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Awavey wrote:

I dont know how true the story is or not

Not at all, apparently – appears to have been a complete invention. The reason for mentioning the ‘official song’ bit was that if the Sun can’t even get that basic detail right, just perhaps, the rest of the story shouldn’t be given too much credence either.

But in any case, you may be taking my comment too seriously. Personally, I don’t care one bit whether they play it or not – it was just an excuse to make a sarcastic swipe at people who think they ‘ought’ to have won something in thirty years by pointing out that it’s now nearly twice that. And at myself for getting on a bit.

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Fignon’s ghost wrote:

Fignon’s ghost wrote:

I know a couple of porsche drivers. Each are utter cnuts.

Surely you mean ‘knew’? Hasn’t the tide carried them and their cars out to a watery end by now?

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I’m not sure how ‘snowflakes’

I’m not sure how ‘snowflakes’ would ‘cancel it for Qatar’ anyway – surely they’d all have melted long before they got the chance?

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the little onion wrote:

I don’t believe for a minute it is true

It’s not – not least because it hasn’t been ‘the official song’ since 1996.

I think the real issue is one of scansion – “fifty-six years of hurt” just doesn’t really work. Either that or people just want it binned off because working out what it needs updating to just makes us feel old. 

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No carnival floats!

No carnival floats!

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Eh? But that’s not a large

Eh? But that’s not a large truck. Especially for America.

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Evel Knievel in the vicinity.

Evel Knievel in the vicinity.

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It’s a special deal – 2

It’s a special deal – 2 months off.

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chrisonatrike wrote:

* I have some morals.  But if you don’t agree with them I have others.

Are they true morals or false morals, though? Because the false ones are poisonous.

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Obviously they need to have

Obviously they need to have somewhere to put their shopping bags while they open the boot. Do you want local businesses to die – do you?

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Isn’t that some sort of Irish

Isn’t that some sort of Irish music festival?

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Quote:

Has the BBC scored an own goal in using an careless driver in this clip?

Probably not, because even if they did, hardly anyone will have noticed.

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I assume Serious Injury /

I assume Serious Injury / Death.

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A couple more links:

A couple more links:

Laws: Who’s Breaking What

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-5555273/A-fifth-motorists-quarter-cyclists-admit-theyve-ran-red-light-year.html

Big caveats around the likely quality of the studies (a lot of self-reported data here for a start), but both suggest not much difference between those riding bikes and those driving motor vehicles

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20% of his speed was over the

20% of his speed was over the limit.

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