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No plate details or driver description unfortunately, but a black cab tried to run me down this morning. Driver leant out of his window as he passed me and either said something or spitted, I couldn't tell which.
Looking at the map, it must have been at the lights where Barnsbury Road turns into Penton St. I was heading south and in my dozy morning state didn't immediately notice the lights change to green. I set off what must have only been a couple of seconds after the change - there was no traffic behind me, so I was quite relaxed. Cab was pointing north waiting to turn right into Tolpuddle St. He set off a moment after I did, driving right for me as I went across the junction. I just put the power down and he went behind me, but if I hadn't evaded he would have hit me unless he slammed on the brakes.
It's a large junction with plenty of space - no way could it have been a SMIDSY.
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thats clearly a chop.
/seen some in my time, pixels, sharks.
A photo I took at the Bournemouth air festival in 2009
95% real
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heh, spotter's offer of a free pint had almost nothing to do with it, honest!
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Potential stag do
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Today's news seems to be Graeme Obree:
From that site:
arrhythmiarules likes this.
Be the first to dislike this.Bit of a taunt I thought
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Will definitely be there this Weds. It's been too long and I've been too lazy. Beer, pizza and breeze shooting ftw.
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Asian dude this morning on a rusted up harry quinn past Chickpizz.
Nice pace and muchos skids. Apologies for tailgating slightly, but I was covering the brakes.
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Arrived today :D
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What's the difference between Tottenham Hotspur and Baby P?
Tottenham are still being regularly beaten at home.
from Sickipedia
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I'll be around mostly, but in Brussels from Friday 'til Sunday night for FOSDEM geek and beer fest
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Well let me know when that'll be - I'm only a few minutes away so I'm sure I could pop along
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d'oh, fell right for that one
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Your attention span of half a muffin
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Current projects becomes the bike stripping thread (ooh err missus)
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Slightly further using back streets is worth it if it's nicer and you know where you're going. Getting away from roads with traffic lights every 50m is also worth it even if it means going a little further. At least we'll be stopping fairly frequently at places with tables so we can always have a printout of the map and indulge in the fine British tradition of endlessly debating which is the best route to take.
So long as we have a preplanned fallback route we can tweak it as needed using whatever local knowledge turns up for the ride.
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Nice work on the mappage, spybot.
I was thinking - the George may not be all that quirky, but agreed that we could take a call on it during the ride.
Also, it has a nice big courtyard so might make a good finishing point if it's not too cold to hang around outside drinking cold liquids.
Anyway, I tweaked your route a little, taking out Ye Olde Mitre and the Wibbley Wobbley.
Also, I swapped the order of the 2nd and 3rd to last pubs - I don't know south London well enough to know if the A202 is horrid or not.
I also altered the route up near Finsbury Park to cut through Clissold Park in Stokie and hit some of the back streets I know around there.
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Does "being at the top of Swains" make The Flask quirky? :)
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The pubs which came across as particularly quirky were:
Montague Arms
Oakdale Arms
The Gladstone Arms
maybe The Cask & Glass - if it's really really tiny
The Wibbley Wobbley if it's actually nice (compared to, say, the boat bars on Embankment which are pretty grim) -
I'm not sure how quirky the Jerusalem Tavern is either - it may well be a good pub (I hear good things about it) and it may also be the brewery's last pub but does that make it quirky?
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The George may be one of the very few National Trust properties in London, and it may be very old and probably mentioned by Dickens, but I wouldn't exactly call it quirky, just old.
I'm half tempted to suggest Quinns near Camden Road because it has a barman as old as time and it serves german and belgian beer, but the barman and the yellow paint on the outside are the only really quirky things about it...
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OK, that's a bit better but I don't think we can realistically do 12 pubs in a day. I would say we need to cut that list in half - what do you think?
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Delivery 1 of 1
Dispatched:D (to office address)
Delivery Estimate: 29 Jan 2011
Boo :(
Almost tempted to come to work on Saturday!
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Hah, no, but I do have some dirty cheap Malaysian coffee at home. Meant to post some pictures - it's like drinking tar
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£5 entry on the door?!
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It really depends on the fracture I think. Some horrific looking wounds heal relatively easily and some scratches take forever - just ask Clive :)