Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: Kim on 03 October, 2022, 12:35:22 am
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After the success of last year (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=117092.msg2680653#msg2680653), this clearly now warrants its own thread...
I've lovingly curated another 13 of Silly Oak's finest fly-tipped fridges.
(https://www.ductilebiscuit.net/fridge_calendar/cover_preview.png)
Order here (https://www.ductilebiscuit.net/fridge_calendar/)
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I think you already know that I do.
Pls & thx.
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Yes please.
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Yes please!
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I will take one please kim .
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:)
Where will you get them printed? That's a good price, I think.
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I'll have 3, please. I found another ex-brummie who wanted one of last year's.
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*bump* before I get off my arse and get these printed.
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And they're back from the printers!
(https://www.ductilebiscuit.net/fridge_calendar/2023_example_cover.jpg)
Order page here. (https://www.ductilebiscuit.net/fridge_calendar/)
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And they're back from the printers!
(https://www.ductilebiscuit.net/fridge_calendar/2023_example_cover.jpg)
Order page here. (https://www.ductilebiscuit.net/fridge_calendar/)
Order duly placed.
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Ditto.
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Time for a wander to the postbox, before the pile gets any heavier... :thumbsup:
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Time for a wander to the postbox, before the pile gets any heavier... :thumbsup:
Wait! Don't post mine just yet. PM en route!
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A fellow UoB alumnus has requested Horse's Willy Shops* Of Selly Oak, but I don't think there are 12.
You could chuck in massage parlours*** and curry houses and call it "Nightlife of Selly Oak"?
*chippys that sell saveloys, both circumcised and uncircumcised.
** in the late 80s, you could choose from Cuddles, Penny's Tonal Therapy or The Shape 'n' Health Gym, the latter of which was located conveniently between the campus and the OVT-as-was.
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Chippies aren't what they used to be. Adams Place turned into a Dominos, making the nearest proper chippy the Dolphin (nextdoor to Basil's local). I expect some of the fried chicken emporia do horse willies, but I haven't looked too closely. Vodbull and vegan shakes are where it's at these days.
Meanwhile, they're molishing a branch of The Scottish Restaurant up on the retail park, which is currently inconveniencing anyone trying to use the cycle racks. Apparently they've applied for a 24 hour licence, much to the upset of the sort of people who worry about oiks doing crimes. (https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/police-warn-late-night-opening-25360310)
I had to resort to googling for massage parlours. (How did these things used to be advertised? Was there a particularly stuck-together section of the Yellow Pages?) Apparently Penny's is the suspicously out-of-place-looking door between the falafel place and the bubbleworks. The mysterious shop next to the chemist on Oak Tree Lane used to be one called Manyana, but appears not to have survived the pandemic.
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If "Penny" actually exists, she must be in her 60s or 70s by now.
The one constant in Selly Oak must be the Dilshad ("the Dilsh"). Survives mainly because it will still do sit-down meals until stupid o'clock, takeaways until even later, and tolerates boorish and or racist students. Used to have a large fish tank with a one-eyed goldfish.
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Kim - when I tried to order (a friend of a friend is a former selly oaker - grew up round the corner from you!) it won't let me pay by credit card without creating a paypal account. Is there any way to pay otherwise?
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Is the Selly Oak Shopping Park what used to be called Battery Park BITD? I was propositioned by a bloke in the toilets of The Great Oak pub there one night, which was apparently gay night.
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Kim - when I tried to order (a friend of a friend is a former selly oaker - grew up round the corner from you!) it won't let me pay by credit card without creating a paypal account. Is there any way to pay otherwise?
"Damn and blast Paypal!", said Kim, the words coming easily through force of habit.
I'll PM you some BACS details...
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I get a nice big “pay with debit or credit card” button bellow the login button.
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I get a nice big “pay with debit or credit card” button bellow the login button.
So did I. Which was nice. It would have been even nicer if it actually worked.
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I get a nice big “pay with debit or credit card” button bellow the login button.
So did I. Which was nice. It would have been even nicer if it actually worked.
