Author Topic: Little Eye On The Provinces (Read 379320 times)

clarion · « **Reply #200 on:** 24 March, 2013, 08:06:10 am »

Quote from: Kim on 23 March, 2013, 07:05:49 pm

What, again? Surely the slurry's a bit cold for that sort of thing...

Slurry tends to have its own heat. Add the friction (I guess slurry isn't a good lube)...

rogerzilla · « **Reply #201 on:** 26 March, 2013, 06:43:39 am »

Swindon is getting a third lap dancing club.

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10312317.Lap_dancing_club_is_given_the_green_light/

I think it's trying to become the Soho of the south-west.

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #202 on:** 27 March, 2013, 08:24:25 pm »

Today in the local rag: a large egg and a (very cute) small lamb.

Arch · « **Reply #203 on:** 27 March, 2013, 08:54:00 pm »

Terrible loss of life in rail disast... Oh, wait. No. As you were....

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10315796.Road_train____derailed____as_it_lets_ambulance_go_by/?ref=mr

Jaded · « **Reply #204 on:** 27 March, 2013, 10:38:09 pm »

Forecast dismay.

Steph · « **Reply #205 on:** 28 March, 2013, 04:28:04 am »

Quote from: Toady on 15 March, 2013, 10:22:10 pm

Anger as faeces found in Brighton and Hove council opposition office

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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.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9846650.Poo_found_in_Brighton_council_microwave/?ref=rl

rogerzilla · « **Reply #206 on:** 28 March, 2013, 10:05:04 pm »

Quote from: Jaded on 27 March, 2013, 10:38:09 pm

Forecast dismay.

The headline doesn't really sell the story. MET OFFICE SUCK would have done it so much better.

Kim · « **Reply #207 on:** 30 March, 2013, 12:33:29 am »

Didn't stop for a photo, but a sign outside a newsagent in Yapton this morning bore the headline "Man arrested for violence at Butlins"

Attempting to find a reference via google revealed that this isn't an uncommon occurrence:

http://www.bognor.co.uk/news/twelve-arrested-after-bognor-regis-butlins-brawl-1-3223985

cycleman · « **Reply #208 on:** 30 March, 2013, 09:20:02 am »

bognor

Kim · « **Reply #209 on:** 30 March, 2013, 03:52:16 pm »

Yeah, well, if it had been Skegness it would have been arson instead.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #210 on:** 30 March, 2013, 06:02:07 pm »

We really need a personal hygiene expose from the Skegness Standard, just for the headline SMEGGY SKEGGY.

andrewc · « **Reply #211 on:** 30 March, 2013, 06:29:48 pm »

We all drowned in a yellow duckmarine

Thankfully not, but that must have been scary.

Good thing it didn't happen when Brenda & Phil went for a spin last year

Arch · « **Reply #212 on:** 01 April, 2013, 02:54:15 pm »

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10325370.Neighbours_of_city_centre_fast_food_outlet_tell_of____frightening____violence__intimidation_and_noise/

A few points I thought of:

McDonalds was there before the flats. If you don't want to live over the road from a fast food outlet, don't move into a flat opposite one...

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she and her teenage son “have been eyewitnesses to the most terrible behaviour imaginable” from McDonald’s customers.

Yeah, they are out there on a nightly basis decapitating each other with machetes and setting each other on fire.

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residents were kept awake by “a constant flow of taxis”

That wouldn't be anything to do with the big taxi rank round the corner would it? Honestly, how many people come out of McDonalds and call a cab?

I have to admit to some bias. We collect recycling from those flats, and they are a pain in the arse for access - whenever they change the access code, they forget to tell us, take ages to get back to inquiries and then ring up to complain the recycling hasn't been collected.

I'm not always on the side of Big Corps, but in this case, I'm behind McDs.

Kim · « **Reply #213 on:** 01 April, 2013, 03:46:57 pm »

We get a 'constant flow of taxis' here. The drunken students tend to stop off at the 24 hour Tesco at the end of the road and then catch taxis back up the hill. Which would be fine, except that since both sides of the road are full of cars, taxi drivers tend to just sit in the middle of the road and hoot their horns to announce their presence (and occasionally get into stand-offs with people wanting to go the other way) . It annoys me far more than the equally noisy drunken shenanigans, because professional drivers ought to be better behaved than a load of rowdy teenagers.

clarion · « **Reply #214 on:** 02 April, 2013, 09:00:51 am »

As a student I never even considered using a taxi. Far, far too expensive.

Regulator · « **Reply #215 on:** 02 April, 2013, 09:05:16 am »

Quote from: andrewc on 30 March, 2013, 06:29:48 pm

We all drowned in a yellow duckmarine

Thankfully not, but that must have been scary.

Good thing it didn't happen when Brenda & Phil went for a spin last year

I hate those things. There's several of them in London. They seem to be driven by psychopaths with no concern for other road users.

Juan Martín · « **Reply #216 on:** 02 April, 2013, 09:42:30 am »

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.

Dibdib · « **Reply #217 on:** 02 April, 2013, 09:43:18 am »

Quote from: clarion on 02 April, 2013, 09:00:51 am

As a student I never even considered using a taxi. Far, far too expensive.

Yeah, me neither - and I lived at the top of a bloody great hill^*. at ten grand a year, you (or at least mummy and daddy) have got to be loaded to go to uni these days...

* the on-campus housing at Aberystwyth, for those wot know it.

Kim · « **Reply #218 on:** 02 April, 2013, 12:36:03 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 02 April, 2013, 09:00:51 am

As a student I never even considered using a taxi. Far, far too expensive.

I think I used a taxi twice as a student. Once because I was too ill to walk home, and once because I'd just got a fantastic deal on a second-hand workhorse laser printer in the LCS.

I started university in the first academic year group to be hit by tuition fees. And graduated in the last group who seemed to respect the traditional approach to student finances. These days they're all in mind-numbing debt, so sharing a taxi after a night on the piss is lost in the noise. And anyway, you're not supposed to drink and drive.

SteveC · « **Reply #219 on:** 02 April, 2013, 01:29:50 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 02 April, 2013, 09:00:51 am

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.

andrewc · « **Reply #220 on:** 03 April, 2013, 05:41:48 pm »

Quote from: Juan Martín on 02 April, 2013, 09:42:30 am

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

Oops...

orienteer · « **Reply #221 on:** 04 April, 2013, 04:46:24 pm »

Woman not hurt in dramatic crash

http://www.uxbridgegazette.co.uk/west-london-news/local-uxbridge-news/2013/04/04/driver-unhurt-in-dramatic-ruislip-high-street-crash-113046-33115702/

Bledlow · « **Reply #222 on:** 06 April, 2013, 09:10:01 pm »

Mystery of removal of scarves from sheep in Sussex.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-22050711

Jaded · « **Reply #223 on:** 13 April, 2013, 01:28:28 pm »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-22110776

On first read I missed out the 'a shepherd' and marvelled at the abilities of Gloucestershire's Police force.

mcshroom · « **Reply #224 on:** 16 April, 2013, 03:01:06 pm »

Does Swindon only exist to provide stories for this thread?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-22158829