Get down on the floor!

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hoopdriver

Guru
Location
East Sussex
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.
Do you not get the idea that I was being flippant?
 

vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
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.

You've let your precision wander....what would you do if only 4.67 people were shouting at you.
 

MontyVeda

a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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.
ITS NOT BIG OR CLEVER!!!!! :cursing: with an attitude like that, you should benefit from watching the new public information film exposing the dangers of red light jumping. ... more info here
 

ASC1951

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
Without sounding funny, why do people in the North of England.... and Wales say
'Floor'??
It is the GROUND!!
It's not a regional thing, MDB, it's a Young Person thing. MatthewT is, by the standards of C+, a very young person. He likely watches TV and Hollywood films, where miscreants are always forced to 'the floor'.
 
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Matthew_T

Matthew_T

"Young and Ex-whippet"
It's not a regional thing, MDB, it's a Young Person thing. MatthewT is, by the standards of C+, a very young person. He likely watches TV and Hollywood films, where miscreants are always forced to 'the floor'.
I do watch a lot of crime/traffic police programes. I am not that young though. Its just what I thought was most commonly said in these situations.
 

Mad Doug Biker

Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
Location
Craggy Island
It's not a regional thing, MDB

As far as I can tell, it is......

it's a Young Person thing. MatthewT is, by the standards of C+, a very young person. He likely watches TV and Hollywood films, where miscreants are always forced to 'the floor'.

That may be, but I have never heard anyone up here refer to it as the 'floor', even the young people, it just isn't said, so it is a NONregional thing here, ergo, it is regional!! :whistle:
 
I'm confused, is the ladies lingerie dept still on the ground floor or not?

MDB if the 'perp' was laid on the pavement then would he not be on a man made surface above the actual ground and therefore could be said to be laid on the floor? Or should it be lain?
 

ASC1951

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
That may be, but I have never heard anyone up here refer to it as the 'floor', even the young people, it just isn't said, so it is a NONregional thing here, ergo, it is regional!! :whistle:
I've never heard anyone over here refer to it as 'the floor' either. For it to be a regional usage, we need someone in Matthew's area who is considerably older than him to admit to using that word instead of ground .....
 

Mad Doug Biker

Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
Location
Craggy Island
I'm confused, is the ladies lingerie dept still on the ground floor or not?

It is a floor on the ground, so, err..... yes! ....... Or something.

MDB if the 'perp' was laid on the pavement then would he not be on a man made surface above the actual ground and therefore could be said to be laid on the floor? Or should it be lain?

I bloody knew some smartarse would point something like that out to me! :tongue: I actually was wondering how far I could stretch the definition anyway, as I was sort of making a generalisation/wingin it! :laugh::blush:[/quote]
 

Mad Doug Biker

Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
Location
Craggy Island
I've never heard anyone over here refer to it as 'the floor' either. For it to be a regional usage, we need someone in Matthew's area who is considerably older than him to admit to using that word instead of ground .....

I've certainly heard people saying it in the past on the telly who were a lot older, but alas, I have no proof to hand of this, or in fact their motives for saying what they did :unsure:


It is news to me that it isn't as common as it appears.
 
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