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On Sunday, 30 October 2016 08:53:09 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
Simon Mason wrote Rod Speed wrote Riding a bike again is my next goal - might slip out at 0500 tomorrow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS2j8j7DgjM Woolly took his own life as well. Yeah, its actually the leading cause of death in that age group now. http://www.bjharvest.co.uk/woolly.htm First bike ride in three years at 0800 on my 58 b/day. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwALKIrW8AAXcFP.jpg Must be mad. Much too easy to get run over. Didn't see a single car this morning, all still in bed I suppose. It was too short to get my i-pod out though - maybe tomorrow. |
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On Sunday, 30 October 2016 09:15:40 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
Rod Speed wrote Simon Mason wrote Rod Speed wrote Riding a bike again is my next goal - might slip out at 0500 tomorrow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS2j8j7DgjM Woolly took his own life as well. Yeah, its actually the leading cause of death in that age group now. http://www.bjharvest.co.uk/woolly.htm First bike ride in three years at 0800 on my 58 b/day. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwALKIrW8AAXcFP.jpg Must be mad. Much too easy to get run over. Sorry, that was uncalled for. Congratulations. Thanks - in Sep 2013 when I was a 10st bag of broken bones, today was an impossibility. |
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Rod Speed wrote Rod Speed wrote Simon Mason wrote Rod Speed wrote Riding a bike again is my next goal - might slip out at 0500 tomorrow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS2j8j7DgjM Woolly took his own life as well. Yeah, its actually the leading cause of death in that age group now. http://www.bjharvest.co.uk/woolly.htm First bike ride in three years at 0800 on my 58 b/day. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwALKIrW8AAXcFP.jpg Must be mad. Much too easy to get run over. Sorry, that was uncalled for. Congratulations. Thanks - in Sep 2013 when I was a 10st bag of broken bones, today was an impossibility. Yeah, that's what I meant. One hell of a result. |
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On 30/10/2016 09:24, Simon Mason wrote:
On Sunday, 30 October 2016 09:15:40 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: Rod Speed wrote Simon Mason wrote Rod Speed wrote Riding a bike again is my next goal - might slip out at 0500 tomorrow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS2j8j7DgjM Woolly took his own life as well. Yeah, its actually the leading cause of death in that age group now. http://www.bjharvest.co.uk/woolly.htm First bike ride in three years at 0800 on my 58 b/day. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwALKIrW8AAXcFP.jpg Must be mad. Much too easy to get run over. Sorry, that was uncalled for. Congratulations. Thanks - in Sep 2013 when I was a 10st bag of broken bones, today was an impossibility. I'm sure you enjoyed it. |
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In article , polygonum
writes On 29/10/2016 16:12, tony sayer wrote: In article , polygonum scribeth thus On 28/10/2016 20:08, dennis@home wrote: On 28/10/2016 19:18, polygonum wrote: On 28/10/2016 19:08, Andrew wrote: even more idiots think that high-intensity rear lights can be used when it is raining. Where is the prohibition on doing so? The law says they can only be used in FOG. Like **** it does. "Rule 236 You MUST NOT use front or rear fog lights unless visibility is seriously reduced (see Rule 226) as they dazzle other road users and can obscure your brake lights. You MUST switch them off when visibility improves. " https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-high...verse-weather- conditions-226-to-237#rule236 3 Rear fog lamp (a) Used so as to cause undue dazzle or discomfort to the driver of a following vehicle. Is there an exemption for sing it on some ****wit who is tailgating that close he's almost hooked on your towbar;?... I think I'd like a very bright rear-facing sign with variable text - starting with something almost polite and descending to the gutter if they take no notice. Legal? Of course not. But like an argument in uk.d-i-y -- bert |
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On Sunday, 30 October 2016 13:11:39 UTC, Bod wrote:
Thanks - in Sep 2013 when I was a 10st bag of broken bones, today was an impossibility. I'm sure you enjoyed it. Yes - it was very emotional and means that I can go out riding with my old club mates again after six years. |
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On Monday, 31 October 2016 11:24:47 UTC, Andrew wrote:
Putting all your eggs in one basket (your employer) just because you think you understand it, can go horribly wrong. With our SAYE 5 year scheme I saved £250 pm with an option price of £0.70 in 1993 and when they matured in 1998, they were worth £4.80. So the £15000 I had put in was sold for £90000. Also we had a 2 for 1 scheme whereby we put in £125 pm and they doubled it to £375. Five years down the line in 1998, each £0.70 share we bought was coming out the system at £14.40 every month, or £2250 in total. |
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 04:10:48 +0100, Simon Mason wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 October 2016 21:49:06 UTC+1, wrote: On 25/10/2016 19:21, Simon Mason wrote: even the head surgeon was convinced they would have to amputatate it to save my life. It's a shame that head surgeons don't actually specialise in heads or he would have done us all a favour. My head did not even have a scratch on it as I did not want plod having to scrape bits of brain off the road, so I deliberately went feet first. Not an effective way of dying. -- Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men. |
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On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 16:12:53 +0100, tony sayer wrote:
