|
OwlFancier posted:An Irish Divorce sounds like a euphemism for something, answers on a postcard. Striking someone's ankle with an axe? When it's all over, their foot is separated from their leg!
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 16:59
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 10:16 |
|
|
Cookie Cutter posted:It's always surprised me how loving about with postboxes doesn't seem to be a thing in the UK, as most things you leave unsecured outside tend to end up becoming someone's "fair game" in one way or another. A direct open slot with a bunch of stranger's personal and possibly valuable things inside just seems like a perfect target to have matches thrown in, beer poured into it, etc, but I've never heard of it happening. People chuck all sorts of stuff inside postboxes and pour beer or worse in them for sure. A lot of crisp packets and general rubbish. Doesn't seem nearly as common as stuff like loving with bus shelters or bins though. https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/royal-mail-plead-edinburgh-local-21053133
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 17:09
|
|
|
I mean in fairness, Liz has been on the throne so long there are just way more of them around than any other by now, the old ones are comparatively rare. I used to have a stamp album as a kid with all the different era postboxes on the front, they can have pretty different styles. I think I've only ever seen a few George ones, and there's a Victoria one in the square in Norwich city centre. Someone probably runs a website about where you can find them all. Edit: yup https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Queen_Victoria_post_boxes_in_the_United_Kingdom Isomermaid fucked around with this message at 17:16 on May 12, 2022 |
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 17:13
|
|
|
OwlFancier posted:Do they have to dig up all the postboxes when the monarch carks it and put new ones in? They didn't even replace the regal ones in Ireland, just painted them green. Plenty littered around with the royal seal.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 17:29
|
|
|
OwlFancier posted:I ask because I genuinely do not recall ever seeing one without ER on it other than in that picture. Not that I spend a lot of time looking, but it's not something I can say I've noticed. I've seen GR ones.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 17:29
|
|
|
reminder than Burnham is from Liverpool and did this: I don't believe he'd keep his promises any more than Starmer has
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 17:33
|
|
|
Guavanaut posted:The oldest I've seen recently is an Edward VII box in the side of a corner shop, but yeah there's plenty of random George ones around. Jaeluni Asjil posted:I've seen GR ones. Between the half a dozen or so villages in the district I grew up in there were VR, EviiR, GR, GviR and EiiR postboxes represented. There's a GR one just down the road from my current house. I had no idea that historic pillarboxes were so relatively unusual! E: That just piqued by interest as to if they ever made any postboxes with Edward VIII's cypher - Apparently they did. BalloonFish fucked around with this message at 17:41 on May 12, 2022 |
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 17:37
|
|
|
JollyBoyJohn posted:Not yet but I've got somewhere between 6 weeks and 3 months left in me before I have a major meltdown and quit my job -  
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 17:53
|
|
|
Failed Imagineer posted:Twitter keeps showing me pics of Charles' fingers. Man's organs are not working right i like them little small carrots, they're tasty 
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 18:17
|
|
|
nothing wrong with wonky veg imo it's how nature intended it
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 18:18
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1524667973147013122 weird, haven't heard anything in the British press about it
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 18:22
|
|
|
Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1524667973147013122 Private Eye have reported on Ehud Sheleg at great length, but they're about the only ones. After all, he only used to be the Conservative Party treasurer. Regarding why ER postboxes are shorter - if you look at the three boxes, you'll notice that the part you keep above ground is actually the same height on all of them. The change happened mostly because of the massive expansion and revision of the telephone network through the 1950s. The old boxes only had to avoid gas, water and sewer pipes, but phone lines are laid more shallowly and they were now on every street. That means they couldn't use as deep a mooring.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 18:52
|
|
|
Jedit posted:Private Eye have reported on Ehud Sheleg at great length, but they're about the only ones. After all, he only used to be the Conservative Party treasurer. Where IS Twisto? Anyone heard anything?
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 20:09
|
|
|
Don't want to sound morbid. But he is a motorcyclist...
