http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Thu, 23 May 2013 06:06:11 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860#post-110478 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:44:40 +0000 Gerontius 110478@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Some eye witnesses say it was the cyclist trying to barge the bus out of the way.<br /> Don't forget, this was Bristol </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860#post-110441 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:04:33 +0000 beau-jolly 110441@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Re The Donheads. Many people have taken the "pretty way" towards the A30 via the Donheads only to arrive back at the pub an hour later in tears. Some say that the roads do move. Other say that new Donheads appear and dissapear at will. All I know is that there is a St Mary and a St Andrew and, just occasionally, when the feeling takes it, a St. Bastard.<br /> Certainly worth looking around our north Dorset/south Wiltshire Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty though. (Bloody good wine shop in Shaftesbury too!)</p> <p>There may be a few cyclists but you won't see a bus for love nor money in the villages! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860#post-110384 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:31:36 +0000 Scroat 110384@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Not an original idea, but I think some sort of collective madness takes people over when they get behind the wheel of a car, BMW or not. They suddenly get it into their heads that if anything either delays their journey in the slightest, or - heaven forfend - momentarily halts their forward progress, the correct response is to swear, shout, flash their lights, shake their fists or sound their horn. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860#post-110367 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:43:29 +0000 dvo4fun 110367@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well, I could probably put up with the odd cyclist.</p> <p>A few years ago I cycled about 500 km through the pleasant French countryside (well, it was pleasant until we reached our destination, Le Mans, which was rammed with loutish brits). I was astonished by the courtesy the native drivers displayed to cyclists, particularly at times when our snail-like pace delayed their progress. </p> <p>My training for the journey consisted mainly of a 25 mile trip, in and around the not-so-pleasant suburbs of west London. More hazards, in the way of dangerous &amp; inconsiderate drivers, in that single 'training session' than in the whole of the French trip. Got to have a screw or two loose, or doing it as an extreme sport, to cycle in UK towns. Unless the cycle has a motor fitted.</p> <p>Sorry, does this sound apologetic? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860#post-110342 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:11:45 +0000 writinginbsl 110342@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>an alternative spelling is donhead st mary or donhead st andrew;there may even be another one in that area too, deevo</p> <p>you wouldn't like them -they are full of cyclists</p> <p>so is sturminster mutant </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860#post-110326 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:09:41 +0000 dvo4fun 110326@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks bj. I gooogled "Donhead St Bastard" and all I got was your comment above. Did you get the speling wrog? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860#post-110322 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:57:13 +0000 Quaz 110322@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And they wonder why young people are't first time buyers. Hands up anyone who owns a second property they bought as an investment or holiday home? Rental's gone mental, I was in that there London in November and can't believe the rents, but then I never could back in the 90s. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860#post-110269 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:56:25 +0000 beau-jolly 110269@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Deevo: A garden flat in Donhead Lodge, Donhead St Bastard changed hands recently for £3.5m but a derelict cottage in our village went for only £380,000.<br /> Sturminster Mutant is cheeper. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860#post-110184 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:48:47 +0000 dvo4fun 110184@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@writinginbsl: just a thought deevo-have you ever driven round dorset? north dorset in particualr?</p> <p>what colour is your car, apart from the bloodstains, of course? </p> <p>i) Probably but a fair few years ago. However I have recently been scanning Zoopla's Dorset &amp; Hampshire pages in a vague search for a suitable retirement home</p> <p>ii) Difficult to say. Just can't get mrs4fun to hose it down during the winter months </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860#post-110167 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:54:34 +0000 Al OPecia 110167@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'd second that Quaz, it's like some sort of Stealth Cyclists movement. Note good for my high BP. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860#post-110158 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:07:10 +0000 Quaz 110158@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Not defending GBH with a bus in broad daylight, but when was it that so many cyclists (and it seems to be the teens/twenties) decided that not having lights while riding a bike at night was cool? I've got no great beef with cycling, we've all ridden one, but given that local councils are now switching off every other street light, it's not a good idea to go out at night on a black bike in dark clothing. I'm sure local bobbies used to pull you over for not having lights. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860#post-110149 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:11:26 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 110149@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"anyone who's wearing offensive clothing” - kilts? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860#post-110141 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:11:38 +0000 writinginbsl 110141@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>just a thought deevo-have you ever driven round dorset? north dorset in particualr?</p> <p>what colour is your car, apart from the bloodstains, of course? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860#post-110138 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:07:14 +0000 dvo4fun 110138@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well, I thought the bus driver was quite restrained. Given a chance like that I'd have backed over the cyclist before he had a chance of getting upright. Backwards and fowards a few times and he'd have soon have had the bike moulded into a nice banana shape suitable for mounting above the fireplace. Next to the cyclist's head. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860#post-110125 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:15:16 +0000 rikkor 110125@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like Boston (US) with more museums. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860#post-110123 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:27:41 +0000 The All New Jeni B 110123@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bus drivers around here are notorious for aiming at cyclists, pedestrians and anyone who's wearing offensive clothing. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38860#post-110122 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:22:35 +0000 rikkor 110122@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://gawker.com/5886061/the-driver-vs-bicyclist-fight-is-way-more-violent-in-england" rel="nofollow">http://gawker.com/5886061/the-driver-vs-bicyclist-fight-is-way-more-violent-in-england</a></p> <p>I thought you were all supposed to have lovely manners. </p>