OT One for the teachers - and for GB

[Bill Wright]

Smoking is illegal on building sites. It's a place of work.

Bill

[The Natural Philosopher]

be sure to tell the labourers that. (it is a place of work)

[Martin Brown]

They do have various weird icons on their signs that are equally incomprehensible to speakers of any and every language.

I liked the recent one where they had included an "out of office" response as the Welsh translation of the original sign.

Probably select the languages according to volume and proportion of high value tourists coming from each country. Implies Russian, Japanese/Chinese (for signs the Kanji are close enough) and Spanish.

Not much point in putting signs up in Dutch or German as most of their younger population is bi or tri-lingual these days.

[Martin Brown]

Annoyingly for the entire population of Manchester they "benefit" from the North Wales sidelobe signal of S4C when pointing at Winter Hill.

Certain Panasonic sets are exceptionally dumb and put the weaker distant signal which is found first onto C4 and hide the real one up at 804. Simple fix is unplug the aerial until it goes past Wales!

I have had to disable automatic retune on my parents TV since whenever a new channel appears it trashes Channel4 and with it "Countdown".

[tony sayer]

Blimey squire!, your off her Christmas card list for good now!...

Well the sprogs are partly Irish, English, Scottish, Russian, German and French..

Rather classy mongrels the lot of them;!...

But nothing from White rose land sadly;(..

[Tim Watts]

On Friday 13 September 2013 08:57 Martin Brown wrote in uk.d-i-y:

ROTFLMAO!

[SteveW]

Wouldn't that only apply indoors?

SteveW

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Outside is different to inside.

[ARW]

And entirely up to the site management.

[Clive George]

These people would probably disagree.

As would anybody who's wandered into a little shop there and come across people speaking Welsh as their natural tongue.

[ARW]

They will be telling us next that you cannot smoke in the van:-)

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Quite. Offices or factories etc may well have a smoking area outside, but on their land. Same as pubs.

[news]

I note smiley but Looks like that applies already if you share the van with anyone else

[ARW]

I have no religion so I always affirm and never swear an oath. Of course neither was needed at the magistrates.

[alan]

It's scripted reality show.

[spuorgelgoog]

You'd have more luck if you were a woman and claimed that you had no property of your own and were your husband's chattel, for religious reasons.

Owain