Absolutely BUGGER all to do with overlanding, but what the hell!
Technical Support – www.weakendproductions.co.uk/movs/jebsjobs.html – goto ‘View Our Work’, then select ‘Jeb’ then ‘Technical Support’. But other ones are good too.
For Thunderbirds/Peter Cook and Dudley Moore enthusiasts
A parody of the Hitler film Downfall, about house price crashes. It uses a clip with Hitler as the real estate investor, who bought houses to flip, faces foreclosure, and now wants to get bailed out.
And here’s another one, using the same clip but about Hitler getting banned from Wikipedia
And yet another – this time about subtitles!
What would have happened if Obama had lost…..
http://www.palinaspresident.us/
For cat lovers
How to speak Essex
alma chizzit – A request to find the cost of an item
amant – Quantity; sum total (“Thez a yuge amant of mud in Saffend)
assband – Unable to leave the house because of illness, disability etc
awss – A four legged animal, on which money is won, or more likely lost (“That awss ya tipped cost me a fiver t’day”)
branna – More brown than on a previous occasion (“Ere, Trace, ya look branna today, ave you been on sunbed?”
cort a panda – A rather large hamburger
dan in the maff – Unhappy (“Wossmatta, Trace, ya look a bit dan in the maff”)
eye-eels – Women’s shoes
Furrock – The location of Lakeside Shopping Centre
garrij – A building where a car is kept or repaired (Trace: “Oi, Darren, I fink the motah needs ta go in the garrij cos it aint working proper”)
Ibeefa – Balaeric holiday island
lafarjik – Lacking in energy (“I feel all lafarjik”)
oi oi! – Traditional greeting. Often heard from the doorway of pubs or during banging dance tunes at clubs
paipa – The Sun, The Mirror or The Sport
reband – The period of recovery and emotional turmoil after rejection by a lover (“I couldn’t elp it, I wuz on the reband from Craig”)
Saffend – Essex coastal resort boasting the longest pleasure pier in the world. The place where the characters from TV’s popular soap opera, Eastenders, go on holiday
tan – The city of London , the big smoke
webbats – Querying the location something or someone is (“Webbats is me dole card Trace? I’ve gotta sign on in arf hour”)
wonnid – 1. Desired, needed. 2. Wanted by the police
zaggerate – To suggest that something is bigger or better than it actually is. (“I told ya a fazzand times already”)
For those of you with an aviation bent – even a slight one – have a look at this wonderful one of a Russian plane taking off from a little airport in Australia. The control tower people happened to be filming it because they hadn’t seen this type at this airport before. The story goes that it was fully-laden and embarking on an 18-hour flight, so needed all the fuel it could carry….and therefore all the runway too!