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 20:12
|
|
|
There should be a rule where regular posters have to say why they're going quiet, how long they think they'll be away and when they expect to be back. Like people who go off on long hikes alone, so someone knows to raise the alarm if they don't show up when they're supposed to.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 20:59
|
|
|
I still think he's stolen my app idea he liked, has made a million dollars and is too embarrassed slash couldn't give a gently caress now.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 21:19
|
|
|
Jaeluni Asjil posted:Where IS Twisto? Anyone heard anything? He was campaigning for that crooked ex-myor in Tower Hamlets.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 21:28
|
|
|
He disappeared around the time the thread was going through a very toxic phase a few weeks back so I assumed it was because of that. Was close to unbookmarking it myself at the time.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 21:55
|
|
|
Maugrim posted:He disappeared around the time the thread was going through a very toxic phase a few weeks back so I assumed it was because of that. Was close to unbookmarking it myself at the time. He hasn’t posted on his Twitter for a month or so either.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 22:12
|
|
|
Really hope he is just having some time off 
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 22:29
|
|
|
What was the toxic phase in the thread? I obsessively read this thread but honestly can't remember. Mostly due to ADHD. If twisto has gone missing we should start a conversation stating all sorts of things true or not about the isle of dogs and tower hamlets. That'll bring him out. I like canary wharf. Looking up at the big buildings always gives me a pleasing sense of vertigo and when i lived in Haggerston for 3 years the vue there was my closest cinema on the tube after they put the overground link in.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 22:36
|
|
|
I miss the big news ticker in Canary Wharf.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 22:40
|
|
|
The private estates on the south-west of the Isle of Dogs between Westferry Road and the river - and the tall walls that denote their presence - actually improve the place because it means that islanders don't have to accidentally catch a glimpse of South London once in a while
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 22:45
|
|
|
[places the 3rd candle] I've always wondered why brutalist architecture looks like that. It's a shame there aren't really any good examples of shopping centres that really show it off at its best.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 22:46
|
|
|
St. Paul's Cathedral was built in the 10th century, which is why its distinctive feature is known as 'the millennium dome'. The letter t in the River Thames is silent but the h is extra loud to compensate. The City of London is its own legal entity, which is why the most popular men's football team in London is called Man City.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 22:46
|
|
|
Isle of Dogs is actually called 'I Love Dogs'
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 22:50
|
|
|
NotJustANumber99 posted:I still think he's stolen my app idea he liked, has made a million dollars and is too embarrassed slash couldn't give a gently caress now. more like your CRAP IDEA by which I mean ALL OF THEM
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 22:58
|
|
|
NotJustANumber99 posted:private schools like most goons went to often have classes on saturday mornings. No they didn't. I had Saturday detention once for 'hacking the school computers'.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 23:13
|
|
|
Wierd thing I miss is the old mechanical destination board at Liverpool Street station. You just had to look at it when you heard it change. The electronic one they replaced it with was also too small to read easily.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 23:14
|
|
|
Flip boards are cool and IMO we should have more of them. Obviously solid state displays are easier to make and run, but IMO some technology is also art.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 23:17
|
|
|
Way back when I worked back room security at a bank I found a bunch of those Grayson flip clocks (that anyone who's been in a bank or booking agent or council office between the late 70s and mid 00s will know) shoved away in a box. Wish I'd had them, they sell for about £300 a piece and I bet they all ended up in a skip.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 23:33
|
|
|
Angrymog posted:Wierd thing I miss is the old mechanical destination board at Liverpool Street station. You just had to look at it when you heard it change. The electronic one they replaced it with was also too small to read easily. I miss those at the main stations. I used to commute through Victoria Station and they changed them for those fuzzy yellow LED things that are hard to read.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 23:34
|
|
|
I would also accept a nixie tube display.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 23:35
|
|
|
The East End of London is poo and smells of jobbies & Twisto wants to kiss the DLR
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2022 23:37
|
|
|
Can't be good news if a poster as prolific as twisto just suddenly goes silent. Unless it is good news and he's got a new girlfriend or something. Without doxxing, I really hope there's some goon out there who might have an actual irl relationship with him who can confirm if he's OK or not. drat, I really have parasocial relationships with posters on these forums. He won't even know that I exist 
|
|
#
?
May 13, 2022 00:02
|
|
|
OwlFancier posted:I would also accept a nixie tube display. UK (and Japan iirc) ended up more on the side of edge display meters for numerical output like  other than the hyperactive cousin of the nixie, the dekatron, for any neon gas based electrical counting 
|
|
#
?
May 13, 2022 00:04
|
|
|
The Perfect Element posted:Without doxxing, I really hope there's some goon out there who might have an actual irl relationship with him who can confirm if he's OK or not. Maybe ask on whatever the big London bikers FB group is if there's been any biker downs involving a Ducati? (iirc that's what he rides?)
|
|
#
?
May 13, 2022 03:57
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/GdnPolitics/status/1524869416856408064?t=eB9ym14ShrVgjvbg_f-YDA Austerity is back baby, its still poo poo awoouu (primal scream)
|
|
#
?
May 13, 2022 08:08
|
|
|
keep punching joe posted:https://twitter.com/GdnPolitics/status/1524869416856408064?t=eB9ym14ShrVgjvbg_f-YDA Maybe he should axe some MPs instead. One MP must be worth at least 3-4 civil servants and he's got 600 of them spare. Also wouldn't sacking 90k workers just make the unemployment statistics look terrible?
|
|
#
?
May 13, 2022 08:28
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 10:16 |
|
|
There’s also the conundrum of ‘cut jobs, save money, fund tackling the cost of living crisis’ not doing much to aid the cost of living for those who, you know, don’t have a loving job any more.
|
|
#
?
May 13, 2022 08:41
|
|
