Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!

[VNA]

lol it not just the traffic..£28.50 to park for four hours. How the hell does anyone live/work in sh*thole..

What the foc!  That is absolutely bonkers.  Robbery.

[ogri48]

theres parkin bays in kings cross, with phone numbers to pay for four hours parking. you phone up and thats the charge. and there are foccing cameras everywhere. you nip in a bus lane, your fined. you stop on double red lines to drop someone off or pick them up, your fined. Couldn't take my bike coz its to old. id get fined for that....I foccing hate the place..

[ogri48]

should have took the train/tube really mate, but I didn't wanna get blown up or stabbed. you pays your money...

[VNA]

should have took the train/tube really mate, but I didn't wanna get blown up or stabbed. you pays your money...

Not been to London fae donkeys years, but when I was last there I thought public transport was fantastic.  Got me everywhere nae bother.

 


Talking of getting blown up or stabbed, I was supposed to be at Glasgow airport the day of the terrorist attack.  There was to be a NO to ID protest, right around the time the slightly incompetent terrorists struck, and I was to take some snaps, but they switched it at the last minute to the Glasgow Passport Office.  If I’d have been there, I’d have made a mint, or maybe sods law would have intervened and I’d have got blown tae bits.

[VNA]

[mtread]

lol it not just the traffic..£28.50 to park for four hours. How the hell does anyone live/work in sh*thole..

What the foc!  That is absolutely bonkers.  Robbery.

VNA have you been to Edinburgh recently!

[VNA]

Funnily enough last time I took the train.
Glasgow, I park the car in Govan and take the tube.  Cheaper and quicker than driving into the centre.  And if you do try driving in Glasgow city centre, yup plenty of cameras automatically issuing fines.  City centre is a nightmare now.  Been a while since too since I parked the thou up in the city centre too.

[VNA]

A few miles out of town though;

[mtread]

Well at least in Edinburgh they've got the extensive tram system  :lol

[steve 10562cc]

Only 2 good things to come out of London the A1 & M1 heading north.

[Robbie8666]

Only 2 good things to come out of London the A1 & M1 heading north.

:agree

[mtread]

Yep, also have the advantage of getting you through Yorkshire as quickly as possible  :lol

[steve 10562cc]

What's wrong with Yorkshire other they have short arms and deep pockets. 

[Grahamm]

Cyclists that do that stupid stationary balancing thing where they keep both feet on the pedals trying to avoid putting a foot on the floor at the front of the queue at red lights.

Because it means that they can pull away without needing to waste time getting their foot back into a toe clip.

How many bikers keep the bike in gear at the lights and hold the clutch in, instead of putting it into neutral as you're advised to do?

[fazersharp]

[quote author=YamFazFan link=topic=17546.msg293283#msg293283 date=1551034958]
Cyclists that do that stupid stationary balancing thing where they keep both feet on the pedals trying to avoid putting a foot on the floor at the front of the queue at red lights.

How many bikers keep the bike in gear at the lights and hold the clutch in, instead of putting it into neutral as you're advised to do?

[/quote]Don't know if any do. But I will if I know the lights are about to change

[mtread]

What's wrong with Yorkshire other they have short arms and deep pockets.

They keep ferrets down their trousers  :rolleyes

[steve 10562cc]

No they don't to afraid the ferrets would nick his small change.

[Frosties]

lol it not just the traffic..£28.50 to park for four hours. How the hell does anyone live/work in sh*thole..

What the foc!  That is absolutely bonkers.  Robbery.

It's quite cheap - you go round some areas and it's pushing £40-45 for 4-8 hours. Add to that the congestion charge at £12.50 plus double the fuel that a bike uses and you can see why I bike it to London every day....2 gallons and that's all. Ahhhh forgot - the robbing bastards charge you £1 to park a bike in Westminster.

[mtread]

Ahhhh forgot - the robbing bastards charge you £1 to park a bike in Westminster.

And if you're very lucky, it's still there when you get to go home 

[Frosties]

Ahhhh forgot - the robbing bastards charge you £1 to park a bike in Westminster.

And if you're very lucky, it's still there when you get to go home 

A 650 Bandit that hasn't been washed in 2 yrs will still be there (mechaically spot on )- it looks like shit for a reason. Even added yellow/green electrical tape here n there. If anyone nicks it they'd get a kicking from their Fagin  :lol