my philosophy is that the least amount of time you spend on the road, the less likely you are to have an accident, so, if you can do a journey that should take an hour in half an hour then there's half the chance of said accident. thats basic logic !
Posted by ooaargh, on 22-12-2006 20:08,
Unfortunately whether you like it or not the police are in a position where they have to provide evidence to take people to court and have them convicted of an offence. There is a world of difference between knowing who is responsible for the crime in Bridport and proving it. This 'legal safeguard' does not apply to the local skagg heads, drug dealers, shoplifters, and thieves. What a great world this low life dross frequents where society provides them with numerous safeguards against their 'human rights' while ignoring the human rights of their victims. Very easy to ridicule or criticise the police under these circumstnaces.
Posted by Ivor Bigun, on 23-12-2006 09:58,
Seems to me we all , well most of us anyway, feel the same way about this. I get pxxsed off when a drug problem is used as an excuse for crime. Perhaps it is time to re-open my Charles Bronson Death Wish bag and put them away for ever ! Anyone interested in joining ? ski masks provided of course - leave me a message @ Bridport Radio. Merry Christmas to you all..
Posted by Rustic, on 26-12-2006 18:30,
All's well that ends well. We've been offered the perfect venue as a replacement - currently under wraps, but I'll confirm asap. The new party is going to be bigger, better and not at christmas - so everyone can make it! So lets strat getting some offers of active support from you motely crew? What have you got that will help make the party truly legendary? Are you up for helping with the decor, the door, the bands, the stagemanagement, the visuals, the DJ'ing etc. ? This has always been planned as a members party.... get involved, you'll have more fun on the night! Can we also have some new manifestoes for the virtual mayor - we need an elected representative to keep those troublesome peers in line. Seasoned gruntings to you all, Head
Posted by Sprockley, on 11-01-2007 09:25,
What about the various hostelries Palmers have closed down and left empty 'cos there's quicker money in property development than in brewing dodgy beer? Ex-Mono's Bar on South Street is gagging for an unofficial re-opening or how about a weekend break at the big hotel Broad Street, Lyme Regis? A squat hotel, now there's an idea... BTW love the pillow fight idea - who else is up for it?
Posted by Editor, on 11-01-2007 13:17,
Oh come guys this ""tete a tete"" has been going on since april last year, can we please move on!
Posted by goccibos, on 11-01-2007 13:32,
It's their page now! (I should really find a way of splitting the pages up, this one takes some scrolling.) Howabout a new section called ""motoring"" or ""sticking it in the hedge"" ? What do you think?
Posted by Rustic, on 12-01-2007 22:56,
There are two distinct types of second homeowner, the first are the ones who actually spend lots of time here and are in transition before moving down completely on retirment or desperation and who use local facilities and buy locallly when they are here. They are OK and it is perfecrtly understandable why they ware doing what they are doing and in their wown way do contribute to the socio-economic fabric of our community. On rthe other hand there is the absentee, scumbag, grockle, invading, village killer. The ones, who like mentioned above, keep a ""cottage in the countr"" in the same way they would a trinket on the mantlepiece. An object of interest that can be looked at once in a while then forgotten until more clement weather arrives. Oh and while we are waiting we had best install one of those stupid lights that illuminate the entire countryside for a mile radius everytime a gnat flies by the sensor. I think that burinig them down, whislt an exellent method in itself of displaying our abhorence of these people and what they have done to our villages, is too obvious. What we need to do is start demolishing them a stone or a brick at a time. One stone or brick or piece of timber every day or every time you walk by and notice no-one has been in the place for months. The absentee owners on arriving to an empty plot would think that they were in the wrong village (especially if we took down all the village signs as well). They would ask some ""local looking chap"" where their house was or where the village was and he could reply that there never was a house there or a village of that name. The incomers would be freaked out and want to sell the plot as some bit of land occupied by a surreal ghost that legend has only a local owning the land can exorcise. Then when the land is bought back at a very sensible local price we could all help by putting a stone back one a day or every time we walked by. Almost as though by being owned by an absentee the actual fabric of the house would rather be somewhere else than empty and cold. All together now Aahh isnt that sweet?. In the meantime (that is before we learn to operate in a higher, more equitable and civil manner) I have been to the Jet(BP Texaco ???) bought petrol and matches.
