Local news is always funny

[ingoldale]

http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/Phallic-shaped-children-s-toy-sold-Grimsby-toy/story-25787515-detail/story.html

Gaston_I's comment in particular made me laugh

[ursus arctos]

Local news is always funny

This has been the social media story of the week in the US, with plenty of parents taking to Facebook and Twitter to tell Play Doh how their children's Christmas had been "ruined".

They have since redesigned the "extruder"



and one does wonder how the original ever got produced (it is part of a 20+ piece set, so it is possible that no one (other than the original designer) was paying attention).

[MsD]

Local news is always funny

I had to Google the intruder .. er, extruder, to see what you were on about. Heh.

Oh, it's in the OP. Doh!

[ursus arctos]

Local news is always funny

Though I'm quite sure the Grimsby Telegraph appreciates the clicks, for those not so inclined, here's the original

[ingoldale]

Local news is always funny

ursus arctos wrote: Though I'm quite sure the Grimsby Telegraph appreciates the clicks, for those not so inclined, here's the original

I was aiming at a comment in the reactions rather than the actual story

[hobbes]

Local news is always funny

The redesigned extruder looks like a butt plug.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Local news is always funny

hobbes wrote: The redesigned extruder looks like a butt plug.

Fun for all the family.

[Incandenza]

Local news is always funny

My daughter had a Play-Doh set like this earlier, and I remember something being kind of phallic, but not that obvious.

[Bored Of Education]

Local news is always funny

They have previous.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Local news is always funny

Are the two pieces on the left just offcuts, or have I been missing out on something in the bedroom?

[Eggchaser]

Local news is always funny

hobbes wrote: The redesigned extruder looks like a butt plug.

I thought it was the original.

[Crusoe]

Local news is always funny

Despite the best attempts of my local paper to assume we all want inflammatory sub-Daily Mail clickbait...

Poundland selling sex toys for £1 in stores

...it doesn't normally impress commenters. I particularly liked one response to this on Twitter:

Well obviously, what other price could they charge?

[Kevin S]

edit: link to story about indecent exposure removed, with apologies, April 2023.
https://rapecrisis.org.uk/get-inform...e-or-flashing/

[Sam]

Fantastic choice of photo on that story (better than a photo of the man at the centre of proceedings, admittedly).

[Toby Gymshorts]

The man is described as in his 20s, with short black hair

Which hair are we on about, here?

[Kevin S]

"A pensioner has been handed a suspended sentence for storing up his own faeces for two months and driving 200 miles to deposit it through his former friend’s front door."

http://www.braintreeandwithamtimes.c...former_friend/

[adams house cat]

Was Grimsby the only city to notice? If so it's a place I have long misunderstood.

[Felicity, I guess so]

Well they had v little distraction from football this season, so had more time to notice

[Kevin S]

https://twitter.com/alistaircoleman/status/1050048364350459911?s=19

Snake, can we merge this thread with this one?
https://www.onetouchfootball.com/sho...ght=Local+news

[Kevin S]

"A large plane has been spotted circling over Norfolk."
https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news...folk-1-5852302

[Toby Gymshorts]

HEIST OF THE CENTURY.

https://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/...n-supermarket/

[MsD]

Viennese whirls, an odd choice, I'd have thought.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Sol is also an odd choice. At least I know my alibi is sound as:

A) I can't stand Viennese Whirls
B) I can't stand Sol
C) I was 300 miles away at the time.

Watertight.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

I fear the days of amusing stories from the News and Star / Times and Star / Cumberland News / Whitehaven News stable are numbered. The papers are turning into a right shitshow, with big staffing cuts made and more to come, apparently. The papers are printed in Glasgow and driven down to local shops for decoration, as very few people are buying them. They give them out for free at offices (including mine) and once that starts there's no way back towards being a fully paid-for publication. More and more stock photos and AP/PA material, and the websites are horrific.

[Kevin S]

https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2...-death-notice/