Showing posts with label classic cars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classic cars. Show all posts

Monday 1 October 2012

Illegal parents: Alcohol enemas: Double-Decker follow through: Kentish chickens: Vegas shooting gallery: and Floss that.


Chucking it dahn at the Castle this morn, oodles of lack of cold, more than a whimsy of atmospheric movement and no sight of solar stuff at all. 

And all the skywater is cocking up the interweb thingy-again...

 
More than a bit late, been dahn to Tesco on the stale bread, gruel and his Maj’s food run, and overslept from our grand day out dahn in the motor museum place.

But it was enjoyable, we saw lots of internal combustion driven vehicles, had a bit of a walk, thought about happy slapping some teenagers until we realised that none of us could run fast or far enough to carry it out so we settled for a cup of coffee and a bun near the toilets.
Followed by a "proper" roast beef, yorkshires, roast tatties, and some green stuff for  lunch dahn by the seaside.
 
A bit of flash stuff
 

A bit of nostalgia
 
 

Something for the donor riders
 

And something to make happy men very old
 
 
And as always where there are motors there is always a dodgy dealer.
 

 

 

A school has banned parents from watching their children take part in sports events - unless they pass criminal records check.
The Isambard Community School in Swindon, Wilts, insists all parents must clear a Criminal Records Bureau check to weed out potential paedophiles.
The school introduced the new measure at the start of the term to prevent strangers from accessing other parts of the school from the playing fields.
A spokesman said: "It is with regret that from now on we will be unable to accommodate parents wishing to spectate at our sports fixtures unless they are in possession of an up-to-date Swindon Council CRB check.
 

Oh dear here we go again...
 


There is apparently a new craze among students, in order to get smashed quicker than imbibing they have “invented” the alcohol enema.
When Alexander "Xander" Broughton, 20, was delivered to the hospital in Knoxville Tennessee after midnight on Sept. 22, his blood alcohol level was measured at 0.448 percent — nearly six times the intoxication that defines drunken driving in the state. Injuries to his rectum led hospital officials to fear he had been sodomized.
Police documents show that when an officer interviewed a fellow fraternity member about what happened, the student said the injuries had been caused by an alcohol enema.
"It is believed that members of the fraternity were utilizing rubber tubing inserted into their rectums as a conduit for alcohol," according to a police report.
While Broughton told police he remembered participating in a drinking game with fellow members of the Pi Kappa Alpha chapter, he denied having an alcohol enema. Police concluded otherwise from evidence they found at the frat house, including boxes of Franzia Sunset Blush wine.
"He also had no recollection of losing control of his bowels and defecating on himself," according to a university police report that includes photos of the mess left behind in the fraternity house after the party. 

Oh shit....well bugger me-or him...

 


Some sadistic Muppet has come up with a spiffing idea, a double-decker cable car, reportedly the first one in the world, near the city of Lucerne. The cable car, christened The Cabrio, soars up the Stanserhorn Mountain at a dizzying height of 1.9km carrying 60 passengers at a time, with room for 30 on the open-air top deck.
The journey starts in the village of Stans, about a 15-minute car or train ride from downtown Lucerne. The cable car base station sits at 711 meters above sea level, and to access it one must first ride one of the world’s oldest functioning funiculars. Dating from 1891, the wood and wrought-iron funicular that brings passengers from the village of Stans to the Cabrio base station has a charm of its own - its vehicles adorned with frosted glass and curtains. 

Funicular that....
 


Julie Smith decided to open up a luxury five-star hotel for chickens due to the huge demand for the service in her rural Kent community.
She was inspired to create the hen hotel, named Fowlty Towers, after being regularly asked to look after her friends feathered pets while they were on holiday.
'A lot of people asked what they would do when they went on holiday with the hens,' explained Ms Smith, who has 13 hens of her own.
'So I started looking after them as a favour and then I thought well it might be a bit of a business and we'll try and get them sorted.'
Free from their chicken coops, the feathered birds can relax in five-star accommodation or roam free in the hotel's fox-proof garden.
The birds are also taken for walks and on trips to the local village pub.       

 Clucking wonderful...

 

Apparently British tourists are flocking to a new shooting range in Las Vegas which offers them the chance to shoot weapons like those used in the raid to kill Osama bin Laden.
The people behind Machine Guns Vegas say it is unlike any other gun range - featuring some of the most high-powered weapons in the world alongside the glamour of Sin City.
And they estimate as many as 20% of their customers are from the UK.
For $200 (£124) customers can choose from a range of guns - one modelled on those used by US Navy Seals, who raided Bin Laden's compound in Pakistan last year
The range has also teamed up with a nearby company which provides tourist flights in fighter jets to offer a James Bond-style experience.

 
Are we really that gullible?

