Musketeer Gripweed Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Why not claim you are stuck and need to be airlifted by the coast guards to Edinburgh on a daily basis? It worked for the good people of Carlisle over the weekend. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duszek Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Seaside league forum for this pish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kryptonite Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 If only you had a Clyde Tunnel equivalent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Gloss paint on wood chip! Matt is cheaper, extravagant wastage of money in that contract. Wipes clean, water runs off, saving maintenance. Not that there was any before. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyblair Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Why not claim you are stuck and need to be airlifted by the coast guards to Edinburgh on a daily basis? It worked for the good people of Carlisle over the weekend. You could also feign a life threatening disease that can only be cured in an Edinburgh Hospital as emergency vehicles are still going over the bridge occasionally. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) You could also feign a life threatening disease that can only be cured in an Edinburgh Hospital as emergency vehicles are still going over the bridge occasionally.Or pretend to get stuck up one of Fife's many mountains and get the mountain rescue helicopter to drop you off in Edinburgh.Personally I would Evel Knievel it on a motorbike on a daily basis. Edited December 7, 2015 by Dee Man 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wardy Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35021494 Oh well, fingers crossed. That was some trek I did today...if the weather gets worse and we have shit like snow..then I'm no moving from my house. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 I'm sure I read it would have cost a lot less to design and develop the tunnel to be honest Mr P. There was a lot of campaigning for a Tunnel and the SNP were arguing that a tunnel could be an affordable solution while they were in opposition. When they got into power they had a reality check. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 My foreman lives in rosyth, had to get up at 4,then leave at 5, just to get to leith for 7.15. Ouch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dee_62 Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 10 minute commute from Glencarse to Perth took an hour this morning! Tailbacks from the Friarton Bridge to the Broxden roundabout. Bl**dy bridge, bl**dy weather, bl**dy fifers, bl**dy SNP, bl**dy Yes voters, bl**dy No voters, bl**dy commuters, bl**dy obnoxious drivers deliberately driving in the (faster) wrong lane until the very last minute, then holding all the other traffic up as they try to slip into the right lane ahead of the cones. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampden Diehard Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) Listened to the two hour Radio Scotland Forth Bridge Phone in Special this morning for about 5 minutes until I shot the b*****ding radio. Basically SOMETHING MUST BE DONE....although absolutely nobody has a clue what it is they want to be done. Have a wee thought for the massed ranks of the Queen's Park support battling to get to Methil (FFS.....battling to get to Methil....never though I'd see the day) through deranged commuters trying to escape Edinburgh. Carnage, I tell ye, carnage. Edited December 7, 2015 by Hampden Diehard 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny van Axeldongen Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) We could get a few ziplines crossing the Forth; scoot small packages and people across the water.Or buy a shit-ton of these things and let people make their own way across. Edited December 7, 2015 by Johnny van Axeldongen 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mortar Bored Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 When I were a lad...... A broken bridge would never have stopped me from travelling from my comfortable residence in Fife to my 7.5 hr shift in an insurance office in auld reekie. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamdunk Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 lol https://www.forthroadbridge.org/travel/current-works/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 lol https://www.forthroadbridge.org/travel/current-works/ I wonder how many helpful folk have tried this... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duszek Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 My foreman lives in rosyth, had to get up at 4,then leave at 5, just to get to leith for 7.15. Ouch. It took him an hour, from waking up to leaving the house? Tell him to go to sleep in his work clothes, shave/shower last thing at night, and sleep in a sleeping bag, wedged up against the front door. He needs to arrange his alarm so that it rings at 5 and simultaneously triggers the door opening, causing him to fall out the house. You just saved him 60 minutes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDcups Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 It took him an hour, from waking up to leaving the house? Tell him to go to sleep in his work clothes, shave/shower last thing at night, and sleep in a sleeping bag, wedged up against the front door. He needs to arrange his alarm so that it rings at 5 and simultaneously triggers the door opening, causing him to fall out the house. You just saved him 60 minutes. If he slept in the car outside work he could get up at 7.10 have a piss and get in early to impress the boss. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) How to proceed over the river, with a works pass, when everyone else is queuing. Edited December 7, 2015 by kiddy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuddieInDundee Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Don't know why people find this funny. Scotland needs a strong Forth Road Bridge, IMO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamdunk Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 People find it funny when it doesn't affect them. I'll be seething if I end up stuck in traffic because of it, until then I'll just chuckle away at the misfortune of others. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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