A few things I have seen recently.
The latest offering from Enid Blyton looks rather depressing:
And if you thought that the five link was a bit random, then how about this six?
Maybe spare yourself from the pictures in that article, by the way. Literally the most positive thing about the whole episode was this:
“We are also aware of the allegation that dog food was being used to produce the sausage. Contrary to footage circulating on social media, our EHPs found no evidence of dog food on the scene.”
So it could quite clearly have been even wors.
I’m so sorry.
According to this page, 186,000 people arrived in Finland in November last year.
Brave souls, but what a welcome when you get there:
OK, so this was actually for a tech conference in 2016, but as the “best tourist slogan ever”, it absolutely still works.
Still awake? Not for long once you get into this article, I promise you.
Why? Because it’s 2,536 words about the nomenclature of the UK’s highways. And not actually that, but the highways that were incorrectly named.
Look out for The Maybole Disaster:
You could argue, of course, that it doesn’t matter; the old road through Maybole has a number, and few people will pay much attention to it no matter what it is. Call it B77, or B770, or B7700, or B7777 (all of which are available for use), and life will go on. Well, yes, of course it will.
But the point of the exercise was to move through traffic to the new bypass – to encourage it to follow a different path, where the road now divides, and take an unfamiliar route around the west of Maybole rather than the familiar way through the middle. The point was to make it clear that the A77 is now over here, and this road you used to go down is now something else.
Spoiler: They called it the B77, and ruined everything.
Or The Accidental Motorway:
Until it was downgraded to an A-road in the late 1990s, it held the fantastically grand number M41.
We’re talking about numbering mistakes, but M41 was quite a good fit: it was in motorway zone 4, and the number wasn’t used elsewhere, so was technically valid.
The mistake was that it was supposed to be called M14.
Fascinating.
Goodnight.