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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Barman on October 09, 2007, 02:20:01 PM
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Took SF to B and long Q in Slough this morning…
Bloody massive traffic jam on the way into Slough… could have crawled on my belly faster. noooo:
Eventually approached some signage which indicated there were ‘road works’ and a lane closed that was causing the hold up for the traffic going from Windsor to Slough and coming on and off the M4 at Junction 6.
Finally got thorough all the traffic to find some bastard cutting the grass on the central reservation! Lane closed and traffic chaos for half-a-day including peak travelling hours for that! Banghead
Cut it at night or concrete it over and paint it green FFS – how much brain does it take? cussing:
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How much brain does it take to know that road is always like that? ::)
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How much brain does it take to know that road is always like that? ::)
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What they cut the grass every day do they? noooo:
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How much brain does it take to know that road is always like that? ::)
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What they cut the grass every day do they? noooo:
Welcome to the M4 eveilgrin:
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How much brain does it take to know that road is always like that? ::)
This much
What they cut the grass every day do they? noooo:
Welcome to the M4 eveilgrin:
I used to drive up and down it every day but this is lunacy… noooo:
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How much brain does it take to know that road is always like that? ::)
This much
What they cut the grass every day do they? noooo:
Welcome to the M4 eveilgrin:
I used to drive up and down it every day but this is lunacy… noooo:
'sbeen like it for some time now ~ you're just out of practice (or you left the UK more than 15 years ago)
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How much brain does it take to know that road is always like that? ::)
This much
What they cut the grass every day do they? noooo:
Welcome to the M4 eveilgrin:
I used to drive up and down it every day but this is lunacy… noooo:
'sbeen like it for some time now ~ you're just out of practice (or you left the UK more than 15 years ago)
Only five years...
It was bad when I left but for fucks sake practically closing the road to mow the grass! Angry9:
Some bastard H & S ruling I 'spec... noooo:
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On my regular journeys to Swindon, they do the same thing on the A322 just before Bracknell. Bastards cussing:
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Welcome home! lol:
Now you can p'raps understand why we're all so bloody bitter and twisted in 'ere. thatsit:
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Welcome home! lol:
Now you can p'raps understand why we're all so bloody bitter and twisted in 'ere. thatsit:
I know... and it pissed down all day...
Still, I'm off to Brooklands today... cloud9:
http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/
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Welcome home! lol:
Now you can p'raps understand why we're all so bloody bitter and twisted in 'ere. thatsit:
I know... and it pissed down all day...
Still, I'm off to Brooklands today... cloud9:
http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/
Lucky bugger. Never been there, but it's on my 'must visit' list.
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Welcome home! lol:
Now you can p'raps understand why we're all so bloody bitter and twisted in 'ere. thatsit:
I know... and it pissed down all day...
Still, I'm off to Brooklands today... cloud9:
http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/
Lucky bugger. Never been there, but it's on my 'must visit' list.
I'll report back later then...
Do you want me to PM it to you sweetie? whistle:
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point: point: point:
There's a good cemetery there as well!
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Took SF to B and long Q in Slough this morning…
Bloody massive traffic jam on the way into Slough… could have crawled on my belly faster. noooo:
Eventually approached some signage which indicated there were ‘road works’ and a lane closed that was causing the hold up for the traffic going from Windsor to Slough and coming on and off the M4 at Junction 6.
Finally got thorough all the traffic to find some bastard cutting the grass on the central reservation! Lane closed and traffic chaos for half-a-day including peak travelling hours for that! Banghead
Cut it at night or concrete it over and paint it green FFS – how much brain does it take? cussing:
I'm afraid this doesn't surprise me one bit Barman. I think you're actually quite lucky to get to the end of the queue and find somebody working. I sat in the traffic jam from hell on the A55 last September just to find a perfectly usable lane of tarmac coned off and no workman in sight.
My current bugbear is the "temporary traffic light". Half the time they're either not working, the rotation is completely inappropriate for the volume and direction of traffic, or some prick is sitting blocking the road with his site truck while he chit-chats to his marras about the best way to dump a pile of sand. As with your case, more often than not the road is blocked to allow people to carry out work to verges or - in the case of Leadgate, near me - to replace paving stones with cobbles, in some vain attempt to "polish the turd" that is the murder capital of County Durham.
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Welcome home! lol:
Now you can p'raps understand why we're all so bloody bitter and twisted in 'ere. thatsit:
I know... and it pissed down all day...
Still, I'm off to Brooklands today... cloud9:
http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/
Lucky bugger. Never been there, but it's on my 'must visit' list.
Awesome, well worth it, enjoyed every bit - especially the Concorde exhibition! cloud9:
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Welcome home! lol:
Now you can p'raps understand why we're all so bloody bitter and twisted in 'ere. thatsit:
I know... and it pissed down all day...
Still, I'm off to Brooklands today... cloud9:
http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/
Lucky bugger. Never been there, but it's on my 'must visit' list.
