BigMouth Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 You have my sympathy M-in-M. It is also surprising how long you can stand there when it is peeing it down with rain and the drivers are all tucked up nice and warm in their boxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khitajrah Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Exit Somerfield car park and cross the Sea Road at/near exit, walk into Lerwick and cross the South Road using the pedestrian crossing at the health centre, up Gilbertson Road, down Anderson Road to HBC! So you recommend crossing in the middle of the road where there is no safe crossing? Or still at the roundabout... and just imagine, it's pouring down with rain, you've got 6 bags of heavy shopping and a screaming hungry toddler (and not enough change for a taxi) and you are very tired after a long day at work. Do you take the long route as you have suggested? or do you cross at the roundabout, walk to the Clickimin Centre and use the pedestrian crossing there? (thank goodness I don't have to do this any more!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoogler Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Said more in jest than in earnest hence exclamation. I appreciate how crap drivers are in LK (and rest of Shetland). Hard to believe everyone is in such a hurry in a small island but it is a miracle that not more accidents have happened at roundabouts. At some of the more minor roundabouts in Shetland there is a tendency to treat the most prominent through road as though it has superiority and refuse to slow down for any traffic approaching from other directions. The classic example of this is in Scalloway at the school, were it is long past the time for a 20 mph limit to be in place. Only this morning I had to break hard in the middle of the roundabout as a car approaching from the left flew through without slowing at a speed of circa 30 mph. Nutter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marooned in Maywick Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Fair enough....walk to the Sound Service Station, cross there using the crossing. Continue along the loch side of the road until the crossing at Clickimin. From there along Lochside and up Anderson Road.Or take your chances at the roundabout - there's only really two 15-minute periods in the day that it'll be uncrossably busy so you could plan your journey around that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medziotojas Posted September 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 Currently editing a 49 page text about insurance policies. It has to be finished for tomorrow. AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Have you ever tried to make any sense of the gobbledegook these documents spew out? http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/3199/1142742419typingzj4.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medziotojas Posted March 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 More annoying than trivial: Trolls see pic abun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abraxas Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Philtrums. What the {'f' it was funny in Father Ted 'eck'} are THEY all about, eh?!! Why couldn't the Big Feller have made somethin more functional an less ... icky. Especially with a cold. I mean, yer philtrum funnels all that snot into yer gob. It's a basic design flaw, innit. Feckin amateurs. Slarty Bartfast wouldn't have made THAT mistake now, would he?!! An don't get me started on yer perineum, missis!!! Wibble! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soljey Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Slarty Bartfast wouldn't have made THAT mistake now, would he?!! Wow, that bit between your nose and upper lip made to look like the Norwegian fjords!! Perineum - isn't that in Rome? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOYAANISQATSI Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 YouTube is blocking all premium music videos to UK users after failing to reach a new licensing agreement with the Performing Right Society (PRS). Thousands of videos will be unavailable to YouTube users from later on Monday. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7933565.stm This guy will explain. He will swear; you may also. The Sssssscummm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malachy Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Your post is a bit confusing KOY because the news report you link to is unconnected to the video you posted, so far as I can see. The issue with PRS is a UK only issue, and PRS doesn't have anything to do with the big music corporations - it is the independent body that collects royalties on behalf of the artists/songwriters. Youtube wants to pay less to the artists for having their music online, so really it is Youtube that is the big, greedy corporation here. Musicians can't really continue making music unless they can earn a living from it; cd sales are plummetting, so they have to rely more on royalties. If they can't get those either then, er, they aren't going to be making any music. Other sites have agreed licencing deals with PRS recently, so if Youtube can't agree then they are probably making unreasonable demands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOYAANISQATSI Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 ^Oh rightNever checked it that deep.Still, if Musicians wanted folk to buy their music then you'ld think they would let us hear it on you tube first.The itunes preview is very short so I like to check out the whole thing on youtube before I commit to buy if it's something new.From now on I will ONLY pay for what I can find on youtube first. Oh, and I stand by my comment that WMG are Ssssscummmm anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassermaet Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 Today I hate iTunes. I honestly just hate it. Since I acquired my first iPod in late 2005, iTunes has been Satan's mistress in disguise. If it isn't clogging my hard drive it keeps having issues with updating my iPod and I get Tourette's syndrome when it doesn't do as I say. GRRRRR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pooks Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 10 Alternative to iTunes for managing your iPod Worth a look, I am sure there are more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewenutz Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 Today I hate iTunes. I honestly just hate it. Same here, half my music collection now fails to play and tells me that the file cannot be found or has moved, even though it has not!! why is itunes so utterly terrible, when ipods are so utterly brilliant......! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassermaet Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 I agree - although it would be nice to be able to manage your music from the actual iPod instead of just on iTunes. And thanks for those alternatives, Pooks - I'll get them looked up when I get back to mine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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