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Shocking behaviour by so many people on bikes in that vid. Unshocking behaviour by someone in power lumping all cyclists together.

Fair take on the Erola Jons controversy from Orla Chennaoui: "It’s too easy to blame the woman. It’s what we always do. But if the Vuelta is going to bring an influencer who has built a huge following with her brand of flirty interactions, is it her fault if that’s what she brings to the job? Or is it bad branding which is someone else’s call entirely? Just be careful about ripping a young woman to shreds. She doesn’t deserve that."

I'm a french resident. Please could you tell me where to find the silky smooth bike paths and the considerate drivers. And those signs which you saw (chausée déformée) have probably been there for years.

@Bungle_52 If he broke the NZ equivalent of GDPR rules that would be a very different matter, but the report here implies that he was originally investigated for the CCTV matter but sacked for the comment. You'll notice above that nowhere have I condoned or excused the "joke", I simply said that I don't think it's sufficient grounds for someone to be sacked. How many of us can say that we've never said something like, for example, on being overtaken on a blind brow, "Shame there wasn't a truck coming, that might have taught the bugger some sense" or similar? Would that warrant dismissal from your job if someone heard you say that at work?

@Rendel Harris wrote That may be the case but if management are "out to get you" you would be well advised to watch your step and stay well within the rules. In my opinion there is no excuse for this person's comment to impressionable youngsters. To condone this is akin to supporting the likes of Messrs Clarkson, Liddle and Parris. "Well it was only a joke." The other point made in the article is that he showed the cctv footage without obtaining authorisation and if GDPR in NZ is anything like here you need to be very careful in this respect.

@Xenophon2 I agree. I tried a different route from Garstang to Leeds on Saturday to avoid the Death Highways from Barnoldswick to Skipton. I had to turn off Hazard warnings on the 1040 because people have ruined the hazard facility by warning about every pothole, instead of only the bad ones. UK roads are full of them, and the red Hazard was turning up constantly. Similarly, radar is useless in the UK because nutter drivers are everywhere and the alarm will be going off all the time. I'm convinced this is a good radar and it's what I'd get if I had any use for it. I'm pretty sure it would have warned me about this Stagecoach bus on The Lancashire Terminator Express, and lots of the other vehicles as well- then what? ttps://upride.cc/incident/px12dnv_stagecoach41_closepass/

It's just the same on cucumber growers websites. Only last week, a Tuesday I think it was, there was an article on growing courgettes. I don't grow courgettes. I was livid and thought I was going to spontaneously combust. Luckily my wife knows the signs - steam rising from my boots, speaking in tongues- and was on hand to throw a bucket of water over me. She always seems to have a bucket of water handy. And as for red tomato growers websites? Don't get me started.

What size of golf balls though?

Given that humour, as defined by no less than Charlie Chaplin, is someone else's misfortune. it is clear that anyone who makes a joke should be fired. Which reminds me of the terrible joke about what the ring master said when the human cannonball died "It'll be difficult to find another man of his calibre." Fire me now to save time.

@Mr Blackbird Yes, I've been on the rugby field when a sudden storm of about 3mm stones erupted, like being shot by a thousand air rifles at once and as you say, the temperature plummet was incredible. Memorable also for the sight of props who hadn't broken above a jog in two decades and who thought you were a wuss if you went off for a mere broken arm suddenly doing creditable Linford Christie impressions in the rush for shelter!