Media mistakes

[prpr]

You should have sent them to Penistone or Scunthorpe, and all the other ones in the UK with somewhat dubious names. It's all fairly well documented, as you might expect these days.

 

[RobH1]

I always fancied a property at the far end of a valley and calling it 'Knob Head'.

 

[Owen Smith]

My parents had long standing friends (now dead) with surname Sidebottom. Like the related name Longbottom this causes sniggering even in the UK, but a "bottom" is a field which is where the name comes from.

Related to tits as birds, there are shags and boobies.

 

[prpr]

a "bottom" is a field

Bristol Airport is otherwise known as Lulsgate, from Lulsgate Bottom. It's on top of a hill - c. 600' amsl - and I believe the second highest major airport in the UK after Leeds/Bradford (Yeadon).

 

[antipodean]

When I worked for a Canadian company they were astonished that there is a town in the UK called Maidenhead.

And I periodically drive past Brightwell-cum-Sotwell ... Oh well.

 

[EEPhil]

You should have sent them to Penistone or Scunthorpe

Posted on Facebook by "UK Ambulance Humour"

Spoiler

Pen is broken!

 

[trog]

Not a place name but surely whoever named this plant I just saw on a site had to be having a laugh

Rubus Cockburnianus

White-Stemmed Bramble

www.hedging.co.uk

 

[EEPhil]

Not a place name but surely whoever named this plant I just saw on a site had to be having a laugh

Looks like the sort of plant that would have been included in the crime prevention initiative sometimes know as "Burglaris Disembowelis".

 

[Black Hole]

Oh good.

 

[EEPhil]

Not sure this is a media mistake, but who am I to criticise with all my mis-postings?

I take it you've just received (today, Friday 12th) that email. Did the item get sent to you yesterday?

 

[Black Hole]

Not sure this is a media mistake, but who am I to criticise with all my mis-postings?

Yes, there's a lot of overlap with Amusing Items. Eeny meany miny mo...

I take it you've just received (today, Friday 12th) that email.

Yep.

Did the item get sent to you yesterday?

You mean did it arrive? Nope.

 

[EEPhil]

Eeny meany miny mo...

"Woke" up the thought police with that. Good job you didn't finish it, although what's there is offensive to various groups. (Where is the tongue-in-cheek emoji when you need it?)

 

[prpr]

offensive to various groups.

Various groups are offensive to me, but I don't count.

 

[Black Hole]

Nobody seems to care whether I'm offended...

 

[antipodean]

Nobody seems to care whether I'm offended...

I thought you would only be offended that it hasn't arrived ...
Or is it something you haven't ordered ...

 

[gomezz]

Nobody seems to care whether I'm offended...

You have the right to be offended if you so wish.

 

[EEPhil]

Various groups are offensive to me, but I don't count.

Ditto. But to say which groups might give away my political leanings. That's a hole I don't want to go down!