brokenflipflop
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- Worsley
Knew it
Dangerous horse riders again
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Becs
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- Location
- Old Hatfield (it's nice honest!)
Listen darlin', if the kids want to mix it on main roads with the grown-ups and be partly responsible for nearly getting a grown-up killed then they'll have to put up with the occasional bollocking. Now toddle off and make yourself pretty
like I said, ignorant, pr*ck.
brokenflipflop
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- Worsley
me or thee?
brokenflipflop
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I'm trying to have a discussion here luv. Is there no ironing you can be getting on with ?
Deary me !
This isn't where the thread started, but it's a reasonable question. Your OP gave every impression that the malefactor in your tale was the WVM, who was not riding a horse. But as you've asked a reasonable question, here's an answer:
The UK road network is nothing more or less than a series of linked thoroughfares allowing the passage of vehicles, people and goods between one location and another.
It was designed and has been adapted over the decades for use by pedestrians, powered vehicles, horses and horse-drawn vehicles. Probably other things too...
Horses, bicycles and pedestrians are not allowed on certain roads.
UK Road users are not required by law to demonstrate that it is necessary for them to use a road; be this by car, horse, bicycle, lorry or on foot.
If young Anaesthesia or Cordelia has a horse in Field A and would like to move the horse to Paddock B, where the two locations are connected only by Road C, it may be concluded that it is necessary for the horse to be ridden on Road C.
Similarly, if either girl wants to ride on the road from Field A to a nearby traffic junction and then back to Field A, it may be concluded that it is necessary for the horse to be ridden on Road C.
I use the roads as a cyclist, often simply to ride from my home back to my home, via a place I have no need to visit. In order to go for that ride, it is necessary for me to ride on public roads. Some motorists would rather I didn't.
I'm not sure what your point is, but it seems to hinge on the matter of necessity.
As a teenager I used an argument similar to yours about Latin teachers, arguing that the only possible need for them was to train more Latin teachers. I've since found that without Latin teachers there would be a tragic dearth of passable written English.
I thought this thread of arrant trollery was dead and beginning to smell, but you have breathed life into its slightly rotten corpse.
BFF, you are a genius. Up to a point.
brokenflipflop
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Happen yer can. Has tha geet thee spuds
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- Old Hatfield (it's nice honest!)
you just love proving my point don't you!
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