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On this week's Only Connect, the most esoteric quiz on television, during the Connecting Wall round the following combination appeared.Kon Tiki - Apache - Man Of Mystery - Foot Tapper.
The team's guess at the connection was that they are all rafts.Of course they are.
dimairt wrote:Does anyone on HG care even less than I do about the new Archbishop of Canterbury?
Durachdan,
Eddy
Vinegar Tom wrote:dimairt wrote:Does anyone on HG care even less than I do about the new Archbishop of Canterbury?
Durachdan,
Eddy
I was surprised to learn that the new head shaman went to the same school as the current PM ( what are the odds against that, eh? )
viceroy wrote:Yet another fat-arsed cretin on a pushbike nearly ramming me from behind on a public footpath. Flashed past me with about a quarter of an inch to spare, just about bringing on a cardiac arrest. This is happening nearly every day now. They are everywhere, on pavements and in public parks – an in your face display of alpha male arrogance. If bells are compulsory shouldn't the use of them be compulsory too? It's bad enough having to contend with pig-ignorant motorists who behave as if you simply don't exist. Being a pedestrian in this city is like being a Jew in Nazi Germany.
rabmania wrote:viceroy wrote:Yet another fat-arsed cretin on a pushbike nearly ramming me from behind on a public footpath. Flashed past me with about a quarter of an inch to spare, just about bringing on a cardiac arrest. This is happening nearly every day now. They are everywhere, on pavements and in public parks – an in your face display of alpha male arrogance. If bells are compulsory shouldn't the use of them be compulsory too? It's bad enough having to contend with pig-ignorant motorists who behave as if you simply don't exist. Being a pedestrian in this city is like being a Jew in Nazi Germany.
Ahem...you lost my sympathy there!
yoker brian wrote:A reminder from the Highway Code
https://www.gov.uk/rules-for-cyclists-5 ... w-59-to-71
64
You MUST NOT cycle on a pavement.
Laws HA 1835 sect 72 & R(S)A 1984, sect 129
viceroy wrote:Yet another fat-arsed cretin on a pushbike nearly ramming me from behind on a public footpath.
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