Baffling local news stories

JAS84 · Thu 01 Mar, 2012 16.52

You'd think a big company like Boots would have cover without having to wait for a locum!

Alexia · Thu 01 Mar, 2012 22.55

JAS84 wrote: You'd think a big company like Boots would have cover without having to wait for a locum!

Be that as it may, they are still only branches with certain numbers of members of staff, if there's illness, absence or traffic, you cannae do anything about it.

Alexia · Mon 21 May, 2012 21.34

A royalist County Durham tearoom owner told how she threw three women out after they refused to stand when the national anthem was played.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-18141421

Philip · Mon 21 May, 2012 21.51

Alexia wrote:A royalist County Durham tearoom owner told how she threw three women out after they refused to stand when the national anthem was played.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-18141421

If they were anti-monarchist why did they enter the tearoom in the first place...

Alexia · Mon 21 May, 2012 22.13

Philip wrote:If they were anti-monarchist why did they enter the tearoom in the first place...

Er....to have a cup of tea/coffee? Since when did quenching one's refreshment needs require tolerating such bizarrely OTT political posturing? Imagine if, as I usually do, I refused to sing happy birthday / clapped every time they played it in Frankie & Benny's and was then thrown out for not entering into the spirit of the occasion?

Sput · Tue 22 May, 2012 11.41

Alexia wrote:
Philip wrote:If they were anti-monarchist why did they enter the tearoom in the first place...
Er....to have a cup of tea/coffee? Since when did quenching one's refreshment needs require tolerating such bizarrely OTT political posturing? Imagine if, as I usually do, I refused to sing happy birthday / clapped every time they played it in Frankie & Benny's and was then thrown out for not entering into the spirit of the occasion?

I feel it only fair to warn you that you've strayed into Plymouth sentence construction territory there...

Alexia · Tue 22 May, 2012 15.12

Alexia wrote:Imagine if, as I usually do, I refused to sing happy birthday / clapped every time they played it in Frankie & Benny's and was then thrown out for not entering into the spirit of the occasion?
What are you doing in Frankie & Benny's if you don't like the atmosphere? You can't possibly be going for the quality of their food.

Actually I go for both, although I wish they had a wider range of music - 4 CDs on a permanent loop is not enough.

cwathen · Tue 22 May, 2012 20.14

I feel it only fair to warn you that you've strayed into Plymouth sentence construction territory there...

Not quite. He didn't say 'elluva' or 'innit' or randomly pluralise words. Nor did he say 'fuckin...' and pause in the middle of the sentence whilst thinking about how to finish it.

Pete · Tue 22 May, 2012 22.15

cwathen wrote:
I feel it only fair to warn you that you've strayed into Plymouth sentence construction territory there...
Not quite. He didn't say 'elluva' or 'innit' or randomly pluralise words. Nor did he say 'fuckin...' and pause in the middle of the sentence whilst thinking about how to finish it.

Not that Plymouth - Stuart*Plymouth

scottishtv · Thu 24 May, 2012 16.33

This must be an entrant for this topic, if only for the forced 'sad face' photo, and the holding of a hotplate hob on top of a cooker: Squirrels turn woman’s flat into death trap

Some of the comments are worth a read.

Nick Harvey · Sun 22 Jul, 2012 17.24

The headline's far funnier than the story here.