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General Discussion Area / Re: Is anyone watching

« on: 21 December 2007, 12:44:20 »

Only one way to deal with Sky...

"Hello, I'd like to cancel my contract, please, because my box is breaked..."

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Is anyone watching

« on: 21 December 2007, 11:11:31 »

knock on wood..

You mean ... Touch wood?

Oh, dear Here we go again...

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Accident - Negligence?

« on: 15 December 2007, 10:23:23 »

A mate of Emma's, who is a very careful driver, had a collision with a biker in a similar instance. She pulled up to a junction, looked both ways, and started to pull out. Biker appeared out of nowhere

Biker was found to be speeding, several signs had been badly placed and obscured her view of the road in the direction of the Biker's emergence but she still got prosecuted. Seems we are expected to be familiar with coping with 3rd world standards of road construction by now

I think if you don't have the right of way you're basically at fault regardless of the circumstances. Might be worth seeing if your legal protection will cover clobbering the council with a bit of grief, if nothing else. Matters will only improve if they get hassled.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: well

« on: 21 December 2007, 09:30:53 »

Went to Southampton yesterday and bought a present or two for Mrs. KW so I'm done now. Was expecting carnage but it was quite quiet. Still, needed some retail therapy of a different kind on the way home so popped into Machine Mart and bought myself a compressor

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: I might be in trouble with the law

« on: 19 December 2007, 18:44:32 »

Just a reminder that there are some idiots on the road and it's best to leave them behind without compromising yourself and not to get worked up over them.

Had one 10 mins ago on the way back from work. Overtook him perfectly safely on a dual carriageway, a good 2 car lengths in front I indicate to pull in as we came to end of dual carriageway and he decided that I wasn't going to be pulling in in front of him and accelerated up my inside.

Temptation was to floor it and create a log jam where the road narrows to single, but tried to stop red mist descending and pulled in behind. He can continue to drive his company car policy-dictated Passat TDi repmobile like that until he does it to an unmarked cop car as far as I'm concerned.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: I might be in trouble with the law

« on: 19 December 2007, 17:29:22 »

Good thinking on the fancy dress. Mate of mine once took his driving test in drag due to an unfortunate clash with a staging of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

He passed. Doubt the poor guy dared to fail him. So, yes, all is not what it seems sometimes when you look inside a passing car.

I doubt a real Police officer would have gesticulated his annoyance or flashed his lights. He would have pulled you over for a word or let it be.

kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: I might be in trouble with the law

« on: 19 December 2007, 17:17:46 »

Bottom line is, I shouldn't have got so close behind it, and I hold my hand up to that.

He shouldn't have been lane hogging and brake testing people either. Should know better. Seems to me that he was trying to provoke you. It's unfortunate that you took the bait but I can't see anything coming of it, to be honest.

The worst you'll probably get if it's repoprted is a "slap on the wrist letter" like the one I got for doing 31 MPH (+/- the accuracy of the hand held gun!) in a 30MPH limit . "Whilst we are satisfied that an offence has been committed, on this occasion we have decided not to take further action..."

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Veccy.

« on: 19 December 2007, 13:04:51 »

You've got a good eye for spotting bargain ebay runabouts

A weekend spent on that would see it sorted. I just wonder why he hasn't pulled the tape off the front bumper and described what it's hiding?  :-/

kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Harriet Harman

« on: 20 December 2007, 15:38:37 »

Commons Leader Harriet Harman has told the BBC today that she wants the law to be changed to make it illegal to pay for sex.

This will be the end of the marriage institute as we know it....  

So is she going to volunteer to sleep with people who cannot get a partner?

It'll take them a while to get that desperate

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General Discussion Area / Re: One for the math experts

« on: 20 December 2007, 16:15:18 »

It probably funds all the CD Roms and postal charges that make up their IT infrastructure

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: And another stupid bit of PC'ness!

« on: 18 December 2007, 19:47:45 »

I might just have a rendition of "that rather cat's back" in a minute. Been back from work for an hour and the ruddy cat hasn't stopped pestering me

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / And another stupid bit of PC'ness!

« on: 18 December 2007, 17:15:30 »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7149525.stm

Words to that song seemed fine for 20 years, but not so...  

I wonder what they'd think of the lyrics in my "Kevin Bl00dy Wilson" collection?

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: BEER = DATE RAPE!!!!

« on: 20 December 2007, 10:09:34 »

I've been drinking as much beer as I can for 20 years. It doesn't work

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Irony

« on: 19 December 2007, 10:43:45 »

looks like an E30 325 sport......what a shame......

beautiful handling cars, have to provoke it a lot to get them to misbehave

His Burberry baseball cap probably fell down over his eyes

eyes? they're optional on a BMW driver, aren't they?  

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: bio diesel

« on: 19 December 2007, 10:21:26 »

Brand new cooking oil is cheaper than diesel by a large margin. Almost makes me want to take over a Fish & Chip shop and get a Tractor.

Problem with bio fuels, IMHO, is that they're sucking up resources that we need to feed ourselves and pushing up the price of oils artificially, which leads to deforestation to grow more oils. Yes, they might solve some political issues with using fossil fuels if you take a blinkered, short term view (as any politician would) but the big picture is that bio fuels allow you to grow crops without actually feeding anyone nor removing any carbon from the environment. Anything else that grows does one or the other.

Kevin