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I don't think I'm going to jail but they haven't told me, yet.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link

This Australian bloke Jamesy I used to work with once got a taxi from Dunoon to Shotts. He was a bagpiper and was at the bagpipe championships or something. It cost him 125 quid.

Thing is, someone I know was in a taxi the following week and the taxi driver was going on about this daft bastard who'd got a taxi from Dunoon to Shotts.

There was another unusual incident where Jamesy got in a taxi and discovered the driver was wearing his jacket that had been nicked a few weeks earlier. He must've had a thing about taxis.

― KeithW (kmw), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link

£125? WTF? Was it a helicopter taxi or something? Or are Australians just gullible?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:02 (nineteen years ago) link

He was a bit of a dafty at times. He couldn't get any transport out or anywhere to sleep. I reckon I would just have walked around all night. I t was the middle of summer.

Does sound a bit over the top doesn't it. We've had a taxi from Glasgow to Edinburgh before for 40 quid, which was actually cheaper than the train (with four of us), and door to door.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link

is this the longest thread on ilx yet?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Was the meter running while the cab was on the ferry? Or did the taxi go the long way round? Either way, £125?! For a taxi?!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I like them long.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I guess it probably went gone the long way round. Unless it was a boat taxi, like Thunder in Paradise with Hulk Hogan.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I would totally pay £125 for that!

http://www.mrbensons.co.uk/sl/l/3/S_V0031983.jpg

I am horrified to see that Thunder in Paradise had two sequels.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha!

Crime fighting specialized vehicles really were on their last legs at that point.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:16 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.mrbensons.co.uk/sl/l/3/S_V0033648.jpg

Thunder in Paradise 3 has replaced the one being blown up there with a teenyweeny little shitty boat.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I like it. The story's probably got a more human angle, rather than just concentrating on the technology. The poster is a design classic.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link

You just like it because there's a semi-naked woman on it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha! On that note, I'm off to bed.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Is the meter running on this thread?

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Is this the longest thread on ILX? Those Antipodeans keep diversifying into new threads, but we Glaswegians and interlopers just keep plodding along...

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Sally will be going. You might be able to shag her instead (nb. I haven't checked this with her)

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 08:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I have just had to sit through this whole thread.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Excuse me!!!!

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Sinister is aware.

Ailsa, would your other half be interested in a job teaching MS Office/ECDL to students and staff at this here university (city centre campus)? It's perm and the salary looks pretty good, although I don't know what he's on at the moment, plus 31 days holiday. The people I've met from that department are really nice, too.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:41 (nineteen years ago) link

akufen, this friday.

I bet cozen could even sleep, in cookie's bed!!!

I won't say he can, though.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooh, Madchen, he might. If you are still at work, can you email me the details? If not (like if you don't phone me) I'll speak to him when he gets home and I'll phone you.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't worry - got the details off the website. Looks good, he will be applying tonight. Thank you x

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link

wow

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link

2000

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't believe it.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooh good, glad you found it. I did try to ring your mobile but I'm not even sure if it's still the right number. Good luck Mr Ailsa!

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link

akufen. board? breakfast? is it ticketed? see you around!

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link

No one should be forced into my bed.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link

it'll be just like in my dreams.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I woke up, screaming.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link

(fri.) 10/12/04 - dundee - kill your timid notion
(sat.) 11/12/04 - aberdeen - optimo
(sun.) 12/12/04 - dundee - kill your timid notion

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link

(fri.) 19/11/04 - glasgow - akufen
(sun.) 17/12/04 - glasgow - optimo?

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I should do this for the rest of my life.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I think you are.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

17/12/04 is a Friday. I think you should maybe get a calendar before proceeding.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Are you all going to a disco?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

it's a sunday where I am.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Aberdeen has its own calendar now?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link

dundee?????

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link

dundee. I will probably only go on friday now. to dundee.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Friday the 10th. Yet seven days later, on the 17th, it will be Sunday. The East Coast is weird.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

ailsa, you know I'm a fool.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I just like slagging off Aberdonians (it's an Inverness thing). You are the closest there is right now - until I get to launch a full scale assault on Russell Anderson after the football tonight :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd go to dundee.

would I have fun, though?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link

www.killyourtimidnotion.org

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

looks a bit poncey.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll look at it, anyway.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link

you know me.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, it's at the DCA. I know the guy that designed that.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link

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