped-trousers-urinated-12716102.amp)Those Welsh, eh?
A Luton man has received a suspended sentence for masturbating into a cup in a public dining area in the town.:sick:
Diners were forced to move away after Michael Barker, aged 58 of Havelock Road, Luton, was seen to masturbate under a table, ejaculate into a cup and then leave it for a woman to consume before disappearing into the toilets on three to four occasions, magistrates at Luton heard on March 13.
http://www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/crime/for-those-of-a-sensitive-nature-look-away-now-1-7879427 (http://www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/crime/for-those-of-a-sensitive-nature-look-away-now-1-7879427)
Doesn't Swindon have its own thread?
MP catches poisson... http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/15200218.MP_blames____baby_brain____after_falling_for_Harrow_Times____April_Fool___s_Day_joke/?ref=ebln (http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/15200218.MP_blames____baby_brain____after_falling_for_Harrow_Times____April_Fool___s_Day_joke/?ref=ebln)TBF, that is an utterly shit April Fool.
;D
Which area are you looking at?
MP catches poisson... http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/15200218.MP_blames____baby_brain____after_falling_for_Harrow_Times____April_Fool___s_Day_joke/?ref=ebln (http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/15200218.MP_blames____baby_brain____after_falling_for_Harrow_Times____April_Fool___s_Day_joke/?ref=ebln)TBF, that is an utterly shit April Fool.
If I'd done that as a littly (which I wouldn't, because I was not a little bastard), I wouldn't have been able to sit down for a week afterwards. :demon:MP catches poisson... http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/15200218.MP_blames____baby_brain____after_falling_for_Harrow_Times____April_Fool___s_Day_joke/?ref=ebln (http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/15200218.MP_blames____baby_brain____after_falling_for_Harrow_Times____April_Fool___s_Day_joke/?ref=ebln)TBF, that is an utterly shit April Fool.
Indeed.
Have you seen this story?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-39490648 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-39490648)
If I'd done that as a littly (which I wouldn't, because I was not a little bastard), I wouldn't have been able to sit down for a week afterwards. :demon:MP catches poisson... http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/15200218.MP_blames____baby_brain____after_falling_for_Harrow_Times____April_Fool___s_Day_joke/?ref=ebln (http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/15200218.MP_blames____baby_brain____after_falling_for_Harrow_Times____April_Fool___s_Day_joke/?ref=ebln)TBF, that is an utterly shit April Fool.
Indeed.
Have you seen this story?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-39490648 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-39490648)
You're not? :o ;)If I'd done that as a littly (which I wouldn't, because I was not a little bastard), I wouldn't have been able to sit down for a week afterwards. :demon:MP catches poisson... http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/15200218.MP_blames____baby_brain____after_falling_for_Harrow_Times____April_Fool___s_Day_joke/?ref=ebln (http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/15200218.MP_blames____baby_brain____after_falling_for_Harrow_Times____April_Fool___s_Day_joke/?ref=ebln)TBF, that is an utterly shit April Fool.
Indeed.
Have you seen this story?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-39490648 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-39490648)
Shouldn't the fact you're not allowed to thrash children anymore be in the First world problems thread?
Rich old white people still dial telephone numbers (http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/bath-residents-furious-over-radstock-dialling-code/story-30249247-detail/story.html)Brilliant. Apparently the good people of Sutton Coldfield once tried to get shot of their B postcode for similar reasons. And no-one lives in Balsall Heath, it's always Edgbaston ;D
Rich old white people still dial telephone numbers (http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/bath-residents-furious-over-radstock-dialling-code/story-30249247-detail/story.html)
"I do consider my phone number to be a part of my identity. It has been part of my identity for 25 years.Curious, the things people consider to be part of their identity. For instance, some people who become incredibly proficient in a foreign language will refuse to lose their native accent despite it hindering communication because they see it as part of who they are. While this is clearly a first-class first world problem, I can believe this bloke does feel he's lost a little bit of his identity from this. "I've never been a Radstock man and never will be!"
Bizarrely, or probably not, I received a call on Wednesday from a Birmingham number (0121...). It actually came from about two streets away, ie firmly in Bristol.
It's all happening (http://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/new-welwyn-garden-city-road-crossing-1-4969965) in Welwyn Garden City.And the rubber is mating (http://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/fire-on-rubber-flooring-in-knebworth-playground-1-4970951) in nearby Knebworth!
Football kicked over fence found. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-39578639 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-39578639)That's a lovely story :)
Harry Potter in York court for drug dealingEven the place he lives sounds like a Dark Arts spell. "Acaster Malbis!" and you turn into a newt.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15224234.Harry_Potter_in_York_court_for_drug_dealing/?ref=mr&lp=17 (http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15224234.Harry_Potter_in_York_court_for_drug_dealing/?ref=mr&lp=17)
:o
http://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/hitchin-man-electrocuted-woman-s-private-parts-during-50-shades-of-grey-sex-session/story-30269076-detail/story.html (http://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/hitchin-man-electrocuted-woman-s-private-parts-during-50-shades-of-grey-sex-session/story-30269076-detail/story.html)
electrocute, v.It doesn't only mean kill. But that doesn't make the idea any less stupid or dangerous.
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Pronunciation: Brit. /ᵻˈlɛktrəkjuːt/, U.S. /əˈlɛktrəˌkjut/, /iˈlɛktrəˌkjut/
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1. trans. To put to death by means of a powerful electric current; to execute in the electric chair.
1889 Trenton (New Jersey) Times 7 June 4/2 (heading) He wants to be ‘electrocuted’... An offer on the part of a man..to act as a victim..by testing the..new apparatus for executing by electricity.
1890 Congress. Rec. 8375/1 That the gentleman..should be ‘electrocuted’ by the Kemmler process recently adopted in the state of New York.
1903 W. D. Howells Lett. Home v 32, I could be sitting this moment with the transmitter at my mouth, and the receivers strapped to both ears, and looking as if I were just going to be electrocuted.
1945 N. Mitford Pursuit of Love xiii. 101, I bet the Scotsboro' boys will be electrocuted in the end, if they don't die of old age first, that is.
2001 Times (Nexis) 28 July In Georgia I stood outside death row as the state electrocuted a man I thought was probably innocent.
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2. trans. To give an electric shock to; esp. (chiefly refl. or in pass.) to kill or injure by electric shock.
1890 Freeborn County Standard (Albert Lea, Minnesota) (Electronic text) 24 Sept. When venture-some rodents walk within a metallic cage, containing cheese, they are transfixed by a strong electric current and ‘electrocuted’.
1899 Times 11 Apr. 1/4 Continuation of the Monster Holiday Show. Marvellous performances... See to-day, at 3 and 8, Dr. Walford Bodie electrocute a man.
1909 Yorks. Post 4 Aug. 4/5 [A boy] who was electrocuted on the Mersey Railway last Saturday.
1939 D. L. Sayers In Teeth of Evid. 9 One of them got loose last time and tried to electrocute itself on the X-ray plant.
1988 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 10 May I was electrocuted. I can still smell the flesh burning.
2004 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 11 July x. 23/2, I wasn't going to touch a battery—I'd have electrocuted myself.
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1896 Science 14 Feb. 250/2 He gave the results of the examination of nervous tissue from three electrocuted subjects.
1922 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram 10 Feb. 10/3 Glands taken from an electrocuted prisoner at Sing Sing, are grafted into the body of another convict.
1991 Atlantic June 87/1 The widow of the electrocuted man didn't even have children to take her mind off her loneliness.
Headline of the month
http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/paedophile-croydon-police-staff-member-stole-shotgun-ammo-from-pakistan-spot-fixing-cricket-scandal/story-30285116-detail/story.html
A stock photo of Stephen Cooksey demonstrating the classic arm folding, angry people in local newspapers pose
If I meet the journalist (Dave Comeau) I might have to buy him a drink.
Cow sex suspect hunted by police helicopter
...Hertfordshire Police said the cow was unhurt.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-39859134 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-39859134)
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/15265045.Teen_found_wandering_along_M4_superglued_to_friend_prised_off_by_doctors/Has the makings of a movie.
Quite a good day in my area. Two motorised morons (in appropriate thread) and this...Well, it would have been like opening the windiow and f***ing the night.QuoteCow sex suspect hunted by police helicopter
...Hertfordshire Police said the cow was unhurt.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-39859134 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-39859134)
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/15265045.Teen_found_wandering_along_M4_superglued_to_friend_prised_off_by_doctors/Has the makings of a movie.
The electricity pylon contained over 100,000 volts of electricity
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/15265045.Teen_found_wandering_along_M4_superglued_to_friend_prised_off_by_doctors/Has the makings of a movie.
Pylon fire (http://www.surreymirror.co.uk/8203-electricity-pile-up-catches-fire-during-the-night-in-leatherhead/story-30326270-detail/story.html), but future energy needs solved as way to store electricity is found:QuoteThe electricity pylon contained over 100,000 volts of electricity
Able-bodied son sues father for lifetime financial support.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-39966145 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-39966145)
Wheelie wonky bike sign amuses Sleaford residents (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-40498602)
Lost panties. (http://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/someone-found-pair-lacy-knickers-186212)Gloucestershire seems well unusually provided with dogging sites.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEOK2FxXsAIhH_a.jpg)The long dark teatime of the Empire.
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/15460118.Foot_long_sausage_roll_goes_on_sale_at_town_supermarkets/#comments-anchor
I like sausage rolls more than most things and size is surely important but even I have to declare that twelve inches of sausage is simply too much for me.
Still, we should feel blessed, if this was America they've have embedded cheese and bacon in the pastry and probably a layer of beef chilli around the sausage meat and coated the entire thing in an outer nacho crust, and kept going until it was the sort of colorific neutronium than can only be forced down with 32 fluid ounces caffeinated soda.
I like sausage rolls more than most things and size is surely important but even I have to declare that twelve inches of sausage is simply too much for me.<sigh>
Still, we should feel blessed, if this was America they've have embedded cheese and bacon in the pastry and probably a layer of beef chilli around the sausage meat and coated the entire thing in an outer nacho crust, and kept going until it was the sort of colorific neutronium than can only be forced down with 32 fluid ounces caffeinated soda.
I like sausage rolls more than most things and size is surely important but even I have to declare that twelve inches of sausage is simply too much for me.
Still, we should feel blessed, if this was America they've have embedded cheese and bacon in the pastry and probably a layer of beef chilli around the sausage meat and coated the entire thing in an outer nacho crust, and kept going until it was the sort of colorific neutronium than can only be forced down with 32 fluid ounces caffeinated soda.
That sounds amazing.
Don't - I'm trying to cut down on things like that.I like sausage rolls more than most things and size is surely important but even I have to declare that twelve inches of sausage is simply too much for me.<sigh>
Still, we should feel blessed, if this was America they've have embedded cheese and bacon in the pastry and probably a layer of beef chilli around the sausage meat and coated the entire thing in an outer nacho crust, and kept going until it was the sort of colorific neutronium than can only be forced down with 32 fluid ounces caffeinated soda.
It is one thing I really miss, not eating wheat. Going and buying a greasy, unhealthy (but oh so tasty) 'baked' thing. So greasy that the paper it comes in is transparent, the ingredients are indeterminate, the pastry layered with grease and painted with extra grease and a few layers of cheap, toasted cheese. Preferably so hot that the inside burns your mouth off.
I like sausage rolls more than most things and size is surely important but even I have to declare that twelve inches of sausage is simply too much for me.
Still, we should feel blessed, if this was America they've have embedded cheese and bacon in the pastry and probably a layer of beef chilli around the sausage meat and coated the entire thing in an outer nacho crust, and kept going until it was the sort of colorific neutronium than can only be forced down with 32 fluid ounces caffeinated soda.
That sounds amazing.
IWOOT!!1! Hell yeah!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-40886835/giant-pipes-wash-up-on-norfolk-beachesSo we're going to hear nothing more of these for the next four years?
This one's actually a bit too interesting, but I'm posting it here because of the excellent use of the 'Big Ben' and 'London bus' units of measurement.
I like sausage rolls more than most things and size is surely important but even I have to declare that twelve inches of sausage is simply too much for me.<sigh>
Still, we should feel blessed, if this was America they've have embedded cheese and bacon in the pastry and probably a layer of beef chilli around the sausage meat and coated the entire thing in an outer nacho crust, and kept going until it was the sort of colorific neutronium than can only be forced down with 32 fluid ounces caffeinated soda.
It is one thing I really miss, not eating wheat. Going and buying a greasy, unhealthy (but oh so tasty) 'baked' thing. So greasy that the paper it comes in is transparent, the ingredients are indeterminate, the pastry layered with grease and painted with extra grease and a few layers of cheap, toasted cheese. Preferably so hot that the inside burns your mouth off.
CMOT ;)I like sausage rolls more than most things and size is surely important but even I have to declare that twelve inches of sausage is simply too much for me.
Still, we should feel blessed, if this was America they've have embedded cheese and bacon in the pastry and probably a layer of beef chilli around the sausage meat and coated the entire thing in an outer nacho crust, and kept going until it was the sort of colorific neutronium than can only be forced down with 32 fluid ounces caffeinated soda.
That sounds amazing.
IWOOT!!1! Hell yeah!
I've thought of a name for that.
The Dibbler.
This one's just surreal.
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/15499267.House_of_Fraser_evacuated_after_fox_falls_through_ceiling/
I like sausage rolls more than most things and size is surely important but even I have to declare that twelve inches of sausage is simply too much for me.<sigh>
Still, we should feel blessed, if this was America they've have embedded cheese and bacon in the pastry and probably a layer of beef chilli around the sausage meat and coated the entire thing in an outer nacho crust, and kept going until it was the sort of colorific neutronium than can only be forced down with 32 fluid ounces caffeinated soda.
It is one thing I really miss, not eating wheat. Going and buying a greasy, unhealthy (but oh so tasty) 'baked' thing. So greasy that the paper it comes in is transparent, the ingredients are indeterminate, the pastry layered with grease and painted with extra grease and a few layers of cheap, toasted cheese. Preferably so hot that the inside burns your mouth off.
I haven't done it for years, but the post-pub pasty after a long session was a pleasure not to be missed. A colleague of mine used to buy two on account of it 'being a long journey' (to zone 2). I don't think there's anything healthy in an 'award winning' pasty, I suspect the contents would only be identified through DNA analysis. But biting into one and unleashing that volcanic gout of steam to broil the top of your mouth, followed by the belch of meaty aroma that you know no one sober in the carriage will appreciate. Oh my. It's the middle-class kebab. You'd wake up the following morning and burp something that smelled like an animal had died in your mouth several days before. Then you'd realise that the top of your mouth was hanging there like a dilapidated trampoline.
A series of sensations only put into context by the runaway train of an hangover slamming into your head a few moments later while your stomach started the slow aerobatic roll of protest.
I think I might sell my Big Dong to 7-11. A foot long core of sausage in a mantle of spicy beef chilli, wrapped in finest cheese and bacon pastry, rolled in nacho chips, and deep fried. And then left to mature on the rollers under a heat lamp for a week to attain perfection. The last bit is important and often overlooked. It's why the kebab is supreme, that skewer of mystery meat has been twirling like the world's saddest ballerina for weeks, not so much overturning all the rules of food hygiene as we know them but giving them the finger (refrigerate meat, pah). I haven't, I confess, been drunk enough to consummate my evening with a kebab for a couple of decades. I remember once on the top deck of the night bus home someone eating one and someone else emerging from the stairs and declaring loudly 'WHO'S FUCKING DOG DIED?" That was bonhomie N172-style.
CMOT ;)I like sausage rolls more than most things and size is surely important but even I have to declare that twelve inches of sausage is simply too much for me.
Still, we should feel blessed, if this was America they've have embedded cheese and bacon in the pastry and probably a layer of beef chilli around the sausage meat and coated the entire thing in an outer nacho crust, and kept going until it was the sort of colorific neutronium than can only be forced down with 32 fluid ounces caffeinated soda.
That sounds amazing.
IWOOT!!1! Hell yeah!
I've thought of a name for that.
The Dibbler.
Oh. That must be what those old blues guys meant by "honey dripper". Light fittings, eh? Who'da guessed?This one's just surreal.
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/15499267.House_of_Fraser_evacuated_after_fox_falls_through_ceiling/
Fah!
http://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/property/homeowners-discover-honey-dripping-through-380284 (http://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/property/homeowners-discover-honey-dripping-through-380284)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-41122909
"Robert Fergus, 72, ran naked with a pair of scissors in the public reception of the MacDonald Loch Rannoch Hotel".
Running with scissors...didn't his mother tell him anything?
Python found lurking in bathroom toilet in Southend (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-41122975)Yes, Wow should have done up his flies.
Meanwhile, in Bristol: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296
Meanwhile, in Bristol: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296
Teen climbs highest mountain in wales in his underwear and unsurprisingly gets hypothermic.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/teen-who-climbed-snowdon-undies-13627677 (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/teen-who-climbed-snowdon-undies-13627677)
"Nathan, who is studying sport, nutrition and health at university" ???
He raised £950 - but then there had to be an ambulance callout. How much did that cost?Teen climbs highest mountain in wales in his underwear and unsurprisingly gets hypothermic.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/teen-who-climbed-snowdon-undies-13627677 (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/teen-who-climbed-snowdon-undies-13627677)
"Nathan, who is studying sport, nutrition and health at university" ???
Possible a failed attempt at the Darwin Award?
Suspect most of us learn how to dress the hard way, initially in a fairly tame environment. We've probably been cold or soaked and learned a lesson after thinking 'never again'.
Within a mile of my abode
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-41334906 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-41334906)
:(
"Birmingham was the coolest place I've been to in the UK yet," he said. "It was really fabulous.I dread to think what Birmingham, Alabama is like if it's West Midlands namesake looks so great to him.
"The people are great, the town's awesome, the guys that did the ride were really tremendous. It was a brilliant event.
Swindonfreude?
Is there an English word for being superficially ashamed yet, deep down, proud of your home town?
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/15581771.Two_security_cameras_stolen_from_lampposts_in_Pinehurst/#comments-anchor
Too much cheese lands van man in pickle with police (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-41566545);D
If he ate the cheese, it would still be on board the vehicle.
If he ate the cheese, it would still be on board the vehicle.And then it's still a ton overweight.
Dover sole 'jumps' down angler's throat in Bournemouth (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-41598493)
Stanmore is not rreally provincial but I didn't put this in the 'fuds' thread...I believe that there is nothing the police can do about it either, even if they wanted to, because unless there is criminal damage it's a civil matter. I friend who lived near a football ground had a problem with this on a Saturday afternoon and often fantasised about getting a delivery of sand delivered after the perp had gone to the football. the problem is he knows where you live :(
http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/15691554.Parent_parks_car_in_woman___s_driveway_during_busy_school_run/?ref=ebln (http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/15691554.Parent_parks_car_in_woman___s_driveway_during_busy_school_run/?ref=ebln)
A teenage bellringer ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-42758670
A teenage bellringer ?I started my intermittent campanology hobby as a teenager, but that was rather too long ago for my liking
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-42758670
A teenage bellringer ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-42758670
Sure, why not? Plenty of teenagers are a) musical b) Christians c) geeky or some combination thereof that might lend itself to bell-ringing if they're given the opportunity.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-41953644
Fucksake.
