Brilliant
What Has Made You Laugh Today ?
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"Lifted like a kite from the ground both wind and string we need."
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Milfred Cubicle
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My local pet shop has a flourescent star in the window advertising fat balls.
Of course I stood next to it and took a selfie.
Of course I stood next to it and took a selfie.
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The orange wind sock on the WW2 airfield in Foyles war at the end of series 3 episode 2 .
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Not so far off, they were yellow, which eventually faded to white. A red flag was deployed to stop road traffic crossing an active runway where that was a problemSnoopy wrote: 25 Jan 2026, 4:54pm The orange wind sock on the WW2 airfield in Foyles war at the end of series 3 episode 2 .
"But when they've notched up 12 U-turns and rising, the only conclusion is serial incompetence." Keir Starmer on Twitter 2/9/2020
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Thank you.I was under the impression they were just plain canvas without any colour.
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DaveReading
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The point of a windsock is for its orientation to be easily visible to the pilot of a plane coming in to land.Snoopy wrote: 26 Jan 2026, 6:20pmThank you.I was under the impression they were just plain canvas without any colour.
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Light refreshment at Wigan yesterday
Quite effective apparently...
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Tinged with the sadness that the cable tie on the pole hasn't been trimmed.colin54 wrote: 30 Jan 2026, 10:58am Light refreshment at Wigan yesterday190.jpgLight refreshment.jpg
Quite effective apparently...
"Lifted like a kite from the ground both wind and string we need."
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..ah staffing shortages, what can you do, all the cable-tie engineering jobs have been de-skilled ?Cowsham wrote: 30 Jan 2026, 11:28am Tinged with the sadness that the cable tie on the pole hasn't been trimmed.
Multiple laugh out loud moments on most recent episode of the Jimmy Kimmel show (skewering T...p five nights a week), if you watch, just make sure you aren't eating or drinking or your keyboard will never be the same; ( video sixteen minutes in length). As they might say over the pond - awesome (UK translation.. pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWrEsPjZ8LY
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Mike Sales
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I hear that Melania Trump's new hagiography was shown as an in flight movie, but most of the audience walked out.
It's the same the whole world over
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Isn't it a blooming shame?
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Isn't it a blooming shame?
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Kenny Everett and David Essex doing the shock proof watch sketch.
https://youtu.be/g86ghAHbPgY?si=5GcFZa9sNJC5Ai6k
https://youtu.be/g86ghAHbPgY?si=5GcFZa9sNJC5Ai6k
"Lifted like a kite from the ground both wind and string we need."
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The sticker I saw in the back of a chimney sweep’s vehicle:
No Victorian children left in this van overnight
No Victorian children left in this van overnight
The older I get the more I’m inclined to act my shoe size, not my age.
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I liked the bit where the douge took their biscuits.
"Lifted like a kite from the ground both wind and string we need."
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Only in Skem' ; on the path to the rear of my house, a 15 inch Rainbow Trout, there's a story there somewhere, weird - even the local cats have turned up their noses at it !
Foot pictured for scales.
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