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Dusty Bin
 Post subject: Re: Olympic Torch
PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:03 pm 
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What are these little blue tablets that everyone's going on about? :oops:
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Ragley
 Post subject: Re: Olympic Torch
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grandad wrote:
Ragley wrote:
I wouldn't be so sure about people not lining up if you're good at what youre doing :P


When my ex wife left me she said it was because I was no good in bed. I asked her how she was able to form that opinion in only 2 minutes. :oops:


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"two minutes in heaven are better than one minute in heaven" :P
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 Post subject: Re: Olympic Torch
PostPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 9:15 pm 
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Dusty Bin wrote:
What are these little blue tablets that everyone's going on about? :oops:



You must have a really good spam filter dusty if none of the ads ever slip through !

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Dusty Bin
 Post subject: Re: Olympic Torch
PostPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 10:38 pm 
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edders23 wrote:
Dusty Bin wrote:
What are these little blue tablets that everyone's going on about? :oops:



You must have a really good spam filter dusty if none of the ads ever slip through !


Oh I see!

Why on earth would I need that? [-(

Mind you, it's not the plumbing that's the problem, it's getting the opportunity to use it :oops:
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edders23
 Post subject: Re: Olympic Torch
PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:03 pm 
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Oh boy trial run today !!! currently one car trapped at the rank because the police closed half the roads two hours beforehand and the rest 40 minutes beforehand when it was only supposed to be 20 minutes :evil: :evil: :evil: cost us quite a bit in lost trade methinks mind you the market traders were all forced to pack up at 2 o'clock so they must have lost even more

And the Olympics were supposed to boost the economy !!!!!!

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GBC
 Post subject: Re: Olympic Torch
PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:09 pm 
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Just wonderful they've just released the details of when the olympic torch relay comes through town IN RUSH HOUR ! :sad:

It arrives in the town at quarter to 5 and is going to take a very circuitous route along most of the roads that get gridlocked at that time of day !!!! If you hear of cabbies throwing themselves off high buildings on July the 3rd you'll know why !

Seriously though i can see that the only way to deal with it is to offer either a restricted service or no service at all for 3 hours because you can bet your life on the police shutting the entire the entire town centre for 3 hours



Be thankful that's it, the Olympics are going to bugger up London for weeks!

Weeks of chaos and restricted access.
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edders23
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don't envy you one bit and if we get any calls from people wanting a taxi don't there the answer will be NO !

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Brummie Cabbie
 Post subject: Re: Olympic Torch
PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:43 pm 
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What are these little blue tablets that everyone's going on about? :oops:

It's the ones that the doctor gives you a prescription for and the prescription lasts for seven seperate packs of medication before the pharmacist takes it off you and destroys it!!

Or so I've been told. :wink:

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Brummie Cabbie
 Post subject: Re: Olympic Torch
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edders23 wrote:
Just wonderful they've just released the details of when the olympic torch relay comes through town IN RUSH HOUR ! :sad:

It arrives in the town at quarter to 5 and is going to take a very circuitous route along most of the roads that get gridlocked at that time of day !!!! If you hear of cabbies throwing themselves off high buildings on July the 3rd you'll know why !

Seriously though i can see that the only way to deal with it is to offer either a restricted service or no service at all for 3 hours because you can bet your life on the police shutting the entire the entire town centre for 3 hours

If you huff and you puff like this, you'll blow the torch out.

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gusmac
 Post subject: Re: Olympic Torch
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And the Olympics were supposed to boost the economy !!!!!!
Aye, but whose economy :roll:

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 Post subject: Re: Olympic Torch
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The French economy they haven't had to spend £12 billion or whatever the figure has finished on of taxpayers money on the games

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Sussex
 Post subject: Re: Olympic Torch
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I'm very much looking forward to the Olympics, and anyone who criticises it is a miserable old git.

Especially as Mrs Sussex is in the opening ceremony. :roll: :roll:

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At least it's not giant puppets going through the city centre at rush hour :D

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Chris the Fish
 Post subject: Re: Olympic Torch
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I'm very much looking forward to the Olympics, and anyone who criticises it is a miserable old git.

Especially as Mrs Sussex is in the opening ceremony. :roll: :roll:

You can put me down as a "miserable old git" then - I think it's all Pony and Trap.

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grandad
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The "authorities" were knocking on peoples doors before 8.00 am yesterday morning on the route through our town telling people to move their cars or they would be towed away. The torch was in the town from noon until 2.30 pm. I took one look at all the cones and decided that I would stay at home until it was all over. No point in adding to a problem.

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