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Royal souvenirs have 'Platinum Jubbly' misprint

Not to be a purist but a 'hot dog' connotes some kind of sausage, right? Not just breaded pollock

The term dog has been used as a synonym for sausage since the 1800s, possibly from accusations that sausage makers used dog meat in their sausages

sausage dogs should be called dog dogs imo

I think vegetarian hot dogs are fine in fact better than dog meat or the mechanically separated poultry or god knows what else they put in the meat ones.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKme2qnXsAUHG_N?format=jpg&name=large

lollll

Nice work

Hey that’s just up the road from here, I keep thinking about adding it to the “horribly formed names” thread, except it’s good not horrible.

Half cooked hot dog at Derby County (@dcfcofficial)

💷 £4.50 pic.twitter.com/8hpb0EInFk

— Footy Scran (@FootyScran) January 16, 2022

If you stare at it long enough it starts morphing into a Rooney face

Cottage pie at Kidderminster Harriers (@khfcofficial)

💷 £4.50 pic.twitter.com/qhRExaxqxO

— Footy Scran (@FootyScran) February 3, 2022

Kidderminster Harriers putting most the other clubs to shame

Fuck I might go on Tuesday night now.

A long overdue crossover for fans of both @RedwallFeasts and @thebbccofficial https://t.co/OLlaupvvwQ

— Will Yates (@wjyates72) February 4, 2022

John Harris and Stuart Maconie kicking themselves they didn't think of this one

Be better if they kicked each other.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/04/teesdale-farmer-cleared-by-jury-over-flipping-car-with-tractor

#OnThisDay 1979: Look! Hear! cast its eyes and ears over the thriving grassroots music scene springing up right across the Midlands. Which gig would you choose? pic.twitter.com/DyjlLeCBoZ

— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) February 6, 2022

i would simply choose to abandon popular music and devote my life to listening to classical and not looking like a cunt

i do like the guy in that who looks like avon from blakes seven in a judith hann wig

It's Kipper at the Windmill Inn, Humberstone, nr. Leicester for me

was hoping mark s would share his memories of strange pleasures at the morris hall, shrewsbury tbh

the worst thing is i actually remember that programme

(xp) Strange Pleasures or strange pleasures? Or both...

It's Kipper at the Windmill Inn, Humberstone, nr. Leicester for me

Surely not...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5sF4eqgLs4

Lol classic movie

gnna ask my sister abt the morris hall: i don't remember ever being in or even looking from the main thoroughfare through into the little courtyard that leads up to i!: i seem to have strangely incurious abt this enclosure given that i've many times walked the streets on all sides of it and was as a teenager always weirdly into the town's proud medieval bullshit (which is everywhere; this place is 14th century, or some bits of it are).

i certainly wasn't aware it was ever routinely a venue! it looks fragile and ill-suited to the pogo! but by 1979 i was off at college and i guess becky might have seen stuff there? apparently (according to the website) there's some sandstone topping the walls by the stairs up to it which was once in the garden of "shrewsbury’s greatest son" charles darwin, which fuck you dude i'm standing right here

... not to mention Derek Smalls.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/primark-explains-its-been-stuffing-23031047

not actually sure if this belongs itt tbh, it's more like a MCU/HAY BACON YOU GUYS vibe

The proposed new logo for Great British Railways looks eye-bleedingly awful https://t.co/5hl5qySL30 pic.twitter.com/gPyN5XZOXD

— Chris Applegate (@chrisapplegate) February 10, 2022

This is the age... of the train.

Britain https://t.co/RDo7Pc6tDe

— Duncan Robinson (@duncanrobinson) February 16, 2022

(i was on that exact train 3 weeks ago!)

disappointing lack of a "boi-oi-oing!" in that story

Tom's train trounces a trampoline on the tracks

pic.twitter.com/iqI8eaGAnn

— Mental UK Headlines (@MentalHeadline) February 18, 2022

Was it a footlong?

