quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: as approved by TehDoctor&Mickey.
Fcuk me though, wasn't that finale episode of Dr Who a huge pile of shittywank, clone Dr, happy fuckingish ending bullcrap, no regeneration, DoctorDonna, what was Davros trying to prove arse of all time.
Russel T Davis is such a cvnt, I was all expecting a flying car and some rimming to be chucked in for good luck.
Talking of dross though - Did anyone watch Bonekickers ?
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I'm so bored I attempted to read this entire thread. I got to page five. Cars do not really interest me. Yet I know stupid little things about them. Like, if you own a Ford car you have to change the can-belt at, like, sixty five thousand miles otherwise it might snap and ruin your engine completely one day when you're driving your shopping home from TESCO. I don't actually know what a can-belt is, though. And, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure I didn't just make that up.
So really, I don't know anything about cars at all, I guess.
I had chicken supernoodles and nice cheese I bought in Amsterdam for dinner. It didn't really 'go' but I couldn't be bothered to cook. It's not about cooking when you've stolen one of your mother's 'do not steal' bottles of wine.
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We all prisoners, chickee-baby. We all locked in.
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Darryn, I just watched Bonekickers and that's why I came online - to confirm that anyone else who saw it also thought it was an egregious pile of twaddle.
I have just been amused when, in response to a search on the programme's title on the Telegraph's website, I got the following response:
We have detected that some of your search terms may have been mis-spelt: bonkers
quote:Originally posted by Lilo: I don't actually know what a can-belt is, though. And, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure I didn't just make that up.
quote:Originally posted by Lilo: I don't actually know what a can-belt is, though. And, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure I didn't just make that up.
I'm sorry... I haven't paid enough attention to you since your arrival but I do have a quick question.
Is random capitalisation a personality trait we can look forward to, or is it a by product of Pot Noodle and 'Dam cheese?
Thank you for your time, please continue to work over that bean.
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I managed to hurt my foot this morning in quite a painful fashion when jumping off my bike so you can call that poetic justice or karma or whatever if you like. For being a jerk about your cans.
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quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: D...did you just imply you were playing with your vagina?
Unfortunately not. All the 'cool' kids at school used to do this finger-snapping thing, usually after licking their middle finger first. I don't know where it originated from*, but when they did it they claimed that they were 'flicking the bean'. Playing with a vagina is obviously far cooler though.
*Probably The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, or Snoop Doggy Dogg, or something.
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Anti-bike rage is reaching astonishing peaks at the moment. That story about a girl being killed when a cyclist rode into her and was then only fined £2,200 was all over the national news yesterday. It's really hard to make out what actually happened when you read the papers though. As far as I can tell, he was riding on the road (not the pavement as several newpaper articles are stating), the girl was with a load of mates (papers usually just say that she was walking down to the chip shop), she had been drinking in the park with her mates and was walking in the road. The cyclist went for a gap in the group rather than stopping and the girl moved into the gap at the last moment. He should have stopped or gone round the outside, certainly, and he made a huge mistake by going for the gap, but being called a "killer cyclist" and "gets away with murder" etc is way over the top. It was a tragic accident.
Also, they checked his bike and declared it illegal because he didn't have reflectors on the pedals or back of the bike. This requirement only applies in the dark and he was riding in daylight.
Also, HYSteria has thoroughly set in on this issue. On the subject "What are your experiences of road rage?", the most popular post (50% more votes than the next) is a rant about cyclists on the pavement:
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Road Rage? I'm sick to death of Pavement Rage - how many more pedestrians will be killed before someone stops cyclists riding on the pavement. I have been hit by I bike and have had numerous close misses - THE LAW DOES NOTHING TO PROTECT THE PEDESTRIAN.
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I'm noticing some really aggressive driving at the moment, people deliberately cutting me up and overtaking ultra-close and beeping at me for no reason except I'm on the road and therefore in their way. Far, far more than normal. Anyone else getting this?
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No I cycle on a path not a road or pavement. I did nearly fall off this morning trying to avoid a squirrel with a death wish though.
But yeah, they're right, this senseless slaughter of innocent pedestrians must be stopped. What's the death toll at now, 10 million?
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quote:Originally posted by dang65: Anyone else getting this?
