Madness
Sena
better than our friends in the US? Of course we would! We'd put on our
Stiff Upper Lips and refuse to be beaten, wouldn't we. So can someone
please explain why, in the face of a *possible* fuel blockade, I had to
actually *beg* to be allowed to fill my empty petrol tank this evening.
Judging by the speed with which other cars 'filled up' and moved on,
they can't have needed to be there at all; however my need was genuine
so I went to the lady who'd just announced her intention to close at
21:30 (it's a 24-hr place) and asked for special permission to fill up.
She looked at me very doubtfully, but finally said it'd be OK. £38
later my tank was full. I honestly think if I'd put less than £30 in
she'd have never trusted my word again. And apparently everyone had
told her the situation was "stupid". Well yes, but they were the ones
being stupid, weren't they? How many of the cars on that forecourt
actually needed to be filled up? Probably about three. How many cars
were there? More like twenty three. They were like sardines, nose to
tail, bumper to bumper... Remind me again how well the British cope in
a crisis?
--
To reply see 'from' in headers; lose the domain, and insert dots and @
where common sense dictates.
Judith
<arjfatcym...@privacy.net> wrote:
> How many of the cars on that forecourt
>actually needed to be filled up? Probably about three. How many cars
>were there? More like twenty three. They were like sardines, nose to
>tail, bumper to bumper... Remind me again how well the British cope in
>a crisis?
Yerbut, it's not my fault. It's all the others, innit. [Repeat times
n cars]
Judith
Sena
went to. Absolutely bloody *stupid*. And there wasn't even a shortage
until people started over reacting.
Whitedog
<arjfatcym...@privacy.net> wrote:
>no.spam.for....@aol.com said...
>> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:19:31 +0100, Sena
>> <arjfatcym...@privacy.net> wrote:
>>
>> > How many of the cars on that forecourt
>> >actually needed to be filled up? Probably about three. How many cars
>> >were there? More like twenty three. They were like sardines, nose to
>> >tail, bumper to bumper... Remind me again how well the British cope in
>> >a crisis?
>>
>> Yerbut, it's not my fault. It's all the others, innit. [Repeat times
>> n cars]
>>
>I couldn't even get on to the forecourt at the first petrol station I
>went to. Absolutely bloody *stupid*. And there wasn't even a shortage
>until people started over reacting.
Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
--
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Dr Ivan D. Reid
Whitedog <btaySPAML...@gmailREMOVE.com>
wrote in <berci19fohp8435cn...@4ax.com>:
> Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
> to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
Right you are! ...Well, that's a dozen loaves laid in, that should
last me until... Hang on! I don't eat bread! And I don't have a fridge
or freezer to keep 'em in. The starlings'd eat well, but they seem to have
deserted me the last couple of weeks.
--
Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
Guy King
from Sena <arjfatcym...@privacy.net> contains these words:
> Remind me again how well the British cope in
> a crisis?
Not like that round here - just business as usual.
--
Skipweasel.
In the beginning was the word.
And the word was Aardvark.
Andrew Instone-Cowie
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:19:31 +0100, Sena
> n cars]
Panic Buy, To. /v, irregular conj./
I am taking sensible precautions.
You are over-reacting.
He is making it worse for everyone.
Andrew
Judith
> So then folks, would we here in the UK cope with impending disaster any
> better than our friends in the US? Of course we would! We'd put on our
> Stiff Upper Lips and refuse to be beaten, wouldn't we. So can someone
> please explain why, in the face of a *possible* fuel blockade, I had to
> actually *beg* to be allowed to fill my empty petrol tank this evening.
Hey, Chill!
Buy it online.
Judith
Guy King
from sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) contains these words:
> I was a bit taken aback to discover that a tankful (from reserve lamp
> lit to brimming) is now 40ZU, mind.
Lucky sod - it's nearly 75zu on mine. Then again I get nearly 45mpg on
long runs from a big old automatic.
Guy King
from Sena <arjfatcym...@privacy.net> contains these words:
> Judging by the speed with which other cars 'filled up' and moved on,
> they can't have needed to be there at all;
Buy it online.
http://www.petroldirect.com/
Incidentally, while perusing their pages wondering which flavour diesel
I'd like a discovered that the bloke who invented the idea of putting
lead in petrol also invented CFCs. Ooops.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley
Ron Clark
wrote this (or the missive included this):
>The message <MPG.1d900f504...@news.individual.net>
>from Sena <arjfatcym...@privacy.net> contains these words:
>
>> Remind me again how well the British cope in
>> a crisis?
>
>Not like that round here - just business as usual.
I got petrol on an almost empty forecourt yesterday at 11.30 am.
So I've got 54 squid's worth of petrol in the car which should see me
alright for over 3 weeks. Or even 4 as I'll be using Spanish petrol
next week.
--
®óñ© © ² * ¹°°³ -¹
Just zis Guy, you know?
known to the court as Sena <arjfatcym...@privacy.net> made a
statement (<MPG.1d900f504...@news.individual.net> in Your
Honour's bundle) to the following effect:
>So then folks, would we here in the UK cope with impending disaster any
>better than our friends in the US? Of course we would! We'd put on our
>Stiff Upper Lips and refuse to be beaten, wouldn't we. So can someone
>please explain why, in the face of a *possible* fuel blockade, I had to
>actually *beg* to be allowed to fill my empty petrol tank this evening.
