StreetCowboy

Have the rules on discussion of the sex trade changed with Thaiger?

My mate’s Dad was a railwayman, working out of Sydney. My mate had missed the last stopping train home, but, since he knew all the drivers, he thought he’d see what he could ask. ”No, there’s no way I can make an extra stop; what I’ll do, I’ll slow right down, and if you jump off and start running before you land on the platform, you’ll be fine” So the driver slowed down, and he stood at the cab door… “JUMP!” and he was off, legs spinning and arms flailing. He ran alongside the train and started to slow down; just as the last coach passed him, two big arms grabbed his shoulders “Street, you were lucky mate! This train doesn’t normally stop here”, said the guard, as they sped off, into the night.

Health and Efficiency

All roads lead to Rome, even if you go by the barbers'. Or maybe look the other way

In the spirit of the thread, I have done a Youtube search for songs about scissors. Have you ever changed the subject? I'd not listened to this before I posted it - "fire" in one syllable - that's like Christmas! It's "FIRE" as in "Fire" not "Fiiyah" as in Martin Offiah. But if even Stuart Adamson can't get it right I am paddling a canoe 400 miles upstream. Miles, not Miyals.

He'd have probably not enumerated three in that case. Not when there were scissors in the house.

My father told me that if there hadn't been three tunnels on the train into Edinburgh he'd have never got married, and I have no reason to believe that is true, and I haven't even checked if there are three tunnels.

You may or may not recall that I enjoyed my first trip to Hua Hin much more than my other, and we stumbled somewhat intoxicated to get the sleeper back to Bangkok Hualamphong... Well, the least said about those escapades the better, but in terms of songs about trains, which do you find the most romantic? Clarksville? London? Central? Or here? Or 400 miles away? In terms of tragic sadness, I think you can't beat "It's a <deleted>e state of affairs, Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won't make any bloody difference". But that was not specific to the train nor the station.

When it comes to smashing blokes, I think you would need to search hard to match Johnny Wilkinson or Kevin Sinfield

As far as I am aware, you can ride a bicycle anywhere that you want to, and it is a matter for the police to prosecute you if that is against the law, not casual passers-by. Sadly, traffic planners may not understand what is safe, or unsafe, for cyclists, and that issue may not be high on their list of priorities in any case. "Regardless of whether our road is the safest for you to ride on, by posting a sign prohibiting it, we can claim absolution from any accident that you suffer on our road" My view is that we all have a duty to drive or cycle, walk, pogo-stick or space-hopper as best we can, and any accident that is down to our negligence cannot be completely absolved by posting a sign saying "you are not welcome here". However, in the absence of fault or carelessness by others, it is hard to claim against them. SC

As a law abiding person, I trust the judges to make sure that conviction is sound more than I trust the police to make sure that they get find the right man

That's a great point, Swissie. Maybe it is time for internet life to cast away from the mundane, the temporal, and focus only on the Virtual, on what goes down in the Virtual World, whether that be this forum, or Youtube, or anything else that does not require a relationship with the temporal world of concrete real life. The Cycling Forum will not be going that way.

Do you have a ranking for that? As a big-spending Big-Nose, I have found Thailand quite welcoming, albeit potentially bureaucratic, and I am not sure how people from neighbouring countries on whom the economy relies for cheap labour find the bureaucracy SC

Don't tell him, Pike. He might suspect we all think that.

The concern is not that people are arrested for doing illegal acts, rather that it is considered news-worthy because of their race. If the new read "Last week XX Thais and YY Foreigners were arrested for ??? offence, and yet the ratio of population is AAA / BBB compared to XXX / YYY", then their race might be relevant. Without those statistics, the headlines are just rant-bate.