franksinatra – Member

Very curious sport though, how violence and punch-up are so common and encouraged, often (as in that clip) with the referees just standing by and watching.

Pigface – Member
…refs let them punch themselves out unless they fall on the floor then they will step in.

^^^ this

Here is a pretty good summation:

“Fighting is considered to be part of the game in hockey. The unwritten rules actually provide pretty strict control over what looks to be uncontrolled. The refs always step in and end the fight when one of the players falls to the ice. At that point, the fight is over. If one of the players continues to fight, he will likely be ejected from the game.”
Quora

(I used to play right-defence for a UK recreational team in the early 1990’s)

Re: deadlydarcy’s first post

I generally try not to automatically let pretty girls out, because I assume they’re expecting it

8O

Hopefully, this is still referring to ‘at junctions’ and not ‘of my van’.

Cruel?

Speshpaul – Member
A lot of that is just poor/lazy workmanship.

I think the answer is ‘Lookalike’

Can goddess dishearten Kylie’s 29er?

29down = ring

29er = ringer

can = loo

goddess = kali

dishearten Kylie’s = ke

ringer = lookalike (loo)(kali)(ke)

I realise this may not fit with your (apparent) political views…

However, just as a suggestion, perhaps you make up over-the-top (e.g. parody) designer labels / price tags for existing or charity shop clothes?

E.g.
Big sunglasses with cardboard Gucci label
Sophia Loren type hat
Labels on everthing else:
Armani
Dolce and Gabana
Versace
Prada

Alternatively – improvise large cardboard (or fabric?) tube – cut asymmetric arm holes – felt-tip pen detail = leaning tower of Pisa

GregMay – Member
Windows into a concrete garage where my keys are? Sadly not.

TrekEX8 – Member
You crawled under the garage door?

Obviously a cover-story…

ohnohesback – Member
IIRC, if 5000 votes had been changed in the most marginal constituencies in 1992, Neil Kinnock would have won.

So wurdling the result may not be that difficult…

julianwilson – Member
Alternatively, the conservatives are just really good at appealing to poorly-educated people as well.

PeterPoddy – Member
Phew. That was a close shave then. Thank god he didn’t. 5000 very sensible people!

Remember the 1992 election day Sun headline ?

“In his resignation speech, Kinnock blamed the light bulb front page for his defeat.”

Classic Headlines

Why is Ant McPartlin two rows behind the queen?

^^^ Reggaeton :-)

The London Matathon

Is this some sort of wrestling event?

No, it’s to do with the thing you put on top to protect the mat – it’s called a ‘runner’.

Proper Tea Devil Lopers

General Lee’s Peak King

These guys will help you out

Drac

You might want to look at njeee20 link

Caption Competition

Stephen Sutton

Jakester – Member

sands – Member
London slang:
Drum = House / Flat / The place where you live

Is it? Never heard that when I lived there!

Then I imagine that you also did not grow up watching ‘The Sweeney’ or any of Dennis Waterman’s fine (and varied) body of televisual drama ‘Stay Lucky you Cockney Minder’. :D

The word “drum” to describe a home came about long before the style of music drum and bass. It’s a great example of Reattachment – where a slang expression (not necessarily rhyming slang) gets reattached to a more modern phrase.

The word drum was originally used to describe a room or prison cell or even a road. It then became confined to only mean the home. Finally this was rhymed with Drum and Bass giving its modern interpretation.

Reference

Similar post from a couple of weeks ago:

Do you think my iTunes account has been hacked?

john_drummer – Member

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London slang:

Drum = House / Flat / The place where you live

HTH

The Titina Nzolameso case is scheduled to be heard in the Supreme Court today (17 Mar 2015).

Hodge Jones and Allen

Top Gear cleared over Pike’s Peak pun

Can someone explain the graph, it seems overly complicated?

Skip to 50 seconds

Madonna – guest on Jonathan Woss ITV 9:20pm – 10:20pm (Sat 14 Mar)

I’m sure he won’t mention the Brits fall :wink:

jimjam – Member

Good link

It’s worth skimming the comments at the foot of the Telegraph page.

Three_Fish – Member
If I Facebooked I would vote…

You don’t have to be on FB – just voted (plus 7 more since mine)

molgrips – Member

Possibly a slightly nutty bloke who’s decided to inform everyone of minor infringements.

That’ll never happen on STW :wink:

SADIE BB2-J AUDIO WORKSTATION Jogwheel

Northwind – Member
I’m sure you posted that picture…

You may find this useful

wwaswas – Member

Any reason they didn’t call it a bit of Argy Bargy?

That would have been the start of a slippery ‘slope’.

johndoh – Member

I read that as Filth Gear.

Now *that* would be an interesting show – perhaps with Suzi Perry and Gillian Anderson presenting it…

What about VBH?

Sincere condolences.

JonBoy – Member
As horrible as this is we are so so so lucky that we do have 2 girls.

Considering the circumstances, this positivity ^^^ is impressive.

munrobiker – Member
So, to save my marriage…

Is Mrs MB trying to ‘curry favour’ with you now?

I agree it’s down – the last bt email I received was at 10:49am

One post on here BT Forum Email

Not Receiving E Mails

07-03-201511h03
Since about 09:00 this morning I have not been receiving e mails.
Have proven this by sending mail from my Hotmail account to my Yahoo BT account plus not received one re an Amazon order.
Is there a general problem or is it just me??

?07-03-201515h26
Same here. Haven’t received anything since late last night, and should have received a couple from Amazon and Tesco in that timeframe, plus have tested to/from Hotmail and Gmail addresses (which are otherwise working fine). Things have been fine for 2 years+ up to today, so I’m as confident as I can be that things are set up correctly.
Everything seems to be going into a blackhole and there’s nothing on the BT status page about it.

mattsccm – Member
…or someone from 50 shades but unlikely.

Fifty Shades of Grey boy, 11, causes stir at school

burnsybhoy – Member
The letting agent/owners couldn’t provide a phone number for the plumbers only an email…

It would be worth doing a google search of that email address – if it is the plumber’s trade email, it might lead to name / phone etc.

bikebouy – Member
The mails do look remarkably genuine though

Thanks for the ‘heads-up’.

Any genuine emails from PayPal will have your name e.g. ‘David Smith’ either in the header or the first line of the email.

Both of my parents have had this. Firstly at Moorfields, and last year at the local (large) hospital.
There is a great deal of knowledge / experience in this procedure these days.

From memory:

Patients weren’t allowed to leave the ward unaccompanied (or use the stairs at all) in case of falls.
Two different types of eye drops afterwards.
No driving for 4 weeks.
After this, possibly worth getting an optician to verify (in writing) that your eyesight is up to driving standard.

Anyway, clocks change to BST on 30th March – look forward to the light evenings.

Congratulations and good luck to you both.