 
And finally:
 


A man who was told to wait 10 hours for a doctor to fix his sliced lip decided to use dental floss and a sewing needle to do it himself.
Allan Dell, 26, from Stuart Park, in Darwin, said he had no medical background but had pierced meat in the kitchen.
"I grew up in the bush in country NSW and I'm also a chef so I'm not too strange with threading meat ... I used dental floss and a sewing needle - but I sterilised it all first," he said.
Mr Dell had his lip sliced from the base of his nose down to his teeth in a "pure accident" that saw him hit in the face with a guitar.
He also cracked one of his teeth in the same accident. He said he went to the emergency department at Royal Darwin Hospital about 2.15am Saturday but was told he should "try Palmerston" or wait until the doctor arrived for the day shift.
"I walked in with my face half split - and (they said) come back tomorrow," Mr Dell said.
After pondering on it, he decided dental floss was the best way to go. "I think Crocodile Dundee did it once," Mr Dell said.
"It worked," he said.

 
Only a ten hour wait? Wimp...

 
 

And today’s thought:
I never got one of those with my Honda...
 

 

Angus

 

Saturday 5 November 2011

Changing change: Clause 41(and it ain’t Santa): Classic cock up: Mucky pup: Doughnut driver: Pedal-high: and Chicken fiddler.



Warm, calm, dry and more than a whimsy of mist at the Castle this morn, the study is vacant of all things broke and bollixed, and his Maj is back to normal-bonkers.
And the firework arseholes started their mindless waste of money last eve.
                       

I see that according to The Local Government Association the Treasury should pay the £5.5m bill that councils face for altering parking meters to accept new coins, the Local Government Association has said.
From January, 5p and 10p coins are set to be minted using steel instead of copper and will be 11% thicker.
The coins are currently made from the nickel and copper alloy cupro-nickel
The Treasury plans to make the new coins from nickel-plated steel instead of the alloy, which has become more expensive as the price of copper has risen in recent years.

 Couple of points:
1.      Didn’t even know that they were changing change to cheap and nasty.

2.      For “Treasury” and “Local Government” read the public.


And:

Allegedly: Plans for sweeping new Henry VIII-style powers would enable ministers to rewrite the statute book without consulting Parliament, a report warned.
The Lords Constitution Committee said the Government's Protection of Freedoms Bill would enable ministers to create more extensive powers of entry to homes and premises without needing further legislation.
The Government has said the power would mainly be used "to consolidate different powers of entry", but the peers warned that "benign intentions in the future ought not to be assumed".
Under the current law, Government authorities and agencies are allowed to enter private property for law enforcement purposes under more than 1,200 separate powers of entry.
While reform of this "veritable jungle of law" is long overdue, the committee warned that clause 41 would give ministers the power to issue an order rewriting the powers of entry, potentially bringing in new powers without consulting Parliament.


You have been warned....
 


This time they are thinking that Classic cars could be exempt from the MoT test under proposals unveiled by the Government.
The plans would apply to cars built before 1960 which, the Government believes, are better maintained by their owners.
It is estimated that there are 162,000 cars on the road which are more than 50 years old, equivalent to 0.6 per cent of the total.
According to the Government two-thirds of these cars are driven fewer than 500 miles a year and they have a lower accident rate than newer models.
Mike Penning, the road safety minister said “We are committed to reducing regulation which places a financial burden on motorists without providing significant overall benefits,”

Bonkers idea, and if “they” want to reduce the financial burden on motorists, what about sorting out the escalating price of go juice and the rip orf insurance premiums...




Angus Funston's pop up doggy diner The Mucky Pup is succeeding where many others have failed.
Twentieth Century Fox were in town to launch the DVD of its season eleven series of the U.S. cult TV show Family Guy.
They chose the Mucky Pup because the show's dog Brian apparently likes the odd cocktail - when he's not working of course.
Some may think Angus is barking mad but judging by the number of satisfied pooches he may be on to a winner.
 

Someone called Angus barking mad?
 


Drivers were stuck in a huge jam after a motorway was closed when a lorry spilled its load of doughnuts in New York State.

Broome County Sheriff's Sergeant Tom Sienko said the driver suffered minor injuries when he fell asleep, causing the truck to hit a guard-rail and roll over.

Sgt Sienko said "a lot of doughnuts" spilled when boxes split open. Southbound lanes were closed while crews repaired the guard-rail and removed the doughnuts.

Dough Numpty?



A Chinese man made a bicycle with the front wheel more than five feet high "just for fun".
Zhang Lianjun, of Tangshan, Hebei Province, spent about £1,800 creating the unusual bike.
It also features a huge lamp, a loud horn and four tiny rear wheels.
The original plan was to use a seven feet high tractor wheel but it was to too high and heavy to ride.
So he decided instead to build it with a slightly smaller front wheel which he got from a shovel loader.
"Although the tyres vary greatly in size, it's actually very safe and comfortable to ride," claimed Zhang.
 

Bugger pedalling that up a hill...


And finally: 

Get your ear plugs out.

The chicken fiddler.






And today’s thought: On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a Dog.



Angus