Pick My Postcode’s Stackpot Draws

Spreading dangerous substances? Some people spread peanut butter and jam (jelly) on their bread.

Three are an awful lot of countries still have the penalty of death including being gay, being against the religion, importing drugs and the Supposedly most powerful country in the USA now wants to execute a poor girl twice it's outrageous and unacceptable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_offences_in_China

Can we add: leaving dog poo on pavements, especially in that narrow gap, between that badly parked car that's mounted the kerb and the wall, where the shadow is so deep you can't see the ground even when the streetlights are on but you have to squeeze through anyway? Just asking. No reason.

In our town the organised events were last week as Remembrance Day events this weekend Only a few neighbours had them last week

I love fireworks, and I am happier when I see ones that others have spent their money on. I don't buy them.

Tomorrow marks the 6th anniversary of my dad passing away, so when I see the fireworks I say that they're setting them off for him.

My grandfather got a job setting fireworks off for a small display, but he only did it the once. The instructions on the firework read "light the blue touch paper and retire."

I love fireworks but I've seen none advertised.

I generally have a peek. Our garden borders our racecourse, which is the usual venue. All neighbours have had a letter advising the timings - they've reduced some of the really noisy ones + shortened that part of the display. There's apparently going to be more of a light show with music, to help reduce the impact on animals & anyone who doesn't like the bangs.

Because of delays in our supply of the fireworks needed our display is going to be Thursday, November 26, 2026, I shall be watching, I love them 🎉 😁 🪄

No, I hate fireworks. They cause so much distress to pets, livestock and wildlife. There is a public display every year just down the road from us, (it was on Sunday just gone this year) and it's far too loud. I could hear next door's dog barking. I've never seen the point of loud bangs when you can have a pretty display with less noisy ones or drone shows.

Only if I can see them from the bedroom window, but I would have to hear them first, to know I need to bother to look.

As has already been said, I can't see the point of them, either.

Not this weekend but on the 14th the Grand Pier will, be having fireworks at sea, which we wil, watch from the promenade in Weston super mare

They echo round here, some pop in the distance early every evening, but I see very few of them as houses & trees are in the way. By the time I go to look out of my window nothing is happening. Too cold these evenings to go & stand outside for long. Only one public display AFAIK about 3 miles away (2 buses) costing £20 entry. Callander Park FK display is free, but 12 miles away & ladyfriend living nearby hates them..

No, haven't seen any in years, but heard plenty.

I've been watching them since July, but come 2am I have to stop as no-one seems to set them off after that. As I'm writing I'm listening to bangs from some nearby.

No. I hate fireworks - all the terror it brings to stray cats on the streets and wild animals in our countryside. Funny thing is, I always hated fireworks as a kid too. Could never see the point in them - just money going up in smoke. I'll be glad when it's all over this year again (just NYE to go which isn't usually as bad round here).

No. I just think about all the animals that suffer so much from the noise.

No, this time of the year is hell for people around here. I can't wait for the end of next week when we will have a brief respite before New Year's Eve fireworks.

Only if any neighbours let them off.

Very funny both. At least the friend's mother might not remember doing that.

Thanx Sylvia Robbins yetthey till say the youngere generation swear more than older ones.

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Ha ha - I laugh because almost exactly this happened to a friend's mother who lives with Dementia , in Superdrug but she wasn't quite so polite to the customer at the back and told her to 'f off' - that's my place - Really. Shall see them at Bingo today. Thanks for this A Nick Name. x

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Took me several reads to get it!

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Mine’s sooner still.

My birthday is sooner than yours then Shyboy.

Good one Tudiefair.

Thanx Tudiefair. 😁

Tudiefair. 🤣🤣

How funny that here in Southampton I got no showers, even though the clouds looked ominous at times. They kept on travelling.

I went into the bakers and said how come all your cakes are 50p and that one’s £1. He said that’s Madeira cake🤪

Party cake infers that it's shared with other don't you.

Happy early Birthday Shyboy, enjoy your 🎂

Bed smells? Halitosis. Dog poo - so much worse than horse dung. Babies (can’t stand the smell, even when they’re clean!). Roadkill, or the dead deer or pheasants we occasionally come across in the woods here.

Little Owl trimethylaminuria

I don't know why you didn't just say that🤣🤣

I work in a university and our 1st floor office is right over the bike shed behind some student accommodation.

Today was a strong fumes day. If I'd been pulled over on the drive home I probably would have tested positive.

I did think that cannabis for personal use was 'allowed' ?

Although any Police Officer taking any drug, on or off Duty should lose their job.

This absolutely is not the case. Possession of cannabis in any quantity is illegal and subject to prosecution if caught. Most likely you would get a warning or fine if caught with small quantities but still illegal. It can result in a criminal record and up to five years in prison in extreme cases. Do not do it!

AFAIK Cannabis is allowed in very small quantities for personal use in most areas, I even know of local police that will come in the house & smoke it with you, As long as you're not supplying anyone or making money from it it should be OK.

I went in a tannery somewhere in Kent once to collect some cow hides, the stench of rotting meat was overwhelmingly bad & I could not wait to get out of there away from the rivers of blood on cobbled floors, get the load off & fumigate my lorry.

Barking LT Bus Garage on Longbridge Road was built on the site of an abbatoir, & the pub opposite is named "The Fly House" cos there were so many flying about. in those days.

Enver, when did 'they' legalise weed smoking?

Cannabis remains a Class B controlled substance in the United Kingdom, carrying penalties of up to five years for possession and 14 years for supply. Medical cannabis has been legally prescribable since November 2018 — but access is narrow, NHS provision minimal, and no legalisation legislation is imminent.

