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Originally Posted by struth
Yes bit of an oversight not including France in a rioting simulation. Like leaving Man City out of the latest FIFA game.
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Originally Posted by struth
Yes bit of an oversight not including France in a rioting simulation. Like leaving Man City out of the latest FIFA game.
The M6 has been closed after a large quantity of milk spilled onto the carriageway when a tanker crashed.
It hit the central reservation while travelling north between junctions 31 and 32 near Preston at about 07:00 BST and then crashed through into the southbound carriageway.
Lancashire Police said the motorway could be closed for "most of the day" after the milk and diesel spillage.
The Chief Constable of Lancashire Constabulary has had to do without his crunchy nut cornflakes
It's an udder disaster.
everything went tits upQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I was in that traffic queue. Although the accident had happened some time earlier in the day, nobody had thought to warn us of this on the overhead thingys so that we could decide to come off at the next exit.
After an hour and a half of not going anywhere, Mrs. P got sick of it. So she got herself over to the hard shoulder, got onto the 'on' ramp of the junction and went up it the wrong way. The ramp was closed off with cones at the top, so we weren't going to meet anything coming the other way. She'd started a trend, because behind us was a convoy of other cars doing the same thing.
All the other routes into Preston would have been a nightmare, so instead of getting my granddaughter's birthday present to her, we went to the pub for some nosebag instead.
I'll be driving past there in half an hour, hopefully they'll have got their shit together by then.
I might give up motorways entirely soon and go back to the A roads. We did this on holiday and only put half an hour on our journey. No hold ups and much more relaxed and I could drive mostly at 50 mph which is the same speed for much of the motorway network in this country.:)
If the slip road was closed off with cones, how did you get past them? Also wouldn't you be facing the wrong way to drive away?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I'm sure you broke the law if you did move the cones.
I've been doing that for a long time. Years ago I got stuck on the M5 near Bristol for ages and decided motorways were no longer for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimbo
The problem with motorways are numerous as I have found using them extensively throughout my life but recently I have noticed they have got far worse either through more traffic or use of smart motorways. Traffic is restricted to a certain speed very regularly on these between 40-60 mph. Add in the amount of roadworks on any given motorway, then incidents which can be absolutely nothing or a major accident plus bad weather and the whole recipe is a disaster. I can't remember one motorway journey in the past 2 years that has not gone without incident!Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
The stress and boredom of motorways is also another negative factor. The only positive factor I can think of is they may get you from A to B EVENTUALLY.
Because of all the accumulative "problems" on motorways the average speed now seems to be about 55mph so the A roads start to look a much better proposition and are far more interesting, relaxing and stress free!
dont have much motorway up here tbh, but like everywhere else, if there is a problem your stuck with it. i dont drive much and 95% of that is not in the rush, so can pick n choose. electric car prefers not to run at 70+ anyway so a rds are fine
max is 51 weeks in pokey:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
weekly shop delivered:) got a few extras this time to cheer me up...lol
saves trying to get round a shop
There were only three or four cones there, which we easily drove round. It was actually no problem to turn left at the top of the slip road. Worked out well. Although yes, it was breaking the law.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
But then again so were the hoards of blokes walking across the carriageway to piss on the grassy verges in full view of everyone. And I wasn't about to do that.
We did the same driving back from Ayr last year, when the M6 was closed near Penrith. The A roads provided a scenic alternative, saw places we didn't know existed, and even with a half hour stop at a roadside cafe (a lot cheaper than motorway services), our journey was less than an hour more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimbo
We should have done it in a stolen car with a boot full of drugs. Then we'd only get a suspended sentence ;) Or a cautionQuote:
Originally Posted by struth
We're still on getting Gousto deliveries. Your first order is 60% off. So she put my name down as a new customer. Result! She going to use her dad's name and address next :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
another shop delivery... a bit earlier than usual but today was only one i could get.. seem busy again the deliveries. still i had room for the stuff ok.. fridge is pretty full now, and alas a few dates not optimal.. thats the downside of not doing it yourself
I hate chucking stuff out but I won't chance food poisoning.
Me too. Don't eat fresh out of date stuff unless I can see it's still ok, and not ready meals etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
2 are dated for tomorrow. Still I can have one today and one tomorrow am. Often only eat in the morning tbh. Just depends on how I'm feeling.
Had second half of the pasta meal I made yesterday this morning, but hadn't ate for about 20hrs. It's not when these days but if I'm hungry hungry Homer.
You just reminded me my job today was to clean the fridge.
Went to do a biggish shop at Lidl earlier. Not much cheaper than elsewhere these days, it seems. Time was you could fill your trolley and the checkout girl would give you money to take it away.
