Local Newspaper Headlines!

[JimW]

Even have them in Beijing. It's a global wave! Still get the blokes on street corners playing chess too.

 

[Orang Utan]

It's a good thing. I am too impatient and find them too concentratey to be entertaining but many of my friends meet regularly to play board games. It's a sociable thing to do and unworthy of dessiato 's disdain

 

[Dom Traynor]

I go to them in Auckland as an alternative to going to the pub and drinking. They’re great. There’s now a board game place with a licence as well mind...

 

[petee]

silly name yes, but a great idea. the best pub in town where i was an undergraduate had stacks of mags on the tables and board games to play. this was in the 70s, mind, and run by some laconic german guy who wound up in the asshole of the world and whose life story no-one knew. not some hipster thing.

 

[Badgers]

 

[Enviro]

Dad 'refuses' to call baby the name chosen by his girlfriend

 

[QueenOfGoths]

We have a fireplace, my husband works for the council.... and we have Eastern European neighbours. Do I need to panic?

Woman tells council she'd "rather die" than lose her beloved fireplace

 

[Wilf]

Hengrove man left shocked by 'absolute disaster of dessert' he bought for £6 at Pizza Hut

It was supposed to be a birthday treat

The pics are classic!

If I was an artist, I'd reproduce the three pictures of him almost eating the biscuit as a triptych - 'Disappointment'

 

[Sprocket.]

As normal in the Dearne Valley!

 

[Dogsauce]

Bit OT, but the above featuring South Yorkshire plod reminds me of one of my favourite things ever:

 

[Ground Elder]

'It did make all the adults laugh' - Family's amusement over Tesco Easter bunting blunder

Five hundred and forty six words and seven pictures What did they expect for a quid?

 

[Kaka Tim]

"If I was on the dole or I had kids on my own, or I was Eastern European, no doubt they would let me keep the fireplace."

indeed - obviously housing regulations vary according to your membership of arbitrarily selected marginal social groupings. Although - perhaps surprisingly - it seems muslims do have to give up their fireplaces - unless they are classed as unemployed or from Krakow obviously (intersectionality - right there) .

 

[pesh]

Man walks down street with fire blasting disco shed on his head

 

[cupid_stunt]

VIDEO: Two men filmed carrying out LEWD sex act in front of horrified shoppers

FFS, oral sex, right in the town centre, outside the main shopping centre, in broad daylight.

 

[Sprocket.]

Man walks down street with fire blasting disco shed on his head

His head’s a shed.
Perfect.

 

[Poi E]

Hmmph. That's what comes of Bristol's lax policing of sellers of killer skunk

 

[gosub]

Man walks down street with fire blasting disco shed on his head

 

[cupid_stunt]

Man walks down street with fire blasting disco shed on his head

"You're joking - not another one!"

(c) Brenda of Bristol.

 

[hash tag]

I'm sorry, but I had a wry smile over this Limerick motorist can’t drive into his village due to speed ramps 

 

[Rob Ray]

There once was a driver from Limerick
But his car had no way to get into it
He sulked to the press
"These speed ramps are a mess"
Yet the public they just didn't give a shit.

 

[editor]

Gold-coloured hippo statue thrown off Hastings Pier

 

[Sprocket.]

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Gold-coloured hippo statue thrown off Hastings Pier

I could say I was sad to read this but I’d be a hippocrit.

 

[Sprocket.]

Man walks down street with fire blasting disco shed on his head

Does it speak volumes about my current mindset that I’m slightly jealous of this bloke?

 

[existentialist]

The ultimate rural headline...

A farmer's unique proposal to fiancee painted on the side of a cow

 

[Yossarian]

The ultimate rural headline...

A farmer's unique proposal to fiancee painted on the side of a cow

I'm surprised the headline wasn't more like "Will Moo Marry Me?"

 

[existentialist]

I'm surprised the headline wasn't more like "Will Moo Marry Me?"

They're not that imaginative at the Western Telegraph.

 

[hash tag]

A farmer. whose mind is on the love of his life, thinks....cow

 

[dessiato]

A farmer. whose mind is on the love of his life, thinks....cow

A few years ago my f-i-l said to my wife, "I went to the farm yesterday. I saw his old, fat, sheepdog. She looked like you." An old, fat, bitch reminded him of his daughter, who is still angry about it.

 

[hash tag]

Good breading stock, easily trained, obedient

 

[dessiato]

Good breading stock, easily trained, obedient

I'll let you tell Mrs Dess.