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The Flying Dutchman pub in
The Flying Dutchman pub in Queenborough bars Swale councillors after they voted for plans to introduce charges at free car parks
The free car parks have allowed us to survive. Seeing people on social media asking where there’s free parking and people answering ‘Queenbrough’ speaks volumes.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/pub-bars-councillors-in-free-parking-row-332615/
Was hoping this nonsense
Was hoping this nonsense would have died down by now – they’re acting all officious now.
Safety fears as Worcester Patriots’ flag video watched by 4m
In one video, a woman who challenges Worcester Patriots is called a ‘loony’ after she calls out ‘hello, do you live on this street?’ A member of the group tells her they have had donations from people living on the street and that ‘they’re all staying’.
When she says she will take the flag down from outside the home of an elderly woman she’s told: “That’s theft. You’re on camera!”
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/25618854.safety-fears-worcester-patriots-flag-video-watched-4m/
November round-up
November round-up
Car crashes into house at Woodlands Bank in Dalgety Bay
https://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/25607740.car-crashes-house-woodlands-bank-dalgety-bay/
Driver arrested after car crashes into wall of Gobowen house
Woman reported as car crashes into Pollokshields tenement (photo)
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25619507.woman-reported-car-crashes-pollokshields-tenement/
Resident shares shock as car hits house with family inside
https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/25612589.resident-shares-shock-car-hits-house-family-inside/
Car crashes into a house in Byram, North Yorkshire
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/25611471.car-crashes-house-byram-north-yorkshire/
Car crashes into Milngavie Home Bargains store as two casualties treated at scene
Police and firefighters were called to Westpark in Milngavie at around 11.03am on Monday, November 10, following reports of a one-car crash.
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/car-crashes-milngavie-home-bargains-32846287
Car crashes into 150-year-old shop front
“I’m saddened that the building has been damaged as it’s so old”
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/car-crashes-150-year-old-10604805
71-year-old woman charged after car smashes into shop in Ballymena
Fingerpost: Car crashes into shop as driver suffers ‘medical episode’
And even if you oppose the congestion charge in principle (let’s not get into that), what on earth does it have to do with the hotel? Why do guests at that hotel specifically think they should be exempted and/or have it deducted from their hotel bill? As far as I can tell, there is no requirement for guests to arrive at the hotel in their own private motor vehicle.maybe if there was less traffic congestion in Oxford, those who do opt to drive would find things a bit easier? Just a thought.
I guess there is a bit of a “we’ll refund your parking” thing with a few hotels, although you can bet that the cost of that is priced in to everyone’s rates.
You can barely get a drink at The Store hotel for a fiver, but it’s always the parking and the congestion charge that’s the deal-breaker.
Upwards of £250/ night for
Upwards of £250/ night for bed and breakfast but yeah, just can’t get past that £5 congestion charge
Oxford: Store hotel guests want congestion charge ‘refund’
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25616345.oxford-store-hotel-guests-want-congestion-charge-refund/
Ah yes, the arms race being
Ah yes, the arms race being played out on our roads
May I ask why you were
May I ask why you were speeding?
Stranger things have happened.
chrisonabike wrote:
Deflection bingo: ✔️ time ago ✔️ different place / stage in my life ✔️ I had problems/ was suffering too! ✔️ just words / poor choice of words ❌️ it wasn’t me (my assistant / dog posted it) ❌️ taken out of context ❌️ I’ve lots of black friends / I’m gay myself so it’s fine ❌️ just bants / can’t you take a joke / free speech Not the full house there. If he wants to get ahead he’ll have to do better. Or even double down / flip into the attack (“I’m just reflecting what lots of people are asking, and frankly I’m not surprised because you lot are not listening to them / talking down at them”…)Reform UK councillor apologises for ‘disgusting’ social media posts
look what you made me go and do –
Oh nothing, just a former
Oh nothing, just a former Reform leading light going on about having the death penalty back for convicted rapists.
Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe calls for death penalty
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/25616924.great-yarmouth-mp-rupert-lowe-calls-death-penalty/
Yeah, me too, I needed a reminder of who he was – https://politicsuk.com/who-is-rupert-lowe/
We haven’t had a pothole
We haven’t had a pothole penis painter for a while, I thought. And I always like to be able to report that the council is sending a crew along to rub them out.
Driver goes on bizarre spray-paint penis rampage in anger over Burton potholes
Several phallic images have appeared at a busy roundabout
Pothole campaigner Olga Glass previously described the roundabout and many other roads across Burton as “treacherous”. She often holds a ‘coffee in a pothole’ where she invites members of the public to stand near a pothole and encourage motorists to beep in support of them.
https://www.staffordshire-live.co.uk/news/burton-news/driver-goes-bizarre-spray-paint-8410517
Dumbrunner is having the same
Dumbrunner is having the same utopian thoughts as me this week
‘I divorced my husband
‘I divorced my husband because of his cycling addiction’
rdaddict wrote:
I visit this website to forget about politics, leave it out please.<sigh> Wouldn’t that be lovely – no idiot entitled drivers and no RWNJs trying to deny you your existence.
As a society, you get the politics and leadership you invest in – turn away, immerse yourself constantly in gossip and trivia and be apathetic, you’ll likely end up with the fact-free Reform grift.
Saying stupid / offensive stuff on SM (especially now as the pretence of it being in any way policed has gone) is moving into the real world / public domain – idiots can increasingly say their stuff out loud and if there’s any doubt, there’s always “it was a joke” or “I was in a bad place” for them to hide behind.
There are lots of other bigger populist targets than cyclists, but anyone who is or can be made out to be “a bit different” and for the bonus, is less able to defend themselves is a potential target. I don’t intend us being bullied, corralled or regulated out of being cyclists. The last few weeks have at least shown that Reform can be stopped.
It would be over the top to allude too much to the ten stages of genocide, but you can see the parallels with some of it – identify you as different, identify you as a problem needing a solution, regulate you (e.g. make you wear hi viz), exaggerate the problems you cause and so make rules about where and when you can do / be your thing (for your own good and the greater good, of course), register you, remove the infra / structures that enable you to do/ be your thing and turn it over to others, limit or remove all the things that protect you while you’re doing your thing; in short, make it impossible for you to do (or be) your thing.
So enjoy the multiple other threads on here about the sport, the equipment and rides and while you do, we’ll try to keep you safe from those who might turn out to be serious about the daily diet of “cyclists should be taxed, made to go on the cycle path (which we’re going to rip out)”, the removal of 20 mph limits and the 1.5 metre rule “so that hard-working drivers can get Britain moving again” or whatever.
Reform UK councillor
Reform UK councillor apologises for ‘disgusting’ social media posts
Staffordshire councillor Peter Mason posted the comments about black women and the police prior to his election
Cllr Mason said: “These tweets were made in 2023 and early 2024 when I was not a member of any political party or elected as a councillor and during a difficult time personally, affected by grief and redundancy. I do regret and apologise for my choice of words.
Mr Blackbird wrote:
If cyclists paid road tax, then maybe this poor motorist wouldn’t have had his / her car confiscated. They have spent £164k in the economy. Why should they be further penalised? The public have been robbed of the opportunity to see this magnificent looking car get put through its paces. Perhaps accelerating from 0-60 in 3 sec after collecting the kids from the local infants school, or streaking around the town bypass at 150 mph in the early hours of a Sunday morning. Ridiculous! I shall be writing to Farage and Anderson. A Petrellhedd-Nobb, The Pitlanes, Shere, SurreyThe world if cyclists paid road tax
https://www.sleek-mag.com/article/urban-utopias-visualizing-the-ideal-city-2040/
