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Strange questions that sometimes need answering (or not asking in the first place really).

A pub loo is only posh. When a lad in there pushes the button on the tap for you and says "wash ya fingers for the mingers sir?'

Sheer class.

My ****** Volvo is a good name for WMC band.
 
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DiogoJ42 said:
You know when a pub is trying to be posh, the toilets have soap and "lotion" next to the sinks? What exactly are they expecting people to do in there‽
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Wash your hands and then moisturise them? Like a normal person??
 
I wash my hands with soap (and you do not want to know how many guys I see not even bother). If I want my hands to be "moist", I just won't dry them.
 
Normal people.
Who will think of our poor avian, monkey and squirrel friends.
Up the species eh?
As my maths teacher used to say in a busy class with a smile...
"Not many normal ones in here Rob...We are quite alone".
Used to scare the **** out of me, Mr Youd.
 
Sorry I forgot tongues in cheeks don’t always translate on the internet 🙄
 
I want to make a "tongue in cheek" joke about being in the toilets, but I am giving up double entendre gags for the heatwave.
Probably.
 
I have a slightly strange question this evening; what does the accent sound like in East Anglia (e.g. Norfolk/Suffolk)?

I’m off to East Anglia for my first ever visit in 10 days (I’m visiting Pleasurewood Hills, Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach and Joyland for the first time), and it randomly dawned on me that I couldn’t actually pick out what an East Anglian accent from, say, Norfolk or Suffolk actually sounds like, even broadly. I could broadly tell you what most of the UK’s regional accents sound like; I could pick out the likes of London, West Country, West Midlands, North West, Yorkshire, North East, Welsh and Scottish quite easily at a broad level, but I literally could not even begin to tell you what the local accent sounds like in East Anglia…

As someone who lives in the South West, in Gloucestershire, East Anglia is admittedly far from local to me, but I still find it weird that I can’t even broadly pick out what an accent from the region sounds like when I can with most other UK regions…
 
Matt N said:
I have a slightly strange question this evening; what does the accent sound like in East Anglia (e.g. Norfolk/Suffolk)?

I’m off to East Anglia for my first ever visit in 10 days (I’m visiting Pleasurewood Hills, Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach and Joyland for the first time), and it randomly dawned on me that I couldn’t actually pick out what an East Anglian accent from, say, Norfolk or Suffolk actually sounds like, even broadly. I could broadly tell you what most of the UK’s regional accents sound like; I could pick out the likes of London, West Country, West Midlands, North West, Yorkshire, North East, Welsh and Scottish quite easily at a broad level, but I literally could not even begin to tell you what the local accent sounds like in East Anglia…

As someone who lives in the South West, in Gloucestershire, East Anglia is admittedly far from local to me, but I still find it weird that I can’t even broadly pick out what an accent from the region sounds like when I can with most other UK regions…
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YouTube is your friend:

From: https://youtu.be/ejdr7_HIsRg?si=U-B7waRhLwlYb7tT

From: https://youtu.be/d2bHBmXXdJo?si=TY0HNOm7CZocN_ol

Also, don't conflate Norfolk and Suffolk. They may be next door to each other, but their rivalries are comparable to Gloucester and Worcester, Gloucester and Bath, or Gloucester and Bristol.

As people in Norwich often say, what's the best thing to come out of Ipswich? The A140.
 
(Can't think where else to put this, but thought it might amuse).

Bought a new watch on the way to work this afternoon. As the guy is showing me options, he points out some digitals.
Me: "It's not that I don't like a digital watch... It's just that I can never not think if that line from Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Do you know the one?"
.... He turns round to reveal that his T shirt reads, "DON'T PANIC". We got on famously for the rest of the transaction.
 
What happens if someone loses a shoe on a ride during the day and it can’t be recovered? Does a park like Alton Towers have some kind of provision to lend a guest some replacement footwear or would you have to just walk around in your socks all day?
 
Shaggy_Dog_ said:
What happens if someone loses a shoe on a ride during the day and it can’t be recovered? Does a park like Alton Towers have some kind of provision to lend a guest some replacement footwear or would you have to just walk around in your socks all day?
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Fun fact. In 2007 Phantasialand used to give knee-high plastic covers to guests wearing flip flops/loose shoes when they entered the Black Mamba queue.

It was quite amusing!
 
Sazzle said:
Can’t wait to hear how the accent sounds when people are moaning about how hot it is today - you’re in for a real treat friend!

“Ain’ it BOO-IFUL a’day. Bit ot mind” 😂
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If anything, I seem to have heard more London/South East accents around here than local accents in the 2 days I’ve been here! Most people I’ve heard around here seem to have Cockney accents or Estuary (Essex/Kent) accents.

Either a lot of Londoners come here on their summer holidays (plausible, particularly from the northeastern bits that are near areas like Essex), or a lot of people who live here have London accents!

I have heard a couple of local accents, though, and weirdly given I’m 4.5 hours away from my home in Gloucestershire, the accents actually sound quite similar to the West Country accents local to where I live, in some ways!
 
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