Just jealous!;o)

You’d better get your coat, Snafu!

Why, are you asking me out on a date?

Oh Charlie, I didn’t know you cared! Its not going to be a cheap evening, you know – I can be very high maintenance…;o)

Why in tarnation the bikers can’t get on the pavement when there is no one else walking on it

Because:
a) its against the law
b) it get peoples blood pressure going (and you know they can’t handle that round here!)
c) if one does it somewhere quiet then someone else will do it somewhere not so quiet and someone will knock down a kiddie and the police will get involved and there would be questions in the house and civilisation would topple. You really want that to happen, do you, really?

…lycra clad…

Mmmmmmmm, lycra….
Careful, you’ll cause blood pressure to rise in some of the old folk around here again, although for a different reason.;o)

All this could be mitigated to some extent, if proper cycling lanes were laid down and if, in the short term anyway, pavements not used by pedestrians – which nowadays seems to be the norm – could be used legally by bikers.

And where would these cycle lanes come from?
I know of old rail tracks converted into cycle tracks (thank you Dr Beeching) and a few footpaths have been allocated cycle path status, but if you mean something to run alongside an established road then the cost of shaving the roadside to widen it for the extra lanes will be prohibitively expensive – you know the farmers will want full compensation for the loss of the most productive section of their land!

Does anyone on this Forum cycle or, are you all too old ?

Don’t know. Why not ask them?;o)
But be careful to keep away from their Zimmer frames, they can be rather accurate with the odd Worthers Original or aniseed ball…

Totally agree if room, and these could be paid for by some form of road tax for cyclists.

What a nice idea. It would go the same way as the radio, dog and CB license…;o)

I cycle for exercise rather than transport.

AAAAAAARRGGGHHH! I will NEVER be able to get the thought of Mogs clad in lycra out of my mind.
Brain scrub required immediately.

…as a car driver why do the ‘cyclists’ still insist on using the roads – even when the cycle lanes run parallel to them? Quite frankly many times they’re just … :stupid:

Ever seen a Formula 1 race where, toward the end, that area of the track not on the line is full of the bits of rubber worn off the tyres? Unless it is cleaned regularly (a couple of times a year?) there will be all sorts of detritus there which can (and I know this from experience) knock your steering around (beer cans, bits of glass, branches, bits of car, roadkill, stuff slung out of car windows, dead cyclists, etc).
Incidentally, I cycled this morning along a cycle path which had recently had the hedges cut, and the route had quite noticeable bits of bramble or thorn trimmings along it. That particular stretch of highway is a little unique since there is a lane in each direction at the side of the (very busy and difficult to cross) road plus a shared path (which I am talking about here) which was formerly the designated pedestrian pavement. I used the cycle path this morning since trucks going past showered you with mucky spray, otherwise I would have been on the road (with my lights on, which the conditions really did demand).

What is the matter with people?!!:mad:

They are stupid.
All of them.
Look in the mirror and tell us all that you’d honestly trust that person with your wallet.

It appears that cycling is on the increase if judged only by the numbers that I see around my locality

Anything to do with the price of fuel, you think…?;o)
Or maybe Boris Johnson.[/vomit]

For cycling to prosper and numbers to grow, which must, on the whole, be beneficial if for no other reason than reducing the numbers of cars on the road, bikers must be separated from other traffic and must use the facility or face being fined

Well, that’s one way of enforcing it. But who is going to enforce it?
The police are too busy chasing cyclists without lights to be effective in making sure they are biking in the right lanes. If you think about it, although this sort of thing should be within the jurisdiction of the police, they might be swamped to the point that they ignore most of it…
[At this point I’d best mention that – funnily enough – I got stopped by a couple of PCSO’s this evening; they stopped me because I had a helmet, front and rear lights, plus front and rear reflectors, and they wanted to congratulate me! Ok, apparently my lights were flashing which might distract a driver so were not strictly legal (or something – they were both very hazy on what counted at distracting, even going as far as to say that if I was cycling along behind a slatted fence my flashing lights might be hidden! I asked how I was going to distract a driver under those circumstances, which did cause some confusion!) but I was the only cyclist they’d stopped this evening who was in procession of lights, reflectors and helmet. I asked if they had nothing better to do…]

They should be subject to the same regulations and penalties as other road user, the police should be able to award points on their car licences, future or current.

So – what with this being an aviation forum – if you speed in your car should your pilots license be revoked?
There are no number plates on a bicycle, so how could you enforce it even if it became law, which it won’t.

Glad I’m not the only one somewhat confused.

Standard state of mind for me.;o)

And many others here if evidence is to be believed.

American English is a language largely without the peculiar and superfluous flourishes of English English eg. colour/color. socks/sox, night/nite. etc.

Because of Noah Webster who simplified spellings for American usage. That must mean something…;o)

Sitting on that toilet lid will give them a sore buttocks much quicker than a real chair, so metro-sexual dweebs will not take up time just sitting there and playing with their electronic gizmos wasting space.

I believe that’s what it says in the story. Remarkable how many don’t read the story.
Mind you, I bet its a plus that they can sit there all day, eating and drinking, and not have to get up at all for any reason…!

Wonder what the bogs are like?

I would have thought they would have had BOG paper, as napkins, at the table…………:rolleyes:

They do, but its been recycled first.;o)

Um, it might be useful to say, at this point, that all water has been passed by the management…

If you click on the Sky News link you will see there are others in Asia.

But I’m sure I saw one somewhere in Europe mentioned on that Channel 4 after-the-pub-show from the 90’s too…

UK/US Questions thread (Nice and friendly, please)

Probably should have defined ‘nice’ and ‘friendly’ as regards a forum!

In the kitchen she would always talk of something called “erbs”.

My informant told of a strongly accented foreign gentleman practicing cookery either on radio of early TV and influencing the new world. More likely that the original immigrant chefs were from France and refused to speak properly…

“High I’m Randy – good to meet you”.

Had one of those back in my last year at junior school, because his father was on secondment to a local firm. Very arrogant, stand-offish he was, even with the teachers. He used to be pursued with the same old question – ‘are you Randy?’ Not for too long though, since he revealed that he carried a flick knife; his father was called in but we didn’t lose him until we moved up to secondary school and he was sent back the the States – we all joked he went to military school, for some reason.

It was bad enough to move from scotland ‘doon sooth’ in 1965 to ask for turnip in a restaurant and get served that white tasteless cr@p the english eat 😀
The English of course call the ‘neep’ a swede – so there was my first lesson in learning ‘english’ english ; )

Then you go to some parts of the usa to find they call it RUTABAGA (swedish -rotabagge [root]) 😀

ASK for vegetables in a restaurant??? Ok, it was the 60’s, but these days if it ain’t mentioned by Jamie Oliver (hack, spit) forget it!

If you look in the ingredients on the side of a bottle of Branstons you’ll find it contains rutabaga, my wife refuses to eat pickle because of it. She eats swede though…

“And some people even put their purses inside the toilets. So, it’s hilarious.”

Oh yes. Laughing my socks off I am.

Wasn’t there something like this on Eurotrash a while ago? Its not unique…