Grace Speaker wrote:After a really shitty week, this bit of ridiculously British ridiculousness just cheered me up immensely![]()
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
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.