Author Topic: Little Eye On The Provinces (Read 447534 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3450 on:** 15 July, 2024, 08:24:22 pm »

Question: A Lib Dem councillor in Manchester is using what form of social media (loosely interpreted) to allow his constituents to message him with their municipal concerns?

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Jaded · « **Reply #3451 on:** 16 July, 2024, 12:23:45 am »

Thy cnt even spll

Regulator · « **Reply #3452 on:** 16 July, 2024, 10:04:30 am »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 15 July, 2024, 08:24:22 pm

Question: A Lib Dem councillor in Manchester is using what form of social media (loosely interpreted) to allow his constituents to message him with their municipal concerns?

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Grindr.

https://x.com/PoliticsMoments/status/1812893083672908030

And?

andrewc · « **Reply #3453 on:** 16 July, 2024, 08:46:48 pm »

Oooohhhh, that's rather nice.. ( though far too expensive for me) https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149585306#/?channel=RES_BUY

However only 4M above sea level, under a current flood warning from the River Alt & at high risk of surface water flooding. I suspect I'll pass.....

Basil · « **Reply #3454 on:** 17 July, 2024, 04:45:08 pm »

A couple of weeks back a cannabis farm was discovered in an old school building near our house. Arrests were made.

Then this morning the place went up in a massive conflagration.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1jrjndjljo

The whole village is now stoned.

Jurek · « **Reply #3455 on:** 17 July, 2024, 04:54:45 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 17 July, 2024, 04:45:08 pm

A couple of weeks back a cannabis farm was discovered in an old school building near our house. Arrests were made.

Then this morning the place went up in a massive conflagration.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1jrjndjljo

The whole village is now stoned.

It's pleased to high you make things in abundance profound Eskimo. Eric.

Steph · « **Reply #3456 on:** 21 July, 2024, 12:20:03 pm »

Man gets arrested by the police, while screaming for someone to call the police.

Srsly, every cringe-inducing complaint I have ever heard from someone being nicked, all in one, neat package.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c903w4gpv00o

The full story
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ge5zvk0dvo#:~:text=A%20former%20head%20teacher%20has%20been%20found%20guilty,11-month%20period%2C%20despite%20her%20asking%20him%20to%20stop.

Pretty much NFN.

barakta · « **Reply #3457 on:** 22 July, 2024, 01:43:50 am »

Nasty! And no one else at the school seems to have supported the trainee teacher either.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #3458 on:** 22 July, 2024, 07:50:27 am »

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24466658.body-tracks-swindon-revealed-lifelike-doll-dressed-kid/

They even got the air ambulance out. Not a particularly funny joke given the waste of resources.

Regulator · « **Reply #3459 on:** 22 July, 2024, 09:26:39 am »

Quote from: Steph on 21 July, 2024, 12:20:03 pm

Man gets arrested by the police, while screaming for someone to call the police.

Srsly, every cringe-inducing complaint I have ever heard from someone being nicked, all in one, neat package.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c903w4gpv00o

The full story
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ge5zvk0dvo#:~:text=A%20former%20head%20teacher%20has%20been%20found%20guilty,11-month%20period%2C%20despite%20her%20asking%20him%20to%20stop.

Pretty much NFN.

He won't be able to go back to teaching - which is a good thing, as he clearly shouldn't be near young people.

Kim · « **Reply #3460 on:** 24 July, 2024, 12:42:57 pm »

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/tortoise-causes-train-delays-after-slowly-climbing-on-to-tracks-between-ascot-and-bagshot-13183414

Useful to know that a train needs several football pitches to stop. They don't say how many subuteo(?sp) pitches a tortoise needs to stop.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3461 on:** 24 July, 2024, 05:25:24 pm »

Subbuteo. Buteo subbuteo, the hobby, being smaller than Buteo buteo, the buzzard. Campers at Watlington surely know that the red kite is in a different genus (Milvus milvus, hence one of the houses on that road being Milvus House). There is, alas, no Buteo superbuteo.

Kim · « **Reply #3462 on:** 24 July, 2024, 06:22:43 pm »

A Watlington milvus took a chunk out of my thumb last week. I'd made the rookie mistake of gesticulating while trying to eat a croissant. No miniature sportsballers were involved.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3463 on:** 24 July, 2024, 06:26:58 pm »

Ouch! Presumably talons rather than beak? And look on the bright side, it was clearly a sophisticated hawk to have an appreciation of French-style bakery products.

Kim · « **Reply #3464 on:** 24 July, 2024, 06:28:40 pm »

Yep. A relatively small wound, but for a short time quite a bleedy one. Sort of thing that usually happens when I use a Stanley knife without adult supervision.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3465 on:** 24 July, 2024, 06:31:15 pm »

When the kites get Stanley knives they will make the worst football hooligans look like Subbuteo figures.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #3466 on:** 24 July, 2024, 07:25:05 pm »

I can attest to the fact that the Watlington raptors will catch and eat doner kebab meat whilst on the wing.

Kim · « **Reply #3467 on:** 24 July, 2024, 07:40:43 pm »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 24 July, 2024, 07:25:05 pm

I can attest to the fact that the Watlington raptors will catch and eat doner kebab meat whilst on the wing.

What was really interesting was they way they left us alone after that.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #3468 on:** 24 July, 2024, 08:52:57 pm »

They had to go and dissolve some car paintwork in the next field.

Kim · « **Reply #3469 on:** 25 July, 2024, 12:50:40 am »

BONG! Welsh people have silly haircuts. BONG!

Kim · « **Reply #3470 on:** 25 July, 2024, 06:44:35 pm »

Psst, Clare! Is this your former employer's shitehawk?

Shoplifting 'Steven Seagull' banned from shop

Clare · « **Reply #3471 on:** 25 July, 2024, 09:20:45 pm »

Sadly, our Steven was only ever a 2D cartoon sticker and was quietly shelved as a marketing campaign after about one month.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #3472 on:** 07 August, 2024, 09:36:21 pm »

Another minor snafu in chavland.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24503429.mum-suffers-passport-problems-game-thrones-name/

T42 · « **Reply #3473 on:** 08 August, 2024, 08:00:02 am »

ISTR that back when Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was on the go there was a rash of US babies called Verucca.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #3474 on:** 08 August, 2024, 08:05:15 am »

One theory for the late 1960s surge in Darrens is that Bewitched was popular on TV...except that was Darrin, not Darren, and Darren is an old name anyway.