I filled my "tank" with pasta, courtesy of the local eTsoc, for under
a zu. That fill will, of course, only last me until tomorrow, but
what do I care?
Guy
--
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk
"To every complex problem there is a solution which is
simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken
Egbert Egret
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:19:31 +0100, Sena wrote:
>
> >So then folks, would we here in the UK cope with impending disaster any
> >better than our friends in the US? Of course we would! We'd put on our
> >Stiff Upper Lips and refuse to be beaten, wouldn't we. So can someone
> >please explain why, in the face of a *possible* fuel blockade, I had to
> >actually *beg* to be allowed to fill my empty petrol tank this evening.
>
> I filled my "tank" with pasta, courtesy of the local eTsoc, for under
> a zu. That fill will, of course, only last me until tomorrow, but
> what do I care?
Did you put a tiger in your tank?
--
Paul Clark you.missed -> umist to reply
Where there's hope there's disappointment.
-- Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley
Dave Larrington
> So then folks, would we here in the UK cope with impending disaster
> any better than our friends in the US? Of course we would! We'd put
> on our Stiff Upper Lips and refuse to be beaten, wouldn't we. So can
> someone please explain why, in the face of a *possible* fuel
> blockade, I had to actually *beg* to be allowed to fill my empty
> petrol tank this evening.
It amused me to cycle past a petrol station in New Cross last night, with a
queueueue stretching halfway down the Old Kent Road. I believe I'm right in
saying that I made bleating noises.
Fortunately, my motorcar still has half a tank left, which should enable me
to get to Curborough & back on Saturday, by which time people may even have
come to their senses.
--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of
the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and
credulity encourages.
Whitedog
wrote:
>Hey, Chill!
>
>Buy it online.
>
>http://www.petroldirect.com/
>
>Judith
That's quite amusing. Well, I wasted a few minutes of my life looking
at the site and didn't mind too much anyway.
Fenny
said ...
> >Not like that round here - just business as usual.
>
> I got petrol on an almost empty forecourt yesterday at 11.30 am.
>
than a galleon left. A tankful will last me most of the month unless I go
to Sheffield more than once.
--
Fenny
Mind you, if the Sealed Knot Society were to recreate The Battle Of The
Ikea Carpark I would go along and watch.
http://floss.blogspot.com/
Just zis Guy, you know?
known to the court as "Dave Larrington" <smert.s...@privacy.net>
made a statement (<3ontkcF...@individual.net> in Your Honour's
bundle) to the following effect:
>Fortunately, my motorcar still has half a tank left, which should enable me
>to get to Curborough & back on Saturday, by which time people may even have
>come to their senses.
I think it highly unlikely that senses will have been come to on more
than a restricted basis much before the Crack of Doom, but I applaud
your optimism.
Ron Clark
wrote this (or the missive included this):
>Ron Clark <r...@spamall.com> wrote:
>
>> So I've got 54 squid's worth of petrol in the car which should see me
>> alright for over 3 weeks. Or even 4 as I'll be using Spanish petrol
>> next week.
>
>Are you off to Forn Parts again, Ron? Have a nice time, mate;
>and bring us back a castanet playing stuffed donkey in a sombrero.
Cheers.
Off for a bit to where the whisky is 3 squids a bottle and the
whitebait is to die for.
--
®óñ© © ² * ¹°°³ -¹
Richard Robinson
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:32:36 +0100, Sena
>>>
>>> >actually needed to be filled up? Probably about three. How many cars
>>> >were there? More like twenty three. They were like sardines, nose to
>>> >tail, bumper to bumper... Remind me again how well the British cope in
>>> >a crisis?
>>>
>>> Yerbut, it's not my fault. It's all the others, innit. [Repeat times
>>> n cars]
>>>
>>I couldn't even get on to the forecourt at the first petrol station I
>>went to. Absolutely bloody *stupid*. And there wasn't even a shortage
>>until people started over reacting.
>
> Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
> to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
Ooh, and sugar. And candles.
--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
If you want my address, put unmail2 where the spam trap is.
Totty
Ron Clark wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:52:05 +0100, Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk>
> wrote this (or the missive included this):
> >> Remind me again how well the British cope in
> >> a crisis?
> >
> >Not like that round here - just business as usual.
>
> I got petrol on an almost empty forecourt yesterday at 11.30 am.
>
> So I've got 54 squid's worth of petrol in the car which should see me
> alright for over 3 weeks. Or even 4 as I'll be using Spanish petrol
> next week.
...which has just gone over the Euro per leeter, but I've not seen any
queues this morning.
--
Jo
Krane
nospamf...@aol.com says...
Chortle, arf, "delivered straight through your letterbox". And there we
were thinking those yobbos were completely unemployable!
--
Krane
karen at lesbiangardens dot net
Krane
says...
> Whitedog said:
> > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:32:36 +0100, Sena
> >>> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:19:31 +0100, Sena
> >>>
> >>> > How many of the cars on that forecourt
> >>> >actually needed to be filled up? Probably about three. How many cars
> >>> >were there? More like twenty three. They were like sardines, nose to
> >>> >tail, bumper to bumper... Remind me again how well the British cope in
> >>> >a crisis?
