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4000 strong petition leads to council debate
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j1gzxwqp5o
Tweaks ahead apparently. 10p on just leaving it as it is, with Avonvale Rd still open to all traffic.
The change.org petition is at > 5000, maybe the 4000 have BS postcodes.
You could well be right. Personally, I think Avonvale Rd is just a disaster for having two way traffic. So many drivers think the traffic calming chicanes are basically a game of chicken and then there’s all the side roads with poor visibility for vehicles joining Avonvale from them.
It’s a veritable war on parkers, don’t you know!https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/cameras-plan-catch-parents-parking-9764409
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/cameras-installed-outside-bristol-schools-9777626
Bristol city councillors voted unanimously in favour of the trial
I’m sorry I don’t understand your reference, “Cyclic quadlock,” and when I tried to input it into Google all it gave me was cyclic quardrelateral, which sent shivers down my spine, I can tell you. All I can say is that all the Quadlock products use a common locking mechanism, so if you have a bike set-up, your belt mount, car mount, motorcycle mount will be compatible.He likely means “Cycliq quadlock” for the Fly12 camera: https://cycliq.com/support/fly12-sport/getting-started/fly12-sport-user-manual/mounting-your-fly12-sport/
What about all those schools
What about all those schools that they keep building along with all of those highly paid teachers that get more time off than Gregg Wallace’s agent? I have it on good authority that NONE of those kids has ever paid tax. And then they’ve got the cheek to want us to slow down whilst we drive past – who do they think we are, some kind of priest?
Look, I’m not anti-education, I just don’t want to waste perfectly good tax money on non-tax-payers.
“The Bible is broken” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYMrVWlrXNM我的媽和她的瘋狂的外甥都 ・ Wuh duh ma huh tah duh fong kwong duh wai shung
If you can’t take something as basic and logical as a text’s self-declaration of infallibility (or at least divine guidance / inspiration) as gospel – as it were – I’m not sure how you’re going to get started…EDIT: thinking again, perhaps if you just take all such texts and compare them, throwing out the disagreements, perhaps it would be possible to arrive at a general consensus? Douglas Adams had a go I think…
I prefer the mathematical approach which is not whether something is necessarily true in itself, but whether it is self-consistent and leads to interesting or useful conclusions. I particularly like the Banach-Tarski paradox as an example of an absurd result despite it being true and following on from the axioms:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-a-mathematical-paradox-allows-infinite-cloning-20210826/
(That’s where I find the bible to be flawed – it’s so inconsistent)
Opinions vary but to my unscholarly reading it does seem that the voice of God deferred to contemporary Hebrew mainstream opinion in those days (or possibly took agin’ some practices which were associated with the cults of neighbouring tribes or polities).You seem to be leaving out some yourself: it wouldn’t hurt you to eat kosher once in a while, or keep the odd fast. Oh – and if you could avoid mixing fibres in your garments that would be peachy.
Well yes, but I’m not convinced that the various bibles/religious texts are the literal word of God. Also, the list could do with being optimised: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk81tUUhRig
Free speech innit? And surely smart and industrious people should benefit from their labours? Or are you some kind of commie who wants to requisition all the stored nuts for the collective drey? That will just drag everyone down down to a subsistence level while rewarding a small cadre of squirrels who devote their time to getting ahead in the committees and keeping everyone else fighting.We know how that ends – increasingly cynical and apathetic squirrels, growing corruption, worsening leaders, until the system falls apart. And then the capitalists will pick the bones clean anyway!
Smart and industrious? Sounds like you’re a believer in meritocracies, but I think we’re in more of a hereditary aristocracy.
I pity the poor squirrels that have to hunt for acorns in trees that “belong” to the squirrel lords and pay their tithe of tasty treats over to them
Thermae Bath Spa cordoned off
Thermae Bath Spa cordoned off after pillar damaged
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/live-roman-baths-cordoned-after-9766332
Pictures from the scene show a pile of rubble and dust around the pillar, which appears to have a crack through the centre. A witness has said a lorry reportedly reversed towards the spa and crashed into the pillar.
