Rumour has it that the excitable Ros Kayes is against eco freindly low cost housing. She will be running for the ultra right conservatives in the next election
Posted by Rustic, on 06-07-2007 19:13,
MP Oliver (i don't live here) Letwin is in charge of Camerons policy review. In his spare time he is a non executive director for NM Rothchild Corporate Finance whose current business includes ""ongoing"" work advising on the £2.8bn restructuring and funding by goverment of the Post Office network. This is basically privitisation by the back door and as a net result closure of many rural post offices. When Letwin presented a petition to parliment in December from his west Dorset constituents demanding that the goverment help maintain rural post offices it is not known if he found time to pass on our views to his paymasters Rothchilds. Me thinks not.
Posted by jorden, on 07-08-2007 18:00,
I heard that Rustic and Carlito are actualy the same person, unemployed, living off the state and come from Dudley (or worse still weymouth), we dont need the plague with therse two sados around
Posted by tuzo, on 16-08-2007 13:30,
the Lyric in Barrack st, is to be turned into apartments?
Posted by Gull Munchin Polecat, on 17-08-2007 13:03,
Yeah, We've ALL read it in the Wip Wop...
Posted by tuzo, on 18-08-2007 14:05,
All except me.
Posted by goccibos, on 21-08-2007 08:47,
I've lived in Bridport for most of my life but never done the Brewery tour (too busy testing the finished results). Can someone: 1. Tell me if the tour is any good and 2. Is it true that the pipes strapped to the bridge over the Brit by the water mill carry spring water to make the beer? (and presumably not linked to the toilets in the Leisure Centre which makes the ""bog standard"" (haha) BB)
Posted by Rustic, on 23-09-2007 07:46,
I have done the brewery tour and it is just like their beer, rubbish!
Posted by Rustic, on 23-09-2007 11:47,
After completely decimating the busy local trade I can confirm that I heard a bloke say that the ""undertaker"" and his morbid missis are, at long last, leaving the George. Hurrah Hurrah Hurrah, My only fear is that the gormless Palmer brood will put in someone else totally unsuited to the pub trade. Oi Palmers!! I don't know if you visit this site but a good starting point for a landlord and landlady is that they actually like people and have the ability to hold a conversation of longer than three words.
Posted by Carlito, on 01-10-2007 18:26,
...there is no comments box attached to the Police Ball article, so confirm or deny; Am I the only person who translates ""Police Ball"" as ""Drunken over-paid idiot gathering, where freshwater staff and entertainers are treated like scum and, at the end of it all, conduct a major (and futile) cover-up operation to stop the stories escaping about the massive drunken BRAWL that generally follows in the carpark?"" I suppose ""Police Ball"" is more catchy.
Posted by Bentley, on 02-10-2007 04:13,
Sounds like you have some first hand experience of ""Balls gone By"" Carlito, but I attended the police ball last year as the charity /comedy auctioneer. (I have to be honest and say that the charity bit went OK but the comedy wasn't too well received by the majority.) The night as a whole was a great success and to see the Sidekicks in full swing was a joy. The dancing police video put together by Andy Hawthorn was superb as was the big screen live camerawork elevating Shaun and the boys to supergroup status. I think Scott McGregor had done a fine job of putting together a good night out that raised a fair few bob for ""local"" charities and good causes, and based on last year I could recommend it to anyone. I have never been a fan of the black tie cummerbund style of dress for men but the ladies looked awesome in the posh frocks and I think the only way that Scott could improve the night would be to have everyone come in fancy dress as Police Officers, now that would be funny. (Don’t forget that at the ball there were only about 3 serving police officers as the other 2 were on duty) Everyone I met was cordial and well behaved, the bar crew didn't seem harassed and I certainly saw no brawls in the car park although I did have to leave at about midnight to attend the annual meeting of Smugglers, Burglars and Badger Baiters which by tradition is held on the same night as the PB for obvious reasons.
Posted by Rustic, on 02-10-2007 04:27,
Er Carlito I hate to have to be the one to point this out to you but the article about the Police Ball is advertising an event (last years very good by the way) and it would appear that the norm is that there isn't a comment box for gigs. What would we all say anyway? ""Can't go as I am trying out a new knitting pattern that night"" As a thought oh mighty Editor how about a page dedicated for reviews of events that people have seen, restaurants eaten in, that sort of thing. You could call it ""A Night At The... and leave us to fill in either, Evershot Hall, Art Centre, Loders Fete, Pub, Comedy, Cinema, etc etc
Posted by Editor, on 02-10-2007 08:08,
Dear Rustic The team at Bridport Radio would welcome reviews from our readers, they are usually posted under the existing page headings (so a restaurant review goes under ""Eating Out"")kk? - Bring it on
Posted by Carlito, on 02-10-2007 12:47,
There I go, painting all of the balls with the same brush! Bentley, not that I wish you to blurt out my ID in surprise and alarm, but I was at this meeting you describe wasn't I? YEEES... Having drank enough booze that evening to cause my brain to divorce my body, I can't for the life of me remember why I was there...but I can remember you arriving, and gesturing wildly about the flat response at the ball, before slumping at the bar in comic defeat. It may have been the first time I heard the ""Jack Russell"" joke. A true classic.
