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Does parking on a closed road count as a live parking thread? 😁

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DailyMaui · 21/04/2022 19:50

So they have closed the road I live on to resurface it. It will be closed for the next two nights. We’ve had multiple letters from the council, there have been signs up for at least a month and yesterday they painted NO PARKING THURSDAY AND FRIDAY all over the road.

8 cars are still parked there with 15 minutes to go until resurfacing begins. One of the cars is right outside my house and when I saw them out the window, I tried to explain to the two women (looking like they were off for an evening in town) that they were probably not going to be able to get their car until morning but they told me to fuck off!

The road is lorry central, a guy is taking pictures of the remaining cars… it’s all go here.

Anyone know what they do? Do they just resurface round the cars? Tow them away? Do they get brutal? There’s a fair few annoyed looking men in hi-vis walking up and down! Should I get wine and a comfy viewing position?

😉

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BoreOfWhabylon · 23/04/2022 18:52

Grawlix · 23/04/2022 07:42

There was one in London too, opposite Bart’s Hospital.

it’s called Cock Lane now Grin

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There was a lot of cunt-groping in Olden Times
No TV, see.

LittleEsme · 23/04/2022 18:07

@FUCKINGSEAN Where are you???

Lozzie51 · 23/04/2022 17:52

Thank you for an amazing thread - love your dog.

LittleEsme · 23/04/2022 17:33

DonkeyDog is magnificent. I want him.
His toofy smile has melted me.

Can I please have him OP?

LittleEsme · 23/04/2022 17:31

Fraaahnces · 23/04/2022 10:52

I have a twat dog too. She is a giant breed Sausage Roll Vulture who definitely does not open my bedroom door and sleep on my bed when I am out, leaving her fecking hair on my sheets and pillows to stick in my eyelashes and lipbalm. She is not a rescue, but she acts like one, as she is absolutely terrified of dogs - despite her bargearse size. 🤦🏼‍♀️*Please note, also a rabid brush-dodger, as is DD1, whose face is covered.

Effin Jeff, that's not a dog. That's a horse! ❤

ThisThreadIsMildlyAmusing · 23/04/2022 17:24

YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet · 23/04/2022 15:16

This thread has it all:
Live pics
A dog
Road works
Fucking Sean
Oh Roger and
Fuck off car

Therefore we are duty bound to move it to Mumsnet Classics. We'll shift it over to the MN hall of fame next week. 🚗🚕🚘🚙

Hurrah 👏.
First time I've ever nominated a thread for Classics, thank you Mumsnet.

Yoohoo778611 · 23/04/2022 16:30

Pity 'fuck off women' are not on here to tell us about their car being stolen.

Blondeshavemorefun · 23/04/2022 16:24

@YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet you forgot fabulous diagrams !!

@DailyMaui donkey dog is gorgeous. Thank you for sharing 🐶

diddl · 23/04/2022 15:42

Any news on Fuck Off woman or her car?

Or did I miss it?

SophieSoSo · 23/04/2022 15:36

YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet · 23/04/2022 15:16

This thread has it all:
Live pics
A dog
Road works
Fucking Sean
Oh Roger and
Fuck off car

Therefore we are duty bound to move it to Mumsnet Classics. We'll shift it over to the MN hall of fame next week. 🚗🚕🚘🚙

👏 👏 👏 👏 YES!!

SouperNoodle · 23/04/2022 15:25

YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet · 23/04/2022 15:16

This thread has it all:
Live pics
A dog
Road works
Fucking Sean
Oh Roger and
Fuck off car

Therefore we are duty bound to move it to Mumsnet Classics. We'll shift it over to the MN hall of fame next week. 🚗🚕🚘🚙

🥳🥳 🥂

PinkOlive · 23/04/2022 15:16

DailyMaui · 23/04/2022 10:08

Can I just say how funny all the name changes are? I have woken up and laughed and laughed. Made my day. Thank you for the love, it’s been a rough old year so far (illness, covid, stress, teen stress etc etc) so this has been a lovely mood boost.

Anyway, I think it’s fair that the dog gets the final say. We got him as a rescue of undetermined heritage but possibly deerhound cross at around 4/5 months old. He wasn’t that big at first. But he just didn’t stop growing for about two years.

