so sorry for upsetting you all

dave says...

It shows, you're as thick as pig-shit with an inablity to spell or
enter into comprehensible communication. Typically Livingston in my
experience.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

LOL!

I don't doubt it for a minute, old bean.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, dave

Oh I believe *you* are, you thick porridge-wog ****.

No one else would be dumb enough to eke out an existence in that
festering shithole.

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and Ducati Race Engineer.

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Wicked Uncle Nigel yik-yakked:

You called? Oh, hang on.
[Reads thread]

My word - there's an even thicker PWC than me now? I are so proud.

 

I resemble that remark.

I used to blame it on dyslexia or dyspraxia or aspergers but now that
I've had the tests it turns out I'm thick [1].

I wouldn't use the words festering shithole to describe Livingston but
it is a place with lots of roundabouts and a shopping mall as it's centre.



[1] Courtesy of Jack Dee

 

I spent the first 4 years of my life in Livingston. Think it was quite
nice back then.
Don't remember much about it but I *do* remember my neighbour was this
terribly troubled spaz kid who spent his waking hours fitting at the passing
traffic and chasing passing ambulances with just enough change for a Flake
99, given to him, no doubt, by one of his mum's departing clients.

Thinking about it now, I'm *sure* his name was Dave, or something.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, sorby amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Has the universe just folded? There was a kid that did that who lived
round the corner from me way back in... blimey, the 70s?

Don't know what his name was but he wore glasses and always seemed to be
wearing a blue zip-up top with a red stripe up the front.

 

Just like MK, but without the nice bits.

Livyy architecture...

1.
There are blocks of terraced 3 or 4 storey houses, with each storey set
back from the one below, so that the upper storeys have a decent sized
'garden' area that is private; actually, it's the flat roof of the one
below.

These houses were kit-built and were originally destined for the Middle
East but the contract fell through. Livingston Dev Corp bought them
cheap and threw them up.

Now, the interesting thing is... houses generally built for Middle East
conditions don't usually have to cope with days and weeks of endless
rain. From year one, those houses leaked like sieves.

2.
There are blocks of 3 storey townhouses that were built with flat roofs.
Once again, leakage became such a problem that retro-fitting them with
convential pitched roofs was the only option. Millions that cost.

3.
One of the areas attempts to evoke the atmosphere of a Mediterranean
fishing village, with a winding sloping lane surrounded by nice little
housettes on each side. Great idea and it might have worked if it wasn't
for the utter lack of car access.

Not quite an utter shithole, but planning fuckups certainly leant it
that way.