Posted by Rustic, on 12-01-2007 23:15,
Oy! Sprokley, how about using a bit of imagination and contributing another subject for us to get all hot and flustered about instead of talking French at us. You may or may not have noticed that this site gets more hits than any other so someone is doing something right, and if I may be so bold as to suggest, it isn't you as you haven't contributed once other than just now to complain that you are bored with our repartee. How about this as a change of direction. I think that Zebra Crossings are great and there should be more of them in Bridport as they give the pedestrian power over the evil car driver. I also think that pelican crossings are the work of car drivers and witches and should be banned. The thing about a Zebra crossing is that it lets me decide when I want to cross the road and not be at the mercy of some electronic timing mechanism. I also think that it is a bit odd that our road crossings are named after animals that are not common in this country, mind you I couldn't see many people being keen on using a Badger or Pheasant crossing after seeing the result of those animals attempts at crossing the road spread all over the carriageways.
Posted by denzlepob, on 13-01-2007 22:36,
And what is ""your"" point then Bat?? Buy guns to promote peace? Greasing the barrel is also a euphanism for an activity indulged in by snipers to keep their trigger fingers and wrist supple.
Posted by Sprockley, on 15-01-2007 19:19,
Andy Head Said ""Sniper game sounds interesting, how would it work? If the barmaids were topless how would they hand you a drink or be able to see anything? Indeed how would know they were there as the bar is above waist height?"" Send out invitations to all local druggies with fake letter telling them they have won a car and they need to turn up to collect it at a presentation ceromony. Tell them they are to be presented with their ACE prizes on stage. When they are lined up on the stage tell them they have to be blindfolded to add to the suspense. Pin targets on theor chests and your away ! Re the topless barmaids, make them wear stilts.
Posted by chesilbank, on 15-01-2007 21:28,
OI! Mr Rustic, or should I say Mr Rusty, I have been monitoring this little battle for the last nine months and not thought it worth a comment until recently. Enough is enough you can only debate on one subject for so long before you bore the senate! look what happened to sezar!
Posted by Carlito, on 18-01-2007 10:22,
Existentialism: You have two cows that manage to break free from their field and discover the field next door. They return to their orginal field because the overwhelming knowledge of the acres beyond their boundary is far too humbling. Swinging at the Bull: You have a dozen cows and a dozen bulls. Some of the bulls and some of the cows decide that they are sexually unfulfilled, and due to their hooves, are unable to read self-help material at the sexual health clinic. They decide in ernest to disguise their milking parlour as a sophisticated gastro pub to front a swinging operation. Every week the group meet and put their bunches of udder-suckers in a big bowl and each bull in turn pulls out a set of suckers. The bull must copulate with the owner of the suckers.
Posted by Editor, on 18-01-2007 16:05,
And another thing...How has West One managed to degenerate into a drug-addled, violent chav-bar in such a short space of time? It must be to do with underground magnetic currents! I reckon the next owner should use a diviner!
Posted by Ivor Bigun, on 18-01-2007 18:49,
a few years back I had the misfortune of living close to Hardys (as it was then called) and it was full of foul mouthed drunken, publicly urinating, aggressive, under-age, chavvy scum then. Bring back the tea rooms.
Posted by Rustic, on 20-01-2007 17:28,
I think all drugs should be legalised! I don't take drugs and never will, why....because I know they are bad news. So, legalise all drugs, it will reduce crime and the cost of crime by a massive amount. Spend the money saved in policing on education. Make people responsible for their own actions, if you want to take drugs then this what will happen to you. Lets be honest, if i wanted to take drugs I could they are readily available all I have to do is turn to crime to fund the habit!
