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Bendy Lampposts
IctoanAWEWawi Started conversation Dec 17, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3324171.stm
Apparently new bendy lamposts are being installed around the country. Appols to anyone who has been involved, or known anyone involved, in such an accident but I just loved the picture caption on the page
"High-speed impacts with rigid metal posts often result in death"
And that took them how long to work out?
Another thought, if they really are bendy, that ain't half gonna cause some confusion next time you walk into one drunk! See me? I'm Super Strong! I can bend lampposts!!
Bendy Lampposts
A Super Furry Animal Posted Dec 17, 2003
Have these lampposts been drunken-teenager-tested? I mean, once word of this gets out, the national sport come closing time of a Friday will be to shin up and swing from the top in the hope of causing bendage.
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Dec 17, 2003
...always assuming that obesity levels have left us with *any* teenagers capable of shinning up lampposts...
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Dec 17, 2003
"causing bendage" ? That sounds rude 
what with teenagers and students, they'll never last will they?
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Dec 17, 2003
"Causing bendage"...yes, I was quite proud of this neologism...
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Granny Weatherwax - ACE - Hells Belle, Mother-in-Law from the Pit - Haunting near you on Saturday Posted Dec 17, 2003
George Formby'll be spinning in his grave
'Turned out nice again'
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dasilva Posted Dec 18, 2003
The Swedes have been trying similar 'soft roadside furniture' out for a while, given the national past-time of 
driving
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Fathom Posted Dec 18, 2003
Soft roadside furniture?
Like foam phone kiosks and pliable pillar boxes? There could be squishy signposts and bouncy bus stops too. Paving stones should be foam rubber so you don't skin your knee if you trip.
I've often thought our environment is much too hard for sensitive 'bags of mostly water' like us. 
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Bendy Lampposts
- 1: IctoanAWEWawi (Dec 17, 2003)
- 2: Serephina (Dec 17, 2003)
- 3: A Super Furry Animal (Dec 17, 2003)
- 4: A Super Furry Animal (Dec 17, 2003)
- 5: IctoanAWEWawi (Dec 17, 2003)
- 6: A Super Furry Animal (Dec 17, 2003)
- 7: Granny Weatherwax - ACE - Hells Belle, Mother-in-Law from the Pit - Haunting near you on Saturday (Dec 17, 2003)
- 8: nada (Dec 18, 2003)
- 9: creachy (Dec 18, 2003)
- 10: nada (Dec 18, 2003)
- 11: dasilva (Dec 18, 2003)
- 12: Fathom (Dec 18, 2003)
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