But not with the quote system on this forum, which is absolutely useless, and needs to be changed to something that works properly.
Corax try this, first quote previous message, then type yours, then last of all edit the quoted message, doing it that way does seem to work, and you can play silly blighters with the blue lines..;)
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Corax try this, first quote previous message, then type yours, then last of all edit the quoted message, doing it that way does seem to work, and you can play silly blighters with the blue lines..;)
Cheers GB, not as savvy or educated as you. Perhaps your post should be put up the top as a sticky for other luddites like me :)
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Cheers GB, not as savvy or educated as you. Perhaps your post should be put up the top as a sticky for other luddites like me :)
Bwahaha, pull the other one, i'm a thick as two planks lorry driver and in the words of Deputy Dawg ''doooon't you forgeyt it''
anyway we're not Luddites, we're fully paid up members of the ''If it ain't broke don't fix it club''.
Very pretty those three blue lines were, any advance on three.
:-))
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I've never bothered with blue lines. If I want to quote something so as to reply to it, I just cut and paste it and put it in inverted commas to make clear it's a quote.
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Let's look at this from another angle.
Over the past 50 years, car technology has improved in leaps and bunds to give more efficient, more powerful and cleaner cars.
I am not a civil engineer but has road building technology and materials used improved at all over the last 50 years?
As a layman on the subject, the rate at which some new roads deteriorate and need repair or resurfacing work, it begs the questions are they no fit for purpose, have they been built on the cheap or are the materials used simply not up to the job?
I suspect the answer is that they are not fit for purpose and the materials used are not up to the job because the roads have been built on the cheap.
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QUOTE:...""I've never bothered with blue lines. If I want to quote something so as to reply to it, I just cut and paste it and put it in inverted commas to make clear it's a quote.""
Me too! I'm computer-literate and have been for years and even I can't get the blue lines to work properly so I don't use them.
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QUOTE:...""I've never bothered with blue lines. If I want to quote something so as to reply to it, I just cut and paste it and put it in inverted commas to make clear it's a quote.""
Me too! I'm computer-literate and have been for years and even I can't get the blue lines to work properly so I don't use them.
They're a pain if you try and edit between them or whern the double blue line 'requote' is in play. The quotemark item on the toolbar, while not bombproof, doesn't test patience to its limit.
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You would expect that the civil engineers and bean counters would work together to achieve a result that would be economical from the point of view of longevity balanced against price.
I would suspect that we could manufacture roads that would last in perpetuity (A50 Derby to Stoke road springs to mind), but would they be economical and environmentally sustainable (eg cost, noise, pollution etc) or we could resort to forest fire road construction to be renewed monthly/weekly at mionimal cost (fill and roll).
As I have said before, my experience of Britain's roads has not been as gloomy as some (or maybe my expectations have been better managed).
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Corax try this, first quote previous message, then type yours, then last of all edit the quoted message, doing it that way does seem to work, and you can play silly blighters with the blue lines..;)
Cheers GB, not as savvy or educated as you. Perhaps your post should be put up the top as a sticky for other luddites like me :)
Sorry, just taking up gordonbennet's challenge to produce 4 blue lines.
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Corax try this, first quote previous message, then type yours, then last of all edit the quoted message, doing it that way does seem to work, and you can play silly blighters with the blue lines..;)
Cheers GB, not as savvy or educated as you. Perhaps your post should be put up the top as a sticky for other luddites like me :)
Sorry, just taking up gordonbennet's challenge to produce 4 blue lines.
I see your 4 blue lines and raise you.
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Corax try this, first quote previous message, then type yours, then last of all edit the quoted message, doing it that way does seem to work, and you can play silly blighters with the blue lines..;)
Cheers GB, not as savvy or educated as you. Perhaps your post should be put up the top as a sticky for other luddites like me :)
Sorry, just taking up gordonbennet's challenge to produce 4 blue lines.
I see your 4 blue lines and raise you.
First one to get a line of them across the page?
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Bonkers the lot of you..:-)
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Corax try this, first quote previous message, then type yours, then last of all edit the quoted message, doing it that way does seem to work, and you can play silly blighters with the blue lines..;)
Cheers GB, not as savvy or educated as you. Perhaps your post should be put up the top as a sticky for other luddites like me :)
Sorry, just taking up gordonbennet's challenge to produce 4 blue lines.
I see your 4 blue lines and raise you.
First one to get a line of them across the page?
I
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Corax try this, first quote previous message, then type yours, then last of all edit the quoted message, doing it that way does seem to work, and you can play silly blighters with the blue lines..;)
Cheers GB, not as savvy or educated as you. Perhaps your post should be put up the top as a sticky for other luddites like me :)
Sorry, just taking up gordonbennet's challenge to produce 4 blue lines.
I see your 4 blue lines and raise you.
First one to get a line of them across the page?
I
will
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Corax try this, first quote previous message, then type yours, then last of all edit the quoted message, doing it that way does seem to work, and you can play silly blighters with the blue lines..;)
Cheers GB, not as savvy or educated as you. Perhaps your post should be put up the top as a sticky for other luddites like me :)
Sorry, just taking up gordonbennet's challenge to produce 4 blue lines.
I see your 4 blue lines and raise you.
First one to get a line of them across the page?
I
will
win!