AUDI DRIVER (for it was he): How long are these ambulances going to be here? They are in the way.
MRS. WOW (who is much too polite at times like these): For as long as it takes!
(and shuts door in Audi driver's face)
Great journalism skills. (http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/crashed-lorry-motorhome-block-road-1105832)Seamless, as they say on b3ta.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-41953644
Fucksake.
Reversing the polarity.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-43063365
I've never had one ever.
I must experience one before I die.
;D
Never had a Nandos either. My expectation is that I never will.
;D
Never had a Nandos either. My expectation is that I never will.
Apparently an arrest has been made.Is it mean of me that I get a gentle feeling of satisfaction from this?
Croydon's KFCs close cos no chicken and chips.Fortunately, there are a squillion alternative fried chicken shops in Croydon, so no one had to starve.
https://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/news/croydon-news/even-more-kfcs-across-croydon-1230509?utm_source=google_news&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google_news&utm_content=sitemap (https://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/news/croydon-news/even-more-kfcs-across-croydon-1230509?utm_source=google_news&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google_news&utm_content=sitemap)
This may be off-topic because it's cycling related, but I'm sharing it because it contains the most exciting and inspiring piece of video I've ever encountered on a news site(!)
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/you-need-know-new-cycle-14314669
This may be off-topic because it's cycling related, but I'm sharing it because it contains the most exciting and inspiring piece of video I've ever encountered on a news site(!)You're right! Not only Yellow Machines but Orange Machines too. In fact, you get the Triple Whammy of Yellow Machines, Orange Machines and Men In Orange Hi-viz all working together in one shot!
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/you-need-know-new-cycle-14314669
No wonder it is taking a long time, one shovel full at a time!
'Poo-shaming' map hopes to tackle dog fouling (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-43334730)That goes very well with your sig
People are being unpatriotic about jam again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-43363435
People are being unpatriotic about jam again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-43363435I shall add it to Trago Mills, Mebyon Kernow and living in Plymouth but rushing a pregnant wife to Liskeard so your baby won't be born "foreign", as reasons to laugh at the Cornish.
Yebbut which is a "skon" and which is a "skohn"? ;DSkon and Cream First!
The number 11 Thamesdown bus, named after the Queen of the Brits...
I don't entirely get why they refuse to serve a horse rider a coffee. I'm sure I horse can trot from ordering point to delivery hatch in just the same time as a driver can drive a car. Or a cyclist for that matter. Come to that, you could walk it. It's really just a takeaway, geared particularly to people in cars, but a takeaway like millions of others.
Kind of related, I note (from passing a particular McD's regularly and seeing through the windows) that at least some (non-drive in) branches seem to have done away with things like staff taking orders; you order and pay at one of a number of screens, then go to a hatch to collect. At least, that's certainly what it looks like (Bristol Cabot Circus branch, if you want to know)
Yes, it's possible someone reaching down from the saddle of a horse could spill hot coffee over a server. I wonder if they serve lorry drivers? I dare say there's a porch thingy with a height limit that makes it impossible. But what if the horse rider dismounted, would they serve them on foot (or a pedestrian)? (Yes, I know this bloke got a coffee on foot but he had to tether his horse and go into the actual cafe part to get it.)
Barakta thinks they're brilliant, because you don't have to hear anything in what is inevitably an acoustically hostile environment.This. I try and use self service tills whenever they are available because I don't have to interact with people who often treat me as if I'm stupid because they are unable to enunciate clearly.
Don't recognize the name... but found the video! https://youtu.be/71-h9A2XvWo I like the clowns best!Yes, it's possible someone reaching down from the saddle of a horse could spill hot coffee over a server. I wonder if they serve lorry drivers? I dare say there's a porch thingy with a height limit that makes it impossible. But what if the horse rider dismounted, would they serve them on foot (or a pedestrian)? (Yes, I know this bloke got a coffee on foot but he had to tether his horse and go into the actual cafe part to get it.)
They have form for refusing to serve anyone not in a car in the drive through. It's ridiculous when they won't serve a cyclist when that is the only open bit. Mark THomas took various vehicles through to wind them up including a tank - there are videos on YouTube.
Bath woman’s Pavlova plans ruined after Waitrose strawberries go mouldyhttps://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/bath-womans-pavlova-plans-ruined-1475899
QuoteBath woman’s Pavlova plans ruined after Waitrose strawberries go mouldyhttps://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/bath-womans-pavlova-plans-ruined-1475899
A man found filling his hotel bath with potatoes went on a “bizarre” five-day drug binge with his friends.
James Johnson, 30, was caught by officers wearing a woman’s bra over his shirt and carrying a bag of spuds as he entered the Travelodge in Eastleigh.
His room was searched and an assortment of drugs, including ecstasy, 5-MAPB - similar to MDMA - and psychedelic substance 2CB were found as well as the tub full of potatoes.
When queried by baffled Judge Peter Henry at Southampton Crown Court as to why he had done it, he was told that “it felt like the right thing to do at the time”.
"I don't know Cheltenham very well at all. I was born in Gloucester," she said.
Reunited now.ditto
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-44222054 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-44222054)
Bit concerned they're too scatty to be safe on the roads.
'Humongous' wasps' nest found in Newbury garage cupboard (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-berkshire-45020336/humongous-wasps-nest-found-in-newbury-garage-cupboard)Use of the word 'humongous' is another clear sign of the continuing deterioration in standards at the BBC.
Man unhappy that restaurant agreed to serve him (https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/diner-furious-orange-basketball-shirt-1916752)He looks like Private Pyle from Full Metal Jacket. I hope they didn't let him in the toilets.
;DMan unhappy that restaurant agreed to serve him (https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/diner-furious-orange-basketball-shirt-1916752)He looks like Private Pyle from Full Metal Jacket. I hope they didn't let him in the toilets.
Cromer hit by a small tsunami.
(https://i.imgur.com/UbQIs84.png)
(Norwich and Bury Times, 23 November 1825)
Blimey - I've cycled past there several times. With my luck that could have turned into another "bee swarm incident"It’s been reclassified.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-45604525/more-than-60000-bees-found-in-roof-of-cambridge-hospital (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-45604525/more-than-60000-bees-found-in-roof-of-cambridge-hospital)
Blimey - I've cycled past there several times. With my luck that could have turned into another "bee swarm incident"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-45604525/more-than-60000-bees-found-in-roof-of-cambridge-hospital (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-45604525/more-than-60000-bees-found-in-roof-of-cambridge-hospital)
In a bid to dispose of the magazines, Karl has listed them on eBay - where items like this sometimes sell for up to £60."I saw this and thought of Roger"!
“I would have thought someone would just ask how much for the whole lot. I can imagine there's lots of private collectors out there,” he said.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/stash-vintage-porn-mags-house-2076078QuoteIn a bid to dispose of the magazines, Karl has listed them on eBay - where items like this sometimes sell for up to £60."I saw this and thought of Roger"!
“I would have thought someone would just ask how much for the whole lot. I can imagine there's lots of private collectors out there,” he said.
REVEALED: Bad drivers are the main cause of road accidents in Bucks
https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/16974624.revealed-bad-drivers-are-the-main-cause-of-road-accidents-in-bucks/ (https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/16974624.revealed-bad-drivers-are-the-main-cause-of-road-accidents-in-bucks/)
Not a news item but I see Bristol has a Windscreens Avenue (it's just before the start of the railway path to Bath). There is a Windshield Drive on Fishers Island in New York state.Yeah, but ours was the original!* I think Windscreens Av is technically a private drive.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dpbm-XxWkAE14Mk.jpg)I considered whether the LEP could be twin of the Southend News Network... but it's not. There is a shrine of the Buddha's tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka, but...
Staff at a builder's merchants had a shock when a man loaded a toilet on his bike and pedalled off.Perhaps this should really be in "I carried this on my bike"! Good the police have flushed the little shit out, his life was obviously a bit crap. You might say he'd gone round the bend.
Dale Charran admitted being high on drugs when he ran out of supplies and decided to grab the cistern unit from Bradfords Building Supplies in Avonmouth.
Police flushed him out after identifying him on CCTV.
A Westcountry woman who hit the headlines when she revealed she had cheated on her fiance by having sex with a ghost - and went on to say she had 15 ghost lovers - has now revealed she has found true love and is planning to marry a poltergeist.
QuoteA Westcountry woman who hit the headlines when she revealed she had cheated on her fiance by having sex with a ghost - and went on to say she had 15 ghost lovers - has now revealed she has found true love and is planning to marry a poltergeist.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/woman-who-sex-15-ghosts-2161821
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/crime/marked-police-van-stolen-from-outside-sussex-police-station/ar-BBPDbu1?ocid=spartanntp??? There's nothing about the Balkans or the Baltics there.
Balkans, Baltics...
Sean Warman, 27, from Lowestoft, was arrested in Bungay on Sunday morning, according to the force.A short sharp shock will do him a tonic...
Boy fined for riding off-road bike in Welwyn Garden City
https://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/off-road ... -1-5799187
Human remains recovered from River irwell. Police say no suspicious circumstances. (https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/police-say-no-suspicious-circumstances-15482610)
We may have achieved a new nadir in police indifference.
Local journalism at it's best:
Anybody reading this article in the Welwyn and Hatfield Times would be forgiven for thinking it's now illegal to ride mountain bikes in Welwyn Garden City..QuoteBoy fined for riding off-road bike in Welwyn Garden City
https://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/off-road ... -1-5799187
At no point in the article does it mention the offernder was riding a *motor*bike. Riding an off-road bike without L Plates or insurance is perfectly legal. Riding an off-road motorbike on the other hand... ::-)
Some people might accuse me of being pedantic, but this to me is a good example of shite reporting.
As a non-professional cyclist, I'd assume 'off-road bike' to be the motorised version. If they meant a cycle, they'd say 'mountain bike.' I doubt, for once, that I'm unusual in this assumption.
Council struggles with name for new authority...
https://www.mix96.co.uk/news/local/2764051/name-decided-for-bucks-new-council/
For example, I am very pleased to see my colleagues in the districts have accepted the name of the council will be Buckinghamshire Council, as opposed to Council McCouncilface.
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/17309084.three-peaks-hikers-urged-to-stop-blasting-out-queens-we-are-the-champions-at-11pm/?fbclid=IwAR3NBTCEgAkJOpFRSMxZnkoQs3kKVIvRELOjGo5POOhpNLP9g2gxoLbinVs
Mr Welch said a section of the village suffered from noise because hikers began celebrating when the pub at the end of the walk was in sight. He said: “They’ll have the ghettoblaster on at 11 o’clock at night playing We Are The Champions and various songs that seem crop up with a 12-hour walk on the peaks.”
I'd be much more impressed by walkers doing the 3Peaks in 12hours each carrying a proper 80s ghettoblaster.
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/17335110.missing-goldfish-dave-leaves-swindon-owners-stumped/
The 36-year-old said she has seen hide nor hair of the pet fish, bought five years ago from Pets at Home.
<cat> 'I broke my tooth!'
It's spreading!
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/17351982.swindon-police-hunt-man-suspected-of-masturbating-in-brunel-shopping-centre-toilets/
Just love my home city
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-woman-turns-purple-cocktail-2423175 (https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-woman-turns-purple-cocktail-2423175)
Originally this article had the comments switched on, but they soon got switched off when the female involved was getting ridiculed.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/digger-driver-smashes-hotel-during-15711322
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/new-footage-shows-shocking-digger-15711996
What happens when you're a bit late paying the builders.....
Revellers in Cheltenham reportedly spotted a sickening sight in the town over the weekend, as a severed 'goats head' was left on the pavement outside a popular pub.
One shocked passer-by was walking along Bath Road in Cheltenham, when they witnessed the goat head lying on the pavement.
They said: "It was about 10.30pm Saturday night and the goat head was just on the path outside Wetherspoon, everyone was just acting like normal.
"We did go past Sunday morning but it was gone."
The disgusting image reveals the animal's head on the pavement, but that is not the end of the unusual circumstances surrounding what happened to the rest of the goat.
They added: "My friend also said there was someone in a nun costume who dropped it out of a duffel bag and ran off."
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/digger-driver-smashes-hotel-during-15711322 (https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/digger-driver-smashes-hotel-during-15711322)
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/new-footage-shows-shocking-digger-15711996 (https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/new-footage-shows-shocking-digger-15711996)
What happens when you're a bit late paying the builders.....
Satanic ritual, or normal for Weatherspoons?Chilly thought.
Given it's Cheltenham, it could have been a GCHQ team-building exercise. Cryptanalysis probably has a higher than average oddball quotient. :demon:
Given it's Cheltenham, it could have been a GCHQ team-building exercise. Cryptanalysis probably has a higher than average oddball quotient. :demon:
Also ritual sacrifice of goats is a proven system administration technique, and I believe they may have a few computers at that GCHQ that they have nowadays.
Satanic ritual, or normal for Weatherspoons?
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/17387233.shoppers-call-for-boycott-of-ms-over-allah-toilet-paper/The Swindon Advertiser is a spoof news site isn’t it?
Fruit and veg manager Craig, said: "It's not just shopping bags, it's all consumables which include veg bags, flour bags, we even get our pizza bases from the same company.Lack of plastic bags prevents saving plastics. Hmmm...
"It's been a nightmare really, and I don't really know why it has happened.
"A lot of people have moved from loose veg to packaged veg," he added, saying the store usually encourage people to buy loose items to save on plastic use.
Quote"A lot of people have moved from loose veg to packaged veg," he added, saying the store usually encourage people to buy loose items to save on plastic use.Wouldn't be problem in the Yeovil Asda. Yesterday they had no loose tomatoes and they usually have only one variety of loose apples. All the others are pre-packed.
There's people driving cars in town. https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/gridlock-eastgate-retail-centre-traps-2526362
There's people driving cars in town. https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/gridlock-eastgate-retail-centre-traps-2526362
I am not sure that sitting in your car qualifies as driving. Surely it is on road parking?
'People are trying to steal my weed off me,' 999 caller tells police:facepalm:
A man who rang 999 to report that someone was trying to steal his drugs, has been awarded "call of the week".
Officers from Thames Valley Police in Buckinghamshire said the caller dialled 999, saying: "Hi, people are trying to steal my weed off me."
It "isn't a call that we should be getting to our 101 or 999 phone lines, particularly when reporting the theft of your drugs", officers said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-47200700 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-47200700)
They walk among us...Quote'People are trying to steal my weed off me,' 999 caller tells police:facepalm:
A man who rang 999 to report that someone was trying to steal his drugs, has been awarded "call of the week".
Officers from Thames Valley Police in Buckinghamshire said the caller dialled 999, saying: "Hi, people are trying to steal my weed off me."
It "isn't a call that we should be getting to our 101 or 999 phone lines, particularly when reporting the theft of your drugs", officers said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-47200700 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-47200700)
So, only two puppies in the box.
Police seize 101 bicycles from Oldham home
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-47318231 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-47318231)
Kim, you have a challenge...WTF?
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7922/47310274981_cceeff6d9e_z.jpg)
next time I'm DFL.
Kim, you have a challenge...
Dating for love?Kim, you have a challenge...WTF?
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I'll have to check this out, the next time I'm DFL.
TBF, I don't think I fit the profile for your average / random DFL.next time I'm DFL.
Just make sure it's the first Thursday of the month.
I love that they used his Tinder profile pic to illustrate the story.
Down from London.Dating for love?Kim, you have a challenge...WTF?
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I'll have to check this out, the next time I'm DFL.
I'd love to think that someone has more ethernet cables than Kim and I, but I feel a tint of Southend News Network here?
I'd love to think that someone has more ethernet cables than Kim and I, but I feel a tint of Southend News Network here?
Hmmm. My sister posted the cutting on facebook and she's normally a reliable source so it didn't even occur to me that it might be questionable. But now you mention it...
Trans publicity?Said to be temporary - soon to be deflowered?
Thief steals Devon seaside resort dog poo bin
Police have been mulling the possible reasons for why someone would steal a dog poo bin from a seaside resort.
It was unscrewed from its mounting and taken at Fisherman's Cove in East Portlemouth, Devon sometime between Tuesday or Wednesday.
"Over the years I've investigated many crimes," said a police spokesman. "Some interesting, some not so. This one is up there on the [interesting] list."
Officers are looking for leads to locate the bin, "but not its contents".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-47604022 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-47604022)
Rush hour ostrich!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-47659232 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-47659232)
Man unlocks car in supermarket car park.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/went-check-lidl-actually-stopped-2713850
I once molished Postman Piers a radio device to relay the blinks of the blinkenlight on his electricity meter to the parallel port of a convenient computer, for MRTG porpoises. Unfortunately the electricity meter was in the garage, and the regular 433MHz pulses had a similar effect on the remote keyfob system of Snap, his kevved-up Nova. As part of the kevving-up process involved the removal of the external key slots for the door locks, this counted as Hilarious Consequences (though, due to the provision of a SEEKRIT electrical keyswitch in a wheel arch for operating the central locking, not as much as that time he left the lights on in a multi-storey car park).
Sorry. No idea what any of that means. ??? :)
I once molished Postman Piers a radio device to relay the blinks of the blinkenlight on his electricity meter to the parallel port of a convenient computer, for MRTG porpoises. Unfortunately the electricity meter was in the garage, and the regular 433MHz pulses had a similar effect on the remote keyfob system of Snap, his kevved-up Nova. As part of the kevving-up process involved the removal of the external key slots for the door locks, this counted as Hilarious Consequences (though, due to the provision of a SEEKRIT electrical keyswitch in a wheel arch for operating the central locking, not as much as that time he left the lights on in a multi-storey car park).
Sorry. No idea what any of that means. ??? :)
The effect of a flat battery on a car with purely electric door locks left as an exercise for the reader. (I think the AA bod eventually managed to open the bonnet from below using car thief skillz, and an inconvenient Anderson connector was later added to facilitate jump-starting the central locking in future.)Gerry Anderson?
Where presumably the problem is "so many fucking canals."You are Basil otp and icmfp ;D ;D
I'm not sure "Dubai" still counts as a province, but I had nowhere else to put this headline. Does it make any sense to anyone??You want the "Little Eye On The Emirates" thread, Matt. HTH and FYI ;)
Daughter of Facebook 'horse' insult woman arrested in Dubai makes plea
Actually, I don't want to know ...
Badgers close road (until at least July)We used that road a fair bit. Messes up our 50 mile route!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48077302
Environmental laws mean officials have to wait three months before work can start to allow the badgers to vacate the area.
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/17650666.haydon-wick-naked-rampage-man-avoids-jail/?ref=ar
Tree falls down in townThat is literally the whole entire complete and total story.
