Which is exactly what you said in paragraph two of the preamble. Been a while since I've visited, but the site just gets better and better! Great work.

Imagine the scores in a game of Welsh Scrabble.

It's probably unhelpful to point out that ALL the sheep are black. Just easier to do on a white background, I suppose. I'm not suggesting any kind of racial prejudice was in play. It's just maybe significant when there's that "black sheep of the family" bullshit saying which seems to persist in my archaic environs. Just a thought.

When I said 'discuss' I wasn't that serious. I just wondered what kind of gag existed which wasn't mouth-related. Curiosity has always been my downfall. Thanks though.

Glad I'm not "the only smart one." Even I can't manage that level of arrogance, and ignorance.

A wonderful picture of a tragic subject. You have to ask yourself why nobody sees the importance of preserving these venerable vessels: it's horrendously expensive though, I suppose.

Amen, whatever it was.

That's a good bit more impressive than even the most elaborate of "tags". If the world has to tolerate vandalism at all, let's have literate vandals!

Sorry, bud. Looks like I could do with a browse through it myself. I'll check on Amazon...

But it's hard to tell.

I think I suffer from PMS.
(Possibly Missing Seasons).

It snowed today, incidentally. Might be Winter...

Jo, I'll be moving back to a part of the world which actually has seasons as soon as I can, I do remember them and treasure that memory. However I suspect you don't understand irony, but that can be cured to an extent by the purchase of a dictionary, so don't give up, flower. You'll get there.

That's "flower" in the sense of blossom or bloom, incidentally, rather than "that which flows," and therefore a sort-of back-handed compliment rather than an outright insult... which is not my intent at all.

Glad you like where YOU live! And maybe it's me who doesn't understand irony.

Nice to see Turbozute's interests are as international as my own, but I'd query how a metal toilet bowl could be used to slash wrists. Bit difficult to smash a metal toilet, I'd have thought. Doubtless he knows better.

He put the "Usual" into "The Usual Suspects."
Discuss.

PS I love the film, apart from Pete Postlethwaite's Indian accent... if that's what it is.

Sorry, that was a bit stroppy. It was my fault that I didn't express myself properly in the first place.

Sketch, matey - a "moderate" climate would be great if it didn't mean grey and wet! That's more-or-less all we get out here. Very slightly colder in Winter, though!

~Me, I'm sorry to have to admit I nicked it from Len Deighton, but I'd hate to be accused of plagiarism.
It is a useful phrase, all the same!

Amazing.

Pudster, yes, it was a dullard-style observation. However, derelict buildings here are usually also pretty cold, though I understand other people have a warm season called 'Summer', and under those conditions (i.e. warmth) their derelict buildings might well stink even more than do ours.

I truly apologise for my lack of ignorance.

Sketch, you don't work at a Hebridean airport do you? Just wondering...

Sorry.

Serrena, you can spell and punctuate, which is a delight for the reader. Just using entirely the opposite word to that you intended does not require a correction - if I knew you meant "dry" so did most people - and I'm seriously foreign.

Thanks for the capitals and commas!

They look like the same cooling towers used here (UK, rather than specifically Western Isles!), but not with our much mistrusted nuclear power industry.

And in this instance I use the word "done" in the sense of "written."

Get JK Rowling in there; equipped with that typewriter and title she'd knock out "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Chamber Pots" in a matter of minutes.
Or has she done that one already?

I wonder if it's still in print... I have a couple of colleagues who might benefit...

And a hug, which is nice.