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Surreal news articles

rob666 said:
In this old mans eyes, neither surreal nor news.
Such events have gone on in public toilets for a couple of hundred years.
Why this particular event hit the press, god only knows.
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You should know.

.... About the hundred years bit. What you get up to in a public bog is your problem. Just don't leave a mess.
 
Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa

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An "unsecured" penguin in a cardboard box was the cause of a helicopter crash in South Africa, a report into the incident has found.

The penguin, which had been placed in the box and on the lap of a passenger, slid off and knocked the pilot's controls just after take-off from Bird Island off the Eastern Cape on 19 January.

The South African Civil Aviation Authority said the impact sent the helicopter crashing to the ground. No-one on board, including the penguin, was hurt.

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Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa

Pilot lost control after bird in cardboard box slid off a passenger's knee and knocked controls, aviation authority finds.
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pluk said:
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Well in that case, Victoria, your opinion means absolutely **** all to me or anyone else with an ounce of sense.
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Didn’t even need to read the rest, soon as I saw “Surrey Live” I knew it was going to be the usual Reach Media ********.

I was very much correct.
 
School evacuated as grenade brought to show-and-tell

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A school was evacuated and army explosives experts called after a pupil unexpectedly produced a grenade from his pocket in a show-and-tell assembly.

Staff at Osmaston CofE Primary School, in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, said they had not been expecting the boy to bring the World War Two weapon in for the assembly on Friday morning.

Head teacher Jeanette Hart said she was unsure if the device was live so she took it from the boy and slowly placed it behind a "substantial" tree in the car park as the school was cleared and emergency services were called.

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Ashbourne school evacuated as boy takes grenade to show-and-tell

Head teacher Jeanette Hart says she placed the grenade behind a "substantial" tree and called 999.
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Likewise.
Triple safety carabiner clip, "top class juniors"...around 1969, swashbuckler.
Spring, twist and slide to open.
Friday afternoon fun lesson if we had been good, which was, of course, rather rare.
 
Show and tell was a staple of my years in infant class (Reception to Year 2, 2007-2010)! We used to do it every week!

We also used to get given a teddy bear called Barnaby when we went on holiday, and we used to have to take pictures with him and show them in show and tell! Although I don’t know if that one was just a quirk of my particular primary school…
 
Matt N said:
We also used to get given a teddy bear called Barnaby when we went on holiday, and we used to have to take pictures with him and show them in show and tell! Although I don’t know if that one was just a quirk of my particular primary school…
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We had something similar! Ah the memories are flooding back to me! We read a book called Flat Stanley which is exactly what it’s sounds like; pin board falls on kid and squishes him flat as paper and now he can become a kite or whatever.

We were tasked with making a little paper version of ourselves; cut to shape like those paper chains of people holding hands, crudely coloured in by yours truly, a cut out photo of our face stuck on and finished by laminating it. This eliminated the risk of someone loosing a class shared ‘Barnaby’ by having one for each person. However, we did not take our 20cm paper friends on holiday - instead, we sent them to our abroad or faraway relatives through the post.

We sent my little plastic-paper clone to our Uncle and Aunt that live in Florida. So in short, something I made actually went to Universal before I did, and I have a photograph somewhere to prove it!

Tangent over.
Allow me to indulge.

Anyway, yes I do remember show and tell being a thing in reception, although I won’t have much to add on the time period as @Zeock was more or less doing that as the same time as me. It was usually a cuddly toy, some rock, a thing from a museum gift shop and most excitingly, a bug some kid had captured during break.

I remember this because I think the most bizarre thing I bought in was a set of Angry Birds Russian dolls I might of bought on holiday or brought back from my parents during one of their holidays. I still have them on my shelf!
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There was a slight dispute during the session, in which another pupil asked me if I could use them do 5 pin bowling. I didn’t want to damage my prized relic. I said no, only to have my family find me doing the exact thing I had declined.

My response?
“Only I do the perfect shots”.

Yeah my family aren’t going to let me ever forget that. That’s up there with the time I said I “hated” the Bubbleworks and “It makes me want to died”.

Second tangent.
Oops I did it again.

DiogoJ42 said:
I've got T shirts older than you!
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We’ve only got a few more years before our parents start considering kicking us out. Maybe it’s time you consider their methods…?
 
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