THE BRITISH THREAD II

Steve 41oo wrote:

Talking of interesting people, I went for a bike ride on Sunday and was invited on a trip round India leaving 9th Feb.

I was riding alongside the organiser of the trip. 9 or 10 people taking bikes to (a poor province in) India for

http://www.lepra.org.uk/home.asp

Its not a holiday, you have to raise £1500 minimum sponsorship in UK and pay about £800 flights and accommodation. As they go from village to village they dole out the cash, so cutting out the corrupt middle men and local "government". Local people show what they've done with the money like medical equipment, new clinics and basic health care. I couldnt quite believe all this as she rode away from me uphill. Ms J is about 60 and has her own health problems which she refuses to give into. Its her 11th trip to India. 3 to Madagascar, 1 to Brazil. She also sports the biggest solitaire diamond ring I've ever seen and was up at 4 in the morning preparing roast sunday dinner for 9 before she went out for her 35 mile bike ride.

I thought I'd done pretty well just getting to the Silver Ball cafe and back.

I think you should do it, Steve. You will regret it all your life if you wimp out.

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Go4it Steve 41oo

I know a few folk who have done these trips - one of my friends has done this twice to Peru. She found it an amazing experience.

Get as much info as poss - then take a risk. Could be the best thing you ever do. Smile

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Yes don't wimp out whatever you do last Thursday I was going to get a bus into town to see a band in a pub but when it came to it I wimped out and I have regretted it for days ever since in fact and I don't even know if the band were on but what harm would it have done to have gone to see or even phoned the pub they could have told me I like the guitar player in that band he's fabulous not personally you understand not in a bad way but he's a great musician what he can't do with a guitar isn't worth knowing about and I like the style of music the band does in fact they play a mixed bag but it's all good so definitely worth a wasted journey even but what did I do I wimped out but I must say getting a bus into Stockport is not the same as taking a bike to India but hey the same principle applies if you stretch it a bit.

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Would much prefer a bike ride in India Very Happy

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Yes don't wimp out whatever you do last Thursday I was going to get a bus into town to see a band in a pub but when it came to it I wimped out and I have regretted it for days ever since in fact and I don't even know if the band were on but what harm would it have done to have gone to see or even phoned the pub they could have told me I like the guitar player in that band he's fabulous not personally you understand not in a bad way but he's a great musician what he can't do with a guitar isn't worth knowing about and I like the style of music the band does in fact they play a mixed bag but it's all good so definitely worth a wasted journey even but what did I do I wimped out but I must say getting a bus into Stockport is not the same as taking a bike to India but hey the same principle applies if you stretch it a bit.

See, thats the kind of humor that spendi just doesnt get. Thats why I like Ron Gervais cause he speaks without punctuation every so often.

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Aw shucks. We aim to please. Embarrassed

Yes, Spendy has a lot to learn. :wink:

I phoned the pub, and hooray, the good band are on.
So I will make amends for my actions last week, and go down there on the bus (mindful of the drink-drive laws) and be a patron of the arts this evening.

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See, thats the kind of humor that spendi just doesnt get.

I'm greatly relieved to hear that.

it is impossible to speak without punctuation because punctuation is a mere visual representation of pauses and stresses and rhythms in speech and its absence in written pieces is merely an affectation which is very easy to do just as it is easy toleaveoutthespacesbetweenthewordsshould thattatonesfancy which it rarely does for me as I find it boring and tiresome and not only lacking in humour but a distraction from the meaning attempted to be conveyed and theres always a space anyway between the end of one line and the beginning of the next and theres nothing one can do about that except get a very wide piece of paper which i might do if this format allowed and i didn't have to go and take my daily soak preparatory to going to the pub and if i hadnt seen mr joyce do it so much better than mac did what with him capitalising his is and all which shows just how important the first person pronoun is to him and now im back from my bath it might be worth saying that mr gervais is a tragic figure in the tony handcock mode of humour which is nowhere near os funny as benny hill or charlie drake and so far below sir henry rider haggard as laughing tackle that it is only worth discussing if one has nothing else to do which is not the case with me as i have to go to the pub shortly but i will persevere with this silly exercise until the very last minute hoping that it might bring a faint smile to farmermans severe countenance which has set in as a result of studying facts and evidence and peerreviewed documents of one sort or another such as darwins black box which is unlikely to be worth more than a passing glance unless one is really very bored which im not as im looking forward to continuing last nights discussion about how the money is made to go round and what the ladies make of our arrangements in that regard and so on and so forth

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spendius wrote:

My advice Steve is to ride around country lanes on your own or get one of those music players with earphones.

you know I read this but my screen wasnt showing who it was from.....but I guessed it was you Smile

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I dont believe its true that Spendy is humourless. I think he could be very drole (?). Its application the boy lacks.