Posted by Bentley, on 03-10-2007 03:30,
Ah yes Carlito I remember it well, I also remember why you were there and despite your prolific intake of moonshine that night you did well to last the distance as there were only 5 of us left at the end. The two chair-people (wink wink, say no more) yourself and your adorable companion and myself with only a serving lad to be privvy to our discussions. I would show photos but Boots wouldnt print them
Posted by tuzo, on 03-10-2007 12:32,
what a civilized conversation (C45 B46) guess you have known each other for years eh? Oh what it would be like to be in ""your gang"" (I can only dream of such heady intellectual feastings!) on the subject of the police..(not the ball) why do they call us by our first names sometimes?(when we all know we have not been properly introduced!!)
Posted by Bentley, on 04-10-2007 09:28,
As far as I am concerned you can dream on you dainty fop. I think Rustic on cull the gull maybe right
Posted by Carlito, on 04-10-2007 10:04,
Tuzo, this is no ""gang"" you tiresome wench. Judging by your envy, it's obvious you haven't quite grasped the concept of ""friendship"", which comes as no surprise. It is odd that you use this forum (which is obviously your only contact with humans) to interrupt conversations like an ill-timed fart. No, actually an ill-timed fart is potentially more amusing. And yes, you are right. I have known Bentley for about 20 years.
Posted by tuzo, on 04-10-2007 12:44,
If these are the only ""humans"" I meet, then who the hell are the others? Your leg was being pulled (carlito 49) but it came away in my hand, what do you want me to do with it? I will sit back and read the unending, unedited squirts of monologue from you on all the many subjects you have an opinion on. Maybe your good humor will return,and maybe there is a policeman out there who can answer my previous question? (we were talking about the police ball?)
Posted by Charis Matic, on 18-10-2007 12:22,
I've been away for 10 days and come back to the hot gossip that on the 4th October our local rag published a photo of the rugby team with newly sponsored kit and an appendage? I am sure that I could find at least another 19 girlfriends, who after careful viewing would be only too willing to sponsor looser fitting shorts for the rest of the team.
Posted by Editor, on 18-10-2007 12:29,
I couldn't find the said appendage online but I did find two balls
Posted by andy head, on 19-10-2007 12:21,
You may be interested to learn that I've been working on a martial arts cop disco dance epic to be premiered at this year's policeman's ball - with PC McGregor and colleagues strutting their funky stuff to ""Everybody was kung fu fighting"". Still in edit at the moment but particularly enjoying the can-can sequence... I do have a spare guest ticket if anyone fancies a surreal but pleasant night out.
Posted by Rustic, on 22-10-2007 04:51,
So then AH what exactly is it that you are confirmig or denying?? That the police are given to violent outbursts on the dance floor or that you are cinderella and have no mates to go to the ball with?
Posted by Rustic, on 22-10-2007 04:57,
Maffia, Triads, Columbian Drug Barons, Al Queda, Local Brewery firm, who is responsible for running the Amusement Arcade in west street ? Why is it always empty, what did the books look like for last year ? If it made a load of money then it just has to be a scam because no bugger ever goes in there. Ere ! ! ! whats this severed horses head doing in my bed ? ?
Posted by Editor, on 22-10-2007 09:37,
I think you'll find it only takes a few saddoes a day with a gambling addiction, pumping their whole pay cheques into those machines to make the place pay.
Posted by goccibos, on 22-10-2007 10:09,
spose same goes for the pretty shop fronted gift shops in S St, always empty, always displaying new stock.....any others? The Co-Op maybe, only ever a max of 2 people in there plus 1.5 people on the tills, very strange experience.
Posted by draino, on 15-01-2008 13:28,
I have heard that the old medical centre is being turned into a mosque
Posted by tuzo, on 15-01-2008 13:42,
I heard (draino 58) from a surveyor friend that it is going to be turned into a center for sexually transmitted diseases (or rather the treatment of such, as you dont have to go to a center to get them do you?)
Posted by Bentley, on 16-01-2008 18:30,
I've heard that even though parking is very short in North Allington (as indeed it is throughout bridport)and even though the start of the proposed re-development could be months or years away, the people who own the sight are such a bunch of tight bas***ds that they wont let people park in all those empty spaces. Who made that descision remains a mystery but whoever it was needs to have a long look at themselves.
Posted by Mrs Simpson, on 30-07-2008 18:40,
I know no-one looks at this any more, but have you heard the story about Huge Furry-Wotsit? His house near Axminster is up for sale and his wife has run off with one of his chefs. Apparently. You read it here first.
