Lycra louts attempt to take over UK Usenet committee
Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:17:12 +0000 (UTC)
I've just cast my vote in the Usenet UK elections. I suggest others do the
same. There are 7 candidates standing for election including four members
of the militant cycling party. Do you really want anti-car activists to
have any control over UK usenet?
Details of how to vote have just been published in uk ...
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Re: Who lives behind the red door?
24 Oct 2009 11:25:52 GMT
Paul - xxx wrote:
> Had a little drive-by this morning, someone might have some little
> interest in ithis small flv.
>
> http://s423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/Paul-xxx/?action=view¤t
> =V 241009_1131.flv
>
> The house numbers start at 11, then 9 ....
>
> Poor quality, I know, but I only had the ...
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You can now stick two fingers up to the law - legally.
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:04:31 -0700 (PDT)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8322747.stm
Drive ban quashed to help charity
A woman from Renfrewshire has had a six-month driving ban quashed
after appeal judges decided it could harm the charity for which she
works.
Elizabeth Gardiner, 54, was fined and banned following a speedin ...
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Re: Mr Loophole does it again...
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:30:39 +0100
boltar2003@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:40:36 +0100
> "Ret." <xxx> wrote:
>>> Those exemptions only apply when you're on an emergency call. So
>>> unless you only use your radios when you've got the blue lights on
>>> then I see a touch of hypocricy here. I'm afraid it sticks in the
>>> craw with ...
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Sat Nav .......Voices?
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:00:48 +0100
Finally took the plunge and purchased a 'TomTom XL
Classic V2 - UK & ROI'.
I'm considering downloading the 'Mr T' voice for
¡ê6.95p.
Any one got this voice on theirs or heard it?
Any good or just as annoying as all the others
after a while?
Bod ...
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Yet more Sat Nav Cretinism
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:45:33 -0700 (PDT)
ttp://www.rossendalefreepress.co.uk/news/s/1178802_satnav_shocker_for_wrongturning_van
I know where this is too! Not far at all from my mum's house. Why he
thought the van would go up there god only knows.
Mike P ...
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Can we have a special till queue in petrol stations...
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:27:04 +0000 (UTC)
.. for those effin twats who do their entire weekly shop + lottery ticket
+ special skinny latte and chauchau bean sprinkle? The rest of us who go there
just to buy fuel (who'd have thought eh?) meanwhile can actually pay and leave
and get back to our cars sometime before the sun flares into a red giant and
the ...
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Re: Mr Loophole does it again...
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:33:31 +0100
Nick Finnigan <nix@genie.co.uk> wrote:
> > A mobile phone is a 2-way radio - unless the term "2-way radio" is
> > somehow defined so as to exclude (in a non-circular way) a mobile phone,
> > which I suppose it might be.
>
> Oh, it is, by specifying the frequencies.
>
> http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2003/20 ...
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Re: Mr Loophole does it again...
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:31:57 +0100
Ret. <xxx> wrote:
> It's a while since I closely examined the legislation - but does it not
> relate purely to 'mobile phones'? Does a police radio fall within the
> definition?
Never used an Airwave terminal then Kevin? ...
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Man breaks 15 laws in 11 minutes
Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:02:29 +0100
This bloke must've been going for the record !! :
"A driver has confounded Swiss police by
committing 15 traffic violations in just over 10
minutes", officials say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8316077.stm
Bod ...
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