You were on £60,000 a year for one of the quietest sites in the land, hahahaha, I want to shake your hand and salute your negotiating skills and opportunism for screwing over two very large companies. That has made my week,one of the funniest things I have heard in a long time.
Things you'd like to say, but can't
- Thread starter Stig-OT-Dump
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I'm very flattered that you wanted to get so close to me and whisper sweet nothings in my ear, but please don't sneak up on me on a descent and startle me like that! How are we ever going to get drivers to allow at least 150 cms when overtaking cyclists if other cyclists only leave a gap of 25 cms when they do! 
Nigel-YZ1
Guru
- Location
- Somewhere else... maybe soon.
That's what we thought - unless someone had stolen the car ...
While I am back in this thread ... A shout out to the f*ckw*t psycho driver who decided to play chicken with me on today's ride! He pulled out to overtake another vehicle down the road from me in a place that was not suitable for overtaking, with me in the middle of my lane riding towards him. I am absolutely sure that he saw me but he continued to accelerate towards me even after he had cleared the vehicle that he was overtaking. I thought about sacrificing my life to teach him a lesson about how tedious fatal accident investigations are but decided against it and abandoned the road with less than 1 second to go to impact. (I had already planned my escape route. I'd spotted a driveway with a dropped kerb to my left and sprinted up there just in time.) The driver had a manic grin on his face as he went by. I called out a 'friendly greeting' as he did so ...
Unfortunately quite common round Penistone. There's lots of on street parking and no way the Cayenne brigade are going to recognise the priority of a mere cyclist. You're expected to find a means of escape by the time they get there because there's no way their egos will let them stop.
Nigel-YZ1
Guru
- Location
- Somewhere else... maybe soon.
We've got to widen the reception door. People keep trying to park their cars on my desk so they don't have to walk 5 feet from the car park.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Does that creepy targeted advertising actually work?
Yes, I am over 60.
Yes, I do live in Todmorden.
No - I am not worried about my funeral plan; my funeral plan consists of not having a funeral... Any of my organs of use to anybody will be harvested, and what is left will probably be used in medical student anatomy classes!
Yes, I am over 60.
Yes, I do live in Todmorden.
No - I am not worried about my funeral plan; my funeral plan consists of not having a funeral... Any of my organs of use to anybody will be harvested, and what is left will probably be used in medical student anatomy classes!
Threevok
Growing old disgracefully
- Location
- South Wales
There's none so blind - as those who won't ****** listen !!!!
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Does that creepy targeted advertising actually work?
Yes, I am over 60.
Yes, I do live in Todmorden.
No - I am not worried about my funeral plan; my funeral plan consists of not having a funeral... Any of my organs of use to anybody will be harvested, and what is left will probably be used in medical student anatomy classes!
related to the targetted advertising thing, you need a new fridge or whatever dull item it is, spend a day or two browsing the web, then order one. Then you get 18 months' worth of advertisers trying to sell you a (nother) fridge.
Same thing pre web to be fair. I bought a pair of stout shoes from a country wear mail order catalogue and they duly sent me a catalogue each month from which I bought nowt. In due course they dropped me off their list. After 2 years I needed new shoes but took me ages to find the same company again. If they'd been clever, they would only have started sending me more catalogues 18 months in; the earliest point i could have conceivably trashed the shoes.0
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I agonised over whether to spell that word with a double-t. There seemed to be some debate about what the British standard now is so I chose single-t but I think it looks better in your post!
I can see why people find English a difficult language - I have been speaking it for 61 years, reading it for 59 years and writing it for 58 years, but I still find it a bit odd ...
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Have you been watching French gendarmes spraying cyclists with noxious chemicals? It wasn't a good idea then and it isn't a good idea now!
(I was cycling down a backstreet this afternoon and saw a man packing tools into the boot of his car. His hands were covered in grease/dirt. As I drew level with him he sprayed some sort of solvent on them to get it off and a gust of wind blew a cloud of it over me.)
(I was cycling down a backstreet this afternoon and saw a man packing tools into the boot of his car. His hands were covered in grease/dirt. As I drew level with him he sprayed some sort of solvent on them to get it off and a gust of wind blew a cloud of it over me.)
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
Thank you Subway for my amazing value lunch today. I have since washed my hands 17 times, had a swim and a shower. My hands still smell. I won’t forget you. Awesome brand retention skills.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Cripes the smell from just passing the shop lingers for and hour nevermind touching, let alone eating one. How on earth can you make bread smell ao bad ?
Vantage
Carbon fibre... LMAO!!!
- Location
- Behind everyone else, Bolton
Will you puleeeeeeeeeeeease shut that feckin dog up!!!!!! It's been barking non stop since 6am!!!
Lullabelle
Banana
- Location
- Midlands UK
You are very aggressive and shouty for your age, 9 maybe, that is your mum, well that explains it 
