http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=pickles The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 11:07:34 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6084#post-159091 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:45:11 +0000 The All New Jeni B 159091@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bumped twice by spam?</p> <p>Is that a records? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19345#post-52173 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:36:08 +0000 FormerlyAlOPecia 52173@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If only it wasn't true. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19345#post-52169 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:19:58 +0000 Mrblacker 52169@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like most people - I know nothing </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19345#post-52149 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:10:51 +0000 Rowly 52149@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I wish we could get coin operated politicians </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19345#post-52137 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:58:38 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 52137@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I like this nutty scheme. * * * * * </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19345#post-52134 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:37:54 +0000 Gerontius 52134@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>AJ<br /> Do you know something we don't ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19345#post-52127 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:05:36 +0000 Mrblacker 52127@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The Communities Secretary Eric Pickles is defending proposals to install coin-operated street lights in every city across England as 'a way to ensure councils spend the money we give them appropriately'.</p> <p>The plans, outlined in the Localism Bill, will see current sodium bulbs replaced with new LED ones which will be operated by the insertion of a coin or token.</p> <p>"Every year, the Government give local authorities tens of millions of pounds and every year they complain that they don't have enough. Coin-operated lights are just a small step towards us making sure every penny they get is spent correctly."</p> <p>"The money will be given just once and recycled, ensuring that it's forever tied to the operation on the lights. Of course, councils could decide to keep the cash and get rid of their street lighting, but they'd risk the wrath of letters to the local paper if they did."</p> <p>Under the scheme, council workers would visit every light in their authority area once a day, inserting either £5 in coin or tokens to make the lights stay on overnight. Then in daylight hours, the same worker would return to empty the switching box, before coming back just before dusk to re-insert the monies.</p> <p>"It's a ludicrous scheme" Martin Aniston from the union UNISON said. "At a time when councils are having to cut staff and save money across the board, to get workers to travel around a council area to make sure lights come on is profligate."</p> <p>However, he said he hoped that if the plans are adopted, those workers who operate the lights would be encouraged to adopt UNISON membership. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=13631#post-36993 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:04:05 +0000 mshumphreycushion 36993@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Introducing:</p> <p>David Cameron as Thomas the Tank Engine</p> <p>Tony, Edward and Gordon as themselves</p> <p>Rt Hon Eric Pickles as the Fat Controller</p> <p>Narrator played mischieviously by Ms Cushion<br /> * * * * * * </p> <p>Thomas: - I spend my time pulling coaches about, ready for you to take out on journeys!</p> <p>Narrator:- The other engines laughed.</p> <p>Thomas: - Why can’t I pull passenger trains, too?!</p> <p>Tony, Edward, and Gordon: - You’re too impatient. You’d be sure to leave something behind.</p> <p>Thomas: - Rubbish! I’ll show you!</p> <p> * * * * * * * </p> <p>Thomas - It is an honour and a privilege to stand here, before the party I lead, before the country I love, as the Conservative prime minister of the United Kingdom.</p> <p>I want to tell you today, in the clearest terms I can, what we must do together, and what we can achieve together.</p> <p>Narrator - Yes Thomas but you are scaring all the passengers</p> <p>Thomas - Look what we’ve done in five months. Just imagine what we can do in five years…</p> <p>The Fat Controller: - Hello! Remember, don’t be impatient, Thomas. You can never be as strong and fast as Gordon, but you can be a really useful engine. Don’t let the silly fucks[s] trucks tease you.</p> <p>Thomas: - From top-down to bottom-up. From state power to people power. The big society spirit blasting through. Peep! Peep! Peep!</p> <p>Narrator- -Well, it made me laugh anyway…<br /> * * * * </p> <p>Real excerpts taken from the Thomas the Tank Engine series written by the Rev WV Awdry and David Camerons 2010 Conservative Conference speech. Some other bits totally made up : )</p> <p>(P.S.. some people (2678 on Facebook ) seem to think Dave looks more like Hooray Henry… )</p> <p><a href="http://mshumphreycushion.