Snake Pass to close?

[mintwth]

6 hours ago, sierraman said:

What about all the people that live on that route or the farmers that use it for access?

They'll be provided with ladders. 

Maps will be updated to show access as a game with its ups and downs

[wuvvum]

Nearly every time I've driven the Snake Pass I've ended up being stuck behind a camper or caravan doing 35 for most of the length.  Although last time I went that way (westbound, unusually), I saw a 7.5-tonne lorry off in the distance and my heart sank.  A few bends later I saw it again, still in the distance.  It took me a good 5 minutes to catch him up, and when I did I just sat behind him - he was absolutely hooning it, and it was more fun sitting behind and watching a lorry being driven properly than it would have been to try and overtake.

Sorry, no snake jokes in this post, I think we've adder nough of those for now.

[Jim Bell]

[Pieman]

34 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Not Dodge vipers?

Or the anacHonda NSX?

[BorniteIdentity]

4 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Keith Charmer.

Loved him on the Big Breakfast.

 

[cobblers]

The first time I went over snake pass was when I was about 7 and we were going on holiday.

The taxi company forgot to send the car to collect us at 2am to take us to manchester airport, and in the panic all they had was a 5 door fiat uno, and there was 5 of us plus luggage. I was sat on the back seat, on my mums knee, with a suitcase on my knee. I was sick twice. 

[Cavcraft]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Nearly every time I've driven the Snake Pass I've ended up being stuck behind a camper or caravan doing 35 for most of the length.  Although last time I went that way (westbound, unusually), I saw a 7.5-tonne lorry off in the distance and my heart sank.  A few bends later I saw it again, still in the distance.  It took me a good 5 minutes to catch him up, and when I did I just sat behind him - he was absolutely hooning it, and it was more fun sitting behind and watching a lorry being driven properly than it would have been to try and overtake.

Sorry, no snake jokes in this post, I think we've adder nough of those for now.

It must be absolutely shit driving them for a living now, with all the onboard cameras, digital tachographs and trackers, etc.  The good old days of 'if in doubt, flat out' were great fun.

[reb]

7 minutes ago, cobblers said:

fiat uno

What kind of miserable taxi company has fiat unos at all? I don't even fit in the front of one let alone in the back!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

It is a national embarrassment that they didn't plough the M67 through there when they could have done it in the 70s. 

[cobblers]

20 minutes ago, reb said:

What kind of miserable taxi company has fiat unos at all? I don't even fit in the front of one let alone in the back!

It was gold star taxis in rotherham, in 1997

[wuvvum]

28 minutes ago, reb said:

What kind of miserable taxi company has fiat unos at all? I don't even fit in the front of one let alone in the back!

Most of the taxi firms in Marrakesh, for one.

[reb]

I forget that normal people have stumpy little legs so they can fit in cars.

[Jim Bell]

13 minutes ago, reb said:

I forget that normal people have stumpy little legs so they can fit in cars.

Snake fact. 

Most snakes have zero percent legs. Meaning that a trip in a Fiat Uno taxi sat on their mams lap, with a suitcase on their knee would be an absolute breeze. It may still be sick, but most likely because it's eaten something larger than it's stomach. Which greedy snakes sometimes do. 

Text STOP to cease daily updates about snakes. 

[loserone]

Mous good.  Leave me alone in warm two day please or ill throw it up again though.  

 

No passenger rides on mum's lap in fiat.  Absolutely not.

[comfortablynumb]

24 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

Most snakes have zero percent legs.

So if they have no legs, how are they going to pass then?

Sorry.....

[reb]

My friend's snake eats rats, but it's racist so will only eat white ones. Which apparently are more expensive because most snake food rat breeders don't specifically breed for colour.

[camryv6]

50 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

Snake fact. 

Most snakes have zero percent legs. Meaning that a trip in a Fiat Uno taxi sat on their mams lap, with a suitcase on their knee would be an absolute breeze. It may still be sick, but most likely because it's eaten something larger than it's stomach. Which greedy snakes sometimes do. 

Text STOP to cease daily updates about snakes. 

Do snakes have knees ?

[treehugger]

I don't have krait expectations the council will keep the snake open. 

[loserone]

20 minutes ago, treehugger said:

I don't have krait expectations the council will keep the snake open. 

Very good 

[Jim Bell]

28 minutes ago, camryv6 said:

Do snakes have knees ?

I'm gonna tell you the truth mate. 

No. .

No snakes don't have knees. Or laps. And they don't get taxis. 

I feel like a fool now. 

[reb]

Just now, Jim Bell said:

they don't get taxis.

Who says?

[camryv6]

Just now, reb said:

Who says?

Snakes don't have pockets, so they can't pay the taxi 

[reb]

1 minute ago, camryv6 said:

Snakes don't have pockets, so they can't pay the taxi 

 

[Jim Bell]

2 minutes ago, camryv6 said:

Snakes don't have pockets, so they can't pay the taxi 

That's why taxi drivers hate them. 

[camryv6]

Well i feel like a fool now !

[Pieman]

2 minutes ago, camryv6 said:

Snakes don't have pockets, so they can't pay the taxi 

They use Asp'll Pay.

[Sunny Jim]

Snakes travel by plane, I saw a documentary with Samuel L Jackson all about it. It didn't say whether they got a taxi to the airport.

[camryv6]

So how did they get on the plane let alone the airport ?

[reb]

Sometimes they wear top hats and smoke cigarettes*

(And go blurry because the march of time comes for us all)

[Tayne]

And you moan about the graphic design on Range Rover steering wheels….