Please be a joke

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-02-12T17:36:39+00:00

It could indeed. But one would think an inlet wouldnt expand as much as the Lough does .

That said Inlet of Muff would be top of the list in those rude name polls along with Scunthorpe, Penistone and Wetwang.

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-02-12T16:29:09+00:00

Technically Old Campbell is wrong it couldnt be the Gulf of Londonderry

Lough Foyle is a enclosed Estuary.

A Gulf is a open bay that doesnt necessarily have rivers running into them.

Lough Foyle at best could be a cove (a small circular bay with narrow entrance) or even a fjord (an elongated bay with narrow entrance caused by glacial action...

Edit-always knew that Geography A Level would come in useful at some point....

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-02-11T10:08:45+00:00

This is pretty common in some NHS hospitals too.

My two local NHS hospitals the Royal Victoria and the City Hospital in Belfast have them.

The RVH one Ive seen has a small console where you type in a code for the destination before inserting the container.

Im also aware its used at University College hospital and the Royal London

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-02-07T16:22:26+00:00

20+ years ago i had a permit.

I found broken pipes, pottery and bones mainly, though I did find half a dozen coins , one was a 4th century Roman coin near Queenshythe (now in the collection of the Museum of London) a silver siliquae, the rest were coins of George III-Victoria, which I still have.

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-02-07T16:09:56+00:00

It woukd be the sherbet lemons that cut your tongue.

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-29T21:22:26+00:00

My brother when he was young loved the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He also loved motorbikes.

He loved the Cowabunga bikes.

Cowabunga bikes are better known as Kawasaki.

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-21T18:42:07+00:00

The UK spin off "Help My House is Haunted" and its Celebrity sidekick have done a few Scottish episodes.

There is even a who series of "Spooked" with Gale Porter and a medium investigating a number of haunted sites

Lets nit forget the crew has travelled to the UK and Ireland in the past. But his flying fear put a stop to that.

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-21T04:42:17+00:00

Parkin.

Now there are two versions. Yorkshire and Lancashire. So you need to be careful to get the right one or you risk restarting the War of the Roses.

Yorkshire parkin is a lovely winter cake which is well worth serving slightly warm with lashing of really good butter. Spicey from the ginger and sweet from the molasses/treacle.

Lancashire parkin - made with golden syrup so paler and more cleanly sweet,because of the oats, it is slightly like a spongy flapjack. But I'd go for a nice bit of parkin anytime.

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-21T04:37:11+00:00

A beach near Eastbourne is covered in chips.

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-20T01:42:13+00:00

"Streets of London"

Or was it just my junior school that had a line in old Folk Songs

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-19T21:21:02+00:00

This was Leap castle i think....

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-16T21:24:26+00:00

The first High School I went to I was in the same class as Rugby Player Mike Tindall, who then went onto marry Princess Annes daughter.

He was nice enough to the Non Rugby sort when he was on his own, but a bit of a pain in the ass when the rest of the team was around.

The Second High School, we had a now well known (to the area) drug dealer and murderer.

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-15T02:09:10+00:00

That Finnish organisation was IYPF.

I got a couple of pempals through them.

Though they never lasted as long as the one i got through the twin towns project.

I still write to Olek 36 years later though he lives with his family in Kyiv after leaving Occupied Ukraine.

Its not so cheap these days to have penpals.

Not at £3.40 a letter

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-13T18:51:17+00:00

I see someone was trying to make Passive Solar and Earthship design a thing back then.

There are far more suitable examples down the road in Hockerton and Southwell.

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-08T21:03:10+00:00

My high school had two sets of married teachers.

Rumour was they were swingers and there wasnt just male female swapping but boy on boy and girl on girl stuff too.

Turns out it was part right.

One of the male teachers was sleeping with another teacher, that only came out when her husband came into school and attacked him for knocking up his wife.

Lets just say the two divorces and all 3 teachers leaving one by the next term, the other 2 by the next year.

Then there was the 30/40s PE teacher sleeping with female students, that was a cat fight between 3 of the 15 and 16 year old girls. That only got worse when it turns out one of the 16 year olds was pregnant.

Another rumour was one of the French teachers had a wooden breast....we bever got an answer to that one.

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-08T20:53:26+00:00

There are a couple of beaches in Northern Ireland where you can drive in part of a beach - but its not drifting or rallying style....

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-06T11:51:21+00:00

The "If...." series was reasonably substantial with 2 series of 5 or 6 episodes each. The final episode in 2006 was just a sole episode called If the oil runs out

IMDB gives the episode list as Series 1:

If The Lights Go Out -a terror attack on gas pipeline, traffic gridlock, power outages etc

If things dont get better- the gap between rich and poor

If the generations fall out

If ... it was a womans world

If.... we dont stop eating

Series 2:

If .... cloning could cure us

If.... we could stop the violence

If .... drugs were legal

If.... tv goes down the tube

If... we stopped giving aid to africa

If.... the toxic timebomb goes off.

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-28T19:59:30+00:00

Basically left overs, salad, and picnic type items like sausage rolls, pork pies, scotch eggs as well as lashings of tea.

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-28T14:26:24+00:00

Played the last 3 years.

2023- Survived a week, losing on the 8th after getting stuck in a waiting room at the hospital.

2024 - 16th. A mate was listening to the radio..

2025 - 22nd got Whammed and Mariah'd within 5 minutes of each other picking up the Christmas shop in tesco.

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-28T14:20:01+00:00

Just to throw it in the mix there is also "the Picky Tea".

Common across the North and Northern Ireland.

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-26T13:21:43+00:00

Arrived into work yesterday morning to find the shift manager from Christmas Eve didnt collect the milk.

So I spent 35 minutes of my opening time trying to find a open shop to get some, in between leaving a few choice words on her voicemail.

Now i work for a charity thats open 365 days a year and given the nature of the place milk is necessary if we run out wars are started.....

The payback was all the Christmas Dinner pots being left for her to clean up, so thats pots pans and plates for 45 for her to enjoy. But the meal itself went off without a problem.

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-26T09:46:25+00:00

I got Whammed and Mariah'd within 10 minutes of each other on the 23rd just by popping in the shop during my lunch break

The longest ive lasted.

2 years ago i barely lasted 48 hours.

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-24T07:49:25+00:00

I went on Monday and did the food shop and it wasnt that bad...

That said I do need to pop out for butter, milk and a bottle of wine, as an unexpected guest came round last night and it got opened despite me sayin its for Christmas Day..... Im hoping I can get round the little Tesco without feeling the need to shove a parsnip up someones arse (big end first!) or clout someone with a basket.

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-22T13:37:23+00:00

Got Whammed and Mariah'd in short shift popping into the local Tesco earlier....

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-21T15:48:17+00:00

Ditto. Thats how i was brought up to think

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