A TREE fell down in Stonehouse in the early hours of yesterday morning.
It came down in Park Road.
Stroud District Council are on site this morning, making the area safe, and a tree surgeon will cut the tree up and take it away today.
https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/17700177.tree-falls-down-in-town/?ref=mr&lp=8QuoteTree falls down in townThat is literally the whole entire complete and total story.
A TREE fell down in Stonehouse in the early hours of yesterday morning.
It came down in Park Road.
Stroud District Council are on site this morning, making the area safe, and a tree surgeon will cut the tree up and take it away today.
https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/17700177.tree-falls-down-in-town/?ref=mr&lp=8QuoteTree falls down in townThat is literally the whole entire complete and total story.
A TREE fell down in Stonehouse in the early hours of yesterday morning.
It came down in Park Road.
Stroud District Council are on site this morning, making the area safe, and a tree surgeon will cut the tree up and take it away today.
Shoddy journalism. No mention of whether or not it made a sound.
Writing on the side seems to suggest it is a velomobile, a mixture between a bike and a car which is human-powered.Seems a fair assessment. (?)
Slow news day. Always gets a mention every time it's out.
How many more times
This may have only just reached the journo's desk in Norwich who thought "wow, how fascinating", however, anyone from Ipswich has known about it for years. Find some local journo's please.
Are you serious? Again???
I didn't say it was good journalism, just a seemingly good assessment of what a velomobile might be! Though I'm not sure whether detailed information is really what a story like that wants.
I think that's getting dangerously close to discovering the real reason someone in Ipswich wouldridedrivetravel by velomobile: so they can wear sandals without anyone getting to count their toes. :facepalm:
I think that's getting dangerously close to discovering the real reason someone in Ipswich wouldridedrivetravel by velomobile: so they can wear sandals without anyone getting to count their toes. :facepalm:
Shoppers visiting the Bedminster store on Saturday (June 29) were left intrigued by a sign informing them a drone was being flown above their heads and over the car park.https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/asda-uk-sale-bedminster-drones-3045625
It was the hottest day of the year so far and the Bedminster store also ran out of Thatcher’s cider by mid afternoon.
“When the gusts passed, a tree ripped up and fell over into a field of llamas.”
Guess where (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-49056393)...
Flood levels are currently rising with the water now overflowing onto the pavement.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/16/seasides-town-new-toilets-feature-high-tech-anti-sex-measures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/16/seasides-town-new-toilets-feature-high-tech-anti-sex-measures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)I'd love that - and wait until the movement ends!
I once used a public loo in Somerset(?) that played classical music at occupants.
The Flat Earther we spoke to keeps his identity a secret because he says society is 'programmed' to ridicule himBetter iron that tin foil!
We met the Bristol 'Flat Earther' concerned his views could put him in danger (https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/inside-secretive-bristol-group-who-3115925)
In danger of what? Falling off the edge of the Earth? No!QuoteThe Flat Earther we spoke to keeps his identity a secret because he says society is 'programmed' to ridicule himBetter iron that tin foil!
We met the Bristol 'Flat Earther' concerned his views could put him in danger (https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/inside-secretive-bristol-group-who-3115925)
In danger of what? Falling off the edge of the Earth? No!QuoteThe Flat Earther we spoke to keeps his identity a secret because he says society is 'programmed' to ridicule himBetter iron that tin foil!
There _is_ a full spec C&CC club site at Delamere.
A village cricket club from Bedfordshire has broken a world record by playing non-stop for seven days.
Twenty-four players at Blunham Cricket Club contended with soaring temperatures and torrential rain, but beat the previous record on Saturday.
Club captain George Hutson said during the endurance test the players were mentally and physically "shot"...
...The team announced in a tweet it had completed 168 hours of continuous play and said it would be a "lasting memory for so many people".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-49523860 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-49523860)
the rear of the vehicle has an upside-down ‘o’.
He wore a t-shirt bearing the words “f*** Boris”, the letters formed by naked depictions of the Prime Minister, when he and his mum Debbie spoke to Bristol Live about his messages.https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/council-sends-boy-paint-use-3419806
Mum pulls kid out of school because he was given tuna after long poohttps://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/mum-pulls-kid-out-school-3413403
I'll put this excellent headline here, because Slough doesn't deserve its own thread like Didcot or Swindon:5G - also ideal for smart bombs. From non-city to nonentity - someone would be dancing in his grave!
O2 launches 5G network in five UK cities and Slough (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50068422)
There was a young lady from Slough
Who one day developed a cough
She wasn't to know
it would last until now
I hope the young lady pulls through!
I'll put this excellent headline here, because Slough doesn't deserve its own thread like Didcot or Swindon:5G - also ideal for smart bombs. From non-city to nonentity - someone would be dancing in his grave!
O2 launches 5G network in five UK cities and Slough (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50068422)
Friendly as in the Usanian meaning?I'll put this excellent headline here, because Slough doesn't deserve its own thread like Didcot or Swindon:5G - also ideal for smart bombs. From non-city to nonentity - someone would be dancing in his grave!
O2 launches 5G network in five UK cities and Slough (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50068422)
Smart bombs or friendly bombs??
The provinces hit the nationals.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/18/its-party-central-the-bristol-residents-fed-up-with-noisy-student-neighbours
The Hampton Road area, shown in the third photo, has always been student central.
That the Bristle Post has an article with the headline "The 29 phrases which will only make sense if you're a Bristolian" isn't in itself interesting, but it's perhaps curious they've chosen to file it under "Education". :-\
Not as sexy as Carlisle. (https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/no-sex-please-were-bristolians-3453590)
A 55-volt electric current can kill in certain circumstances – that’s the equivalent of 10 mobile phones.Science is never still.
They must have altered it since you read it. The volt is now derived from the mobile phone.QuoteA 55-volt electric current can kill in certain circumstances – that’s the equivalent of 10 mobile phones.Science is never still.
A spokeswoman for Western Power said: “A member of the public noticed some suspicious activity on our network and called us. We entered and found an illegal extraction at one property and informed police who found a second property nearby.
“We made them safe.”
She added: “Illegal extraction involves interfering with our network. A 55-volt electric current can kill in certain circumstances – that’s the equivalent of 10 mobile phones. The lowest on our network is 230v. It is extremely dangerous.
Anyway, all air freshener is evil. Automated dispensers, doubly so.It's more air disguiser than freshener.
Anyway, all air freshener is evil. Automated dispensers, doubly so.It's more air disguiser than freshener.
That's because it doesn't disguise the smells, just the air.
Anyway, all air freshener is evil. Automated dispensers, doubly so.It's more air disguiser than freshener.
And it doesn't even manage that. I, like most people with functional noses, am perfectly capable of smelling more than one thing at the same time. Adding air disguiser doesn't get rid of the mould/poo/smoking/whatever you're trying to mask, it just makes it worse.
"straight people are weird":About 1997 my flatmate and I went to the seaside, because it was 106 miles to Torquay, I had a car, the sun was shining and it was the weekend. I'm not sure I'd find that drive fun now but I did back then. So we found a B&B and obviously it's much cheaper to share a room than get two single rooms (which I'm not sure the B&B even had available). So the landlady looks at us semi-suspiciously, Simon with his dreadlocks and me with [supply your adjective here], and says she doesn't want any dodgy goings-on and mentions her husband is a policeman. It was 1997. We had a good weekend, I don't recall encountering any stag or hen parties but they weren't really yet a thing back then.
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/18089803.swindon-recycling-centre-produces-cheese-vomit-smell-rubbish/
I hear Venice mings too, at certain times of year
They must have altered it since you read it. The volt is now derived from the mobile phone.QuoteA 55-volt electric current can kill in certain circumstances – that’s the equivalent of 10 mobile phones.Science is never still.
This is why 'merkins are allowed plugs in their bathrooms.
This is why 'merkins are allowed plugs in their bathrooms.
You're looking at it the wrong way round: They use shaver plugs for all their appliances ;D
This is why USAnian tea is served cold.Quite right! Hot tea would scald your face. Besides, it would dye your chin a funny colour.
Man's fear for Cavapoo as yet another sausage found on Bristol pavementIs cavapoo the Spanish version of prosecco turd?
Huge Brussels sprout spill after trailer crash in Rosyth (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-50811266)I blame the Greens.
Thuggish swans.
At the college where I did my Foundation Course we had a second-hand coffin in the locker room.
Two of us "found" it in an undertaker's yard one lunchtime, and decided that it would be a grand addition to the college's furniture.
I can't 1; understand how we managed to do it in broad daylight
2; understand how we got away with it
3; remember what happened to it
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/grieving-paisley-dad-stages-armed-siege-before-demanding-bag-of-cans-from-cops/ar-BBYQPja?ocid=spartandhp
The bells! The bells!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-51191509 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-51191509)
The bells! The bells!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-51191509 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-51191509)
13 would be the perfect number of Brexit bongs.
Essex crow terrorises cars by destroying windscreen wipers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-51178250 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-51178250)
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/residents-in-north-east-england-shaken-by-early-morning-earthquake/ar-BBZfexz?ocid=spartanntpoooh, me trinklements. The council should do something.
Small earthquake hits Stockton.
Some slight property improvements.
Nobody wants to go to Grimsby1. Even people who live there don't want to go back.
1. Except for TV's Guy Martin, who is Not Right in the Head.
Nobody wants to go to Grimsby1. Even people who live there don't want to go back.
1. Except for TV's Guy Martin, who is Not Right in the Head.
Not Grimsby, Keelby, very much NOT Grimsby. I lived in a village just up the road for four years. It was definitely North East Lincolnshire.
Best thing about Cleethorpes was the £1 railway ticket from Grimsby, a couple of pints in the 'spoons, hop on the train and a pint or two of John Smiths Magnet at Cleethorpes station before heading for Steele's fish and chips.
Do not go to the Pier nightclub unless you want to relive that PSO feet sticking to the carpet experience (that was almost 20 years ago thobut)
QuoteEssex crow terrorises cars by destroying windscreen wipers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-51178250 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-51178250)
I for one welcome our new sentient automobile overlords. (Oh no I don't!)QuoteEssex crow terrorises cars by destroying windscreen wipers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-51178250 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-51178250)
Oh noes :o Those poor cars :'(
Nobody wants to go to Grimsby1. Even people who live there don't want to go back.Grimsby has a very good (i.e. good facilities) yacht marina. I've spent a bit of time in there with a poorly boat. Decent boatyard next door.
1. Except for TV's Guy Martin, who is Not Right in the Head.
Holiday in Spain? Why not come to Cleethorpes? We've got everything the bloody Dagoes have got and you don't have to learn their stupid language.
Cleethorpes - a good place for liberal intellectuals.
Those with long memories and too little to do may recall the "Monty Python Big Red Book" with an advertisement for Cleethorpes.QuoteHoliday in Spain? Why not come to Cleethorpes? We've got everything the bloody Dagoes have got and you don't have to learn their stupid language.
Cleethorpes - a good place for liberal intellectuals.
They'd melt - they'd melt!Those with long memories and too little to do may recall the "Monty Python Big Red Book" with an advertisement for Cleethorpes.QuoteHoliday in Spain? Why not come to Cleethorpes? We've got everything the bloody Dagoes have got and you don't have to learn their stupid language.
Cleethorpes - a good place for liberal intellectuals.
And imagine how hissy the self-righteous PC arseholes would get if someone came out with that now. "Yes we know it's satire but you can't..." etc.
Suffolk, but the other side of the county to me 8)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-51674057
Suffolk, but the other side of the county to me 8)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-51674057
I know the woman quoted in the article, used to be a neighbour and worked with my son for a while.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/08/burning-calories-pig-starts-farm-fire-by-excreting-pedometer
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/08/burning-calories-pig-starts-farm-fire-by-excreting-pedometer
I was just about to post this!
A bit of an "And Finally.." story, along with the roller-skating dogs etc, but I did like this happy ending (settle down at the back!)...That's a lovely story and a bit of good doggy-thinking by the rescue crew.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-51815807
"Never seen anything like it, two men being held down, dozens of what looked like undercover police in either green caps or black and white checkered caps.Undercover – but all wearing distinctive caps? ???
Never go to Runcorn! It's an inescapable fractal of 60mph main roads and twisty identikit cul-de-sacs. Like Redditch, but with Scousers.
Never go to Runcorn! It's an inescapable fractal of 60mph main roads and twisty identikit cul-de-sacs. Like Redditch, but with Scousers.
Finding the centre of Runcorn is similar to finding that of Telford - you go round and round, can see it, but can't find a way in.
Was Telford built to punish Wellington for something? They are so diametrically opposite.Never go to Runcorn! It's an inescapable fractal of 60mph main roads and twisty identikit cul-de-sacs. Like Redditch, but with Scousers.
Finding the centre of Runcorn is similar to finding that of Telford - you go round and round, can see it, but can't find a way in.
Never go to Runcorn! It's an inescapable fractal of 60mph main roads and twisty identikit cul-de-sacs. Like Redditch, but with Scousers.
Finding the centre of Runcorn is similar to finding that of Telford - you go round and round, can see it, but can't find a way in.
It's either here or Tales from the Lockdown
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52677514 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52677514)
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/dad-collects-14000-empty-crisp-4135294This probably makes audaxers who keep every single brevet card look normal. Perhaps.
OI! I resemble that remarkhttps://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/dad-collects-14000-empty-crisp-4135294This probably makes audaxers who keep every single brevet card look normal. Perhaps.
OI! I resemble that remarkhttps://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/dad-collects-14000-empty-crisp-4135294This probably makes audaxers who keep every single brevet card look normal. Perhaps.
"I took a walk past but saw no evidence of an explosion or any kind of markings. However it was dark.
A spokesperson for Avon Fire and Rescue confirmed they were called to the Portway where they found some smoke.
Darkness falls in the West of England:Quote"I took a walk past but saw no evidence of an explosion or any kind of markings. However it was dark.
The fire brigade found nothing solid:QuoteA spokesperson for Avon Fire and Rescue confirmed they were called to the Portway where they found some smoke.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/smoke-loud-bang-heard-near-4188619
Big news in Norfolk.
https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/news/north-norfolk-toilet-vandalism-1-6694288
Another Army truck that appears to be another bomb disposal unit has arrived at the scene. It's pulled up next to the other one and came in with the siren on.
We'll bring you updates on this when we can. It's unclear why a second truck is needed and whether any further explosions are expected.
We're all hoping to see that little robot they use, let's be honest.
Devon off-grid residents used axes to threaten 'doggers'
A stunned woman spotted this Marvel-lous cloud - looking just like the comic book hero the 'Silver Surfer'.It's too bad for the terrible jokes thread.
Meanwhile, a long way from London...Getting their choppers out in public...QuoteDevon off-grid residents used axes to threaten 'doggers'
https://asenseofplace.com/2014/03/07/walking-home-from-norris-green/
A very good blog entry describing a walk across Liverpool, with particular attention paid to public housing. The video at the ends has 1930's footage of the Myrtle Gardens complex , I live in the remaining part of that. Good solid structures that were left to decay due to inadequate maintenance. I was looking at the specs for some recently built houses & most of the rooms are smaller than the ones in my tiny flat.
I live in a house that is 200 years old this year. Before this one we had a house about 50 years older. Before that one A bungalow that is now 100 years old and still going, before that again, one 140 years old. I grew up in a house about 250 years old.
On a tour of bits of Belfast being replaced (In c1995) the senior housing person explained that the design lifetime of the wonderful houses being built in place of the Divis Flats was 25 years.
What we also tend to forget is that those old buildings we see around us now are the ones that were built well enough to survive. There was plenty of shoddy building in the past, Georgian and Victorian speculative builders threw loads of stuff up that was really rubbish often not even bothering with foundations. The term "jerry built" was an early Victorian one to describe such housing. It took the 1875 public heath act which imposed regulation on standards of house building to start to sort it out.
What we also tend to forget is that those old buildings we see around us now are the ones that were built well enough to survive. There was plenty of shoddy building in the past, Georgian and Victorian speculative builders threw loads of stuff up that was really rubbish often not even bothering with foundations. The term "jerry built" was an early Victorian one to describe such housing. It took the 1875 public heath act which imposed regulation on standards of house building to start to sort it out.
Oh I say! Nice gaff! https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/51322369
It's not quite what I'd usually think of as a terrace though......
Rebels abound in Tory heartland.
https://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/people/prankster-spells-out-rude-message-boris-johnson-horsham-town-centre-store-2938610 (https://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/people/prankster-spells-out-rude-message-boris-johnson-horsham-town-centre-store-2938610)
(https://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/webimg/T0FLMTI0OTEyMTgx.jpg?&width=640)
Penguin waddling in Broxtowe picked up by police
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-53798757
Not the sort of news you'd expect from Nottinghamshire...QuotePenguin waddling in Broxtowe picked up by police
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-53798757
Not the sort of news you'd expect from Nottinghamshire...QuotePenguin waddling in Broxtowe picked up by police
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-53798757
On what offense...
Not the sort of news you'd expect from Nottinghamshire...QuotePenguin waddling in Broxtowe picked up by police
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-53798757
On what offense...
J
Not the sort of news you'd expect from Nottinghamshire...QuotePenguin waddling in Broxtowe picked up by police
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-53798757
On what offense...
J
A man who set a land speed record with a motorised shed believes he has set a new record by travelling at 44.6mph (77kph) behind a wheelbarrow.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-53809435
Mr Nicks said plans for his next invention were "really bonkers" but he has not disclosed the details yet.He'd fit in well here...
Penguin waddling in Broxtowe P, P, P, picked up by policeFTFY... ;)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-53798757
Pothole on Angus road "ruins short break".
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/angus-mearns/1578307/renfrewshire-couple-may-never-return-to-angus-after-pothole-ruins-fantastic-trip/ (https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/angus-mearns/1578307/renfrewshire-couple-may-never-return-to-angus-after-pothole-ruins-fantastic-trip/)
::-)
You'd think he might try something radical, like 'looking where you're going', and 'not driving into potholes'.
In the article, he admits having form for destroying tyres in potholes.
You'd think he might try something radical, like 'looking where you're going', and 'not driving into potholes'.
He stores it in his summer house to prevent it getting wet,:D
FIREFIGHTERS have rescued a woman after she became stuck - inside a tumble dryer.
Humberside Fire & Rescue Service said the woman was released uninjured from the equipment in the incident, which happened in Beresford Avenue, Hull, last night, adding: "Advice given."
A spokeswoman told The Press that the tumble dryer was not in a launderette but a private residence, and there was no information available as to how large it was or how the woman got inside it.
The tweet - which ended with the hashtag #playtime and #copsandrobbers# added: "If you keep handcuffs in the house, keep hidden from children and remember where the key is."
There are people living in Eastbourne who are young enough to attend skool? Wowsa!
A man who tried to rob a petrol station found himself locked in and was forced to wait for police to come and arrest him.https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/would-robbers-luck-ran-out-4632155
What to do in Stockport. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-manchester-52394530)
Taking a leek in Furryboottoon (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-54746440)Police stop man who's wearing a mask - gonna be busy, they am!