> >>>
> >>> Yerbut, it's not my fault. It's all the others, innit. [Repeat times
> >>> n cars]
> >>>
> >>I couldn't even get on to the forecourt at the first petrol station I
> >>went to. Absolutely bloody *stupid*. And there wasn't even a shortage
> >>until people started over reacting.
> >
> > Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
> > to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
>
> Ooh, and sugar. And candles.
ketchup and point-of-lay chickens for me.
Egbert Egret
Are they lookers?
Fenny
...
>
>
> Chortle, arf, "delivered straight through your letterbox". And there we
> were thinking those yobbos were completely unemployable!
>
--
Fenny
Giles: I'm just not used to this automatic transmission. I-I loathe this
sitting here, not contributing... No, i-it's not working out.
Buffy: Giles, are you breaking up with your car?
Richard Bos
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:37:18 GMT, Krane wrote:
>
> > In article <11idjma...@corp.supernews.com>, rich...@privacy.net
> > says...
> > > Whitedog said:
>
> > > > Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
> > > > to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
> > >
> > > Ooh, and sugar. And candles.
> >
> > ketchup and point-of-lay chickens for me.
>
> Are they lookers?
Well, they're certainly tasty chicks.
Richard
Guy King
from x(yz)enop...@hotmail.com contains these words:
> >> Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
> >> to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
> >
> >Ooh, and sugar. And candles.
> Don't forget the batteries.
And loo roll.
Fenny
said ...
> The message <8sndi1pt7butajfcq...@4ax.com>
> from x(yz)enop...@hotmail.com contains these words:
>
> > >> Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
> > >> to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
> > >
> > >Ooh, and sugar. And candles.
>
> > Don't forget the batteries.
>
> And loo roll.
>
>
Long Time. I don't bulk buy anything except bogrolls, and then only when
they are BOGOF on 12 packs. I also have plenty of GIN, but only 3 bottles
of tonic at present. Perhaps I should panic buy that.
--
Fenny
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
Ron Clark
this (or the missive included this):
>On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:06:18 -0000, Richard Robinson
><rich...@privacy.net> wrote:
>>Whitedog said:
>
>>> Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
>>> to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
>>
>>Ooh, and sugar. And candles.
>
>Don't forget the batteries.
and the assault
--
®óñ© © ² * ¹°°³ -¹
Ron Clark
this (or the missive included this):
>On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:05:44 +0100, Ron Clark <r...@spamall.com> wrote:
>
>>Cheers.
>>Off for a bit to where the whisky is 3 squids a bottle and the
>>whitebait is to die for.
>
>Mmmmm! Mallorcan chips - best in the whirled.
>
>And that funny Herbas you can't find anywhere else. I love it.
>
>You know what to do, doncher WonK?
Migrate?
--
®óñ© © ² * ¹°°³ -¹
Krane
paul....@you.missed.ac.uk says...
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:37:18 GMT, Krane wrote:
>
> > In article <11idjma...@corp.supernews.com>, rich...@privacy.net
> > says...
> > > Whitedog said:
>
> > > > Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
> > > > to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
> > >
> > > Ooh, and sugar. And candles.
> >
> > ketchup and point-of-lay chickens for me.
>
> Are they lookers?
Of course, Black Rocks, fit, elfy, don't mind rain, brasting wiv eggs,
and yet still so alluring.
Ron Clark
this (or the missive included this):
>But would they have you?
Of course. They'll love me there (until the shekels run out)
--
®óñ© © ² * ¹°°³ -¹
Sena
> Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
> to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
>
--
To reply see 'from' in headers; lose the domain, and insert dots and @
where common sense dictates.
Sena
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:06:18 -0000, Richard Robinson
> <rich...@privacy.net> wrote:
> >Whitedog said:
>
> >> to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
> >
> >Ooh, and sugar. And candles.
>
>
Sena
> The message <MPG.1d900f504...@news.individual.net>
> from Sena <arjfatcym...@privacy.net> contains these words:
>
> > Remind me again how well the British cope in
> > a crisis?
>
>
queueueue of cars numbered about 20 - and that was along the road; the
forecourt was full to bursting, and as fast as the tanker was putting it
in it was coming back out. Absoflippinlutely barking.
Ron Clark
<arjfatcym...@privacy.net> wrote this (or the missive included
this):
>x(yz)enop...@hotmail.com said...
>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:06:18 -0000, Richard Robinson
>> <rich...@privacy.net> wrote:
>> >Whitedog said:
>>
>> >> Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
>> >> to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
>> >
>> >Ooh, and sugar. And candles.
>>
>> Don't forget the batteries.
>>
>What, for the candles?
Good vibrations
--
®óñ© © ² * ¹°°³ -¹
Sena
> Sena wrote:
> > So then folks, would we here in the UK cope with impending disaster any
> > better than our friends in the US? Of course we would! We'd put on our
> > Stiff Upper Lips and refuse to be beaten, wouldn't we. So can someone
> > please explain why, in the face of a *possible* fuel blockade, I had to
> > actually *beg* to be allowed to fill my empty petrol tank this evening.
>
> Hey, Chill!
>
> Buy it online.
>
> http://www.petroldirect.com/
>
Sena
> > Judging by the speed with which other cars 'filled up' and moved on,
> > they can't have needed to be there at all;
Good, innit.
