oh i saw him and all the cousins and all
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 September 2023 21:54 (eight months ago) link
The Mucky Duck restaurant is in Drakeholes? How does Drake feel about that?
― StanM, Sunday, 1 October 2023 05:42 (eight months ago) link
In my childhood, I spent many hours, over many years, in the Mucky Duck at Drakeholes, then known as the White Swan. They had a side room where children were allowed to sit, while their parents boozed at the bar. Oh the boredom.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 1 October 2023 19:10 (eight months ago) link
i misread that as "boxed at the bar" for a moment which put a different spin on it
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 October 2023 19:13 (eight months ago) link
i'm seeing scampi-in-a-basket in this memory mike
― mark s, Sunday, 1 October 2023 19:20 (eight months ago) link
imago were you in cumbernauld?
― or something, Sunday, 1 October 2023 21:53 (eight months ago) link
Scampi in a basket would have been beyond our wildest imaginations; Coke and crisps were the order of the day. The pub is by the Chesterfield Canal, and we had a mooring there. At Drakeholes, as a toddler, I fell in the canal in full view of a boat rally; my father jumped in to save me, and the story made the front page of the local newspaper. Happy days.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 1 October 2023 22:09 (eight months ago) link
A cry for help?
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 2 October 2023 06:34 (eight months ago) link
cumbernauld it was, home of the new best sycamore and the soon to be former greatest town centre in these isles
― imago, Monday, 2 October 2023 06:42 (eight months ago) link
now back to your scheduled drakeholes daredevilry
― imago, Monday, 2 October 2023 06:44 (eight months ago) link
What's it ca'ed? Cumbernod.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 2 October 2023 06:53 (eight months ago) link
They had that advert playing on a loop on a TV in the little Cumbernauld museum in that astonishing building
― imago, Monday, 2 October 2023 09:20 (eight months ago) link
Also in the loop was a short film about placing pineapple bombs all around Cumbernauld. Real Scotland
― imago, Monday, 2 October 2023 09:21 (eight months ago) link
I thought the same thing, it didn't look like an experienced woodman's cut
Not according to this retired lumberjack who said it was a "brilliant cut" but then he would say that as he cut the tree down.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12580169/Former-lumberjack-investigated-felling-Hadrians-Wall-sycamore.html
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 2 October 2023 12:30 (eight months ago) link
"you can tell a good lumberjack by the way he cuts a tree down. I haven't seen the cut obviously, but I have seen it on the computer.'
HE ADDED HASTILY.
'My chainsaw's down here by that barn door, but you can see that it hasn't been used for ages.'
AND I HAVEN"T GOT ACCESS TO ANY OTHER ONES NEITHER
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 October 2023 12:36 (eight months ago) link
just realised this is NOT what americans call a sycamore but a "sycamore maple", which is essentially invasive. i have one in my back garden. it drops thousands of little helicopters everywhere in the autumn, and an ungodly amount of sticky pollen in the spring. i spend the entire summer pulling out the little seedlings, which are able to grow even under tarps, with zero light. so like... i mean yes sad etc but there are BAZILLIONS of these trees in england
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 October 2023 12:39 (eight months ago) link
Evicted by Jesuits it appears. Case closed.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 2 October 2023 12:40 (eight months ago) link
(xp)
woke jesuits
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 2 October 2023 12:44 (eight months ago) link
lmao
He said it had been the “perfect night” to do it because it was a full moon. “The wind would have meant there was barely any sound,” he said.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 October 2023 12:47 (eight months ago) link
but... I don't know why anybody thinks I, a former lumberjack who'd just been kicked off my property that day, and have clearly thought about the right conditions for chopping down this tree, would chop down this tree
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 October 2023 12:49 (eight months ago) link
If I Chopped It
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Monday, 2 October 2023 13:14 (eight months ago) link
saw
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 2 October 2023 14:11 (eight months ago) link
an ungodly amount of sticky pollen in the spring
that's most likely honeydew aka aphid excretions! you can sometimes see it coming down from under sycamores like a miniature rain shower.
― no lime tangier, Monday, 2 October 2023 21:12 (eight months ago) link
Sick Amor
― nickn, Monday, 2 October 2023 21:23 (eight months ago) link
i don't think so. mine produces these large yellow tufts of pollen that when they fall become little sticky balls that almost act like chewing gum. if you step on them they stick to the bottom of your shoe and are hell to get off.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 October 2023 21:36 (eight months ago) link
but i am aware of the "honeydew" too! it gets all over the leaves of everything underneath it. delightful.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 October 2023 21:39 (eight months ago) link
Earlier in the summer, Widget got a load of that sticky tufts pollen stuck to the fur between his toes. It was not fun for either of us to have to remove.
― steely flan (suzy), Monday, 2 October 2023 21:48 (eight months ago) link
ah right, that stuff! anyway, til that in real england a scarf cut is known as a GOB.