Taking a leek in Furryboottoon (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-54746440)
You're speaking to my fictitious character. I am a living woman and I don't consent to any fines. I'm not entering into any contract with you or the police."
Taking a leek in Furryboottoon (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-54746440)
A Scot not recognising a vegetable.... whooda thunk it, eh? :demon:
:-*
Taking a leek in Furryboottoon (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-54746440)
A Scot not recognising a vegetable.... whooda thunk it, eh? :demon:
:-*
I seem to recall an incident where the Met killed a Scot who was carrying a table leg. :demon: :demon:
It is 'freeman of the land' bingo!They're all using this "fictitious character" line. If only they were fictitious.
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/salon-owner-facing-bigger-punishment-19263012?fbclid=IwAR1MbWO2xpCOpMFt2jl5zUde4mx3lAOWcrFtzHIgH9-URxot2p2fJJgEaYE (https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/salon-owner-facing-bigger-punishment-19263012?fbclid=IwAR1MbWO2xpCOpMFt2jl5zUde4mx3lAOWcrFtzHIgH9-URxot2p2fJJgEaYE)QuoteYou're speaking to my fictitious character. I am a living woman and I don't consent to any fines. I'm not entering into any contract with you or the police."
::-) :facepalm:
A hand-reared squirrel wearing a blue harness is on the loose in Bristol, leaving its adoptive human family "heartbroken".https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-familys-frantic-search-escaped-4712665
A Christian bookshop near me (The Mustard Seed, Gedling) has now racked up £17000 of fines using this Magna Carta nonsense.It is 'freeman of the land' bingo!They're all using this "fictitious character" line. If only they were fictitious.
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/salon-owner-facing-bigger-punishment-19263012?fbclid=IwAR1MbWO2xpCOpMFt2jl5zUde4mx3lAOWcrFtzHIgH9-URxot2p2fJJgEaYE (https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/salon-owner-facing-bigger-punishment-19263012?fbclid=IwAR1MbWO2xpCOpMFt2jl5zUde4mx3lAOWcrFtzHIgH9-URxot2p2fJJgEaYE)QuoteYou're speaking to my fictitious character. I am a living woman and I don't consent to any fines. I'm not entering into any contract with you or the police."
::-) :facepalm:
Dozy dormouse gets stuck in garden bird feeder on the Isle of Wight
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-h ... e-54992101
Tattoo!!!Just tatt, no oo. Have you looked in his shop window?
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/council-take-legal-action-against-4777995
or not...
Garden police send certificate by first class post. (https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/couple-give-worst-kerb-award-4786770)
(https://i2-prod.bristolpost.co.uk/incoming/article4786739.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/130978799_4236956622986309_942488445272660126_o.jpg)
Ordell Robbie: Comic Sans, the very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to go passive-aggressive on a neighbour, accept no substitutes.
"After that I was hoping to find a gun or something, but that's what I found, so I called 101."Naive or shameless!
Safe grenade?
Safe grenade?
He added: “The bomb squad x-rayed them and said they were safe. They’ve said they are going to dispose of them and I won’t be getting them back. It’s disappointing really because I was told they are from World War Two and I could get £150 for them.”
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/18968957.carrie-fielding-melksham-received-grinch-christmas-card-failing-put-festive-lights/Merriness nazis!
Meanwhile, in Kent: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/weird-humming-noise-plagues-rural-towns-240498/It probably sounds like this: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/what-bristol-hum-sounds-looks-1646478
(A recording of the noise is conspicuously absent.)
Meanwhile, in Kent: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/weird-humming-noise-plagues-rural-towns-240498/It probably sounds like this: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/what-bristol-hum-sounds-looks-1646478
(A recording of the noise is conspicuously absent.)
"The mysterious [HUM/BUZZ/RINGING/BEEP] which has plagued [YOUR TOWN HERE] since [YEAR OR DECADE HERE]... "
:jurek: "Over the water" , they're different....... Some of them even think they're in Cheshire.....
Two cars are also known to have driven into the water by mistake.Those silly cars should have listened to their drivers.
A mum was left with chemical burns after she accidentally ate a handful of mini fireworks she thought were popping candy.https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/mum-burns-broken-tooth-after-4898715
Lisa Boothroyd, 48, claims she found the multicoloured box of Fun Snaps among the lollipops in Costcutter when she was buying snacks for her and her neighbours.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-55707197
Swanning around...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-55707197
Swanning around...
I suspect fowl play.
"Visitors came from as far afield a Tewkesbury and CirencesterThat's almost intercontinental travel, that is!
One blow of its wing...Well - what does happen when you blow a swan's wing?
Not quite sure how to describe this, I think perhaps:
Rabid frothing at the mouth nimbyism leads to posting of sensible responses on local rag web site shocker. (https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/fears-new-6km-forest-dean-4871345)
QuoteA mum was left with chemical burns after she accidentally ate a handful of mini fireworks she thought were popping candy.https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/mum-burns-broken-tooth-after-4898715
Lisa Boothroyd, 48, claims she found the multicoloured box of Fun Snaps among the lollipops in Costcutter when she was buying snacks for her and her neighbours.
One blow of its wing...Well - what does happen when you blow a swan's wing?
One blow of its wing...Well - what does happen when you blow a swan's wing?
And then you get locked up in the Tower pending your head-dechopment. Causing a swan to crash is TREASON against HMtheQ!One blow of its wing...Well - what does happen when you blow a swan's wing?
It goes into a flat spin and crashes. And then breaks your arm.
And then you get locked up in the Tower pending your head-dechopment. Causing a swan to crash is TREASON against HMtheQ!One blow of its wing...Well - what does happen when you blow a swan's wing?
It goes into a flat spin and crashes. And then breaks your arm.
The only two companies that still observe the tradition of owning swans on the Thames are the Worshipful Companies of Vintners and Dyers. The Royal swans are no longer marked, but an unmarked mute swan on the Thames is regarded as belonging to the Queen by default. The Queen still maintains an officially-appointed Swan Keeper, and the ceremony still takes place on the Monday of the third week in July.https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/mute-swan/swans-and-humans
The Queen has a prerogative over all swans in England and Wales. The Swan Keeper also despatches swans all over the world, sent as gifts in the Queens name.
And then you get locked up in the Tower pending your head-dechopment. Causing a swan to crash is TREASON against HMtheQ!One blow of its wing...Well - what does happen when you blow a swan's wing?
It goes into a flat spin and crashes. And then breaks your arm.
Does that apply to all swans found in BRITAIN or just the non-migratory ones?
And then you get locked up in the Tower pending your head-dechopment. Causing a swan to crash is TREASON against HMtheQ!One blow of its wing...Well - what does happen when you blow a swan's wing?
It goes into a flat spin and crashes. And then breaks your arm.
Does that apply to all swans found in BRITAIN or just the non-migratory ones?
Asking for a friend, are you?
EO Aquitaine: | I don’t mind. They’re just fukn big ducks, innit! |
And then you get locked up in the Tower pending your head-dechopment. Causing a swan to crash is TREASON against HMtheQ!One blow of its wing...Well - what does happen when you blow a swan's wing?
It goes into a flat spin and crashes. And then breaks your arm.
Does that apply to all swans found in BRITAIN or just the non-migratory ones?
Covid-19 cancels competition for tossers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-55752712
Covid-19 cancels competition for tossers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-55752712
Biscuits? They look like scones to me.
Covid-19 cancels competition for tossers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-55752712
Biscuits? They look like scones to me.
Proper Dorset Knobs aren't actually biscuits as they are thrice baked.
Good for little more than acting as anchors for model boats or flogging to gullible tourists.
I considered this one for the 'motorised morons' thread, but it IS East Grinstead, that beacon of rational thought
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/foodanddrink/news/mcdonald-s-customer-called-police-after-showing-up-too-late-for-drive-thru-breakfast/ar-BB1d2rOX?ocid=msedgntp
An angry McDonald’s called the police after arriving too late for a drive-thru breakfast at a branch in West Sussex.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/man-filmed-sitting-toilet-bristol-5011935
From Clydebank...man doesn't win the lottery (https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/euromillions-heartache-clydebank-man-misses-19878889).
Thieves are using cable ties on lampposts to steal dogs! (https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/police-respond-fears-cable-ties-5030595)
More an example of stupid hunger for outrage than actual provincial craziness.
Attending a dogging event does not constitute essential travel.Canvey Island is a fair trek from Swindon.
https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/19109815.police-urge-people-not-attend-dogging-event-canvey/
Storrington's slabs stolen!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-56268078 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-56268078)
Storrington's slabs stolen!Similar happened a few years ago about two streets from here. I don't know who the Paving Slab Fairy is but she must have quite an appetite.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-56268078 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-56268078)
Partner's brother's in-laws live there. Hope they don't fall/get muddy.
I have asked the Paving Slab Fairy if she ran short of slabs but she lives in France now...
Storrington's slabs stolen!Similar happened a few years ago about two streets from here. I don't know who the Paving Slab Fairy is but she must have quite an appetite.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-56268078 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-56268078)
Partner's brother's in-laws live there. Hope they don't fall/get muddy.
I have asked the Paving Slab Fairy if she ran short of slabs but she lives in France now...
A primary school is welcoming back its pupils with a special assembly - consisting entirely of teddy bears.
More than 500 well-behaved toys were filmed sitting in the hall at Thrapston Primary School in Northamptonshire.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-56293899
I note that a commenter managed to get in a whinge about a planned cycle scheme ::-)
That's a blooming long article for the tribulations of an entitled grinker.If it wasn't for people like Mr O'Hare, local journalists would have to find real news to write about.
Spotted on Twitter. https://twitter.com/thebenoliver/status/1376491775729229831?s=20 (https://twitter.com/thebenoliver/status/1376491775729229831?s=20) Google Streetview from an estate agents website leads to pics of an armed police op.
Sounds like a lively neighbourhood..... :hand:
Edit. I checked & it's still visible on Streetview.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0015141,-0.0868932,3a,75y,195.05h,74.6t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3g45RawdbS71zPUKT-bjgA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Does the sun ever shine in Swindon?
The Four Weddings and a Funeral star was sighted in Frome yesterday (April 13), just days after participating in a virtual BAFTA awards ceremony in London.
"It looks a bit like a mushroom anyway so I think I just missed it."
Surrey cyclists describes himself as "amateur bikepacker" (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-56784396)
Fair. His sellotaping-all-your-touring-stuff-to-random-bits-of-the-bike technique clearly needs work.
One of Bristol's best steak restaurants is launching a secret cocktail bar that will be disguised as an antique bookshop.So you think there's a new bookshop, but then it turns out to be another cocktail bar. How disappointing.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink/secret-cocktail-bar-disguised-bookshop-5341124QuoteOne of Bristol's best steak restaurants is launching a secret cocktail bar that will be disguised as an antique bookshop.So you think there's a new bookshop, but then it turns out to be another cocktail bar. How disappointing.
:thumbsup: ;Dhttps://www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink/secret-cocktail-bar-disguised-bookshop-5341124QuoteOne of Bristol's best steak restaurants is launching a secret cocktail bar that will be disguised as an antique bookshop.So you think there's a new bookshop, but then it turns out to be another cocktail bar. How disappointing.
Whereas what we really want is a readeasy hidden out the back of a cocktail bar.
Surrey cyclists describes himself as "amateur bikepacker" (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-56784396)
Fair. His sellotaping-all-your-touring-stuff-to-random-bits-of-the-bike technique clearly needs work.
Hang on.
In a time when travel is restricted due to disease, he's going to ride all around the country to raise awareness of another disease?
That trailer looks really uncomfortable to sleep in.
a secret cocktail bar that will be disguised as an antique bookshop.
Quotea secret cocktail bar that will be disguised as an antique bookshop.
In some of the parts of That Florida which cater to college students on holiday, there are bars named "The Library" or similar.
Done, it is said, so that when parents asked their child "where did you go during your break between class sessions?" the answer would be "I spent all my time at The Library".
also the rationale for some places known as "The Office", etc.
A Bristol special...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-56943732
A Bristol special...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-56943732
Nah, that's Yate!
Quotea secret cocktail bar that will be disguised as an antique bookshop.
In some of the parts of That Florida which cater to college students on holiday, there are bars named "The Library" or similar.
Done, it is said, so that when parents asked their child "where did you go during your break between class sessions?" the answer would be "I spent all my time at The Library".
Quotea secret cocktail bar that will be disguised as an antique bookshop.
In some of the parts of That Florida which cater to college students on holiday, there are bars named "The Library" or similar.
Done, it is said, so that when parents asked their child "where did you go during your break between class sessions?" the answer would be "I spent all my time at The Library".
also the rationale for some places known as "The Office", etc.
Pronounced "Yah-tay" by Bristolians who think Yate residents are snobs.I've only heard that pronunciation from Yate residents themselves. But on this evidence it's definitely the Florida of the West of England, if not the whole UK. Poor man wanted chicken nuggets and only got a McMuffin...
Quotea secret cocktail bar that will be disguised as an antique bookshop.
In some of the parts of That Florida which cater to college students on holiday, there are bars named "The Library" or similar.
Done, it is said, so that when parents asked their child "where did you go during your break between class sessions?" the answer would be "I spent all my time at The Library".
Yeah, there's a bar called The Library in Leeds, next to the uni (across the road from the Mech Eng building, to be precise). It opened when I was a student in the early 90s, but I believe it is still going strong.
I think, to be fair, the rationale in this case is that the building was a library in a former life.
Swan found with sock on head in 'mindless prank' (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-56995224)
Police looking for suspect with broken arm...
Swan found with sock on head in 'mindless prank' (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-56995224)
Police looking for suspect with broken arm...
Swan found with sock on head in 'mindless prank' (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-56995224)
Swan found with sock on head in 'mindless prank' (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-56995224)
Police looking for suspect with broken arm...
He was going to sock another swan but got cold feet.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/tucked-away-under-your-feet-20524494
Nice to see C&G Finishes get a mention in the local rag. They did the blue metallic paint on my Orbit tourer back in 2000 or so :thumbsup:
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/tucked-away-under-your-feet-20524494
Nice to see C&G Finishes get a mention in the local rag. They did the blue metallic paint on my Orbit tourer back in 2000 or so :thumbsup:
Paragraphing every sentence :sick:
wearing a grey tracksuit with a green and cream cameo jacket. No mention of a shiny red cod piece though.
Word Up! Man atacked in Horley (https://www.crawleyobserver.co.uk/news/crime/cctv-appeal-following-serious-assault-in-horley-3231935) (hopefully he's OK)
One of the suspects was:Quotewearing a grey tracksuit with a green and cream cameo jacket. No mention of a shiny red cod piece though.
....was assaulted before his shoe was stolen.Seems a bit disproportionate for just the one item of footwear.
Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-57226165
He said when he first saw the rifle he thought it was pipework. “Then I thought ‘what’s pipework doing under floorboards’?”
Going Dutch in Ipswich
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/ark-grounded-by-flood-of-bureaucratic-requests/ar-AAKI3LN?ocid=msedgntp
Replica ???
No, it's in Ken Shem's Ark Experience.Replica ???
Of course it’s a replica. Any fule kno that the real one is in Ken Ham's Ark Encounter in Kentucky.
;D ;D ;D
Where there was, IIRC, a claim made against its insurance for, ahem, rain damage...
MAN DISGUISED AS OCTOPUS IN BEDMINSTER PUB PREDICTS ENGLAND WILL WIN EURO 2020 (https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/sport-news-and-features/man-disguised-as-octopus-in-bedminster-pub-predicts-england-will-win-euro-2020/)
The atmosphere here when England play is electrical
I'm not very keen on the address....... https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/108602231#/
If you'd offered Thatcher (spits) £200k for Scouseville she'd have bitten your hand off.You wouldn't want that. Rabies shots are really painful.
Looks like the pretty fields you can see on Streetview are for the bulldozer. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/plans-huge-new-community-1700-20039813If it's anything like Swindon, the "industrial park" or "employment land" will end up being used for housing too, as the developers plead lack of demand/poor business environment. The fact that they can sell houses for millions more than offices or warehouses is purely coincidental.
https://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/people/fears-crawley-drivers-could-be-distracted-by-rude-shape-mowed-into-roundabout-3280603?fbclid=IwAR1vb-O6edOCc6eBjvH7K22wZ7wYjS6cddYJSGuYlPYQoc3weJeeFCaFLD8
Anatomically incorrect.
A mechanic "nearly had a heart attack" when he discovered a python under the bonnet of a van during an MOT.
The 1m-long (3ft 4in) snake, which had been missing for two weeks, belonged to the vehicle's owners, who were "relieved" their pet had been found.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-57567018
Dear The BBC. Since when was 1 metre 3 ft 4 in? Were all those natty metrication rhymes a waste of time? "A metre measurs three foot three, it's about the weight of a big jar of jam. " Or something.
That explains the strange hissing sound.QuoteA mechanic "nearly had a heart attack" when he discovered a python under the bonnet of a van during an MOT.
The 1m-long (3ft 4in) snake, which had been missing for two weeks, belonged to the vehicle's owners, who were "relieved" their pet had been found.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-57567018
natty metrication rhymes
We need a metrification unit to define young people.
I was born well post the date that google states BRITAIN abandoned IMPERIAL and adopted the metrification unit. I still measure all DIY in feet and inches, refer to feet and inches in conversation, buy my beer by the pint in the pub, use the mileage signs on our roads, keep to the knot limit on rivers, etc.
It does my head in trying to calculate any distance or other measurement when people insist on using km. First thing I always did on getting an audax routesheet was to correct it so that it could be followed.
You know, given the UK has been metric since before you were born, maybe now would be a good time for you to try to actually use the metric system instead, rather than the backward barleycorn derived barbarian units?
I was genuinely wondering if I could get a ruler marked in mils yesterday. It would make PCB layout related measurements easier, rather than converting back and forward with millimetres.
In the words of the immortal Little Richard:
I got a snake, three foot four,
She asked for a meter but I gave her more
And as Bruce Forsyth has been reminding us:
Nice 2 metre, 2 metre nice
...
The Chuckle Brothers had a large sheep, a bit over six feet in length
It was their two metre ewe.
It took me much longer trying to work out a metric unit to refer to half of a minute. I gave up in the end.
It took me much longer trying to work out a metric unit to refer to half of a minute. I gave up in the end.
"30 seconds"
We need a metrification unit to define young people.
I was born well post the date that google states BRITAIN abandoned IMPERIAL and adopted the metrification unit. I still measure all DIY in feet and inches, refer to feet and inches in conversation, buy my beer by the pint in the pub, use the mileage signs on our roads, keep to the knot limit on rivers, etc.
It does my head in trying to calculate any distance or other measurement when people insist on using km. First thing I always did on getting an audax routesheet was to correct it so that it could be followed.
