http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Time to be unbearably smug alert! en Mon, 18 May 2026 23:41:08 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344&page=2#post-128940 Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:36:48 +0000 Uberuce 128940@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I suspect I've been recognised a couple of times by NHS staff shortly after they've pulled some rubbish driving, after which they become angelic. </p> <p>Either that of there's one driver of NHS liveried vehicles who has extreme mood swings behind the wheel. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344&page=2#post-128907 Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:47:33 +0000 Coxy 128907@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hopefully by seeing that its someone they know, it might personalise things a little and make them think about how they're behaving. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344&page=2#post-128902 Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:44:36 +0000 Cyclingmollie 128902@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@baldcyclist, I've been cut up a couple of times by people I worked with. It's a weird experience. Really shows how people's personalities change when they drive. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344&page=2#post-128892 Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:23:53 +0000 kaputnik 128892@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>so decide to give the 'hiya, how are you doing, not seem you in ages' wave</em></p> <p>That's an old ruse that my Grandmother taught me. Being elderly and with arthritis, and refusing a stick, it could take her a wee while to get across the road. Whenever she got gyp off of motorists, she'd give them a big wave and a smile and feign recognition. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344&page=2#post-128885 Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:02:09 +0000 Baldcyclist 128885@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>drifting away....</p> <p>I was incredibly smug this morning. Coming up Morrison St I passed a Ford Ka and entered the ASL just at MacDonald cycles.</p> <p>Lights go green, and he races (well as much aas a Ford Ka can) up to the next set of lights at junction with Lothian Rd.</p> <p>Of course knowing sequence of lights I meander up behind him, and then give hime a little clap. You know, I just wanted to congratulate him on the awesomeness of his victory, seemed appropriate.</p> <p>For some reason he didn't appreciate my applause, and gave me the finger? Some people just don't appreciate being given credit I guess.</p> <p>Next set of lights he races past me again as I deliberately meander some more, he then tries to block my entrance to the ASL at the junction at Goldbergs (remember that?), so I meander past him again on the bus lane side and position in front of him.</p> <p>Then the punishment pass as he passes just at Soul cycles, and he gives me another middle finger wave.</p> <p>I'm then locking my bike up to the railings at work when he parks just in front in the parking spaces, and I recognise him from work (not my team though) so decide to give the 'hiya, how are you doing, not seem you in ages' wave.</p> <p>If there had been any stones lying around he would have crawled under it, his face was a picture, smug! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128883 Fri, 18 Oct 2013 09:57:08 +0000 Uberuce 128883@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Didn't he end up with Max's shotgun pointed at his head, and the trigger on a string that his dog held in its mouth?</p> <p>'Tis all yours. I'm calling dibs on being the wee radge kid with the tunnels. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128881 Fri, 18 Oct 2013 09:52:37 +0000 Coxy 128881@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bagsy the gyrocopter! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128877 Fri, 18 Oct 2013 09:13:03 +0000 Uberuce 128877@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Strike is off, but so is the plant. </p> <p>Time to degenerate into Mad Max 2 style barbarism. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128584 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:22:49 +0000 Cyclingmollie 128584@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Uberuce, don't say I didn't give you an out. Now get back on the naughty step. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128569 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:05:12 +0000 chdot 128569@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/grangemouth-oil-refinery-strike-called-off-1-3143476" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/grangemouth-oil-refinery-strike-called-off-1-3143476</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128327 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:57:53 +0000 Uberuce 128327@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Cyclingmollie: Newps, that line came from me. </p> <p>*huffs on step at how unfair it is for being busted for something he did of his own volition* </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128326 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:54:27 +0000 neddie 128326@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>INEOS is 50% owned by the Chinese:</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24473933" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24473933</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128321 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:42:40 +0000 kaputnik 128321@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I read somewhere once that INEOS is more like a private hedge fund that just happens to own and subsidiary petrochemical businesses that run themselves but send the profits back to HQ, borrowing a mountain of debt to finance acquisitions and then naturally having to be ruthless with costs to cover for all that borrowing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128320 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:33:46 +0000 steveo 128320@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>This, coupled with operating costs, adds up. </em></p> <p>Given Forties position as marker crude, if its shut in for any length of time the price of crude world wide goes up. When its able to resume production you retain that bump in price for while until the market corrects again. No loss for the government, no real loss for the crude pumping companies, INEOS still loses though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128227 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:27:03 +0000 chdot 128227@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"a third possibility is girls with similar interests who nonetheless manage to remember to take their shoes off indoors..."