Bell End

[klondike]

UK village names Putin 'Bellend of the Year' and unveils penis-headed statue

Vladimir Putin has been hailed "Bellend of the Year" by a group of English villagers – who marked his endowing by erecting a golden, penis-headed statue of the Russian president.

The effigy, put up in protest against Moscow's nine-month invasion of Ukraine, appeared on Thursday morning alongside a street sign in the centre of the Worcestershire village.

Eggs were provided to villagers and passers-by which could be thrown at the likeness of the Russian president.

The organiser of the protest, who wished to remain anonymous, told the PA news agency: "I needed to award somebody with the Bellend of the Year award and I thought there was one person who has universally been a bellend this year – and that's Vladimir Putin.

"You could just throw eggs at the statue, which people did so willingly and quite happily.

"It's been very well received. One person said, 'I thought it was my boss for a second'."


The co-ordinator said they plan to create and sell miniatures of the statue to raise money for a charity supporting Ukrainian refugees.

"I've seen over the course of the year the devastation that has happened in Ukraine and that so many lives that have been displaced as a result of the war," they said.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/vladimir-putin-named-bellend-of-year-b2246217.html

Quick facts
Bell End is a village in the English county of Worcestershire. It is situated approximately 2 miles south-east of Hagley on the A491, north of Bromsgrove and close to Kidderminster, Stourbridge and Halesowen. It lies in the local government District of Bromsgrove. The village lies about 1.5 miles east of Belbroughton.

[Alex]

Love it 

[klondike]

If it had been called Black End it would have been renamed....

[Alex]

Here's another Bellend - The Cottage Bakery !

[Ashy]

So, no egg shortage in Worcestershire then. Some good news.

[Scrumpy]

[Ashy]

This morning in Tesco they are now selling

PLANT BASED SUGAR SUBSTITUTE

I kid you not. Is anyone going to tell them what sugar is?

[klondike]

The low calorie susbsitutes are previously products of a chemical factory though. This is probably some weeds they put through a chemical factory.

[Ashy]

I don't know if it was a "low calorie" product, but it was being pushed as a plant based substitute for a plant. I lapsed quickly into the vernacular when I saw it.

[klondike]

Difficult to think how else they could have worded it. Maybe low calorie plant based sweetener. if it isn't low calorie then there is no point unless it is cheaper which I doubt.

[Alex]

I've often bought Stevia, but it become very expensive now.

Stevia is a natural sweetener and sugar substitute derived from the leaves of the plant species Stevia rebaudiana, native to Paraguay and Brazil

[Ashy]

Good old Stevie, great bloke.

[Alex]

You on the sweet sherry Ashy  ?   

[Ashy]

It's the giggle gravy.