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Alan Medic Wrote:

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> The first question to the PM yesterday at PMQ's.

> It's about Boris.

>

> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b085z8g5/prim

> e-ministers-questions-14122016



Arf. Brilliant. I genuinely laughed out loud.

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Alan Medic Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > The first question to the PM yesterday at

> PMQ's.

> > It's about Boris.

> >

> >

> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b085z8g5/prim

>

> > e-ministers-questions-14122016

>

>

> Arf. Brilliant. I genuinely laughed out loud.



So did I!!!

  • 5 weeks later...
  • 2 months later...

I probably shouldn't laugh at this, but some train driver's rather batty mum gets interviewed by the local rag for reasons I can't quite comprehend. Obviously an extraordinarily slow news day in Hertfordshire.


He's going to cop a hell of a ribbing if the boys at the depot work out who he is...


http://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/140mph-virgin-train-set-for-hertfordshire-lines-is-dangerous-says-the-mother-of-one-of-the-drivers/story-30241431-detail/story.html

  • 3 months later...
At the theatre the security guard was checking the contents of my bag thoroughly (middle-aged women being a suspect demographic). She suddenly stopped, gave me a funny look, pointed at the bottom of the bag and said, 'What's that?' I'd forgotten the large courgette wrapped in a plastic bag. Mortified.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> At the theatre the security guard was checking the

> contents of my bag thoroughly (middle-aged women

> being a suspect demographic). She suddenly

> stopped, gave me a funny look, pointed at the

> bottom of the bag and said, 'What's that?' I'd

> forgotten the large courgette wrapped in a plastic

> bag. Mortified.


"Is that a courgette in your bag madam? Well, it seems to be buzzing with excitement at seeing the play."

  • 2 weeks later...

Those Aussies. Thinking of becoming a Republic again but still insist on using the Queen's English, which us Irish obviously fail miserably at........


https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/08/computer-says-no-irish-vet-fails-oral-english-test-needed-to-stay-in-australia

A picture in the property section of this month's Living South, entitled:


"Presidents Quay House, prices from ?1,799,999"


Now I can understand somebody being taken in by something priced at, say, ?17.99 and thinking that sounds much cheaper than ?18.


But if you are looking at houses around the ?1,800,000 mark, is the pound difference of ?1,799,999 really going to tip the balance?


:))

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