Awesome, well worth it, enjoyed every bit - especially the Concorde exhibition! cloud9:
I'm surprised you didn't go Sunday when the Bristols are to be on show...... !!!! ;)
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There is absolutely nothing I can say to that eeek:
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There is absolutely nothing I can say to that eeek:
That's a first then???? lol:
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Welcome home! lol:
Now you can p'raps understand why we're all so bloody bitter and twisted in 'ere. thatsit:
I know... and it pissed down all day...
Still, I'm off to Brooklands today... cloud9:
http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/
Lucky bugger. Never been there, but it's on my 'must visit' list.
Awesome, well worth it, enjoyed every bit - especially the Concorde exhibition! cloud9:
I'm surprised you didn't go Sunday when the Bristols are to be on show...... !!!! ;)
Snigger!
Unfortunately, I am otherwise engaged on Sunday… evil:
To be honest, there was too much to see in one day already. cloud9:
They let you on most of the aircraft and have volunteers that can tell you something about them and the controls, etc. You can get into the cockpit of the VC10 too! cloud9:
The sad thing was realising that this was the hub of British aviation, design and production, Wellington bombers and Hurricanes were manufactured there in vast numbers (they built a Wellington from scratch to taxiing out in 24 hours once), they built among other things the Viscount and Vanguard, BAC111, VC10 and 30% of the fuselage sections of all Concorde where built there. (breathe) Plus they did loads of the structural testing of Concorde there…
Yet now it is a museum and the UK makes what – the Wings of Airbus? Angry9:
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There is absolutely nothing I can say to that eeek:
Best not... noooo:
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Welcome home! lol:
Now you can p'raps understand why we're all so bloody bitter and twisted in 'ere. thatsit:
I know... and it pissed down all day...
Still, I'm off to Brooklands today... cloud9:
http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/
Lucky bugger. Never been there, but it's on my 'must visit' list.
Awesome, well worth it, enjoyed every bit - especially the Concorde exhibition! cloud9:
I'm surprised you didn't go Sunday when the Bristols are to be on show...... !!!! ;)
Snigger!
Unfortunately, I am otherwise engaged on Sunday… evil:
To be honest, there was too much to see in one day already. cloud9:
They let you on most of the aircraft and have volunteers that can tell you something about them and the controls, etc. You can get into the cockpit of the VC10 too! cloud9:
The sad thing was realising that this was the hub of British aviation, design and production, Wellington bombers and Hurricanes were manufactured there in vast numbers (they built a Wellington from scratch to taxiing out in 24 hours once), they built among other things the Viscount and Vanguard, BAC111, VC10 and 30% of the fuselage sections of all Concorde where built there. (breathe) Plus they did loads of the structural testing of Concorde there…
Yet now it is a museum and the UK makes what – the Wings of Airbus? Angry9:
My dear old...departed sad24: ...dad flew Wellingtons!!!!
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Welcome home! lol:
Now you can p'raps understand why we're all so bloody bitter and twisted in 'ere. thatsit:
I know... and it pissed down all day...
Still, I'm off to Brooklands today... cloud9:
http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/
Lucky bugger. Never been there, but it's on my 'must visit' list.
Awesome, well worth it, enjoyed every bit - especially the Concorde exhibition! cloud9:
I'm surprised you didn't go Sunday when the Bristols are to be on show...... !!!! ;)
Snigger!
Unfortunately, I am otherwise engaged on Sunday… evil:
To be honest, there was too much to see in one day already. cloud9:
They let you on most of the aircraft and have volunteers that can tell you something about them and the controls, etc. You can get into the cockpit of the VC10 too! cloud9:
The sad thing was realising that this was the hub of British aviation, design and production, Wellington bombers and Hurricanes were manufactured there in vast numbers (they built a Wellington from scratch to taxiing out in 24 hours once), they built among other things the Viscount and Vanguard, BAC111, VC10 and 30% of the fuselage sections of all Concorde where built there. (breathe) Plus they did loads of the structural testing of Concorde there…
Yet now it is a museum and the UK makes what – the Wings of Airbus? Angry9:
My dear old...departed sad24: ...dad flew Wellingtons!!!!
Cool! cloud9:
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Departed cool....or flew Wellingtons cool???????
Actually, he was pretty miffed about it all....spent a huge amount of time being trained in the RAF to fly the monsters, then some 'Jerry' b@st@rd shot him down and stuffed him in some cr@ppy POW camp!!!!! Only got to play in the sky for a year or so, I'm told!!! noooo:
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dad flew Wellingtons!!!!
Good chap.
I would never be without mine either.
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dad flew Wellingtons!!!!
Good chap.
I would never be without mine either.
DS ~ Have you seen the film Chicken Run?
It's not that I don't believe you look like Basil Fawlty but somehow the mental image of the Darwin family at home is more
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dad flew Wellingtons!!!!
Good chap.
I would never be without mine either.
DS ~ Have you seen the film Chicken Run?
It's not that I don't believe you look like Basil Fawlty but somehow the mental image of the Darwin family at home is more
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Funny you should say that. . . . evil: