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Spanky,
judging by the time of the night (morning) you posted your comments, D/E Site must be really bad!! Those late night sim slots must be a killer...
Get some sleep, man!
judging by the time of the night (morning) you posted your comments, D/E Site must be really bad!! Those late night sim slots must be a killer...
Get some sleep, man!
No idea what D/E site is, sorry.
But British West Oxfordshire is a very fine place - except for the nanny-state speed limits springing up everywhere thanks to the sandal-wearing bicycle-brained buffons of Oxfordshire County Council's highways department. Try the Henley to Oxford road which recently sprouted spurious speed limits and paint marks designed to dissuade overtaking as well as daft 'Speedwatch' roadside notices..... Ask anyone at Benson.
Poop Poop! And to hell with cyclists! To Room 101 with the lot of them!!
4 star unleaded - the smell of freedom!
But British West Oxfordshire is a very fine place - except for the nanny-state speed limits springing up everywhere thanks to the sandal-wearing bicycle-brained buffons of Oxfordshire County Council's highways department. Try the Henley to Oxford road which recently sprouted spurious speed limits and paint marks designed to dissuade overtaking as well as daft 'Speedwatch' roadside notices..... Ask anyone at Benson.
Poop Poop! And to hell with cyclists! To Room 101 with the lot of them!!
4 star unleaded - the smell of freedom!
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Organic Food! (always used to be that way when I was a child!)
American experts (whenever we have something to discuss out rolls an American expert)!
Media hype
DHE
Rank creep (used to have flt Lts doing the work in Gps/Cmds and now seems to be sqn ldrs)
Computers with every sort of software but the one you need.
CHoTs
American experts (whenever we have something to discuss out rolls an American expert)!
Media hype
DHE
Rank creep (used to have flt Lts doing the work in Gps/Cmds and now seems to be sqn ldrs)
Computers with every sort of software but the one you need.
CHoTs
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I drive my daughter 1.25 miles to school in a people carrier - but I then go straight on the remaining 6 miles or so to work.
Why a people carrier? Well, a ) we already had it when we moved to this area and selling it would have lost too much cash and b ) with it running on LPG it costs me less per mle than any big diesel car would.
I drive my daughter 1.25 miles to school in a people carrier - but I then go straight on the remaining 6 miles or so to work.
Why a people carrier? Well, a ) we already had it when we moved to this area and selling it would have lost too much cash and b ) with it running on LPG it costs me less per mle than any big diesel car would.
Moggie
The mothers I refer to also park on corners and double yellows to drop off the solitary child then drive back home. I should know, I live next to two of them!!
I'm sure you are an excellent driver but nearly all of the mothers round here who have a people carrier couldn't drive a nail into a piece of wood.
It's just my bug bear, not everyones.
Happy driving!
The mothers I refer to also park on corners and double yellows to drop off the solitary child then drive back home. I should know, I live next to two of them!!
I'm sure you are an excellent driver but nearly all of the mothers round here who have a people carrier couldn't drive a nail into a piece of wood.
It's just my bug bear, not everyones.
Happy driving!
You actually admit to being an Urban Espaceman, moggiee..??
Brave man for coming out!
Diesel? Diesel?? Chap - it is OK for farm machinery and tractors, but it is simply not an officer's fuel. Bottled fart fuel is OK if you must - because Greedy Gordon doesn't tax it as it's some sort of huggy-fluffy green initiative.
Brave man for coming out!
Diesel? Diesel?? Chap - it is OK for farm machinery and tractors, but it is simply not an officer's fuel. Bottled fart fuel is OK if you must - because Greedy Gordon doesn't tax it as it's some sort of huggy-fluffy green initiative.
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Spanky.
Have you been on the Duty Free vino tinto you brought back from "the Desert?". Or maybe a bottle of Vin Rouge, gratefully donated by one of your compatriots from their recent sojourn with the garlic-eating surrender-monkeys? - I guess (no, make that hope ) you're not on the flypro this morning after replying at such a late hour.
We're not touchy, spanky, just a light hearted attempt at a humourous posting - I thought we were being quite kind to be honest, we both know what we really could have put on our list!
Cheers!! (or Sante, or whatever they say in portugal...)
Have you been on the Duty Free vino tinto you brought back from "the Desert?". Or maybe a bottle of Vin Rouge, gratefully donated by one of your compatriots from their recent sojourn with the garlic-eating surrender-monkeys? - I guess (no, make that hope ) you're not on the flypro this morning after replying at such a late hour.
We're not touchy, spanky, just a light hearted attempt at a humourous posting - I thought we were being quite kind to be honest, we both know what we really could have put on our list!
Cheers!! (or Sante, or whatever they say in portugal...)
