Drag 2010: Part II - The Drag Strikes Back

[sojourner]

all those mines, and factories, and slag heaps, there's beauty there if you look for it

Has it been a while since you ventured up to God's Own Country then mart?

The mines are shut down. The factories are shut down. The slag heaps are no more, and are now cunting brown field sites for the greedy bastard property developers.

Call centres just don't cut it in terms of beauty.

Luckily, we still have breathtaking landscapes

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I had to walk away from the 'puter this morning as it was running so slow and was making me tense

I could feel my fists bunching up and everything

 

[marty21]

Has it been a while since you ventured up to God's Own Country then mart?

The mines are shut down. The factories are shut down. The slag heaps are no more, and are now cunting brown field sites for the greedy bastard property developers.

Call centres just don't cut it in terms of beauty.

Luckily, we still have breathtaking landscapes

tbf, London has great buildings but rubbish landscapes

been a while since I was up in Yorkshire/Lancashire - although I did spend a weekend in Madchester last year

 

[sojourner]

tbf, London has great buildings but rubbish landscapes

been a while since I was up in Yorkshire/Lancashire - although I did spend a weekend in Madchester last year

Hey, we have some cracking architecture too you know! St Helens, Wigan, Liverpool - all have some absolutely stunning buildings

There's a spot on the M62, heading towards Yorkshire, where the moors open out and the Pennines rise up - and every single time I drive through it I get proper choked up with the beauty of it all

 

[marty21]

Hey, we have some cracking architecture too you know! St Helens, Wigan, Liverpool - all have some absolutely stunning buildings

There's a spot on the M62, heading towards Yorkshire, where the moors open out and the Pennines rise up - and every single time I drive through it I get proper choked up with the beauty of it all

I might have driven there, years ago. I drove a clapped out Fiesta to a wedding in Clitheroe, I broke down near the A666 near Swinton called the AA, they came, and said the car was fucked, they could only tow me to a garage in Swinton. I said to the bloke , I need to get to a wedding, he said he'd drive me until he got another call, then the AA systems crashed and he got me all the way - very nice man.

Had to get a lift back from another mate from the wedding, a week later got a coach up to Manchester, a taxi to Swinton, I'd spoken the garage that week and they put a reconditioned engine in (bigger than the original one) so drove back over towards the M1 and then South, stopped at a very hovis looking village which was lovely, the car was great after the bigger engine got put in.

 

[machine cat]

There's a spot on the M62, heading towards Yorkshire, where the moors open out and the Pennines rise up - and every single time I drive through it I get proper choked up with the beauty of it all

Is that the bit just before scammonden dam?

 

[sojourner]

Is that the bit just before scammonden dam?

Yup - highest point of any UK motorway (it says on the signs )

It is just gobsmackingly gorgeous...one of my most favourite parts of the world, ever

Sad as it may sound to southerners, going through that part of the North really does make me proud to be Northern. I always have to say 'fuck you southerners, you got NOTHING like this'

 

[marty21]

I have phone envy - mrs21 just got a new phone HTC something or other, way better than my HTC magic, and I'm stuck with that for another year until I can upgrade - she refused to swap with me - she will only use it for checking emails, phoning a texting - such a waste

mine is pretty good phone tbf - but now I want a new one

 

[machine cat]

Yup - highest point of any UK motorway (it says on the signs )

It is just gobsmackingly gorgeous...one of my most favourite parts of the world, ever

Mine too

I just get this awesome feeling of "I'm home" whenever I travel through that spot.

It also has a farm in the middle of the motorway

 

[sojourner]

Mine too

I just get this awesome feeling of "I'm home" whenever I travel through that spot.

It also has a farm in the middle of the motorway

Heh - yeh, love that

 

[neonwilderness]

The M6 through Cumbria has some good bits too. Neither of them are 'nearly home' for me though

Last hour then a week off...

 

[marty21]

leaving early to start my epic overnight trip, leaving London at about 6, arriving in Dublin about 12 hours later, then another 3 hour drive

 

[machine cat]

Last hour then a week off...

cunt

 

[marty21]

cunt

this ^^^^

 

[QueenOfGoths]

leaving early to start my epic overnight trip, leaving London at about 6, arriving in Dublin about 12 hours later, then another 3 hour drive

Hope it all works out marty and you get there safely.

 

[marty21]

Hope it all works out marty and you get there safely.

cheers, the one bonus is that I get to spend a bit of time with extended family members that I don't see a lot - unless it's a wedding or funeral - although I have started seeing some cousins who moved to London - and made to a trip to brum last year - the infamous locked out of my hotel room naked night

 

[sojourner]

The M6 through Cumbria has some good bits too.
Last hour then a week off...

Does indeed, you massive cunt

leaving early to start my epic overnight trip, leaving London at about 6, arriving in Dublin about 12 hours later, then another 3 hour drive

Won't call you a cunt though mart. Hope it goes well and the wake is a good piss up

 

[Biddlybee]

this ^^^^

this ^^

 

[marty21]

Does indeed, you massive cunt



Won't call you a cunt though mart. Hope it goes well and the wake is a good piss up

it will be a good one, they never disappoint. Last time I went to one in Ireland was about 12 years ago, a cousin of mine who was about 16 and kept taking the piss out of me as I wasn't drinking quickly enough. I told him it was a marathon not a sprint etc etc, a phrase I repeated to him when I found him outside in the street chucking up - that 16 year old is now 28, and we are driving over together

 

[sojourner]

it will be a good one, they never disappoint. Last time I went to one in Ireland was about 12 years ago, a cousin of mine who was about 16 and kept taking the piss out of me as I wasn't drinking quickly enough. I told him it was a marathon not a sprint etc etc, a phrase I repeated to him when I found him outside in the street chucking up - that 16 year old is now 28, and we are driving over together

 

[Biddlybee]

another week that hasn't dragged, and more to come... grrr!

Lovely weekends cuntlets

 

[cesare]

Are you going with Stena marty? If so, there's a few people I'd like you to call cunts

 

[neonwilderness]

cunt

this ^^^^

Does indeed, you massive cunt

Should give me a chance to catch up with some freelance stuff, so there may still be some dragging occurring.

cheers, the one bonus is that I get to spend a bit of time with extended family members that I don't see a lot

At least some good will come from it then

 

[marty21]

Are you going with Stena marty? If so, there's a few people I'd like you to call cunts

no idea what ferry it is, from Holyhead I think, I'll call everyone on the ferry cunts to ensure I reach the right people - no problem

 

[marty21]

Should give me a chance to catch up with some freelance stuff, so there may still be some dragging occurring.


At least some good will come from it then

3rd funeral in the last year, so I seem to be seeing a lot of them atm, this one is the most tragic - the other 2 were uncles and the drink took them - this is a 25 year old lad

 

[sojourner]

cuntlets

Ooo! I love this new word

no idea what ferry it is, from Holyhead I think, I'll call everyone on the ferry cunts to ensure I reach the right people - no problem

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Right I am outta here - good weekend yer cunts! Laters

 

[cesare]

no idea what ferry it is, from Holyhead I think, I'll call everyone on the ferry cunts to ensure I reach the right people - no problem

If you're going Holyhead-Dublin rather than Holyhead-Dun Laoghaire, tis probably Irish Ferries. Ha ha

 

[Badgers]

Funeral done

 

[sojourner]

Tara queeny-cuntlet! have a good un!

hello bajji - glad it went well

I wanna go now