Unfortunately, enforcement is scarce. We have close neighbours using in two directions and have lodged complaints.

The leather works in South Wimbledon (well, Merton, really) was behind London Transport's Merton Bus Garage, at the far end of Wandle Bank, at the junction of North Road and East Road. It was next-door to the local sewage works, so no wonder the air was 'thick' around there!

It's all very genteel these days - modern housing and tree-lined roads.

OMG, @help me!, I remember that smell in South Wimbledon (the grotty end of SW19!), but I thought it was a glue factory. It was absolutely rank. I must admit that I do like the smell of marijuana/cannabis, but I once went to the apartment of a friend who lived in Amsterdam and she was growing it in her back bedroom, and the stench of dozens of plants in a small space (it was a tall, narrow terraced building typical of that city) was unbearable - literally vomit-inducing.

A favourite scent, as in perfume, changes, of course, but Cartier Must (a gift that I cannot afford for myself!) can whisk me back to glorious, wonderful times in the 80s that I cherish.

OOh. I have a long list of 'orrible smells, including 'weed' and Lush shops.

Weed smell makes me want to vomit. Lush shops and similar have me coughing !

Having worked in the Clinical Waste and Meat industries most smells do not really bother me. Some not pleasant but only the two that make me want to divert.

Fun fact ? Do not read further if of a delicate persuasion.

I was delivering a Truck load of waste to an incinerator and mentioned the nice smell off Roasting Brisket.

I was pointed to one of the ovens, where there was cow being 'cooked' !

I also hate going past people who smoke joints. I met my Mother-in-Law and her dog for a walk around our local park. 50% of the time there is a guy who looks like he hasn't brushed his hair in ages, sat on one of the benches smoking what I think is cannabis and no matter how much you try to hold your breath as you pass him, you still smell it. It makes me feel ill.

Today we had a group of youths who decided to sit on the park's play equipment smoking it too. So you got it in two areas of the park and parents couldn't take their children into the gated area.

It actually sparked a conversation starter from my Mother-in-Law. "If it smells that bad, what must it taste like!" I told her my Gran made me promise to never do drugs before she died when I was 18 and its a promise I found very easy to keep, so I couldn't answer that.

Also, since my mum quit smoking, I can't stand the smell of regular cigarettes either. It makes me cough & gag. To the point where it looks like I'm being rude if a smoker passes me on the street.

Another vote for Lush shops.

help me, I used to work with someone who had the condition known as rotting fish syndrome (can't remember the medical name). They are unable to process a chemical in some foods and are unaware that they have the condition because they can't smell it themselves. The person had a lovely personality - it was really difficult.

I agree with Longstocking, and with anng about the Lush shops.

We have a complex containing B&M, Asda, and a pet store all sharing the same car park, but next door is Morrison's abbatoir so the whole area absolutely stinks at times.

Muck-spreading on the fields round here. Very closely followed by Lush shops.

Garlic and curry are both awful. I also hate baby powder. As for perfumes, I dislike smokey scents and vanilla.

Sick is one of the worst for me. It makes me gag.

Rotting sheep smell awful but rotting fish might be worse.

When I lived in Wimbledon in the 1980s I used to walk past a tannery (I know, it sounds odd to me as I say it but there was one somewhere around there. I wasn't at the posh end of Wimbledon) That was a smell to make your hair curl.

For 'scents': when I was a student in the 70s there was someone in our year who wore a rather unique perfume. I don't know what it was called or where she got it (possibly Porton Down) but it seemed to target Y-chromosomes in a shark-repellent sort of way. Male students wouldn't even go into rooms where she had been if they could avoid it. After some months her friends started asking why no men had asked her out and I think one of them - through the grill on his gas mask - told all. Lectures became less toxic after that. I never did find out what it was.

If you were intending scent as a perfume then for me it's Ylang Ylang, gives me a sharp pain between the eyes when strong and a sick headache when used as a background scent.

We have a chicken factory in our city - there's no whiff from the factory nor from the lorries that leave - it's the lorries that are delivering that stink to high heaven. We wish their speed can be restricted to less than 5 mph so there'd be no windy whiff attacking pedestrians near the road.

Worst smell is weed Marijuana being smoked in a joint, it's like bad vomit.. Can't imagine why they legalised it.

Second is her dog farting.

Farmers spraying manure on fields, the smell drifts on wind for miles & lasts days, a teacher once said it was "The healthy smell of the countryside", I get it here sometimes but don't mind it so much.

Curry is ok with me, most cities smell of it in places, as do asian mini-markets. Now I fancy a chinese "plawn cully with flied lice".. not had one for ages.

Also me with Curry and most herbs

Funnily enough wife started cooking as I was leaving today. I only saw chicken and sweet pointed peppers so no idea what we were having. When I got home she'd left and I had to sit there for a couple of hours sniffing it. I asked her later what it was and she said a generic curry. I told her I've heard of Jalfrezi curry but not generic curry. It did taste as beautiful as it smelled.

In case she reads this. I had my mind on other things, I was still thinking about best smell.

Agree with Chocolate Spaniel about curry. Bisto Kid, it is the fishmeal manure I can't stand the smell of (not sure if that is what it is called). Don't like the smell of chilli cooking either.

When the farmers manure their fields round here....dreadful!!

The Salvia / Hot Lips a beautiful shrub but the aromatic leaves smell so awful to me that I put off pruning it for as long as I can!!!

When Glo cooks her dried fish.

Lol 63 🤣🤣

Most definitely when our Springer Spaniel has broken wind.

Me, yesterday. God knows what it was that disagreed with me on Sunday, but if we'd had a dog it would have run outside before anyone could kick it.

Curry! Maybe in the minority with that opinion.