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nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558
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Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject: Cyclists |
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They want to go the wrong way down one-way streets now
I think we should campaign for cars to go through red lights as well |
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SantaFefan
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 11258 Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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I think we should campaign for cyclists to pay road tax and insurance too!
Cars do go through red lights in the US - right turn on red ( if ok to do so ) which makes sense to me. _________________ Johnnie Walker read out my message on Pirate Radio! 13/8/07
I have heard how radio should be. |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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SantaFefan wrote: | Cars do go through red lights in the US - right turn on red ( if ok to do so ) which makes sense to me. |
Indeed, though there are exceptions in some cities and some roads,
I remember once at the end of a one-way street signs indicated you could turn left or right or red!
Can anyone remind how to shrink images on this forum
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frank
Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 20 Location: calais france
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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why not shrink them before you up load them? its better for browsers to handle that way and some people dont have to wait ages fro the picture to come doWn. |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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Cars ( as we know and love them) have very little time left as a means of everyday personal transport. We are already seeing the fall of the 4x4 from superiority on the road... they're just laughable now- they should all be crushed.. followed by the Clarkson type cars... and within 20 years all combustion engine cars will become an amusing read for history students...... " you mean they used to keep these things in their house in a room called a garage?" "Oh yes and some people spent many hours every week just sat in one, in a huge queue waiting...........
Bikes are great.... better get used to them ... China is coming to the UK in more ways than one.......
Horses are the way forward.......... come on Tizer ... trot on..... |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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Rachel wrote: |
Horses are the way forward.......... come on Tizer ... trot on..... |
What about the emissions problems? Cows emit more damaging methane than cars or planes emit co2. I'd imagine horses are much the same _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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SantaFefan
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 11258 Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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and there's me just about to buy a V8... _________________ Johnnie Walker read out my message on Pirate Radio! 13/8/07
I have heard how radio should be. |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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gfloyd wrote: | Rachel wrote: |
Horses are the way forward.......... come on Tizer ... trot on..... |
What about the emissions problems? Cows emit more damaging methane than cars or planes emit co2. I'd imagine horses are much the same |
True but you ain't gonna fly across the Atlantic on a horse... fewer people who have a car now would have a horse because once we're down to horse-power - long journies will be few and far between, so the economics of having a horse just for popping to the shops wouldn't stack up .... most people would walk or cycle.. no emissions!.... but it's not about emissions, that's just a cover story .......... nobody really cares about those..... |
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Briant
Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 964 Location: Liverpool England UK
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject: Driving you wild..... |
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I annoyed a lot of people on the Times website when I suggested that Lewis Hamilton should re-train as a bus driver! |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:46 pm Post subject: Re: Driving you wild..... |
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Briant wrote: | I annoyed a lot of people on the Times website when I suggested that Lewis Hamilton should re-train as a bus driver! |
A bus conductor to start off surely? _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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gfloyd wrote: | Cows emit more damaging methane than cars or planes emit co2. I'd imagine horses are much the same |
That's just reminded me of an amusing incident at the Reading beer festival a few years ago, when we were putting bottles in the bottle bank. Some brewery horses had been on show and were being readied to be returned home when one 'let off' rather spectacularly and then relieved itself of about a gallon of the 'No1' variety. As I remember, we were quite a way from the horse in question and it was still clearly audible. It was probably a good thing that it hadn't yet been put in it's horsebox!!
At the time I was reminded of the tale of Goliath, one of Young's brewery's horses in Anthony Burton's book Opening Time. Basically, this horse farted in it's stall and the auther likened it to 'being in the middle of the brass section of a major symphony orchestra'! He also 'felt privileged to be present at such a time'. I kind of know how he felt!! _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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