You know, given the UK has been metric since before you were born, maybe now would be a good time for you to try to actually use the metric system instead, rather than the backward barleycorn derived barbarian units?
Just a thought.
J
We need a metrification unit to define young people.
I was born well post the date that google states BRITAIN abandoned IMPERIAL and adopted the metrification unit. I still measure all DIY in feet and inches, refer to feet and inches in conversation, buy my beer by the pint in the pub, use the mileage signs on our roads, keep to the knot limit on rivers, etc.
It does my head in trying to calculate any distance or other measurement when people insist on using km. First thing I always did on getting an audax routesheet was to correct it so that it could be followed.
You know, given the UK has been metric since before you were born, maybe now would be a good time for you to try to actually use the metric system instead, rather than the backward barleycorn derived barbarian units?
Just a thought.
J
It took me much longer trying to work out a metric unit to refer to half of a minute. I gave up in the end.
"30 seconds"
But that worried me in case I was giving a compass bearing instead of a time unit.
Does that mean I can start driving at 130km/h on a motorway? I haven't got the mental energy right now to try to convert the speed limit signs/highway code/speedo in my car, but I recall that when I went to that there europe it was the speed limit of a motorway when I left IMPERIAL and went METRIC
Now if you won't mind, a friend is talking about her new horse and how many hands it is, and my 30cm ruler won't reach up to its arse.
It took me 30 seconds for that to register, then I got it.
It took me much longer trying to work out a metric unit to refer to half of a minute. I gave up in the end.
But that worried me in case I was giving a compass bearing instead of a time unit.
My emphasis. No, it hasn't. The UK embraced the metric system, but did not exclusively adopt it. It is still perfectly legal to offer and buy stuff in imperial quantities. There was a spurious attempt many years ago to claim the the EU 'forced' the UK to go metric. It didn't. Indeed, distances and speeds and all measurements to do with roads and rail are, by law, in imperial units.
Sciu, ĉar la UK estas metrika ekde antaŭ ol vi naskiĝis, eble nun estus bona tempo por vi provi efektive uzi la metrikan sistemon anstataŭ la malantaŭajn barkajn derivitajn barbarajn unuojn?
Nur penso.
Those would be in radians. Because it makes the maths easier(!)
The speed limits on motorways varies by country, in some places it's 130kph, other's it's 110kph or 120kph. You should check the local legislation before driving.140 in Poland and Bulgaria.
My emphasis. No, it hasn't. The UK embraced the metric system, but did not exclusively adopt it. It is still perfectly legal to offer and buy stuff in imperial quantities. There was a spurious attempt many years ago to claim the the EU 'forced' the UK to go metric. It didn't. Indeed, distances and speeds and all measurements to do with roads and rail are, by law, in imperial units.
The metric system is all that should have been taught in state schools since at least the 80's...
I know my thumb is an inch long (as per average male)My bold
We need a metrification unit to define young people.
I was born well post the date that google states BRITAIN abandoned IMPERIAL and adopted the metrification unit. I still measure all DIY in feet and inches, refer to feet and inches in conversation, buy my beer by the pint in the pub, use the mileage signs on our roads, keep to the knot limit on rivers, etc.
It does my head in trying to calculate any distance or other measurement when people insist on using km. First thing I always did on getting an audax routesheet was to correct it so that it could be followed.
You know, given the UK has been metric since before you were born, maybe now would be a good time for you to try to actually use the metric system instead, rather than the backward barleycorn derived barbarian units?
Just a thought.
J
Sciu, ĉar la UK estas metrika ekde antaŭ ol vi naskiĝis, eble nun estus bona tempo por vi provi efektive uzi la metrikan sistemon anstataŭ la malantaŭajn barkajn derivitajn barbarajn unuojn?
Nur penso.
My emphasis. No, it hasn't. The UK embraced the metric system, but did not exclusively adopt it. It is still perfectly legal to offer and buy stuff in imperial quantities. There was a spurious attempt many years ago to claim the the EU 'forced' the UK to go metric. It didn't. Indeed, distances and speeds and all measurements to do with roads and rail are, by law, in imperial units.
The metric system is all that should have been taught in state schools since at least the 80's...
I went through schooling from the 70's to 90's (whoops I've given away my age there) and the metric system was fine in maths when everything was simple for base10 but for all real world applications we used the measurements on the tape measure.
I know my thumb is an inch long (as per average male)My bold
Huh??
My thumb (not male) is 2.5" long, Vernon's thumb (male) is also 2.5" long.
I know my thumb is an inch long (as per average male)
Historically, the width of the thumb, or "thumb's breadth", was used as the equivalent of an inch in the cloth trade; similar expressions existed in Latin and French as well.
An inch seems a bit wide for a thumb...
An inch seems a bit wide for a thumb...
An inch seems a bit wide for a thumb...
I went through schooling from the 70's to 90's (whoops I've given away my age there) and the metric system was fine in maths when everything was simple for base10 but for all real world applications we used the measurements on the tape measure.
My main use for measurements nowadays is to navigate and keep within the speed limit, which is easy as the signposts tell me how many miles away somewhere is and the speedo in the car is calibrated accordingly.
If I do DIY I might as well use the measurements I am familiar with, have grown up with, and can visualise. If I need a quick and ready guestimate then I know my thumb is an inch long (as per average male) and so can measure a rough distance - which when I later measure with a tape is accurate, then I need to translate it into metric if where I am buying what I need from doesn't talk normal language.
I'm tempted to see if I can buy a tape measure which is labelled with woodlice/marmosets/elephants in order that I can start using a new measure of units.
Now, if it's ok by you, the sun's over the yardarm so I'm off for a 0.568261litre. (To save time when I get to t'pub, I'll just say "a pint")
I started school in the mid 80s, by which point all the imperial measuring devices had been exorcised to (presumably) avoid confusing theteacherschildren. The exception being our own rulers, which were usually bilingual, but if you can't cope with there being a Weird Old People Units scale to ignore, you're probably not old enough to own a ruler. If we'd wanted to measure something in pounds or feet, we'd have had to convert from metric, or go rummaging in dusty boxes at the back of the SCIENCE cupboard. The teachers taught fluent metric, having had time to get used to it[1] by then.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Old People and USAnians spoke imperial, FOREIGNS spoke metric, engineered objects could be either (with a general trend towards metric for newer items, except where specified by USAnians), and nearly all the measuring devices were bilingual. Most of the time there was no strong reason not to use the units we were familiar with from school, so I only really got the hang of imperial as a kind of shorthand for spoken approximation. "6 foot" is a tall person. "inch" is 25mm. "mile" is long walk. "yard" is 1 metre. "stone" is a thing that Diet People talk about and can be safely ignored. Speed limits are arbitrary units that don't matter unless you're trying to work out when you'll get somewhere, you just have to make sure the number on the dashboard is less than or equal to the one on the red signs. It's fine. Pounds are tricky because they tend to get used for serious measurement, and have me reaching for the calculator. And the electronics industry's inability to standardise on a unit of measurement[2] is a cause of regular design cockups.
[1] And it stands to reason that anyone who grew up with imperial measurements should be able to cope just fine with the concept of yet another set of arbitrary units specifically for the purpose of teaching in primary schools.
[2] Let's specify mounting holes in millimetres and pin pitch in mils. What could possibly go wrong?
or Grads as used by the military. 400 graduations in a circle if I remember correctly.It took me much longer trying to work out a metric unit to refer to half of a minute. I gave up in the end.
"30 seconds"
But that worried me in case I was giving a compass bearing instead of a time unit.
Those would be in radians. Because it makes the maths easier(!)
Does that mean I can start driving at 130km/h on a motorway? I haven't got the mental energy right now to try to convert the speed limit signs/highway code/speedo in my car, but I recall that when I went to that there europe it was the speed limit of a motorway when I left IMPERIAL and went METRIC
No. 70mph is 112 kph. or near enough the 110kph limit some places use. As a rough conversion, 50kph, 65kph, 90kph, 110kph are UK speed limits in metric (spot the person who used to drive a Dutch car in the UK).
The speed limits on motorways varies by country, in some places it's 130kph, other's it's 110kph or 120kph. You should check the local legislation before driving.
Having been brought up with imperial units at home, and metric units at school and uni, I find translating between the two is relatively easy, you only have to remember a few conversion factors. 1.63km to the mile, 568ml in a pint, 28.3g in an oz, 2.2lb in a kg, 454g in a lb etc... And for many of these things you can actually round to much more easy to use numbers for a lot of what we're doing 25g to an ounce is close enough, 500ml for a pint, etc...
You can also know basic common numbers. 2.4m or 2440mm is 8ft, 1.2m or 1220mm is 4ft, 6ft is 1.83m etc...QuoteNow if you won't mind, a friend is talking about her new horse and how many hands it is, and my 30cm ruler won't reach up to its arse.
1 hand is close enough to 100mm as makes no odds. You could even use a decimeter (common unit in some countries).
The thing is that metric is all about multiples of 10. Conversions within it are simple, and you can still use fractions if you wish.
Metric has been the on the books in the UK for over a generation, it's the international language of metrology. By insisting on using stupid backward barbarian units, people are basically saying "we don't want to be part of a global community".
There are members of the Tory party who want to move us back to using imperial units (Jacob Rees-Mogg insisted on it within his department). But the reality is, if you want to work with the rest of the world, you need to accept that they are going to use metric. They are going to expect you to be using an M6 screw, not a 1/4-20, they are going to ask for the 150mm diameter on this part. If the tories were serious about Global Britain, they would convert everything fully to metric once and for all.
Tooling for a metric world is also simpler, for starters, the typical "standard" machinists set of tools for drilling holes is considerably smaller for metric. You don't need the fractional sizes, and the letter series, and the number series. (drilling size for a 1/4-20 tap is a number 7, for M6 it's 5mm, #7 doesn't tend to see much other use).
I spoke in the tool junky thread about how I had a machined to order part delivered from the UK to operate with a part being made in Czechia, and sold via a German retailer. All I had from the spec sheet was "24mm x 5mm thread" and I could see it was trapezoid. This meant that I could rely on the fact that ISO has standardised on a metric trapezoid thread form. So even tho these parts are made 2000km apart, they work together. The equivalent imperial thread form is called ACME, and even if the measurements for the distances were close enough (say a 25mm/1"), one uses 29° for the angle, vs 30° for the other.
Many people seem to make it a point of pride to use good ole fashioned English units! But the reality, is you're just making life harder for yourself, and harder for those who come after us. There is no excuse for hanging on to the barbarian units.It took me 30 seconds for that to register, then I got it.
It took me much longer trying to work out a metric unit to refer to half of a minute. I gave up in the end.
The second is the SI unit for time. It's one of the 7 fundamental units, from which all other derived units originate. Not knowing this would suggest a fundamental failure of the UK education system.But that worried me in case I was giving a compass bearing instead of a time unit.
Well given the SI unit for angle is the radian, that does not seem to result in any confusion. Amazing this SI metric system isn't it!My emphasis. No, it hasn't. The UK embraced the metric system, but did not exclusively adopt it. It is still perfectly legal to offer and buy stuff in imperial quantities. There was a spurious attempt many years ago to claim the the EU 'forced' the UK to go metric. It didn't. Indeed, distances and speeds and all measurements to do with roads and rail are, by law, in imperial units.
The metric system is all that should have been taught in state schools since at least the 80's...Sciu, ĉar la UK estas metrika ekde antaŭ ol vi naskiĝis, eble nun estus bona tempo por vi provi efektive uzi la metrikan sistemon anstataŭ la malantaŭajn barkajn derivitajn barbarajn unuojn?
Nur penso.
That's lovely, but why are you saying what I said, but in Esperanto?
Those would be in radians. Because it makes the maths easier(!)
No, it would be radians because that is the SI unit for angle... It just happens to also make the maths easier...
And of course, let us not forget, for all those insisting on imperial units, they are all, ultimately, defined by their metric equivalence. The inch is defined in both UK and US law as 25.4mm. The mm of course being 1000th of the meter, thus 25.4mm is short hand for 0.0254m, the metre defined at the time of the legislation based on the International prototype metre, of which the UK has been issued National prototype number 16, which was calibrated against the original IPM. National prototype number 16 is held at the National Physical Laboratory, along with our prototype kilogram, which was calibrated against the IPK in Paris.
Even if the inch was originally the length of three barley corns, fat and round, laid end to end...
J
Robot vacuum cleaner escapes owner's home and is now missing on Leicestershire's streets (https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/robot-vacuum-cleaner-escapes-owners-5621720)
You're not entirely safe inside a building. My late MiL happened to be in the kitchen with her hand on the tap at the very moment lightning struck a larch tree by their house. She got nothing more than a buzzing, fortunately. Presumably the tree's roots must have contacted the water pipe.
When I was a proto-PSO, I went to an interview at what was then UMIST. As part of a process for weeding out people who didn't have the right disposition to be electrical enginerds, they had us spend an hour in a lab taking measurements that culminated in some mathematical conclusion or other, after which they had us traipse to the adjacent building where a man with the demeanour of Fred Dibnah was careful to ask if any of us had pace-makers, before locking us all in a Faraday cage and generating artificial lighting above our heads.I went to UMIST, initially to study EE. I don’t remember any such excitement. Feeling quite left out now :)
Which is how I ended up applying to Brizzle.
The TdF went near to the town of Condom today, a fact that I felt obliged to point out to my boy when he got here. He can be relied upon to behave in a totally puerile manner when presented with such facts :D
The TdF went near to the town of Condom today, a fact that I felt obliged to point out to my boy when he got here. He can be relied upon to behave in a totally puerile manner when presented with such facts :D
The real question is why didn't P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nzTM® cover this key fact? (And the answer is probably shitverts.)
As the South West’s retail capital, the centre of the city has all the big names you’d hope for including Harvey Nichols. Gloucester Road is Europe’s longest street of independent shops. Clifton Village is Bristol’s Chelsea with boutiques, antique shops and trendy cafes, while it’s ‘Christmas Steps’ date back to the 1600s.
Both Wetherspoons and the micropub movement were influenced by George Orwell’s 1946 essay about his favourite – fictional – pub the Moon Under Water. It is “always quiet enough to talk”, serves food, has friendly staff, and a garden for children.
Dan Norris, the recently elected Western Super Mayor, (https://votedan.uk) has announced that he doesn't think the region he's mayor of should be called WECA, West of England Combined Authority. In his opinion it sounds too reminiscent of Waco, Texas (younger forumists might not have heard of the siege of religious cult's HQ that happened there in the 90s).
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5JEmoXXEA4QCIy?format=jpg&name=900x900)
This has inevitably led to suggestions of other names that could be used, by far the best of which is this:
Western Urban & Rural Zones Legislature Executive.
:D
A weka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weka) is a NZ flightless bird. We used to have a few living at the bottom of our garden.
a fierce and disorderly duck-sized bird
A spokesperson for Bristol Rovers Football Club said in a statement: “With regard to manager Joey Barton’s court appearance by video link this morning, the club has been informed that the matter is proceeding to trial and is, therefore, sub judicial.”Not at all a light-hearted matter, but I can't help wondering if "sub judicial" for more usual "sub judice" is a typo, a deliberate use of an adjective, or a reflection of the local accent...
https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2021-08-10/telecommunications-mast-in-north-yorkshire-has-caught-fire (https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2021-08-10/telecommunications-mast-in-north-yorkshire-has-caught-fire)
https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2021-08-10/telecommunications-mast-in-north-yorkshire-has-caught-fire (https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2021-08-10/telecommunications-mast-in-north-yorkshire-has-caught-fire)
I believe that 'stray firework' is the traditional excuse.
Perhaps an RF enginerd could comment on whether the smoke emanating from various points along the tower is indicative of something on the tower being forced to give up its magic smoke due to a particularly spicy malfunction, or just smoke from the transmitter hut finding its way up hollow coaxial conductors?
Giren how the BBC protest went so well the other day, I imagine that any attempt to burn down this transmitter would have resulted in an 18th Century folly 35 miles away being attacked.
Cave could only house a small giant. (https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids/famous-bristol-cave-could-only-5753036?utm_source=mantis_rec&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=more_like_this)
Cave could only house a small giant. (https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids/famous-bristol-cave-could-only-5753036?utm_source=mantis_rec&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=more_like_this)
Nando's has run out of chicken.
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/19518138.nandos-closes-orbital-restaurant-shortage-chicken/
I'm not sure that Joyce scholars are allowed to smile.I’m not sure they retain the ability to smile after being a Joyce scholar for any length of time.
Security guards ran to the incident and there was about 30 to 40 people fighting.
Security couldn’t contain the incident.
The suspects had knives. Everyone was told to evacuate or stay inside the centre area.
Biscuits not vegan, it turns outWhat’s worse than finding a slug in the biscuit you’ve just bitten into?
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/19528440.mothers-horror-daughter-11-bites-slug-biscuit/
Film buff rescues more than 20,000 VHS tapes set for dump (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-tayside-central-58273051)I can send him some more if he likes…
Just because you can...
It is believed some of the insects were storm flies, while some were an unknown, green coloured larvae.
Five Mr Bumps have been spotted so far: three along the Trym between Shirehampton Road and Sea Mills harbour, one on the Portway, and one on the banks of the Avon.I'm sure these have every bit as much meaning as, say, crop circles, but a Mr Bump running route seems like asking for trouble!
They have become quite a talking point, with blogger Luke Merrett even devising a 6.7 km running route which takes in all five.
QuoteFive Mr Bumps have been spotted so far: three along the Trym between Shirehampton Road and Sea Mills harbour, one on the Portway, and one on the banks of the Avon.I'm sure these have every bit as much meaning as, say, crop circles, but a Mr Bump running route seems like asking for trouble!
They have become quite a talking point, with blogger Luke Merrett even devising a 6.7 km running route which takes in all five.
https://www.bristol247.com/culture/art/what-is-mr-bump-doing-in-bristol/ (https://www.bristol247.com/culture/art/what-is-mr-bump-doing-in-bristol/)
https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2021-08-10/telecommunications-mast-in-north-yorkshire-has-caught-fire (https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2021-08-10/telecommunications-mast-in-north-yorkshire-has-caught-fire)
For commuters' laptops and everyone's phones.
DAHKKTFor commuters' laptops and everyone's phones.
Unless someone tries to run a hair-drier off it, and the breaker trips and they all stop working.
Emergency heat-shrink repairs, I'll betDAHKKTFor commuters' laptops and everyone's phones.
Unless someone tries to run a hair-drier off it, and the breaker trips and they all stop working.
After having modifyied the on board announcement system to remove those annoying "See it, say it, sorted" messages.Emergency heat-shrink repairs, I'll betDAHKKTFor commuters' laptops and everyone's phones.
Unless someone tries to run a hair-drier off it, and the breaker trips and they all stop working.
DAHKKTFor commuters' laptops and everyone's phones.
Unless someone tries to run a hair-drier off it, and the breaker trips and they all stop working.
