IronmanUK

[dothawkes31]

Who the flump do they think they are? taking over roads on a sunday and messing folk about, what a total flump up!

[Roughquest]

LOL Dot !! How are you today?

[ummmm]

Haven't a clue what you are talking about Dot....

[boxtops]

Nor have I, dot!

[micmak]

Ironman is a race. first a swim. Then a bike ride and then a run. I think dot means roads have been closed because of it.

[ummmm]

Oh....

[dothawkes31]

yes they have dozens of roads have been closed!!! Bloody ridiculous! It's taken me 2 hours to do a 30 minute round trip and the organisers couldn't give a broccoli how they disrupt people's lives! It;s all a money making thing and not even for charity as far as I can gather! Could be wrong, but it's been a nightmare, I've complained to the police the LA and the organisers and they couldn't give a flump

[Roughquest]

I watched that on TV earlier this morning ? It only lasted a short while - the coverage that is!

[ummmm]

How often does it happen? Once a year?

[dothawkes31]

once too often when queues stretch for miles and people need to be at work! very badly organised and caused a stupid amount of delay for people like myself who had no idea it was happening.

[McMouse]

So the good people of Bolton get inconvenienced for a few hours on a Sunday. The good people of London will be inconvenienced from 27 July-12 Aug 2012 when the poxy Olympics are on with massive disruption because the precious IOC salad chefs are too important to use public transport but instead will have their own VIP lanes.

[dothawkes31]

well hopefully the people of london will be better informed and be able to live their lives around it all, the 'organisers' of this shower say they spent money 'telling' people it was happening but they didn't quite get that right either.

[askyourgran]

We had a few people moaning about the 10k run in Leeds for Jane Tomlinsons' charity. Some of the streets in Leeds City Centre were closed off one Sunday. The run is proving to be popular with everyone who wants to run in memory of someone who has died, or suffering from cancer. It's only one Sunday in the year and well advertised, but some people can't compromise, they want to go across Leeds no matter what.

[dothawkes31]

There's not really much of a comparison with that race and this one I don't think, mainly because they literally closed a large village off for 6 hours without anyone living there realiseing the scale of the event and how disruptive it would be, there is 1 a road through the village and it was a no go! Several aggressive confrontations occurred apparently and the idiits on the bikes were like kamakaze pilots and blundered on regardless, the whole thing was ridiculous and the organisers have their heads up their arses,

[TWR]

Calm down Dot.