anti-bike policy at Waitrose, St. Kathrine's Docks

[Sue]

Is that actually a real thing or just an urban legend? It's the sort of thing you desperately hope is true and that someone will actually do it.

It's a real thing.

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[farmerbarleymow]

Is that actually a real thing or just an urban legend? It's the sort of thing you desperately hope is true and that someone will actually do it.

Surely we have a poster who has the freedom of a city who can report on this.

 

[MickiQ]

It's a real thing.

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That is totally awesome if I was a Freeman of London, I would get some sheep purely to herd them back and forth across Tower Bridge

 

[Steel Icarus]

What isn’t?!

Parliament

 

[Dystopiary]

Can't tell if wind-up or peak middle class problems.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Can't tell if wind-up or peak middle class problems.

I know which part of the bridge I think this is coming from

 

[Supine]

This sort of thing is happening all the time. Just the other day I was given a very dirty look from the security guard at Harrods just for driving my emotional support Bentley through the cocaine department.

It’s ok if you use a gold plated Bentley.

 

[hash tag]

Can't tell if wind-up or peak middle class problems.

You of course get a better class of shop lifter in Waitrose.

 

[skyscraper101]

It happens once a year I think, ceremonial like



We’ve got an old Raleigh folding bike in the cupboard, folded up it’s actually less portable - thing weighs more than my mountain bike.

Only cost us fifty quid though, wife used it to learn to ride

My old brompton imitation cheap electric bike was like that. It folded in the middle but you wouldn't want to carry it, folded or not. It weighed a ton. Which tbh was handy for preventing thieves because without the removable battery it was practically unusable anyway, so good luck to anyone wanting to carry it off. The onyl good thing about it folding at all was being technically transportable on a train or in the boot of a car.

 

[Sue]

That is totally awesome if I was a Freeman of London, I would get some sheep purely to herd them back and forth across Tower Bridge

The whole freeman/City of London thing is a right load of old nonsense.

 

[SpookyFrank]

It’s ok if you use a gold plated Bentley.

They make Bentleys without gold plating? Why?

 

[Steel Icarus]

They make Bentleys without gold plating? Why?

So we can tell at a glance who is old money and who is a footballer

 

[Supine]

They make Bentleys without gold plating? Why?

We have to remember the poor. Good socialists

 

[bellaozzydog]

They won’t let me take my 9’6 longboard on the ‘plane

Oppressed I am

 

[hash tag]

They make Bentleys without gold plating? Why?

I might have seen this and even posted it on here. It was close to tower Hamlets cemetery park

 

[hitmouse]

Couldn't you have out-peddled the security guard?

To be fair, I think the security guards are within their rights to object to other people peddling their wares in the shop.

happily drive a Trabant into Waitrose at St. Katherine's Docks

z8000 on a recent visit to the duty-free shop:

The whole freeman/City of London thing is a right load of old nonsense.

I'm gonna start using it, the next time a security guard is giving me hassle I'll just tell him that he doesn't have a claim against me under City of London law.

 

[Sue]

I'm gonna start using it, the next time a security guard is giving me hassle I'll just tell him that he doesn't have a claim against me under City of London law.

Act like a twat and mention the masons and you'll fit right in.

 

[Pickman's model]

That is totally awesome if I was a Freeman of London, I would get some sheep purely to herd them back and forth across Tower Bridge

If you were a Freeman of the city of London you could afford to pay people to do that for you

 

[JimW]

which went walkies with someone

I fear there's some chance the fucker rode off on it

 

[nogojones]

They won’t let me take my 9’6 longboard on the ‘plane

Oppressed I am

Why would you need to take it on a plane, when you can just paddle?

 

[JimW]

Act like a twat and mention the masons and you'll fit right in.

Or mad Paul Mason, he's the talk of the town.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Surely we have a poster who has the freedom of a city who can report on this.

Karen's dad really was one, he had a certificate and everything. He was a commander in the navy (retired by the time I started boffing his daughter). Had he died she could have gone to City of London Freemans School free of charge. Dunno if he's dead yet, but she turned 50 last month so that offer's probably expired anyway.

 

[T & P]

I went to Twickenham a few months ago to meet up with a mate, and noticed a Brompton bike rental station. Like Boris bikes, but they were folded up and stored in a kind-of giant vending machine. Bizarre as fuck. I guess a reflection of the socioeconomic demographics over there…

 

[DaveCinzano]

Couldn't you have out-peddled the security guard?

There's normally rules against that sort of thing

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I went to Twickenham a few months ago to meet up with a mate, and noticed a Brompton bike rental station. Like Boris bikes, but they were folded up and stored in a kind-of giant vending machine. Bizarre as fuck. I guess a reflection of the socioeconomic demographics over there…

Guildford train station has one of these things too, seems odd to rent a bike and then take it on a train when you could just get a Boris bike when you get to Waterloo…

 

[Elpenor]

One at Reading as well. Or there was.

 

[xenon]

That is totally awesome if I was a Freeman of London, I would get some sheep purely to herd them back and forth across Tower Bridge

Why? it would seem to have extremely limited novelty value.

 

[hash tag]

I went to Twickenham a few months ago to meet up with a mate, and noticed a Brompton bike rental station. Like Boris bikes, but they were folded up and stored in a kind-of giant vending machine. Bizarre as fuck. I guess a reflection of the socioeconomic demographics over there…

The idea was started during Ken's reign. It's just that they came into being during Johnson's time.

 

[MickiQ]

Karen's dad really was one, he had a certificate and everything. He was a commander in the navy (retired by the time I started boffing his daughter). Had he died she could have gone to City of London Freemans School free of charge. Dunno if he's dead yet, but she turned 50 last month so that offer's probably expired anyway.

Is that an automatic thing for RN commanders or did he do something specific to earn it?
Mrs Q's Dad reached the rank of Chief Petty Officer (can't have told me more than a 1000 times) I'm sure if he was a Freeman of Anywhere he would have bored me witless telling me that as well

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

get yourself a Trabant.

Funny coincidence. I literally saw a Trabant about two hours ago in south Manchester of all places. I was coming home from work via the shop for a bottle of wine and saw it in one of the parking spaces in front of a little arcade of shops.