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  • O good - they got to the bottom of it...
    Merry Vole wrote: »
    I saw 'Schrodinger's galaxy found'. I didn't know our Shipmate had lost his galaxy.

    He had, and he hadn't.

  • O good - they got to the bottom of it...

    I see what you did there!

  • You always cheer me up @Bishops Finger
  • If they'd said they had found Heisenberg's galaxy, you'd never be 100% sure.
  • Merry Vole wrote: »
    You always cheer me up @Bishops Finger

    We aim to please.
    🙇‍♂️
  • Not yet in the Daily Wail but I'm sure it will be soon...

    Activists call for renaming of Pork Pie Roundabout in Leicester

    Details here

    I take that personally - we passed that every time we went to my wife's grandparents' house in South Wigston, when we lived on the other side of Leicester. Long live the Pork Pie Roundabout!
  • But .... shouldn't it be in Melton Mowbray?
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    But .... shouldn't it be in Melton Mowbray?
    My thought exactly.

  • There might be some point in renaming the Pork Pie Roundabout (if the name really is offensive to someone), but to call it the Vegan Pie Roundabout is just plain daft.

    The Big Round Brick Library Roundabout would be more sensible...

    YMMV.
  • Isn't "pork pie" a type of hat? Maybe call it "Flat Hat Roundabout".
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    mousethief wrote: »
    Isn't "pork pie" a type of hat? Maybe call it "Flat Hat Roundabout".
    Oh dear.
    This is wikipedia on what a pork pie is. It also explains the references to Melton Mowbray. The hat gets its name from looking like a pork pie.


  • Enoch wrote: »
    mousethief wrote: »
    Isn't "pork pie" a type of hat? Maybe call it "Flat Hat Roundabout".
    Oh dear.
    This is wikipedia on what a pork pie is. It also explains the references to Melton Mowbray. The hat gets its name from looking like a pork pie.

    Yes, and?
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    mousethief wrote: »
    Enoch wrote: »
    mousethief wrote: »
    Isn't "pork pie" a type of hat? Maybe call it "Flat Hat Roundabout".
    Oh dear.
    This is wikipedia on what a pork pie is. It also explains the references to Melton Mowbray. The hat gets its name from looking like a pork pie.

    Yes, and?

    As is so often the case with such dishes, our experience with having twice eaten pork pie in Mowbray, it's something best avoided.
  • Gee D wrote: »
    mousethief wrote: »
    Enoch wrote: »
    mousethief wrote: »
    Isn't "pork pie" a type of hat? Maybe call it "Flat Hat Roundabout".
    Oh dear.
    This is wikipedia on what a pork pie is. It also explains the references to Melton Mowbray. The hat gets its name from looking like a pork pie.

    Yes, and?

    As is so often the case with such dishes, our experience with having twice eaten pork pie in Mowbray, it's something best avoided.

    This has what to do with naming a roundabout?
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Apparently a lot, going from the posts following that yesterday from RPM.
  • BBC: "Plan to increase bison environment near Canterbury".
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited August 2022
    This has to do with the recent release of Bison back into the wild, and has nothing whatever to do (AFAIK) with the C of E or its locally-based Primate... :wink:

    https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/update-issued-week-after-wild-7378728

  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Also from Kentlive:
    Man attacked with baseball bat in Canterbury sparks search for silver BMW

    Couldn't people start searches for things in a slightly less dramatic way, please?
  • This has to do with the recent release of Bison back into the wild, and has nothing whatever to do (AFAIK) with the C of E or its locally-based Primate... :wink:

    https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/update-issued-week-after-wild-7378728

    I used to cycle through those woods on a daily basis - glad I didn't come across a bison crossing in the dark!
  • From the Reading Eagle:
    Bathtub in transport goes airborne on Route 422; motorcyclist injured
    As one does....
  • From the BBC:
    Hong Kong judge finds five guilty over children's books
    About time Blyton's little scamps faced some discipline.
  • Title of a Washington Post YouTube livestream: WATCH LIVE | Queen Elizabeth II dies after 70 years on British throne. The phrasing seems a bit macabre.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    They must have chaneged the headline by the time I looked - it's now saying, "Watch live - mourners gather at Buckingham Palace ..."
  • BBC earlier had "Charles' first full day on the throne". Personally I'd want some privacy if I were that bunged up.
  • Piglet wrote: »
    They must have chaneged the headline by the time I looked - it's now saying, "Watch live - mourners gather at Buckingham Palace ..."

    That hyphen really is necessary...
    :naughty:
  • KarlLB wrote: »
    BBC earlier had "Charles' first full day on the throne". Personally I'd want some privacy if I were that bunged up.