Presunktly. It let me fill in everything and then refused to process the transaction without the mandatory fields completing, namely email address and username for creating a new paypal account... if I wanted one of those, I wouldn't be trying to pay by credit card would I! Anyway, Kim has provided an alternative so the marathon running former Silly Oaker that I know can get a little xmas surprise :)
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Royal Mail has delivered. :thumbsup:
Fanx.
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Arrived here too :thumbsup:
Well, not here here. More there here, with there being where I used to live and which address PayPal refuses to let me change.
Luckily, there is only a 10 minute walk from here, and I'm on good terms with the current occupier.
Nice calendar. I see Alton Road is doing a lot of the heavy lifting this year.
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It was St Edward's Road last year. I suppose that allows us to triangulate the barycentre of landlord roguery. (Upper Selly Oak is disappointing fridge-wise.)
Except that's just the most picturesque fridges. Dawlish Road deserves honourable mention for rubbish ones that didn't make the final cut.
Also, fridges migrate. Presumably as people move them out of the way, or hope to make them somebody else's problem. A bit like Biiiins, in that respect.
(Really observant readers will note that 2023's January is the same fridge as 2022's July, because climate change.)
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Ironically, our postman left ours behind a dead front door which I have yet to take to the tip. :thumbsup:
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January's is very beautiful.
Amazed that Heeley Road doesn't feature. It was always pretty scummy and full of student houses. Do students still have houses, or are they all being reamed by the university for hall fees?
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I have Heeley Road fridges in my collection, but the narrow pavement and proliferation of parked cars means they aren't very good photos.
Yeah, pretty much everything between the Raddlebarn Road and the uni is 90% student HMOs. Landlords are steadily upgrading them with dormer windows and cardboard walls to 6 en-suite rooms, much to the delight of the local electricity grid. Hence all the discarded fridges.
Meanwhile, some commercial rabbit-hutches with woefully inadequate WiFi[1] have sprung up in the Grange Road area.
[1] This has caused all sorts of problems as covid caused the students to suddenly need to do vast amounts of video conferencing.
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Mine has arrived thank you kim .
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Thanks Kim.
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Absolutely! Thanks!
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Still a couple of calendars left if anybody wants one...
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You could pimp them on the UoB Faecebook group.
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Just wondering if there's going to be a 2024 version.
Greater value for money as there's an extra day...
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The Walthamstow (unofficial) Tourist Board has just announced the 2024 Abandoned Mattresses calendar: https://walthamstowtourism.wordpress.com/
Time to get weaving, Grasshopper.
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It was your post elsewhere re the Walthamstow Tourist Board that prompted my question.
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I've been slacking in the fridge-spotting department of late, but Sunday's ride yielded a Dawlish Road double-fridge bonus, so anything's possible...
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The Walthamstow (unofficial) Tourist Board has just announced the 2024 Abandoned Mattresses calendar: https://walthamstowtourism.wordpress.com/
Time to get weaving, Grasshopper.
It seems that not all those mattresses are in Walthamstow...
https://www.bristol247.com/culture/art/abandoned-bristol-mattresses-star-new-calendar/
Gemma describes her former east London neighbourhood of Walthamstow as “the epicentre for abandoned furniture”.
“You would find huddles of mattresses loitering like they owned the streets, like mini gangs. I even made a film about them.
“The calendar started in 2011 as part of an art exhibit I did. I didn’t think anyone would buy them so I just got five printed. I then got 60 pre-orders from local residents. People just keep buying them.
“I now have customers all over the world. I thought everyone would be bored of it by now.
“When I moved to Bedminster last year, I was saddened by the lack of street mattresses, but the short supply was very photogenic as it would get tagged or beautified; even Bristol fly-tipping got gentrified.
“Last summer I was worried I didn’t have enough good mattresses for the calendar so I went on day trips to different parts of Bristol.
“It was great getting to know the different areas and I was happy to find that Easton was the mattress mothership delivering six mattresses in 60 minutes.”.