</p> <p>Now who's being chauvinistic?</p> <p>I am currently staring at an individual case by an individual (female) person that disproves that!!!</p> <p>I <em>could</em> post a pic. </p> <p>Off to get the mop. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128225 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:21:25 +0000 Cyclingmollie 128225@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Perhaps it's your dad, Uberuce, who should be on the chauvinist step. It's ambiguous. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128223 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:19:47 +0000 SRD 128223@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@uberuce, @arellcat a third possibility is girls with similar interests who nonetheless manage to remember to take their shoes off indoors... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128219 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:12:22 +0000 Uberuce 128219@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>*sits on the chauvinist step* </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128212 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:58:35 +0000 twq 128212@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@kaputnik - we may get 2 more days in the field life, but there is a loss of NPV in the field. This, coupled with operating costs, adds up. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128209 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:39:42 +0000 Arellcat 128209@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>the house smells like Grangemouth and my Dad wishes he'd only had daughters.</em></p> <p>Because girls are never into white spirit, noxious acrylic primer and electric power tools. :-/ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128207 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:30:14 +0000 Cyclingmollie 128207@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Uberuce: "White spirit later, the house smells like Grangemouth"</p> <p>"<a href="http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/31/turpentine-prevails/">A smell of petroleum prevails throughout</a>". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128179 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:47:10 +0000 kaputnik 128179@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Every day it is closed costs the exchequer somewhere in the region of £50m in lost taxes </em></p> <p>I'd say it's more like delayed taxes - if we lose 2 days of Forties oil now, we'll get 2 more days production life out of the field.</p> <p>:) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128127 Sat, 12 Oct 2013 19:16:28 +0000 Uberuce 128127@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I walked over some hot tar today, forgot all about it then flounced around over my Dad's carpets until I noticed my feet were sticky.</p> <p>White spirit later, the house smells like Grangemouth and my Dad wishes he'd only had daughters. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128126 Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:06:33 +0000 Morningsider 128126@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The strike will have a real impact on the country. Even a short term closure of Grangemouth will result in a closure of the Forties oil pipeline - which lands much of the north sea's oil output. Once this is closed it takes days to restart. Every day it is closed costs the exchequer somewhere in the region of £50m in lost taxes (possibly more). A two day strike could end up costing the UK hundreds of millions of pounds. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128122 Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:33:06 +0000 crowriver 128122@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Won't be so smug if the shops start running out of food though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128119 Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:11:13 +0000 allebong 128119@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The revolution might not be motorised, but EBCs delivery trucks will be. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128115 Sat, 12 Oct 2013 12:03:47 +0000 Darkerside 128115@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Panic buy fuel, you say?</p> <p>To Greggs! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128112 Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:39:02 +0000 Arellcat 128112@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My memories of the earlier strike were like that too. Fuel strikes mean no food deliveries, so first people panic-buyed the supermarket shelves empty. Then people were so afraid of running out of petrol that they topped up two or three times in a day, emptied the filling station tanks, and queued twice around the block. Then the tankers couldn't get there because either they were on strike anyway or the queues were in the way.</p> <p>Ride a bicycle and bake your own bread. Optionally, also build your own windmill and grow your own wheat. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128102 Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:04:40 +0000 chdot 128102@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"could shut most of Scotland"</p> <p>Just on R4 News, so it must be true. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11344#post-128101 Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:04:16 +0000 kaputnik 128101@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sadly I think you're very right Baldcyclist. Mainly a lot of hot union:employer rhetoric and counter-rhetoric.</p> <p>I'm sure it won't stop a lot of panicky buying however.</p> <p>My memories of the 2007/8 strike was how many people took it as an excuse not to come to work. "But I can't come in, I might run out of petrol" </p>