I said, 'It's a bit like San Francisco, it's got the bridge and it's on the water, it's very hilly. We've got beautiful weather like California.'Errrmmm...
Ha! Just searched "property for £125k" in bs6, for the lols and lulz, it interpreted this £1.25m.
Students, in any case, are the outrunners of gentrification. They come in to study and within a month they're down at the cereal cafe paying £6.50 for mashed avocado on sourdough toast.
I thought _I_ had a problem with an untidy home & too many books..... https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/113955122#
I thought _I_ had a problem with an untidy home & too many books..... https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/113955122#
I thought _I_ had a problem with an untidy home & too many books..... https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/113955122#
I just sent this to #2 son in Cardiff. Viewing on his house start later this week.
Re the toxteth house. I can only imagine that someone has died. With no close relatives.
The story that caught my eye this week was about passengers mutineering on a train which they forced to reverse back to Swindon after it didn't stop there. You would think they'd be pleased :DI can’t see how a train would be reversed without a lot of hooha, so I think it’s probably a made up story.
I thought _I_ had a problem with an untidy home & too many books..... https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/113955122#
It is true. Several passengers pulled the communication cord, stopping the train. In fact, because several of them pulled it, the driver had to keep resetting it before he could go anywhere (in any direction). It happened because of stops being added then taken away, basically.The story that caught my eye this week was about passengers mutineering on a train which they forced to reverse back to Swindon after it didn't stop there. You would think they'd be pleased :DI can’t see how a train would be reversed without a lot of hooha, so I think it’s probably a made up story.
Need the boys round from Fahrenheit 451 ...Get rid of books? I don't understand!
More seriously, where do you get rid of books these days? Charity shops seem to have stopped taking them.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-59003006 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-59003006)
Fisherman's Friend
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-59003006 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-59003006)
Fisherman's Friend
Certainly Fleetwood's Friend.
Most times (this year was the only exception because the tides were favourable for the Knott End ferry) the Manchester-Blackpool FNRttC has gone past the Fisherman's Friends factory.
It always smells like, well, a Fisherman's Friend.
My grandfather came from Fleetwood and was always eating the lozenges as an antidote to 70+ years of smoking. I was surprised when I first found out they are sold outside Lancashire.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-59003006 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-59003006)Certainly Fleetwood's Friend.
Fisherman's Friend
Most times (this year was the only exception because the tides were favourable for the Knott End ferry) the Manchester-Blackpool FNRttC has gone past the Fisherman's Friends factory.
It always smells like, well, a Fisherman's Friend.
I thought _I_ had a problem with an untidy home & too many books..... https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/113955122# (https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/113955122#)
That's quite some hoarder house...
Amersham escape artist micro pig fathers 71 piglets
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-59075971
"Mischievous badgers" close cycle path: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-bath-railway-path-close-6175056
A couple of Saturdays ago, I saw some people (probably students) on the Downs playing quidditch. TBH I probably wouldn't have known what it was if someone hadn't pointed it out to me. I've just about to start devizing a sport called badgerball. Goals will be scored by rolling down a hill and knocking cyclists between posts (recumbents count double)."Mischievous badgers" close cycle path: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-bath-railway-path-close-6175056
I was expecting a Silly Sustrans Gate™ constructed from goalposts...
The bones have been sent to be tested and carbon dated, although the location is close to an ancient burial site and the layout of the bones is consistent with Roman burial.
"The police are still driving around now. I was putting my neighbours bins away and the police were watching me."
Gloucestershire police stake out man with bins as suspect in Roman murder case!My cousin (2nd) put the remains of his girlfriend in the bin after he failed to flush them down the loo. She was called Kirby though, not Kembly as I’d first misremembered when seeing this story.
https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/19708314.not-exactly-peyton-place---kemble-reacts-discovery-human-remains/?ref=rssQuoteThe bones have been sent to be tested and carbon dated, although the location is close to an ancient burial site and the layout of the bones is consistent with Roman burial.Quote"The police are still driving around now. I was putting my neighbours bins away and the police were watching me."
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/19713100.grandparents-anger-family-friendly-mcdonalds-100-parking-charge/
If you have a problem child on your hands, Maccy D's is not the best place for counselling, it transpires.
But after a lengthy process of getting her to open up about her issues, during which they purchased food and drink, the Rodbourne couple stayed thirty minutes longer than they were allowed, earning a £100 parking charge.
Even without the handbrake gaffe, is a tank appropriate at a Remembrance Day service? Seems to me that remembering the dead is becoming more like those May Day parades of armoury beloved of Soviet, Chinese and North Korean leaders.
Of course, because it's ultimately about them and their comrades. But it is about them not their hardware.Even without the handbrake gaffe, is a tank appropriate at a Remembrance Day service? Seems to me that remembering the dead is becoming more like those May Day parades of armoury beloved of Soviet, Chinese and North Korean leaders.
A civilian-operated AFV is certainly inappropriate. However, the military has always been very prominent at Remembrance Day/Sunday parades, which is entirely appropriate.
https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/dads-army-gaffe-cheshire-idea-22184994
https://twitter.com/Otto_English/status/1460884259909083139?s=20
Hire a tank & crash it into the war memorial.... :facepalm:
one villager saying: "I think it was in poor taste.
"Apparently they didn't get permission in the first place.
"They should have known better but I think it was done to make themselves look good."
A Galway man has told Letterkenny District Court that he is the king and Judge Raymond Finnegan is “a public servant”.
Antonio Meruddu (44) Of The Headford Arms, Headford, Galway, appeared in court on Monday after being pulled over by Garda Michael Kilcoyne and charged with no insurance, having a false regulation mark and failing to provide information.
The red Alfa Romeo he was driving had the number plate ‘The I Job’ instead of the proper registration number.
Meruddu reiterated that he was not giving the court consent to try him.
“I am the king, you are the public servant,” he said before leaving the courtroom.
Not quite sure where to put this. It’s provincial, but...
This Italian anti-vaxxerr is one of the half-baked loons who dragged Joe McCarron, very ill with COVID, from Letterkenny Hospital back in September. Dosed him up with cow wormer reportedly, and of course he died soon after, having needed readmission. McCarron was himself a COVID denier.
https://donegalnews.com/2021/11/i-am-the-king-declares-defendant/QuoteA Galway man has told Letterkenny District Court that he is the king and Judge Raymond Finnegan is “a public servant”.
Antonio Meruddu (44) Of The Headford Arms, Headford, Galway, appeared in court on Monday after being pulled over by Garda Michael Kilcoyne and charged with no insurance, having a false regulation mark and failing to provide information.
The red Alfa Romeo he was driving had the number plate ‘The I Job’ instead of the proper registration number.
Meruddu reiterated that he was not giving the court consent to try him.
“I am the king, you are the public servant,” he said before leaving the courtroom.
Not sure whether this belongs in the first-world problems thread, but...my heart bleeds for them. ::-)
Cambridge students 'complain of settling for shop-bought cakes' as college has no pastry chef (https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/cambridge-students-complain-settling-shop-22356117)
The jury was told he was reluctant to leave his laptop to be repaired and had asked the owner to "promise not to look at the data on the computer"
That’s got to be up there with Mohammed A. Salameh (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_A._Salameh) trotting off to Ryder to ask for his rental van deposit back after the World Trade Centre bombing.Hadn't read those details before.
Stressed council staff would 'rather stack shelves at Asda'
Committee chair Richard Eddy admitted the plans were controversial, but said he thought they suited and enhanced the prominent central city location.https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/st-mary-le-port-development-plans-split-opinion/
“Castle Park in my view is a bit like New York Central Park, so large buildings surrounding it may be appropriate and may actually add to the attractiveness of the location,” the Conservative councillor said.
https://www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/19802592.northwich-woman-jailed-cocaine-fuelled-sex-dog/
Love, that's not how you go "dogging".
https://www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/19802592.northwich-woman-jailed-cocaine-fuelled-sex-dog/
Love, that's not how you go "dogging".
Took the police two years to work out how to search a laptop for jpegs, thobut.
I suggest a humane trap, then give it to the RSPCA who will do the dastardly deed for you, it being illegal to release a grey squirrel into the wild
It all got a bit weird in Ipswich (sound on) :hand:
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/nursery-rhyme-near-a12-scaring-residents-2817848
Published: 8:27 AM September 12, 2018 Updated: 8:55 PM October 11, 2020
Ian told SomersetLive: "I would cycle to work and back every day, I’d cycle to the pub, cycle to meet my mates. I rarely used a vehicle.
"I had saved up to buy my 1999 Mazda Bongo van and then done up it inside, so it was a very personal thing and I had stopped it from going to landfill.
"But it wasn’t compliant with the Clean Air Zone, so every single time I left my house I was fined £9 - which I thought was a bit communist really.
Real Rise Of The Machines stuff in Cambridge.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-60084347
Toaster works. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-60054105)
I am white socially liberal/fiscally conservative claret-loving capitalist who thinks this administration regularly fails on competence, accountability and transparency - and I am not mad about skyscrapers either.https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/renewed-calls-for-merchant-venturers-to-relinquish-control-of-downs/
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Monday Jan 24, 2022 - 7:26pm
Claret
Now your talking
Friday night at my house. Bristol Rugby on TV and none of this matters anymore.
Amen Brother Lynch
You can’t go back to the past and expect to find it preserved in aspic
The 'chicken tree', so-called because of its likeness to the farmyard animal
Asda car park in Llandudno blocked by fighting goats: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60300004Could make a video and sell it to unsuspecting perverts as "When Horny Welshmen Go Wild In Town".
Asda car park in Llandudno blocked by fighting goats: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60300004
It isn't Swindon! (it isn't Bristol either)
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/mum-uks-biggest-eyebrows-threatened-6733609
It isn't Swindon! (it isn't Bristol either)
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/mum-uks-biggest-eyebrows-threatened-6733609
You missed a prime opportunity to edit the subject line there.
It isn't Swindon! (it isn't Bristol either)
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/mum-uks-biggest-eyebrows-threatened-6733609
You missed a prime opportunity to edit the subject line there.
It's all a bit Groucho Marx, innit.
Meanwhile, in Cambridge (Ontario)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/t45jvu/when_youre_driving_to_wendys_but_get_into_a_car/
Norwegian Sea quake felt 300 miles away in Furryboottoon (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-60821671)
replete with solar-powered jukebox,"What music will you have at your funeral" need not stop at the funeral.
This one comes round every year. It's not even 1 May yet!
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/17579831.beware-wiltshire-beauty-spots-used-dogging/
And less than a mile from home!This one comes round every year. It's not even 1 May yet!
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/17579831.beware-wiltshire-beauty-spots-used-dogging/
Dorcan Industrial estate, Swindon sounds like a great spot.
I just do not believe that one. The picture looks altered and there is no ferrari garage in Derby
Man has to walk because his ridiculous vehicle isn't ready yet. ::-)
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/grandad-forced-school-run-rain-23777718
Why would he need any car, let alone a Land Rover to do the school run if he’s able to do it on foot? No wonder we’ve got global walking.
Why would he need any car, let alone a Land Rover to do the school run if he’s able to do it on foot? No wonder we’ve got global walking.
But...it might rain! :facepalm:
Someone should tell him about umbrellas.
We’ve listened closely to customer feedback and taking the UK’s strong culture and tradition of private vehicle ownership into account, we have decided to withdraw from the UK marketplace.
https://www.livpost.co.uk/p/why-has-the-adelphi-become-liverpools (https://www.livpost.co.uk/p/why-has-the-adelphi-become-liverpools?s=r&utm_medium=email)I stayed there quite a few times when I was working at HMCE. I recall the basement swimming pool very well. The gents' changing room was supervised by a feisty lady who would announce her arrival with a shrill "Cover up lads!"
Slow death of a hotel. It could be magnificent if someone would spend the money.
I had what could have been a pretty unpleasant mishap when showering in my en suite after a day's customs & excising. I slipped and went flying. There was nothing supplied to prevent the bath (over which the shower was placed) from being as slippery as the proverbial anguilla anguilla.
Up in the far north of Scotland, they have bigger problems than the familiar summer pong of roadkill badgers.Could always dynamite it I suppose........ Ohh....
https://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/community-councillor-kicks-up-a-stink-about-rotting-whale-ne-278325/
I would be more concerned as to what killed the whale.Yummy Dounreay particles. Central heating for cetaceans.
Well there is the strange contamination plume stuff going on , killing lots of sea life in the NE, the one that the Government is being very cagey about. Said whale could have migrated that way.I hadn't heard about this - do you have a link to more information?
"Killer" bird fails to kill handbag dogThat sounds like a reasonable use for the nasty little things.
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/20214968.dog-owners-horror-bird-prey-attacks-chihuahua/
Top Valley, Nottingham is just a bit special.
Cops confiscate illegal electric bike, lad complains to dad, dad drives there pronto to remonstrate with cops, and has his car confiscated for driving without a valid licence. ;D
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/dad-son-vehicles-seized-nottinghamshire-7258986
Reports of man smashing window of house in Nottingham
He was fortunate the pile driver didn't topple over on him
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-derbyshire-61924994 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-derbyshire-61924994)
He was fortunate the pile driver didn't topple over on him
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-derbyshire-61924994 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-derbyshire-61924994)
He's more lucky it didn't ignite, often it's the debris from the hole that causes a spark and ignites the gas.
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"Killer" bird fails to kill handbag dogThat sounds like a reasonable use for the nasty little things.
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/20214968.dog-owners-horror-bird-prey-attacks-chihuahua/
The local resident fears small pets in the area could be at risk but is equally worried about the risk to small children - advising people not to feed them.
TLDR; misbehaving teenager who didn't buy a ticket to the prom isn't allowed in. Parents upset because the little scrote talked them into hiring him a suit and a car.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/schoolboy-devastated-after-finding-out-24380824?fbclid=IwAR3aeSSeyKfBOfOgaZbqBk8xuZTnQMX8yeN25q8znHd-tG-8MOii1j4PdA8 (https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/schoolboy-devastated-after-finding-out-24380824?fbclid=IwAR3aeSSeyKfBOfOgaZbqBk8xuZTnQMX8yeN25q8znHd-tG-8MOii1j4PdA8)
You wouldn't get any annoying junk mail and you wouldn't need a parking permit.
"I worship Neptune, Great God of the Seas and Destroyer of Small Boats."You wouldn't get any annoying junk mail and you wouldn't need a parking permit.
Bet you'd still get the jehova's witnesses.
I'm not sure if Gatwick really counts as 'Provinces', but it's a good illustration of how anything relating to air travel is over-reported in the media: Burst pipe causes Gatwick Airport toilet trouble (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-62169911)The whole of the Isle of Sheppey was without water for 48 hours until this morning. National news? Don't make me laugh.
In need of renovation ..... https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/124641977#/?channel=RES_BUY (https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/124641977#/?channel=RES_BUY)
Nice & peaceful though. The neighbours won't be disturbing you......
Wobbly BobI know Wob, we all know Wob, rides with the Bobbly Beelers.
The plans also suggest the “erection of a temporary 15-metre wicker statue of former-HRH Prince Andrew”.https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/mysterious-planning-application-appears-on-turbo-island/
Have we had the Teesside nekkid tandemista?I believe the pr0n subtype is CFNM.
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/passers-shock-naked-man-spotted-24589095
There appears to be an echo in here ;D
Does anyone fancy setting up a YACF commune ? Financial contribution required....... https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/125517065
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/virtually-naked-man-found-asleep-on-car-cromer-9209926 (https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/virtually-naked-man-found-asleep-on-car-cromer-9209926)NFN
https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/demo-outside-yacht-protesters-demand-answers-owners/https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/demo-outside-yacht-protesters-demand-answers-owners/
Can of Tizer dated 1975 found in Peak District (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-61187623)
Amazingly, the can was tested and proven to still be inedible.
Does anyone fancy setting up a YACF commune ? Financial contribution required....... https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/125517065
What a beautiful house! And quite a lot of space for the money. The garage is bigger than my flat. ;D
Can of Tizer dated 1975 found in Peak District (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-61187623)A postal order for 80p – they must have been proto-audaxers! :demon: ;D
In another 50 years or so, they'll be picking up today's bottles of truckers' Tizer from roadside verges. It may mature like a good vintage of Chateau d'Yquem. And be the same colour.Can of Tizer dated 1975 found in Peak District (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-61187623)QuoteAmazingly, the can was tested and proven to still be inedible.
According to the Rural Task Force the HGV was ‘massively overweight’.The way it's sagging in the middle might have been a giveaway.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/04/british-pakistanis-find-fraternity-in-the-cavalry-sport-of-neza-baziI can’t think of any ‘remote fields’ in Bradford, what with it being a City and all, so I wonder just where about this activity is taking place.
in tents pegging....
Don’t gape when sleeping. (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/real-life/mum-left-hospital-days-after-25105318.amp)
Don’t gape when sleeping. (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/real-life/mum-left-hospital-days-after-25105318.amp)
(https://i.ibb.co/FXdBgwj/Screenshot-20221012-063759-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/FXdBgwj)
I've probably never mentioned this before, but the opposite happened to me once
Don’t gape when sleeping. (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/real-life/mum-left-hospital-days-after-25105318.amp)
Honestly, I'm quite sure I'd not have posed for the photo.
There's really quite a lot wrong in that story. I feel soiled just having read it.
Honestly, I'm quite sure I'd not have posed for the photo.
There's really quite a lot wrong in that story. I feel soiled just having read it.
She could have at least smiled
^ local Tory MP Liam Fox?
If this isn't a YACF member I shall be disappointed.Unfortunately
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-63421811
Cudzo is local, I think ;D
A man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance and has been released on bail.I am far too aged to qualify, or indeed to writhe and grunt on the floor. If it wasn't disgraced former Defence Secretary Liam Fox, then maybe it was that other local MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg, indulging in some pranks with the local peasantry, or releasing a prisoner from the dungeons?
^ local Tory MP Liam Fox?
ITYM disgraced former Defence Secretary Liam Fox, no?
Edinburgh historic house owner ordered to repaint pink door (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-63426312)
She should have just explained that the ghosts would get upset.
Edinburgh historic house owner ordered to repaint pink door (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-63426312)
She should have just explained that the ghosts would get upset.
The guidance (https://ewh.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/EWH-External-Paintwork-Guide.pdf) is pretty clear, TBH - it states that "Pale, primary or pastel colours are not appropriate and should be avoided".
Edinburgh historic house owner ordered to repaint pink door (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-63426312)
She should have just explained that the ghosts would get upset.
The guidance (https://ewh.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/EWH-External-Paintwork-Guide.pdf) is pretty clear, TBH - it states that "Pale, primary or pastel colours are not appropriate and should be avoided".
Does that still apply when the house is obviously haunted, though?
Maybe it's a bisexual postbox?
(https://i.ibb.co/pzNXQHC/20221029-132009.jpg)Never mind the postbox, here's the street-walking hazmat suit!
Maybe it's a bisexual postbox?
