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The Daily Mail is always right

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  1. chdot
    Admin

    Was just about to post this photo

    Then I saw this -

    RoadPolicingScot (@polscotrpu)
    25/10/2017, 08:19
    Very disappointing article. Rather than focusing on road safety & casualty reduction, blame the police for enforcing the law #itsourjob https://twitter.com/skynews/status/922939990958661632

    https://twitter.com/polscotrpu/status/923086520717905920

    Posted 6 years ago #
  2. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I'm hoping it was the demise of stay-at-home mums that made the Queen grin with delight, but it was probably just the Balmoral hydroponic skunk again.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  3. crowriver
    Member

    @IWRATS: nah, it was Scotland's Autumn larder.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  4. amir
    Member

    The story should read
    "Drivers make generous donation to poverished police coffers by deliberately speeding and parking illegally"

    Posted 6 years ago #
  5. unhurt
    Member

    The demise of any mum, regardess of employment status, seems likely to upset their children...

    Posted 6 years ago #
  6. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    My mum knows Sarah Vine's father-in-law a bit. Ms Vine often dumps her kids on him to go galivanting with aristocrats, despite not being a stay-at-home mum. The kids' father is not a stay-at-home father either. If I were the kids I'd celebrate all the above.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  7. Snowy
    Member

    Re-criminalise motoring offences, perhaps. You'd certainly get a criminal record for recklessly waving a kitchen knife around in public, even if you didn't actually hit anyone with it. Why is recklessness with 2 tonnes of metal any different?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  8. unhurt
    Member

    Kitchen knife wavers don't pay knife waving location tax?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  9. acsimpson
    Member

    The Blacksmiths union clearly didn't lobby as hard as Henry Ford and his chums did.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  10. crowriver
    Member

    Blacksmiths? Cutlers, surely?*

    * Ivor being the most celebrated north of the border.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  11. acsimpson
    Member

    Depends if it's a table knife or a chef's knife. Perhaps a bladesmith would be correct and would avoid ambiguity about spoon and fork wavers.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  12. crowriver
    Member

    Apparently it's ‘little mesters’ in Sheffield...

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/31/sheffield-steel-craft-workers-specialise-cutlery-tools-tata

    Though this would seem to indicate that knife makers are still Cutlers:

    http://www.sheffieldknives.co.uk

    Posted 6 years ago #
  13. unhurt
    Member

    life makers

    Your autocorrect is getting deep today.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  14. crowriver
    Member

    Aye, it sometimes throws up really weird juxtapositions...

    (Corrected it manually).

    [Maybe I should write an experimental stream of consciousness novel leaving the word choice to autocorrect]

    Posted 6 years ago #
  15. unhurt
    Member

    "Little mesters" is a nice wee bit of archaic usage/survival.

    (This year's evening class dabbling is German, and pleasingly the German equivalent of "practice makes perfect" is "übung macht den Meister".)

    Posted 6 years ago #
  16. unhurt
    Member

    [Maybe we could do that as a group project? Gembo's already halfway there.]

    Posted 6 years ago #
  17. acsimpson
    Member

    Perhaps the Daily Fail write their content using only the middle word on their phones autocorrect function.
    ...
    I ride my bike because I have a code, by the time to drop off the roundabout on the right to the SSPCA. the same time as well as the message and any attachments is intended only for the whole thing. was that the police don't know! if you have any questions or concerns please visit the plug-in settings.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  18. Arellcat
    Moderator

    @acsimpson, think that warrants a new and entirely frivolous thread.

    Posted 6 years ago #

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