In article , polygonum scribeth thus On 28/10/2016 20:08, dennis@home wrote: On 28/10/2016 19:18, polygonum wrote: On 28/10/2016 19:08, Andrew wrote: even more idiots think that high-intensity rear lights can be used when it is raining. Where is the prohibition on doing so? The law says they can only be used in FOG. Like **** it does. "Rule 236 You MUST NOT use front or rear fog lights unless visibility is seriously reduced (see Rule 226) as they dazzle other road users and can obscure your brake lights. You MUST switch them off when visibility improves. " https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-high...verse-weather- conditions-226-to-237#rule236 3 Rear fog lamp (a) Used so as to cause undue dazzle or discomfort to the driver of a following vehicle. Is there an exemption for sing it on some ****wit who is tailgating that close he's almost hooked on your towbar;?... Consider why people tailgate you. You are driving TOO ****ING SLOWLY! -- Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde |
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:14:25 +0100, Simon Mason wrote:
On Thursday, 27 October 2016 20:08:10 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote: The car headlights are legal because they have a cutoff. That steaming turd doesn't and can't either. Not subject to Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, you see. They can't touch you for it. No reason to dazzle folk. -- Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master. |
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On Sunday, 20 November 2016 22:17:12 UTC, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
My head did not even have a scratch on it as I did not want plod having to scrape bits of brain off the road, so I deliberately went feet first. Not an effective way of dying. It is for 99% of people, but I was unlucky. |
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On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 22:43:15 -0000, Simon Mason wrote:
On Sunday, 20 November 2016 22:17:12 UTC, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: My head did not even have a scratch on it as I did not want plod having to scrape bits of brain off the road, so I deliberately went feet first. Not an effective way of dying. It is for 99% of people, but I was unlucky. Don't the sensible ones go head first? -- The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement. |
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James Wilkinson Sword wrote My head did not even have a scratch on it as I did not want plod having to scrape bits of brain off the road, so I deliberately went feet first. Not an effective way of dying. It is for 99% of people, That number is straight from your arse, we can tell from the smell. but I was unlucky. Just stupidly incompetent. Plenty of reliable ways to kill yourself. |
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On Sunday, 20 November 2016 23:15:33 UTC, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 22:43:15 -0000, Simon Mason wrote: On Sunday, 20 November 2016 22:17:12 UTC, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: My head did not even have a scratch on it as I did not want plod having to scrape bits of brain off the road, so I deliberately went feet first. Not an effective way of dying. It is for 99% of people, but I was unlucky. Don't the sensible ones go head first? I was going to go head first, but the thought of plod having to swill away my brains put me off. I JUST TOLD YOU THAT! |
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On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 07:11:56 -0000, Simon Mason wrote:
On Sunday, 20 November 2016 23:15:33 UTC, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 22:43:15 -0000, Simon Mason wrote: On Sunday, 20 November 2016 22:17:12 UTC, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: My head did not even have a scratch on it as I did not want plod having to scrape bits of brain off the road, so I deliberately went feet first. Not an effective way of dying. It is for 99% of people, but I was unlucky. Don't the sensible ones go head first? I was going to go head first, but the thought of plod having to swill away my brains put me off. I JUST TOLD YOU THAT! Instead you screwed up your death and caused doctors a lot of hassle. -- Health and Safety Officer required to start ASAP, circa £35K: Your main duties will include: Hampering other staff and preventing them from carrying on with their duties. Handing out huge quantities of pointless paperwork consuming approx 1 rainforest per year. |
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On Monday, 21 November 2016 16:46:10 UTC, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
Instead you screwed up your death and caused doctors a lot of hassle. I have paid 40 years NI - I was due. |
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On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:11:03 -0000, Simon Mason wrote:
On Monday, 21 November 2016 16:46:10 UTC, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: Instead you screwed up your death and caused doctors a lot of hassle. I have paid 40 years NI - I was due. You don't have to make sure you get what you paid for, or there wouldn't be spare for people who need more than they pay. But my point was, you tried to avoid someone scraping your brains, but instead caused more hassle for doctors. -- Viagra Lite For people who only want to masturbate Viagrallium A mix of Viagra and Vallium: if you don't get to ****, then you don't give a ****. |
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James Wilkinson Sword wrote Instead you screwed up your death and caused doctors a lot of hassle. I have paid 40 years NI - Which paid for what they spent on you due to your MdDS and your kids. I was due. Even sillier than you usually manage. |
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On Monday, 21 November 2016 20:12:11 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
