Fist of Fury, right enough. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me. Folding@Home Team UKRM http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47957
"This is a local group, for local people." This is what happens when we open the gates and let dickheads have free access to our green pastures. We're not exactly short of pedantic cunts ourselves and we certainly don't need any more, tyvm. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me. Folding@Home Team UKRM http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47957
There's no doubt in my mind that the person to whom I'm responding is very dull and might even be a bit thick. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me. Folding@Home Team UKRM http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47957
I know it is. I thought I was being clever because I knew the IoM wasn't part of the UK but I might have fucked up. I'll keep quiet and probably kill the entire thread as a defensive tactic.
Oh ... you mean like the A9 (which is what prompted the comment)[/QUOTE] No. You're not that bright, really. As others have now stated, the Isle of Man.
Ah, the usual "not part of the UK" bit frantically googled by someone who realises he forgot about the IoM. Tough shit. You lose.
snip> Good technique. I've got another public road in mind where you can speed with impunity on certain days but it might not be as public as I first thought.
Not at all. If this had been a non uk specific group, then it would have been fairly automatic to ask "which country?" But when the all the groups are uk groups, and we were talking specifically about uk law, it is reasonable to assume that a road number refers to a UK road, unless indicated otherwise. And I am quite certain that it was deliberate on the part of Raden to post in that way, specifically to draw the reaction he did. As it happens, I *didn't* just assume that, because I am a pedantic sod, and I'm used to people playing sneaky tricks like that on usenet. But I do think it was a perfectly reasonable assumption for Cynic to make.
No. You're not that bright, really. As others have now stated, the Isle of Man.[/QUOTE] You mean as others have no wrongly stated, since the Isle of Man is not part of the UK.
There is no way I could come close to competing with most of those from the motoring groups on that one.
PC Paul () gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying : uk.rec.motorcycles is usually good for entertainment value, too.
He knows I meant "this country". I know I meant "this country" He didn't think of the IoM. I, and every other motorcyclist posting here, knew of the IoM. No, the IoM is not, technically, part of the UK. I admit that. However, I am not the one trying to weasel my way out of an argument by refusing to admit that I didn't think of the one place in the British Isles where there are no speed limits. Had I said "British Isles" or simply "Britain" he still would not have got the point. As I've said a hundred times before, if you make an error on Usenet, best to fess up at once (see above, and see my earlier goof) rather than try and say "Oh, yes, but in fact I'm really right because...." because all you do is give yourself a bigger shovel to dig a deeper hole. He loses.
Not a physicist, are you ? e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation of course you don't get much to the pound on a congested motorway