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 06:46 (eight months ago) link
a what and a what
― vashti funyuns (sic), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 07:09 (eight months ago) link
this
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 07:55 (eight months ago) link
all these fancy words its just tree murder
― imago, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 07:58 (eight months ago) link
I fed an A.I 10,000 melancholy hauntological essays about the Sycamore Gap tree. the A.I is now calling itself Brother Soil and says I am 'an enemy of the moss'— Stefan Mohamed (@stefmowords) October 3, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 10:34 (eight months ago) link
When the moon hits your eyeLike a big pizza pie, sycamore
― StanM, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 03:37 (eight months ago) link
I have become more apprehensive about zebra crossings over the last year. Specially when I visit my mother (who lives in Kent though also true in inner London) I assume drivers (white van or not) are getting a kick out of not stopping for you.
Had this yesterday from some twat in a van when trying to cross at a zebra crossing. It's getting to the point where using them is legitimately dangerous - a lot of them just refuse to yield— Tom Blackburn (@malaiseforever) October 5, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 5 October 2023 11:33 (eight months ago) link
Guess the question is whether this is recent or just my mind playing games: things are getting worse so it impinges upon your judgement on things like this.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 5 October 2023 11:34 (eight months ago) link
This is one of the reasons why I hate dopey pedestrians thanking motorists for stopping at pedestrian crossings - you have right of way don't thank the cunts for following the law of the land. Not only do I never thank motorists for stopping I make sure I saunter as leisurely as possible when crossing.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 October 2023 11:40 (eight months ago) link
I've felt like speeding and road rage have increased since Covid too, even before media framing of LTNs, ULEZ etc.
― nashwan, Thursday, 5 October 2023 12:02 (eight months ago) link
Still occasionally have a chuckle remembering the time Mr White Van Man yelled some sexism at me on Clerkenwell Road, but had to wait at the zebra at Hatton Garden to let me cross. I did the Hustle in the zebra for about five minutes, incorporating obscene gestures into the dance routine. This was deeply, deeply satisfying.
― steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 5 October 2023 14:57 (eight months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/12/atrocious-behaviour-visitors-accused-of-sabotaging-batley-library-1-book-sale
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 October 2023 14:48 (seven months ago) link
Batley hasn't been so unruly since the great black friday riot of 2014, where people fought to the death over discounted hd tvs at Tesco.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 12 October 2023 15:37 (seven months ago) link
there's a Carnegie library in Hull, i didn't realise they were a thing
i mean it's probably not functioning as a library any more but there's a building
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 October 2023 16:17 (seven months ago) link
Ummmmm, I can think of another event…
― steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 12 October 2023 16:35 (seven months ago) link
Mair had already stolen all the Hitler books from Batley Library
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 12 October 2023 16:39 (seven months ago) link
last time I signed on I was sent to a *career advice* interview at Dewsbury Library, this was pre UC. Not many books there and it is a way too small a space to host a library, it's an ugly and grim 70's glass and concrete monstrosity of a building that is joined on to the job centre and seemed more to be purposed for shit like the Citizen's Advice Bureau. The og library was a large and attractive, actually quite stunning sandstone building that is a rundown unused banquet suite now. It got damaged and flooded during a fire and whoever owns it probably hasn't got the big bucks required for a renovation. This destruction happened under a Labour council, in the Blair years.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 12 October 2023 16:45 (seven months ago) link
not that it didn't seem weird at the time, but the whole Captain Tom Moore phenomenon feels really incomprehensible three years on with covid lockdowns long over
https://cdn.ecommercedns.uk/files/9/243909/1/13739141/il-fullxfull.jpg
― soref, Thursday, 12 October 2023 19:28 (seven months ago) link
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2FND49N/bronze-resin-statues-of-the-late-sir-captain-tom-moore-who-raised-over-37-million-for-the-nhs-the-statues-were-created-by-clark-sculptures-2FND49N.jpg
https://l450v.alamy.com/450v/2fnd4ek/bronze-resin-statues-of-the-late-sir-captain-tom-moore-who-raised-over-37-million-for-the-nhs-the-statues-were-created-by-clark-sculptures-2fnd4ek.jpg
https://imgs.heart.co.uk/images/218698?crop=16_9&width=660&relax=1&format=webp&signature=5p3JzkcISAy9d_1ViBL9uzsZjMs=
― soref, Thursday, 12 October 2023 19:30 (seven months ago) link
have they signed on Michael Caine for the biopic?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 12 October 2023 19:30 (seven months ago) link
never before was do much grift committed on so many by so few
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 12 October 2023 19:34 (seven months ago) link
xp they haven't announced a lead for this yet, but it's being directed by the guy who did Slade In Flame and the Sting version of Brimstone and Treacle
https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/captain-sir-tom-moore-to-begin-filming-autum-2023-director-richard-loncraine-b1082443.html
― soref, Thursday, 12 October 2023 19:35 (seven months ago) link