Guest 661- Registered: 16 Mar 2008
- Posts: 241
Yet again another PLONKER has hit the bridge thats 4/5 times in as many months, do they dish out H.G.V. licenses in cornflake packets these day's
A dog is just not for christmas save some for boxing day
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
humpy,i think you will find some in packets of rice crispes,coco pops and shreded wheat.
can you define the word plonker as im inocent of these words.
A plonker: he who plonks from the french "plonger" to plunge in regardless. Another example of european burocracy.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
i just think of it as a del boy word.
the word "plongeur" i thought came from a lackey in an eating house in france.
george orwell used it in "down and out in paris and london".
You are probably right Howard. I made my definition up! I think it was used as a euphemism for a similar word ending in ...ker in the way that "sugar" is used for you know what
You lost me on the "sugar" bit Diana. Am I really that naive?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
took me a while to fall in, nice people tend to say the word sugar when annoyed as they do not like to use expletives.
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
- Posts: 556
Humphy wrote, in post #1: "...do they dish out H.G.V. licenses in cornflake packets these day's".
Ask Guzzler! I got mine off the back of an East European magazine!
Seriously, it does make me wonder if some of these drivers are running around with their eyes closed.
Phil West
If at first you don't succeed, use a BIGGER hammer!!
Guest 658- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 660
You got the posh one then, is that the one that comes with three digi-cards as a bonus.
beer the food of the gods
Guest 661- Registered: 16 Mar 2008
- Posts: 241
Brian. PLONKER mean's to PLONK to dump something eg. under the bridge, ER eg what date shall i do the same thing next month. and that is from someone who is married to a lorry driver and who know's several lorry driver's.
A dog is just not for christmas save some for boxing day
Luckily there's nothing important up that road.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
only whats left of a hospital.
thanks humphy,saw guzzler last week had a nice chat.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,023
Sid ,it effects our bus route .When the bridge is closed a journey from River can take over thirty minutes .
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
- Posts: 1,266
RP Greaves are down Coombe Valley Road, and they're repairing my wife's car. That's important enough to me, Sid!
True friends stab you in the front.
Sarcasm chaps and chappeses. Please don't always take me so literally.
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
- Posts: 556
...and a get out of jail free in France card Guzzler!!!
Coombe Valley Road is the primary route into the trading estate let alone the hospital (what's left of it) and residential areas. Surely it is past time that more than just consideration was given to lowering the road level (again). I fully appreciate that this is the cheaper option to raising the bridge.
It really isn't satisfactory having the heavy stuff trundle along Crabble Avenue and over Hillside to get to the trading estate. R P Greaves have little option with loaded car transporters as it is (empty ones are low enough to navigate the bridge safely), but that route is primarily residential with relatively narrow roads and a lot of parked cars. It is a nightmare in a truck - I've had to do it once and it's no fun. With Coombe Valley Road closed the chances of two trucks meeting going in opposite directions could be interesting to say the least.
Phil West
If at first you don't succeed, use a BIGGER hammer!!
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
Not a good location for a hospital either.
Roger
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
- Posts: 1,388
As a variation on artics getting stuck under low bridges, here is a Polish artic that got stuck on one of the big blocks that separate two lanes of traffic. He was leaving the Maersk Dover yesterday in Dunkerque West and changed his mind at the last minute as to which lane he was going to use. Looks like the fuel tank is ruptured to add to his woes.
Unregistered User
Gets more obvious day by day Roger.
Watty
Sugar.......?
