Storm in a tea cup: The weather thread

[ursus arctos]

Taken across the street from our flat

https://twitter.com/nycparks/status/1743742595744891320?s=12&t=xvOireV8JOIS_CpbTtDBow

[Balderdasha]

I should have gone on a choir trip to Haverhill MA as a young teenager but I was too afraid of flying at the time. It didn't occur to my parents to try and do anything about my phobia. I got myself out of it about five years later.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Why is there an aspidistra wearing a tartan hat and the visor off a suit of armour?

Cameron Carter to thread.

[San Bernardhinault]

It is, in theory, it's a slipper and a "congress boot", and in between is an arm with a shoemaker's hammer.

Haverhill, MA is famous for it's history of being cobblers.

[ad hoc]

"You're in Wales now, you're definitely in Wales... despite a fair few of the locals sounding like Scousers."

Was the third dragon strictly necessary?

Why is there an aspidistra wearing a tartan hat and the visor off a suit of armour?

[Balderdasha]

My old local Haverhill's crest looked like this. It's about twice as far from my old local Cambridge as Balders's one is from her Cambridge.

The crest is busy, and bits of it look like they were drawn by Balders's son.

Is that a severed arm in-between the shoe and the severed foot?

If so, it's more likely something my daughter would draw. She's spent quite a lot of this Christmas holiday period making stop motion animation videos about duelling Lego characters who cut off each others' heads. One of them has the capacity to reconstitute himself (like a sponge after it's been through a blender).

She asked me how it would be possible to defeat someone if they were so invincible that they could put all their limbs back together after you chopped them off. My suggestion of "seal all the individual pieces in jars and put them in separate prisons" was apparently acceptable.

[3 Colours Red]

"You're in Wales now, you're definitely in Wales... despite a fair few of the locals sounding like Scousers."

Was the third dragon strictly necessary?

[San Bernardhinault]

My old local Haverhill's crest looked like this. It's about twice as far from my old local Cambridge as Balders's one is from her Cambridge.

The crest is busy, and bits of it look like they were drawn by Balders's son.

[San Bernardhinault]

Ad Hoc's crest begs a lot of questions. Does the lion represent one of Transylvania's famous local impalers who accidentally impaled himself and thus saved the town?

[blameless]

It's also no longer applicable to QPFC as they went semi-pro four years ago.

[Fussbudget]

I was hoping that Ludere Causa Ludendi meant something like To be lewd causes lewdness. But sadly it just means To play for the sake of playing.

Makes sense for Queen's Park with their whole amateur ethos but a non-league club using it sounds a bit defeatist. "Ah well, we're rubbish but at least we've shown up"

[ad hoc]

This is my favourite locally

[slackster]

All this talk of town crests has piqued my interest enough to go search for my local Haverfordwest one (it’s the county town of Pembrokeshire). Bit busy, innit…



The motto translates as ‘O reader hail, may the Gates of Heaven stand open for thee‘.

Btw, we dodged the rain and floods yesterday. Was a rather pleasant day.

[Guy Profumo]

This one really takes the piss.

I approve the anti- monarchist sentiment in the crest though

[Balderdasha]

Also, what does the image of the sea represent to Haverhill? Or is that simply the crest of Suffolk and they've used it?

Yeah, it's just the crest of Suffolk. Haverhill is essentially as far from the sea as it's possible to get in Suffolk.

[ad hoc]

Also, what does the image of the sea represent to Haverhill? Or is that simply the crest of Suffolk and they've used it?

[ad hoc]

This one really takes the piss.

I like that one, apart from the fact that they've misspelled "embarrassment"

[Balderdasha]

I'm almost tempted to buy myself this t-shirt.

[ad hoc]

I was hoping that Ludere Causa Ludendi meant something like To be lewd causes lewdness. But sadly it just means To play for the sake of playing.

[Balderdasha]

This one really takes the piss.

[Balderdasha]

I think they've also stolen Queen's Park FC's Latin motto.

[Balderdasha]

Putting up pictures of football crests and then criticising them? You need to step away from the laptop and go for a long walk, or next thing you know you'll be arguing about VAR.

This is the other local football club crest. Not as awful but definitely not good. Suggests that if you enter Haverhill you might prick your finger on a wicked witch's spindle, pass out and never be allowed to leave.

[Balderdasha]

It's an absolute shocker. The fact that they've stuck part of the Postcode on there is particularly awful and probably unique.

The postcode crops up in loads of terrible logos for the town, like this one. It's literally screaming "there is nothing good about this place except that you're sort of in commuting distance of Cambridge".

[Third rate Leszno]

There is a club in Liverpool called L4, named after the local postcode.

And yet, I think their home pitch is in L5.

[Gangster Octopus]

Yeah, it was almost pleasant this morning, but the deluge was always a'coming...