Overheard in Notts: March 2026

Thursday 26 March 2026
reading time: min, words

This month in Notts you've been talking about court, shrinking chocolate and 'wiggly man things'...

Overheard

Woman in Mapperley Top Wetherspoons:
"This is like the only spoons you don't have to go into the caves."

Strangers on the tram:
Man 1: "All chocolate has got smaller."
Man 2: "Yes, but is it that we've got bigger?"

At the end of a high-stakes football match:
“What? It’s not even one of the set texts!”

“I'm basically Jim E. Brown, but Matcha.”

“Sorry! I’m doing me wiggly man thing.”

“Right who's the cleverest? You who's 6 or me who's 58?”

“Go on then get me f***ing arrested, I won't 'ave to go court tomorrow.”

“Tell me any song and I've got it. Or I can sing it to you.”

“Is she posh or Eastern European?”
“She's asthmatic.”

“She had a remaining balance of more than £63 QUADRILLION.”

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