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60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 11:20 am

Went out today got about ten miles from home and it p....d down. Decided to abort Sunday ride turned around and now back home very wet and to make things worse it cost me £12.50 Ulex con charge for the pleasure. Hate that Muslim midget for taking my money and god for getting me very wet. One fed up old rocker.

The oldest rocker in town!

Re: 60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by Brickboy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Brickboy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 11:47 am, in reply to "60p a mile to get soaked"

I've had a very bizarre experience. I wandered to the South Devon steam railway, on foot which saved much aggro, to look at the trains in action.

It is Polar Express season and the train is all done up nicely with lanterns and lots of staff.

But, the whole thing comes across to me as very tacky. Parents and kids are coralled into a large tent (many wearing Christmas pyjamas at 11am! Oh well!) where the comperes build up anticipation and excitement... in American accents. Apparently the advert for comperes specified the ability to deliver in a mid-west accent.

I like America, in fact I was married to a Minnesota lady for some time and spent happy times there so I can spot a mid-west accent quite easily. But deepest south Devon under the shoulder of Dartmoor isn't America.

Without sounding too much like a stuck in the mud old fart, I just can't see the appropriateness or necessity of American glitzy Santa stuff on a classic English preserved railway. Obviously, it's been thought through carefully for maximum revenue and it was certainly packed even at 11am and I see it's sold out all week but it seems weird to me - a sort of efficient cash extraction with pretty much no English tradition involved.

Clearly, I am now very old in my views following retirement!!

Re: 60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 12:12 pm, in reply to "Re: 60p a mile to get soaked"

"...where the comperes build up anticipation and excitement..."

A bit like the recent Darts that was televised, the so called "build up" is an iritating bad joke as is the music that is played whilst the players make their entrance.

As for the calls when 180 is scored it has gone beyond the ridiculous.

It used to be so much better....

Guess I must also be stuck in the past Simon.

Who needs a signature anyway......

Re: 60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 12:12 pm, in reply to "Re: 60p a mile to get soaked"

Simon don't knock it mate if it means bringing money into keeping the steam trains going I'm all for it know matter how tacky.

The oldest rocker in town!

Re: 60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 12:16 pm, in reply to "Re: 60p a mile to get soaked"

Extremely rare to heara Devonshire or Cornish accent today my son and daughter both brought up here fromand early age sodo have the accents daughter married a Devon boy..ther are loads of incomers just not the same anymore The village we first moved into has changed so much loads of yuppies and the pub overpriced sell twee food that's not what you want when you have traipsed miles across Dartmoor you want a propper pint and a whopping Ploughmans lunch not a drizzle of gravey on a few peas .

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

Re: 60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 12:21 pm, in reply to "Re: 60p a mile to get soaked"

Dave I have found a nice pub in the Commerfords area, Thames Ditton that do a great ploughmans. I agree with you it's getting hard to find pubs that do one these days.

The oldest rocker in town!

Re: 60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 1:49 pm, in reply to "Re: 60p a mile to get soaked"

The pub in the village was great when we moved there in the first place obviously took all our friends there the best time was when we to an Australian relative there he reckoned the local farmers didn't know how to ride a horse properly..
So Iand Mazs brother took him to the Pub he started spoutingoff ended up plastered we had to drag him back to the house on a fertiliser sack..
He never visited again

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

Re: 60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by Lannis <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Lannis' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 12:34 pm, in reply to "Re: 60p a mile to get soaked"

Sorry to hear that. When it comes to gross tackiness, with a polar express and grinches and santa clauses and commercialism, nobody does it better than Americans.

Too bad that so many over there have been infected!

Lannis

I don't take health advice from people who think the world is overpopulated.

Re: 60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by Lannis <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Lannis' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 12:30 pm, in reply to "60p a mile to get soaked"

Better call it what it is, Jerry. It's not the ULEZ, it's a "jizya", the tax that Muslim rulers impose on infidels for the right to live in the caliphate. You're a minority in London now and can't expect much more than a mere right to exist....

Lannis

I don't take health advice from people who think the world is overpopulated.

Re: 60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 12:35 pm, in reply to "Re: 60p a mile to get soaked"

Lannis you are so close to the truth. London is becoming a very scary place to live and I have been here all my life and the changes I see are not good.

The oldest rocker in town!

Re: 60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 1:17 pm, in reply to "Re: 60p a mile to get soaked"

Jerry it does not matter where you live in the UK it is getting a lot scarier in greater or lesser degrees.

Who needs a signature anyway......

Re: 60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by martin in the USA <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=martin+in+the+USA' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 12:42 pm, in reply to "Re: 60p a mile to get soaked"

So Muslim's don't pay ULEZ? I thought everyone in London paid it. Excuse my ignorance on the subject if I am wrong.

Trump 20-24.....Years in prison.

Re: 60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 12:56 pm, in reply to "Re: 60p a mile to get soaked"

Martin you only pay if your car is not ULEZ compliant ie based on the emissions.

The oldest rocker in town!

Re: 60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by Lannis <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Lannis' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 12:59 pm, in reply to "Re: 60p a mile to get soaked"

Well, someone who's there would have to say, because my opinion on the subject is just speculation based on what I know about human nature and historical trends ...

but I'll bet a hundred bucks against a pie-and-mash with green gravy that there are 50 native Londoners paying the tax for every Muslim that's paying it ... I could be wrong, but balance of probability an' all ....

Lannis

I don't take health advice from people who think the world is overpopulated.

Re: 60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by nek <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=nek' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 1:44 pm, in reply to "Re: 60p a mile to get soaked"

Lannis,you'll have our stazi after you soon,ignore the fact you are not British,the man who thinks he can nick Elon Musk don't care. 3 million people have experessed their discontent and he has just told the to eff off if we don't like it.
If I had said that to a newcomer I'd be in line for 18 months jail.
His end is inevitable and hopefully messy.
We live in interesting times. Glad though I won't be here for long.

Re: 60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by Lannis <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Lannis' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 2:12 pm, in reply to "Re: 60p a mile to get soaked"

Do you know how hard we laugh when a foreign tinpot bureaucrat, or the "International Criminal Court", threatens that if we don't be careful about what we say, that they will inflict justice on us?

What a joke ....

Lannis

I don't take health advice from people who think the world is overpopulated.

Re: 60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 2:26 pm, in reply to "Re: 60p a mile to get soaked"

Had to laugh on one of my F/B pages showed a newspaper cutting of a cliff fall at Sidmouth
and went on to say that it was global warming..
Someone put a picture of an oil paining done in the1700s showing a cliff fall same place and a caption"Nothing New Then"

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

Re: 60p a mile to get soaked

Posted by geoff the bonnie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=geoff+the+bonnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 1, 2024, 8:44 pm, in reply to "Re: 60p a mile to get soaked"

Sidmouth has a collapse most years as do most cliffs on the Jurassic coast. Wise people dont buy the clifftop houses or the ones in the flood plains.
The new docks development will soon be reclaimed by the sea. It does have new concrete walls around it now but soon that wall will be the new moat wall when the water goes over it.
My house is on the old cliff that was in the 1700s before they reclaimed a huge part of the estuary. Now that reclaimed land is under threat. The water cannot reach me as i am 30 foot above high tide.

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