Austin Shackles
<guy....@zetnet.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:
>The message <1h2tk4c.klkyse1bea9g7N%sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk>
>from sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) contains these words:
>
>> I was a bit taken aback to discover that a tankful (from reserve lamp
>> lit to brimming) is now 40ZU, mind.
>
>Lucky sod - it's nearly 75zu on mine. Then again I get nearly 45mpg on
>long runs from a big old automatic.
Minibus has a 90y tank, so it'll cost at least 85 from low to full.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
Too Busy: Your mind is like a motorway. Sometimes it can be jammed by
too much traffic. Avoid the jams by never using your mind on a
Bank Holiday weekend.
from the Little Book of Complete B***ocks by Alistair Beaton.
Austin Shackles
<guy....@zetnet.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:
>The message <MPG.1d900f504...@news.individual.net>
>from Sena <arjfatcym...@privacy.net> contains these words:
>
>> Judging by the speed with which other cars 'filled up' and moved on,
>> they can't have needed to be there at all;
>
>Buy it online.
>http://www.petroldirect.com/
bugger. Hook line and sinker... I was toying with the idea of a bulk tank
again, but the problem there is finding summat in the region of a kilozbarl
to fill it.
>Incidentally, while perusing their pages wondering which flavour diesel
>I'd like a discovered that the bloke who invented the idea of putting
>lead in petrol also invented CFCs. Ooops.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley
Unforgets an article I read once about a TEL (Tetra-Ethyl Lead) factory.
sounded like a seriously dangerous place...
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
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Fenny
--
Fenny
"What? I'm-I'm sorry, did . . . did you just say there's a dead man in
Giles' bathtub?"
Guy King
from Fenny <um...@onetel.com> contains these words:
> It's been going down a storm in Belfast this weekend.
What's with that lot? Are they all really really backward, or something?
Malc
"Sena" <arjfatcym...@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d900f504...@news.individual.net...
> Snip
> Remind me again how well the British cope in
> a crisis?
Denise was filling up our only 1 gallon fuel can this morning when some
bloke accosted her and accused her of causing the fuel crisis by having
loads of similar cans at home all full of fuel pre hoarded for such an
eventuality. On what evidence he based this claim I have no eye deer. You
can imagine her response. It started with "Who the hell do you think you
are?" and got louder. 'Tis a gwd wbo I wasn't there as I tend to start off
with swear words which probably doesn't help.
--
Malc
"Your mother can't climb stairs"
Dalek playground taunt
Malc
"Guy King" <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3130303034323...@zetnet.co.uk...
> The message <8sndi1pt7butajfcq...@4ax.com>
> from x(yz)enop...@hotmail.com contains these words:
>
>> >> Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
>> >> to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
>> >
>> >Ooh, and sugar. And candles.
>
>> Don't forget the batteries.
>
> And loo roll.
>
>
buying cider kits at the moment as CWE are stopping molishing them.
Malc
"Ron Clark" <r...@spamall.com> wrote in message
news:p2sdi1t9vivdn4e9n...@4ax.com...
--
Malc
Just zis Guy, you know?
known to the court as Whitedog <btaySPAML...@gmailREMOVE.com>
made a statement (<berci19fohp8435cn...@4ax.com> in Your
Honour's bundle) to the following effect:
>Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
>to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
I was reading the bbc's "Talking Point" on this one. To hear some
people talk you'd think it was the Government made them live in the
middle of nowhere, an hour's drive from where they work and an hour
the other way to the nearest shop. As far as I'm concerned the
message form these fuel protests is: wake up, you dozy gjngf, building
your entire lifestyle on the assumption of continued availability of a
resource which is controlled by feudal lords in the most unstable
countries in the world (and that's just the Texans) is really not
smart!
Guy
--
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk
"To every complex problem there is a solution which is
simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken
Malc
> x(yz)enop...@hotmail.com said...
>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:06:18 -0000, Richard Robinson
>> <rich...@privacy.net> wrote:
>> >Whitedog said:
>>
>> >> Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
>> >> to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
>> >
>> >Ooh, and sugar. And candles.
>>
>> Don't forget the batteries.
>>
> What, for the candles?
>
for paraffin bees.
Malc
"Krane" <oior...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d9101bf9...@news.ntlworld.com...
A bit like formation swimmers then?
Fenny
said ...
> The message <MPG.1d90f7a97...@news.individual.net>
> from Fenny <um...@onetel.com> contains these words:
>
> > It's been going down a storm in Belfast this weekend.
>
> What's with that lot? Are they all really really backward, or something?
>
>
their number? If the other side won't fight, they just do it themselves.
I still wonder just who they think they are being loyal to.
--
Fenny
'I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere.'
Malc
"Fenny" <um...@onetel.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d914a446...@news.individual.net...
> Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ^W^W^W^W uk.rec.sheds, Guy King
> said ...
>> The message <MPG.1d90f7a97...@news.individual.net>
>> from Fenny <um...@onetel.com> contains these words:
>>
>> > It's been going down a storm in Belfast this weekend.
>>
>> What's with that lot? Are they all really really backward, or something?
>>
>>
> Isn't it enough of an explanation that the REVEREND IAN PAISLEY is one of
> their number? If the other side won't fight, they just do it themselves.
> I still wonder just who they think they are being loyal to.
>
Guy King
from Sena <arjfatcym...@privacy.net> contains these words:
> > Not like that round here - just business as usual.
