The Mucky Duck restaurant is in Drakeholes? How does Drake feel about that?
― StanM, Sunday, 1 October 2023 05:42 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
i'm seeing scampi-in-a-basket in this memory mike
― mark s, Sunday, 1 October 2023 19:20 (one year ago)
imago were you in cumbernauld?
― or something, Sunday, 1 October 2023 21:53 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
A cry for help?
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 2 October 2023 06:34 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
now back to your scheduled drakeholes daredevilry
― imago, Monday, 2 October 2023 06:44 (one year ago)
What's it ca'ed? Cumbernod.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 2 October 2023 06:53 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
Also in the loop was a short film about placing pineapple bombs all around Cumbernauld. Real Scotland
― imago, Monday, 2 October 2023 09:21 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
"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 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
Evicted by Jesuits it appears. Case closed.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 2 October 2023 12:40 (one year ago)
(xp)
woke jesuits
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 2 October 2023 12:44 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
If I Chopped It
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Monday, 2 October 2023 13:14 (one year ago)
saw
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 2 October 2023 14:11 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
Sick Amor
― nickn, Monday, 2 October 2023 21:23 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
a what and a what
― vashti funyuns (sic), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 07:09 (one year ago)
this
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 07:55 (one year ago)
all these fancy words its just tree murder
― imago, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 07:58 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
When the moon hits your eyeLike a big pizza pie, sycamore
― StanM, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 03:37 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
Ummmmm, I can think of another event…
― steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 12 October 2023 16:35 (one year ago)
Mair had already stolen all the Hitler books from Batley Library
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 12 October 2023 16:39 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
have they signed on Michael Caine for the biopic?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 12 October 2023 19:30 (one year ago)
never before was do much grift committed on so many by so few
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 12 October 2023 19:34 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
No-one (apart from on here) wants to admit the whole thing was organised as a grift by the psycho daughter to pay for her house extension! I guess it all spiralled out of control.
― kiwi side-eye specialist (Matt #2), Thursday, 12 October 2023 19:35 (one year ago)