Things that make you :)

[franciswilliamwebb]

9 minutes ago, KeithMacdonald said:

 

They can now fit three times as many patients in wheelchairs in the same space. Previous occupied by a "strecher blocking" patient lying horizontally.

And three times as many in beds?🤫

[Metr0Land]

Mastermind contestant knows more than Stephan Merchant who actually co-wrote Extras:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gd8h76

[newbryford]

Hmm.

[Steamport Southport]

BBC getting things wrong again. Don't reporters know these basic facts?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-66808480

 

 

Georgian, not Victorian. Hanoverian if you want to be picky....

[PaulRhB]

[Ramblin Rich]

4 hours ago, PaulRhB said:

As Monty Python said:

"And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'Cause there's bu&&er all down here on Earth!"

[Hroth]

5 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:

BBC getting things wrong again. Don't reporters know these basic facts?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-66808480

 

 

Georgian, not Victorian. Hanoverian if you want to be picky....

 

They don't have to learn all the reigns from 1066 in History at school any more.

Mind you, I can't remember them off hand nowadays, though "Victorian" did set bells off when I saw the report.

 

But its not just the BBC. Their fault was not fact checking their source.

Quote

Network Rail's Mark Evans said the viaduct, which bridges a 160 metre gap over the Sankey valley, is a tribute to Victorian civil engineering.

 

[Steamport Southport]

Don't they teach them anything nowadays?

 

Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? 

Did she die in vain? 

Brave Hungarian peasant girl who forced King John to sign the pledge at Runnymede and close the boozers at half past ten!

Is all this to be forgotten?

[Nick C]

10 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

Mind you, I can't remember them off hand nowadays, though "Victorian" did set bells off when I saw the report.

You don't need to learn them all now though, it takes but a few moments to look it up on the internet!

 

17 hours ago, newbryford said:

Hmm.

To be fair, there are people trying to solve all of those as well!

[kevinlms]

19 hours ago, newbryford said:

Hmm.

The problem is that ever INCREASINGLY items come in plastic wrap.

[petethemole]

I notced in Sainsbury the other day that someone had taken 1kg of onions out of their plastic bag and left it on the display. The fact that loose onions were 5p cheaper might have had someting to do with it.

 

 

 

 

[Classsix T]

Star Wars familiar meme attached to a bog door in my local, because why not?

I'd've thought the Family Guy take on the theme might've fitted the context better but there you go.

 

C6T.

[melmerby]

Visiting Earth from far far away? Where do you park your space ship?

 

Birmingham's always welcome for visitors:

Edited September 17, 2023 by melmerby

[BoD]

[melmerby]

3 hours ago, BoD said:

And that's just French Men...........😁

[steve1]

11 hours ago, melmerby said:

Visiting Earth from far far away? Where do you park your space ship?

 

Birmingham's always welcome for visitors:

 

If that was my car, the next person to park will leave their car right next to it. It happens to me all time!

 

For heaven’s sake, why do they do that?!?!?

 

steve

[Hroth]

1 hour ago, steve1 said:

 

If that was my car, the next person to park will leave their car right next to it. It happens to me all time!

 

For heaven’s sake, why do they do that?!?!?

 

steve

 

So their car has someone to talk to.

 

[PhilJ W]

And they park so close that you can't open your door.

[jwealleans]

It's one of those things they ought to offer an Ig Nobel prize for.   Steve's dead right - when my Mrs and I first got together, I drummed into her that in a supermarket car park she should always park as far away from the building as possible, as that's where the spaces are and there's less chance of a trolley or door scrape from someone clumsy next to you.    We've proved on more than one occasion, though, that even if you are the only car in the car park and you are as far from the shop as you can get, the next one in will park next to you.

 

Vestigial herd instinct?

[kevinlms]

37 minutes ago, jwealleans said:

It's one of those things they ought to offer an Ig Nobel prize for.   Steve's dead right - when my Mrs and I first got together, I drummed into her that in a supermarket car park she should always park as far away from the building as possible, as that's where the spaces are and there's less chance of a trolley or door scrape from someone clumsy next to you.    We've proved on more than one occasion, though, that even if you are the only car in the car park and you are as far from the shop as you can get, the next one in will park next to you.

 

Vestigial herd instinct?

Another good rule for a large shopping centre car park, is to always park in the same part of the car park, one that generally has more chance of spaces because you have chosen an area further away. That way it's easy to remember where you left the thing.

 

Today, I parked in a different area to usual, because I came from the opposite direction and parked elsewhere. When I went back, I remembered the general direction, but my car wasn't there.

The penny dropped, I was on the wrong floor, directly under my car!

[Dunsignalling]

One of the USAF's US Marines' F35 Stealth fighter jets has gone missing after the pilot safely ejected following an "incident", and they have issued an appeal to the public in finding it.

 

Funny, you'd think they'd have kept track of it on Radar. Oh. Wait.....😉

Edited September 18, 2023 by Dunsignalling

[Dunsignalling]

3 hours ago, kevinlms said:

Another good rule for a large shopping centre car park, is to always park in the same part of the car park, one that generally has more chance of spaces because you have chosen an area further away. That way it's easy to remember where you left the thing.

 

Today, I parked in a different area to usual, because I came from the opposite direction and parked elsewhere. When I went back, I remembered the general direction, but my car wasn't there.

The penny dropped, I was on the wrong floor, directly under my car!

Been there, done that; and without the unfamiliar direction to in any way excuse it.

 

Deep in conversation after parking, I failed to note the floor number, as did my companion.

 

I knew it wasn't on the roof or the ground floor, leaving three to choose from. 

 

Third time lucky. Oh how we laughed.....

Edited September 18, 2023 by Dunsignalling

[Martino]

23 minutes ago, Dunsignalling said:

One of the USAF's F35 Stealth fighter jets has gone missing after the pilot safely ejected following an "incident", and they have issued an appeal to the public in finding it.

 

Funny, you'd think they'd have kept track of it on Radar. Oh. Wait.....😉

‘Twas the US Marines that lost it. Not the Air Force this time ;-)

 

[woodenhead]

44 minutes ago, Dunsignalling said:

One of the USAF's US Marines' F35 Stealth fighter jets has gone missing after the pilot safely ejected following an "incident", and they have issued an appeal to the public in finding it.

 

Funny, you'd think they'd have kept track of it on Radar. Oh. Wait.....😉

 

20 minutes ago, Martino said:

‘Twas the US Marines that lost it. Not the Air Force this time ;-)

 

I think they believe he attempted an amphibious assault with it, they are asking people to look around two rather large lakes. 

 

Expect hordes of magnet fishers in the next couple of days anticipating a big bounty.

[kevinlms]

53 minutes ago, Dunsignalling said:

Been there, done that; and without the unfamiliar direction to in any way excuse it.

 

Deep in conversation after parking, I failed to note the floor number, as did my companion.

 

I knew it wasn't on the roof or the ground floor, leaving three to choose from. 

 

Third time lucky. Oh how we laughed.....

Yes, but was the other half waiting to be picked up? Mine was...