> >
> Lucky you. One filling station had a delivery this afternoon. The
> queueueue of cars numbered about 20 - and that was along the road; the
> forecourt was full to bursting, and as fast as the tanker was putting it
> in it was coming back out. Absoflippinlutely barking.
I went into sAad at 5pm today to get something with caffeine in it for
the drive to Manc and back. If people were being silly you'd expect the
pumps to be mobbed at that time of day - but there were one or two
people filling up and several unused pumps. Perhaps a few people more
than usual, but I don't really know what's usual for a town-centre cheap
fuel station at rush hour anyway.
Whitedog
<u...@ftc.gov> wrote:
>I submit that on or about Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:13:30 +0100, the person
>known to the court as Whitedog <btaySPAML...@gmailREMOVE.com>
>made a statement (<berci19fohp8435cn...@4ax.com> in Your
>Honour's bundle) to the following effect:
>
>>Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
>>to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
>
>I was reading the bbc's "Talking Point" on this one. To hear some
>people talk you'd think it was the Government made them live in the
>middle of nowhere, an hour's drive from where they work and an hour
>the other way to the nearest shop. As far as I'm concerned the
>message form these fuel protests is: wake up, you dozy gjngf, building
>your entire lifestyle on the assumption of continued availability of a
>resource which is controlled by feudal lords in the most unstable
>countries in the world (and that's just the Texans) is really not
>smart!
Ah well, I can smugly cycle or walk to jbex but without fuel my wbo
would soon fall apart.That can change of course, but it won't until it
*has* to.
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from "Malc" <malunsp...@lightindigooverthere.co.uk> contains these words:
> 'Tis a gwd wbo I wasn't there as I tend to start off
> with swear words which probably doesn't help.
I wouldn't care to pick a fight with Denise!
Just zis Guy, you know?
known to the court as Whitedog <btaySPAML...@gmailREMOVE.com>
Honour's bundle) to the following effect:
>Ah well, I can smugly cycle or walk to jbex but without fuel my wbo
>would soon fall apart.That can change of course, but it won't until it
>*has* to.
Without oil most wbos would fall apart, as it's a major raw material
in the production of plastics etc. Quite why we seem so intent on
asserting our right to waste as much of it as possible on driving
hundreds of miles a week to work is beyond me!
Ali Hopkins
"Just zis Guy, you know?" <u...@ftc.gov> wrote in message
news:b2gei159aa4db60no...@4ax.com...
> Without oil most wbos would fall apart, as it's a major raw material
> in the production of plastics etc. Quite why we seem so intent on
> asserting our right to waste as much of it as possible on driving
> hundreds of miles a week to work is beyond me!
>
Well, some of us have customers all over the UK who are pretty difficult to
get to any other way - and using public transport would triple the time, at
least. My hourly rate is quite high. I do use teleconferences where I can,
frex, but you can't do presentations and consultancy days that way. And nor
can I schlep a laptop, PC projector, overnight or several night luggage,
paperwork and all the other Stuff by a non car means. I should have been in
Sidmouth today, but it got postponed; by public transport, it's over six
hours each way, at least, and I can't take the things I need. By car, I can
do it in three and a half.
And of course, sometimes the jobs aren't where you live. I've never had a
commute - when I was office based - that was less than twenty miles each
way. Moving house simply isn't feasible every year or so as jobs change,
especially when SOs work elsewhere, and aged parents can't be moved or left
behind. So, until there's an alternative, you drive. Although I do work from
home whenever I can. But that has its drawbacks in political terms.
Ali
JonG
> http://www.petroldirect.com/
>
Oily rag, please!
I liked:
"Specialist Fuels
Not all vehicles run on petrol or diesel, so at Petrol Direct we are
pleased to be able to offer you a variety of different types of fuel for
more specialist applications.
Plutonium
Particularly useful for some models of DeLorean sports cars,......"
--
JonG (Self -Preservation Society No. 37 3/4)
The Shed: A Shelter from Pigs on the Wing
Judith
<ne...@jongurr.removetoreply.plus.com> wrote:
>> http://www.petroldirect.com/
>>
>
>Oily rag, please!
>
>I liked:
>
>"Specialist Fuels
>
>Not all vehicles run on petrol or diesel, so at Petrol Direct we are
>pleased to be able to offer you a variety of different types of fuel for
>more specialist applications.
>
>
>Plutonium
>
>Particularly useful for some models of DeLorean sports cars,......"
>
I liked the prices and the fact that they will deliver. It was only
when I read about the coloured diesel (to suit ones company livery)
that I started to smell a rat!
Judith
Carol Hague
> btaySPAML...@gmailREMOVE.com said...
> > Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
> > to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
> >
> CBA. I'll eat something else when the bread runs out.
Cake?
--
Carol
"This might as well say "bing tiddle tiddle bong".
It's complete gibberish!" - Rodney McKay, Stargate Atlantis
Richard Robinson
> The message <MPG.1d90f7a97...@news.individual.net>
> from Fenny <um...@onetel.com> contains these words:
>
>> It's been going down a storm in Belfast this weekend.
>
> What's with that lot? Are they all really really backward, or something?
Judging from whoeveritwas on the R4Arjf last night, they feel really
threatened because we used to want them to oppress The Others and now
some people have started telling them they shouldn't and it's not fair.
