Monthly Archives: January 2010
You can feed me lollipops
This is a quintessential popular-servant-of-the-community-shafted-by-heartless-bastards news story. Alloa and Hillfoots Wee County News, 21 October 2009: WEE County’s longest serving lollipop lady was given the fuzzy end of the stick when she discovered her lollipop of 23 years had been … Continue reading
If you want a pool so much – then move
The letters page of any decent local newspaper is always a reliable source of good old-fashioned common sense. For instance, the letter below is entirely reasonable: its author isn’t bothered about swimming, so why would they particularly want a swimming … Continue reading
Filed under Letters to the Editor
Sometimes it’s just in the jeans
Quite fittingly, the first substantive post on The nether regions is all about one of the regional media’s favourite topics: flashers. It is a truth universally acknowledged that stories about grown men revealing their private parts at unsuspecting women or … Continue reading
Filed under Flashers, Sensational headlines
Serving the community since 2010…
The nether regions will exist to document the manifold joys provided by local newspapers and other regional media. It will not be a bog-standard ‘OMG look at this strange/weird/bizarre/zany/bonkers news story’ kind of website (but such stories might, naturally, crop … Continue reading
Filed under Editorial