I did wonder, but Google tells me it's actually to commemorate the Commonwealth Games (https://www.royalmail.com/commonwealth-games) (minus the "Good Luck Team England" banner, of course). ???
I hope it's a permanent colour scheme, anyway. I like it.
The warning tape didn’t stop the gas men when digging their holes in our road, they just dug around it and left it hanging above the cables which they also left hanging.The vacuum wotsits you referred to earlier are much better at avoiding putting metal things where they're not wanted .
And presumably the leccy diggers exercise the same when discovering gas pipes (or water, sewage, TV and telecoms, top secret military communications, and whatever else there may or may not be under the roads).
in spite of BT running (and publicising) a Dial before you dig service.
It's all surprisingly shallow, tbh.I'm not sure whether I find that reassuring (see how much protection so little soil gives!) or worrying. It does remind me that when in 1991 my late PiLs became the first household on their edge of the village to get a telephone connection, they had to dig a trench to the end of their property (about 600m) and it had to be 1 metre deep. But that was a ploughed field (probably still ploughed by horse back then; mains water didn't reach this part of the village for another four years).
The hope is the coast-to-coast route could attract up to 175,000 new visitors a year, spending more than £13m but can it be achieved?Hope is right. ::-) Did anyone involved bother to work out how many "experienced cyclists" that amounts to per day?
Surely each experienced cyclist will have a support team averaging 4 people?
I think it's a slow news day in Dundee.
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/scottish-mum-flabbergasted-after-spotting-25504468
Leicestershire Police said: "Thankfully she was wearing a collar, so a lead was available to contact Rosie's owner, who was delighted she had been found safe and well."Boom, tish!
Sup up your beer & collect your fags....... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-63683667
Nuke the place from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/worlds-biggest-hooters-open-liverpool-25609232Srsly?
One of my colleagues suggested that we book this place for our Christmas meal.....
I remember walking past one in Amsterdam in the mid 90’s. It was considered tacky & seedy then.Was that the one near to Centraal Station? I walked past it a couple of times but never felt the need to go in.
I've learnt something. I thought Hooters was a topless bar.That's the VIP section.
She was working in a topless place
And I stopped in for a beer
I've learnt something. I thought Hooters was a topless bar.
"What about the rain?" I thought but then realised you're probably above the cloud line most of the time...I've learnt something. I thought Hooters was a topless bar.
IIRC it was a topless airline back in the naughties.
Quote from: His BobnessShe was working in a topless place
And I stopped in for a beer
Cops in cars, the topless bars, never saw a woman so alone
A statement issued by the force asked anyone who saw the pigs to get in touch.Impossible to think this was written innocently!
They're out there...His CV ticks all the "nutter" boxes ;D
https://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/people/morecambe-park-volunteer-says-he-has-proof-there-are-aliens-on-the-moon-3948202?fbclid=IwAR3NtScdRZCWDY_IFnX8r-pVDn0xRd5QdaG7kvvEJTvhp5skKXmGUHFAkfE
Or should this be in the motorised moron thread?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/24/pub-crawling-santas-get-armoured-vehicle-stuck-in-cornish-hedge (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/24/pub-crawling-santas-get-armoured-vehicle-stuck-in-cornish-hedge)
The idea was to move the Millenium Dome to the disused airfield at RAF Wroughton, where the Science Museum already homes many of their larger exhibits (mostly aircraft). It would have been a really fantastic exhibition space, but far less lucrative than its transmogrification into the O2. The 'Swindome' is on another old airfield at South Marston, formerly home of Vickers aircraft.My bold.
https://twitter.com/davidmbarnett/status/1609243508224794629 (https://twitter.com/davidmbarnett/status/1609243508224794629)
Scarborough fireworks cancelled due to Walrus...
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The pothole was over half a foot deep at its lowest point and a metre-wide length ways
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/
(https://www.bristol247.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Rupert-Street-car-park-from-Lewins-Mead-photo-Martin-Booth-1024x768.jpg)
That's Britain's first Evans too*.
*Britain's first branch of Evans to be opened in Bristol.
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.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/
(https://www.bristol247.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Rupert-Street-car-park-from-Lewins-Mead-photo-Martin-Booth-1024x768.jpg)
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's clearly a TARDIS that got stuck when the council installed electric lighting.
https://goo.gl/maps/QifEGwxZwDkRFxru7
A mum from Cornwall claims to have discovered a famous face in the grease of her pizza box. But who is it?https://twitter.com/MetroUK/status/1613168894948085761
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmMgj7KWQAAOEtr?format=jpg
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...
metro.co.uk
Mum finds ‘face of Jesus’ in greasy Domino’s pizza box, but is it Hagrid?
Is that you, Jesus?
https://t.co/EuKSWrNccw
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.
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’!
Seals live in the sea, not freshwater lakes.
"Eatery which serves afternoon tea near Stroud gets top hygiene grade" (https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/23263420.place-serves-afternoon-tea-near-stroud-gets-top-hygiene-grade/)Meh, so does Jason Doner Van.
But the Jason Doner Van is too famous to mention it!"Eatery which serves afternoon tea near Stroud gets top hygiene grade" (https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/23263420.place-serves-afternoon-tea-near-stroud-gets-top-hygiene-grade/)Meh, so does Jason Doner Van.
Seals live in the sea, not freshwater lakes.
The pothole was over half a foot deep at its lowest point and a metre-wide length ways
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.
In a histrionic ambience that carves the cultural heritage of its origin, entrepreneur Irfan Shabir brings his home to you.
Aromatic curries served in clay-pots, hand-crafted menus and traditional incense of agarbatti lures your senses into the rich culinary art of India in every bite. Let’s get nostalgic, together!
Tawny owl rescued after becoming trapped in wood-burner (https://www.kentonline.co.uk/tonbridge/news/tawny-owl-trapped-in-wood-burner-was-furious-282018/)
RSCPA inspector Rachel Smith described the wol as “furious”, which earned him a spot in AngryWolsPeople In Local Newspapers.
My maternal grandmother used to like watching the wrestling on a Saturday afternoon in the early 1960s. Names like Jackie Pallo and Mick McManus spring to mind.
I have a vague recollection of one of the old women sitting by the side of the rign stabbing one of the wrestlers with her knitting needles.
Concurrently with his career in the wrestling ring, McManus ran the London office of professional wrestling promotion firm Dale Martin, determining the matches and their results.[1]
My dad used to enjoy watching it too. But he was aware of the rigged-ness of it all. ISTR hearing that one of the Chief Riggers was Mick McManus himself. I don't ever recall him losing.
Edit: Aha!QuoteConcurrently with his career in the wrestling ring, McManus ran the London office of professional wrestling promotion firm Dale Martin, determining the matches and their results.[1]
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_McManus_(wrestler)
In the interests of balance, my maternal grandmother was into boxing. I'm not sure why.Maybe she had a good left hook and was quick on her feet.
My dad used to enjoy watching it too. But he was aware of the rigged-ness of it all. ISTR hearing that one of the Chief Riggers was Mick McManus himself. I don't ever recall him losing.
Edit: Aha!QuoteConcurrently with his career in the wrestling ring, McManus ran the London office of professional wrestling promotion firm Dale Martin, determining the matches and their results.[1]
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_McManus_(wrestler)
From same: "his good friend Lord Attenborough". Dickie, not David.
Molly Padget, who is originally from Hawarden, was on her way back from work when she stopped in at a Shell garage and soon found herself being chased around by a silver-haired menace.
North Wales woman 'chased by badger' in Shell garage (https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/north-wales-woman-chased-badger-26237482).QuoteMolly Padget, who is originally from Hawarden, was on her way back from work when she stopped in at a Shell garage and soon found herself being chased around by a silver-haired menace.
North Wales woman 'chased by badger' in Shell garage (https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/north-wales-woman-chased-badger-26237482).QuoteMolly Padget, who is originally from Hawarden, was on her way back from work when she stopped in at a Shell garage and soon found herself being chased around by a silver-haired menace.
I wouldn't be surprised if thievery was a significant factor in the decision.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/15/i-have-a-naked-lookalike-and-he-is-making-a-fortune-on-onlyfans-adrian-chiles (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/15/i-have-a-naked-lookalike-and-he-is-making-a-fortune-on-onlyfans-adrian-chiles)
That's one of the weirdest things I've read in a while. In this thread because of the Brummagem connection.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/15/i-have-a-naked-lookalike-and-he-is-making-a-fortune-on-onlyfans-adrian-chiles (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/15/i-have-a-naked-lookalike-and-he-is-making-a-fortune-on-onlyfans-adrian-chiles)
That's one of the weirdest things I've read in a while. In this thread because of the Brummagem connection.
A man who seems to be paid to write drivel. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/16/3999-for-a-cargo-bike-how-a-new-kind-of-class-politics-arrived-on-britains-streets
I notice fall into two categories. There are the four-grand ones, pedalled by (obviously) affluent parents. But most of them, probably just as expensive, are ridden by the decidedly unaffluent, slogging around being paid peanuts to supply the affluent with takeaways and assorted other essentials of modern life.
Absolutely. In general he seems to write a lot of drivel with a sentence or two of sense hidden away in it. Two of his favourite topics are football (he's a West Brom supporter IIRC) and peeing, but both from the perspective of things going or being wrong. This must be peak Adrian Chiles: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/21/urinal-in-my-flat-changed-my-life-so-why-are-people-appalledhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/15/i-have-a-naked-lookalike-and-he-is-making-a-fortune-on-onlyfans-adrian-chiles (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/15/i-have-a-naked-lookalike-and-he-is-making-a-fortune-on-onlyfans-adrian-chiles)
That's one of the weirdest things I've read in a while. In this thread because of the Brummagem connection.
A man who seems to be paid to write drivel. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/16/3999-for-a-cargo-bike-how-a-new-kind-of-class-politics-arrived-on-britains-streets
It is drivel, but thisQuoteI notice fall into two categories. There are the four-grand ones, pedalled by (obviously) affluent parents. But most of them, probably just as expensive, are ridden by the decidedly unaffluent, slogging around being paid peanuts to supply the affluent with takeaways and assorted other essentials of modern life.
Isn't wrong
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/leisure/23396804.wiltshire-beauty-spots-used-dogging/
This was brought to you as a public service by the Swindon Advertiser.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/15/i-have-a-naked-lookalike-and-he-is-making-a-fortune-on-onlyfans-adrian-chiles (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/15/i-have-a-naked-lookalike-and-he-is-making-a-fortune-on-onlyfans-adrian-chiles)
That's one of the weirdest things I've read in a while. In this thread because of the Brummagem connection.
A man who seems to be paid to write drivel. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/16/3999-for-a-cargo-bike-how-a-new-kind-of-class-politics-arrived-on-britains-streets
Chiles began writing a regular column for The Guardian in February 2019.[37] He confirmed his relationship with the newspaper's editor, Katharine Viner, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph in April 2020, saying "I’ve got a horror of talking about relationships. I don’t mind saying I’m with Kath."[34] Chiles has said that the relationship began as a result of him writing the column and not the other way around.Which might or might not be true.
Stroud is a barren, inhospitable dive and cultural desert (https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/business_news/23397820.stroud-barren-inhospitable-dive-cultural-dessert/).
Stroud is a barren, inhospitable dive and cultural desert (https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/business_news/23397820.stroud-barren-inhospitable-dive-cultural-dessert/).Written by someone who has evidently never visited Swindon, Dunstable or Telford.
Stroud is a barren, inhospitable dive and cultural desert (https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/business_news/23397820.stroud-barren-inhospitable-dive-cultural-dessert/).Written by someone who has evidently never visited Swindon, Dunstable or Telford.
it's probably no worse than any other 1960s indoor shopping centre.
Merrywalks (not sure if it's plural or possessive but we never called it Merrywalk) went wrong long, long before that, though it's probably no worse than any other 1960s indoor shopping centre.
Ah, I just came here to post that...
A list which is growing in length.....
A list which is growing in length.....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/12/the-secret-lives-of-grey-squirrels-the-telly-was-off-the-wall-plates-were-smashed-furniture-was-ripped (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/12/the-secret-lives-of-grey-squirrels-the-telly-was-off-the-wall-plates-were-smashed-furniture-was-ripped?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)
I must pop over to Manchester & try this place…. Crispy buttermilk squirrel…
https://twitter.com/streeturchin5/status/1637141393171726340 (https://twitter.com/streeturchin5/status/1637141393171726340?s=12)
Ryley denied that she or her husband were racist. “I’m not a racist in any form.” She confirmed that her husband had been photographed in a T-shirt from the far-right group Britain First. She said: “I don’t think Chris is a supporter of Britain First, he was just wearing that shirt because it was convenient at the time.”
A list which is growing in length.....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/12/the-secret-lives-of-grey-squirrels-the-telly-was-off-the-wall-plates-were-smashed-furniture-was-ripped (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/12/the-secret-lives-of-grey-squirrels-the-telly-was-off-the-wall-plates-were-smashed-furniture-was-ripped?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)
I must pop over to Manchester & try this place…. Crispy buttermilk squirrel…
https://twitter.com/streeturchin5/status/1637141393171726340 (https://twitter.com/streeturchin5/status/1637141393171726340?s=12)
Who among us can say that they don't have a whole shelf of T-shaped shirts from far-right grifters bought by accident?
I did think why would you even own such a t-shirt."I just put it on that day at random. I don't know how it even got in my wardrobe. I think a friend gave it me. He got it from a charity shop. Nobody knew what it meant. It didn't mean anything." et cetera, and other completely plausible reasons...
I did think why would you even own such a t-shirt.I read somewhere that CAMRA are "investigating" how the.ir SW Essex branch came to recommend this pub
Two services per hour are running between Reading and London, while other stations including Queenstown Road and Hampton Court have no service at all.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-65260945
Golly pub loses CAMRA award eligibility.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-65260945There was a make of dolls in the 70s called Sasha dolls, made in Sweden IIRC, which were not only available in a variety of realistic skin tones and facial features, they also had realistic child proportions and even – though this had to be later removed for the UK market at least – realistically shaped child genitals. Obviously that's not what your sister had, but does show that similar-ish things were available here too way back then.
Golly pub loses CAMRA award eligibility.
The photo of the pub shows a couple of large England flags flying. That would tell.me all I needed to know.
I admit we had gollies in the 70s and in no way associated them with black people*, but times have changed.
*my sister had a proper realistic African baby doll (as would be owned by a black child) brought back by an aunt from South Africa. It was as far from appearance to a golly as you can imagine.
In March 2016, in a Facebook post still online, Ryley uploaded a picture of golliwogs hanging from his bar with the comment “We have our golliwogs, yaay.” Commenting on the post his wife, Benice Ryley asked: “Are you sure this is legal. lol” The landlord replied: “They used to hang them in Mississippi years ago.”https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/13/essex-police-investigating-golliwog-pub-display-examine-landlord-lynching-post
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-65260945There was a make of dolls in the 70s called Sasha dolls, made in Sweden IIRC, which were not only available in a variety of realistic skin tones and facial features, they also had realistic child proportions and even – though this had to be later removed for the UK market at least – realistically shaped child genitals. Obviously that's not what your sister had, but does show that similar-ish things were available here too way back then.
Golly pub loses CAMRA award eligibility.
The photo of the pub shows a couple of large England flags flying. That would tell.me all I needed to know.
I admit we had gollies in the 70s and in no way associated them with black people*, but times have changed.
*my sister had a proper realistic African baby doll (as would be owned by a black child) brought back by an aunt from South Africa. It was as far from appearance to a golly as you can imagine.
Stay classy, Swindon.
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23450382.woman-spotted-urinating-swindon-town-centre-ask-crisps/#comments-anchor
The crisps make the story, really.
:facepalm: ::-) :Dhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-65260945There was a make of dolls in the 70s called Sasha dolls, made in Sweden IIRC, which were not only available in a variety of realistic skin tones and facial features, they also had realistic child proportions and even – though this had to be later removed for the UK market at least – realistically shaped child genitals. Obviously that's not what your sister had, but does show that similar-ish things were available here too way back then.
Golly pub loses CAMRA award eligibility.
The photo of the pub shows a couple of large England flags flying. That would tell.me all I needed to know.
I admit we had gollies in the 70s and in no way associated them with black people*, but times have changed.
*my sister had a proper realistic African baby doll (as would be owned by a black child) brought back by an aunt from South Africa. It was as far from appearance to a golly as you can imagine.
What did his sister have, and how do you know!!
https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296.amp?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D&fbclid=IwAR169o70oqUMYP0fMza9-d5BaxZwpT3L1egDyoo0E8j-CZhcSNeLJhLgMGA#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16814194678990&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com
Where does that one appear on the Stool Chart?
Without the extraneous crap in the URL.
Without the extraneous crap in the URL.
I see what you did there...
Without the extraneous crap in the URL.
I see what you did there...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-65306552
Sex pond bombed.
closure due to "pollution from public contamination"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-65306552
Sex pond bombed.
The council's fitness branch, 1 Leisure, said issues were also caused by people wearing Deep Heat, fake tan and make-up.That'll be the Pompey lasses then (or maybe the local drag queens).
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23465290.standoff-canal-river-trust-tries-evict-boater/
Live updates as the Canal and River Trust try to evict a recidivist boater. My experience of people who live on boats (Mr L has an amusing term for them), based on a grim canal holiday, is that they are among the most "difficult" people you are likely to encounter, and resent the rest of the world.
One of the pair is a red metallic can that’s lid reads...
Ah, so he was up in front of the beak?I see what you did there.
A guinea pig which was unexpectedly posted through the window of a Kirkwall property has been safely returned to its owner.
QuoteA guinea pig which was unexpectedly posted through the window of a Kirkwall property has been safely returned to its owner.
https://www.orcadian.co.uk/police-investigate-guinea-pig-incident/
Another from Swindon. https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23494605.swindon-driver-slams-reckless-cyclist-harrowing-car-crash/I’m sure if that cyclist had been wearing a helmet he wouldn’t have ended up with a broken leg :facepalm:
Mr Williams, who said he had reported the first theft to police, said he now believed the thieves had used a drone to find the hives as they were not visible from the road or a nearby track.
Spalding recycling centre warns it cannot currently accept specific item
By Duncan Browne
Published: 11:28, 16 May 2023
South Holland’s waste recycling centre has warned residents it is currently unable to accept a specific item.
Lincolnshire County Council – which runs the site – however, hopes the issue will be short term.
A statement read: “Spalding Household Waste Recycling Centre are currently unable to accept garden waste.
“We anticipate they will be able to accept it again later today and will keep you updated.”
What a load of bollocks - not...Classical statues always have near-invisible meat and two veg anyway.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65625390
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23530806.harry-potter-fan-disgusted-appalled-wiltshire-performance/
Harry Potter fan dresses up as Hermione to attend a show unconnected to Harry Potter ;D
This is how Inbetweeners 2 starts, isn't it?