Which it's not.
Tell you what ... how about, every qualification you can go for has to
include an equivalent-level one in history ? To be taken in a neutral third
(fourth ?) country.
--
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"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
If you want my address, put unmail2 where the spam trap is.
Richard Robinson
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:33:38 +0100, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
>>
>>>to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
>>
>>I was reading the bbc's "Talking Point" on this one. To hear some
>>people talk you'd think it was the Government made them live in the
>>middle of nowhere, an hour's drive from where they work and an hour
>>the other way to the nearest shop. As far as I'm concerned the
>>message form these fuel protests is: wake up, you dozy gjngf, building
>>your entire lifestyle on the assumption of continued availability of a
>>resource which is controlled by feudal lords in the most unstable
>>countries in the world (and that's just the Texans) is really not
>>smart!
>
> Ah well, I can smugly cycle or walk to jbex but without fuel my wbo
> would soon fall apart.
Won't be a lot of point earning any zbarl, without fuel to bring things
into the shops.
Gid
decided to share with us..
Snippetry..
> It's lbooyd irritatin' when yer livelihood depends on ohlin' fuel to be
> frustrated by eeejits queueueueuein' to fill up the last coupla gallons
> just in case.
It's also lbooyd irritating when you have no option but to travel by car
because you live in a village, and the prime monster says there isn't a
promble with the petrol blockade because you can always take the tube to
jbex.. it makes it somewhat obvious that he has a somewhat Londoncentric
view of the world.. the public transport around here is laughable.. it
was amazing during the last blockade that it only started to be addressed
when it affected the bit of the UK inside the M25..
Gid
Gid
you know? generously decided to share with us..
Snippetry..
> I was reading the bbc's "Talking Point" on this one. To hear some
> people talk you'd think it was the Government made them live in the
> middle of nowhere, an hour's drive from where they work and an hour
> the other way to the nearest shop. As far as I'm concerned the
> message form these fuel protests is: wake up, you dozy gjngf, building
> your entire lifestyle on the assumption of continued availability of a
> resource which is controlled by feudal lords in the most unstable
> countries in the world (and that's just the Texans) is really not
> smart!
The government do make people live in the middle of nowhere.. when I was
a kid, nurses lived in Nurses Accommodation, Firemen lived in Firemen's
Houses, Policemen lived in Police Houses or if they weren't yet out on a
beat in the Police Halls..
The government are the ones who sold it all off for gain, forcing their
workers to have to buy what they could afford.. my sister used to be a
Matron in the NHS.. she moved to the private sector because of a
combination of politics and low wages in comparison to what she could
earn elsewhere.. she now works in London, but still can't afford to buy a
property in the area she works in..
Gid
Richard Robinson
>
> It's also lbooyd irritating when you have no option but to travel by car
> because you live in a village, and the prime monster says there isn't a
> promble with the petrol blockade because you can always take the tube to
> jbex..
Good grief.
Or perhaps he thinks there's one in every town & village ?
Where is his constituency, again ?
Sena
> >> Judging by the speed with which other cars 'filled up' and moved on,
> >> they can't have needed to be there at all;
> >
> >Buy it online.
> >http://www.petroldirect.com/
>
> bugger. Hook line and sinker...
>
I avoided being sucked in - just - 'cos I smelled a rqt and headed to
the 'legal' page.
--
To reply see 'from' in headers; lose the domain, and insert dots and @
where common sense dictates.
Sena
> > Remind me again how well the British cope in
> > a crisis?
>
> Denise was filling up our only 1 gallon fuel can this morning when some
> bloke accosted her
Uh-oh...
> and accused her of
Uh-oh...
> causing the fuel crisis by having
> loads of similar cans at home all full of fuel pre hoarded for such an
> eventuality.
Oh dear. Is he OK?
> On what evidence he based this claim I have no eye deer. You
> can imagine her response. It started with "Who the hell do you think you
> are?" and got louder.
Grin. I wish I'd been there.
Sena
> Well HWDLAM has been to Whales today and had great difficukty find a
> fuel station where there weren't hundreds of people quueueueueueuing for
> the pmups.
>
He (like me) went to the wrong place. Mother (Austin's) reports that
when she went to fill up the queueue stretched all the way "from the
front of (her) car to the back". Obviously people in rural areas have
more frafr than those idiots I'm surrounded by here.
Sena
> I submit that on or about Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:59:11 +0100, the person
> known to the court as Whitedog <btaySPAML...@gmailREMOVE.com>
> made a statement (<18fei1lt70o4r3hk5...@4ax.com> in Your
> Honour's bundle) to the following effect:
>
> >Ah well, I can smugly cycle or walk to jbex but without fuel my wbo
> >would soon fall apart.That can change of course, but it won't until it
> >*has* to.
>
> Without oil most wbos would fall apart, as it's a major raw material
> in the production of plastics etc. Quite why we seem so intent on
> asserting our right to waste as much of it as possible on driving
> hundreds of miles a week to work is beyond me!
But - what about those of us who don't jbex but drive many miles a week
for the sheer pleasure of it? Or those of us who like to visit friends
and don't have the luxury of public transport to get us there? Or - and
this one will apply to me and mine on Sunday - those of us who can get
to where they're going by public transport, but whose efforts to get
back again will be in vain?