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Could be a sore point at Benson as a lad from the station, his wife and one kid were killed in an RTA on Gangsdown Hill (the long hill below Nuffield/Huntercombe) just over a year ago (report), as was a biker in another similar accident, almost on the same spot a few weeks later.
The Wallingford-Reading road also has a bad record - something like 6 deaths in five years, although the Benson-Oxford road (the Dorchester bypass) where another load of white paint has been applied doesn't seem to have had such a bad record.
For once I agree that they had to do something, although I'm dubious about the execution.
Try the Henley to Oxford road which recently sprouted spurious speed limits and paint marks designed to dissuade overtaking as well as daft 'Speedwatch' roadside notices..... Ask anyone at Benson.
The Wallingford-Reading road also has a bad record - something like 6 deaths in five years, although the Benson-Oxford road (the Dorchester bypass) where another load of white paint has been applied doesn't seem to have had such a bad record.
For once I agree that they had to do something, although I'm dubious about the execution.
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BEagle - I certainly do not drive any Froggie built plastic toy! Mine is a good old, large petrol engined, autogearbox equipped 7 seater USA built hunk of metal.
As for diesel - the diesel version of mine is European mainland only dog.
Please note: car was bought before the Eyeraq war. It does not imply any support for America, it's leaders, it's policies or it's fast food manufacturers.
As for diesel - the diesel version of mine is European mainland only dog.
Please note: car was bought before the Eyeraq war. It does not imply any support for America, it's leaders, it's policies or it's fast food manufacturers.
And as the average American now weighs 10 lb more than they did 10 years ago, no doubt it's got plenty of room!
Running on bottle fart fuel means that it wouldn't be allowed in the Channel Tunnel, doesn't it?
airborne_airtist, yes, the road on the Nettlebed side does have a sharpish bend at Gangsdown Hill, but bear in mind that's where the old road ran before the aerodrome was built. The run down Crowmarsh hill to the relatively new roundabout needs care, but isn't dangerous. The old lethal B4009/A4074 junction has now been replaced by a roundabout - but the unreasonable plethora of seemingly arbitrary speed limits between the A4130/A4174 roundabout at Crowmarsh Gifford and Sandford on Thames are just plain daft! To Room 101 with the lot of them!
Running on bottle fart fuel means that it wouldn't be allowed in the Channel Tunnel, doesn't it?
airborne_airtist, yes, the road on the Nettlebed side does have a sharpish bend at Gangsdown Hill, but bear in mind that's where the old road ran before the aerodrome was built. The run down Crowmarsh hill to the relatively new roundabout needs care, but isn't dangerous. The old lethal B4009/A4074 junction has now been replaced by a roundabout - but the unreasonable plethora of seemingly arbitrary speed limits between the A4130/A4174 roundabout at Crowmarsh Gifford and Sandford on Thames are just plain daft! To Room 101 with the lot of them!
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It's not the bend (also lethal, guy I know was killed by a White Van man there) but the long straight(ish) section as you come down/up to the Crown pub. Was 3.5 lanes wide, with inevitable results.
Perhaps better if we put all the idiot drivers into Rm 101, and leave the roads safer for those who know the limits of their car and their driving skills!
the road on the Nettlebed side does have a sharpish bend at Gangsdown Hill
Perhaps better if we put all the idiot drivers into Rm 101, and leave the roads safer for those who know the limits of their car and their driving skills!
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Indeed, the liquified fart tank prevents use of the tunnel - but as www.speedferries.com are nearly as quick and a good deal cheaper then I don't care to much. At least you can get a cup of tea on the ferries.
32p/l gives me a price equivalent of 45mpg - can't be bad.
32p/l gives me a price equivalent of 45mpg - can't be bad.
Ah yes - the excellent SeaCats. Used them on the Dover-Oostende route and for £15 extra you got priority loading and unloading, a free meal and a guaranteed table in 1st class. But the idiots at Hoverspeed closed the route and tried to compete on the Dover-Calais run instead. So instead of a decent break of about 2 hours, it's now a queue for the Tunnel, sit in the car for 30 minutes, then an hour across northern France just to get back to the Jabbeke highway - and why drive past the tunnel just to get the 'Cat? To Room 101 with Hoverspeed, I say!
Unless, of course, you're driving a yank tank running on bottled fart fuel!
Unless, of course, you're driving a yank tank running on bottled fart fuel!
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But British West Oxfordshire is a very fine place - except for the nanny-state speed limits springing up everywhere thanks to the sandal-wearing bicycle-brained buffons of Oxfordshire County Council's highways department. Try the Henley to Oxford road which recently sprouted spurious speed limits and paint marks designed to dissuade overtaking as well as daft 'Speedwatch' roadside notices..... Ask anyone at Benson.
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1. Liberals
2. The chunnel
3. Health and safety bullsh1t
4. Hoon and Bliar
5. Focus groups
etc etc etc