Yeh. I have noticed more aggressive overtaking. Fast and close. I nearly got clipped by yet another National Express coach again, Tuesday. On the other hand I've noticed I've been given time to overtake several bendy-buses pulling out from bus stops. So, maybe they've been given a memo to be less *******.
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If I get my new job - for which I have just emerged from the interview - I will be cycling to work. Although Walthamstow and Docklands (setting of new job) are both in east London, getting from one to the other by public transport is a convoluted nightmare of buses, tubes and toy town trains that would try the patience of Job and take over an hour. Thus, I shall buy a bike and get there in 20 mins.
Is it a good sign when they start going over the 'package', like pension, holiday, etc, before they've offered you the job?
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quote:Originally posted by herbs: Is it a good sign when they start going over the 'package', like pension, holiday, etc, before they've offered you the job?
Possibly. Depends if they'd already spent loads of time grilling you thoroughly about your skills, or if they'd abandoned that after a couple of minutes and just needed something to pad the interview out a bit.
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Good point. I'd been there an hour and a quarter before he did 'benefits'. Though partly as he can talk the proverbial hind legs off the proverbial ass.
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I didn't get the job I went for, but to be fair, it was a pretty bizzarre interview. It wasn't 'tough' in a sense, but it felt like they'd looked at my CV and decided perhaps not before I got there. The guy was French though so I'm not too gutted overall.
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I try not to get involved in these 'issues' regarding how awful cyclists are. I get too wound up. God knows what it's going to get like when the rest of the country gets the volume of cyclists that London experiences. There'll probably be a law passed that allows people to try and get sticks through the spokes of passing bicycles without fear of prosecution. People hate cyclists. They hate them. I don't know what to do about it. I try and behave myself these days. I stop at 95% of red lights. I don't nip onto the pavement too much, I always let pedestrians pass. And still they hate. I kind of dislike the fact there are more cyclists about these days, it makes the going slower trying to negotiate your way round them all. So many of them seem not to realise that the big green boxes in front of traffic lights with bicycles painted in them are there for them to spread out in front of the traffic. From some misguided sense of politeness they often queue up along the cycle lane instead. However, I can see the benefits to more and more people cycling. As more people cycle (as petrol costs stay high and congestion charges spread across more cities for example) then so more people get used to cyclists being about and it becomes more commonplace and people learn how to deal with them and so they stop hating and fearing and start loving. Maybe. Until that day it's best to avoid getting involved in 'debates' on whether cyclists are good or bad things, when all it really boils down to is some people are inconsiderate twats and others aren't...
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I was in Utrecht a few months ago, and it was bike heaven. All flowing along down dedicated cycle lanes, cut off from the cars, with their own traffic lights and everything. (some even in the shape of Miffy). The secret is to keep cyclists and cars separate, I guess. Or for car drivers to stop being such arsewipes.
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I'd like to see all future drivers being forced (at knife point) to cycle round their town or city for 6 months before they are allowed to take their driving test. That'd learn 'em. Especially the handicapped ones.
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quote:Originally posted by McDirts: People hate cyclists. They hate them.
I think it must be that people are already enraged, either as drivers stuck in traffic or pedestrians coming out of a crowded and delayed Tube. They can just about handle the other cars or people around them, shuffling along at the same speed they're doing themselves. But then you suddenly have this other level of human beings darting around unpredictably, at much higher speeds, and dressed in outrageously cool outfits, taught buttocks straining... *scraaatch*
It must be really irritating for them, like when someone pushes in in a queue or at the bar, or when a celebrity gets whisked straight through security at the airport.
The difference being that there's almost certainly no reason why these people shouldn't just get on a bike themselves, most the time.
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The police were out in full force this week in Brighton. I was wandering home and I must have passed about 12 police officers so i assumed there must be some conference or something with the additional security, but it turns out that they were just there giving £30 to every cyclist they saw going the wrong way down a one way street or riding on the pavement.
I'm glad that my tax money goes to ensuring that these potential terrorists are kept at bay.
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quote:Originally posted by sabian: Is random capitalisation a personality trait we can look forward to, or is it a by product of Pot Noodle and 'Dam cheese?
quote:Originally posted by sabian: Is random capitalisation a personality trait we can look forward to, or is it a by product of Pot Noodle and 'Dam cheese?
Um.
Yes.
are you going to stand for this Lilo? You can't give these mothers an inch or you'll be their punk ass bitch for the rest of your days in this god forsaken forum...
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