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From: Catman on 24 Nov 2009 16:54 Ace wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:48:00 +0000, Catman > <catman(a)rustcuore-sportivo.co.uk> wrote: > >> Ace wrote: >>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:36:07 +0000 (UTC), "Krusty" >>> <dontwantany(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote: >>> >>>> Catman wrote: >>>> >>>>> You are a man of many facets. Most of them un-expected. >>>> <checks headers> >>>> >>>> Yep, cheesy again. FFS! >>> Plus user impatience. >>> >> Nope. Connection time out message from my client. > > Yes, and then you tried again. Don't. > Thanks for the help in the IT stakes, there. OTOH if my client states 'I failed to send that message' then I will, I feel, continue to think that the message failed. Not having seen Eternal-september's failure mode, I shall make a note. -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 GTV TS 156 V6 2.5 S2 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
From: Steve Fitzgerald on 24 Nov 2009 16:57 In message <hehh0g$kf8$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Catman <catman(a)rustcuore-sportivo.co.uk> writes >> In message <1j9nlw5.90fj3jahabdN%italiancar(a)gmail.com>, SteveH >><italiancar(a)gmail.com> writes >> >>>> > your sock >>>> > puppet, Steve H >>>> >>>> I doubt that, y'know. >>> >>> He's been suffering from that delusion for quite a long time now. >>> >>> Most amusing when you consider that a UKRMer knows Steve F and that I >>> met up with him for lunch the day I collected my Ducati. >> What have I done now? > >Sock puppet! ;) I am? Fame at last! ..... errm whose sock, I'm fussy you know? -- Steve Fitzgerald has now left the building. You will find him in London's Docklands, E16, UK (please use the reply to address for email)
From: Ray Keattch on 24 Nov 2009 17:00 Silk wrote: > On 24/11/2009 19:58, Colin Irvine wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:45:20 +0000, Silk squeezed out the following: >> >>> Of course, "good" driving is a different thing >>> altogether, as we can include things that come under the general heading >>> of technique, such as courtesy >> >> such as briefly putting your headlights on main beam to help a >> following driver overtake you? >> > > Where in the Highway Code does it say to do that? It doesn't need to say it - it is ruddy obvious that a following driver would benifit from your own high beam. It shouldn't need any special training to come to this conclusion - trying to see past someone in the dark who is driving on dipped beam is training enough. -- MrBitsy
From: Ray Keattch on 24 Nov 2009 17:03 Marc wrote: > Silk wrote: >> On 24/11/2009 09:51, Conor wrote: >>> In article<mn.bc227d9b5b080add.106911(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk>, Harry >>> Bloomfield says... >>>> >>>> Conor explained on 23/11/2009 : >>>>> If the HGV test is so easy, how come so many car drivers fail it? >>>> >>>> Not very many car drivers will actually take it, most will already be >>>> gainfully employed. >>> >>> What bearing does that have on anything? >> >> I think the implication is that the smart people already have good >> jobs and have no need to take an LGV test. That only leaves the thick >> and desperate - a bit like the Forces really. > It's certainly the reasoning that explains the phenomena of taxi > drivers, if you are you unemployable, and too stupid to fiddle the dole > you can still drive a taxi. The pikey version in the rest of the country > not the London Hackney carriage type. I remember doing a sociology > course and a diagram that plotted various "professions" and their > "pecking order" ,Taxi Driver" was a lot higher than I expected, then I > realised that the author lived in London, and probably wasn't talking > about the scum that are given licences by LAs I was at university and drove a taxi to earn money while doing it. In the evening I manned the radio - I did coursework between phone/radio messages. By doing this, I didn't need to sign on or claim benifits. I left university and became a programmer and gave up the taxi driving. -- MrBitsy
From: Harry Bloomfield on 24 Nov 2009 17:11
Silk presented the following explanation : >> such as briefly putting your headlights on main beam to help a >> following driver overtake you? >> > > Where in the Highway Code does it say to do that? Does everything really need to be spelled out for you, even common on the road courtesy? -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk |