Number 37 bus deciding to do an emergency stop right in front of me, outcome being i went straight into the back of it. Managed to grab a handful of brake, so coulda been alot worse, busted up the fairing pretty good though. Good old GX took it in her stride, forks etc are fine, she's been beaten up worse than that before. Built solid and rugged were these old bikes, hate to think how many newer bikes would be sat in a garage waiting for official write off papers now.....scary. Rather unsurprisingly, the bus driver was oblivious to it all! As my head collided with the bus, me visor decided to take a one way trip to visor heaven, which is rather annoying! Oh well, coulda been alot worse. Feel better for getting it off me chest, thanks for listening! Note to myself.......bike v bus equals no contest!!
Not this one geez, just wanna keep it as a hack, hence when she goes down the road like today, it aint such a big deal. Next ride to join the stable though.....heehee, watch this space!:o)
Am in your manor now geez, maybe catch up over the weekend?
In the old days when buses had platforms at the back, you'd have ended up on board without paying a fare!
Seriously, sounds like your guardian angel has earned her dosh this week.
Heehee! Cheers for that Wills, can just picture me landing in a crumpled mess at a very surprised conducters feet! Visor hanging off, boots in the air etc....nice one!!:o)
About flippin' time!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4717103.ece
I couldn't give a monkey's chuff what race, colour, sex, creed, ethnicity, sexuality or breakfast cereal preference you are, but if you run around bleating like a spoiled child who's just had their favourite toy taken away, this is the absolute LEAST you deserve.
Totally unprofessional.
Mr Ghaffur can continue bleating away to his heart's content now, while letting the grown ups get on with doing the job properly. & Mr John? Pardon me for saying so, but you really are talking out of your backside, sir. Gardening leave is usually the first thing they're told to take. I know folk who've taken similar action and ALL have been told to keep schtum about their case until it's over and to take paid leave.
And as for "This move was something we expected, because that is the way minorities are treated in the Met."
Oh lordy, lordy! Give me strength! It's the way EVERYBODY'S treated in the Met - nowt to do with freakin' "minorities".
Besides, the only minority Mr Ghaffur represents in this instance is those who enjoy acting like a big girl's blouse and being completely unprofessional.
The place to decide whether or not he's been subjected to racism etc is the industrial tribunal, not by making "oh woe is me, it's all so tewwibly unfair" statements to our already hysterical media.
*and relaxes*
Ooooh I enjoyed that... Lovely little rant for a Tuesday afternoon
Fecking law that states I MUST change fuel supplier when I move house, if the supplier isn't the same as I already have! and I must wait 28 days before I can go back to my own supplier, THEN I have to wait 28 days cos I'm classed as a NEW customer even tho I've been with the company for over 5 years!!! AND I have to wait another 2 weeks to get the crappy pay-as-you-go meters removed!! cos altho I'm now a customer of my usual supplier, my account isn't activated yet. Give me piggin strength!!!!
Aggree with WB.
But to me he's obviously using the media to erm help his case by drumming up support amongst the so call ethnic groups! While he's supposedly being watching them very closely, under the anti terroism, and anti drug/human trafficking/prostitution etc.... tasks he is normally in full charge of, I wonder if the so called minorities are actually that blinkered?
Glad you are ok Arfur, but leave a bit bigger gap next time mate ;o).
Tell you what I hate ...
The new Smarties packaging.
Smarties should come in a tube with a brightly coloured plastic lid with a letter on it. The have always come in a tube with a brightly coloured plastic lid with a letter on it and they should still come in a tube with a brightly coloured plastic lid with a letter on it.
Besides this the new hexagonal prism shaped cardboard packaging with it's supposedly fancy tear off top is cr*p.
It's difficult to pour more than two or three Smarties into your hand at a go meaning they take more faffing about and aren't as pleasing to eat (Smarties taste better when you have at least ten in your mouth at once). Plus you can't have fun with your mates by seeing who can invert the tube and dump the entire lot into their mouth at once without choking.
You can't save up the lids anymore, allowing you to make rude words out of the different letters, that you then "accidentally" leave on your bosses desk.
You can't remove the little cardboard disc from the bottom of the tube and whilst looking through it with one eye, bring your hand near and in front of the other eye so it looks like you have a hole through your palm. That was always ace, no matter how many times you did it!
And the worst thing is once you have finished looking through the hole in your palm, you can no longer refit the plastic lid and by using the tube as a kind of blow "dart" type weapon (should that be blow lid?), annoy your mates by firing the lid at them whilst they were working.
Bring back the old packaging I say.
^^^and this ^^^from a bloke who just got slagged off as being "sensible" over a petition!
I hope this goes to prove that he is as much a prat as the rest of us.
Geoff - I will gladly sign your petition to bring back the old packaging.
HOW long have we all been playing on t'interweb?
HOW long have these daft email-address-harvesting or just plain daft messages been doing the rounds?!
3 times today I've received this same silly message... Twice from individuals who definitely should know better:
Hi allMarks & Spencer's, in conjunction with Persimmon Homes, are giving away free vouchers. Marks & Spencer's are trying word-of-mouth advertising to introduce its products and the reward you receive for advertising for them is free non-refundable vouchers to be used in any M&S store.To receive your free vouchers by e-mail all you have to do is to send this email out to 8 people (for £100 of free vouchers) or 20 people (for £500 of free vouchers). Within 2 weeks you will receive an e-mail with your vouchers attached.They will contact you through your e-mail address.Please mark a copy to:
msvouchers @ gmail dot com
Nay, nay and thrice nay!
As Python would say: Stop it! It's silly!
Any company who was likely to do anything like that would have an email address on their own domain, not on a flippin' gmail address... & like they're going to send flippin' £100's worth of vouchers for a few measly email addresses. Come on people... Use yer brains!
And those stupid ruddy panic-mongering messages about flippin' axe-murderers dressing up as old ladies and breaking into your parked car, pretending you've left it unlocked, dumping their bag containing their axe on yer back seat... They beg you to take them to the bus stop cos they can't walk any further... You only survive cos you ask the "old lady" to direct you out of the parking space... Oh puhlease! I fell off me dinosaur in shock, the first time I heard that one.
/exits rant mode
i am goin to kill people who hold up the queue with thier ruddy coffee's with everything in em![what's with mountains of whipped cream?]take's a feckin age for the girl to prepare them!!
RE-A/C Ghuffur.....this is the way all minorities are treated in the MET...really!! £180.000 P.A salary...dizzy hieghts of assistant commissioner...obviously should have stayed in uganda and achieved something better!!! his next gripe will be gardening leave...you want me to sack my gardener & do it myself?? eff him off to traffic duty whingeing git.
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