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Gt. Shefford Royal Mail impasse, Won't cross the road. |
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Jun 11 2015, 07:59 PM
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QUOTE (gel @ Jun 11 2015, 08:30 PM) Can't see why, if postie has issue, he doesn't just park on wrong side of road, with his 4 way flashers on. Can then step straight onto the grass verge; no need to touch tarmac. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-31...cross-road.htmlHave to say, that doesn't look like a very nice bend - I had a car written off when I was younger parked in something very similar to this, read-ended by a lorry. I was a bit aggrieved at the time, but it was a pretty poor place to park. I think the postie has a point, and getting your snail-mail by 3.30pm rather than 8.30am doesn't seem like such an inconvenience. Mind you, if it was me, I'd be complaining about those ruddy great red and green arrows someone's painted on the road outside my house.
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Jun 15 2015, 04:12 PM
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Jun 11 2015, 08:59 PM) Have to say, that doesn't look like a very nice bend - I had a car written off when I was younger parked in something very similar to this, read-ended by a lorry. I was a bit aggrieved at the time, but it was a pretty poor place to park. I think the postie has a point, and getting your snail-mail by 3.30pm rather than 8.30am doesn't seem like such an inconvenience. Mind you, if it was me, I'd be complaining about those ruddy great red and green arrows someone's painted on the road outside my house. Some of us still have (support) a milkman.
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Jun 16 2015, 07:17 PM
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QUOTE (Ruth @ Jun 16 2015, 07:56 PM) This is another sign of political correctness gone mad. This was ok for postmen and women to cross the road, but now the nanny state has taken over we now need somebody to hold our hands crossing the road. What are some other signs of political correctness gone mad?
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Jun 16 2015, 08:26 PM
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QUOTE (user23 @ Jun 16 2015, 08:17 PM) What are some other signs of political correctness gone mad? Match girls for example. Back in the day teenage girls were perfectly content to work with white phosphorus and die in agony from phosphorus necrosis of the jaw, and then without even a by-your-leave the nanny state imposed the Berne Convention. It's political correctness gone mad.
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Jun 16 2015, 09:44 PM
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QUOTE (user23 @ Jun 16 2015, 08:17 PM) What are some other signs of political correctness gone mad? Well those jolly dollies you used to see on Robertson's marmalade jars... you can't get hold of them for love nor money.... and when you ask at a shop whether they have any of those dollies and you start describing them you get told to keep your voice down.... It's political correctness gone mad I tells ya....
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Jun 17 2015, 03:47 PM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Jun 17 2015, 10:31 AM) And shoving a boy up a chimney(so to speak) is no longer acceptable. Is that a euphemism for Jimmy Saville?
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Jun 17 2015, 05:44 PM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ Jun 17 2015, 06:07 PM) My dad went down t'pit at 14, health n safety? Think not! Aye, and I'll bet he didn't join all the other daft b****** in't Union who 'ad to strike to get better conditions. Newmo wot?
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