They walk amongst us.

Margaid said:
Quite agree Marigold - on style appreciation that is.

Hen-Gen does "slapper" have the same meaning it had in my youth, and what (or who) is a dweeb?
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How shall I put this? A slapper is a youngish woman of loose morals who likes eating chips and who drinks such things as sambuca, Martini and Lemonade etc.

A dweeb is a gutless, weedy man.

(Apologies to anyone who only ticks one of those boxes :D .)
 
Yes means the same in this area, dweeb has gone out of fashion in these parts not heard it for a while.
 
What it meant when I was young then, although the drinks were different. Shame Sambuca has now got a bad reputation - used to enjoy it with an after dinner coffee as long as I remembered to let it cool having blown out the flame!
 
bigyetiman said:
Thanks Marigold, some people just don't appreciate style do they?
Yes it is an offence to distract the driver, no hands free, it is instant dismissal if you use a phone on a bus, even if it is stationary. We could download the CCTV and get the details though
Most of the foreigners on the bus probably didn't speak English so she was probably safe on that score, so even if they had been of a criminal mind.
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And of course, there are no native British criminals, so I'm sure it was fine! :D :D
 
:D That's brilliant! Does actually look like its got a neck frill and a pair of boggly eyes too!
 
That is a great story. I wonder if they offered the RSPCA officer refreshements afterwards....., more tea Vic Hurr?
 
Marigold said:
I loved this story! It must have been under a teenager's bed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-41268025
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You never know what livestock lurks under a teenager's bed :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
And here's one for Margaid (and other cat lovers.)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/15/solid-and-liquid-cats-didgeridoos-and-cheese-disgust-scoop-ig-nobel-awards
 
This is where the sock lizard was actually going, when leaving a dummy of himself under the bed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/15/iggy-the-giant-iguana-rescued-after-being-found-in-scottish-layby
 
Lucky he was found.
Just come back from a week in the Peak District. Where we may have met true candidates for they walk amongst us.
We booked a trip on the underground boat at Speedwell caverns. There was one other couple on the 1st trip on the Tuesday, a tall man about 6ft 2 and his partner. You have to wear hard hats as the roof is quite low as you go along and with the rain on the Monday the water level was a lot higher. As we went along the man asked if he could remove his hat as he kept banging it on the roof! The guide was very informative and was talking about the huge cave systems that extend all around that area, to which his partner asked how many undiscovered caves were there, the guide was pretty quick and said "5 we are still looking for another 2", undaunted their next question was are the walls thicker than a house wall, bearing in mind we had walked down 106 steep steps to the boat.
The guide said afterwards that those remarks were going into the book of strange things that have been said.
 
The guide did say afterwards when we were chatting in general that he figured the man could have taken his hard hat off, as after a question like that there probably wasn't a lot to damage.
He said one of his favourites was "why are there so many steep steps down to a cave, it would be easier if it was near the top" which is the point it becomes a quarry not a cave.
Our all time favourite was the American woman at Windsor castle who said in a loud voice "it's a shame they built it so near the airport"
 
I do feel I have to stand up, as it were, for tall people!
Hard hats are really annoying because when your tall you do get pretty good at gauging the ceiling height through painful experience. A hard hat adds an inch to the top of your head and can can give you a krick in the neck constantly catching you out and bouncing of the ceiling.
But, obviously, everyone does have to wear a hat in a cave!
I liked the one about the number of undiscovered caves. That's a gamer's question - presuming that the level map had already found after defeating the boss.
 
I've heard about the Windsor castle quote. They can't help having no sense of history. (Maybe the last two words are superfluous!)

It's not only tall people Rick. Going underground at "Big Pit" in Blaenavon at 5' tall even I can't stand upright and banged my hard hat against the roof a couple of times. Most people "know" where their body ends and adding a hard hat changes that. I tripped up some steps once because I was wearing shoes a half size bigger than usual - my feet were less than half an inch longer but I caught the toe on the overhang.
 
I used to be a volunteer at the Blists Hill Victorian Town demonstrating in the Plumber's Workshop. Whilst plumbing pipe work is now completely different, lead flashings for buildings are pretty much unchanged today and the workshop had some examples of apprentice's work. Two of them were unfinished exercises in lead sheet forming which resembled bowler hats and would ultimately become roof flashings. One lady asked what the hats were for and I jokingly said "radiation protection", at which point everyone else in the room burst into fits of laughter. Without changing her expression she pondered for a while, the penny then dropped and then she asked what the hats were really for, at which point I had to tell her they were not hats at all.
 
I think being short or tall poses problems in equal measure. Peak cavern has a passage called lumbago alley, even OH at 5ft 2 was bent double, and you didn't get hard hats in that one.
Incidentally if anyone is in the Peak district, go to Eyam the plague village, absolutely fascinating, and the museum is really well put together. Only sour note was the idiot who had thrown a drinks bottle in Mompessons Well
 
This one went upwards, rather than underground - at least he chose an appropriate charity, though.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/18/bare-mountain-man-who-climbed-peak-in-pants-gets-hypothermia
 
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