Lister
<rich...@privacy.net> wrote:
>Whitedog said:
>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:32:36 +0100, Sena
>>>> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:19:31 +0100, Sena
>>>>
>>>> > How many of the cars on that forecourt
>>>> >actually needed to be filled up? Probably about three. How many cars
>>>> >were there? More like twenty three. They were like sardines, nose to
>>>> >tail, bumper to bumper... Remind me again how well the British cope in
>>>> >a crisis?
>>>>
>>>> Yerbut, it's not my fault. It's all the others, innit. [Repeat times
>>>> n cars]
>>>>
>>>I couldn't even get on to the forecourt at the first petrol station I
>>>went to. Absolutely bloody *stupid*. And there wasn't even a shortage
>>>until people started over reacting.
>>
>> Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
>> to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
>
>Ooh, and sugar. And candles.
Four candles?
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Sena
> Sena <arjfatcym...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > btaySPAML...@gmailREMOVE.com said...
> > > Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
> > > to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
> > >
> > CBA. I'll eat something else when the bread runs out.
>
> Cake?
>
Richard Robinson
What about any of it ? It's all going to get harder and harder. The sooner
we can start thinking of something else to do, the more oil will be left for
the plastics etc, before it runs out even for that. This remains true
however much might be hidden under Canadada or the deeper bits of the
Atlantic or anywhere else, or however many wars we allegedly fight or
not to grab a bigger share of what's left, whether it happens in 5 years
or 50. It's a _finite_ quantity. Unless the asteroid belt's molished of it,
and we can start bringing that back before we lose the ability to.
And that's not a dig at any individuals. Anyone who doesn't themself travel,
still depends on fuel to bring the things they need to the places they can
get to by other means, no matter how Green those means are. And public
transport may be a more efficient use of it, but it still uses it.
Richard Robinson
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:06:18 -0000, Richard Robinson
>>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:32:36 +0100, Sena
>>>>> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:19:31 +0100, Sena
>>>>>
>>>>> > How many of the cars on that forecourt
>>>>> >actually needed to be filled up? Probably about three. How many cars
>>>>> >were there? More like twenty three. They were like sardines, nose to
>>>>> >tail, bumper to bumper... Remind me again how well the British cope in
>>>>> >a crisis?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yerbut, it's not my fault. It's all the others, innit. [Repeat times
>>>>> n cars]
>>>>>
>>>>I couldn't even get on to the forecourt at the first petrol station I
>>>>went to. Absolutely bloody *stupid*. And there wasn't even a shortage
>>>>until people started over reacting.
>>>
>>> Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
>>> to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
>>
>>Ooh, and sugar. And candles.
>
> Four candles?
Hoarder !
Eeeh, it's just like the good old days, innit ? Except we'll have to knacker
someone else for it this time, there aren't any miners left.
Ali Hopkins
"Gid" <ab...@brynamman.org.uk> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d9165096...@news.btinternet.com...
> It's also lbooyd irritating when you have no option but to travel by car
> because you live in a village, and the prime monster says there isn't a
> promble with the petrol blockade because you can always take the tube to
> jbex.. it makes it somewhat obvious that he has a somewhat Londoncentric
> view of the world.. the public transport around here is laughable.. it
> was amazing during the last blockade that it only started to be addressed
> when it affected the bit of the UK inside the M25..
>
Hah. Even if you live IN bloody London it isn't neccessarily practical to
use public transport. It would take me two hours to get to the City office
I sometimes visit by bus and tube, takes under an hour by car. And I
hate the bloody Tube anyhow.
Ali
Ali Hopkins
"Richard Robinson" <rich...@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:11iem8m...@corp.supernews.com...
> Gid said:
>>
>> It's also lbooyd irritating when you have no option but to travel by car
>> because you live in a village, and the prime monster says there isn't a
>> promble with the petrol blockade because you can always take the tube to
>> jbex..
>
> Good grief.
>
> Or perhaps he thinks there's one in every town & village ?
>
>
> Where is his constituency, again ?
>
A village with naff all transport, I've been there! But he has a car and
driver, of course.
Ali
Lister
<rich...@privacy.net> wrote:
>Lister said:
>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:06:18 -0000, Richard Robinson
>>>Whitedog said:
>>>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:32:36 +0100, Sena
>>>>>> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:19:31 +0100, Sena
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > How many of the cars on that forecourt
>>>>>> >actually needed to be filled up? Probably about three. How many cars
>>>>>> >were there? More like twenty three. They were like sardines, nose to
>>>>>> >tail, bumper to bumper... Remind me again how well the British cope in
>>>>>> >a crisis?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yerbut, it's not my fault. It's all the others, innit. [Repeat times
>>>>>> n cars]
>>>>>>
>>>>>I couldn't even get on to the forecourt at the first petrol station I
>>>>>went to. Absolutely bloody *stupid*. And there wasn't even a shortage
>>>>>until people started over reacting.
>>>>
>>>> Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
>>>> to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
>>>
>>>Ooh, and sugar. And candles.
>>
>> Four candles?
>
>Hoarder !
>
>Eeeh, it's just like the good old days, innit ? Except we'll have to knacker
>someone else for it this time, there aren't any miners left.
I remember when all this were fields
Guy King
from Br n <m...@privacy.net> contains these words:
> I somehow get the impression that /most/ of them are travelling more slowly.