Worker thinks XX, YY and ??? in an email are sex-chat
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-65632912 (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-65632912)
A problem I get with my swimming pool all the time.Yay, coMPo!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/20/couple-get-payout-water-buffaloes-fall-into-essex-swimming-pool (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/20/couple-get-payout-water-buffaloes-fall-into-essex-swimming-pool)
A problem I get with my swimming pool all the time.Yay, coMPo!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/20/couple-get-payout-water-buffaloes-fall-into-essex-swimming-pool (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/20/couple-get-payout-water-buffaloes-fall-into-essex-swimming-pool)
Can two cow things really cause £25k of damage to a pool?
A problem I get with my swimming pool all the time.Yay, coMPo!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/20/couple-get-payout-water-buffaloes-fall-into-essex-swimming-pool (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/20/couple-get-payout-water-buffaloes-fall-into-essex-swimming-pool)
Can two cow things really cause £25k of damage to a pool?
A problem I get with my swimming pool all the time.Yay, coMPo!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/20/couple-get-payout-water-buffaloes-fall-into-essex-swimming-pool (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/20/couple-get-payout-water-buffaloes-fall-into-essex-swimming-pool)
Can two cow things really cause £25k of damage to a pool?
It says the pool was leaking, and while I don't know anything about pool construction, I'm willing to bet that beneath the tiles is some sort of pond liner thing that keeps the water in. It doesn't seem improbable that a cow thing falling in a pool could crack a tile and pierce the liner, and I bet that's a pig of a job to replace. At company-that-sells-specialist-products-to-rich-people rates.
Deduct a few k for fencing and other damage.
ETA: Crosspost with Jaded
https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/sunderland-man-demands-refund-on-big-mac-stolen-by-seagull-4190010
"It happens all the time to everybody”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/sunderland-cctv-b1076742.html (https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/sunderland-cctv-b1076742.html)
Sunderland man has a way with the birds..... :jurek:
By the skin of their pantsaccording to Tory Woman on C4 News just now.
Headless hearseman joak goes here ==>Any joaks about this will surely be a dead end.
Headless hearseman joak goes here ==>Any joaks about this will surely be a dead end.
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23681530.swindon-couple-depressed-number-seeds-massive-tree/
Oh woes! A tree is making me depressed by dropping seeds!
And they say it's Gen Z that are the snowflakes.
Severe arthritis prevents grandmother, 26, from carrying her grandson.But she can go on a bouncy castle!
Thames AvenUe
"More than half the cars on the street aren't mine (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-66801115)"
So if you have something illegal, just say you sold it to a Mexican, and you're in the clear. Probably works better for things that aren't still in your garden, mind.
The real question is why is he living in a shithole road in Cinderford where the average house price is £275,000?
The real question is why is he living in a shithole road in Cinderford where the average house price is £275,000?That was my thoughts, why a massive house with little or no land on a street like that if he is indeed a millionaire. Perhaps he likes feeling he’s better than those around him becasue he lives in a bigger house.
On street view he's got loads of off street parking, hes just a bell end being a pain in the arse to his neighbors.
I imagine because he's made a wedge he thinks he's clever and can do what he wants.
Knobber.
He seems to think he has, if the stories of him ignoring the planning laws are anything to go by. It seems it’s something the council are spending a not inconsiderable effort of disabusing him.On street view he's got loads of off street parking, hes just a bell end being a pain in the arse to his neighbors.
I imagine because he's made a wedge he thinks he's clever and can do what he wants.
Knobber.
He just hasn’t made a big enough wedge to do what he wants
I did have to have a little chuckle at this... it's so Wiltshire.
We complained about an ugly pole and now our entire street won’t get fast broadband – even though rest of town will (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/24012811/complained-pole-entire-street-broadband/)
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I did have to have a little chuckle at this... it's so Wiltshire.
We complained about an ugly pole and now our entire street won’t get fast broadband – even though rest of town will (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/24012811/complained-pole-entire-street-broadband/)
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Whereas we have suitable poles already in place, but Gigaclear dug trenches down the length of the village to lay new ducts, that will involve digging up gardens to get FTTP from road boxes to the houses. I assume, although Openreach aren't interested in getting us FTTP they refused / made difficult access to their poles.
I wonder what's been spread in the air which caused this to happen? Chemtrails perhaps(?!)
Agent Orange is a chemical poisoning, and I fear that we are all being subjected to this in the air we breathe - this is evidence.
Where there's problems, there's profit. - "Make them all sick, then we'll sell them the medicine
Until the sky turns green
The grass is several shades of blue
Every Member of Parliament trips on glue
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23801181.swindon-pensioners-agent-orange-claim-grass-changes-colour/
Agent Orange wasn't actually orange :facepalm:
...There were agents blue, pink, purple, white, orange and – wait for it – super-orange. The 'rainbow' herbicides, which, of course sounds a lot better than war crime, environment destruction, birth deformities, poisoning, and mass starvation.
It's pretty difficult to make phenoxyesters without dioxin contaminants (well, they can be removed, but expensive).
2,4-D apparently has the power to give men abnormally shaped sperm, which I suppose is a good anecdote for dinner parties. Probably best you don't try to prove it, though.
The mediaeval masonic tradition is alive and well and living in Wiltshire.I found his reply to the question ‘are you breaking the law’ very telling. I’m not breaking the law, I’m correcting it!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-66923628
Perhaps Mr Thomas is descended from one of the masons who worked on Salisbury Cathedral?
Kate Middleton not in Swindon - https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/23824010.kate-middleton-not-swindon/ (https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/23824010.kate-middleton-not-swindon/)
It's pretty difficult to make phenoxyesters without dioxin contaminants (well, they can be removed, but expensive).
2,4-D apparently has the power to give men abnormally shaped sperm, which I suppose is a good anecdote for dinner parties. Probably best you don't try to prove it, though.
And multiple myeloma.
Although that is difficult to isolate; farmers who use 2,4-D also used DDT and many other herbicides and pesticides. We were really careless, mixed the concentrates with bare hands, didn't wear any protective clothing when spraying. It killed my dad and I wouldn't be surprised if I get the same cancer (since we had the same exposure).
We're now living in a society where people need a court order to remind them not to shit in public.
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23861232.chippenham-street-drinkers-told-not-urinate-defecate-town/
None in Bristol either (except one on the Downs and I think one at CSB, neither of which is council owned).We're now living in a society where people need a court order to remind them not to shit in public.
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23861232.chippenham-street-drinkers-told-not-urinate-defecate-town/
As an aside, there appear to be no public toilets in Chippenham.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67237610If they can afford to turn donations away they’re not that hard up.
Rampant donations
Couple who hadn't paid for gas in 18 years shocked to receive £11k bill (https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/couple-who-hadnt-paid-gas-27978084). A follow-up story indicates that their cat has been subsisting largely on gas bills for 18 years.
Couple who hadn't paid for gas in 18 years shocked to receive £11k bill (https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/couple-who-hadnt-paid-gas-27978084). A follow-up story indicates that their cat has been subsisting largely on gas bills for 18 years.
Surely if it took 18 years to bill them, then they should be allowed 18 years to pay...
The Somerset Gimp has been fined.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-67238445 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-67238445)
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/live-updates-area-outside-primark-28167933
It's not just cats stuck up trees they rescue......
A DOG yelped after suffering an electric shock from a fence surrounding stables in Hockley...after vandals ripped down warning signs.
Of course, the warning signs would have made all the difference to the dog.
https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/23974548.hockley-valley-forge-owner-install-electric-fence-signs/QuoteA DOG yelped after suffering an electric shock from a fence surrounding stables in Hockley...after vandals ripped down warning signs.
Of course, the warning signs would have made all the difference to the dog.
Sadly, it seems that the Echo now his the bulk of its articles lurking behind a semi-permeable pay-wall. I have a subscription which I don't pay for, so I think I can see all their articles. Is this the same for all Newsquest sites?
Turning off JavaScript makes the articles readable. Then you'll wonder why you bothered.Of course, the warning signs would have made all the difference to the dog.
Well indeed, and any dog walker that doesn't know what an electric fence looks like probably shouldn't be out in the countryside unless accompanied by an appropriate adult. Typical "local" press non-story.
Sadly almost all "local" press is well and truly dead these days thanks to Reach, Newsquest, etc. There are a few hold-out exceptions - luckily for me the local Camden New Journal and Islington Tribune which actually do some journalism and have actual editors.
Turning off JavaScript makes the articles readable. Then you'll wonder why you bothered.Of course, the warning signs would have made all the difference to the dog.
Well indeed, and any dog walker that doesn't know what an electric fence looks like probably shouldn't be out in the countryside unless accompanied by an appropriate adult. Typical "local" press non-story.
Sadly almost all "local" press is well and truly dead these days thanks to Reach, Newsquest, etc. There are a few hold-out exceptions - luckily for me the local Camden New Journal and Islington Tribune which actually do some journalism and have actual editors.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143003453#/?channel=RES_BUY (https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143003453#/?channel=RES_BUY)
A backyard sex pond & potential for a dungeon, could be a business opportunity. Band A council tax as well. No downstairs loo though.
Not really the best part of town..... https://www.streetcheck.co.uk/crime/l75px#close
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143003453#/?channel=RES_BUY (https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143003453#/?channel=RES_BUY)
A backyard sex pond & potential for a dungeon, could be a business opportunity. Band A council tax as well. No downstairs loo though.
Not really the best part of town..... https://www.streetcheck.co.uk/crime/l75px#close
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-67835079.amp
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2023-12-29/customer-parks-tank-outside-wickes-after-shoddy-kitchen-fittingwhat I don’t understand in this report is the man says he spent £25,000 on the kitchen, but because of the problems he might lose his house. That’s weird maths.
Someone will be along in a minute to point out that it's not a tank...
Nope, it ain't a tank, and it isn't even "huge" - 'tis an Abbot self-propelled gun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbot_(artillery)), which was rather petite compared with most other SPGs.I'm pretty sure Valiant's vehicle was an APC rather than something sporting heavy ordnance.
And if memory serves, didn't Valiant (occasionally OTP), have one of these, or at least, knew somebody who owned one?
Nope, it ain't a tank, and it isn't even "huge" - 'tis an Abbot self-propelled gun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbot_(artillery)), which was rather petite compared with most other SPGs.I'm pretty sure Valiant's vehicle was an APC rather than something sporting heavy ordnance.
And if memory serves, didn't Valiant (occasionally OTP), have one of these, or at least, knew somebody who owned one?
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2023-12-29/customer-parks-tank-outside-wickes-after-shoddy-kitchen-fittingwhat I don’t understand in this report is the man says he spent £25,000 on the kitchen, but because of the problems he might lose his house. That’s weird maths.
Someone will be along in a minute to point out that it's not a tank...
Chester Market evacuated after chilli fumes affect customers
Vapour created by a stall-holder ‘cooking a large amount of chillies’ entered ventilation system (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/27/chester-market-evacuated-after-chilli-fumes-affect-customers)
Staff at a wildlife park are taking a high-risk approach to tackling its parrots' swearing problem.
Lincolnshire Wildlife Park made global headlines in 2020 after staff removed five African greys from display (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-54340425) for swearing at visitors.
Since then, three more parrots have started to squawk expletives, prompting an urgent change in tactics.
Chief executive Steve Nichols said he was about to introduce them to the rest of the flock to "dilute" the swearing.
...
However, he admitted: "We could end up with 100 swearing parrots on our hands. Only time will tell."
Two blokes disappointed as sex shop licence is refused in Barmouth
https://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/disappointment-as-sex-shop-licence-is-refused-515548
"The council is gagging the residents of Barmouth.”
I'm surprised this local-to-me effort wasn't in the list:That's for when you just want a nice rest.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/u4Fj1uL3wvX1GYdm6
I'm surprised this local-to-me effort wasn't in the list:That's for when you just want a nice rest.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/u4Fj1uL3wvX1GYdm6
Seems a perfectly sensible setup for crossing the dual carriageway. Surprisingly so.I'm surprised this local-to-me effort wasn't in the list:That's for when you just want a nice rest.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/u4Fj1uL3wvX1GYdm6
Isn't that for turning right off the dual carriageway? Seems OK to me.
If you spin around, it looks like the only place to turn right from is this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/juoTTYbWaZk3GhFw9Erm, no, the original bit lets you cross to a cycle path that goes between the barrier, then there is another bit to cross to a cycle path on the other side. Plus a road leading to some houses.
or the dual carriageway A92 itself.
That's where the right-turn facility lets you go to. But how do you get to that facility? Along the A92. https://maps.app.goo.gl/bfLgjqjHpSMqh5AE7If you spin around, it looks like the only place to turn right from is this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/juoTTYbWaZk3GhFw9Erm, no, the original bit lets you cross to a cycle path that goes between the barrier, then there is another bit to cross to a cycle path on the other side. Plus a road leading to some houses.
or the dual carriageway A92 itself.
https://www.google.com/maps/@57.0187164,-2.1682861,3a,75y,72.57h,77.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFbi_k85zWojjACA_0eP_Rg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&entry=ttu (https://www.google.com/maps/@57.0187164,-2.1682861,3a,75y,72.57h,77.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFbi_k85zWojjACA_0eP_Rg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&entry=ttu)
How busy is that dual carriageway?But of course they've provided a replacement crossing. Oh, no, they haven't.
This (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5897865,0.536265,3a,30.5y,115.57h,87.83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sftUrXXkgE1kyorE6qmRaSA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) is a crossing point between Wickford and North Benfleet, as is evidenced by the gap in the crash barrier and the encouraging sign.
Need a job? No qualifications? No skills? No problem!
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24104411.meet-women-healing-wiltshire-homes-business-bad-energy/
Other signs [that you might have an 'unhealthy' home which requires healing] include feeling unwell,[1] having regular arguments in the house,[2] unusual behavior from pets,[3] objects being moved or going missing,[4] plants failing to thrive,[5] and having cold spots that never warm up.[6]
Normally happens at Christmas, when an amazing North Pole experience with Santa's grotto turns out to be a muddy marquee with a few fairy lights, one depressed reindeer, and a Santa that smells of vodka and gives you a "My Lidl Pony" or "Fuzz Lightyear" worth 99p.
Normally happens at Christmas, when an amazing North Pole experience with Santa's grotto turns out to be a muddy marquee with a few fairy lights, one depressed reindeer, and a Santa that smells of vodka and gives you a "My Lidl Pony" or "Fuzz Lightyear" worth 99p.
house prices cancer
Normally happens at Christmas, when an amazing North Pole experience with Santa's grotto turns out to be a muddy marquee with a few fairy lights, one depressed reindeer, and a Santa that smells of vodka and gives you a "My Lidl Pony" or "Fuzz Lightyear" worth 99p.
Somewhere, in the murky depths of the Dover District Council website, behind a locked door with a sign saying "beware of the leopard", is a planning consultation pertaining to the hair-brained scheme to enhance Betteshanger Country Park's[1] shareholder value with the addition of a posh hotel and sharknado pool[2]. Naturally, this attracts all sorts of comments from the usual suspects, chiefly hippies with concerns about turtle doves, locals afraid that traffic will give their house prices cancer, investors who think it's a valuable addition to the sporting repertoire of the south-east of England, and random gammons spouting off about anything tangentially relevant. I don't recommend you read it, it's endless and mostly dull.
But there is a splendid rant in there about someone being sworn at by a man in a Santa hat while trying to use one of the footpaths...
[1] Venue for the 2024 Wacky Races, International Edition (https://wc2024.bhpc.org.uk/) - hence my interest in whether someone was going to dig up the track in August.
[2] https://www.betteshanger-park.co.uk/the-seahive/
I have to say that the ‘Seahive’ sounds like delivery bloat to get the hotel and spa plans through. The more expensive and less profitable ‘community slanted’ seahive will quietly die once the foundations for the hotel are safely in place.I lived very near there for 14 years. It is a depressed area that used to be Kent's coalmining region. There is no way it is the sort of area for a 'luxury hotel'
I have to say that the ‘Seahive’ sounds like delivery bloat to get the hotel and spa plans through. The more expensive and less profitable ‘community slanted’ seahive will quietly die once the foundations for the hotel are safely in place.I lived very near there for 14 years. It is a depressed area that used to be Kent's coalmining region. There is no way it is the sort of area for a 'luxury hotel'
It was quite depressing going to the developer's exhibition about a proposed 750 house estate going up on edge of our village. People were seemingly more interested in choosing which of the three proposed football field/sports pavilion layouts they wanted than worrying about the impact of a big estate with a Sainsbury's going up onto the B road next to us that's a nightmare for traffic in the morning, on a flood plain, with no improvement for services like the Doctor, School etc. factored in.
I can't believe how the public tends to focus on side issues rather than the fundamentals when it comes to planning matters.
I can't believe how the public tends to focus on side issues rather than the fundamentals when it comes to planning matters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality applies.
ETA: Is it sad that I recognised the bicycle shed in the photo?
I have to say that the ‘Seahive’ sounds like delivery bloat to get the hotel and spa plans through. The more expensive and less profitable ‘community slanted’ seahive will quietly die once the foundations for the hotel are safely in place.I lived very near there for 14 years. It is a depressed area that used to be Kent's coalmining region. There is no way it is the sort of area for a 'luxury hotel'
Unless you happen to own a nearby golf course...
The whole thing, like everything else in the BRITISH economy, is a property scam. But the planning process is being sufficiently slow that there's no danger of spades in the ground by August, so as far as we're concerned it just means they're surprisingly keen to accommodate us to fulfil their 'grassroots sport' tickybox.
Are developers (in general, not just MattH's example) making use of this effect? Like a supermarket having a dozen varieties of baked beans to create an illusion of choice (and control), so developers might be offering choice of sports pavilions, bike sheds, and so on, in order to distract the public from criticising the main development. Or maybe they are themselves caught up in the trivialities?
The poor Oompa Loompa woman has now been interviewed by media, she's a young jobbing actor and was offered £500 for 2 days work but no costumes, no stuff, trying to make the best of it. She and the other actors (rightly) suspect they won't be paid as well as being publicly humiliated. Apparently while the families were angry, most of them had the decency to realise the staff had been fucked over too.
https://stroudtimes.com/can-you-help-put-the-finishing-touches-to-the-town/;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Caaake?
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/cars-destoryed-waves-after-getting-28745731But is it de-storyed or des-toryed?
I'm not sure which is worse. The stupidity of the car owners or the spilling of the headline. I guess they replaced the sub-editor with Artificial Stupidity or something.
Cheshire woman mistakes bobble baby hedgehog (https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/27/cheshire-woman-mistakes-bobble-baby-hedgehog-20537009)...
Eee, it were better in t'olden days when there were a safety line around it to show where thee beest safe from falling TVs.
The last time I went to Southampton, a middle-aged man in camouflage gear, carrying a skull on the end of a stick, was arguing with the security staff in Asda. The main road in is also terrifying, as it's been turned from four lanes into two but drivers still use it as if it were four lanes, forcing you into the gutter.
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24246748.blow-up-doll-found-abandoned-shocked-dog-walker/
Knowing that area, she had a hard and active life.