    Er ... wrong throne?
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    edited September 2022
    KarlLB wrote: »
    BBC earlier had "Charles' first full day on the throne". Personally I'd want some privacy if I were that bunged up.

    Er ... wrong throne?

    It didn't say, so...

    (For anyone who's wandered in from somewhere this slang term isn't in use, "throne" is used colloquially and somewhat humourously in the UK to refer to a quite different seat with a very specific function)
  • And, while on is sacred (perhaps), the other is definitely holey (on top|).
  • Piglet wrote: »
    They must have chaneged the headline by the time I looked - it's now saying, "Watch live - mourners gather at Buckingham Palace ..."

    That hyphen really is necessary...
    :naughty:

    Actually a dash is necessary.
  • mousethief wrote: »
    Piglet wrote: »
    They must have chaneged the headline by the time I looked - it's now saying, "Watch live - mourners gather at Buckingham Palace ..."

    That hyphen really is necessary...
    :naughty:

    Actually a dash is necessary.

    em or en ?
  • cgichard wrote: »
    mousethief wrote: »
    Piglet wrote: »
    They must have chaneged the headline by the time I looked - it's now saying, "Watch live - mourners gather at Buckingham Palace ..."

    That hyphen really is necessary...
    :naughty:

    Actually a dash is necessary.

    em or en ?

    em.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited September 2022
    BBC website: "Queen's coffin travelling from Balmoral to Edinburgh". Wot, empty?

    "Wales Online": "The smallest church in the British Isles found on a Welsh beach". Who so carelessly lost it?
  • y?

    "Wales Online": "The smallest church in the British Isles found on a Welsh beach". Who so carelessly lost it?

    Some adventurous kids had borrowed it - they were building a whole sand village, not just a castle.
  • Gee D wrote: »
    y?

    "Wales Online": "The smallest church in the British Isles found on a Welsh beach". Who so carelessly lost it?

    Some adventurous kids had borrowed it - they were building a whole sand village, not just a castle.

    Like those wretched Victorian Christmas Villages that romantics nostalgic for a time their grandparents postdate spend thousands of dollars on.
  • mousethief wrote: »
    Like those wretched Victorian Christmas Villages that romantics nostalgic for a time their grandparents postdate spend thousands of dollars on.

    Victorian Christmas Villages have never been part of the scene here, save on cards.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    We had friends in Newfoundland whose sitting-rooms were positively festooned with Christmas villages, usually lit from within by fairy lights or fake candles.

    I suppose they're quite pretty, but they're also irredeemably naff. :naughty:
  • Piglet wrote: »
    We had friends in Newfoundland whose sitting-rooms were positively festooned with Christmas villages, usually lit from within by fairy lights or fake candles.

    I suppose they're quite pretty, but they're also irredeemably naff. :naughty:

    My mother-in-law was someone who had one of those villages, too. We always knew what to get her for Christmas since another village piece was always welcome. Saved our hides many a time!
  • Piglet wrote: »
    We had friends in Newfoundland whose sitting-rooms were positively festooned with Christmas villages, usually lit from within by fairy lights or fake candles.

    I suppose they're quite pretty, but they're also irredeemably naff. :naughty:

    I am imagining Thomas Kinkade pictures in reality, which is a vision of hell, IMO.

    Fortunately, not something we tend to do over here. I would refuse to visit anyone over the period who was into that.
  • From BBC website: "Warm banks to get cash from Welsh government".

    You'd have to find a branch first though, so many have closed. And you'd have thought they had money to burn, anyway.

    I think invereted commas were called for!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    edited September 2022
    Warm banks??

    ETA: I think I've just realised what you're getting at - "warming" banks, like food banks but with heat?

    You're still going to be cold again whenever you go outside ...
  • Yes, that is what they are - community centres and the like.

    Perhaps everyone who comes in will be given a hot water bottle to clutch unnderneath their coat.

    (Actually it's sad comment on our society if we've come to this).
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Isn't it just? :cry:
  • Worst headline of the day, from a West London local newspaper:

    "BREAKING: Jealous boyfriend jailed for life for stabbing man he thought was dating his girlfriend to death."
  • From BBC: "Sultan of Brunei pins RAF wings on son". Ouch!
  • Also BBC: "Can Tommy Cooper's statue help unwanted rabbits?"

    Strange things happen in Caerphilly!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    That's definitely one to file under "what the hell had they been smoking, and can I have some?" :mrgreen:
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Something which popped up when I was watching some YouTube stuff. An MSNBC video headline:
    Trump Judges Reminds Us The Rule Of Law Is A 'Human Institution'

    There must be an 's' too many, surely, somewhere!
  • From today's "i": "Noble Mark can make the most of bottom weight".

    Sadly, Mark is a racehorse.
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