Well the bad news is that I have [size=7]wimped out[/size]. I have a dentists appointment 9th Feb.

but there's always next year. And I think you'll agree that less than a months notice to raise £1500 sponsorship, get innocculated and pump me tyres up is a bit short.

However Ms J is a truly inspirational character. (She's the one I mentioned who popped over to New York for a few days before Christmas to do some shopping...with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAXjet_Airways they looked after her so well they went bust a week later)

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Droll steve.

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thks dp couldnt be bothered to check

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Join the Barmy Army Steve the next time England tour India. That should enable you to put £1500 into the Indian economy in tips for rickshaw drivers, barstaff, room service and not forgetting the washer off in the Eeeeyngleeesh brothel.

And you would have more fun than riding around with a silly old bat who has a diamond big enough to make your eyes pop out and is all mouth and probably likes being bowed to and is scouring the world looking for somebody to do it.

Flying to New York to do the bloody shopping. I ask you. They sell a full range of soups and bread and beer and whatnot just down the road from here.

She's flapping the wings of her ego now that her other wings are defunct.

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Wasn't Vera's demise handled so beautifully.

It makes one proud to be British.

The way Jack kept the paramedics at bay in case they revived her was really exquisite.

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Respect to the captain and crew of the British Airways flight from Beijing which had to crash-land at Heathrow.

A textbook operation, and nobody badly hurt.

Professional, highly skilled, cool in a crisis, and modest in the aftermath, these people are deserving of the highest praise.

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What do expect them to do Mac. It's their job. They have had very expensive training to deal with such things. What's so special about them doing it properly? And only the enquiry will decide about that.

Is it that it provides you with a nice easy opportunity to exhibit your magnanimous character and spurt your empathy with cool, skilled and modest actions sat in your armchair.

As far as I can discover the flight burned 35,000 gallons of fuel at about 260 gallons per passenger. At our pumps that would cost £1,300 per passenger on that flight with 130 odd passengers and that's just for fuel.

Tickets are £400. Something fishy it seems to me.

So when an opprtunity arises to present the whole business in a rosy glow the habitual international traveller is all over it like a rash.

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spendius wrote:

Join the Barmy Army Steve the next time England tour India. That should enable you to put £1500 into the Indian economy in tips for rickshaw drivers, barstaff, room service and not forgetting the washer off in the Eeeeyngleeesh brothel.

And you would have more fun than riding around with a silly old bat who has a diamond big enough to make your eyes pop out and is all mouth and probably likes being bowed to and is scouring the world looking for somebody to do it.

Flying to New York to do the bloody shopping. I ask you. They sell a full range of soups and bread and beer and whatnot just down the road from here.

She's flapping the wings of her ego now that her other wings are defunct.

thanks for your advice S now piss off

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spendius wrote:

What do expect them to do Mac. It's their job. They have had very expensive training to deal with such things. What's so special about them doing it properly? And only the enquiry will decide about that.

Is it that it provides you with a nice easy opportunity to exhibit your magnanimous character and spurt your empathy with cool, skilled and modest actions sat in your armchair.

As far as I can discover the flight burned 35,000 gallons of fuel at about 260 gallons per passenger. At our pumps that would cost £1,300 per passenger on that flight with 130 odd passengers and that's just for fuel.

Tickets are £400. Something fishy it seems to me.

So when an opprtunity arises to present the whole business in a rosy glow the habitual international traveller is all over it like a rash.

Spendy, you don't have to try so hard at being a miserable git.

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And you don't have to try so hard at being Mr Nice Guy either.

What was the name of those spuds again?

I've forgotten. Stick to stuff like that. The crew are not bothered about having your respect. They are probably too busy washing their underpants. It sure sounds like it was a bit hairy on the flight deck but I'm confident you or I could have managed it had we passed the tests, done the training and shagged all the stewardesses.

And Steve.

Mathos would have creamed the terminal building in a valiant effort to put it down in the car park.

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Golden Wonders. I've still got some left in the bag, and I'm saving some for my brother. He thinks I'm nice, too. Smile

Apparently the First Officer, who was at the controls, realised he had to try to keep the speed up to maintain some control and so pointed the nose down, only raising it at the last moment to clear the motorway and the perimeter fence.

Top man. It's the Jack Hawkins and John Mills breed, "Coming In On A Wing And A Prayer".

Jack Hawkins btw would never have delfowered a stewardess. He would have been the soul of courtesy and propriety, not to mention avuncular good humour, although very aware of their femininity, leaving them all intacta until they met a nice young chap from a grammar school background and became engaged.

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I fly in on Tuesday morning on a 777. I am scared shitless of flying at the best of times. Pray for me, someone!!

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