[David9694]

A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don’t quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes. 

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[Cugel]

mark1a wrote:

The Young Ones – way ahead of its time…

A curious notion, this idea that some sort of current event is not really current but a visitation from the future. Generally something described as “way ahead of its time” means only “I was surprised at this event as its unusual in my own generally mundane experience“.

Mind, modern cultural artefacts and constructions can be time-confused, as there’s the imagined-futures (a la Star Trek et al) as well as the “historical” novel and filum. But in fact, both tend to be very much reflections of current concerns, assumptions, prejudices and other ways of thinking-as-we-do-now in the mass media-constructed noosphere.

But humans love to create “heroes” and “special ones” – in the case of “ahead of their time” generally meaning only that “I liked it’s apparent novely (to me)” rather than some truly new, innovative and entirely made-by-the-hero item magically created out of nothing but their immaculate mind like an Ayn Rand character.

“The Young Ones” can be traced back through centuries to Diogenes emitting his body fluids upon others in the market-place and similar – and probably further back, if we had anything written to navigate by.

Whilst it may be an exageration to suggest that, “There’s nothing new under the sun” a case can certainly be made that today’s novely consist of 99.9% of the familiar with 0.1% added glamour, PR or grasping attempt to make some intellectual copyright as feedstock to making some more money.

But I digress.  (I forget from what).  🙂

[mark1a]

The Young Ones – way ahead of

The Young Ones – way ahead of its time…

 

[brooksby]

chrisonatrike wrote:

ktache wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/11/pentagon-head-of-space-p… (link is external)

Hope the kids are alright.

I’m guessing he needs it for work.

Wonder if he’ll stick around for trial here?  The US tends not to support prosecution of its military and associates overseas.  (Just like the UK of course, but more so).

That was my first thought. Like that killer driver a couple of years ago  who definitely wasn’t from a three letter agency and definitely did have diplomatic immunity, who forgot which side of the road we drive on here and who was shipped back to the US before you could say, “No extradition treaty”…

[chrisonabike]

ktache wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/11/pentagon-head-of-space-p… (link is external)

Hope the kids are alright.

I’m guessing he needs it for work.

Wonder if he’ll stick around for trial here?  The US tends not to support prosecution of its military and associates overseas.  (Just like the UK of course, but more so).

[ktache]

https://www.theguardian.com

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/11/pentagon-head-of-space-policy-appears-in-harrogate-court-after-boys-injured-in-collision

Hope the kids are alright.

I’m guessing he needs it for work.

[David9694]

I was just thinking that

I was just thinking that looked like Young Ones territory.  Overwrought and practically unwatchable now – TV sitcom was never the same again. 

[chrisonabike]

I thought it was the same one

I thought it was the same one as last week – “poor car”, I thought, “it has only just got over its last accident”.  It’s a different one though so must be the occult effects of the Bristol triangle, or the road or something.

[ktache]

I learned this week that

I learned this week that Volvo will no longer import saloons or hatchbacks into the UK, only those pointless vanity behemoths.

[ktache]

Nice to see a bike in the

Nice to see a bike in the library pic of the court.

[Hirsute]

Just saw this mock up

Just saw this mock up

[hawkinspeter]

David9694 wrote:

Driver crashes wheel through parked car’s window in baffling images

You can’t park there, mate

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-crashes-wheel-through-parked-8671109?_ga=2.150271734.1172514368.1691566738-27458962.1674163282

That road looks quite familiar – I wonder what area that’s in.

Edit: they’ve posted it under “Horfield”, so not that close to me. Though I did live for a while on Broadway Rd – just a couple of houses away from The Young Ones house. (They’d turned Neil’s grave into a fishpond)

[David9694]

Driver crashes wheel through

Driver crashes wheel through parked car’s window in baffling images

You can’t park there, mate

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-crashes-wheel-through-parked-8671109?_ga=2.150271734.1172514368.1691566738-27458962.1674163282

[HoldingOn]

Can’t park there

Can’t park there

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-66468326

[SaveTheWail]

A spot of nominative

A spot of nominative determinism going on here:

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2023-08-09/motorist-ignored-police-warning-and-drove-with-sofa-and-mattress-on-car-roof

[David9694]

sorry sorry sorry 

sorry sorry sorry 

There once was a man from Bonecastle

Who drove like an absolute arsehole

He flew round a curve 

Into a wall he did swerve

And failed to deliver his parcel

[Author]

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