He wangled his own room by being so bloody big that when he slept with us, I got barely any sleep. Not that we let him - but he’d just jump on the bed in the middle of the night, landing his huge body full of elbows usually on a very delicate part of my anatomy. Then at some point he’d dream and what felt like 20 legs would be flailing around all over the place. When we extended we initially called the spare room Granny’s room as my mum (and sometimes dad) was over from France a lot before the pandemic. The dog suffered this stoically, despite slinking his giant, hairy body in there whenever he could. Covid changed all that and now he’s moved in there for good. Takes himself off there, steals any cushions he fancies to add to the bed and at weekends wakes me up because he wants me to go and lie on the bed WITH him for a lie in. He’s an arsehole really.

You can never post the dog for Pet Friday now 🐶🕵🏻‍♀️

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YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet · 23/04/2022 15:16

This thread has it all:
Live pics
A dog
Road works
Fucking Sean
Oh Roger and
Fuck off car

Therefore we are duty bound to move it to Mumsnet Classics. We'll shift it over to the MN hall of fame next week. 🚗🚕🚘🚙

Trudij123 · 23/04/2022 15:13

Oh @DailyMaui the dog photos ( and subsequent ones from others!) just finish things off beautifully - Thankyou!

PunishmentSnart · 23/04/2022 15:09

TulipsHere · 22/04/2022 22:28

Don't you mean angles? Also why does it seem like at least 40% of all mumsnetters come from or live near you op? 😃

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I’m from nowhere near OP! Merseyside for me - do I win the prize for furthest away knower of Wibbly Wobbly Lane 😁

drspouse · 23/04/2022 14:56

I solved Semantle #84 in 70 guesses with 2 hints. My first guess had a similarity of 1.03. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 26.17 (561/1000). semantle.novalis.org/

Two hints. My lower words were all fairly closely related and none were too misleading but feeling a bit slow today.

SpongeBobJudgeyPants · 23/04/2022 14:46

I'm loving this thread. @DailyMaui . It might just be me, but certainly the first photo of your dog brings to mind the film "Marley and me", where the poor dog sitter shouts "That's not a dog, it's Evil with a dog's face!". Grin

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 23/04/2022 14:14

We had a rescue dog who trained us to let her sleep on our bed. She started by coming up at bedtime, having a cuddle then being put downstairs, in her own bed (alongside our other dog). Then she started sneaking upstairs in the night - sneakiness that was somewhat ruined when she crashed the bedroom door open and landed on the bed like your dog, @DailyMaui - a bagful of elbows. Gradually the length of time she left between being put downstairs and coming back up shortened and shortened, until she was racing dh back up the stairs, and at that point we gave up.

She didn't have her own room though - not because we didn't have a spare - we did - but because the cat had already bagged it as his own. He has a nice sofa bed, his own TV and Sky+ box and use of ds3's X-Box. If we have visitors, we have to evict him, and he Sulks Mightily for days afterwards.

Sadly our rescue dog is no longer with us - she passed away at the beginning of 2020 - but we have another rescue dog (a pointer cross from Cyprus) who has taken over her spot on the bed.

viques · 23/04/2022 13:58

Thankyou for the pictures OP. Donkey dog has a quasi Elvis lip curl he has clearly spent years perfecting, kudos to him.

Blossomtoes · 23/04/2022 13:54

Best thread ever @DailyMaui. Thank you so much. I shall pounce gleefully on any threads you start now. ❤️

WiddlinDiddlin · 23/04/2022 13:52

Glad I scrolled back to find the DonkeyDog pics.. he's a delight, just my sort of hound. Weird seeing people write 'Donkeydog' as that was my deerhounds nickname! He does look like there is more than a smidge of the deerhound in there :D

WiddlinDiddlin · 23/04/2022 13:49

AKAanothername · 23/04/2022 08:53

Bit late to the thread but I'm local too. Allegedly, the reason they changed the name of Wibbly Wobbly Lane was because people kept stealing the road signs.

Well thats a poor solution... People kept stealing the Minge Lane signs near me, so the LA concreted it into the wall!!

Ellmau · 23/04/2022 13:41

Your dog has character! Love him.

BoredZelda · 23/04/2022 13:32

The thread is mildly amusing. Not classic worthy or the best thread ever though.

I dunno. I’m generally miserable about these “funny” threads. This one made me smile. At least it’s actually real, unlike many of the other “hilarious” threads people call for classics.

CheapFoodShits · 23/04/2022 13:18

This thread kept me awake during a night shift last night. Stellar parking thread performance OP. 10/10.

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