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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I'm with chomp, it's a bit of a non-issue for me, nothing to get worked up about.
I bet you get angry when someone orders a steak that isn't medium-rare.
(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:49, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
OK then
let's talk about 'the real problems in society' then. Sounds much more fun.

You first.
(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:51, Reply)
Milton keynes grid and roundabout layout
An inspired example of urban design or a labyrinthine network of piss alleys leading in ever decreasing circles to hell?
(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:54, Reply)
^ THIS SORT OF THING, PLEASE

(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:57, Reply)
Well...

I find that while the grid and roundabout style can make naviagation easier by making the transport network a regimented and logical layout, it does mean that a certain charm is lost.

No one ever popped down a little sidestreet in MK and found a brilliant little pub that they never knew exsisted, they got in their car and drove around and around and aropund until the crushing enormity of the fcats that their life never quite worked out as they wished, the car they drive is the base model, the girl they married is from the middle shelf and the house they live is identicale to every other on the road and stuffed full of identikit Ikea crap that they never needed anyway, "WE ONLY CAME IN FOR A LAMP AND NOW WE HAVE A SNORDLEIVK MASSAGE TABLE" until the ineviatbilty of it all consumes them and they deliberately crash intoa concrete cow ina fit of ironic suicide, that no one in MK will understand anyway.
(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:03, Reply)
*applause*
That made me slightly want to die, but in a good way.
(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:11, Reply)
There's two 19th century pubs about 15 minutes walk from the town center,
down footpaths and along the great union canal.
The area where milton keynes now is has been inhabited since saxon times and there's an medieval abbey and Roman ruins around. Just because a modern city was built around them doesn't mean they don't exist.
I actually prefer that general traffic is kept away from them.
(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:23, Reply)
hmmm I think you may have missed the point...

Does make sense to route trafiic away from the ancient centres of towns and cities, much nicer to wander traffic free, donkeys should be allowed though.
(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:29, Reply)
Donkeys, bikes, horses and people are all alowed on the redway system
which is a sort of network of cycle paths through the whole of milton keynes and some of the surrounding villages.
(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:31, Reply)
Thank God we got away from boring old music
and onto THE TOPICS THAT MATTER TODAY.

NO-ONE could ever say THIS ^ is dull. No siree.

EDGE OF THE FUCKING SEAT STUFF.
(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:33, Reply)
*applauds*

(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:47, Reply)
Both.

(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:04, Reply)
I don't care what people talk about, I just think people who get worked up over Coldplay or U2 are getting themselves worked up over nothing.

(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:55, Reply)
Exactly the original point they are nothing

Honestly though music, art, films anything subjective is surely a classic example of a good topic for discussion.
(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:58, Reply)
this is just it
it's about discussion. I don't get so angry about it that it prevents me from acting like a normal rational person.
(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:00, Reply)
Maybe once in a while but the amount U2 & Coldplay are mentioned on here is getting silly.

(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:01, Reply)
I'll grant that I talk about U2 quite a lot
it's an easy topic to fall back on, particularly as I like to talk about music generally, whether it's things I like or dislike.
(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:02, Reply)
STEAK IS A SERIOUS MATTER!
and rhythm is a dancer
(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:52, Reply)
I don't even really like steak.

(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:56, Reply)
that's just weird

(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:00, Reply)
Neither did I for the first 31 years of my life
then I had one prepared correctly
(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:00, Reply)
Anything and everything
can be classed as a 'non-issue'. Your mum having cancer, global warming, war casualties and child mortality in the third world are all 'non-issues' as far as I am concerned. My bus running 6 minutes late, no 20p beef Space Raiders in the shop next door, someone stealing my pen are all 'issues' as far as I am concerned.

Point of observation, it's brilliant.
(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:54, Reply)

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