Person seriously injured as
Person seriously injured as car drives through road closure and crashes into bridge:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/person-seriously-injured-car-drives-9765993
The bridge was damaged during Storm Bert and was waiting for repairs to be carried out. However, a driver crashed into the bridge yesterday morning (Tuesday, December 3) causing sections of the bridge to crumble away.One person was seriously injured during the incident and has been taken to Southmead Hospital in Bristol. The driver of the car has been identified and investigations into the incident are ongoing, police have said.
Lots in the news at the moment about Musktrying to buy the UK toowanting to donate massive funds to Reform UK…With all that money, he could wipe out hunger/homelessness/diseases, but instead he’s trying to promote fascism wherever he can.
Billionaires are mainly (with maybe one or two exceptions) thoroughly evil people who gain their money by exploiting people around them or who work for them. It’s like some kind of hoarding disease, but instead of treating them in hospitals, society elevates them to some kind of deity to be worshipped/emulated etc.
I wonder how many billionaires we’d have to kill to get the rest of them to behave?
On BlueSky, I searched for
On BlueSky, I searched for “bollards” to find WorldBollardAssociation and also found a post by Emily Kerr (Oxford City Councillor), celebrating new/old bollards in Bristol’s St Michael’s Hill (I didn’t know they were there – time for me to struggle up that hill and have a look): https://bsky.app/profile/emilykerr36.bsky.social/post/3lcfw7rdyhj2n
(sticking to Christian examples for fear of being smitten).Well, there are relatively few religious DIY enthusiasts in the “West” – or at least they’re mostly doing their own thing locally and few others join them. Most find it convenient to employ professionals. The more successful groups are either old (so have traditions which don’t necessarily fit current fashions), based on same, or making it up as they go along (revelation / charismatic leader) in which case it does seem you get their personal quirks emerging as the Word of God.
And as to “picking and choosing bits of religion” isn’t that … most religions, as they go? Even the “original” generally grows out of some existing tradition, and ones which stick around go through at least one phase of “now let’s get policy straight” (see Council of Nicaea, the Diet of Worms etc. – sorry, the latter much later I just like the name). Not infrequently in conjunction with some old-fashioned politics. At least that’s how Christianity as we knew it more than 1700 years ago got its start…
By “picking and choosing”, I mean they disregard all the numerous mentions of hoarding wealth to be a sin and instead put a lot of their focus on demonising LBTQ+ people.
Not to mention their disregard of certain commandments such as making no idols, bearing false witness against your neighbours, taking the name of God in vain (e.g. saying that God is against something when that’s just their personal opinion), adultery, stealing, coveting etc.
Pro tip: if you see a wealthy Christian leader, then they’re only Christian in name and are looking to exploit people.
It’s a veritable war on
It’s a veritable war on parkers, don’t you know!
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/cameras-plan-catch-parents-parking-9764409
Cameras to catch parents parking illegally while dropping off their kids at school could be installed across Bristol under city council plans. Councillors will meet on Thursday, December 5, to decide whether to introduce a trial of CCTV that can automatically read drivers’ number plates.A report to the transport and connectivity policy committee said enforcement was difficult for many reasons, including the fact traffic wardens could not be at all 160 schools in the city and that drop-off and pick-up times were very short.
It said: “Increasing the number of civil enforcement officers is not a cost-effective solution, so officers have been exploring other technical opportunities. Camera enforcement is heavily restricted by legislation, but parking on ‘school keep clear’ markings, providing they are supported by a traffic regulation order, is one of the few [interventions] which can be enforced using camera technology.
Christian right will continue doing their thing. America was in part founded by groups of “sectarians” (in the most neutral usage of the word) and is apparently overall more religion-professing than the UK FWTW.I prefer to not outright call them “Christian” as their politics are almost completely opposite to the teachings of Christ (e.g. love your neighbour, welcome the poor and needy etc). They’re picking and choosing bits of religion to justify destroying education and women’s rights.
When we’ve been on holiday in the U.S., we were surprised at how religious they are. We visited a relative of a relative and they were very nice and welcoming, but when we out to a meal, they insisted on saying Grace. We were forewarned that they’re like that, so we just went along with it as we didn’t want to unnecessarily insult them (as an atheist, I see it as just a meaningless tradition). The UK is very much less religious than the U.S.