Random Irritations

[stefanovic]

What a load of bollocks!

Always good to debate with someone who is articulate.

Not far from Ludlow in Shropshire today.
Was a time when people arrived by train or bicycle to experience this peaceful town with its imposing church tower and castle overlooking the River Teme.
Now they arrive by giant motor home or caravan and stay at the adjacent 'touring park'.
It's just bustle now and finding a parking place in the town is virtually impossible.
How I long for a time gone by:

In valleys of streams and rivers
By Ony and Teme and Clun,
The land for easy livers
The easiest under the sun.

The clock strikes the hour
And tells the time to none.

(lines from A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman).

 

[Imurg]

Always good to debate with someone who is articulate.

Not far from Ludlow in Shropshire today.
Was a time when people arrived by train or bicycle to experience this peaceful town with its imposing church tower and castle overlooking the River Teme.
Now they arrive by giant motor home or caravan and stay at the adjacent 'touring park'.
It's just bustle now and finding a parking place in the town is virtually impossible.
How I long for a time gone by:

In valleys of streams and rivers
By Ony and Teme and Clun,
The land for easy livers
The easiest under the sun.

The clock strikes the hour
And tells the time to none.

(lines from A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman).

If they stay "at the adjacent touring park" why is there a problem finding parking space in town

 

[Dando]

Always good to debate with someone who is articulate.

Not far from Ludlow in Shropshire today.
Was a time when people arrived by train or bicycle to experience this peaceful town with its imposing church tower and castle overlooking the River Teme.
Now they arrive by giant motor home or caravan and stay at the adjacent 'touring park'.
It's just bustle now and finding a parking place in the town is virtually impossible.
How I long for a time gone by:

In valleys of streams and rivers
By Ony and Teme and Clun,
The land for easy livers
The easiest under the sun.

The clock strikes the hour
And tells the time to none.

(lines from A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman).

If they stay "at the adjacent touring park" why is there a problem finding parking space in town

exactly, the touring park is designed for motor homes and caravans to let the cars park in the town.

its amazing that in the previous rant it was only motorhomes and caravan that cause delays, topple over, have tyres blow out because that never happens with cars, vans, lorries etc.

Need to get out and off to work...
Trouble is I can't actually get off the estate at the moment because we have solid stationery traffic at both roads that leave it.
Kids are back to school today and it appears they are all incapable of walking...that and the massive amount of roadworks happening - blocking roads so they can build a road to a new estate so they can build more houses that will produce more cars that will block the road even more.....
I think I'm just going to pack up a few bits, go and live in the woods, build a bivouac, live off berrys, snared rabbits and pheasants, maybe the odd birds egg and just sit and contemplate my navel until someone hits the off switch, leaves it 10 seconds and then reboots life......

no doubt some numpty will want to blame caravans and motorhomes

 

[Dando]

Always good to debate with someone who is articulate.

Not far from Ludlow in Shropshire today.
Was a time when people arrived by train or bicycle to experience this peaceful town with its imposing church tower and castle overlooking the River Teme.
Now they arrive by giant motor home or caravan and stay at the adjacent 'touring park'.
It's just bustle now and finding a parking place in the town is virtually impossible.
How I long for a time gone by:

In valleys of streams and rivers
By Ony and Teme and Clun,
The land for easy livers
The easiest under the sun.

The clock strikes the hour
And tells the time to none.

(lines from A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman).

and those arriving in their caravans and motorhomes are adding to the incomes of the businesses in the town so stop with the whinging and acting like your hard done by.

 

[Piece]

QUE ??
Who or what are these ?
Intrigued 🤔

People that knock on your door, perpetuating that they are honourably discharged from the army or freshly released from prison and on a probation course. Which is bogus. They show credentials, which are false. They try and get chummy with you. They then spin a line about trying to rebuild and one way is to sell off rubbish cleaning stuff at highly inflated prices. Those hooked in purchase some goods and the seller makes notes on property, who they are selling too and the money given. For example, vulnerable OAPs paying with crisp notes. Could indicate more money in the house... They then report back to criminal HQ with their survey results, giving the 'management' the addresses and intel on whether that property is worth a revisit for another sales opportunity (more goods and more money) or worryingly, whether it is worthy of scoping for burglary. The 'Nottingham' part comes from when this was first happening.

 

[Piece]

Getting tickets to Selhurst park and hearing that most views are like watching the game through a letterbox.

There are better viewing grounds!

 

[MegaSteve]

Motorists who fail to acknowledge they have a duty of care each time they get behind the wheel...

 

[Robin Hood]

People that knock on your door, perpetuating that they are honourably discharged from the army or freshly released from prison and on a probation course. Which is bogus. They show credentials, which are false. They try and get chummy with you. They then spin a line about trying to rebuild and one way is to sell off rubbish cleaning stuff at highly inflated prices. Those hooked in purchase some goods and the seller makes notes on property, who they are selling too and the money given. For example, vulnerable OAPs paying with crisp notes. Could indicate more money in the house... They then report back to criminal HQ with their survey results, giving the 'management' the addresses and intel on whether that property is worth a revisit for another sales opportunity (more goods and more money) or worryingly, whether it is worthy of scoping for burglary. The 'Nottingham' part comes from when this was first happening.

Thanks for that - I had never heard the expression.
I wonder if it originated here because we had a massive army barracks ?
Or just we were the first city to see this as an organised crime !
Ps Do you need any dusters 🙀

 

[Bazz]

Motorists who fail to acknowledge they have a duty of care each time they get behind the wheel...

Always assume nobody else knows what they're doing.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Brexit , Boris Johnson , Rees Moog, Corbyn , Farage etc etc

 

[chrisd]

Going to the quite wonderful Hever Castle today and being baffled as to why King Henry V111 and Miss Boleyn would buy a house so close to Gatwick airport - it's right on the flight path 😉

 

[Norrin Radd]

Going to the quite wonderful Hever Castle today and being baffled as to why King Henry V111 and Miss Boleyn would buy a house so close to Gatwick airport - it's right on the flight path 😉

It was the access to the M25 that was the clincher for Henry

 

[Kellfire]

Going to the quite wonderful Hever Castle today and being baffled as to why King Henry V111 and Miss Boleyn would buy a house so close to Gatwick airport - it's right on the flight path 😉

Who is this Henry the Fifth One Hundred and Eleven?

 

[chrisd]

Who is this Henry the Fifth One Hundred and Eleven?

Yes - he followed on after Henry the fifth one hundred and tenth, best you study some history

 

[Hobbit]

Going to the quite wonderful Hever Castle today and being baffled as to why King Henry V111 and Miss Boleyn would buy a house so close to Gatwick airport - it's right on the flight path 😉

I think he as hoping for a massive profit under a compulsory purchase for the new runway...

 

[anotherdouble]

Yes - he followed on after Henry the fifth one hundred and tenth, best you study some history

I think hellfire just being his usual self. He is no doubt querying your use of the one numeral with the letter v as opposed to letters but hey ho Chris 🤷‍♂️

 

[chrisd]

I think hellfire just being his usual self. He is no doubt querying your use of the one numeral with the letter v as opposed to letters but hey ho Chris 🤷‍♂️

To be honest Chris he's such a wombat- who cares what he posts

 

[Kellfire]

To be honest Chris has such a wombat - who cares what he posts

You shouldn’t be so harsh on yourself, Chris.

 

[williamalex1]

You shouldn’t be so harsh on yourself, Chris.

I always wondered what the d stood for,, sorry Chrisd,

 

[HampshireHog]

The police, group emailing all witnesses for an upcoming trial, including me and my wife, so now we can be personally identified by any of the witnesses.