Posted by Sprockley, on 20-01-2007 23:02,
C#mon good people get a grip, if it is happening in feb then give us a date! if not, then let us know so we can help firm up a date else where...whilst the palace would be ideal there are plenty of other venues. lets do this thing!
Posted by Ivor Bigun, on 21-01-2007 18:49,
Why has this debate about traffic and parking turned into a biggoted row about pubs, chavs and drugs? Stick to the topic in question guys! Or are you just looking for an easy excuse to moan?
Posted by Editor, on 21-01-2007 21:37,
Oh yes, been there and signed that. I think this is one step to far for the all ready heavily penalised motorist,and people power will over turn this.Well i hope so !! My god, they dont even track serious offenders/criminals. I think they should fit tracking devices to our politicians,so we can find out what they really do during a working day.
Posted by mrplanet, on 14-02-2007 14:38,
Now tht turkeys are not safe to eat, we should start commercially exploiting these gulls for food.
Posted by Editor, on 07-03-2007 14:14,
Erm...you have to be twinned with a town to go there do you? I don't get it. Did I miss something. I'm off to Dubai for £0 return this year. Bloody rip-off if you ask me!
Posted by The Bat, on 27-05-2007 16:23,
And another thing, have you seen all the crap that the caravan people left behind at their tresspassing campsite behind the bowling green by St Mary's??? If you fancy starting a used car battery collection get yerself down there fast before they all go :/ Now that the 'travellers' have barrackaded themselves in Palmer's field opposite Mountjoy, I'm sure it's going to take a year or two to get them out. May I tentatively go out on a metaphorical limb here and suggest that this problem could easily be sorted out overnight with one well placed man and a night vision sight. But Nooooooooooo, what do we get? A bunch of do gooding lefty socialist trotskyist woolly pully wearing, bearded, hippy type social working courderoy jacket with leather elbow patches wearing responsibility avoiding gits who insist that the lunar landings in the 60's were faked in a Nevada movie studio and aliens landed at Roswell. Roswell !!!! Learn from the lesson Bridport!! Take a fuzzy movie of a sheep dressed in silver space suit with a shakey 8mmm black and white camera and put the town on the map!! And while your at it polish your shoes!!!
Posted by 1950sparks, on 20-06-2007 11:30,
Rustic, Re. swimming in the harbour - Thanks, that was my head. Sorry for the delay in replying, that concussion can be a b*gg*r to shake off. Being a visitor to the town I thought you were just being friendly but I am relieved to see you were stoutly upholding the law. Later I did indeed ponder at length the question of what to do if one was unfortunate enough to fall into the harbour (again !). As you have rightly pointed out the ban on swimming makes it a somewhat difficult situation to deal with but one, nonetheless, in which the law of the land may not be broken. Actually, it’s just occurred to me while writing that there may be a loophole here, perhaps it is Marine law that would apply in these circumstances and so the sign which is posted on the land may be ignored – see you in court. To continue, my preferred action in future, assuming the tide was in, would be to simply sink to the bottom and walk to the wall then grope for a ladder. In addition I suggest making careful notes of where the ladders are beforehand and wearing an old pair of Clarks with a compass embedded somewhere in them. Alternatively if you are a fakir of some description (and it sounds like you could be) you might possibly simply shut down for a few hours and have a rest on the bottom until the tide went out. In any case wear a helmet in order to survive attacks from any brick-throwing law enforcement agents who may be passing by.
Posted by Rustic, on 23-09-2007 18:33,
Even though you are a visitor it is nice to know that you take the laws of our area seriously sparks, personally I think people should just do the decent thing and drown quietly if they fall in thereby not breaking any laws and not inducing some poor heroic lifeguard type to dash into action for a rescue thereby disturbing the peace and harmony of tbne universe and inadvertently adding to the problem of climate change. Drown and save the planet
