Author Topic: Little Eye On The Provinces  (Read 374695 times)

rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2050 on: 07 December, 2019, 11:31:36 am »
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2051 on: 07 December, 2019, 04:52:49 pm »
Hula Hoop sales up 109%!
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rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2052 on: 09 December, 2019, 07:07:18 pm »
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

hellymedic

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2053 on: 09 December, 2019, 07:09:49 pm »
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

Kenton Lane Farm (see 'Grammar' thread): where new homes are built from former dairy products....

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2054 on: 09 December, 2019, 07:40:40 pm »
They must have altered it since you read it. The volt is now derived from the mobile phone.
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A 55-volt electric current can kill in certain circumstances – that’s the equivalent of 10 mobile phones.
Science is never still.

Pardon my memory, but my recollection from my days as a student of elfin' safety, was that 110V CTE, gave max 55v shock and was as such unlikely to result in any nastiness due to the inherent resistance of the human bean?
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Kim

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2055 on: 09 December, 2019, 08:03:41 pm »
'Unlikely' fits with 'certain circumstances'.  A recently-watered bean, for example, is likely to have a much lower surface resistance...

rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2056 on: 09 December, 2019, 08:26:32 pm »
This is why 'merkins are allowed plugs in their bathrooms.
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Kim

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2057 on: 09 December, 2019, 10:23:52 pm »
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

Mr Larrington

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2058 on: 10 December, 2019, 11:40:20 am »
This is why USAnian tea is served cold.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2059 on: 10 December, 2019, 12:34:28 pm »
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.
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Kim

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2060 on: 10 December, 2019, 02:25:42 pm »
Speaking of tea, best avoid it in Manchester: The bizarre moment a FOX pees in a man's cup of tea

T42

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2061 on: 10 December, 2019, 02:46:26 pm »
Not exactly timid, are they?  I haven't seen a live one in the wild for years.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2062 on: 10 December, 2019, 02:58:51 pm »
What was he doing leaving it unattended? And on the pavement! Careless human!
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Guy

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2063 on: 10 December, 2019, 03:40:48 pm »
"The Opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject"  Marcus Aurelius

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2064 on: 10 December, 2019, 04:53:49 pm »
Dismal failure to exploit puntential.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2065 on: 10 December, 2019, 06:33:51 pm »
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2066 on: 13 December, 2019, 07:37:12 pm »
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Man's fear for Cavapoo as yet another sausage found on Bristol pavement
Is cavapoo the Spanish version of prosecco turd?
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/mans-fear-cavapoo-yet-another-3637423
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2067 on: 16 December, 2019, 12:53:43 pm »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-50810196

I really hope the excessive use of air freshener was an attempt to conceal the smell of smoking...


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rogerzilla

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orraloon

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2072 on: 30 December, 2019, 06:05:52 pm »
What sort of plonker initiates this?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-50948901

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2073 on: 30 December, 2019, 06:25:52 pm »
Might not have been a human involved in issuing it at all.
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Kim

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2074 on: 30 December, 2019, 06:33:54 pm »
Shirley issuing a parking ticket to a police car is what passes for epic lols among traffic wardens civil enforcement officers?  I expect they thought it would get a "ha ha" bin response, rather than kicking off an unstoppable bureaucratic process.