Author Topic: Little Eye On The Provinces (Read 380375 times)

TimC · « **Reply #2675 on:** 17 November, 2021, 11:02:54 am »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 17 November, 2021, 10:55:41 am

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.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2676 on:** 17 November, 2021, 11:41:00 am »

ISTR Lincoln Council wouldn’t let TV's Guy Martin take his replica WW1 tank to their Remembrance Day parade. The rotters.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2677 on:** 17 November, 2021, 04:27:52 pm »

Quote from: TimC on 17 November, 2021, 11:02:54 am

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 17 November, 2021, 10:55:41 am
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.

Of course, because it's ultimately about them and their comrades. But it is about them not their hardware.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2678 on:** 17 November, 2021, 04:43:08 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 17 November, 2021, 09:35:03 am

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....

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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."

Sums it up. The British legion are very short of funds - so this guy decides to spend £950 on hiring a tank so he can hoon it round the village?

Tosser. Donate the money to british legion or SSAFA next time.

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #2679 on:** 22 November, 2021, 05:37:56 pm »

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/

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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.

Jurek · « **Reply #2680 on:** 22 November, 2021, 06:09:12 pm »

Quote from: Sergeant Pluck on 22 November, 2021, 05:37:56 pm

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/

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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.

WTAF?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2681 on:** 22 November, 2021, 06:13:04 pm »

If the Headford Arms is a Pubbe then I put it to the court that Mr Meruddu is in fact his own best customer.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2682 on:** 22 November, 2021, 06:17:03 pm »

This is the bonus of corona – it's getting all the loonies to out themselves.

andrewc · « **Reply #2683 on:** 03 December, 2021, 10:47:10 am »

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10270067/Man-seeks-medical-help-artillery-shell-lodged-rectum.html

"slipped & fell on it"....

Let the bum jokes commence!

T42 · « **Reply #2684 on:** 03 December, 2021, 11:11:15 am »

Sorry, not really a joke: I'm just wondering how big a dose of lead he'll absorb a posteriori.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2685 on:** 03 December, 2021, 11:35:47 am »

Maybe it was wearing a condom?

Jaded · « **Reply #2686 on:** 03 December, 2021, 12:45:25 pm »

Sounds like a rim shot.

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #2687 on:** 04 December, 2021, 09:34:03 am »

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

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2688 on:** 06 December, 2021, 05:38:44 pm »

Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 04 December, 2021, 09:34:03 am

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

The colleges are notorious for under paying staff.

In a time when restaurants are upping pay and perks, there is no surprise that the colleges are losing staff.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #2689 on:** 07 December, 2021, 09:16:09 am »

Yes, this one is slightly more serious than the majority of stuff in this thread. Potential terrorist takes laptop to shop for mending

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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"

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2690 on:** 07 December, 2021, 11:15:47 am »

That’s got to be up there with Mohammed A. Salameh trotting off to Ryder to ask for his rental van deposit back after the World Trade Centre bombing.

Kim · « **Reply #2691 on:** 07 December, 2021, 11:39:09 am »

Terrorism top tip: Hide your explosives manual in a folder of goat pr0n before b0rking your computer.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2692 on:** 07 December, 2021, 12:14:58 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 07 December, 2021, 11:15:47 am

That’s got to be up there with 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.

Terrorists so bloody incompetent that they can't even drive a car.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2693 on:** 15 December, 2021, 06:31:48 pm »

The Bristol Post has perpetrated some absolutely top grade journalism, by illustrating this headline:

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Stressed council staff would 'rather stack shelves at Asda'

with this photograph:

Clicking on the article reveals that it is actually about the subject in the photo, not the headline.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2694 on:** 21 December, 2021, 01:08:03 pm »

Earlier this year, Bristol was likened to San Francisco on the grounds that both have hills, a famous bridge and, allegedly, a cool, hip vibe. But Teh Capital of the West of England is not content with Silicon Valley. Oh no! First we take Haight-Ashbury, then we take Manhattan (Berlin has to wait a bit).

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Committee chair Richard Eddy admitted the plans were controversial, but said he thought they suited and enhanced the prominent central city location.

“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.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/st-mary-le-port-development-plans-split-opinion/

New York's Central Park needs no introduction, for reference here is Bristol's Castle Park on google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/3NDEXAfUdSBgkZuRA

It has to also be admitted that Councillor Eddy has form for dickish remarks.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2695 on:** 23 December, 2021, 05:34:14 pm »

https://www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/19802592.northwich-woman-jailed-cocaine-fuelled-sex-dog/

Love, that's not how you go "dogging".

Kim · « **Reply #2696 on:** 23 December, 2021, 05:44:30 pm »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 23 December, 2021, 05:34:14 pm

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.

Jaded · « **Reply #2697 on:** 23 December, 2021, 05:51:36 pm »

How to make an Alsatian cross.

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #2698 on:** 23 December, 2021, 06:12:35 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 23 December, 2021, 05:44:30 pm

Quote from: rogerzilla on 23 December, 2021, 05:34:14 pm
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.

You wait till JK Rowling hears about this...

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2699 on:** 27 December, 2021, 03:52:45 pm »

Dad goes to Indian restaurant on Christmas Day then complains food’s not ‘traditional’. Stoke. Enuff said.