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Taipan wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 3:41 pm
MrLongbeard wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 1:29 pm So educate me, what is so damned important about this mega yacht or it's passengers that it has dominated all the papers and 'news' channels for days on end?

And is it just a coincidence that Stephen Chamberlain was killed this week too??
He was a tech giant. Bill Gates saw him as opposition and took him out with some super concentrated cloud seeding!
Dono if true as the wife told me and she reads the Sun. Mr Tech guy and another was not long acquitted from a multi million quid fraud charge. His co accused not long died in a car crash.
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I think the recently employed crewman who locked the cabin doors knew what was going on. 👍
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Felix wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 4:17 pm
Taipan wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 3:41 pm
MrLongbeard wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 1:29 pm So educate me, what is so damned important about this mega yacht or it's passengers that it has dominated all the papers and 'news' channels for days on end?

And is it just a coincidence that Stephen Chamberlain was killed this week too??
He was a tech giant. Bill Gates saw him as opposition and took him out with some super concentrated cloud seeding!
Dono if true as the wife told me and she reads the Sun. Mr Tech guy and another was not long acquitted from a multi million quid fraud charge. His co accused not long died in a car crash.
Tis indeed true.
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Taipan wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 8:12 pm
Felix wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 4:17 pm
Taipan wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 3:41 pm

He was a tech giant. Bill Gates saw him as opposition and took him out with some super concentrated cloud seeding!
Dono if true as the wife told me and she reads the Sun. Mr Tech guy and another was not long acquitted from a multi million quid fraud charge. His co accused not long died in a car crash.
Tis indeed true.
Not quite. His co-accused was out running when hit by a car so not really a crash. Local dibble say there's nothing suspicious about the accident. (So they probably topped him in A&E or in the fake ambulance with the CIA guys in).
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Count Steer wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 8:27 pm
Taipan wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 8:12 pm
Felix wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 4:17 pm

Dono if true as the wife told me and she reads the Sun. Mr Tech guy and another was not long acquitted from a multi million quid fraud charge. His co accused not long died in a car crash.
Tis indeed true.
Not quite. His co-accused was out running when hit by a car so not really a crash. Local dibble say there's nothing suspicious about the accident. (So they probably topped him in A&E or in the fake ambulance with the CIA guys in).
It is also quite difficult to fake / arrange a tornado to sink a big fuck off boat. Just seems to be bad luck
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Pfft, prototype weather control machine, probably Russian.
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MingtheMerciless wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 7:31 am Pfft, prototype weather control machine, probably Russian.
Mounted on a 3D laser hologram of a grassy knoll projected in low earth orbit?
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We've been so conditioned by the obvious mishandled assassinations we now dismiss the real ones.
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This made me giggle at first. Then got me thinking.
I've done a fair bit of camera-bike filming of triathlons and Ironmans. But they were on closed roads where laws don't apply.

Does this to these cycle races?

E.G. did the Manchester triathlon world championship event in about 1993.
The roads were closed and we were told to ignore traffic lights, road markings and speed limits.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4glzl7e157o
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Surprised they can't wangle a temporary traffic restriction order (TTRO) to suit.

It's what the roadworks planners do when they want a different limit.
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Horse wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 11:51 am Surprised they can't wangle a temporary traffic restriction order (TTRO) to suit.

It's what the roadworks planners do when they want a different limit.
If they did that to raise a limit they would have to admit the limit doesn't affect safety.
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They need to close the road or cyclists will have to obey traffic lights and stop signs etc
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Yorick wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 1:28 pm They need to close the road or cyclists will have to obey traffic lights and stop signs etc
ROFLCOPTER, cyclists obeying basic traffic laws :clap: :clap:
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Yorick wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 1:28 pm They need to close the road or cyclists will have to obey traffic lights and stop signs etc
The cancellations are because the support vehicles would be speeding but you raise a good point, if they can ignore all other restrictions then why is this different?
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It seems that the ramifications of the blanket Welsh 20mph speed limit weren't thought through in advance, as this farcical episode proves. And the authorities can't be seen to back-track on the limit for fear of looking really, really foolish.
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MingtheMerciless wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 7:31 am Pfft, prototype weather control machine, probably Russian.
Sharks with frickin laser beams.
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Yorick wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2024 12:04 am Fark. 5 years old

https://www.crash.net/wsbk/news/1053775 ... ord-194mph
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Yorick wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2024 12:04 am Fark. 5 years old

https://www.crash.net/wsbk/news/1053775 ... ord-194mph
Not sure if I like that or not. His eye's we're great on the doughnuts or whatever they are.
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