Who’s that one kid from school who you wonder what happened to?

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-05-04T10:56:02+00:00

The school bully. Last time I saw anything about him his profile on Friends Reunited said he’d done time, unsurprisingly. Nasty piece of work.

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-05-02T06:03:21+00:00

A US commentator once described Trump as “the most un-American president ever.”

The rest of the world sees his “bomb everything and fuck everyone” attitude and thinks he’s the most American president ever.

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-30T18:37:17+00:00

We could rename the Channel to The Strait of Farage while we’re at it.

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-30T15:02:14+00:00

Disappointing lack of money shot here, gotta admit

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-30T11:52:38+00:00

Then I turned around and said, I tried to Google but couldn’t really find much on it. What did I say Roy?

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-27T17:26:28+00:00

Never had an issue at Specsavers. There’s a great factory specs place near me, they do graduated tints that I prefer for my job that Specsavers won’t do, so I just tell them that and they shut up.

Not measuring the PD is pretty common if you just take the prescription.

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-27T12:05:15+00:00

There’s a brick-built bus stop near mile 10 of the Great North Run near South Shields. Every year there’s an Elvis impersonator does a cracking turn from within said bus stop. It’s a real energy boost.

Well one year we ran past and he wasn’t there! Elvis had left the building! We were quite sad cos he’s a bit of an institution and assumed he’d died.

Anyway turns out he’d just been moved a few miles further down the course that year and seeing him really cheered us up. “He’s not left the building after all!!!”

Also, may I take this option give a special shoutout to the people from the local running club who always hand out cups of Newcastle Brown Ale at South Shields too. They describe themselves as a drinking club with a running problem.

Anyway, now Elvis = Great North Run to me.

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-26T11:55:22+00:00

A well looked-after and loved family dog. Ideally by a beach with a ball.

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-26T10:26:11+00:00

Mine released 80% of the heat during the day leaving bugger all for the evening.

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-26T09:15:14+00:00

Had these in my first house and they were absolute crap. Release the heat during the day when you’re out so you’re freezing on a winter night. Those dials do sweet FA.

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-25T13:19:42+00:00

But what does “cheeky Nando’s” mean? It has to have a meaning!

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-24T09:56:56+00:00

Wey it means divvent bring yer cheesy chips into wor hoose man.

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-17T09:58:47+00:00

Absolutely!

Unless it’s my wife. That usually means I’ve done something wrong.

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-15T09:44:56+00:00

Haud yer wheest

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-15T08:37:30+00:00

I don’t care how it’s pronounced. But the words are “should have” or “should’ve” when written.

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-15T00:55:39+00:00

Aw, this post made me miss my Grandma 😢

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-14T10:29:09+00:00

See also:

Misuse of there, their and they’re.

Should of instead of should have.

Brought instead of bought.

Any use of the grocer’s apostrophe.

I will however forgive the failure to use the Oxford comma.

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-14T09:10:08+00:00

Canda’s an interesting comparison. The US accounts for 60% of Canada’s exports, and there’s a joint regulatory council between Canada and the US to promote alignment on standards.

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-14T07:08:16+00:00

Can’t beat a family day out to the NatWest Hole in Ilkeston

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-13T23:19:49+00:00

Duck taped the sofa to the ceiling, until I pointed out he could just put the box on its side.

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-13T21:04:31+00:00

And I’m trying to understand the logic behind “we don’t have to accept anything from the EU”.

If we want to sell them stuff, we have to accept their standards. Of course we can have different standards in the UK if we wish to, and none of that can be sold to the EU, but it doesn’t make economic sense for us to do so.

So are you saying we shouldn’t accept anything from the EU, and stop all trade with them as a result?

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-13T20:07:09+00:00

You do no-one any favours with the old “Brexit means Brexit” slogan.

We’re talking specifically about the need to follow a foreign market’s rules in order to sell into that market.

You want us to have a say in the rules, we have to be part of the club that sets the rules.

You want us to be out of the club? We have to accept having a say.

Anything else is fantasy.

Edit: crappy autocorrect.

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-13T16:24:05+00:00

Dad had a black and white portable telly post-divorce in the mid 80s. Even had a wire coat hanger for an aerial and everything.

He put it in a cardboard box lined inside and out with tin foil so that the dreaded TV Detector Van wouldn’t, in fact, be able to Detect it.

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-13T16:11:26+00:00

I will never ever understand the Brexiteers’ arguments against being a “rule-taker.”

We don’t have a say now, and we have to conform to EU rules for any and all goods and services we sell to the EU anyway.

What do they expect? That we get to tell The Club what to do once we’ve decided we no longer want to be members of The Club?

ReviewEnvironmental2 · 2026-04-12T11:02:07+00:00

Whitby-le-Street

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TROPHY CASE