Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
A ship doesn't 'run afloor', does it? 
Get down on the floor!
- Thread starter Matthew_T
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TheLondonCyclist
Guest
So it runs aground?A ship doesn't 'run afloor', does it?
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
Eribiste
Careful with that axle Eugene
- Location
- Eckington, Worcestershire
Usually when the driver's showing off his fancy white cruise ship to his mates on some Mediterranean island....So it runs aground?
hoopdriver
Guru
- Location
- East Sussex
Sounds like it was better than the movie you were going to see...
Always good sport to see some poor slob get 'cuffed
Always good sport to see some poor slob get 'cuffed
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
I don't know how you can stand the excitement.
I was involved (professionally, you understand) with an in-theatre operation this week in a town that mos def wasn't in the north and the patient was brought in to the theatre suite handcuffed to a prison officer. The prisoner/patient was male but the officer was a female, but you wouldn't have wanted to fight her - heck, David Haye wouldn't have wanted to fight her!. She was, in their parlance, 'last man standing' as all the other prison officers - and there were a lot, this was a high profile prisoner - had dropped off one by one in the preceding departments leading to the operation room but she was still attached to him and remained so until he was declared 'unconscious'. She then removed the bracelet and was invited to remain with him during the procedure. But when the femorals were opened, she looked ill and left the room, pleading with the gasman to inform her when the anaesthetic was about to be reversed so she could re-attach herself to him. It was bizarre. How on earth did they expect a deeply sedated patient who'd undergone a very invasive operative procedure to have had the wherewithal and the physical capability to 'do a runner'? It was simply impossible but 'rules are rules' was the mantra she kept repeating.
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Matthew_T
"Young and Ex-whippet"
- Location
- Prestatyn, North Wales
It was exciting compared to the rest of the things I see when out and about.
deanE
Senior Member
- Location
- Falmouth, Cornwall
Well, you will live in Wales!
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
My first reading of the above had me thinking of the scenario set in a theatre as in a play. It took a couple of reads before the penny dropped.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
You could always go and watch some traffic lights change.
hoopdriver
Guru
- Location
- East Sussex
Nah, just run 'em. Far more exciting...
OP
OP
Matthew_T
"Young and Ex-whippet"
- Location
- Prestatyn, North Wales
Not when you get hit from a car going through a green.
hoopdriver
Guru
- Location
- East Sussex
It's the dodging that's the thrill. The screech of tyres, the blare of horns, the violent swerving...god, I love it. If you can't see a guy getting taken down and cuffed on a Friday night outside the cinema, nothing beats the adrenalin rush of spinning through a busy intersection against the lights.
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Matthew_T
"Young and Ex-whippet"
- Location
- Prestatyn, North Wales
Its not exactly thrilling when you are lay on the ground with broken ankles and wrists with a double collar bone fracture, with about 5 people standing over you shouting at you for going through a red light.
Something like that could damage a persons aspect of cyclists. Running red lights is bad for us all.
