Loon Watch

Greg T
Greg T Posts: 3,266
edited July 2011 in Commuting chat
is it just me (ahem) or are there suddenly more swivel eyed single issue loons knocking around burning the furniture with their fiery torches and having their homework return for poor spelling, incoherent and endless argument and classroom name calling.

Now . .

I'm all for a bit of class room name calling . . you gang of preachy hug knitting Grauniad reading public sector fat cats, however - loon watch state is currently "high"

Is some other loony bike forum (D-lock.dum.lol.com for instance) down and we are getting sidewash?
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Since when was Swindon LOW on the loon scale????
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Since when was Swindon LOW on the loon scale????

    Sounds Boring - never been . . .

    Insert you low loon suggestions here

    - - - - -
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    Greg, you are fully aware that Swindon posesses one of the highest loon densities of this Scepter'd Isle. Don't try to deny it.
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Seems to be coinciding with the high aurora activity at the moment. Maybe all that electricity floating around is bringing them out?

    Swindon? You'd have to be a loon to live there.

    Anyway, I say burn them all. Dunno who 'them' are but we should burn them. Just in case.....

    P.S. I'm missing our very own Jeremy Rundle :?
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    Oh God . . .

    I'm loon baiting . . .

    I told my therapist I'd stop . . . But I can't - I don't want to . . . It feels so Good . . .
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,776
    Talking of whom. Both Greg's have posted lists recently of things to poke fun at and have both missed off the Airzound. Have these become acceptable? I still hate the idea of them.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,776
    Loon baiting is one of my favourite pastimes in the office. It's a bit like shooting fish in a barrel here though.
    I think I work with the old fella that had a go at Motopatter for riding on the footpath. I think I might wind him up a bit now actually.
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  • fenboy369
    fenboy369 Posts: 425
    Speaking of Motopaters thread about the 'old loon', has it been deleted? I was enjoying that little slice of playground! :wink:
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  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    Greg T wrote:
    Oh God . . .

    I'm loon baiting . . .

    I told my therapist I'd stop . . . But I can't - I don't want to . . . It feels so Good . . .

    I live in Swindon - there I've said it
  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    They are out in force. It's like 28 Days Later in here ATM. We need to beat the lot of 'em to death with a shovel to get things back to normal.
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  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    Swindon loony this morning - girl on MTB with mobile - stopped by the side of the road to dial and once she started speaking shot across 2 lanes of traffic at a junction without even shouilder checking causing 2 car drivers to stand on their brakes - she was totally oblivious of the chaos behind her
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    What's a loon?
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  • wgwarburton
    wgwarburton Posts: 1,863
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    What's a loon?

    They're a kind of waterbird. We call them divers here in the UK. Various species- Black throated, red throated, great northern.

    Not sure what the link to cycling is, though... but this is Chat so anything goes, apparently.

    Cheers,
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    or maybe short for lunatic?
  • davmaggs
    davmaggs Posts: 1,008
    fenboy369 wrote:
    Speaking of Motopaters thread about the 'old loon', has it been deleted? I was enjoying that little slice of playground! :wink:

    I wondered where that went. What was the final straw that got it pulled?
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Why does Greg believe there to be a more 'loons' (aka lunatic) than normal frequenting the site.
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    davmaggs wrote:
    fenboy369 wrote:
    Speaking of Motopaters thread about the 'old loon', has it been deleted? I was enjoying that little slice of playground! :wink:

    I wondered where that went. What was the final straw that got it pulled?

    I suspect that it was two many back and forths between the Moto dude and a couple of badger baters that invoked Scandinavians called something like Knut.

    All in all it wasn't very pretty.
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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    WTF?!?!? Is this some kind of dig at people with a MH condition (that's 1 in 4 of the population, do you really fancy those odds?) or a dig at protesters or what?

    BTW - they're after you, you know, and when they get you...
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Why does Greg believe there to be a more 'loons' (aka lunatic) than normal frequenting the site.

    Don't you?

    hence the poll.

    There's another thread about a Pole but that's different and has a hairdresser forcing herself on an "intruder" if you'll forgive the pun.
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    SecretSam wrote:
    WTF?!?!? Is this some kind of dig at people with a MH condition (that's 1 in 4 of the population, do you really fancy those odds?) or a dig at protesters or what?

    BTW - they're after you, you know, and when they get you...

    You see - even SS's has fallen victim - he's getting his "mad" on
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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    Jay dubbleU wrote:
    I live in Swindon - there I've said it

    We all have our crosses to bear

    I live in Aylesbury, there, I've said it... :lol:
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    Greg T wrote:
    You see - even SS's has fallen victim - he's getting his "mad" on

    I've got my "mad" on 24/7, and I have the pills and the therapy to prove it
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    SecretSam wrote:
    Jay dubbleU wrote:
    I live in Swindon - there I've said it

    We all have our crosses to bear

    I live in Aylesbury, there, I've said it... :lol:

    you've got some lovely standing stones... :D
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,382
    Aren't you thinking of Avebury?
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    Or Easter Island?
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  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    Have you not heard of the Aylesbury stone circle ? Smallest stone circle in the world

    Archaeologists came to the conclusion it was similar to Stonehenge, but where the latter is a prehistoric computer the former is a prehistoric laptop :wink:

    We have a stone circle in Swindon called the Magic Roundabout where drivers come to worship the gods of Chaos
  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    We also have these in Wales, although they do tend to disappear if it rains hard. Here's one I snapped on the concrete hardstanding this evening when I got back from work.

    Turdhenge.jpg

    By the way, one of my dogs has a small golden sickle and keeps wallking around chewing mistletoe - is that normal?
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    I hope no one caught you arranging poo-henge, you'd have a tough time explaining that one.
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    Are you mocking my religion ITB?







    (actually MrsAH did and was still chuckling when she went to bed, you lot are a bad influence b :D )
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,776
    itboffin wrote:
    I hope no one caught you arranging poo-henge, you'd have a tough time explaining that one.
    I didn't LMAO at that, but I did LUMDCOMN ]laughed until my drink came out my nose
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Just wrong
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