Modern life is mildly exasperating.

[hirez]

Bother. The ATM nailed to the side of the Tesco metro had a mechanical and failed its attempt to sick up my card. After three tries, accompanied by increasingly distressed peeping and me attacking it with a sharp knife (we'll gash the caul, etc), it gave up

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[moral_vacuum]

I gather that some of the bits you might think were made up weren't - like the "you fucking buggering shitbucket", for example, which is apparently widely documented.

[valkyriekaren]

You can say what you like about a Cambridge education, it does leave one with an imaginative approach to cursing.

[janinemarriott]

Yep, def a Bristol thing. I had this happen to me twice on the way up one street. One misguided lady pulled here bmw people carrier thing right onto the pavement in front of me, making me walk in the road.

[quercus]

Couldn't you walk _over_ it?

When I cycled through Brissel every day, I had my handy pocketful of stickers with "you park like a fucking buggering shitbucket" on them.

[janinemarriott]

Oooh i wish I had some of those

[hirez]

Sinclair Research fo(u)nt needed, I think...

[jendama]

[maluse]

Micro Men really was rather good. All the important news of my childhood rolled up into 90 minutes. And good to see that Acorn/Sinclair rivalry is still alive and well. That program simply couldn't have been written by someone who didn't know that Beebs were best.