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The worst weather for 20 years, and the Edinburgh public makes it even worse. I have got to tell you folks, I am disgusted with what I've witnessed over the past three days. With only a few exceptions where people tried to help each other out the rest would have stepped over you if you were lying bleeding in the street.

Give me your experiences, is being totally shameless and inconsiderate an Edinburgh thing, or is it country wide?

Please, renew my faith in my fellow man and women, for that matter.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

Fraid not. Society is broke.

Thatcher broke it.

Self, self, self.

Iy's the tory way.

And now the LibDems too of course since they got into bed with them.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

Here's one for you, I've picked up a beleaguered old aged pensioner who'd been traveling for some hours only to get stuck in a cul-de-sack trying to get her as close to her flat as possible.

As I am trying to get moving, with I might add, everyone looking on I decided to check out the grit bin at the side of the road, only to find it, wait for it, full, to the gunnels with grit. The street and the paths were like a skating ring but no one had so much as picked up a shovel to spread the grit.

I was absolutely flabbergasted.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

And another, my sister phones me for assistance because she's stuck in the Cameron Toll shopping centre car park. Upon arriving, I find that some [edited by admin] has abandoned his car in the middle of the road to go shopping. Not only have I to break my sister car free, I've got to drive it around the car park in reverse to get out.

You just couldn't make this stuff up.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

Skull I had a fare to the Waverly on Monday morning as I went down the Pleasance there was a number of cabs trying to get up the hill, slipping and sliding everywhere in the snow
I dropped off and came back the same way only to find the Pleasance still half blocked with cabs still trying to get up, so with nothing coming down I drove straight past them sounding my horn and giving them a cheery wave, several gave me a victory salute do you think that was just to help me get up the hill with no problems or something more sinister

Now let me think

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

You forgot to mention how the sheep are coping with the snow down in the borders Skippy. I thought I'd better ask with you being our local expert and all of that.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

Due to the bad weather, one of my drivers was having a bit of trouble taking the school run children home. He was over an hour late dropping the last one home. All the kids on his run live well off the beaten track so when he had got as far as he could he parked the car and walked each child to their door. The last child lived at the bottom of quite a long hill with no chance of getting back up again so he again walked the girl to her door. I considered the drivers actions to be above and beyond the call of duty. The father of the last girl rang me up to complain that his daughter was late because my driver hadn't a clue what he was doing.

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Grandad,

I would have told the father to get his car out and take her himself.

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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Believe me, don't get Mercury X2

That is what he said he was going to do.
I hope he took her this morning...........................the school is closed!

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Grandad,

A young lad (11-12, too young to be out at 9pm, imo) tried to flag me down. I was on hire and fully loaded, so couldn't stop. A while later the controller asked me to go the pub near where he tried to flag me and see the staff. They had taken him in, gave him a can of coke and a packet of crisps, a punter handed me his taxi fare, all to make sure he got home safe.

AFAIK no phone call of thanks was made to the pub or the office, for getting the wee angel down the road.

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My heart is heavy, but my consience clear,
I voted Yes, without any fear.

CC's the expert on sheep, he even knows there individual names, the roads in the Borders are passable even the A7 was completely open on Monday even though I expected Middleton moor to be blocked it was totally clear

You had any cause to use those Autosocks you mentioned Skip? if yes...what are they like in snow and also in the bloody awful Slush that covers the main roads..?

Makes me wonder if today's idea of society could have fought off the **** threat?

Maybe Adolf should have waited for the effects of Thatcher's selfish greed creed to kick in. He'd have rolled all over us.

The WWII civilian community strength is now a distant memory.

We'e too busy working hard being bewildered to think about the good of the herd.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

Swmbo, has nicked them and they work really well, she left everything standing going from the Melrose rd to the top of Broom dr, she even got up Glenfield to the astonishment of the residence, she has got it down to 1 min to fit and remove them, she takes them off if there is only a slight dusting on the roads