Interesting viewpoint

When I was commuting daily to Brentford (60+ miles each way) I found it
was okay ish, provided one was generally having good days. Bad days at
work became magnified somewhat by the drive.

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I did around 25-30,000 business miles a year, commuting to customer
sites for about 7 years. It didn't seem bad at the time but in
hindsight it was a lot of time to spend in a car listening to CDs
alongside working a full day.

It's about 120 round trip into the main office for me these days and
that's fine once or twice a week, but grates when it's more. I do
consider it poor planning on my part if I can't arrange all the face to
face stuff to happen during a day or so each week though.

 

Siemens engineer today has recently changed role slightly. Down from 50,000
miles a year to 15,000 including personal. We agreed it was "a good thing".

 

Yep, I'd ahve thought so.

I reckon I'm doing a fairly average 12K a year in the car now, and
probably another 5-6000, or so, on 2 wheels, half of which is on
holidays across the water.

 

The benefits of the impact are often lost on the impacted, especially
at impact speeds over 30mph.

 

My, you must be pleased with your clever little pun.

 

hey, Everyone jumps red lights in London.

 

I've not read the rest of this thread so I may be well off beam but..
the cyclists that *don't* jump red lights are a fu(oo)king pain the arse
in London.

Get in the way, they do.

Piss.

 

Jeremy Clarkson has advice[1] for you on what to do next, if those
fu(oo)kin' lycra-nazi sandalistas of Islington don't get the fu(oo)k
outta the way.

But it's a joke, right? Ha ha ha!

[1] "Do not pull up at junctions in front of a line of traffic. Because
if I'm behind you, I will set off at normal speed and you will be
crushed under my wheels ... "

You're pretty funny too. It was a joke, right?

 

Err, no. No joke and it's interesting you mention Islington 'cos it's
those fuckers at the lights at the crossroads between Upper St. and St.
John's that are the worst culprits.

Spande3x is no joke. Even some (a lot/most) of the blokes have got nice
arse wearing them.

Cyclists get out of the way, generally just buy a tug of the bars and I
know it's the done thing to slag cyclists but the times I've ridden a
bike (bicycle) it's been bordering on the insane in a way that makes me
wish I had more of a clue about how the road works for cyclist.

It's fucking murder, Jim.

Oh, cheers. I (don't)[1] try

No, it wasn't a joke.

[1] Said don't 'cos most people say do, even though don't. I'm just
naturally funny then, I guess.

 

Badoom, *tish*