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Thanks DF and Burbage - very helpful! I think the 40 has the same problem. I shudder every time one wheezes its way up te hill towards The Plough...

The other bus thread prompted this... anyone know why the 176 makes such a blinking racket compared to the others? Especially when going uphill?

I've only ever once paid over four quid for a pint of ale - and that was last night. First and last time.

As oldsocks also discovered, the Doombar pricing is enthusiastic to say the least. ?4.20 for a pint of widely available bitter is just ridiculous.

I was at school in Shoreham-by-Sea in Sussex. Much local devastation, but the oddest sight was seeing most of the light aeroplanes at Shoreham Airport flipped over and lying upside down.

John Lanchester's 'Capital'. Plod, plod, plod. So dull.

"For your discomfort and inconvenience we have turned off the escaltors"

from my postroom at work

Ladies who forget to remove the price labels from their shoes. The bit between the heel and the sole.

Tube drivers with verbal diarrhoea

erections

Tik out of Tik & Tok

the phrase "shabby chic"

folk (usually tradespeople) sat in cars/vans with idling diesel engines noisily rattling away, spewing out all kinds of stink

Louisa Wrote: "a mixed seafood starter" ponce.

Beat Dis - Bomb The Bass have a I got the right rules?

before tripping over a mysterious bottle of fluoro-coloured widdle that someone has dumped next to a boxful of torn-up Waitrose/M&S planning applications

Hire a soundsystem, postition speakers next to party wall, load up the intro to When The Levee Breaks on a continuous loop, depart on two-week holiday

anyone else dislike this phrase?

Attach a guillotine to your front door maybe

String I'm up its the only language he understands mate