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Neil 
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 Posted: December 04 2006 at 07:17 |
I would move the age up to 21. This has several benefits: It reduces the number of people on the roads  It means that new drivers are more mature and it stops Chavs in their tracks 
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mystic fred
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Posted: December 04 2006 at 07:19 |
good thinkin', though i'd make it 25 
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Neil
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Posted: December 04 2006 at 07:20 |
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Sod it. 40.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: December 04 2006 at 07:25 |
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If it were 40, you'd only have just passed your driving test, Neil - think of the years and years of ranting you'd have missed out on.
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mystic fred
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Posted: December 04 2006 at 07:25 |
50!!!!!
Edited by mystic fred - December 04 2006 at 07:28
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Atavachron
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Posted: December 04 2006 at 07:26 |
 mystic fred wrote:
BTW time to open up a new "Grey Room" subject -
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I don't know, I miss sheds already and predict they will return like a hungry lover wanting more...obsessed, oozing back into our lives and us not being able to say no.
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Posted: December 04 2006 at 07:26 |
Hooray! I'm under-age.
Now that's not something I get to say, these days... 
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Neil
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Posted: December 04 2006 at 07:27 |
Jim Garten wrote:
If it were 40, you'd only have just passed your driving test, Neil - think of the years and years of ranting you'd have missed out on. |
You're backdating it. I'm talking about for new drivers. Anyway; being a typical male I think that every driver is worse than me anyway
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Posted: December 04 2006 at 07:29 |
Atavachron wrote:
mystic fred wrote:
BTW time to open up a new "Grey Room" subject -
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I don't know, I miss sheds already and predict they will return like a hungry lover wanting more...obsessed, oozing back into our lives and us not being able to say no.
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.....have you been reading those mucky novels again?? 
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Posted: December 04 2006 at 07:31 |
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Of course it all started with 'Lady Chatterley's Lean-To'
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Posted: December 04 2006 at 07:32 |
OH ALL RIGHT THEN...
My Net shed nightmare, by Net shed nightmare man
Shed man tells of his ordeal
Steve Riley - the Blackburn man locked in a shed and rescued only after his SOS was picked up on the Net - has spoken to The Register about his ordeal.
It happened last week, explained Steve, who is grateful to the US Net user called "Dennoginator" who picked up on Steve's cry for help and contacted police in the UK.
It all started when Steve went to his garden shed - which has a phone line installed but no phone - to plug in his laptop and check out the Web.
That was about 11.00pm on Thursday, October 11, after his wife had gone to bed.
At around 2.30am the door slammed shut, the bolt outside slid across and Steve was trapped inside unable to get out.
Steve's convinced it was done by some "yobs" outside and dismisses those who believe the door was blown shut by the wind.
"There was no way the wind could have blown the door shut and slipped the bolt," insisted Steve.
Trapped inside unsure what was about to happen, the next few minutes were nerve-wracking for Steve.
Fearing the worst, he believed that those responsible for locking him in the shed might set it on fire. Worse still, his wife was asleep in the house and he feared that they might try and break-in.
"It was a really scary situation," recalls Steve.
Thankfully, as the minutes ticked away and nothing happened, he became calmer and began to realise that he was safe.
This reassurance was welcome - but he still had to find a way to get out of the shed.
He tried to download some phone software so that he could make a call - but that didn't work. He tried emailing friends in the hope that someone also shared his nocturnal online habit, but no-one replied.
He posted messages on Web sites and newsgroups in the hope that someone might be around to help him.
"This is not a hoax. I am trapped in my shed with no phone. Help please," he wrote, giving the phone number of the local police and his address in Blackburn.
Three hours after becoming a prisoner in his own garden shed, he finally made contact with Dennoginator, a US Net user, on ebay's UK site.
Steve is just grateful that Dennoginator believed his story, picked up the phone and called police in the UK. Minutes later - at 5.45am - Steve was freed and his ordeal had come to an end.
Steve tells us he's now installed a phone in his shed and beefed up security with a five-lever mortise lock. ®
WHAT A t**t!!
Edited by mystic fred - December 04 2006 at 07:34
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Atavachron
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Posted: December 04 2006 at 07:32 |
mystic fred wrote:
Atavachron wrote:
mystic fred wrote:
BTW time to open up a new "Grey Room" subject -
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I don't know, I miss sheds already and predict they will return like a hungry lover wanting more...obsessed, oozing back into our lives and us not being able to say no. |
.....have you been reading those mucky novels again?? |
No but I should start writing them
Edited by Atavachron - December 04 2006 at 07:34
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Posted: December 04 2006 at 08:00 |
mystic fred wrote:
OH ALL RIGHT THEN...
My Net shed nightmare, by Net shed nightmare man
Shed man tells of his ordeal
Steve Riley - the Blackburn man locked in a shed and rescued only after his SOS was picked up on the Net - has spoken to The Register about his ordeal.
It happened last week, explained Steve, who is grateful to the US Net user called "Dennoginator" who picked up on Steve's cry for help and contacted police in the UK.
It all started when Steve went to his garden shed - which has a phone line installed but no phone - to plug in his laptop and check out the Web.
That was about 11.00pm on Thursday, October 11, after his wife had gone to bed.
At around 2.30am the door slammed shut, the bolt outside slid across and Steve was trapped inside unable to get out.
Steve's convinced it was done by some "yobs" outside and dismisses those who believe the door was blown shut by the wind.
"There was no way the wind could have blown the door shut and slipped the bolt," insisted Steve.
Trapped inside unsure what was about to happen, the next few minutes were nerve-wracking for Steve.
