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  • GDB2222
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    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    In my day we'd have bribed a farmer with a bottle of single malt to get it out. I can assure you from experience that tractors are the best things ever for retrieving cars stuck in mud/sand/water.

    Failing that, we'd have drunk the bottle of single malt and set the car on fire as the tide came in as a nod to Viking funeral ceremonies, then called it in as stolen.

    Being in discussion with the council wouldn't even have registered on the scale of possible outcomes.....:rotfl:

    I'm not convinced a tractor could reach it. You obviously have more experience of these things. :)
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • GDB2222
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    vivatifosi wrote: »
    On my way home tonight I overtook two cyclists pedalling away quite happily in the dark with no lights on their bikes. The worst of the two was dressed in black, with a black rucksack, on a dark coloured bicycle and cycling down an unlit country lane.

    I thought this was a strange thing to do. Maybe they were caught out by the clocks changing. It doesn't seem very sensible.

    Is strange one of those euphemisms we have been having? Strange means utterly insane?
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  • vivatifosi
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    GDB.... it's almost as though they had that spoiler installed as a bl**dy big "pull me out of trouble with a heap big tractor" extra.
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
  • vivatifosi
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    Is strange one of those euphemisms we have been having? Strange means utterly insane?

    I'm still scratching my head over it tbh. It's quite a fast road (national speed limit, though I wasn't driving that fast), and I just shouted "!!!!!!" (only without abbreviating) while passing him. It wasn't even a kid.

    On that bit of road, if a car had been coming in the other direction, I'd have really struggled to slow down, pull out and go round. I'm pretty sure I could have slammed my anchors on and that would have been ok, but doesn't bear thinking about.

    I thought it was a legal requirement to ride with lights. Maybe I'm wrong. The other one was at least in town, so under street lights.
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
  • PasturesNew
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    I'm watching Channel 4, Can't Get the Staff.
  • GDB2222
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    vivatifosi wrote: »
    GDB.... it's almost as though they had that spoiler installed as a bl**dy big "pull me out of trouble with a heap big tractor" extra.

    I'm sure the owner will be well pleased to get his spoiler back. And possibly his boot lid with it. How much more than normal does a Toyota Celica weigh when the passenger compartment is filled with mud?
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  • vivatifosi
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    I'm watching Channel 4, Can't Get the Staff.

    Hopefully they won't be ironing newspapers this week.
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    I'm not convinced a tractor could reach it.

    There's not much a tractor can't reach.

    Especially with a long rope (in my day) or a kinetic recovery strap (giant bungee cord) these days......;)
    You obviously have more experience of these things. :)

    :o
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    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
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    vivatifosi wrote: »
    Hopefully they won't be ironing newspapers this week.

    Can I just say there's very little that can beat the feel of a freshly ironed newspaper in the morning.

    I miss that....
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • vivatifosi
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    I'm sure the owner will be well pleased to get his spoiler back. And possibly his boot lid with it. How much more than normal does a Toyota Celica weigh when the passenger compartment is filled with mud?

    (said tongue in cheek)...

    Perhaps the Coastguard can send the owner to the library to ask them.
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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