The General Chat Room

[kernelbogey]

All the best BBM. Those young doctors may be the most up to date ones!
kb

[ardcarp]

Best wishes from me too BBM. Who wants P&Q anyway?

[Beef Oven!]

Good luck, BBM.

[BBMmk2]

Best wishes from me too BBM. Who wants P&Q anyway?

I usually find that they are. Apart from the one that had done my last bone marrow biopsy. Not as good as the previous one!

[Serial_Apologist]

I usually find that they are. Apart from the one that had done my last bone marrow biopsy. Not as good as the previous one!

Was it more of a harrowing than a marrowing experience then, BBM?

Best of luck this coming weekend.

[Lat-Literal]

Very best wishes bbm.

I am only seven miles from Marsden and am guessing from where you live that they are the main centre for the South East.

It isn't a bad area - fairly leafy - if you are staying there.

[cloughie]

All the best bbm.

[BBMmk2]

Very best wishes bbm.

I am only seven miles from Marsden and am guessing from where you live that they are the main centre for the South East.

It isn't a bad area - fairly leafy - if you are staying there.

Eventually I will be at the RM for 4 weeks, due to the distance. I have been advised of a flat that the hospital has, so we are hoping to stay there for a while and then be fully admitted.

[Lat-Literal]

Eventually I will be at the RM for 4 weeks, due to the distance. I have been advised of a flat that the hospital has, so we are hoping to stay there for a while and then be fully admitted.

That's good.

My very best wishes to you.

[BBMmk2]

Thank, Lat-Lit. On our way down to Brighton's Royal Sussex County Hospital, there was this rather arrogant cyclist(no offence intended to cyclists on this Forum),who was going through red lights, just weaving his way through the traffic, cutting up short a driver, who sounded his horn and the cyclist retaliated with two fingers(!), generally making sure he was alright and not mind about other road users. This kind of behaviour really infuriates me and I am sure other people, and doesn't bode well for the respect that cyclists want from other road users. Usually, the cyclists I come across are respectful, as usual, I think, it's the minority here?

[Petrushka]

Thank, Lat-Lit. On our way down to Brighton's Royal Sussex County Hospital, there was this rather arrogant cyclist(no offence intended to cyclists on this Forum),who was going through red lights, just weaving his way through the traffic, cutting up short a driver, who sounded his horn and the cyclist retaliated with two fingers(!), generally making sure he was alright and not mind about other road users. This kind of behaviour really infuriates me and I am sure other people, and doesn't bode well for the respect that cyclists want from other road users. Usually, the cyclists I come across are respectful, as usual, I think, it's the minority here?

Also no disrespect to Forum cyclists, but my experience is that the words 'arrogant' and 'cyclist' usually go together only too well. The walk back from work to railway station is made hazardous by cyclists riding on the pavements in the dark with no lights. You just hope they can see you because you certainly can't see them!

Anyway, all best wishes for your upcoming treatment, BBM.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Also no disrespect to Forum cyclists, but my experience is that the words 'arrogant' and 'cyclist' usually go together only too well.

Blimey! What would you have said if you'd wanted to show disrespect, Pet?

[Petrushka]

Blimey! What would you have said if you'd wanted to show disrespect, Pet?

I've been hit four times by pavement cyclists over the years so it does colour my attitude somewhat.

[Richard Barrett]

Cycling on the pavement without lights in the dark is not really on, though, and I'm sure most cyclists would agree with me. On the other hand, UK roads as opposed to those in many other European countries often seem to be set up so as to make life as dangerous as possible for cyclists. Surely it would be better all round to give them more space and restrict the use of motor vehicles. And if you think cyclists are arrogant you obviously don't have much experience of car drivers constantly blaming cyclists for their own lack of consideration for their non-polluting fellow road users!

[teamsaint]

you do see some extraordinary things on the roads.
I recently walked a good distance from the Imperial War Museum to Blackfriars and over to Embankment along what looks to be an excellent safe, and currently underused new Cycle Superhighway. I imagine that cyclists find it fantastic, and it seems to me, ( a pedestrian mostly when in London) to be a terrific piece of investment. Yet even there I saw several cyclists flagrantly disregarding the laws, and, really not helping drivers, many of whom are essential to keep the London economy moving, and who also have a tough time of it , ( I should think) on the capital's roads.

Anyway, disrespect isn't just cross mode ( is that a thing?) Motorists seem to have a fair bit of animosity to drivers of other makes of car.....I imagine that the same snobberies and hierarchies apply in the two wheeled world....

anybody used boris bikes? I thought about it, and then thought it seemed not that cheap, and more dangerous than walking, and with no helmet. Might be ok for a longer stretch though?