http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Jack reminisces about George en Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:25:50 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=866#post-7683 Fri, 28 May 2010 08:31:16 +0000 Smudge 7683@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"(I wonder how comfy it would be cycling in a bullet proof vet carrying several kilos of gun)"</p> <p>Vests rather depend on the type, as with all things, the more you spend... but guns, a nice little Glock, couple of magazines...no weight to speak of and very compact* ;-) could make calming down the road-ragers much quicker and simpler :-o I'll volunteer to test!</p> <p>Erm.. move along now, nothing to see here and for a really good acronym damhikijkok !!</p> <p>*next time the president is on telly try to spot which guards are armed and which are not, I bet you will be guessing! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=866#post-7668 Thu, 27 May 2010 18:37:26 +0000 Kim 7668@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>ROLF </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=866#post-7640 Thu, 27 May 2010 15:29:15 +0000 spytfyre 7640@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>policeman securing the road so the "leader of the free world" can take two security guards (I wonder how comfy it would be cycling in a bullet proof vet carrying several kilos of gun) on a jaunt without getting run over by an al-qaeda driven fish and chip van (under cover in Scotland), mind you they would be able to bribe the polis with a haggis supper... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=866#post-7639 Thu, 27 May 2010 15:25:42 +0000 chdot 7639@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Can we still hate dubyah knowing he cycles... :)"</p> <p>Let's not go there...</p> <p>I remember this at the time. Edinburgh came to a standstill.</p> <p>Not sure if GWB is 'blaming the policeman for being in the way'... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=866#post-7638 Thu, 27 May 2010 15:22:20 +0000 spytfyre 7638@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>he cycles into policemen and trees </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=866#post-7637 Thu, 27 May 2010 15:11:50 +0000 Stepdoh 7637@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nope, 'tis a subscription parliamentary diary thing that we get sent out in PDF format every day. Just had to republish the only cycling relevant quip I've seen!</p> <p>Can we still hate dubyah knowing he cycles... :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=866#post-7623 Thu, 27 May 2010 14:05:44 +0000 spytfyre 7623@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>that is fantastic, good sense of humour on Jack... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=866#post-7620 Thu, 27 May 2010 13:59:17 +0000 chdot 7620@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"From Parliament Today"</p> <p>you got a link? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=866#post-7617 Thu, 27 May 2010 13:54:09 +0000 Stepdoh 7617@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From Parliament Today</p> <p><strong>Jack reminisces about George</strong></p> <p>In an interview to be shown on BBC Alba on Monday at 10pm, Jack McConnell speaks about his time as First Minister. During the interview he refers to the accident George Bush had on his mountain bike in Gleneagles:</p> <p><strong>Jack:</strong> "That night I asked him, 'How did the mountain biking go?'<br /> <strong>George:</strong> 'I'm all bandaged up', and he showed me his back and he had a big red mark. I said, 'What's happened?' and he said, 'We were up in the hills, me with two of my security men, three of us on bikes coming down the hill at great speed and we turned a corner and this policeman was standing in the middle of the path and I've gone right into him, over the top of my handlebars and he got knocked out and he's in hospital in Perth'.<br /> <strong>Jack:</strong> "So I said, 'Mr President, I've had two days of 2,000 anarchists in Edinburgh trying to knock out a Scottish policeman and they never managed it, and you were here for two hours and you did it'. </p>