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Yes, I suspected she’d moved due to the Several of pictures of not-Walthamstow mattresses that have popped up on the Tourist Board's Farcebok page int the last year or two.
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The Walthamstow (unofficial) Tourist Board has just announced the 2024 Abandoned Mattresses calendar: https://walthamstowtourism.wordpress.com/
Time to get weaving, Grasshopper.
Has anyone looked to see if there's a portal that leads from Walthamstow to the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta?
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The Walthamstow (unofficial) Tourist Board has just announced the 2024 Abandoned Mattresses calendar: https://walthamstowtourism.wordpress.com/
Time to get weaving, Grasshopper.
Has anyone looked to see if there's a portal that leads from Walthamstow to the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta?
I think it’s round the back of the former police station on Forest Road.
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I'd be up for buying one should the tuits of the circular variety become available.
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I'd be up for buying one should the tuits of the circular variety become available.
And me.
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The Walthamstow (unofficial) Tourist Board has just announced the 2024 Abandoned Mattresses calendar: https://walthamstowtourism.wordpress.com/
Time to get weaving, Grasshopper.
Has anyone looked to see if there's a portal that leads from Walthamstow to the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta?
He doesn't brag about it, but that's how Mr. L. got there.
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I could probably manage Flat Pack Furniture of Swindon. Chipboard looks particularly rank after a few days of rain.
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I've been slacking in the fridge-spotting department of late, but Sunday's ride yielded a Dawlish Road double-fridge bonus, so anything's possible...
So, I think I've drummed up some custom for a couple of '24 ones if you do...
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Okay, because I've been somewhat busy with other things, the 2024 Fridges Of Selly Oak calendar will be a
half-arsed last-minute Exclusive! Limited edition! print run of ten items, on a first come first served basis. £14.60 posted because the postage has gone up and I didn't get it to the printers two months ago.
PM (or email) me if you want one.
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Apparently they are now being printed...
Still a few up for grabs if people want one.
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A bargain for a strictly limited collector's edition.
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The calendars are now in the hands of Parcel Force...
3 remain un-dibbsed.
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Does Heeley Road feature yet?
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I have so far only encountered one abandoned fridge on Heely Road, and it wasn't picturesque enough for the calendar. I suspect the problem is that the pavement is too narrow to abandon a fridge without detriment to the ability to park one's shabby builder van, and they get hoiked round the corner to be abandoned on Exeter Road or similar.
It's Dawlish and St Edwards that seem to be the real fridge hotcold-spots. Though you have to pay attention with Dawlish, as the fridges tend to migrate downhill over time, and you can end up with dozens of photos of the same fridge.
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It's Dawlish and St Edwards that seem to be the real fridge hotcold-spots. Though you have to pay attention with Dawlish, as the fridges tend to migrate downhill over time, and you can end up with dozens of photos of the same fridge.
Maybe there's a marketing opportunity for a special edition "Fridge of the year" calendar?
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And the calendars have arrived! Only one really embarrassing design cockup that I've noticed...
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2023 on the front cover?
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Ha, no. Something daft with layers that's easily missed on screen, but obvious on paper.
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Okay, they're all accounted for. Maybe next year...
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Thanks Kim. It arrived this morning.
July amused me. :thumbsup:
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Mine arrived too. I'm very impressed - have you started to compose the pictures, or do you just have a good eye?
March looks like one fridge has been sent to Coventry by the other two.
April looks like a crime scene, with the murder weapon left arrogantly.
June reminds me of the scene in the Godfather where Don Corleone is gunned down in the street while buying fruit.
July is funny ;D
Was September defenestrated?
October is the Italian Job ("You're only supposed to..." etc)
And is that your 'bent in December?
Excellent work.
The friends that I bought copies for last year are genuinely unhappy that there aren't enough to go around this year, describing last year's as "a source of endless amusement".
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Mine has arrived too. Very pleased. Thanks, Kim.
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Our postie finally decided to visit today - very pleased with it :thumbsup:
July is excellent.
It's heading back up to the Brum area to my inlaws, who will love it. Thanks Kim!