Author Topic: Didcot  (Read 167407 times)

deliquium

Re: Didcot
« Reply #225 on: 23 November, 2011, 03:54:06 pm »
Fuck Abingdon and its crap bridge, kebab shops and Tory town council thinking on Thames is a "brand"

Didcot has more earthly cred?

Re: Didcot
« Reply #226 on: 23 November, 2011, 04:09:09 pm »
Whaddya mean?  It's one of the best Bridges over the Thames, and... you dissing Sami's kebabs?  But as for Tory councillors - I didn't vote for them...  ;)
Cycle and recycle.   SS Wilson

Re: Didcot
« Reply #227 on: 23 November, 2011, 04:11:30 pm »
Badcock! Down, boy!

deliquium

Re: Didcot
« Reply #228 on: 23 November, 2011, 04:20:02 pm »
Whaddya mean?  It's one of the best Bridges over the Thames, and... you dissing Sami's kebabs?  But as for Tories councillor's - I didn't vote for them...  ;)

What scale do you use for rating bridges?

Is there a score for the detritus that can be seen from such wonderful structures?  :'(

deliquium

Re: Didcot
« Reply #229 on: 23 November, 2011, 04:20:45 pm »
This is turning into an Abingdon thread  :hand:

Re: Didcot
« Reply #230 on: 23 November, 2011, 04:26:16 pm »
Apparently trains were delayed around Didcot yesterday...
Cycle and recycle.   SS Wilson

mattc

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    • Didcot Audaxes
Re: Didcot
« Reply #231 on: 23 November, 2011, 04:27:03 pm »
Just thought Didcot would like to know that Abingdon may soon be going up in the world...

http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/hsabingdonnews/9376401.Bid_to_change_Abingdon___s_name/

 ;)

Some nice perceptive comments on there:

It's their town they can call it what they like! King Joke

cubist says...
3:07pm Tue 22 Nov 11
abbadabadingdong?


:)
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Re: Didcot
« Reply #232 on: 23 November, 2011, 04:38:41 pm »
Yes, but getting back to Didcot; srsly the trains were delayed...
Cycle and recycle.   SS Wilson

deliquium

Re: Didcot
« Reply #233 on: 23 November, 2011, 04:40:13 pm »
 . . . . . gratification?

Re: Didcot
« Reply #234 on: 23 November, 2011, 04:43:47 pm »
Nah, points apparently...

 ;)
Cycle and recycle.   SS Wilson

Panoramix

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #235 on: 23 November, 2011, 06:10:30 pm »
I am stuck in Didcot parkway due to "signal problems in the Slough area"
Chief cat entertainer.

Panoramix

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #236 on: 23 November, 2011, 06:15:54 pm »
I may manage to escape the didcot blackhole as the signal problems have been downgraded to temporary problems.
Chief cat entertainer.

border-rider

Re: Didcot
« Reply #237 on: 23 November, 2011, 06:24:24 pm »
I may manage to escape the didcot blackhole as the signal problems have been downgraded to temporary problems.

But as you approach its Schwarzchild horizon you'll experience relativistic time dilation, so those temporary problems will last all eternity.  You're trapped. For ever.

rogerzilla

  • When n+1 gets out of hand
Re: Didcot
« Reply #238 on: 23 November, 2011, 06:48:04 pm »
I may manage to escape the didcot blackhole as the signal problems have been downgraded to temporary problems.
If you hear a clawing noise under the floor, it's the chuds and Morlocks breaking in.  Don't worry; they're not keen on foreign food.
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Panoramix

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #239 on: 23 November, 2011, 08:17:38 pm »
I may manage to escape the didcot blackhole as the signal problems have been downgraded to temporary problems.

But as you approach its Schwarzchild horizon you'll experience relativistic time dilation, so those temporary problems will last all eternity.  You're trapped. For ever.

The guy with the pencil was wrong, I manage to escape the blackhole, I am now sitting in Bristol. thanks to a fold in time space. Shall I share it with Didcot inhabitants of this parish?
Chief cat entertainer.

border-rider

Re: Didcot
« Reply #240 on: 23 November, 2011, 11:25:18 pm »
No

Didcot is the best place for them

mattc

  • n.b. have grown beard since photo taken
    • Didcot Audaxes
Re: Didcot
« Reply #241 on: 24 November, 2011, 06:55:41 pm »
On radio4 now:
Airstrike on Abingdon retail park. Harsh but fair.


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Jaded

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  • Formerly known as Jaded
Re: Didcot
« Reply #242 on: 26 November, 2011, 09:24:32 am »
Didcot was light and airy today, with a smattering of train spotters. By the look in their eyes and their chippy demeanour there's something big going down in Didcot today.
It is simpler than it looks.

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Didcot
« Reply #243 on: 26 November, 2011, 09:40:00 am »
We saw a steam engine at Paddington, headed for Shrewsbury.  A Cathedral Class
Getting there...

deliquium

Re: Didcot
« Reply #244 on: 26 November, 2011, 04:32:05 pm »
By the look in their eyes and their chippy demeanour there's something big going down in Didcot today.

Topless BINGO nite at the New Coronet - fortunately situated opposite the fire and ambulance station

Jaded

  • The Codfather
  • Formerly known as Jaded
Re: Didcot
« Reply #245 on: 26 November, 2011, 08:29:03 pm »
It is simpler than it looks.

gerwinium

  • Occasional smug folding bastard
Re: Didcot
« Reply #246 on: 26 November, 2011, 08:32:49 pm »

deliquium

Re: Didcot
« Reply #247 on: 26 November, 2011, 08:34:48 pm »
Didcot is a STATE of mind

robbo6

Re: Didcot
« Reply #248 on: 26 November, 2011, 08:48:45 pm »
We saw a steam engine at Paddington, headed for Shrewsbury.  A Cathedral Class

"Tornado" was working the "Cathedrals Express" to Shrewsbury.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/sQr5Ozwf2xk&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/sQr5Ozwf2xk&rel=1</a>!

rogerzilla

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #249 on: 27 November, 2011, 04:30:03 pm »
From Wikitravel's page on Didcot.

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North of the Goring Gap and south of Oxford, Oxfordshire opens out into a broad plain, overlooked from the south and east by the Berkshire Downs and the Chiltern Hills. In the midst of this plain, Didcot stands out because of its huge coal-fired electricity generating plant, which dominates the skyline.

Didcot grew up because it lies at the point where the Great Western Railway's line north to Oxford and Birmingham branches off from the main line from London to Bristol and Cardiff. Since then a large military depot, now replaced by a business park, and the power station, have added to the economy.

If the above makes you think that Didcot sounds like an inappropriate destination for a tourist, you would probably be right.
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.