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From: Conor on 20 Dec 2009 10:33 In article <c5bc16b5-3885-4bb9-8b9b-0c79b7a625c7 @l13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, MasonS(a)BP.com says... > > I live between Anlaby and Swanland, if that is any relevance as to why > cycle lanes aren't gritted. > FWIW, the security bods are all contractors. Virtually everyone is at Saltend or it certainly appeared to be the case the last time I delivered there. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Conor on 20 Dec 2009 10:35 In article <c5bc16b5-3885-4bb9-8b9b-0c79b7a625c7 @l13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, MasonS(a)BP.com says... > I live between Anlaby and Swanland, So you live in a field? -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Simon Mason on 20 Dec 2009 10:41 "Conor" <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote in message news:MPG.2598329086fdcc06989a67(a)news.eternal- > > Oh, and you're obviously blissfully unaware that grit doesn't work below > -6C and it was below that last night. It's the salt, not grit that melts the ice and salt can do this at temperatures down to minus 9 Celcius on cold roads. -- Simon Mason
From: MasonS on 20 Dec 2009 10:43 On 20 Dec, 15:35, Conor <co...(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > In article <c5bc16b5-3885-4bb9-8b9b-0c79b7a625c7 > @l13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, Mas...(a)BP.com says... > > > I live between Anlaby and Swanland, > > So you live in a field? > > -- > Conorwww.notebooks-r-us.co.uk > > I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally. Next to a field, yes.
From: The Medway Handyman on 20 Dec 2009 12:21
MasonS(a)BP.com wrote: > On 20 Dec, 01:30, "The Medway Handyman" > <davidl...(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >> Phil W Lee wrote: > >> Or how about this from The Evening Standard :- >> >> "A City fund manager has been knocked down and killed in a collision >> with a cyclist on his way to work. >> Nick Bancroft was a year away from retirement when the accident >> happened just yards from his �2 million Holland Park home". >> > > That was more than *two years* ago. Which proves? > How many thousands of people have been killed by cars since then? > The number of peds killed by cyclists per annum is between 0 and 1. Since you are a cyclist and prone to making things up, we better have some evidence. > More people are killed putting their trousers on - keep trying. Lycra trousers? Do we have some evidence to support that? -- Dave - The Tax Paying Motorist |