quote:Originally posted by dang65: Which was correct at the time I posted it, just as 37 is correct at the time of posting this. Obviously I didn't think it was going to stay at 2 any more than I think it's going to stay at 37 now.
It doesn't really matter what the result it, it's not much to write home about really is it?
Hmm. Which TMO poster organised the attacks to facilitate a long-overdue Dang65 backlash?
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quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: I was only kidding
Oh, NWoD. It was you was it? It's all fun and games until 37 people are dead and the country's largest city is crippled by fear.
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Well, we of the Secret Group Of Secretly Encouraging People To Get On A Fucking Bike For A Change are a bit disappointed with the results I must say.
Newsreader: "Everyone's struggling to get home this evening..."
Me: "...apart from those with bicycles..."
N: "...thousands of people are walking slowly along the road...
M: "...apart from the ones riding bicycles..."
N: "...most of them will get home very late tonight..."
M: "...apart from the ones with bikes who will get home at exactly the same time as they do every fucking night..."
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Goddammit. Some friends of mine have just moved house - they used to be within walking distance. Now they're about five miles away, as the crow flies, but the craziness of our transport system means that it's an 1 hour round trip on the train (going into London and back out again). Even more irritating is the fact that there's a disused railway line that directly connects our flats, now it's used as nothing more than somewhere for people to walk their dogs. Is there no way I can ever see my friends again. I used to enjoy seeing them every evening.
On the good news side, I've got £500 burning a hole in my pocket. What to spend it on? Might put it into a Gym fund, as I'm getting a bit tubby and that seems to be the only way of keeping fit, these days.
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quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: Do you think dang likes bikes?
Thing is, it's more like when you've been using the Web for years and you meet someone who's never used it and they go, "Yeah, I'm quite happy looking things up in the library, and booking my holidays in Lunn Poly, and buying my records in Sainsbury's and I've got a very nice penfriend, so why would I want the Web? Eh?"
And you're like, FFS!
I get that with bikes and commuting, see. It makes no sense at all to me that someone who works within ten miles of their house should use a car or a bus or a train. It just does not commute. Especially in London, which is a beautiful city above ground, and a large selection of sewers underground, some with train tracks running through them.
Edit: That should say, "it does not compute" of course, but I'll leave the error for everyone to laugh at.
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dang, I've got a quick bike conundrum for you if you will: I currently have a bike that lives on my balcony because the neighbours complained when it was out in the communal hall and it doesn't fit anywhere else in my flat. My friend gave it to me for my birthday. It's ok but needs a service as the front brake doesn't work at all and the back brake sticks a bit, the gears are all rusted so don't work and it doesn't have any lights. My nearest bike repair / service shop is several miles away down busy roads and I don't want to cycle on the roads until aforementioned problems have been fixed.
Simple, just walk it down to the shop, get it serviced, pick it up and happy riding, right? Wrong. To get your bike serviced you can't book an appointment but you have to turn up on specified weekdays at 8am on a first come first served basis and hope they pick your bike to work on. If not the whole process must be repeated again (after you have walked your bike back home / to work again). I would have to leave at about 6am to walk to the bike shop for 8am. Basically I can't be bothered. What should I do?
quote:Originally posted by dang65: Well, we of the Secret Group Of Secretly Encouraging People To Get On A Fucking Bike For A Change are a bit disappointed with the results I must say.
Newsreader: "Everyone's struggling to get home this evening..."
Me: "...apart from those with bicycles..."
N: "...thousands of people are walking slowly along the road...
M: "...apart from the ones riding bicycles..."
N: "...most of them will get home very late tonight..."
M: "...apart from the ones with bikes who will get home at exactly the same time as they do every fucking night..."
N: "...etc etc."
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What other hilarious kid's japes can the forum think of?
Also: As a hekalopter flew hovered over Shoreditch High Street today, a young boy jumped out of a doorway and shouted "BANG!" at the top of his little lungs. Brilliant!