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/51m5r9z996l.jpg">Henry and the tunnel</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6084#post-17007 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:02:29 +0000 arrghgarry 17007@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It was definetly Nearest and Dearest </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6084#post-16876 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:04:00 +0000 edward hack 16876@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>do you mind if I go and sit over with the wife beaters and the bloke in the raincoat </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6084#post-16848 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:36:36 +0000 jp1885 16848@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Mind Your Language - now there was a sitcom! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6084#post-16819 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:15:29 +0000 Oxbridge 16819@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It was indeed from Love Thy Neighbour, 'I'll 'ave 'alf" being the scriptwriters idea of a good running gag.</p> <p>Am I alone in thinking Love Thy Neighbour wasn't actually racist? It certainly treated racial name-calling as something suitable to laugh about in a way that would make any sensible person cringe now, but Jack Smethurst's racist white character was a complete buffoon who was always outsmarted by his much sharper black neighbour. It's heart was in the right place, it's just that it was utterly crap and unfunny. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6084#post-16739 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:57:46 +0000 jp1885 16739@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Shame - I was getting used to seeing life at a slight angle. It all seems so... weird now... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6084#post-16673 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:32:54 +0000 edward hack 16673@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>has jp invented a new level of 'infinitely inferior' previously unbeknown to man...are you using a home-made Hadron Collidor to plumb new depths.<br /> Worse than Nearest and Dearest ????????<br /> You could plug that oilwell with 'Nearest and Dearest' and still have a bit left over.<br /> Were you in the Fenn Street gang?<br /> Now Bootsie and Snudge - they were in a different class altogether. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6084#post-16674 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:32:54 +0000 wallster 16674@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You're welcome The, it's nice to be useful for once.</p> <p>And JP, It's good to hear you stand corrected, it means the orthopedic shoes are working. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6084#post-16666 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:09:02 +0000 theumpire 16666@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thank you, one and all. </p> <p>Wiki tells me - <em>"Jacko (Keith Marsh) is an elderly white man and socialist who works with Bill and Eddie. His catchphrase is "I'll have half", in reference to a half pint of beer."</em>.</p> <p>I should have looked myself. Thanks again. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6084#post-16659 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:05:43 +0000 Zadok the second 16659@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>That's what I like to watch... two men having a fight over who's slower. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6084#post-16658 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:01:15 +0000 jp1885 16658@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ah, you're obviously a far more effective googler than I - I stand corrected! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6084#post-16655 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:52:19 +0000 wallster 16655@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I think you'll find a slow google reveals it as Love Thy Neighbour. &lt;/smug mode&gt; </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6084#post-16654 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:46:23 +0000 jp1885 16654@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A quick Google reveals it as from Till Death Us Do Part :-) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6084#post-16653 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:45:06 +0000 jp1885 16653@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>Was it that one about Pledge's pickle factory, with Hylda Baker and Jimmy Jewel? </blockquote><br /> That was indeed Nearest and Dearest, although the catchphrase "I'll 'ave a 'arf" wasn't used in that one (I have every episode on DVD). Perhaps it was used in Not on Your Nellie, Hylda's next (an infinitely inferior) sitcom. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6084#post-16652 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:40:26 +0000 wallster 16652@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Jacko was in Love Thy Neighbour - that wonderful 70's sitcom about 2 loveable characters called 'Sambo' and 'Snowflake', one of whom turned out to be Patrick Trueman from Eastenders. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6084#post-16651 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:29:38 +0000 virtuallywill 16651@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nearest and Dearest? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6084#post-16649 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:16:32 +0000 theumpire 16649@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I've got this little catch phrase running through my head - "I'll 'ave a 'arf" - said by a little, flat capped character called, I think, Jacko, in a TV sitcom many years ago.</p> <p>What programme was it in? Was it that one about Pledge's pickle factory, with Hylda Baker and Jimmy Jewel? Or am I totally wrong?</p> <p>Please help - this is driving me crazeeee. </p>