Reply to: Alternatives to flying

[EternalOptimist]

Was it you in the VW, EO?

You should have put a spell on him & turned him into a toad...

Nooooo
No VW for me o green and scaley one

but sh!te drivers p!ss me off
politically correct t0ssers p!ss me off


with Churchill you get it all in one small package

[EternalOptimist]

I very nearly wiped out a VW Golf in my Jag when I put my foot down on the exit from a roundabout heading into Leeds on a wet Monday morning. That woke me up. The look of terror on the VW drivers face was a classic!!!

You proud of that ?
you @rse hole

[expat]

Nice idea AtW. Any agents here who would like to tell me how many teleworking contracts they've got on the Siebel technical side? I can tell you how many I found when I did a search, for "telework" or "teleworking" and no other keyword.

Did I miss the bit where people came up with teleworking contracts???

[wendigo100]

Going through life worrying about what might happen is not living in my book, if I choose to drive at 100mph in the outside lane throughout my life and save myself 30 minutes a day that’s extra time I can spend with my family and its a risk I’m willing to take.

No comment required!

Good thinking, ginger!

[Joe Black]

I have cycled round the Arc de Triomphe.

OK, on the pavement

Did that a few times some years ago, along with Place de la Concorde which is also fun, on a Jap sports bike. Mind you I was a bit younger, and a bit of a speed-freak then, so weaving through the traffic at 60-70 seemed a cool idea at the time.

Has anybody tried it? How far afield does it work?

Parameters: spend Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night at home in UK; work Mon-Fri. So in general, arrive Monday before lunch, leave Friday after lunch.

Or should I write my own timetable instead of trying to be an employee?

I tried doing the Euro-tunnel route for a couple of months on a previous contract, Brussels-London. Was quite quick and given the 1hr difference could leave circa 6am EST and get to work round 9:30.

In the end though went for the Eurostar option even though it added another hour or so, simply cause I could let the train take the strain so to speak.

[ASB]

You should try a 120mph tank slapper. TL1000 not called the widow maker for nothing.

I used to have an H2 Kawasaki. That was like a pig on blancmonge. Then I moved on to an early Z650. I think the frame was made out of papier mache. Truly lethal.

[oraclesmith]

Friend of mine did just that. Went over the handlebars and grabbed the front wheel. Chopped his thumb off !

[The Lone Gunman]

I've never been brave enough to ride bikes.

After I landed on my head falling off an ancient James motor scooter we drove up & down the back lane when I was a kid.

Sort of put me off, especially the picking bits of red ash out of my wounds...

When I were a lad (sorry TwATTy) I came of me pushy at full tilt on a black ash (sort of dry asphalt) track. I was wearing shorts and a cap sleeved T at the time. Took weeks for all the tulip that was embedded in my skin to come out even after the scrubbing that the nurse did (that fookin hurt). Scabs and puss for months.

[AtW]

Now now granddads, resist the temptation to indulge in "when I was a lad" stories, it ain't Friday just yet...

[Churchill]

I very nearly wiped out a VW Golf in my Jag when I put my foot down on the exit from a roundabout heading into Leeds on a wet Monday morning. That woke me up. The look of terror on the VW drivers face was a classic!!!

[The Lone Gunman]

<snip>
Still gees one up a little though.

You can't beat a nice fishtail in the morning, it smells of.... death, really.

You should try a 120mph tank slapper. TL1000 not called the widow maker for nothing.

[gingerjedi]

This reminds me of Kurt Cobain, he was a smack head but he drove a Volvo because it was perceived as the safest car on the road WTF? He blew his own head off in the end because the paranoia got to him.

Going through life worrying about what might happen is not living in my book, if I choose to drive at 100mph in the outside lane throughout my life and save myself 30 minutes a day that’s extra time I can spend with my family and its a risk I’m willing to take, anyway speed doesn’t kill, I drive a well built German car, I slow down when conditions dictate and speed up when I feel its safe and I stay away from the lorries, much safer than the nervous wreck driving the 15 year old rover wreck waiting for a dutch lorry driver to shunt him up the arse.

[hyperD]

I remember overtaking a lethargic driver on the brow of a hill on a dual carriageway in the dewy morning in a TVR Griffith 5.0L. Unfortunately just put down a little too much torque and the car happened to be facing the woman sideways before fishtailing like an epileptic on methamphetamine.

Never seen so much traffic slow down and take evasive action. I had to pull over after I finally stopped fishtailing and take a shot of Vaghi Baron de Sigognac from the old hip flask after that one...

[AtW]

Its dangerous if you flout the rules and stay in the car - once car is parked on hard shoulder passengers and driver should exit it and stay well away from it in a safe place, perfectly doable unless you are on a bridge or something.

Now dont mention airplanes...

[ASB]

I probably shouldn't mention this but the most dangerous place on the motorway is the hard shoulder. Even made into hansard.
http://www.publications.parliament.u...t/40401-24.htm

Knowing AtW's luck he'll probably get finihed off by a falling aeroplane having rear ended a broken down artic after he has suffered a freak engine failure.