A BBC poll put Mrs Brown's Boys, filmed in a Glasgow studio, as Best British Situation Comedy. As Nic Aubury shrewdly commented: " Can we please stop asking the British electorate what they think about stuff?"
CREATING a bit of a story yesterday was Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn who was filmed on a Virgin train sitting in the corridor because of overcrowding. Now Virgin Trains has responded, showing CCTV footage, allegedly, of Jeremy walking past a number of empty seats before staging his sit-in. As Lib Dem supporter Sean Kemp comments: "Last time I saw Jeremy Corbyn surrounded by this many empty seats he was delivering a statement in Parliament."
AND as Tory MSP Murdo Fraser commented on social media, with tongue firmly in cheek: "Pretty clear that MI5 doctored that CCTV footage to show empty seats which weren't there."
A READER hears a chap on the bus into Glasgow bemoan the fact that foreign translations are so easily available on-line. He was telling his mate: "Brought the girlfriend some perfume back from Spain. Then she spoils it by going on-line and discovering the name translated as 'Tester. Not for sale'."
RYAN Lochte, the American swimmer who lied about being robbed in Rio during the Olympic Games yet found it difficult to apologise, is now losing the financial support of sponsors. A reader in America emails to comment: "Am I being bad, but it seems to me that this would be the perfect time to actually rob Ryan Lochte."
AN AYRSHIRE reader at his golf club liked the remark of a fellow member who stated: "I remember when it was called 'drinking a glass of water' and not any of this 'hydrating' nonsense."
RUGBY writer Matt Vallance was driving down to Sale the other day for the game against Edinburgh when he got stuck in traffic. Says Matt: "The trip took a wee bit longer than anticipated after someone, perhaps in a fit of Olympic over-enthusiasm, tried to do an inward, piked, two-and-a-half somersault, with one-and-a-half twists, in a horsebox just below Junction 41 of the M6, thus causing a two-hour delay on a blocked motorway.
"I did love the announcement from BBC Radio Cumbria, about half-way through the delay. 'We have good news for those caught-up in the horsebox crash on the southbound M6 - the horsebox was empty, no horses were injured in the crash'. It still took them a further hour to clear and re-open the road, but, how typically English, to put the (non) horses' welfare first."
TALKING about rugby, there was a veterans' match before the Harlequins v Glasgow Warriors match in London at the weekend. A Harlequins' official told a Herald reader afterwards that the insurance premium to cover the players, many of whom had gone on from rugby to be "something big in the City of London" had seriously threatened the club coffers.
TODAY'S piece of whimsy comes from a reader in Newton Mearns who says: "Yes I agree with the saying that 'the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence'. But that's only because all my neighbours have been getting artificial lawns put down."
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