test please delete

[mudskipper]

There's an American woman who's visiting England soon, and is worried that if she needs to ask a stranger for directions she'll just be told to **** off because she's an American tourist

She should ask a policeman.

[mudskipper]

She should ask a policeman.

Lol, just read the thread. Exactly the advice she was given

[mudskipper]

I like this one:

what is the difference between arse and ass?

- An arse is your butt and an ass is a donkey.

- Our arse is your fanny. Our fanny is your ****. Our **** is our Prime Minister and he's a total ass. Hope that clears it up

[mudskipper]

Blue, brown, green-and-yellow has been the standard for many decades

Indeed - I remember it as blue - left; brown - right.

[NickFitz]

Indeed - I remember it as blue - left; brown - right.

I always remembered it as "Blue is the colour of an electrical spark, so they wouldn't make that live would they, no, that's far too bloody obvious, so that must be neutral; while brown is universally regarded as a neutral shade, so of course that's live."

[NickFitz]

Lol, just read the thread. Exactly the advice she was given

Correct advice - see, she needn't have worried

I once got asked for directions to Piccadilly Circus by an American tourist, at the junction of Long Acre and St. Martin's Lane. Far from being annoyed, I was really pleased, because it was one of the few places I knew the way to from there.

Then I mentioned that he'd be crossing the north side of Leicester Square on the way, and he was really pleased, because he wanted to go there too but hadn't realised how close together all these places were.

So everybody was pleased. A good day for UK-US relations

[SueEllen]

The local paper got me that way around 1990. But I lived in a flat and the neighbours kept on nicking it when it came through the front door

Well least there was someone who enjoyed reading it.

I'm down to one local free newspaper and when it came through the door today it was 8 sheets thick.

When the other local newspaper got that thin it died after 6 months.

[DaveB]

Relaxed start to the day in preparation for a trip to the National Winter Ale Festival

[barrydidit]

I'll be interested to see if it makes any contact at all once it arrives.

Looks like it goes into the middle without any contact. There's a picture of 4 UK plugs in there. Good idea

[norrahe]

Our cousins across the pond in SepticLand have a rather relaxed attitude to earthing grounding stuff.

Even stooping to cutting the ground pin off if it prevents you putting the plug into a non grounded socket.

We ended up having to rewire the cloggy house that we bought as the previous owners had neglected to put earth wiring in when they rewired the house.