A Conversation for MINISTRY OF JELLY!
Jelly at Childrens Parties.
The Fish Posted Dec 1, 2000
Oh... it's a nice place really....... just not all of it.. 
....Still, much bettre than Birmingham, Slough, Swindon and Bolton... 
Jelly at Childrens Parties.
Tinkerbell *tumbleweed* Posted Dec 1, 2000
Well you just have to look at the middle of 'Birmingham' to see that...and Bristol is just scary as it drags you in no matter where you go, I didn't even think it was possible to get the train to Bristol via Oxford but they tried so hard to send me there!
But Sloughs not bad, it has Pinewood studios and that had James Bond there and it's so pretty inside cept the hedges are mostly fake...
Jelly at Childrens Parties.
The Fish Posted Dec 1, 2000
Slough has too many traffic lights though.... 
Jelly at Childrens Parties.
Bagpuss Posted Dec 2, 2000
It can't have as many as Leeds. The road past Clarence Dock (no pubs in that area, so I have to navigate by student halls of residence) is known as the Drag Strip, since it has traffic lights every hundred yards or so.
Jelly at Childrens Parties.
Tinkerbell *tumbleweed* Posted Dec 16, 2000
*grins*
They're worse on the roads in Cambridge, they have them just about every ten metres it takes hours to get anywhere...
*would like to point out that ten metres may well be a hundred yards but she's not entirely sure*
Jelly at Childrens Parties.
Bagpuss Posted Dec 16, 2000
Metres and yards aren't very different, I forget which is longer.
You do get some in Leeds that close, but it gets difficult to tell which lights are at which junction if you have to many like that.
Jelly at Childrens Parties.
Tinkerbell *tumbleweed* Posted Dec 16, 2000
Umm... 3yards in a metre? or is it 2.73 ...or is it 3.72... or is it neither... errr... oh actually maybe its 2.75? or 3.75 ...
Yeah, these are all at pedestrain crossings and it's just so confusing, why they need so many I don't know...maybe they have really lazy pedestrians in that part of Cambridge
Jelly at Childrens Parties.
Bagpuss Posted Dec 16, 2000
3 feet in a yard, which is similar to a metre, I think.
You mean pedestrians who would cross 3 yards from a pelican crossing because they couldn't be bothered to walk to one? I'm sure I don't know anyone like that.
*looks round innocently*
Jelly at Childrens Parties.
Tinkerbell *tumbleweed* Posted Dec 17, 2000
Well I got one of the numbers right?
*grins*
No I mean pedestrians who each have to have their own pedestrian crossing to the front door of their house as they can't be bothered to walk a metre to the left and then cross...
Jelly at Childrens Parties.
Bagpuss Posted Dec 19, 2000
Probably, but I'm a mathematician, so I don't like numbers much.
Ah, but those are probably done at the whim of some council member or other. Either that or an entirely random outcome of throwing darts at a map.
Key: Complain about this post
Jelly at Childrens Parties.
- 41: The Fish (Dec 1, 2000)
- 42: Tinkerbell *tumbleweed* (Dec 1, 2000)
- 43: The Fish (Dec 1, 2000)
- 44: Bagpuss (Dec 2, 2000)
- 45: Tinkerbell *tumbleweed* (Dec 16, 2000)
- 46: Bagpuss (Dec 16, 2000)
- 47: Tinkerbell *tumbleweed* (Dec 16, 2000)
- 48: Bagpuss (Dec 16, 2000)
- 49: Tinkerbell *tumbleweed* (Dec 17, 2000)
- 50: Bagpuss (Dec 19, 2000)
More Conversations for MINISTRY OF JELLY!
Write an Entry
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers."