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Things that make you go oooh thread....

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Postby scotia » September 29th, 2022, 5:28 pm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-suffolk-63075105

I'm astonished that the car driver survived

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Postby mc2fool » September 30th, 2022, 12:52 pm

Snorvey wrote:You can run, but you can't hide....

An 80 year old man has been convicted of the 1976 murder of Renee and her son Andrew MacRae

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/ne ... oductions/

Non-paywalled article at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-63074084

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Postby UncleEbenezer » September 30th, 2022, 5:20 pm

scotia wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-suffolk-63075105

I'm astonished that the car driver survived


Where was that camera, and who knew in advance precisely where to point it?

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Postby Itsallaguess » September 30th, 2022, 5:37 pm

UncleEbenezer wrote:
scotia wrote:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-suffolk-63075105

I'm astonished that the car driver survived


Where was that camera, and who knew in advance precisely where to point it?


From the article -

Emergency services were called to the A1101 outside RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk at about 12:25 BST on Saturday and the road was closed until 20:15.

Looking at the footage, it looks like the road is on one of the outside edges of the barbed-wire perimeter of RAF Mildenhall, which is likely to have a number of fixed operational CCTV cameras covering such a public-facing area, I imagine.

In fact, having taken a quick look on Google Maps, I think I've found the CCTV camera it's taken from -

https://goo.gl/maps/EvNTi1eNs8K78UD36

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

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Postby swill453 » October 3rd, 2022, 11:54 am

Amazing what you can trip over when strolling on the beach...

Weekend walker stumbles on £90 million haul of cocaine washed up on Welsh beach

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/beach-wal ... -on-shore/

Scott.

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Postby pje16 » October 4th, 2022, 8:48 pm

Snorvey wrote:Cool Britannia

The QE aircraft carrier, New York and British soldiers wearing jet packs.

https://youtu.be/plIFUQ5BeqM

I want one :lol:
but I bet it's not as easy as they make it look

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Postby Redmires » October 4th, 2022, 11:08 pm

swill453 wrote:Amazing what you can trip over when strolling on the beach...

Weekend walker stumbles on £90 million haul of cocaine washed up on Welsh beach

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/beach-wal ... -on-shore/

Scott.


Does he get to keep it if no one claims it after 90 days ?

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Postby UncleEbenezer » October 4th, 2022, 11:40 pm

Redmires wrote:
swill453 wrote:Amazing what you can trip over when strolling on the beach...

Weekend walker stumbles on £90 million haul of cocaine washed up on Welsh beach

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/beach-wal ... -on-shore/

Scott.


Does he get to keep it if no one claims it after 90 days ?

:lol:

Isn't the notional £90 million - or indeed any monetary value - premised on him supplying it to paying users? The police might take an interest in that.

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Postby Boots » October 5th, 2022, 8:51 am

UncleEbenezer wrote: The police might take an interest in that.


<Heavy sigh> "Thank you Sir, I'll give you a crime number. An officer might get back to you, but I wouldn't hold your breath."

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Postby TUK020 » October 5th, 2022, 9:30 am

Snorvey wrote:The guy across the way is getting a wood burner fitted.

He wasnt too happy when I asked him if he was going for the full Pict by replacing his tiled roof with grass sods, putting animal skins on the wall and of an evening, he and the other clan elders were set to gather round and swap stories of hunting buffalo on the open plains.

Isn't life fun north of the border!

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Postby UncleEbenezer » October 5th, 2022, 11:34 am

Snorvey wrote:Well I thought I'd take up farting through his letterbox just to even things up.


Is there a cartoonist in the house? :twisted:

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Postby servodude » October 5th, 2022, 12:22 pm

Snorvey wrote:The guy across the way is getting a wood burner fitted.

He wasnt too happy when I asked him if he was going for the full Pict by replacing his tiled roof with grass sods, putting animal skins on the wall and of an evening, he and the other clan elders were set to gather round and swap stories of hunting buffalo on the open plains.


Shortly after moving to Australia my missus took me to visit a pal she used to work with... who had Scottish ancestry. And you've almost described her house!
It had deer heads and hides - tartan swags - shields with swords behind them. Full Braveheart twattery. The lass judged Highland dancing at the country shows... which meant jumping up and down with your hands above your head in 40deg heat wearing fancy serge dresses trying not to slip on the sweat of the last one - or pass out.
These folk were a bit like the Amish - they'd held on for dear life to whatever tosh their forefathers had brung.
They did however have cold Irn Bru so it wasn't all bad

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Postby AsleepInYorkshire » October 5th, 2022, 1:53 pm

Snorvey wrote:Well I thought I'd take up farting through his letterbox just to even things up.

A hal f arted effort?

AiY(D)

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Postby swill453 » October 5th, 2022, 2:30 pm

Snorvey wrote:I've inspected the lovely shiney pipework that serves the wood burner btw. Holy smoke it looks like something Gazprom would build, except vertical. I honestly thought we'd moved on from burning sh*t in our living rooms in this, the 21st century.

Funnily enough I was looking at a house advert yesterday, this was the bedroom above the log burner in the living room.

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(Pic snipped from Rightmove)

I don't think I'd put up with that.

Scott.

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Postby UncleEbenezer » October 5th, 2022, 3:36 pm

Snorvey wrote:Now how much am I paying for a kW/h.....Nice rates for the windfarm operator!

Isn't that more a case of nice rates for the government under CFD?

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Postby TUK020 » October 5th, 2022, 8:00 pm

swill453 wrote:
Snorvey wrote:I've inspected the lovely shiney pipework that serves the wood burner btw. Holy smoke it looks like something Gazprom would build, except vertical. I honestly thought we'd moved on from burning sh*t in our living rooms in this, the 21st century.

Funnily enough I was looking at a house advert yesterday, this was the bedroom above the log burner in the living room.

Image
(Pic snipped from Rightmove)

I don't think I'd put up with that.

Scott.

Sure it is the soil pipe from above?
Reminds me of the film "Brazil"

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Postby servodude » October 5th, 2022, 9:47 pm

TUK020 wrote:Reminds me of the film "Brazil"


there's little that doesn't these days :(

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Postby WrenChasen » October 6th, 2022, 2:22 pm

Snorvey wrote:Maybe it's just me but, today, this country seems to have a feeling of being extremely knackered.

Is it just me?


Nope. To me it appears the whole world is knackered - not enough for me to want to get off (yet), but bad news just seems to keep on coming, and more and more I'm counting personal small blessings in order to to stay sane.

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Postby scotia » October 7th, 2022, 5:16 pm

Snorvey wrote:Maybe it's just me but, today, this country seems to have a feeling of being extremely knackered.

Is it just me?

Yesterday was the last day of the brown trout fishing season - so I felt obliged to tackle the loch. The boat was more like a submarine and it required a considerable effort to bail it out. The rain continued to pour down, and the wind whipped up the waves, and blew me to the east end of the loch, which required a strenuous effort to row back. And in spite of my sole dedication (I was the only fisher) only one trout came up, had a look at my fly, and disappeared. So I returned home - like the country - knackered.
But when spring returns, and brown trout can once again be tormented, I'm hopeful that I'll feel re-invigorated.
As for the state of the country - will it get re-invigorated? I have my doubts, but let's be optimistic. :)

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Postby pje16 » October 9th, 2022, 3:02 pm

Snorvey wrote:Should I go after them and shake my fist at them in faux rage....or am I risking a visit from the police, a 10 hour interview under caution and having some sort of label attached to my name on the local authority database.

Little horrors (can't be rude here)
What to do in today's snowflake namby-pamby world is a hard call
You know what you want to do (quite rightly) could land you in trouble
Do what you can as long as there are no witnesses ;)


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