Randomness

[Zonda_]

https://www.gotheborg.se/news/rescue-of-sailing-boat/

[nuttinnew]

That's awe(no, not oar)some

[DeskJockey]

Wonder if they were worried it might be pirates at first.

[Beany]

Wonder if they were worried it might be pirates at first.

Pirates? I'd be more concerned it was the Flying Dutchman

"ah shit lads, we had too much to drink last night..."

[nuttinnew]

[Jobbo]

An unexpected style change from the old misogynist. Spoiler: it's actually good.

[Jobbo]

Spotted on Google Streetview: a road traffic offence. Caught in the act!
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.23630 ... ?entry=ttu

Move the view left and see the queue behind. And here's the sign further back which they should not have passed: https://goo.gl/maps/a5schA29uKdu7JAZ8

[Mito Man]

Mhmm, although I’d rather the police just followed/escorted it until it went off the main road but they’ll probably happily spend 15 minutes blocking a whole lane of a busy A road and making a colossal queue whilst the driver gets a bollocking and fine.

[McSwede]

Mhmm, although I’d rather the police just followed/escorted it until it went off the main road but they’ll probably happily spend 15 minutes blocking a whole lane of a busy A road and making a colossal queue whilst the driver gets a bollocking and fine.

That's the road up to Sutton bank. It's only just starting to get steep where they're stopped. It's been the demise of many a lorry, car/caravan, etc.

[mik]

Nice (and edit: he’s got some other good stoopid poems so you should take a look)

https://www.threads.net/@brian_bilston/ ... BiNWFlZA==

Copied n pasted to save you clicking (unless you want to see the author

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PASTA

She blew her fusilli,
my pretty penne,
when she found me watching
daytime tagliatelle.
 
Je ne spaghetti rien,
I responded in song,
but she did not linguini
for long,
 
just walked out
without further retort:
a hard lesson to be tortellini,
orzo I thought.
 
And so here I am,
on my macaroni,
and now my days feel
cannelloni.

[Beany]

Mhmm, although I’d rather the police just followed/escorted it until it went off the main road but they’ll probably happily spend 15 minutes blocking a whole lane of a busy A road and making a colossal queue whilst the driver gets a bollocking and fine.

That's the road up to Sutton bank. It's only just starting to get steep where they're stopped. It's been the demise of many a lorry, car/caravan, etc.

Yup, that ain't a mild incline...

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[Mito Man]

Must say I didn’t consider that the car would have ran out of steam and just ground to a halt. You see a constant stream of Brits in boggo spec Passats and the like towing pretty big caravans up mountain passes in the Alps alright so I’m surprised if a pretty modern car can stall out like that.

[Jobbo]

Must say I didn’t consider that the car would have ran out of steam and just ground to a halt. You see a constant stream of Brits in boggo spec Passats and the like towing pretty big caravans up mountain passes in the Alps alright so I’m surprised if a pretty modern car can stall out like that.

I think the location where the Streetview image was taken is at the bottom of the steep descent, so it's not that it's run out of steam - it's just come down the hill.

[nuttinnew]

^ Aye, it's at the bottom, and there's a toight corner on the main drag so it's probably as much about clearance as break's.

[jamcg]

Sutton bank is terrible, it’s really long and that bend robs all your momentum, it’s not great coming down, even in low gear you need brakes to keep the speed low or you’ll be off at that corner, if you drive anything that will loo it gets sketchy if you go too fast

[Jobbo]

Oh god, Big Clive is going a bit mad.

[nuttinnew]

Oh god, Big Clive is going a bit mad.

Hang on a mo', you're not Beany

[Beany]

If he was me, he'd have seen it two weeks ago before Clive went off to do work on the Edinburgh Tattoo, via his Patreon

[nuttinnew]

and you didn't share

[nuttinnew]