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RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted August 29 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 29 (edited) About that sign: https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/meet-the-man-behind-the-viral-punny-community-sign-in-indian-hills It even has a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/IndianHillsCommunitySign/ Edited August 29 by J. S. Bach To correct a typo 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30 Sort of whacky sign, I think: https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/aug/30/harry-styles-twemlow-viaduct-fence But I'm struggling to see how a 183 year old viaduct comes to be described as Edwardian. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 You don't get many cornflakes for a pound in Asda 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Morgan Posted August 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30 I could not take a photo, but on the M25, near the A3 interchange, I saw a sign: "We are working out of sight so you may not see us" 1 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 30 minutes ago, Ian Morgan said: I could not take a photo, but on the M25, near the A3 interchange, I saw a sign: "We are working out of sight so you may not see us" Were some of those on the A14 Newmarket bypass recently when they had a flooding problem there. Never saw anybody there at times I drove past! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted August 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30 3 hours ago, Compound2632 said: Sort of whacky sign, I think: https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/aug/30/harry-styles-twemlow-viaduct-fence But I'm struggling to see how a 183 year old viaduct comes to be described as Edwardian. I never heard of that styles character until I read that article. And I am not going to waste any time on looking it up! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted August 30 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 30 2 hours ago, Ian Morgan said: "We are working out of sight so you may not see us" Well, there does seem to be a school of mismanagement that thinks that if you can't see your workers, they're not working... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted August 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30 9 minutes ago, Nick C said: Well, there does seem to be a school of mismanagement that thinks that if you can't see your workers, they're not working... Similar to the popular opinion that track workers standing in a safe place while a train passes aren't working. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted August 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30 I saw this at the urologist's yesterday and thought: "A few important words are missing.". 7 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30 36 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said: I never heard of that styles character until I read that article. And I am not going to waste any time on looking it up! Don't worry; I hold much popular US culture in similar disdain. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Chris M Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 Isn’t the afriad extinct? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted August 31 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31 23 minutes ago, Chris M said: Isn’t the afriad extinct? Not quite, just placed in Special Measures 😉 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted August 31 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31 (edited) Which promted me to visualise what an Afriad might look like. I came up with a sort of ganga-smoking triffid with dreadlocks, iree mon. Sometimes my brain is a very strange place... Edited August 31 by The Johnster 1 1 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted August 31 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 31 Sometimes? 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 55 minutes ago, Chris M said: Isn’t the afriad extinct? Yes. I'm afriad not. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 1 hour ago, KeithMacdonald said: Yes. I'm afriad not. You'll need to get re-tied again, then... 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 31 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 31 3 hours ago, Chris M said: Isn’t the afriad extinct? 3 hours ago, The Johnster said: Which promted me to visualise what an Afriad might look like. I came up with a sort of ganga-smoking triffid with dreadlocks, iree mon. Sometimes my brain is a very strange place... You can see plenty of them at a Trump rally. 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 31 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 31 1 hour ago, PhilJ W said: You can see plenty of them at a Trump rally. But not as many as Trump claims were there. 5 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 1 hour ago, PhilJ W said: You can see plenty of them at a Trump rally. Not ganga-smoking triffids with dreads. You can probably count on one hand the sets of dreadlocks at one of those events. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted August 31 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31 4 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said: Not ganga-smoking triffids with dreads. You can probably count on one hand the sets of dreadlocks at one of those events. Less than one finger, more like… 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted September 1 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 1 1 hour ago, The Johnster said: Less than one finger, more like… Or a couple of extras! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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