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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2022 13:36 
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Saw this on the way to Buxton last week and MrsA managed to get a photo today


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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Heh, drove past that with Z the other week.


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I was there two weeks ago. A real beex nucleus.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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@markg and @zardoz I'm camping in France next to some people from Preston. What's a good thing to say to people from Preston?


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@markg and @zardoz I'm camping in France next to some people from Preston. What's a good thing to say to people from Preston?

"Ay up"


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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Here's a fun Grauniad photo essay about Romanian bears and bear culture to brighten your day.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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This is a road sign which has appeared on the corner of the crescent in question. Every time I drove past it, I was sure something was off.
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This is the sign on the other side of the crescent. Of course, it should only have one L.

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So these signs must be quite far apart for no one to have noticed when it was being installed, right?

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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This is a road sign which has appeared on the corner of the crescent in question. Every time I drove past it, I was sure something was off.
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This is the sign on the other side of the crescent. Of course, it should only have one L.

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So these signs must be quite far apart for no one to have noticed when it was being installed, right?

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When we visited my mother last I noticed they’d put a new road sign up about 2m from her front door and spelled it wrong, but she hadn’t noticed.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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TheVision wrote:
This is a road sign which has appeared on the corner of the crescent in question. Every time I drove past it, I was sure something was off.
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This is the sign on the other side of the crescent. Of course, it should only have one L.

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PXL_20220815_105625440.jpg


So these signs must be quite far apart for no one to have noticed when it was being installed, right?

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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Isn't that lovely?

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What feels like about 10 military jets just flew towards Exeter from Plymouth!

I was inside for the first few, and thought "once you've heard it, you've probably missed it" But the noises just kept coming, I went outside, and managed to catch 2 of them in the distance, before getting my camera out and recording the last one.

They were not going super fast, but they were quite low.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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There was an F-15 rumbling over my house a few hours ago, according to flightradar24. Cloud too low to see it though.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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@markg and @zardoz I'm camping in France next to some people from Preston. What's a good thing to say to people from Preston?

“Ha, you didn’t get an IKEA”

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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Zardoz wrote:
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@markg and @zardoz I'm camping in France next to some people from Preston. What's a good thing to say to people from Preston?

“Ha, you didn’t get an IKEA”


Turned out he didn't really do speech, just silently angry long distance cycling and tent erecting.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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Protests and counter protests in central Oxford today because a drag queen is reading stories to kids in the library.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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It's a ridiculous thing to be angry about.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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It is a bloody distraction, the same as number plates for cyclists

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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It is a bloody distraction, the same as number plates for cyclists

It'd never catch on, and they know it.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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Think of the vanity plate possibilities! BMC owners would be all over that shit.


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That is a good point.. I could get it tattooed on my arse :)

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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You need to lean the 1's in at the bottom.


I see what you did there :)

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 51
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This is quite the caper!

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So sad about Michael Jackson dying.


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Someone on our street letting off fireworks!

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Someone on our street letting off fireworks!

I take it that that's not usual on your street. We get them every week on our estate, around 5 days out of 7, often after midnight. Even if they're quite distant one of the dogs will be barking as he really hates them.


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It happens from time to time, but not usually after midnight in the middle of September. I think from where they were coming from, it was the family that have 4 or 5 off-roaders in various states of repair in their drive/parked up on the road.

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Ugh, people with abandoned 4x4s on their property are the worst...


I don't think any of them are abandoned, I don't know if they buy them knackered and then do them up, but apart from two or three they seem to change quite frequently. I think they are just really into off roading and doing up cars. (and possibly letting off late night fireworks once in a blue moon)

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Ugh, people with abandoned 4x4s on their property are the worst...

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I was today years old when I actually listened to the lyrics being sung in Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People and realised that not only is it not a happy-go-lucky song, it's a song about a school shooting and it's not even subtle about it.


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I was today years old when I actually listened to the lyrics being sung in Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People and realised that not only is it not a happy-go-lucky song, it's a song about a school shooting and it's not even subtle about it.

Yeah, I don't think most people realise. Thought it was really odd to hear it playing in Asda the other day.


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I can only assume the less than stellar diction of the singer is to blame, but the chorus is pretty clear, Gaz :D


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Yeah, for real. It's just one of those songs that I tend to hear 'in the background', when I'm focussing on other things. Today it came through on my headphones while I was at my computer.


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I've a long history of not paying attention to the words of songs (I think some intellectual snobbery somewhere just assumes they are made to fit the rhythm and don't matter), so I hadn't noticed Pumped Up Kicks wasn't a jolly-along song either.


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I've spent the week considering getting an electric blanket. This comes straight after spending way too much time choosing antimacassars for my armchair. I think I'm getting old.


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I've spent the week considering getting an electric blanket. This comes straight after spending way too much time choosing antimacassars for my armchair. I think I'm getting old.

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