After all that effort, this for tea should make up for it:
https://www.lidl.co.uk/var/retail/st...UK/5215515.jpg
We'll have a glass of wine with our pizzas, because that's what we do these days :)
Followed by a lemon meringue pie, and later a big bar of fruit & nut chocolate made by some firm I've never heard of.
Try a bar of the white chocolate with strawberry chips in that Lidl do, it's lovely!
I'll look out for that one, white chocolate is Mrs. P's favourite.
Loath white chocolate. Only eat plain chocolate with 70% cocoa solids. Any chocolate with more than 80% cocoa tastes bitter to me.
Just to confirm. I have not received £35,000 from any BBC presenter :).
What about from an ITV one?
Really? The rumour is you were paid £10,000 per inch :ner:Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
When I got home at 1pm it was the hot topic on Sky News. Two hours later they were still bangin' on about it. How they could fill two hours of telly with out naming the presenter, the 'victim', or even what the pictures were of I don't know. Maybe I should have turned the volume up. And I bet if I switched over to Sky News now they'd still be milking the story.
It's being 'pushed' by The Sun.
Given what they said after the Hillsborough tragedy, I wouldn't trust a word they say.
Is it not just their own brand that they rename to make you think it's not? Sainsbury's and Tesco's started doing the same thing when they realised Lidl and Aldi were gaining market share by doing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Doesn't seem likely to me, but who knows? The world economy works in mysterious ways. You get cases of companies as diverse as car manufacturers and Makita/DeWalt/Milwaukee taking products manufactured for them by other firms and putting their name on them. "Badge engineering" they call it. This would be the opposite of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
In any case, the fruit & nut bar wasn't much cop. The chocolate itself was fine, but the nuts were like something I might find in my own garden, after it had passed through some of the local wildlife.
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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
too processed then??;)
Yep, a bit too rich for me. The wrapper should read "Cats' dangleberries fruit & woodpigeon intestine infused nut", but then there'd be no room for the picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
I'm not sure they were even nuts to begin with...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
No question that your continentals make the best chocolate but that doesn't extend to those dodgy brands you see in Lidl.
I don't know how it's come to this but having to eat chocolate made by companies no-one's ever heard of is beyond the pale. Did we lose a war or something?
No we lost the piece
If the Americans won that one we'd be in trouble - I've heard their chocolate is diabolical.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Well that's the weekly Tesco run sorted. Splashed out a bit, it cost me £18.47.
Don't buy booze, fags, sweets, cakes or meat and the missus is away so it's not going to break the bank :).
talk of a measles eppidemic in london
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66200444
Well spotted :).
I had it as a child, nearly killed me. I was too delirious to know, but was apparently given last rites. Survived!
Had the measles jab when I was about eight. Do the vaccinations last a lifetime?
yes, up to a point.. but some folk get a third i think. vast majority only get the 2 as kids and thats it. if you do cach mumps then it shouldnt be as severeQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Spent a rainy hour or so in a local record shop, after which I was losing the will to live - not much could be accessed without risking an avalanche. And barely room to get past the piles by moving sideways. So not wheelchair-friendly. Unless your wheelchair was a standing-up unicycle hybrid.
Finally settled on a NM copy of Sabbath's "Technical Ecstasy", which I have never heard. But I had parked at the Asda across the road, where the signs said "Customers only". So I went in the store and bought a 2 quid bar of chocolate. That should validate my parking to a degree, but I didn't want to push it.
Called at a mate's house on the way back for a brew, and left my chocolate on the front seat of the car. I underestimated the in-car temperature, so returned to a £2 chocolate blob :( Bloody British weather.
On the plus side you got a half-decent Sabbath album.
Your record shop sounds like that one I was in the other day where an Aberfan-style disaster is just a matter of time.
i remember that tragedy... mostly kids that died tooQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
And it took ages before the Coal Board (as it was then) to admit responsibility.
Furthermore, the Queen would normally have visited the site to meet the grieving parents and to express her condolences. She was out of the country at the time and was never told. Nor was she informed upon her return. That was an 'oversight' the Welsh have never forgotten.
afaik that isnt what happened. she was told and many felt she should go quickly but she didnt think it was a good idea at time.. she apparently regretted her decision ever since.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I'm confused now. According to Wikipedia, the Queen and Prince Phillip visited Aberfan a week after the disaster, when the rescue attempt had finished. Yet on programme shown on TV recently, the Queen never went at all but other members of the Royal family went in her place.
initially she sent phillip i think... but she did go later; in fact i think it was only time she was seen crying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
an artcle here... https://www.townandcountrymag.com/so...ion-the-crown/
Yes I saw that TV programme too. I'd be inclined not to believe Wikipedia's version.
Nor would I. Anybody can edit pages.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
(I was a bit naughty on the Harley Davidson entry, not sure they were entirely in agreement with my describing them as two wheeled tractors :lol:)
Naughty but not far off the truth :) Also called 'Hardly Able Son".Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis