OT: "leave more time for the bike" advertisements

A different thing doesn't necessarily mean a good thing.

You're thinking of the Normans. They didn't come from Paris.

Ok we admit would confuse you.

Nope, they came from France, it's a bit late to get upset about it though.

In English, please?

At least they didn't bring these kilometre thingies with them.

Art Deco (art_deco@127.0.0.1) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Did I say they did?

My Highway Code's in the car. Are you suggesting there is no such rule?

That's where the metric measurements came from. The inference was obvious.

Art Deco (art_deco@127.0.0.1) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Paris is part of "what is now France", as is Normandy.

So how many Normans came from what is now Paris?

Art Deco (art_deco@127.0.0.1) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

How many Sicilians come from Rome? How many Geordies come from Newcastle?

Adrian ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

D'oh!

I did - of course - mean "How many Geordies come from London?"

None.

All of them.

Ah, then the answer is "none".

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Art Deco saying something like:

Go and have a look.

Can't be arsed. Haven't one of you bastards got one at hand?

The message from Art Deco contains these words:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Guy King saying something like:

The situation is really up to the discretion of the driver/rider. If you go hammering past on the left/inside the plod will take a dim view of it and might make a DD stick. Otoh, moderately filtering/playing catchup in the left lane won't attract attention at all.

Cars aren't very good at filtering though, as some have found out.

Art Deco (art_deco@127.0.0.1) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Oh, ffs.