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The funniest and most bizarre names of Britain's gritter lorries revealed - from Brad Grit to Sir An

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A MAP that tracks gritter lorries reveals the funny and bizarre names local councils have given their trucks. The live tracker reveals where the salt spreaders are currently laying grit to stop roads freezing over. And the map, which is run by Traffic Scotland, also shows the comical names handed to some of the lorries. While Ice Queen, Snow Destroyer and Ready Spready Go might be good efforts some are inspired. Read More...

American Vandal Season Two Is Full of It

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Sam Ecklund (Griffin Gluck) and Peter Maldonado (Tyler Alvarez), getting the poop on the Turd Burglar in American Vandal. Every successful Netflix show doesn’t a merit a follow-up. Take the second season of American Vandal, which attempts to replicate the mix of true-crime satire, low-brow humor, and insight into contemporary teendom that made season one such a critically acclaimed winner. Unfortunately, it can’t quite manage it. Season two follows pretty much the same template as the first: The series, co-created by Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda, follows teen documentarians Peter Maldonado (Tyler Alvarez) and Sam Ecklund (Griffin Gluck) as they attempt to figure out who committed several pranks/crimes at a high school where everyone’s a potential suspect. Read More...

Inside Elementals Slow-burn Journey from Summer Flop to Year-end Hit

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The Pixar rom-com was one of the year’s most crushing box-office failures — until it redeemed itself as an under-the-radar triumph after all. The critical drubbing and box-office floppage of the fire-water rom-com Elemental stood, for the better part of 2023, as one of this year’s most crushing film failures: a two-front defeat all the more curious coming from Pixar, one of filmdom’s most unfailable hit factories. Until the precise moment the opposites-attract animated romp quietly redeemed itself as an under-the-radar triumph after all. Read More...

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