Author Topic: A random thread for small things that don't really warrant a thread of their own (Read 3039641 times)

andrewc · « **Reply #30850 on:** 09 May, 2024, 10:39:14 pm »

You’d think that people shagging on campsites would remember how well sound travels at night….

Kim · « **Reply #30851 on:** 09 May, 2024, 10:43:09 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 09 May, 2024, 10:39:14 pm

You’d think that people shagging on campsites would remember how well sound travels at night….

Have you taken a wrong turn and ended up at The Barge Inn?

andrewc · « **Reply #30852 on:** 10 May, 2024, 07:56:23 am »

That couple were trying to be discreet, but failed. The 2 beered up Dutch chaps in a nearby pitch have no excuse for being so loud, late at night & now early in the morning. I contemplated burning down their tent in the middle of the night, but decided that having to drive a shit condition Austin Allegro was punishment enough.

Regulator · « **Reply #30853 on:** 10 May, 2024, 09:32:17 am »

Quote from: andrewc on 10 May, 2024, 07:56:23 am

That couple were trying to be discreet, but failed. The 2 beered up Dutch chaps in a nearby pitch have no excuse for being so loud, late at night & now early in the morning. I contemplated burning down their tent in the middle of the night, but decided that having to drive a shit condition Austin Allegro was punishment enough.

Were they the couple shagging?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #30854 on:** 10 May, 2024, 09:34:41 am »

Quote from: Kim on 09 May, 2024, 10:43:09 pm

Quote from: andrewc on 09 May, 2024, 10:39:14 pm
You’d think that people shagging on campsites would remember how well sound travels at night….

Have you taken a wrong turn and ended up at The Barge Inn?

You'd never hear anyone shagging at the Barge Inn over the bongos.

woollypigs · « **Reply #30855 on:** 11 May, 2024, 04:46:30 pm »

This is just going to go bad ain't it

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/11/bird-flu-strain-found-in-us-cows-flown-to-uk-lab-for-testing

Books and movies about the end of the world, started just like that

Wowbagger · « **Reply #30856 on:** 12 May, 2024, 12:42:08 am »

Never before in the history of human stupidity have we had such a plethora of plausible possible Ends of the World.

perpetual dan · « **Reply #30857 on:** 12 May, 2024, 09:28:07 pm »

I'm in one of those near the airport cultural desert pubs, for a bite to eat. They have golf on TV and auto-tuned rnb on the stereo. The best bit so far was the remixed Jamiroquai blending with the erectile disfunction advert.

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Beardy · « **Reply #30858 on:** 14 May, 2024, 05:05:41 pm »

I bought myself a new soldering iron after the magic smoke escaped from my eons old ex work one.

I decided to fix the fairy lights that have been draped across a few trees at the bottom of the garden for a several of years. The initial fix didn’t work.

On further investigation it looks like there’s a break in continuity somewhere along the string.

Can I be arsed to start dissecting the string to find the failure. Given that the lights are probably over ten years old and I can replace the whole thing for a tenner I suspect that they’re destined for land fill.

Beardy · « **Reply #30859 on:** 15 May, 2024, 03:22:29 pm »

Apparently the post’s in the Czech

Graun link

Basil · « **Reply #30860 on:** 15 May, 2024, 06:11:43 pm »

Just had my n^th covid jab. I shall take my new super powers down the pub.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #30861 on:** 15 May, 2024, 07:11:05 pm »

It seems I'm not eligible for a covid jab yet. I'm not even 70!

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robgul · « **Reply #30862 on:** 15 May, 2024, 08:17:37 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 15 May, 2024, 06:11:43 pm

Just had my n^th covid jab. I shall take my new super powers down the pub.

I too have an upper arm like a pin-cushion . . . I've lost count of how many I've had.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #30863 on:** 15 May, 2024, 11:44:41 pm »

My dear friend, the Rev.Enid, a methodist minister, has been celebrating her 70th birthday today. She has just posted the following on Facebook.

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Thankyou everyone for my birthday good wishes. 70 is just as good as 69!!××

Take it from me, people, that the double entendre within that sentence is completely unintentional. Which makes it very amusing indeed.

hellymedic · « **Reply #30864 on:** **Yesterday** at 01:18:29 am »

I visited my Mum today.
She had just collected the mail from her mailbox when she collected me from the taxi.
There were half a dozen leaflets from various election candidates. These must have arrived AFTER the election on 2 May.
Mum might not collect her mail EVERY day but she won’t have left it a fortnight.

What a waste of paper/money/hot air!

Royal Mail leaves me underwhelmed...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #30865 on:** **Yesterday** at 01:18:56 pm »

I don't recall having any election material delivered by post, in any election. The local party machines seem to be well supplied with volunteers who manage to find our letterbox. Apart from the Tories, who simply don't bother.

Kim · « **Reply #30866 on:** **Yesterday** at 03:12:28 pm »

We got a fair bit (both RM and volunteer-delivered) in the few days before the election. Which was little use as we'd postal voted in a timely manner.

Presumably the parties know that recent familiarity outweighs a few early postal votes.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #30867 on:** **Yesterday** at 03:53:19 pm »

It's also easier to whip up volunteer enthusiasm nearer the date. This could be a factor even for RM deliveries; envelopes don't fill themselves.

bhoot · « **Reply #30868 on:** **Yesterday** at 04:20:13 pm »

As a leaflet delivering volunteer I can confirm that we tried to make one round just after we expected postal voting forms to land (and there are a lot of postal votes in Tower Hamlets)

Wowbagger · « **Reply #30869 on:** **Yesterday** at 09:05:16 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on Yesterday at 01:18:56 pm

I don't recall having any election material delivered by post, in any election. The local party machines seem to be well supplied with volunteers who manage to find our letterbox. Apart from the Tories, who simply don't bother.

IIRC every candidate has the option of one piece of election literature being delivered by post.

hellymedic · « **Reply #30870 on:** **Yesterday** at 10:00:38 pm »

Election literature was not enveloped.

Kim · « **Reply #30871 on:** **Today** at 12:21:04 am »

A random sheep furry on Mastodon just taught me how to whistle^[1]. Something I've been failing to manage since I was a child.

_{[1] Briefly. I'm now dizzy and can't seem to get it to work again.}

Pingu · « **Reply #30872 on:** **Today** at 12:32:50 am »

Quote from: Kim on Today at 12:21:04 am

A random sheep furry on Mastodon just taught me how to whistle^[1]. Something I've been failing to manage since I was a child.

_{[1] Briefly. I'm now dizzy and can't seem to get it to work again.}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBk79X3rMyc

Tim Hall · « **Reply #30873 on:** **Today** at 07:20:04 am »

Quote from: Pingu on Today at 12:32:50 am

Quote from: Kim on Today at 12:21:04 am
A random sheep furry on Mastodon just taught me how to whistle^[1]. Something I've been failing to manage since I was a child.

_{[1] Briefly. I'm now dizzy and can't seem to get it to work again.}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBk79X3rMyc

Without watching, I guessed what that clip shows. Then I watched. I wasn't disappointed.

citoyen · « **Reply #30874 on:** **Today** at 07:46:19 am »

Quote from: Tim Hall on Today at 07:20:04 am

Quote from: Pingu on Today at 12:32:50 am
Quote from: Kim on Today at 12:21:04 am
A random sheep furry on Mastodon just taught me how to whistle^[1]. Something I've been failing to manage since I was a child.

_{[1] Briefly. I'm now dizzy and can't seem to get it to work again.}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBk79X3rMyc
Without watching, I guessed what that clip shows. Then I watched. I wasn't disappointed.

Ha! Yes, +1