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    London to Oxford

    Doing the charity bike ride tomorrow; anyone fancy sponsoring me?
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    Re: London to Oxford

    As a fish species distributed from the Aegean to the South East Atlantic, I cannot really benefit from sponsoring you. Besides, we only have plankton, not money. I wish you a good ride tomorrow, all the same. I hope you don't need to get your bum reamed (again). BB

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    Re: London to Oxford

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    Re: London to Oxford

    Quote Originally Posted by boops boops View Post
    As a fish species distributed from the Aegean to the South East Atlantic, I cannot really benefit from sponsoring you. Besides, we only have plankton, not money. I wish you a good ride tomorrow, all the same. I hope you don't need to get your bum reamed (again). BB
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    Re: London to Oxford

    I watched an episode of Bones a while ago during which I realised that Oxford is only 5 minutes away from London, so I'm not sure that it's worth sponsoring.

    Mind you, I also discovered that England is currently languishing in the 1950s, and I'm not sure I'd fancy riding a 1950s bike any distance at all.
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    Re: London to Oxford

    If England were languishing in the 1950s then visualAd hasn't been born yet so why would someone sponser a rider who doesn't exist?

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    Re: London to Oxford

    Quote Originally Posted by InvisibleDuncan View Post
    I watched an episode of Bones a while ago during which I realised that Oxford is only 5 minutes away from London, so I'm not sure that it's worth sponsoring.

    Mind you, I also discovered that England is currently languishing in the 1950s, and I'm not sure I'd fancy riding a 1950s bike any distance at all.
    I am not sure what type of transport they used but I even if I take off in a plane from Heathrow it takes nearly 10mins to get overhead of Oxford. I presume he used a fighter jet then jumped from the plane with a parachute?

    For everyone else its 60 miles so choose your favourite form of transport and adjust said time accordingly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hack View Post
    If England were languishing in the 1950s then visualAd hasn't been born yet so why would someone sponser a rider who doesn't exist?
    Many parts of the UK are stuck in the 50s; but there is a good reason. What other country from the 50s can boast 2Mbit broadband available to 80% of its population?
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    Quote Originally Posted by visualAd View Post
    Many parts of the UK are stuck in the 50s; but there is a good reason. What other country from the 50s can boast 2Mbit broadband available to 80% of its population?
    2MBit/sec? Pffft I get better internet than that from my phone.

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    Re: London to Oxford

    Quote Originally Posted by visualAd View Post
    Many parts of the UK are stuck in the 50s; but there is a good reason. What other country from the 50s can boast 2Mbit broadband available to 80% of its population?
    Not so hard when people live on such a tiny island, they can pretty much share the same pickled egg over lunch...
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    Re: London to Oxford

    What charity are you riding for?
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    Re: London to Oxford

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    Ah yes, I'm not very good at paying attention to post dates.

    And assuming that someone were to commit the cardinal sin of actually being serious in a CC thread and was happy to sponsor you.... is it too late and how would they go about it? I see I can donate through the site but that wouldn't appear in your name.
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    Actually, I'm visualAd's agent.

    Send all sponsership money directly to me, and I will *cough* see that he gets it *cough*.

    We are a great team. In fact, I'm thinking of changing my userId to visualHack (thus the coughing)

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    Quote Originally Posted by FunkyDexter View Post
    Ah yes, I'm not very good at paying attention to post dates.

    And assuming that someone were to commit the cardinal sin of actually being serious in a CC thread and was happy to sponsor you.... is it too late and how would they go about it? I see I can donate through the site but that wouldn't appear in your name.
    I will PM you the details, assuming you are being serious.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hack View Post
    Actually, I'm visualAd's agent.

    Send all sponsership money directly to me, and I will *cough* see that he gets it *cough*.

    We are a great team. In fact, I'm thinking of changing my userId to visualHack (thus the coughing)
    My next sponsored event is trampling over Hack while he is dressed as a sumo wrestler and laying on a bed of red hot nails. Anyone wish to sponsor me?
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    Would you like to film it?
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    Could I get a stunt double for the red hot nails part?

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    Would you like to film it?
    No, not my kind of thing. After all, I'm not really into digital, though I realize that's a rather filmsy excuse.
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    Quote Originally Posted by visualAd View Post
    I am not sure what type of transport they used but I even if I take off in a plane from Heathrow it takes nearly 10mins to get overhead of Oxford. I presume he used a fighter jet then jumped from the plane with a parachute?
    He wanted to hire an Aston Martin, but the hire people thought he said "Austin" and so they gave him a Mini. It was just so, so very funny, and really typical of what happens in England because we Brits are so stupid.
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    Re: London to Oxford

    Did he go to Oxford Street, you know that's not Oxford right
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