Fearing the worst, he believed that those responsible for locking him in the shed might set it on fire. Worse still, his wife was asleep in the house and he feared that they might try and break-in.
"It was a really scary situation," recalls Steve.
Thankfully, as the minutes ticked away and nothing happened, he became calmer and began to realise that he was safe.
This reassurance was welcome - but he still had to find a way to get out of the shed.
He tried to download some phone software so that he could make a call - but that didn't work. He tried emailing friends in the hope that someone also shared his nocturnal online habit, but no-one replied.
He posted messages on Web sites and newsgroups in the hope that someone might be around to help him.
"This is not a hoax. I am trapped in my shed with no phone. Help please," he wrote, giving the phone number of the local police and his address in Blackburn.
Three hours after becoming a prisoner in his own garden shed, he finally made contact with Dennoginator, a US Net user, on ebay's UK site.
Steve is just grateful that Dennoginator believed his story, picked up the phone and called police in the UK. Minutes later - at 5.45am - Steve was freed and his ordeal had come to an end.
Steve tells us he's now installed a phone in his shed and beefed up security with a five-lever mortise lock. ®
WHAT A t**t!! |
Do you mean to say he had no useful tools in his shed that would have enabled him to saw or chisel his way out of the shed? Why sort of web sites was he checking out at 11pm after his wife had gone to bed? Hmmm, I wonder.
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Neil
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Posted: December 04 2006 at 08:02 |
chopper wrote:
mystic fred wrote:
OH ALL RIGHT THEN...
<H2>My Net shed nightmare, by Net shed nightmare man</H2>
<H3 ="Standfirst">Shed man tells of his ordeal</H3>
<DIV id="">
Steve Riley - the Blackburn man locked in a shed and rescued only after his SOS was picked up on the Net - has spoken to The Register about his ordeal.
It happened last week, explained Steve, who is grateful to the US Net user called "Dennoginator" who picked up on Steve's cry for help and contacted police in the UK.
<DIV id=MidArticleSlot ="Ad">It all started when Steve went to his garden shed - which has a phone line installed but no phone - to plug in his laptop and check out the Web.
That was about 11.00pm on Thursday, October 11, after his wife had gone to bed.
At around 2.30am the door slammed shut, the bolt outside slid across and Steve was trapped inside unable to get out.
Steve's convinced it was done by some "yobs" outside and dismisses those who believe the door was blown shut by the wind.
"There was no way the wind could have blown the door shut and slipped the bolt," insisted Steve.
Trapped inside unsure what was about to happen, the next few minutes were nerve-wracking for Steve.
Fearing the worst, he believed that those responsible for locking him in the shed might set it on fire. Worse still, his wife was asleep in the house and he feared that they might try and break-in.
"It was a really scary situation," recalls Steve.
Thankfully, as the minutes ticked away and nothing happened, he became calmer and began to realise that he was safe.
This reassurance was welcome - but he still had to find a way to get out of the shed.
He tried to download some phone software so that he could make a call - but that didn't work. He tried emailing friends in the hope that someone also shared his nocturnal online habit, but no-one replied.
He posted messages on Web sites and newsgroups in the hope that someone might be around to help him.
"This is not a hoax. I am trapped in my shed with no phone. Help please," he wrote, giving the phone number of the local police and his address in Blackburn.
Three hours after becoming a prisoner in his own garden shed, he finally made contact with Dennoginator, a US Net user, on ebay's UK site.
Steve is just grateful that Dennoginator believed his story, picked up the phone and called police in the UK. Minutes later - at 5.45am - Steve was freed and his ordeal had come to an end.
Steve tells us he's now installed a phone in his shed and beefed up security with a five-lever mortise lock. ®
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Do you mean to say he had no useful tools in his shed that would have enabled him to saw or chisel his way out of the shed? Why sort of web sites was he checking out at 11pm after his wife had gone to bed? Hmmm, I wonder. |
All he had was a box of tissues
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sleeper
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Posted: December 04 2006 at 08:15 |
mystic fred wrote:
BTW time to open up a new "Grey Room" subject -
i was discussing driving tests with a friend recently and wondered if i could still pass it nowadays (took mine in April 1971 and passed 1st time after 10 months tuition), is it more difficult to pass now? then why does there seem to be more idiotic behaviour, is it overcrowding? should they make it more difficult to pass?
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I dont know if its got harder but my brothers not having much luck. The problem is thatt he ignition key tends to turn on the engine and turn off the brain.
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Neil
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Posted: December 05 2006 at 05:46 |
Don't worry. All the recent immigrants with "I can drive" written on the back of a beermat will make up for it. 
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Posted: December 05 2006 at 13:09 |
I take a leave of absence for a couple of days and Fred locks himself in his shed with only tissues and his crusty ( oops, trusty ) laptop. To remedy your situation instead of all these outside padlocks, why not install a doorknob with keyhole which locks and unlocks from the inside... This way tissue time can be a safe time .
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Posted: December 05 2006 at 15:17 |
alias10mr wrote:
I take a leave of absence for a couple of days and Fred locks himself in his shed with only tissues and his crusty ( oops, trusty ) laptop. To remedy your situation instead of all these outside padlocks, why not install a doorknob with keyhole which locks and unlocks from the inside... This way tissue time can be a safe time . |
.....moi ??
Edited by mystic fred - December 05 2006 at 15:18
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Posted: December 05 2006 at 19:10 |
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I just received my copy of "Garden Shed" in the post today, I will be busy listening to it for a couple of hours.
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DEATH TO FALSE PROG!
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Posted: December 06 2006 at 06:35 |
Bastille Dude wrote:
I just received my copy of "Garden Shed" in the post today, I will be busy listening to it for a couple of hours. |
enjoy!
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