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Re: What Cheered You Up? - Deck the Halls...

Postby Basement » Fri Nov 17, 2017 03:49 pm

Grace Speaker wrote:After a really shitty week, this bit of ridiculously British ridiculousness just cheered me up immensely :D
Doncaster council are having a Twitter voting competition to name this winter's gritting machines. The finalists are:

Gritsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Anti-Slip Machinery
Spready Mercury
Basil Salty
David Plowie
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On Twitter? Get voting!: https://twitter.com/MyDoncaster/status/931201015977738241


Oh and apparently GrittyMcGritFace was disqualified early on . . . possibly for shovelling . . . geddit? Oh please yourselves :roll:


Another council did a similar competition last year, it was called Nicole Saltslinger after the X Factor judge from last year; Gritsy Bitsy etc was a finalist then, too.
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Re: What Cheered You Up? - Deck the Halls...

Postby Whos Wee Dug » Fri Nov 17, 2017 05:53 pm

:lol: :thumbr:
A Midgie in yur hand is worth twa up yir kilt.
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Re: What Cheered You Up? - Deck the Halls...

Postby phalarope » Mon Dec 11, 2017 01:37 am

Full contact Christmas tree wrestling in the snow. :lol:
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Re: What Cheered You Up? - Deck the Halls...

Postby Nonny Mouse » Mon Dec 11, 2017 04:52 am

Hot buttered rum 8)
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Re: What Cheered You Up? - Deck the Halls...

Postby phalarope » Mon Dec 11, 2017 03:18 pm

Nonny Mouse wrote:Hot buttered rum 8)

:thumbl: I went with a dark & stormy
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Re: What Cheered You Up? - Deck the Halls...

Postby phazedout » Tue Dec 12, 2017 09:14 pm

phalarope wrote:
Nonny Mouse wrote:Hot buttered rum 8)

:thumbl: I went with a dark & stormy

Why at this point am i picturng a rugged, lightly scarred gentleman, in a black wide brimmed hat and cloak...
[regarding Alan Rickman] He had Tim Curry's ability to save the day by putting literally all the scenery in his mouth and gnawing on it like a deranged woodchuck.
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Re: What Cheered You Up? - Deck the Halls...

Postby Basement » Wed Dec 13, 2017 09:45 am

phazedout wrote:
phalarope wrote:
Nonny Mouse wrote:Hot buttered rum 8)

:thumbl: I went with a dark & stormy

Why at this point am i picturng a rugged, lightly scarred gentleman, in a black wide brimmed hat and cloak...


Because you have strange fantasies?? :wink:
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Re: What Cheered You Up? - Deck the Halls...

Postby Grace Speaker » Wed Dec 13, 2017 10:32 am

Basement wrote:
phazedout wrote:Why at this point am i picturng a rugged, lightly scarred gentleman, in a black wide brimmed hat and cloak...


Because you have strange fantasies?? :wink:
Throw in the windswept scenery of Cornwall and it sounds like Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark to me . . . nothing strange about that let me tell you :D :wink:
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Re: What Cheered You Up? - Deck the Halls...

Postby Basement » Wed Dec 13, 2017 12:44 pm

Grace Speaker wrote:
Basement wrote:
phazedout wrote:Why at this point am i picturng a rugged, lightly scarred gentleman, in a black wide brimmed hat and cloak...


Because you have strange fantasies?? :wink:
Throw in the windswept scenery of Cornwall and it sounds like Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark to me . . . nothing strange about that let me tell you :D :wink:


For you maybe, but I was unaware that Alan was that way inclined, hence strange for him.
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Re: What Cheered You Up? - Deck the Halls...

Postby Grace Speaker » Wed Dec 13, 2017 04:35 pm

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For you maybe, but I was unaware that Alan was that way inclined, hence strange for him.
Ah, yes - good point :oops:
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Re: What Cheered You Up? - Deck the Halls...

Postby phalarope » Thu Dec 14, 2017 01:59 am

Doug Jones defeated the serial child molester, homophobe, racist, and all-around bigot Roy Moore in the Alabama special election for the Senate.
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Re: What Cheered You Up? - Deck the Halls...

Postby Nonny Mouse » Thu Dec 14, 2017 05:04 am

Ya that cheered me up too :D
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Re: What Cheered You Up? - Deck the Halls...

Postby Grace Speaker » Thu Dec 14, 2017 08:40 am

Great news wasn't it? Did you catch Stephen Colbert's monologue on it? :D :lol:
I really wish we got The Late Show on TV over this side of the pond so I didn't have keep clicking the ruddy skip-ad on YouTube every 3 minutes
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Re: What Cheered You Up? - Deck the Halls...

Postby Alan » Thu Dec 14, 2017 10:41 am

Grace Speaker wrote:Great news wasn't it? Did you catch Stephen Colbert's monologue on it? :D :lol:
I really wish we got The Late Show on TV over this side of the pond so I didn't have keep clicking the ruddy skip-ad on YouTube every 3 minutes


get an ad blocker,makes you tube much nicer to watch :wink:
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Re: What Cheered You Up? - Deck the Halls...

Postby Grace Speaker » Sun Jan 07, 2018 05:28 pm

Sometimes, just sometimes, Twitter is wonderful . . .

. . . so I've just shamelessly Feegled this from @Vamp_Blackrose :D

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