Monbiot on speed cameras and the real war
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From: Brimstone on 28 Jul 2010 14:28 "JNugent" <jenningsltd(a)fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:8bb8o6Fc8qU2(a)mid.individual.net... > Brimstone wrote: >> >> "David" <none(a)selectfire.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:i2pjtr$cs8$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >>> "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:sqKdnaXJVpCxrs3RnZ2dnUVZ8iGdnZ2d(a)bt.com... >>>> The pavement is the road surface. >>>> >>>> Go away and learn something before trying to educate your betters. >>>> >>> >>> I don't know where you come from but in the UK the pavement is the path >>> on the side of the road. >>> >> Colloquially, yes. It's also the footway and other dialect terms. But, in >> road construction terms highways are paved or unpaved therefore the whole >> of the road surface is a pavement. > > "Footway" is not colloquial. It is the term used for all official > purposes, especially in local government and highway engineering, where > accuracy and reduction of the possibility of misunderstanding are > paramount. Just because a term is used officially doesn't mean that it's also a colloquialism. But otherwise I'm content with your description.
From: Brimstone on 28 Jul 2010 14:29 "JNugent" <jenningsltd(a)fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:8bb8omFc8qU3(a)mid.individual.net... > Brimstone wrote: >> >> "Chelsea Tractor Man" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:xfognubub5sh$.w61mol1j2sp0$.dlg(a)40tude.net... >> >>> the modern Lib-dems are probably the most anti car party >>> we have. >>> >> Don't forget we now have a Green Party MP. > > Old Rentagob? I'm not sufficiently familiar with the individual to be on first name terms.
From: Steve Firth on 28 Jul 2010 15:11 GT <a(a)b.c> wrote: > The most recent poll whose results I can find > > shows that 82% of British people surveyed approve of them, and that > > the percentage has been rising." > > * In a survey of 100 inner-city cyclists Or Monbiot is a fat lying fuckwit.
From: Adrian on 28 Jul 2010 16:56 "Just zis Guy, you know?" <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >> It can hardly come as a great surprise >> that many people regard their driving test as an unnecessarily high >> pinnacle of comprehension of pointless bureaucratic detail... > Indeed. And the people who scrape through on the fifteenth attempt. <shudder> A schoolfriend's mother finally passed her test - I forget exactly how many attempts, but well into double figures. First action? Teach her daughter how to drive... At least there's now a requirement for the instructor to have had a full licence for a couple of years...
From: Steve Firth on 28 Jul 2010 18:22
Squashme <squashme(a)gmail.com> wrote: > We You and the voices in your head. |