I knew it was only a matter of time before the OUT thugs resorted to criminal activity to fund their campaign of terror. But why they had to go to such extreme lengths to remove the paper towel dispenser outside the Co-Op is beyond my comprehension.
But I have no doubt that this is merely the thin end of the wedggie….What next?
- Kidnapping members of the planning committee? (this is a course of action I would, under normal circumstances, whole-heartedly support).
- Direct action against Oundle buildings that they don’t approve of? (I know which my candidates would be!).
- Selling blue Smarties outside the gates of Oundle Primary School?
If you have any information that may lead to the capture of these ruthless terrorists, please don’t send it to me. You be the hero. I’ll send flowers to you in hospital…… you have been warned!
I never knew there was a paper towel dispenser outside the Co-op. Do you mean in the public lavvies? If so, I can’t believe a member of OUT would be responsible; they would never stoop so low as to use a public convenience. After all, a poor person may have pooped in it.
BTW, did you know that in the USA they call toilets “restrooms”? Given how long I take to make my daily evacuations, I think that’s rather apt.
Hmm Throat.
You’re drifting a bit…. The paper towel dispenser was next to the door as you went into the Co-Op from the car park.
I don’t think the OUT boys had access to the construction plans, because they removed quite another section of the wall altogether.
As to the “rest” of your coment, I suggest, for the sake of Dizzy’s sensibilities, you take that to another part of the internet…. I see you there in about ten minutes!
Oundle Thunderpants
ps. Any buildings you’d like to see get the OUT treatment?
My particular candidate is Laxton Junior School. I don’t think there’s any thing wrong with the building that 40kg of Cemtex wouldn’t cure. I have this mental image of the designer making his pitch to the school saying “Quintessentially, the metaphore is the “motorcycle stunt ramp”. This building represents the opportunity for the children to accellerate, through the sytem and leap over their contemporaries within the state sector!”…….. “Hmmm.” say the governors “We like it!”
I quite like Laxton Junior, but then I was a huge Evil Knievel fan as a kid. Besides, there is something smugly satisfying seeing all those little Tarquins and Jocastas being dropped off by the Nanny outside the front of a building so awfully modern. Especially as you know the Mummies and Daddies paying all that money for their offspring’s education loath it and would far rather they were still in something Olde Worlde and quaint like the Berrystead.
I would like to see either the Talbot or the old Town Hall pulled down. Anything old and/or iconic. The outrage generated amongst the OUT nimbies would cause enough heat and hot air replace the wind farm they are so opposed to. Olde Fartes.
Dear Throat,
I’m not sure I share your analysis of the architectural tastes of the LJS parents.
I think “thrusting 1980s modern” might still be the motif du jour amongst the upper middle classes. In many ways it harks back to a bygone era, when Banking, the financial markets and Real estate were still considered perfectly respectable ways to redistribute wealth.
In any event, if the Tarqs and Jocs are, as you suggest, being dropped of by Ludmilla, the bratislavan nanny, the Mums & Dads have probably already forgotten where the school is, let alone what it looks like.
Dan Cruikpants