Nildes Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2142179,00.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 THERE is a lucrative new sport in the Wiltshire village of Luckington: fishing stranded motorists out of a ford at £25 a time Funny it looks like either a TOYOTA of a AUDI to me :blink: LG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNAKEBITE Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 If someone said "jump off that cliff" would they do it? or would they realise something was wrong? I woder if it says in the sat nav instructions "Do not use unless you have enough common sense to realise the system is not fool proof"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 I woder if it says in the sat nav instructions "Do not use unless you have enough common sense to realise the system is not fool proof"? Shouldn't that be Ford proof not fool proof. You'd think these people would have more sense than that, what a bunch of lemmings. The repair bills for bent con rods might sober them up. :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nildes Posted April 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 Maybe thay should rename Luckington "Lucky Dip" Certainly is for the locals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 I saw this on GMTV this morning, The ford has a water depth post that is put in the shallowest part of the ford It said that it was less than 12" deep yet the reporter had waders on and it was near the top of them. I would be kicking off at the council who put the depth gauge there, not the people who cant read a map. Cheers Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chezney Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 Muahaha i live about 5 mins form that place im going to go and check it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nildes Posted April 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 Its only a trap for Townies and Chavs. That'll teach the b*ggers to slap stickers on 4x4's at traffic lights in London and yell insults and go on about gas-guzzling. Let a few more of them take their eco-friendly-stick-in-the-mud Prius's down Wiltshire way and get a taste af the real world where they put up lumpy road signs for speed humps and ignore the holes in the tarmac. Stands to reason that the man from the council isn't going to go in over his wellies to put the depth guage in. He's obviously a Moonraker I've got a soft spot for Luckington. My Dad's great-aunt Bertha Snell lived there all of her life. When she died some townie bought her cottage and re-named it "Witches Cottage". She wasn't a Witch, just did a little wart charming and the like for friends Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 Now this causes a bit of a dilemma, Do we vote for Axe for PM or Nildes Cheers Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nildes Posted April 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 Let Axe be PM. I'll be countryside minister. there's a whole line of butts I'd like to kick I'd also like to get some respect back into goverment for the Countryside. I'd like to take the chocolate-box calendar photo's off their walls and show them the real how, where and why of food production. I'd show them real bullsh*t not the Whitehall variety Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNAKEBITE Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 He's obviously a Moonraker : Is that the same as a "donkey smoker"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nildes Posted April 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 "Is that the same as a "donkey smoker"? " Not heard that name Snakebite. "Moonraker" come's from a pond near Rowde, Devizes where 18th Century smugglers used to sink barrels of Brandy during the day to hide them from the Exciseman. One night as one of them was retrieving his stash with a hay rake, an Exciseman on a horse turned up and asked him what he was doing. The quick-thinking smuggler played the dumb yokel and pointing to the reflection of the moon in the pond said he was trying to "get that gurt great cheese in there". The Exciseman rode off laughing his head off and spent weeks telling the Magistrates how stupid the locals were. The smuggler had a bit of a chuckle too. Townies eh? God love em, nobody else does He who laughs last etc etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNAKEBITE Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 The term "Donkey smoker" came up in the airgun section. To go into graphic details would not be appropriate on a family forum but needless to say this has become my word of the week and will be used at every available oppurtunity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nildes Posted April 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 I've heard the term Donkey Choker applied to some of the mother-in-law's cooking Not in her presence though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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