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20 hours ago, bickster said:

Fred West's ashes were scattered on the beach at Barry (not an) Island

 

Which in a strange twist of fate, means he could potentially now be under my greenhouse.

1 minute ago, blandy said:

Is Surrey a hotbed of Scottish nationalism? I had the impression it was more of a hate the French, cyclists and teachers kinda place?

I can’t be sure but I think I overheard someone say it was absolutely full of kilts.

Where’s Nichola’s book about the deep state and big camper? That’s what I want to know.

5 minutes ago, Mandy Lifeboats said:

White Anglo Saxon Protestant? 

Racist! 

**** ‘em!

22 minutes ago, Mandy Lifeboats said:

On a similar topic.....

You can't kill ants in a microwave oven if you remove the rotating plate.  

They are small enough to walk between the microwaves.  

Gerbils aren't............

 

4 minutes ago, T-Dog said:

Well, I'm **** now working out which wildlife I can put in the microwave if I don't know how to cook crispy pancakes and wedges at the same time

Field research, when I worked in a posh restaurant, the smallest thing we killed in a microwave was a wasp.

23 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

Taylor Swift Format Watch. 16 versions of her latest album, so far. Not including curated playlists on the various streaming platforms. 

I noticed this evening my local record shop has 4 versions in stock, each with 1 different track on it.

Personally, as someone happy not to be a completist, part of me thinks best of luck to her if some tube decides they need to buy all versions.

But by the same token, it does actually suck, and hoovers up industry capacity and kids spending money she really doesn’t need.

So I’m stuck somewhere between it being fine, and it being selfish and greedy.

2 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

I was signalling, did you catch it?

Yeah, I saw it 

Don’t forget, you aren’t allowed to compare him with a Nazi, it’s only allowed the other way around.

Now that’s a photo…

5 minutes ago, Xela said:

Reminds me of this

Very similar vibe, but then I guess its literally a similar thing, Victorian workers terraces placed on cheap uneven land close to the jobs on the water.

And all those ‘salt of the earth / he loved his mum’ scallywags.

I love the urban geography of places like Liverpool. Its always the same, the shittest housing is long gone, the poor housing is still there for the workers walking to the jobs at the ends os the streets. Then, as the land and the aspect improves the houses get larger, gardens appear, ornamentation, parks, wider roads, tree lined pavements for the managers and the council staff.

1 hour ago, bickster said:

*Brean, it's Brean

 

 

It’s a Poundland Barry Island and I have never given it enough attention to spot the spelling.

Laurence Fox?

He’s the bloke that demands more respect for the english flag and has called for a boycott of Nike, yeah?

He’ll eventually wash up on Breen Sands to be met by some old fella in speedos and cowboy boots repeatedly shouting ‘Shithouse!’ at the clouds.

Both still pro independence.

26 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

looks more like a neighbourhood fued .. I'm fed up with those people from Barry coming over making love to my goat , I'll build a moat to stop them 

I must have given this anecdote a dozen times over the years, but just in case I haven’t, here’s the latest version:

We had ourselves a little gang on the island when we were kids, we definitely saw ourselves as a separate tribe. I sort of grew up, a couple of them didn’t. To the point where once they were old enough to have a car, they were once stopped by the police.

Police looked in the boot, and there were petrol bombs. What are these for, asks Mr Police. Now, if I had been there I’m pretty sure my answer would have been “what the bloody hell are they, who’s put them in my bloody car, someone’s going to get a slap for this!”

Jeff’s answer (we’ll call him Jeff, cos that’s his name) was “I was gonna bomb Butlins”.

1 hour ago, bickster said:

I really think it should use the restroom on the mainland  

 

If I put an x somewhere on that map of my choosing, do you agree to stand there at high tide?

1 hour ago, bickster said:

So the island is that little bit of land in the middle of the old dock  

It identifies as an island and you should respect that.

21 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Too right mate

The sentiment is there, not too sure that’s the flag they’d have used.

11 hours ago, bickster said:

Promising to nationalise the railways within 5 years apparently

How very centrist of them

If the flip flopping on this stops here, yes it would be nice.

I wonder what has happened that he is prepared to offer a point of difference between him and the tories on this?

Fingers crossed for some more radicalism.

With petrol at £1.46 a litre, that’s strictly a Christmas present level purchase, not exactly an impulse buy.

29 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

Nobody  rides a bike in your town then ? 

It’s not really a bike riding area, bit hilly. To get to my street, they’d have to get up this street.

So they’re generally quite easy to spot as they are bright purple and loudly gasping for air.

I’m also on the refined west end of town and we tend not to order electric bike takeaways round these executive areas.

Also worth noting the photographic proof here that the island is an island.

Liverpool need to ignore the cost and get Gerrard in.

8 minutes ago, Rodders said:

Pretty sure the new transport minister is reconsidering it in part thankfully. So tedious going at 17mph on wide open roads for absolutely no reason at all, because some terrified drivers assume there are going to be jailed if they go at 20.5mph despite previously going down the same roads at 32/3mph would have been fine under the 30mph, no one would have noticed.  Usual caveat about obviously fine past schools narrow roads, etc, and actually targeting the driving zones. And I do think slower queues make it harder to pull out as cars take longer to drive past. But probably a bit of 6 of one half a dozen of the other with that.

But there are roads which are at 40 in rural areas etc that actually would benefit from adaptations as they have no safe pedestrian walking options at all. Targeted change not blanket change for me Clive. 

Is quite mad noticing the dread in people's eyes if there's even a hint of the 20mph rule about to crop up in conversation, managers ever alert to moving chat on quickly. Welsh tutor made a joke about it one class then immediately felt obliged to reassure everyone we would not be discussing it.

It has definitely very quickly turned in to a very similar dividing line to the greater culture war. You can pretty much guess people’s attitude on 20 from their attitude on all the other things branded woke. You’re right, not many people want to discuss it face to face, it gets heated.

What will be interesting, is who would ask for the speed limit outside their own house to go up, versus how many will want the speed limit raised outside everyone else’s houses. We are, generally, quite a selfish animal where empathy appears to be secondary.

I’ve quite enjoyed being able to cross the road as a pedestrian these last few months. I don’t feel I’ve missed those extra 17 seconds it takes me to get out of town.

Well he’s no Beyoncé.

BBC vox pops.

I’m obviously sensitive to this 20mph thing at the moment, and there was a vox pop section on the local news yesterday, the usual old biddies in Pontypandy being given equal billing to legislation experts and crash injury statistics.

but my stand out favourite was the woman who was very against 20mph. Her reason?

”if you are driving at 20 and someone behind is going faster than you, they could ram in to you”

3 minutes ago, Genie said:

Buying petrol is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman 

You have to remember you don’t need to queue, the hose actually reaches the other side of the bodywork.