It’s that time of the weekend when my fellow Randomeers and I do our best to entertain you with the things that are a little less ordinary…
1. Did you know they’ve considered putting a bridge across the Irish Sea?! Well, I suppose if you’ve ever seen the eye-watering ferry prices you might understand it (£200 for one person + car, in case you’re wondering, versus about £50 on a plane). The second option down would work for me, or maybe the top one, if pushed…
2. For those in the UK that have wondered about why their ‘road tax’ isn’t repairing the roads, well, guess what, ‘road tax’ hasn’t existed since 1937, so gran, if you’re reading, our tax disc funds go into the general coffers for the country, it’s paying your pension ;o)
3. Note to all stoners, if you need a fix, don’t tweet about it, asking for someone to bring you a little something at work or, well, the police might be the ones bringing it over…
4. Speaking of which, Seattle police are targeting the things that you consume when you have the munchies as a vehicle for drug education. Genius!
5. Moving onto a sport you might be inclined to do while high, the Kenyans want to make naked night running an officially recognised sport. Fabulous :oD
Linking up to my Random pals:
Seriously random. Are you saying you'd enjoy naked night running as a competitor or a spectator?
Crikey, I can't see naked night running taking off as a sport on a cold, winter's night in Glasgow, unless it was connected to pub chucking out time that is!
Ah, the famous car tax which is mistakenly called road tax by those who don't know. Naked night running sounds painful, all those giggly bits flying up and down with no support.
Well since my car has been declared a write off I've just sent off to have my car tax refunded – sorry granny!
Ok so you have to fill me in on the Seattle police thing, because I haven't heard about this. It must mean I'm hanging out with the right group of kids though. 😉
Oh and marijuana is actually legal here now for personal use in your own home, although it's still totally ILLEGAL on a national level…so…it's probably still illegal! lol Got to love the complicated beast that is the American legal system. 😉
Im still trying to get the visual image of naked night running out of my head…ewwwwww
A great week for randomeering. Did you already know we had a rental house that nearly burned down because our tenants were growing marijuana and overtaxed the electrical system of the 1940s. Dummies. However…they had an official card allowing them to grow plants because the husband had migraine headaches. Guess how many plants he was legally allowed to have? 99!!! Seriously, California? So no charges were brought, except we were out of rent due to the house going up in smoke. (thankfully we had better insurance that we even knew).Oh, and not a single plant was harmed in putting the fire out–the firefighters carefully placed them in a non-threatened part of the house. Geez.
Goodness, do you do research during the week for this? How ever did you find out about naked night running?! 😀
So proud to be from Seattle 🙂
Instead of tweeting for drugs a person could run naked to their dealer's house, it's less wear and tear on the roads than driving a vehicle seeing as their are no road taxes.
I love how you get from the possibility of a bridge between Ireland and mainland Britain to naked Kenyans running at night in 5 easy steps!
Gertie has a point. Your mind runs around in funny circles.
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Giggle!
thanks to you, with help from Gertie. i had a sudden mental image of Grant running naked to Ireland to deliver the crisps that someone tweeted a request for. time to go back to sleep!!!!
On the road tax thing, we were talking about that only this week. Really if people think about it the council repairs the road, and, oh yeah, we pay council tax…
Number 2 is interesting! I wonder if that's the same here in IRE.
In Ireland it's called Motor Tax and is collected by County Councils, but whether it is used for the upkeep of roads? If the state of my local roads is anything to go by, I know the answer… 😉
Ooooh no. I don't think naked running should be allowed under any circumstances, male or female!
I missed this yesterday but as today I really needed the pick me up this was awesome! I love the idea of naked night running being a sport, not one I will ever partake in but some bodies truly are beautiful to behold 🙂
The trouble with naked night running is where would they pin their numbers?
Ferry travelis ridiculously expensive everywhere then. We have a small island off the coast of South Australia called Kangaroo Island which happens to be where my parents in law live. It's so expensive for our family to go over so we rarely do. If they just built a bridge we often say. It would cost a mint but just put a toll way on it for visitors. Would soon get paid off. Mind you, I don't need to see my in laws any more often 😉