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Although swearing in public

Although swearing in public isn’t an offence per se. It’s only if it satisfies certain other criteria that it becomes an offence. So it’s not just dubious whether the public interest criteria is satisfied – it’s dubious whether an offence has been committed at all.

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The fact that they’ve trawled

The fact that they’ve trawled through all your submissions in that way (instead of focussing on the actual event in question) seems to be more evidence of this being a vexatious prosecution that’s more aimed at making you shut up and go away than it does of anything else.

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bbc wrote:

bbc wrote:

LTNs were first installed on six roads in east Oxford and Cowley in May 2022

…so three years so far. They’ve just asked for four years worth of spending to make the number look bigger.

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It also conflates spending on

It also conflates spending on ‘LTNs and quickways cycle routes’ with spending just on LTNs, and fails to mention that £3.8m is a piddling amount in the context of four years worth of budget that runs into £bns.

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chrisonabike wrote:

chrisonabike wrote:

I personally favour smaller states as part of a larger union – but presumably those who didn’t felt that we were already in more of a “United States” arrangement or were heading that way because of “ever closer union”?

Quite a few people bizarrely advanced the argument that ‘you can’t imagine the US sacrificing sovereignty in this kind of way!’. To which the answer is, er, the clue is in the name…

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I doubt that the ‘obvious

I doubt that the ‘obvious danger’ they’re thinking of is falling off.

This is the ‘road’ in question – clearly it’s ridiculous to expect a busy thoroughfare like this to be safe for kids to ride their bikes on.

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chrisonabike wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

I think you’ll find it is spending on biscuits.

We should cut all spending on “healthy” vegan low-fat low sugar buscuits!  There’s no such thing as an obesity crisis – it’s fake news, designed to allow the rich tea set to make more gold bars and take taxis to hobnob at conferences. We need a time out – we should be taking control of our Borders!  We’ve reached peek Frean!

Nice!

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Bungle_52 wrote:

Surely someone should decide what colour a cycle lane should be and stick to it.

The Dutch are way ahead of you.

 

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D. We’ve just elected a bunch

D. We’ve just elected a bunch of fruit( short)cakes to the council – why do they need more?

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David9694 wrote:

Flags, while they do have their complexities and peculiarities, are a comparatively simple thing to get right.

I don’t know about that – they’re often a vex(illat)ed subject.

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Do we think the other driver

Do we think the other driver was coming out of the appropriately-named street opposite?

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Wouldn’t it be much better if

Wouldn’t it be much better if the sea detected when the cars were coming, and it got out the way?

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Flippin’ ‘eck – I’m surprised

Flippin’ ‘eck – I’m surprised they weren’t too dizzy to walk after all those flips!

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Only an eye-roll on this

Only an eye-roll on this occasion – it was a sunny day, so I was in a lenient frame of mind.

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Bungle_52 wrote:

It has been updated.

You must not drive on the pavement upon a penalty of nothing at all.

Well that’s not true – just today, someone driving on the payment was subjected to a severe hard stare (from yours truly).

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