Odd BBC article

hawkinspeter wrote:

If voting could change anything, they'd make it illegal.

Most accurate comment you've made here in ages 

BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

If voting could change anything, they'd make it illegal.

Most accurate comment you've made here in ages 

Why, thank you.

... oh, hold on a second

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

Come on Davel, the media is horribly SJW at the moment. I can only hope that everyone does start exercising and we can get away from this sort of thing

Fitness Führers CC. Join now.

Do you need a beard to join?

hawkinspeter wrote:

 

Do you need a beard to join?

No beards allowed. A proper fitness nazi will have strong jawline and no need for a beard to hide a double chin or recessed maxilla. Use of cycling approved growth hormone is allowed  for maximum jaw growth.

This is the aim

No beards of note in the peloton.

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

 

Do you need a beard to join?

No beards allowed. A proper fitness nazi will have strong jawline and no need for a beard to hide a double chin or recessed maxilla. Use of cycling approved growth hormone is allowed  for maximum jaw growth.

This is the aim

No beards of note in the peloton.

I tried some of that growth hormone, but it didn't quite work as I expected.

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

Come on Davel, the media is horribly SJW at the moment. I can only hope that everyone does start exercising and we can get away from this sort of thing

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To me, virtually everything spouted by Clarkson, Littlejohn et al is more extreme and stupid than even the most SJWey thing Zoe Williams says. Just because it represents the status quo, where fat, entitled white men in big houses call all the shots, doesn't mean it isn't extreme or plain wrong.

But on beards - loads of them look like cyclists to me. Simon Geschke has (had?) a proper beard. I tend to get fed up with my whiskers when they need a bit of maintenance after about 8-10 days, so in my mind they're still 'stubble' when I shave them off. To my wife and kids, it's 'beard', but I just 'haven't shaved'. If I trimmed it or whatever malarkey I'd be maintaining a beard, but I rarely cross that threshold. 

davel wrote:

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

Come on Davel, the media is horribly SJW at the moment. I can only hope that everyone does start exercising and we can get away from this sort of thing

Fitness Führers CC. Join now.

To me, virtually everything spouted by Clarkson, Littlejohn et al is more extreme and stupid than even the most SJWey thing Zoe Williams says. Just because it represents the status quo, where fat, entitled white men in big houses call all the shots, doesn't mean it isn't extreme or plain wrong.

But on beards - loads of them look like cyclists to me. Simon Geschke has (had?) a proper beard. I tend to get fed up with my whiskers when they need a bit of maintenance after about 8-10 days, so in my mind they're still 'stubble' when I shave them off. To my wife and kids, it's 'beard', but I just 'haven't shaved'. If I trimmed it or whatever malarkey I'd be maintaining a beard, but I rarely cross that threshold. 

I get annoyed with all the obviously partisan rhetoric whether it is left, right or center.

The way I see it is that all the politicians pretend that they have the answer whereas the truth is that the world is far too complicated for politicians to be able to exert control, whereas the population is far too easy to exert control over which is why we're now seeing so much populist rubbish.

What I want is evidence based policies and the bravery to not pretend to have all the answers.

hawkinspeter wrote:

davel wrote:

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

Come on Davel, the media is horribly SJW at the moment. I can only hope that everyone does start exercising and we can get away from this sort of thing

Fitness Führers CC. Join now.

To me, virtually everything spouted by Clarkson, Littlejohn et al is more extreme and stupid than even the most SJWey thing Zoe Williams says. Just because it represents the status quo, where fat, entitled white men in big houses call all the shots, doesn't mean it isn't extreme or plain wrong.

But on beards - loads of them look like cyclists to me. Simon Geschke has (had?) a proper beard. I tend to get fed up with my whiskers when they need a bit of maintenance after about 8-10 days, so in my mind they're still 'stubble' when I shave them off. To my wife and kids, it's 'beard', but I just 'haven't shaved'. If I trimmed it or whatever malarkey I'd be maintaining a beard, but I rarely cross that threshold. 

I get annoyed with all the obviously partisan rhetoric whether it is left, right or center.

The way I see it is that all the politicians pretend that they have the answer whereas the truth is that the world is far too complicated for politicians to be able to exert control, whereas the population is far too easy to exert control over which is why we're now seeing so much populist rubbish.

What I want is evidence based policies and the bravery to not pretend to have all the answers.

"It doesn't matter who you vote for, man: the government always gets in!"  

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

The BBC news website is just a hash of self appointed 'journalist' and blogger rubbish. There's barely any news and it the content seems like most of the women's magazines in the newsagent.

Then again the Guardian is no better. Look at this rubbish you bunch of Strava Nazis

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/27/do-you-boast-about...

 

Well, you're not being forced to pay for the BBC, so you can just stop reading it.

hawkinspeter wrote:

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

The BBC news website is just a hash of self appointed 'journalist' and blogger rubbish. There's barely any news and it the content seems like most of the women's magazines in the newsagent.

Then again the Guardian is no better. Look at this rubbish you bunch of Strava Nazis

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/27/do-you-boast-about...

 

Well, you're not being forced to pay for the BBC, so you can just stop reading it.

I hope this is sarcasm.

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

The BBC news website is just a hash of self appointed 'journalist' and blogger rubbish. There's barely any news and it the content seems like most of the women's magazines in the newsagent.

Then again the Guardian is no better. Look at this rubbish you bunch of Strava Nazis

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/27/do-you-boast-about...

 

Well, you're not being forced to pay for the BBC, so you can just stop reading it.

I hope this is sarcasm.

Poe's Law?

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

The BBC news website is just a hash of self appointed 'journalist' and blogger rubbish. There's barely any news and it the content seems like most of the women's magazines in the newsagent.

Then again the Guardian is no better. Look at this rubbish you bunch of Strava Nazis

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/27/do-you-boast-about...

 

That is shit, but we need way more left-wing bullshit in our columns in the UK, if only to counter the sheer volume of right-wing arsewittery that has seeped into the mainstream.

Boris Johnson was foreign secretary, FFS. He's STILL a politician and is on the front page pretty much daily. Black Mirror took the proceeds of an In The Thick Of It asphyxiwank (Full Tory: orange-in-mouth, wearing sussies, in the cupboard) and made a demonspawn lovechild out of it. That's politics today.

hawkinspeter wrote:

I saw that article last night and chalked it up to the BBC pushing the "dangerous" cycling agenda

I really don't see you can judge the BBC website on one article any more than you could road.cc if you read only 'Near Miss of the Day'. 

It appears the BBC have a number of stories here, a dedicated cycling section - for sports at least, and 'BeSpoke' - a cycling podcast (I haven't listened to it). 

I don't turn to the BBC for cycling coverage, but they seem to be giving it a fair crack.

simonmb wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

I saw that article last night and chalked it up to the BBC pushing the "dangerous" cycling agenda

I really don't see you can judge the BBC website on one article any more than you could road.cc if you read only 'Near Miss of the Day'. 

It appears the BBC have a number of stories here, a dedicated cycling section - for sports at least, and 'BeSpoke' - a cycling podcast (I haven't listened to it). 

I don't turn to the BBC for cycling coverage, but they seem to be giving it a fair crack.

I've built up an opinion of the BBC from more than just one article.

They do have some good coverage, but they also have a lot of dodgy coverage although I haven't really analysed how many of each they do - it's just my opinion.