> There are seriously unsafe exceptions, like the one that overtook me tonight
> onna blind bend.
I got happily and safely to near Bolton last night - and nearly all the
way back. Half a mile from home a couple of young foxen whizzed right to
left out of the hedge skylarking in the road. They cleared off through
the other hedge - then just as I and the car coming the other way
accelerated - the silly hooters did the whole routine from left to
right.
I predict if I go that way today there'll be fox paté.
--
Skipweasel.
In the beginning was the word.
And the word was Aardvark.
Lister
>On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 07:33:12 GMT, Lister <misterl...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>I unforget when it were all spoil tips.
Wossa spoil tip?
Can't unmung that
Carol Hague
> ca...@wrhpv.com said...
> > Sena <arjfatcym...@privacy.net> wrote:
> > > CBA. I'll eat something else when the bread runs out.
> >
> > Cake?
> >
> Sorry to be bland, but in this house it's spuds. I like spuds.
Right, no Marie-Antoinette outfit, for *you* then, Missus!
Ali Hopkins
"x (yz)" <enop...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:fvkfi1d22ju3ah8s1...@4ax.com...
> We have excellent public transport round here, just so long as you
> wanter get to the City centre and back from wherever you live. If you
> want to get to other parts of the city it's a different matter.
London's like that. I've a friend who is twenty minutes away by not very
fast car, and two hours by three busses and two tubes. Even the gummint
transport website admits it!
Ali
Jamie Hart
news:kvkfi1tuvrg586brp...@4ax.com:
's where you tip the spoil[1] innit.
[1] stuff miners dig outa the ground[2].
[2] No, not the stuff they're mining, the stuff they digs[3] out that no
one wants.
[3] well, they[4] did when there were miners to dig it.
[4] They being the miners, of which there are now none[5]
[5] except for the few that still exist, obviously.
Lister
wrote:
>Lister <misterl...@gmail.com> wrote in
>news:kvkfi1tuvrg586brp...@4ax.com:
>
>> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:37:35 +0100, x(yz)enop...@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 07:33:12 GMT, Lister <misterl...@gmail.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>>On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:49:57 -0000, Richard Robinson
>>>><rich...@privacy.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>Eeeh, it's just like the good old days, innit ? Except we'll have to
>>>>>knacker someone else for it this time, there aren't any miners left.
>>>>
>>>>I remember when all this were fields
>>>
>>>I unforget when it were all spoil tips.
>>
>>
>>
>> Wossa spoil tip?
>>
>'s where you tip the spoil[1] innit.
Ahh, a slag heap
Guy King
from x(yz)enop...@hotmail.com contains these words:
> I unforget when it were all spoil tips.
Round here was. There's till one, wooded and with houses on top,
overlooking Inky's fpubby. Over 3000 shafts were capped when Tefloon was
built.
Ron Clark
wrote this (or the missive included this):
>>> Wossa spoil tip?
>>>
>>'s where you tip the spoil[1] innit.
>
>
>Ahh, a slag heap
I don't fancy Qnja Serapu either.
--
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Guy King
from Lister <misterl...@gmail.com> contains these words:
> >'s where you tip the spoil[1] innit.
> Ahh, a slag heap
No, that's different. Slag's a byproduct from the furnaces. Tailings
from a mine go on a spoil tip. Or, round here, a pitmound.
Guy King
from Jamie Hart <use...@jhart.ath.cx> contains these words:
> [2] No, not the stuff they're mining, the stuff they digs[3] out that no
> one wants.
Well, that they don't want /that/ time round. Some leadmine spoil tips
have been remined twice.
Mike Jones
>>> food to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
>>>
>
> Cake?
In France, on hols this summer, we found cake *was* cheaper than bread
(well, pan complet, anyhow)!
Mike Jones
> Lister <misterl...@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:kvkfi1tuvrg586brp...@4ax.com:
>
>> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:37:35 +0100, x(yz)enop...@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 07:33:12 GMT, Lister <misterl...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:49:57 -0000, Richard Robinson
>>>> <rich...@privacy.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Eeeh, it's just like the good old days, innit ? Except we'll have
>>>>> to knacker someone else for it this time, there aren't any miners
>>>>> left.
>>>>
>>>> I remember when all this were fields
>>>
>>> I unforget when it were all spoil tips.
>>
>>
>>
>> Wossa spoil tip?
>>
> 's where you tip the spoil[1] innit.
>
M.Pitt
zeroes in mesage id
<news:MPG.1d9175e04...@news.individual.net>:
> ca...@wrhpv.com said...
>> Sena <arjfatcym...@privacy.net> wrote:
>>
>>> btaySPAML...@gmailREMOVE.com said...
>>> > Well I'm sorried that the fuel crisis will affect the delivery of food
>>> > to the shops so I'm off to panic buy bread. Who's with me?
>>> >
>>> CBA. I'll eat something else when the bread runs out.
>>
>> Cake?
>>
> Sorry to be bland, but in this house it's spuds. I like spuds.
Comfort food.
Mash + mint + parsley + peas + corn + a little cheese.
Use garlic instead of parsley for a change.
Use garlic and carrots instead of corn and parsley for another
change.
I cant grow parsley. But Mrs Pitt can.
--
M.Pitt