Because The United Kingdom?

[urbanoid]

[DougRichards]

 

 

Funny think about Devizes, I think I know it and it still surprises me. As you walk down by the church there is a very narrow road that still has the walls pockmarked by musket ball fire form the English Civil war. And even more remarkably when I visited it about 2 weeks ago, I walked down a small alleyway and found a timber framed building in remarkable condition that would have fitted in perfectly in the same period. All that was missing was people throwing slop out the top windows.

 

 

Just give it a few more years

[Panzermann]

Clash of cultures:

 

When British humour and khirgizian (sp?) sausage clash:

 

'You could have started a war!' Kyrgyz police warn British welder over Facebook post comparing national delicacy with horse penis (daily hail)

 

 

Really? A scotsman is afraid of the unknown contents stuffed into animal intestines? Haggis is just that.

[Panzermann]

Alan Rickman died.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35313604

 

 

 

Is there something in the air? At the moment they are dying in droves it seems.

[swerve]

Read his lips . . .

 

RIP the Sheriff of Nottingham.

[Panzermann]

Gropecuntlane

 

 

Too bad most lanes have been renamed by those prude protestants.

[urbanoid]

British music is truly timeless. I can't help but hear "the ISIS is coming" in London Calling.

[swerve]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickle_Cock_Bridge

The replacement bridge was initially renamed Tittle Cott. After a protest organised by a local over-50s group, Wakefield Council reversed its decision and a plaque bearing the original name, Tickle Cock, was installed.

 

Only in Britain. Enough to bring a tear to the eye it is.

Yeah, but when is Oxford City Council going to give Magpie Lane its original name* back? At least the other end still has some trace of it - Grove Passage now. Shrewsbury still has Grope Lane, reflecting the trade once pursued there, but all the other such names I know of went long ago. Grape Lane in York, for example, a neutered name. Sometimes the new names were a bit of a joke, such as Parsons Street in Banbury. Whodya think wanted the old name changed?

 

*Gropecunt Lane

[Typhoid Maxx]

Seeing as this IS now mostly a British topic...any slack in the law for punching a felah for being 'VERY VERY VERY' anoying?

[DB]

I think that you're fine if it's Piers Morgan, otherwise, no.

 

In other news, our newest political celebrity demonstrates understands a complete understanding of the concept of "Fitted for but not With" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35337432

 

Words fail me.

[Typhoid Maxx]

Jeremy Clarkson? I mean, COME ON....

[Mr King]

[DB]

Rugby, but not as we know it.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/35348109

 

Well, maybe it's as BP knows it?

[BP]

A little bag snatching, all in good fun.

 

Nothing a few pints and a nice shade of lipstick on date night won't cure.

[Ivanhoe]

A little bag snatching, all in good fun.

 

Nothing a few pints and a nice shade of lipstick on date night won't cure.

 

Talking about rugby, or the sheep in the passenger seat?

[BP]

 

A little bag snatching, all in good fun.

 

Nothing a few pints and a nice shade of lipstick on date night won't cure.

 

Talking about rugby, or the sheep in the passenger seat?

 

 

Yes.

 

Done right, they both require mouthguards and scrum caps.

[Ivanhoe]

http://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/jan/17/welsh-village-hoping-to-become-kingdom-of-rains-with-ignoble-record

 

If the rain continues for a few more days – and the forecast suggests there is a very good chance it will – the village of Eglwyswrw in south-west Wales will break the UK record for the number of consecutive rainy days. Since the end of October the people of this picturesque corner of Pembrokeshire have endured every type of rain, from downpours to drizzle.

 

At times the water has raced into the river Gafren and on to Cardigan Bay; at others it has been little more than a trickle. But as of Sunday rain had been detected at the local weather station for 83 days in a row.

 

I am going to guess that the Welsh=>English translation of Eglwyswrw is GTFO.

 

Just up from the church, John Evans was huddled in front of the woodburner in the “pub” he has created in a garden shed and staying cheerful with a drop of his home brew beer. “You have to do what you can to stay happy,” he said.

 

There are some places that are only made habitable with booze. Europe, for instance.

[Ivanhoe]

Done right, they both require mouthguards and scrum caps.

If you're getting kicked in the mouth, I don't think you're doing it right.

[Panzermann]

For welsh they definitely should have defined special letters. That would shorten all those double F and LL and some other constructions I think. But then english needs more letters than the standard latin alphabet anyway. About half a dozen vowels are encoded by the letter E, depending on the word and you have to know the word to know which E it is.

 

Writing anything that is not latin with only the basic latin alphabet is trouble.

[DB]

"Egyoousooroo" (unless the wiki page on Welsh pronunciation is lying, but w=oo as in "pool" and a single "l" before a vowel (lw) is a y, and a "y" is a short "uh"...

 

I often feel that the choice of Latin alphabet letters was deliberately made to make Welsh look more exotic than it really should have been. (An accusation that could be made against Gaelic, too)

[Panzermann]

it is a more general phenomenon, but its about a very british fishwrap:

 

Hating the Daily Mail is a substitute

for doing good

Want to be virtuous? Saying the right things violently on Twitter is much

easier than real kindness (the Spectator)

 

(...)

There was a time when Britain had a form of Christianity in which pride was considered a sin. Maybe that is part of why some of us find all this virtue signalling obnoxious. Its just showing off. For some of us it is both ridiculous and irritating that people who say that they hate Ukip actually believe they are being more virtuous than others who visit the sick, give money to charity or are kind to someone lonely. But the widespread way in which people now proudly boast suggests there is no shame, no reflection. And because of this lack of awareness, it is more common. Twitter lends itself very well to virtue signalling, since it is much easier to express anger and scorn in 140 characters than to make a reasoned argument. Russell Brand is perhaps the ultimate incarnation of modern virtue signalling. He is bursting with anger and outrage. My goodness he must be good!

[Panzermann]

Twitter announced that the limit is to be raised from 140 to 10000 or so.

 

I still won't use it either. And it is offline fro unknown reasons at the moemtn anyway.

 

www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/19/twitter_is_down/

 

 

The tiny bird claimed to have reported the outage by tweeting from their @support account on Twitter, which nobody was able to see due as Twitter was down. The statement was subsequently passed on to the media, and says: "Some users are currently experiencing problems accessing Twitter. We are aware of the issue and are working towards a resolution."

Yeah, makes sense to announce you are offline through your offline service.

Edited January 19, 2016 by Panzermann

[TonyE]

But then english needs more letters than the standard latin alphabet anyway.

 

Bring back "þ"!!!

[Roman Alymov]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-19/these-are-the-world-s-most-innovative-economies BloombergInnovation Index

UK is #17 - how could it be?

[Mike Steele]

Or just maybe when people say they hate UKIP, they just really hate UKIP.

 

 

This really plugs into the modern problem in UK politics and in fact the media too. Anyone who believes anything is a zealot, either a socialist, a capitalist pig or a fascist. Or in Mail speak, a signaller, signifying nothing. If you dont subscribe to preconceived dogmas that were laid down 40 year ago and dare to think of anything, absolutely anything different, then you fall into the trap of being labelled by those markers. Im sure they regarded Chartists in much the same fashion once upon a time.

 

Anyway, I have no time for Twitter. Im too busy posting on tanknet.

Oh Kinda like Republicans on TankNet..... :D