The Official Nonsense Thread

[Minty]

Two more days until the 9th episode of Game Of Thrones, the 9th in the last two series being the one all hell broke loose. Can't wait!

Oh, & thank you VERY, VERY MUCH Caspin - you know why! Too much fun!

Tomorrow is the last real day of the footie up here with the Scottish Junior Cup final (same as the FA Trophy in England, for the "non league" clubs. For the first time ever it is the two biggest non-leaguers facing one another, Auchinleck Talbot vs Linlithgow Rose. It's on BBC Alba (the gaelic channel), & hope this year it is good. Last year was a farce, Talbot were playing Shotts Bon Accord (from the second tier) & thought all they had to do was turn up. If you saw what Wigan did to Man City in the FA Cup final this year, you'll get the idea what happened - except in even more humiliating fashion.

There's some mad punter having a BBQ just up the road from us. Guaranteed downpour in the next ten minutes guaranteed.

Another for the "You couldn't make it up" list:

Mother rushed daughter to A&E… to have dog poo wiped off her shoe

A woman who took her daughter to A&E because her daughter got dog mess on her shoe has been branded as 'irresponsible'.

As Whittington Hospital, North London, struggles to cope with more admissions since the launch of the 111 non-emergency helpline, the unnamed mother was criticised for wasting doctors' time.

Councillor Martin Klute, chairman of the hospital's local scrutiny committee, said casualty staff should be able to spend their time treating people with real health issues.

It's like that old Alexie Sayle joke about the guy who phoned the council to complain that no one had come round yet to pull the chain on his toilet!