This ole bucket
Ferry fans will perhaps detect that in my cinematic universe, the nationalised Sealink run the ferries just like old times in Britane. No P&O for this “time” “”line”” ho ho. P&NO!!
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“Where is he boys and girls?”
“HE’S BEHIND YOU!”
“Oh no he isn’t!”
etc
Glenn will certainly go to the buffet, as he’s already being buffeted by various external forces.
Question; Since they are temporarily becoming Ferry People what do Lottie and Claire think of that BBC staple and for us non-Brits ironically popular YouTube sleeping aide, The Shipping Forecast?
Pack it up, girls, he’s as good as gone.
Those ferries are practically cruise ships.
Claire has previously mentioned sharing Kit-Kats with Glen on a 3:1 basis. So, what does he do with the third finger?
Sends it to his family in New Zealand. We’re suffering down here.
And now I’ll always be thinking of “fingers” (crnch) and never eat chocolate again …
Can you make your commentaries likeable?
P&NO deserves a big thumbs up…
I had to look it up. And am still somewhat in the dark. Were they terrible?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%26O_dismissal_controversy
It’s kinda messy.
Sealink was part of British Railways, but as cars became more popular the non-rail side was split off. Both sides were nationalised in the 80s, with Sealink Becoming Stena Line, which after a bunch of mergers and the like is euroope wide Swedish company.
The English channel parts were sold off to P&O in the 2000s.
Like all ferry operators, red tape, maintenance and budget air travel has squeezed hard.
P&O ditched P&O Ferries in 2006 to a cargo firm in Dubai which have subsequently been completely ruthless in cost cutting.
Also the Channel Tunnel has been harsh competition for ferries. Unless Glim’s car is LPG, then ferries are the only option. (LPG vehicles are entirely banned from going through the tunnel.)
Frankly, them finding him immediately and then having 12 more hours to kill would be kind of amusing
A mere mention of Mildred does not justify her appearance in the header. What this story needs is more Mildred!
The header’s for the series, not just this chapter. I have it on good (the best) authority that she’ll show up next chapter/issue. Which doesn’t mean she WON’T be in this one, as well.
This series still needs more Mildred.
—A devoted Mildred fan
I believe mid-May is the time when Mildred fans will get to rejoice in her presence on bad machinery dot com once more (the rejoicing will be slightly earlier for Patreon subscribers).
Hurrah for Mildre-mid-May!
I am still not over Lottie using Glenn’s real name in the previous page. She does care!
Glenn seems to be lost in his own world, audio-wise at least. If he keeps staring at the deck like that, he won’t even see them coming.
You know who I miss? MiniChibiLottie. I don’t think we’ve seen her since… sometime during Wobbly Head, I think.
Hmmm.
Maybe, now that Lottie’s pretty much fully recovered from the consequences of Wicked Things (as much as one COULD recover from all of that), has tied up the loose ends, and is back to her old self, she no longer needs her little hidden companion? I suppose time will tell.
He could be anywhere, but just in case he’s near Lottie call him Gleeb. So that he don’t risk to becoming full of himself because Lottie knows his name. Lottie is a true friend.
That guy in the background of the first panel looks like he’s either narrating his exciting ferry journey on selfie stick, or videoing the ladies. It certainly looks like he’s aiming the camera at them, though.
If the back of the phone is toward the ladies, he’s looking at the screen as one does when using a selfie stick. Honestly at first I wondered why he had such a thin-handled mallet. Zooming in on my phone clarified the situation wondrously.
He’s a travel blogger essaying his journey on the high seas.
Haha, I thought he was ferry staff wielding a broom, and possibly deterring our heroines from going into an area he just cleaned.
Panel 2: If Lottie gets any more junk in her trunk she’s going to be arrested for smuggling.
And yes, I’m aware that this is a Grote trademark.
She is callipygous.
My favorite word.
Why don’t they ask that nice young man walking by? He looks like someone who would know how to spend time on the ferry.
Ah, the truly cost-conscious on the ferries take a packed tea, usually a Meal Deal!
(I speak from experience here…)
As Glurm left in rather a hurry, he probably didn’t have time to pack one.
Looking at Lottie in panel 1 I’m not sure they need Mildred to have long legs covered!
As a glamorous shortarse like say Charlene Tilton off of Dallas (one for the teenagers) Lottie knows the power of a short skirt and a tall shoe.
I am fascinated, sir, that this is your second reference to Dallas in as many days. (the other being “Oil Patrick” on BlueSky.) Perchance have you been rewatching that show recently?
Is there a chance that modern Lottie is modeled on a dark-haired Charlene then?
My mind latches on to a resemblance between Lottie and Christine Noonan (likely a combination of hair and attitude). Alas the latter’s career was rather short – If…. only…
I am sorry to say that I do not spend my days watching old episodes of Dallas and i did not base the design of Lottie on Lucy Ewing, haha! What a splendid notion though.
I think it was Miles Kington who started a long-running joke in Punch magazine, back in the late Cretaceous period, that only the British would make ink from seals…
Hopefully not as cost-conscious as Bobby “re-freezes raw chicken” Problems
Mildred would also be helpful in finding Gleb because of her novel rapport with him (or maybe she actually remembers to ask him questions about his life?): https://badmachinery.com/comic/got-chatting/