Are you saying I ever claimed to be a gentleman?
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Good point, well made..
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SPotted yesterday one http://www.postcodeloterij.nl white bike locked to a lamp post on Scotland Street. Nice white bike with green mudguards, orange fork and black front rack. Single brake. Am trying to upload a pic to photobucket but the app is pants so am in the process of creating a flicker account.
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On Brougham Street, a young student-type who had been pulled over by two motorcycle cops.
I don't know what she's done; she passed me 50 yards earlier and didn't seem to be doing anything wrong. The police had done a u-turn in the street so she must have done something that drew their attention.
Looked like she was getting a ticket.
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@Stickman - based on my experience of never being stopped by police in Edinburgh when driving, but having been pulled over twice when cycling, she was "holding up traffic". Probably by using something the seditionists call the "primary position".
Robert
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@Roibeard
Incredible. Do you think I could have called the police last weekend to ticket the owner of the three thousand pheasants impeding my progress down Glen Lyon?
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If the student type actually got a ticket rather than a warning that is a change of tack. Polis usually publicise their campaigns. It is always tempting when stopped by polis to ask if they don't have anything better to do. But this would not be well received. I have always been polite and have never received a ticket. As a youth I once took a smashed glass off a girl at a party, she was wanting to stick it in her ex-boyfriend. I then took bus back to Ayr and was lifted quite close to the cop shop as they thought I smashed a shop window (I see how they could have thought that). Was then released and continued up whitletts road and watched Richard Harris on the late night movie in A Man Called Horse getting lifted into the air by his pectoral muscles which had eagle claws inserted into said chest area.
@scoosh I am guessing you are in the category above student but before mature? I used to be in that category but now I am in CCE
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IWRATS exchanged a friendly "hello" as he passed myself and John, who I had stopped off to talk to again this morning outside the flats at Kingsknowe, all of which was observed by a heron as it lurked in a nearby tree.
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@jdanielp
I was delighted that John addressed me and the chap I'd just overtaken as 'boys'. It was a lovely touch.
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@scoosh I am guessing you are in the category above student but before mature? I used to be in that category but now I am in CCE
My day has been made !!! "before mature" - ROFL ! Ancient relic/GOG more like ... ;) "Past the first (and second, ...) flushes of youth", that's for sure !
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I spotted Dark Rider (I really hope that he doesn't make it onto CCE, recognise his description, then misintepret our friendly name for him) for the first time in a week or so this morning and received a "you're the man" style hand gesture (at least that is how I interpretted it) so that is an upgrade from a nod - I may have to up my game.
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@jdanielp
Were you relieved when the Dark Rider removed his black neoprene half-face ski mask last week? I was. I guess he must suffer badly from the cold.
How come no-one seems to spot Fairing Man any more? He took to constructing bicycle fairings because he got so cold.
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Coming up to the final blind corner before the end of the WoL path at Sandport Street last night around 4.40'ish, I was slowing and giving my bell a good ring to alert others to my (invisible) presence.
My dinging was answered by a jaunty ring from someone who was approaching from the other direction.
Big smiles as we passed each other.
Black jersey with green writing on it (iirc) - anyone on here?
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I think fairings man has abandoned his fairing and gone for bike covered in red and white stripe hazard tape. Been meaning to 'spot' him for a while.
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@SRD
Presumably you recognised him through the chainsaw helmet he insists on wearing?
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Oh I spotted one of the Pedersons being ridden up Bristo Place on Wednesday. The green one. Hard to tell if it is the same rider for the green and burgundy. They answer a similar description.
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@IWRATS hmm, maybe that was why I hadn't seen him lately!
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Snap!
West Linton via Eddleston + Meldons by LaidBackBikes, on FlickrPosted 9 years ago # -
Diarmid on canal towpath this morning. No hat.
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yes indeed - on the way up the braes...
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I assume I saw Mr & Mrs Laidback on their recumbent tandem on Sunday morning; I was driving (the horror!) down Comiston Road and the tandem was waiting to make a right turn across it. About 10am this would be.
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@jdanielp and @shuggiet who both proffered condolences as I fixed a p*ncture at the Bridge Eight shipping containers on the canal. Thanks gents.
The object which caused the incident was picked up on Friday. Should have removed it on Sunday, but I had a Will Self Manga half man/half machine hangover and convinced myself it had fallen out rather than, as it turns out, worked its way further in.
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Ah IWRATS, you drank the Heston blu menthol gin (I am leaving tht predictive text of blumenthal) on Saturday and had a lost weekend.
When I worked for the addiction research group at the university of Strathclyde the Friday night after work drinkees could be excessive. I took to drinking gin (Gordon's) and alternating tonic with bitter lemon. I could manage seven without being too drunk or hungover the next day but it did make me a morose drunk. Perhaps heston's earl grey flavouring is what done it. I have nursed a bottle of Toro red wine over the weekend as even small glasses seem to give a splitting headache next day, though maybe I have a cold. Very nice wine though from big Ashton McCobb at appellation wines of Dalry. Not cheap but like a Rioja without the cloying vanilla.
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@gembo
I do like gin. It is the true spirit of middle Europe, including England. Madame IWRATS's brother's ex-wife's neighbour gave me a bottle of Artois genièvre a while back and it was gorgeous. I'll never touch the Blu Methanol stuff again. In the depths of my misery yesterday I came across what must have been the Cabaret Voltaire's tour bus - a beat-up liveried VW camper. Thought I was halucinating.
I took my mum to the IB once before it was made over and she liked it a lot. I have participated in the karaoke there too, silencing the locals with my full-on in-character rendition of Right Said Fred's 'I'm too sexy for my shirt'.
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@IWRATS, yes pre-makeover IB for me. Though the makeover is so old now it needs another makeover.
Monday's ususally after the cheap cameo film. Infested by jugglers from Tollcross. Saturday before the game was also pleasant.
The IB in Dublin also good. Though never been in a bad pub in Dublin.
I feel you're version of too sexy would have been a revelation. Actually, if you took steroids and lifted weights they might invite you to join the band?
rule 1 of rock and roll - never name your band after a BerNARD Cribbins sixties comedy hit
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"before it was made over"
Was that for the short-lived BI version??
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@gembo
Ah. I was a Tollcross State juggler in the early nineties. Tuesday nights if memory serves. That's where my Gandalf-watching career began.
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