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Corax try this, first quote previous message, then type yours, then last of all edit the quoted message, doing it that way does seem to work, and you can play silly blighters with the blue lines..;)
Cheers GB, not as savvy or educated as you. Perhaps your post should be put up the top as a sticky for other luddites like me :)
Sorry, just taking up gordonbennet's challenge to produce 4 blue lines.
I see your 4 blue lines and raise you.
First one to get a line of them across the page?
I
will
win!
;-)
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Corax try this, first quote previous message, then type yours, then last of all edit the quoted message, doing it that way does seem to work, and you can play silly blighters with the blue lines..;)
Cheers GB, not as savvy or educated as you. Perhaps your post should be put up the top as a sticky for other luddites like me :)
Sorry, just taking up gordonbennet's challenge to produce 4 blue lines.
I see your 4 blue lines and raise you.
First one to get a line of them across the page?
I
will
win!
;-)
Look out, Avant's coming!
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Corax try this, first quote previous message, then type yours, then last of all edit the quoted message, doing it that way does seem to work, and you can play silly blighters with the blue lines..;)
Cheers GB, not as savvy or educated as you. Perhaps your post should be put up the top as a sticky for other luddites like me :)
Sorry, just taking up gordonbennet's challenge to produce 4 blue lines.
I see your 4 blue lines and raise you.
First one to get a line of them across the page?
I
will
win!
;-)
Look out, Avant's coming!
You're all really silly and I will have no part in this nonsense
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Corax try this, first quote previous message, then type yours, then last of all edit the quoted message, doing it that way does seem to work, and you can play silly blighters with the blue lines..;)
Cheers GB, not as savvy or educated as you. Perhaps your post should be put up the top as a sticky for other luddites like me :)
Sorry, just taking up gordonbennet's challenge to produce 4 blue lines.
I see your 4 blue lines and raise you.
First one to get a line of them across the page?
I
will
win!
;-)
Look out, Avant's coming!
You're all really silly and I will have no part in this nonsense
Nearly there, Bobbin!
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"You're all really silly and I will have no part in this nonsense."
I win, because I (and Sofa Spud) can do it without any blue lines at all.
(But I've no objection to people being silly - why not? It's fun.)
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Perhaps the above is the aerial view of the M1 in 2200?
I have just returned from driving in New Jersey where the roads are wide and you hardly ever see a field; just forest.
Those of you who occasionally fly will see just how little space our roads occupy. All of them, including country roads, need to be twice as wide. Even then they would be virtually unnoticeable at 5,000 feet.
There is far too much value ascribed to our so-called agricultural land. It supports hardly any jobs and swallows huge subsidies because food is grown far cheaper elsewhere, mainly nearer the equator. Let's have a lot more liebensraum and garden city-type developments and just a few narrower fields by the sides of decent roads.
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There is far too much value ascribed to our so-called agricultural land. It supports hardly any jobs and swallows huge subsidies because food is grown far cheaper elsewhere, mainly nearer the equator. Let's have a lot more liebensraum and garden city-type developments and just a few narrower fields by the sides of decent roads.
I'm afraid I disagree. Although I am an intermittent motorist and occasionally must get somewhere quickly, I enjoy driving rural roads more than Mways. I like to feel in closer touch with 'the landscape'. Too many people see the UK as an unlimited space to be turned into depressing job-creating or revenue-earning area, such as is found on the edge of almost any place with a population over 1000. You don't mean 'lebensraum' (living space) but 'fahrensraum' or driving space.
We were reminded this morning that the UK only produces about a third of the food we eat. We have to buy the rest from overseas, which seems OK at the moment despite a negative balance of payments. If things go a bit pear-shaped we may need to Dig For Victory again - not easy growing things on tarmac or concrete.
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Well said Andrew T, i'm in your club.
Far too much of this country being concreted over, more housing for more people to stock more warehouses with Chinese tat, need more roads to get more lorries from the containerbase to the warehouse, need more housing then for the people to get to work at the warehouses and on it goes.
Enough already.
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GordonBennet said "Well said Andrew T, I'm in your club."
So am I.
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And the food may be grown cheaper, but it takes huge resources to fly it here, and isn't as fresh.
But I'm afraid I've been spoilt by the most incredible banquet from my allotment this year.
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Well said Andrew T, i'm in your club.
Far too much of this country being concreted over, more housing for more people to stock more warehouses with Chinese tat, need more roads to get more lorries from the containerbase to the warehouse, need more housing then for the people to get to work at the warehouses and on it goes.
Enough already.
Please report to the GDP re-eduction program for a top up of consumer fluid.
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You don't mean 'lebensraum' (living space) but 'fahrensraum' or driving space.
we may need to Dig For Victory again - not easy growing things on tarmac or concrete.
I mean both, Andrew [thanks for correcting my hasty mis-spelling]. I share your enjoyment of the countryside (there's still loads of it even within 20 miles of Trafalgar Sq), which would be magnified if our rural roads were wider and smoother.
Clearly food is so cheap that few people can be bothered to grow it - much easier to drive to a large shed and collect packets of washed veg. I appreciate most have small or no gardens, but those that do rarely use them for food. Hardly seems worth growing apples commercially either.
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"food is so cheap that few people can be bothered to grow it"
It is cheap, certainly using historical comparisons, for which we can thank the supermarkets, along with their other successes in covering more ground with tarmac, of course. Meanwhile accommodation has become so expensive that many people are said to live in 'poverty'. And many of them don't have much idea of where food comes from (I mean cows' milk, potatoes etc), never mind what to do to grow any of it. But one day we may need to relearn those skills?
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