uptherebels Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Deleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 People who start a new conversation with you at work, across the room or over a partition etc, but without attracting your attention first. It gradually dawns on you that someone in your vicinity is talking and you glance up out of nosiness, to discover them looking at you expectantly waiting for a response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC1 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Just saw it....horrific, and the car didn't even stop, man lifted up by the car and fell into the road like a rag, glad to hear the man was not killed and is recovering, a child or someone not so strong could easily have done, .....mental drivers. Yeah, saddening that people can so casually maim and kill through sheer stupidity and carelessness. @Riedquat - I know where you're coming from but speed limits aren't really always arbitrary, but based on the physics of which speeds are most likely to cause death and injury on particular roads/environments, ie 20mph around schools should reduce risk of death to children. I agree that 70mph for our motorways seems pretty arbitrary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Yeah, saddening that people can so casually maim and kill through sheer stupidity and carelessness. @Riedquat - I know where you're coming from but speed limits aren't really always arbitrary, but based on the physics of which speeds are most likely to cause death and injury on particular roads/environments, ie 20mph around schools should reduce risk of death to children. I agree that 70mph for our motorways seems pretty arbitrary. 20 mph around schools isn't unreasonable - at the time there are kids around. Even then though there's more up to them to stay out of the way of traffic than vice-versa. The rest are getting increasingly ridiculous and getting used more and more as a substitute to insisting that people have the necessary judgment to be on the roads (and are largely driven by pressure groups made up of the 40 mph everywhere brigade). Are you more likely to find cameras and Talivans where it's the most dangerous to be going over the limit, or the easiest? 70 mph on the motorway doesn't really bother me though. It's arbitrary (when it's not very busier faster is perfectly safe) but wanting to go much faster than that just demonstrates chronic impatience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail the Tripod Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 A friend just posted a police information request video on Facebook from the city where I used to live - a very graphic video using multiple viewpoints (most CCTV'd nation on Earth!) where a Fiat 500 came round a blind junction at an insane speed (residential area) and hit an adult pedestrian who flew though the air like a ragdoll and landed in a heap looking pretty dead (luckily not), the car didn't stop. There should be a special place in hell for *****s like that. So this is clearly not on-topic either! I see a lot of "police warning" posts about child safety. They tend to be formatted in a way that suggests a specific threat, but in fact are just empty fear ratcheting. Along the lines of: "A suspicious man in a blue car was seen talking to a child in the local area. Be extra, extra vigilant!" No request for info or detail to help identify an actual suspect or an actual crime, just the vaguest possible suggestion of detail to suggest a specific incident, and an assertion that parents should be as terrified as possible all the time. Disgusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 "Hey everyone - This June I am trekking along the Grand Canyon to raise money for charity xxxxx" No - youre doing it because its a holiday and you want to. I actualy just got this on linkedin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beccles Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Saw something on the news this morning re. BBC sports relief. They were interviewing Jo Brand outside a pub/hotel doing a Hull to Liverpool walk iirc. I'd love to do that Might take me a bit longer though. hic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 People that start a "matther of fact" conversation in the bog. I don't want to hear about next quarter's projected sales figure, just yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19 year mortgage 8itch Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 The public schoolboy, home owning, public sector/crapita accountant and part time lorry driver known as frank hovis. I bet he has a dozen btls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Saw something on the news this morning re. BBC sports relief. They were interviewing Jo Brand outside a pub/hotel doing a Hull to Liverpool walk iirc. I'd love to do that Might take me a bit longer though. hic. Saw something about that - I didn't click on it. I dont want to know. She did something for some other 'charity' type BBC event a few years back. Involved swimming. So whilst she may not look much like an athlete - she clearly doesnt mind a bit of exercise too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beccles Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Saw something about that - I didn't click on it. I dont want to know. She did something for some other 'charity' type BBC event a few years back. Involved swimming. So whilst she may not look much like an athlete - she clearly doesnt mind a bit of exercise too much. Exercise? It sounds ******ing brilliant to me, walk 2hours. stop at pub. walk 3 hrs stop at pub. lunch. walk 2 hrs stop at pub etc till pissed, wake up, go again. Wonder if the BBC is picking up the bill? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Crowdfunding so someone can go to Disneyland Paris. She has breast cancer but wants her kids to have a holiday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 The public schoolboy, home owning, public sector/crapita accountant and part time lorry driver known as frank hovis. I bet he has a dozen btls. Sssshhhh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Exercise? It sounds ******ing brilliant to me, walk 2hours. stop at pub. walk 3 hrs stop at pub. lunch. walk 2 hrs stop at pub etc till pissed, wake up, go again. Wonder if the BBC is picking up the bill? I like her but as with ccc's Grand Canyon walker I find it hard (won't unless it's near-impossible to get out of) to sponsor somebody who's off doing something that they (and I) want to really do anyway. Walking the Great Wall of China, climbing Kilimanjaro, tour of the Andes have all been some of the holidays of a lifetime for others that I have turned down the opportunity of paying for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 I like her but as with ccc's Grand Canyon walker I find it hard (won't unless it's near-impossible to get out of) to sponsor somebody who's off doing something that they (and I) want to really do anyway. Walking the Great Wall of China, climbing Kilimanjaro, tour of the Andes have all been some of the holidays of a lifetime for others that I have turned down the opportunity of paying for.. You have to have a holiday in The Isle of Grain power station disused boliers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 What about a sponsored wаnk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19 year mortgage 8itch Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 What about a sponsored wаnk?Please, for the love of God, not by Jo Brand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 How about turds which have a very square end, and makes your bottom shut promptly and bleed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 ^ Pin is clearly not a wombat. Another illusion shattered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 When the wealthy and influential can launder millions of pounds of money and few questions are asked.......but you or I want to cash a few grand of our own money to buy a car or whatever and they want the Spanish inquisition, about how came by it and what want to do with it, treated as if guilty of some sort of misdemeanour or avoidance for wanting to withdraw their own fully taxed income saved over time to buy something they have long saved for. The same as some multi nationals can get away with paying less in tax whilst the majority that earn far less have to pay a higher percentage of their earnings and expenditure in tax.......fairness is not fair to all people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 I like her but Each to their own I guess. Also it's spelt with a second T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNACR Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 How about turds which have a very square end, and makes your bottom shut promptly and bleed! Can these square turds be connected together to make a variety of models of things? If so it isn't a turd and just the lego you put up there earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19 year mortgage 8itch Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 How about turds which have a very square end, and makes your bottom shut promptly and bleed!How else do you make lorne sausage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Exercise? It sounds ******ing brilliant to me, walk 2hours. stop at pub. walk 3 hrs stop at pub. lunch. walk 2 hrs stop at pub etc till pissed, wake up, go again. Wonder if the BBC is picking up the bill? You actually are wondering this ^ !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19 year mortgage 8itch Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Sssshhhh! And you're American! You think you know someone but it turns out its all based on a lie. I don't know what to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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