This has to be a wind-up? #sorrynotsorry

It's OK so long as the plastic isn't PTFE otherwise your hand will keep slipping off the end...

Let's face it, it's unlikely to be the only massive cock in Wales.

It was the label on the underside which read “MFI” that first aroused their suspicions 🙂

"no Tories left"? Surely Starmer's got plenty of them?

Oh come on, everyone knows the correct answer is this one 😀 ![Class 55 Deltic at Kings Cross late 1970s with the front of the train shed behind]

Of course after seven free beers things become a little… confused 😀

I avoided seeing it. As I remarked to a similar post in Another Place, were you expecting anything different?

Surely no one can be surprised? Have you seen how many building sites there are in London?

Buy 4 of the one on the left, you’ll be quids in 🙂

Why have I immediately thought of Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley? 😀

“That exhaust will clear right up” I’d be surprised if it did, even when they were newish Class 50s could produce an impressive plume of exhaust smoke. When I was a kid spotting on the Western Region main line and these were in regular service we learned not to stand directly above them on the footbridge at the station 😀 They make a great noise going at full chat though.

Party Gas=Ether aka Easy Start (or "Start ya bastard" in Australia). Sprayed into the air intake to encourage reluctant engines to fire up. It was a frivolous humourous remark, I think you'd need unfeasibly large cans for an engine that size 😀

Simple, servants 🙂

Not enough of the ol’ Party Gas, Class 50 needs two full cans at least 😀

I think it’s the block of flats that’s Art Deco rather than the interior of that particular one, which is as you say more Louis Quatorze. If he’d been from Essex.

They complained that the original set of photos were all in portrait mode. This was the corrected set 🙂

Yes. Fuck knows how that happened 🙁

Announced on the same day that he returned to the telly in season 2 of The Responder on BBC1. Bugger.

“_Heineken hopes the revamp of its pubs will tempt drinkers and diners back, including using "subtle zoning" to allow customers to enjoy different activities like watching sports and dining "without disturbing each other".

It said it will use dividing screens and distinct changes to lighting, sound systems and furniture styles to "help delineate the zones"_.”

Remember when pubs had separate bars, lounges, saloons etc? Before the pubcos decided it would be a good idea to knock them all through into one? Turns out we were right then and it was a bloody stupid thing to do.