NIP question

When I got my NIP (104mph on the M25 variable speed section 5 years
ago), I rang them up and offered to TAKE a fixed penalty rather than
attend court; 3 points and a £40 fine.

Always worth a try.

 

No, it might make /me/ a nice first track bike.

ta

 

We didn't crash.

 

I'll try that. I've got to phone them up anyway - to find out the speed
and get them to send the photo.

 

Sure. Good eating, me.

 

Surely that doesn't work.

 

Mine too.

 

"Billy Bragg"

 

Spete wrote:

Heh, Spete, the "Anti-Des"

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My Bike 2000 Honda CB500
M'boy's Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X

BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26

 

With a bit of luck it'll be a simple 3 pts, £60 and "you're a very bad
and wicked person".

Hopefully.

 

Youngster. In 1989 I was got my first job after uni aged 37. I earned
11K - about the same as before uni, but with amazing potential (as it
turned out). My mortgage was tiny. My kids were teenagers. We were a
two earner (or even earer) household with few commitments.

A good year for me, and I finished the degree I had started 3 years
before.

--
Marina Mayes - Reading, UK. To email me remove XX from my address
XV535 (sold), GPZ500S (promised), SR250 (in bits). BOTAFOT12, BOD#2, BOTAFOS#2.
KotLBOD#s, KotLBOTAFOS#s,IMC#2, Tart#10-19, SR#3
Original Sinergy - wicked T-shirts for a wicked world: www.originalsinergy.com
I never give in to fear or blackmail; I always give in to temptation.
www.pericles.demon.co.uk
"You're a national treasure" - porl, 18.1.03

 

It's because when we speak, we say 've, which sounds like 'of',
although it's short for 'have'. Plain iggerance. I think it's also
because usenet is essentially a spoken system, even though written
down (IYSWIM) and we tend to be informal, whereas if we wrote a
letter, say, we would take more care. Mind you, it annoys the hell out
of me too.

--
Marina Mayes - Reading, UK. To email me remove XX from my address
XV535 (sold), GPZ500S (promised), SR250 (in bits). BOTAFOT12, BOD#2, BOTAFOS#2.
KotLBOD#s, KotLBOTAFOS#s,IMC#2, Tart#10-19, SR#3
Original Sinergy - wicked T-shirts for a wicked world: www.originalsinergy.com
I never give in to fear or blackmail; I always give in to temptation.
www.pericles.demon.co.uk
"You're a national treasure" - porl, 18.1.03

 

Christ I hope so.

 

Mine was for 72 in a temporary 50 on the M42 though.

 

My own pet hates are "arbitrator" and "burglarised". WTF not just say
arbiter and burgled?

 

<FX Jumps on Bandwagon>
My pet hates are
"sum-think" rather than "something" and particularly irritating is
"pacifickley" rather than "specifically". The other one which grates is "in
one foul swoop" which should be "in one fell swoop".

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My Bike 2000 Honda CB500
M'boy's Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X

BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26

 

"Fouls Swoop" can be correct.
When I were a lad I was strolling along the prom at Douglas with
my best girl by my side when a seagull swooped down and crapped
on the shoulder of my best suit.
That was one foul swoop!

 

Steve Brassett wrote

This seems to be the way of things. Last week I got a threatening
letter from the Electric board. Apparently I am not using enough
electricity so they are going to send the boys round, break into my
house and do something about it.

 

You keepa da lights on or we breaka your face.

 

1989, the year of my 21st birthday. I was at polytechnic in 1989, also part
time (day release and evenings), no kids (still not got any), no mortgage,
just renting a room in a shared house, work were paying my college fees, and
I was earning £11,500pa plus whatever overtime I could screw out of them
(which wasn't much), so I suppose I wasn't doing too badly really, though I
certainly wasn't rolling in it. Makes me boggle these days when I hear about
graduate jobs paying £12 - 14,000pa, I mean FFS I was earning nearly that in
1989 as an undergraduate and I didn't feel particularly well off on it even
then!