Today I'm angry about.....

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Still can't access my own thread.
Outraged!

[Bijou Bob]

I take back my "Welcome back Spotty" post. Feck back off

[Hoboh]

Pru, do you recall an upsurge in young men chasing after grannies following Rooney's indiscretions? Give the young some credit.

I do actually think it is in bad taste giving the bloke his old job back until he proves he is or was innocent, but I also find all this outpouring from various mainly feminist groups distasteful as well.
It is about time the authorities got a grip on these and there is no other word for it, bullying Facebook/twitter campaigns.

Can I just clarify something I said earlier about if it was my daughter, yep I'd be fcuking furious with Evans and his pals but the same would apply to my daughter if she was doing drugs, getting pissed and prepared to go back to a hotel with someone she'd known for such a short while.

My own belief is the judge in this case exercised too much influence on the jury and made this sordid business even more difficult to get to the bottom of than it was.

I ain't going to post anymore about this subject.

[bobo the clown]

Is it just me .... or are half the roads in Britain undergoing roadworks right now ?

I appreciate improvements but the quantity, duration and sheer yardage closed off for quite small workings are making short nip-to journeys a real mess.

[Worthy4England]

Is it just me .... or are half the roads in Britain undergoing roadworks right now ?

Are you undergoing roadworks too?

[twilight]

This new bus link from Leigh to Manchester is doing everybody who lives local round here's nut in! Absolutely crazy, Balfour beatty must have dug up/closed off every single main road possible...even side streets!! Nobody wanted this bus link to happen in the first place, we waned a train station. Total waste of money

[bobo the clown]

Is it just me .... or are half the roads in Britain undergoing roadworks right now ?

Are you undergoing roadworks too?

Probably. You ??

[clapton is god]

Is it just me .... or are half the roads in Britain undergoing roadworks right now ?

I appreciate improvements but the quantity, duration and sheer yardage closed off for quite small workings are making short nip-to journeys a real mess.

The M60 has turned from being my best friend into my worst enemy. From where I am in south Manc I could get to Rochdale (outside peak period) in 20 minutes. Now its an hour. I regularly do a complete circuit of the M60 in the course of a working day but it takes me hours longer to do that some days. Smart Motorway? Pah, I say! And has anyone seen any workmen doing any actual, you know, work? The cones and average speed cameras appeared weeks ago but then 'work' seems to have come to a shuddering halt. And are the cameras actually working? I'm getting fed up of conforming to the 50 only to have white van man and BMW/Audi's racing past me.

And last night, took us 3hrs40min's to get from here to Liverpool. Bloody M6 closed! Traffic nightmare!

[bobo the clown]

↑↑↑ Yep. The riadworks where no-one actually seems to work are the ultimate angry-maker.

Combine the progressive work on "smart motorways" with the (rather odd) decision to change metal central barriers with great concrete block barriers (how's THAT safer ??) and it's like a plan to frustrate the beejeebers out of all of us I reckon.

[Worthy4England]

Here at the minute, they've reduced the main road into Manchester to one lane - it will take a couple of years - to put in a "guided bus route" that most folks will probably ignore. You can't hop onto the M60, as Clappers points out, they're doing that too. And there's some sewer works going on digging up the rat runs. It's total gridlock in the morning...Can't actually get out of our side road which is now being used as a cut through to even start heading in the right direction.

[TANGODANCER]

I'm getting fed up of conforming to the 50 only to have white van man and BMW/Audi's racing past me.

And all those pick-ups with "Motorway Maintenance" stickers proudly displayed, of course. If a twentieth of em were legal the work would be done in no time.

[thebish]

Is it just me .... or are half the roads in Britain undergoing roadworks right now ?

I appreciate improvements but the quantity, duration and sheer yardage closed off for quite small workings are making short nip-to journeys a real mess.

bloody tories...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I take back my "Welcome back Spotty" post. Feck back off

I just love these dialogues; deep and meaningful exchanges of raw opinion.

[Bruce Rioja]

Roadworks and temporary lights between Holcombe and Ramsbottom. Dig the road up once and do whatever it is that you're supposed to be doing properly, you bunch of shitcunts!

[Always hopeful]

Whilst they frustrate me as much as the next man, I actually welcome roadworks. Maintenance has to be carried out at some point. They're a necessary evil that simply can't be delayed indefinitely.

Having said that, seeing mile upon mile of 'smart motorway upgrades' without seeing any activity at all baffles me. Maybe they're working nights.

Oh and Bobo, I can only assume that concrete barriers are more robust than metal ones and are better at directing stray vehicles back into the traffic travelling in the same direction, thus reducing the relative momentum of impacting vehicles, compared to breaking through metal barriers and hitting oncoming traffic. Also, if a concrete barrier gets damaged, a new one can simply be dropped in place in next to no time, compared to the time needed to repair metal barriers. Therefore, reducing disruption and also reducing the time that workmen are exposed to risk. I'm pretty sure they also require less maintenance than steel barriers in the long term. Once again, ensuring reduced maintenance costs and disruption to the traveller in the future.

I also suspect that the mechanical integrity of the metal barriers has reduced over the years (I've never seen anyone maintaining these barriers, ever), so there's the real possibility that all the metal barriers in the UK are completely shot and need replacing.

I might be wrong however.

[Dujon]

Having said that, seeing mile upon mile of 'smart motorway upgrades' without seeing any activity at all baffles me. Maybe they're working nights.

I would surmise that you are correct, Ah. It's done here as a matter of course on motorways, free-ways and busy main roads; safety and efficiency I guess.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

The organised campaigns whingeing about the billion pounds spent on the Rosetta comet mission over twenty five years... For fecking fecks sake, here's a list of stuff that we as European citizens spend voluntarily on in the course of a year more than we've spent on the entirety of the Rosetta mission:
1. Mascara
2. Beer
3. Pornography magazines
4. Cones (you know, them things that line every fecking motorway)
5. Vanity surgery
6. Border controls
7. Passports
8. Artillery shells
9. Landfill disposal
10. Yoof workers

In actual fact, in eight out of the ten cases we spent the entire Rosetta budget in under a month... I bet you can't work out which ones took nearly a year to spend the entire allowance budgeted for a science project that could possibly explain to us our exact place within the universe.

And just to reinforce the point, here's an extra set that we've spent almost the same amount on over the same period, and I don't see any campaigns against these:

Bird cages
Asbestos disposal
Uranium ore extraction
Contaminated nuclear waste product disposal
Disney products for children to wear
Stilleto high heel manufacture
Gold mining
Diamond mining
The proportion of the world's cotton production used as brand labels on clothing

[thebish]

http://www.globalwitness.org/campaigns/ ... t-diamonds

http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/CAMPAIG ... nt//3118//

http://www.greenpeace.org/international ... ear/waste/

http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/conten ... -2007-2008

[Lost Leopard Spot]

http://www.globalwitness.org/campaigns/ ... t-diamonds

http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/CAMPAIG ... nt//3118//

http://www.greenpeace.org/international ... ear/waste/

Ok so there's a campaign against diamond mining, but so there fecking should be...

[thebish]

and bird cages, and uranium ore extraction and nuclear waste disposal...