Simon Mason wrote James Wilkinson Sword wrote Instead you screwed up your death and caused doctors a lot of hassle. I have paid 40 years NI - Which paid for what they spent on you due to your MdDS and your kids. When I go back to work next month for another 8 years until I am 66, I will have paid in a total of 48 years, so will have paid it all back in full and then some. |
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Rod Speed wrote Simon Mason wrote James Wilkinson Sword wrote Instead you screwed up your death and caused doctors a lot of hassle. I have paid 40 years NI - Which paid for what they spent on you due to your MdDS and your kids. When I go back to work next month for another 8 years until I am 66, And those 8 years wont even get within a bulls roar of paying for what it cost to fix you up after you ****ed up killing yourself so spectacularly. I will have paid in a total of 48 years, And that would have to pay for the MdDS and your kids and the much higher costs involved in the last few years of your pathetic excuse for a life and for your wife's costs too. so will have paid it all back in full and then some. Even sillier and more pig ignorant than you usually manage. When most with your level of income basically just pay for their normal health care costs, there is no way that you would ever get even close to paying for fixing you up after you ****ed up killing yourself so spectacularly. |
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:05:17 +0100, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 25/10/2016 09:32, Simon Mason wrote: Always prefer to drive up the road to Hull - Rotterdam ferry, have a nice meal on board, a bath and a good night's sleep and be in Bavaria at 1700 the next day. Then we can drive around all of Europe at our leisure and see things plane dwellers never do. Rotterdam-Bavaria is 500 miles. In one hop. That's your idea of at leisure? Wouldn't bother me, but I don't stick to the speed limits like Simon does. -- A midget fortune-teller who escapes from prison is a small medium at large. |
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On Monday, 21 November 2016 20:53:03 UTC, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:05:17 +0100, Vir Campestris wrote: On 25/10/2016 09:32, Simon Mason wrote: Always prefer to drive up the road to Hull - Rotterdam ferry, have a nice meal on board, a bath and a good night's sleep and be in Bavaria at 1700 the next day. Then we can drive around all of Europe at our leisure and see things plane dwellers never do. Rotterdam-Bavaria is 500 miles. In one hop. That's your idea of at leisure? Wouldn't bother me, but I don't stick to the speed limits like Simon does.. I told you - I drive up the arse of HGVs and get 38mpg out of a 2.2 petrol. |
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On Monday, 21 November 2016 20:39:24 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
Simon Mason wrote When most with your level of income basically just pay for their normal health care costs, there is no way that you would ever get even close to paying for fixing you up after you ****ed up killing yourself so spectacularly. I quit smoking at 40, so have paid in shed loads of tax at 80% for 24 years and so have paid in even more than a tee total non smoker from Poland. |
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On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 21:10:31 -0000, Simon Mason wrote:
On Monday, 21 November 2016 20:53:03 UTC, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:05:17 +0100, Vir Campestris wrote: On 25/10/2016 09:32, Simon Mason wrote: Always prefer to drive up the road to Hull - Rotterdam ferry, have a nice meal on board, a bath and a good night's sleep and be in Bavaria at 1700 the next day. Then we can drive around all of Europe at our leisure and see things plane dwellers never do. Rotterdam-Bavaria is 500 miles. In one hop. That's your idea of at leisure? Wouldn't bother me, but I don't stick to the speed limits like Simon does. I told you - I drive up the arse of HGVs and get 38mpg out of a 2.2 petrol. So 500 miles would take 10 hours. I'd be there in 5. -- How do you confuse a blonde? You don't. They're born that way. |
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Rod Speed wrote Simon Mason wrote When most with your level of income basically just pay for their normal health care costs, there is no way that you would ever get even close to paying for fixing you up after you ****ed up killing yourself so spectacularly. I quit smoking at 40, More fool you for smoking till then... so have paid in shed loads of tax at 80% for 24 years Doesnt even cover the cost to the system of your smoking... and so have paid in even more than a tee total non smoker from Poland. Irrelevant to the fact that you will never even come close to paying for the immense cost of your completely ****ed up suicide. They should have just put a bullet in the back of the neck. |
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On Monday, 21 November 2016 21:28:28 UTC, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
I told you - I drive up the arse of HGVs and get 38mpg out of a 2.2 petrol. So 500 miles would take 10 hours. I'd be there in 5. So you get off the ferry at 0800 in Rotterdam and end up in Nuremburg at 1300, two hours before your check in time? - FAIL. |
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On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 22:07:26 -0000, Simon Mason wrote:
On Monday, 21 November 2016 21:28:28 UTC, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: I told you - I drive up the arse of HGVs and get 38mpg out of a 2.2 petrol. So 500 miles would take 10 hours. I'd be there in 5. So you get off the ferry at 0800 in Rotterdam and end up in Nuremburg at 1300, two hours before your check in time? - FAIL. I wouldn't book something at the wrong time. Anyway there is sightseeing to be done. -- Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. |
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