ned
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| posted on 10/6/08 at 10:20 AM |
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pikeys doing tarmac? whatever next
7 complaints, wonder who they were..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7445636.stm
beware, I've got yellow skin
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Kriss
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| posted on 10/6/08 at 10:22 AM |
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was hilarious, I rewinded it three times on the Digital box!
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coozer
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| posted on 10/6/08 at 10:25 AM |
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Oh, you can't call them that! You'll have the pigs round as king questions!!
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 10/6/08 at 10:28 AM |
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Some people have nothing better to do than complain to Ofcom clearly. Really are sad - it like all those people who spent ages writing to Points of
View on TV having clearly watched a whole programme to then complain about. I always thought the big OFF button on the front of the TV was there for a
reason.
I thought Brundle's comment was great - and Bernie's reply brilliant!! Shame he didnt start threatening to pull the Canadian GP though for
the state of the track - happy to start threatening the Brit GP though after the state of the car parking a couple of years back when he saw sense in
moving the date forward a couple of months!!
How about this for a better excuse for a complaint??
Linky
[Edited on 10/6/08 by Paul TigerB6]
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westcost1
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| posted on 10/6/08 at 10:35 AM |
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At least the pikys where putting tarmac down all that is getting done to the roads round here is dumping a load of gravel down. Should we fill the
holes in first na feckit just stick this gravel down.  more stone chips thanks
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Mr G
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| posted on 10/6/08 at 11:00 AM |
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Pikeys, Coulthard imagining nipples, Raikkonen taking a shite.....
It's like watching Carry On Up the Pitlane.
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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bob
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| posted on 10/6/08 at 11:00 AM |
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Could be a clever quote from MB, With ITV losing the contract might as well get his contract paid up till the end of the season and sit at home
sorting his BBC contract out .
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BenB
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| posted on 10/6/08 at 11:13 AM |
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It's only offensive to the people he called pikeys. After all, members of the travelling community are generally only called pikeys when they do
bad shit!! So surely members of the travelling community would say "well I'm not a pikey so I'm not upset". Only people doing
bad things would be upset but then they would be labelling themselves pikeys. The people repairing the road might well be upset particularly as it was
used in a rather derogitory way.
Of course the more interesting question is regarding the derivation of the work pikey.
Some people say its from Pikesman (the unskilled people you put at the front of your army with a 10 foot long sharp stick). Alternatively, the
turnpike was the person who stood outside a walled city (with another f'off big stick) and took money as a toll to enter the city. they were
generally pretty hard people. The third possible derivations is that the latin name for the magpie (well known for nicking stuff) is Pica
pica....
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RK
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| posted on 10/6/08 at 12:16 PM |
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Except we don't have gypsies in Canada, so it is a moot question.
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Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 10/6/08 at 12:23 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by RK
Except we don't have gypsies in Canada, so it is a moot question.
We can soon fix that - you can have some (actually all) of ours!!!
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RK
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| posted on 10/6/08 at 01:50 PM |
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No thank you.
Those people were probably city workers (all related to each other, or they wouldn't be working there), who are not known for their work ethic:
usually it's 10 guys standing around, while one digs a ditch - you know, the one next to the 4 ft deep pothole. Montreal's roads are
absolutely brutal; must be seen to be believed. The winter combined with the salt, destroys everything. For a while, there were suburban bridges that
kept falling on motorists.
So in closing, Montrealers probably thought the GP track was is perfect shape, when compared to their regular roads.
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ravingfool
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| posted on 10/6/08 at 02:02 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by RK
No thank you.
Those people were probably city workers (all related to each other, or they wouldn't be working there), who are not known for their work ethic:
usually it's 10 guys standing around, while one digs a ditch - you know, the one next to the 4 ft deep pothole....
Yes you do have pikeys, you've just defined them, that's what some of ours do, although they tend to scam little old ladies into having
their driveway 'tarmacked' because thankfully our local authorities don't employ pikeys en masse...
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Micael
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| posted on 10/6/08 at 02:48 PM |
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They have even managed to get to Sweden. Every summer they come and try to sell cheap tarmac. They are driving around in scrappy UK registred
lorries.
Micael Moose Åman
Petrolhead and all around nice guy
"Don't leave the duck there. It's totally irresponsible. Put it on the swing, it'll have much more fun." //Sleep Talkin Man Dec 23
2009
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Macbeast
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| posted on 10/6/08 at 04:46 PM |
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He probably meant Pikeys as people who mend the Turnpike or main road. Seems logical
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clairetoo
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| posted on 10/6/08 at 06:26 PM |
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I wonder if it's possible to complain to OFCOM about a complaint 
Its cuz I is blond , innit
Claire xx
Will weld for food......
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ned
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| posted on 11/6/08 at 09:24 AM |
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yeah, there must be more than '7' of us lol, so our complaint about the complaint must outnumber/outweigh the original complaint
beware, I've got yellow skin
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ravingfool
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| posted on 11/6/08 at 10:59 AM |
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...and as you well know, 7 actual complaints amounts to 7 thousand people being upset about it.
(probably incorrect recollection of family guy v fcc)
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RoadkillUK
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| posted on 11/6/08 at 06:56 PM |
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I think this kind of tarmac job is what they are referring to?
It also gives me a chance to show you my quick-jack
Roadkill - Lee
www.bradford7.co.uk
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