Parafox

Only another 2 years then?

Cornflakes and syrup sarnies, a staple breakfast in my childhood. I was off my tits for the morning assembly.

Who does eggs in a pan of fat?

A memory for me too. I wrote it on a bog wall at Gateway Grammar School IIRC.

Erm?

I remember the Buff too. It's pretty dull now but I haven't bought one in ages. The last time I gave up because it was pages of ads and not much news. I look at the online version sometimes and it's just full of clickbait and nothing much that is newsworthy. You can subscribe to avoid ads but the shite reporting and journalistic standards are still as crap as it is if you go for the free "with ads" version. It's £2 a copy of the printed version. Or you can have it posted to your home address for about £27 a week

Where was this?

Back when the LM used to publish proper news.

I'm trying to think of a witty response involving delivering a Brazilian.

I simply googled "casualty reduction officers" and that's the answer I got. I then had to google Grok.

Casualty Reduction Officers are specialist police officers focused on road safety. Their primary mission is to reduce the number and severity of road traffic collisions. They achieve this through a combination of enforcement, education, and engineering.

This is the thing with direct oppositional governments. They will each reject or change what is a reasonable and a better choice because they are in "opposition". It's infuriating. It seems the only time cross benches agree with each other is in time of war. Get round the table together, propose ideas and solutions and get the f***ing job done and we'd all be better off. I give you HS2. What a feck up that is.

Without trawling the thread for similar, IMO Ricardo should be captain.

I wonder how many would go on to develop cancer?

We used black humour when I was working and it was a way of coping after a difficult job and was also used more generally to alleviate stress among those that work in the emergency services and A&E and other critical areas,. When the crisis is over the sense of relief often comes out as dark humour. It's always "in house" though, because no-one else would understand. Also it's important to say that the dark humour didn't involve the casualty, more about the circumstances and the things service workers (and bystanders) did or said. Maybe this joke is apocryphal after an experience.

I was 11 yrs old when it happened, and at junior school. I watched the coverage on TV and it was very hard to think about at the time even as a young person, and the images are still as saddening now as they were then.

Not really a "joke" is it?

There's more of these particularly in the newer public spaces like supermarkets. They also include baby change facilities and disabled access. One bog fits all.

Brushes it with a balloon

Mrs Para says that about me

The second sentence seems to contradict the first, unless I'm missing something.

This will our pup's first firework season. He is startled by loud cars and motorbikes already. I expect lots of anxious barking. (from the dog, not from me).

Not a success story I'm afraid. We have a 5 month old cockerpoo and he was making it upstairs frequently which we didn't want so we got an extendable fabric barrier which we set up at the foot of the stairs. At first he wasn't big or strong enough to get over it. Now, as he has grown, he has worked out that he can claw the top edge and haul himself over. We cant find any effective defence other than shut all the upstairs doors to prevent access to bedrooms. He then gets bored and comes back down and gets a treat, but he sees that as a treat for going upstairs and coming back down again. He's annoyingly (but lovably), nuts.

I agree. When my mum passed away at 91, I had this Ed Sheeran song played at her funeral: