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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
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.
It's what the roadworks planners do when they want a different limit.
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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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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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Sharks with frickin laser beams.MingtheMerciless wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 7:31 am Pfft, prototype weather control machine, probably Russian.
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I still have the ZX9 engine I was going to put in a kart for my Lily Rose. She was 4 at the time. The ex was not supportive.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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Not sure if I like that or not. His eye's we're great on the doughnuts or whatever they are.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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Eight stabbed and 334 arrests at Notting Hill Carnival
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07e55159kro
We had a rather macabre competition last week to predict the number of stabbings at the HNC. I guessed right with 8.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07e55159kro
We had a rather macabre competition last week to predict the number of stabbings at the HNC. I guessed right with 8.
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Middling number this year. Clearly after Covid the stabbies were out of practice with only 7, improvement in the numbers last year, but slipping down the rankings this year.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2024 11:49 am 8 stabbings from 334 people though, someone isn't pulling their weight.
2017 12 stabbings no fatal stabbings
2018 7 stabbings no fatal stabbings
2019 18 stabbings no fatal stabbings
2022 7 stabbings including one fatal stabbing
2023 10 stabbings no fatal stabbings
All joking aside, a young mother with her child is one of the victims? FFS.
And who'd wanna be a copper at carnival?
https://www.met.police.uk/foi-ai/metrop ... ival-data/
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Bit of a non story here. She got the wrong train then moaned there was nobody to help her
Hmm...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5dqxzggleoSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the 11-time Paralympic gold medallist said she had initially booked assistance to help her off the 19:15 train from Leeds, but missed it and instead travelled on the 19:45.
Hmm...
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"She waited five minutes before posting anything on social media".Yorick wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2024 1:49 pm Bit of a non story here. She got the wrong train then moaned there was nobody to help her
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5dqxzggleoSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the 11-time Paralympic gold medallist said she had initially booked assistance to help her off the 19:15 train from Leeds, but missed it and instead travelled on the 19:45.
Hmm...
I waas going to say this sounds a tiny bit needy (and I think it still does tbh) but I suppose moaning on Twitter is probably far more likely to get someone to come to your aid pdq than calling a so-called Helpline.
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Yeah. That made me giggle.DefTrap wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2024 2:52 pm"She waited five minutes before posting anything on social media".Yorick wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2024 1:49 pm Bit of a non story here. She got the wrong train then moaned there was nobody to help her
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5dqxzggleoSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the 11-time Paralympic gold medallist said she had initially booked assistance to help her off the 19:15 train from Leeds, but missed it and instead travelled on the 19:45.
Hmm...
I waas going to say this sounds a tiny bit needy (and I think it still does tbh) but I suppose moaning on Twitter is probably far more likely to get someone to come to your aid pdq than calling a so-called Helpline.
I still have an amazing respect for what she's achieved. But doesn't stop her being a bit silly.
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I guess it depends on the comms that happened when she missed the first train. If there is a system in place to confirm that a change has happened (I guess someone had to help her onto the train in Leeds, so there should/could have been some comms about the change of time?) and TBF, if there isn't a system in place, WTFN??
It seems a bit OTT to complain online, but how many 'normal' people that are disabled have had to do things like this and don't have the clout that this lady has. Fair play to her for making it public - but I would like to know how the system works re changes of train timing and if she followed that system
It seems a bit OTT to complain online, but how many 'normal' people that are disabled have had to do things like this and don't have the clout that this lady has. Fair play to her for making it public - but I would like to know how the system works re changes of train timing and if she followed that system
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