Turned on Radio 2 for 30 seconds. Vine read out a message from a listener saying, "I have no family. When I die it'll be weeks, months or years until anyone notices." Then he played the KLF.

— Lucie Tobin (@msloobylou) February 24, 2022

Only in Tipton pic.twitter.com/DMaHp4JcKJ

— Tat (@faulknerwolves) February 26, 2022

Bingo grans BAN Putin drag queen lookalike over war in Ukraine. Only in @thesundaysport pic.twitter.com/tMVZy7rYl6

— Sunday Sport (@thesundaysport) March 5, 2022

pic.twitter.com/6pDm00YhZJ

— Luke Bailey (@lukebailey90) March 10, 2022

no match day footy scran and a pint>>>tino anjorin gone to southampton on a free transfer>>>thermonuclear holocaust

British ex-Army soldier/merc goes to war in Ukraine, gets hit with rockets/helicopter fire, runs scared into the woods, gets picked up by Ukraine Territorial Defense who torture him thinking he's a Russian spy, gets released, immediately goes back home to the UK. pic.twitter.com/sDpYNr7LYv

— Roberto, Your Friend (@j_bigboote) March 10, 2022

it seems that this "British Lion" had previous experience of some kind of professional army/mercenary thuggery, but it just hadn't prepared him for the type of warfare where armed forces shoot at you with an array of devastating mounted helicopter guns and artillery. The movie adaptation with Sean Bean already cancelled.

a woebegone prince of wales scanning the front pages every morning to see if THIS is a good news day for the momentous announcement

it is not

soon it will be ten years

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Bolon_Yokte%27_K%27uh.jpg

It has to be this thread, doesn’t it

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/katie-investigates/jailed-paedophile-premier-inn-denied-107-refund/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOXjpxmWYAEm4AE?format=png&name=360x360

Unfortunately for the writer, the journalist he was writing to googled him. All the same though, ugh.

Dear Katie,

In 2019 I booked to stay at a Premier Inn for six nights, paying in full on arrival. I was standing trial at a Crown Court following a false accusation dating back 30 years.

I had no idea how long the trial might go on. It lasted just four days and the verdict did not go my way (juries sometimes get it wrong). I was sent down for four years.

As it was not possible to ring the Premier Inn from my prison cell to cancel the two remaining nights, I had my solicitor do this for me. It was too late for the first unused night to be refunded, but a refund for the second night for £107.50 was expected. I was released from prison on probation two years later, and for the past six months I have been attempting to extract a refund from the Premier Inn, but without success.

It claims it has no trace of the call from my solicitor and argues the call should have been made by me personally within seven days of the booking.

It was galling enough to serve time for a crime I had not committed without Premier Inn trying to profit from my misfortune.

SE, Wiltshire

Personally I just love making false accusations so that a mere 30 years later a dude can simply be sent to prison for no reason at all

It’s crazy, right? Zero shame and he got such a short period in jail!

i'd've thought Rolf Harris could afford not to worry about 100 quid tbh

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/23/king-of-sheffield-willy-collins-memorial-built-without-permission-council-says

A row has reportedly broken out between a bereaved family and a council after a 37-tonne marble memorial to a former bare-knuckle boxer featuring a solar-powered jukebox was erected in a cemetery in Sheffield.

Sheffield City council said the family of Willy Collins, who died aged 49 in July 2020 after collapsing while on holiday in Majorca, did not seek permission to build the tribute, according to the Sheffield Star.

But the family of Collins, known to many as “Big Willy” Collins and the “King of Sheffield”, have disputed this claim and insist they had permission for the monument, which is adorned with four Irish flags and flanked by two lifesize statues of the late boxer.

It also features images of Jesus Christ and biblical scenes, while the jukebox plays Collins’ favourite tracks.

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https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/ac-comp-rip-king-of-sheffield.jpg

More Real Ireland I guess

This is the worst car I've ever seen in my life pic.twitter.com/DdJsOyP7zp

— Queen is dead (@CansForCastro) April 5, 2022