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quote:Originally posted by Uber Trick: dang, I've got a quick bike conundrum for you if you will: I currently have a bike that lives on my balcony because the neighbours complained when it was out in the communal hall and it doesn't fit anywhere else in my flat. My friend gave it to me for my birthday. It's ok but needs a service as the front brake doesn't work at all and the back brake sticks a bit, the gears are all rusted so don't work and it doesn't have any lights. My nearest bike repair / service shop is several miles away down busy roads and I don't want to cycle on the roads until aforementioned problems have been fixed.
Simple, just walk it down to the shop, get it serviced, pick it up and happy riding, right? Wrong. To get your bike serviced you can't book an appointment but you have to turn up on specified weekdays at 8am on a first come first served basis and hope they pick your bike to work on. If not the whole process must be repeated again (after you have walked your bike back home / to work again). I would have to leave at about 6am to walk to the bike shop for 8am. Basically I can't be bothered. What should I do?
Buy this book: And spend an enjoyable evening covered in oil, drinking wine and fixing it yourself.
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: Also: As a hekalopter flew hovered over Shoreditch High Street today, a young boy jumped out of a doorway and shouted "BANG!" at the top of his little lungs. Brilliant!
My hero
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Also: As a hekalopter flew hovered over Shoreditch High Street today, a young boy jumped out of a doorway and shouted "BANG!" at the top of his little lungs. Brilliant!
lolololol. thats the spirit!
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quote:Originally posted by Uber Trick: Basically I can't be bothered. What should I do?
Are there any bike shops here that are nearish to your house?
Or, if your bike's in a really terrible state and might cost a lot to fix then might it be worth buying a cheap new one to get you going? I don't know how much you spend on transport, but I'm fairly confident that a bike costing around a 100 quid or even less will have paid for itself within a couple of months.
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Discodamage, can you please write a long, quirky, funny post about a Bristolian's experience of yesterday's events. To cheer me up. Please.
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quote:Originally posted by Gemini: Well the image tag is definetly in the original post.
Yeah, I couldn't understand it, but I thought it said 'Zen and the art of...' which I thought would be totally cool. If your bike broke, you could fan your breath with two fingers and bicycle engineer would come down from the sky on a pink cloud with machine guns.
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Ooo excellent I like the sound of trying to do it myself and then making a complete hash of it so having to take it to one of the bike shops in the list which dang helpfully provided. Thanks dang and gemini!
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: Discodamage, can you please write a long, quirky, funny post about a Bristolian's experience of yesterday's events. To cheer me up. Please.
oh how i wish i could jonesy but i didnt have a very funny or quirky day, except for when i was trying to charge my mobile so i could chase down all my mates and they wouldnt let me because my phone is an LG and noone has a charger for it, not even the people who bastard well sold it to me. and some Pollard pushed in front of me in the queue because he reallly needed to buy the new hellomoto 3865 binglybonglyfone which turns itself invisible when muggers are around and has a tiny band of japanese micromidgets who sing the top 40 most popular ringtones backwards at you when someone is trying to make a call and immediately informs you if anyone called mortimer is within a 5 mile radius. and i was all like, hand to brow, dont you understand, my need is greater than yours, i am a londoner, i need to check my loved ones are not dying or dead. so when they told me they couldnt charge my phone i thought oh my god what do i do now! so i went and had a fag and a greggs vegetable pasty. which was really very nice, as a matter of fact. so theres one discovery i made: when your beloved home city is being attacked my bommz and strewn with guts and muck and you are feeling all too distant from it all, that is the perfect time to eat a greggs pasty. reassurance in larden form.
mostly i just felt a bit miz and shooken up by the whole thing. got a bit pissed, wrote some maudlin stuff about how much i love london, watched some roy and hg, spoke to my bessie who dealt with the whole day in the aftermath of the 2012 bid team party she attended the day before, felt immensely proud of my friend who has spent the last four years coordinating the Royal london's risk management plan, whilst saying 'of course, itll never happen'... she is my Londoner of The Month. ultim8 propz and ree-speck to her.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: burnt down London in 1666 because they had plans for a better one.
I know builders in this country take the piss when it comes to finishing a job on time... But 339 years is just going too far!
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It was the Canadians. We're tired of being in the shadow of the Americans...they blamed us, you know, for harbouring the 9-11 bombers. Oh, and we wanted to get rid of all the tourists so we can come and visit next month.
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