“Sad” – Boardman verdict on KFC drive-thru queue; UCI reveals revised calendar … again; Another candidate for best cycling lockdown vid; April new car sales down 97%, Halfords report 1,500% rise in turbo sales; + more on the live blog

brooksby wrote:

At a risk of sounding smug, never have I ever set foot in a KFC or eaten any of their food.

Is it really that good, that people will queue for it?

Don't mistake popularity for quality.

(Billions of flies eat dog-shit, but I'm not going to start)

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

At a risk of sounding smug, never have I ever set foot in a KFC or eaten any of their food.

Is it really that good, that people will queue for it?

Don't mistake popularity for quality. (Billions of flies eat dog-shit, but I'm not going to start)

But is it finger licking good?

eburtthebike wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

At a risk of sounding smug, never have I ever set foot in a KFC or eaten any of their food.

Is it really that good, that people will queue for it?

Don't mistake popularity for quality. (Billions of flies eat dog-shit, but I'm not going to start)

But is it finger licking good?

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brooksby wrote:

At a risk of sounding smug, never have I ever set foot in a KFC or eaten any of their food.

Is it really that good, that people will queue for it?

I haven't eaten there in decades, but as a gluten-free pescetarian, there's nothing on their menu that I would eat, the last time I checked which to be honest was a long time ago.

However, I can sympathise with people having favourite foods and missing them. I love the refrigerated kimchi that I get from a chinese supermarket, but they were all sold out of it when I went there during early lockdown and I had to buy the stuff in jars which is just not the same.

I'm more aggrieved by the queues of cars rather than the choice of restaurant.

Podc wrote:

The KFC thing is depressing. It shows how quickly we will get back to congestion, pollution, and not giving a rats arse about people's health again. No thought about how driving around pumping out pollution making non-essential journeys and its impact on the environment and the health of us all 😔

I was pretty disgusted yesterday when I saw a massive queue of cars trying to get into Asda Hulme and then smelt the grease. It was exactly the same a month ago when McDonalds closed. People are taking the piss already. Poor Snowdon. Take it easy people. Go back to what you were normally doing, don't do everything all at once.

Agree (typed this Vegan). A good time to learn

and make good changes.

Part of it is the policy of the fast food companies, Drive Thrus have less person to person contact than standard counter takeaways, which is why they are being opened first, and they often have a policy of ONLY motor vehicles.  When I was bussed into the Hedge End McDs, 30 odd years back, we were training the "crew" that you would serve cyclists at the hatch but to declare that they shouldn't be coming through.

About 15 years ago, when I was knocked out early on the Friday night poker session, I rode out to the Frimley Bridges Farnborough Drive Thu, got served, nothing said, and happy poker players.

But I am aware of cases when cyclists have been refused service, and pedestrians?

Which does remind me, when we get back to the "New Normal", I must check out what the evil arches have done to the old Tumbledown Dick.

I do wonder if an RTA had happened further up being as all the other roads in view were practically empty. 

Sriracha wrote:

1,500% increase in sales? Ok, here's a test for whoever wrote that: if they sold 1 in the week before lockdown, how many did they sell in the week after lockdown?

1,500 

What have I won?

eburtthebike wrote:

Sriracha wrote:

1,500% increase in sales? Ok, here's a test for whoever wrote that: if they sold 1 in the week before lockdown, how many did they sell in the week after lockdown?

1,500 

What have I won?

No. Sorry.

Sriracha wrote:

eburtthebike wrote:

Sriracha wrote:

1,500% increase in sales? Ok, here's a test for whoever wrote that: if they sold 1 in the week before lockdown, how many did they sell in the week after lockdown?

1,500 

What have I won?

No. Sorry.

It's a trick question - the comparison wasn't to the week before lockdown.

No trickery, just a simple maths question. Testing my assumption that journalists prefer impressively big numbers over clarity of communication.

Either that, or the impressively big number was in a press release and the journalist does not know what it means either, but it looks good so they cut and paste.

But you asked

Quote:

if they sold 1 in the week before lockdown, how many did they sell in the week after lockdown?

The answer is, we don't know, because the increase isn't over the week before lockdown:

Quote:

For the first week of lockdown that started on the 23rd March, they sold 15 times more trainers than over the same week in 2019.

Sriracha wrote:

eburtthebike wrote:

Sriracha wrote:

1,500% increase in sales? Ok, here's a test for whoever wrote that: if they sold 1 in the week before lockdown, how many did they sell in the week after lockdown?

1,500 

What have I won?

No. Sorry.

Hey!  I was using the ministerial, government approved, Hancock system of measurement i.e. the numbers mean whatever I say they mean.

who knows, lockdown isn't finished yet, there is no answer to your question

kevvjj wrote:

who knows, lockdown isn't finished yet, there is no answer to your question

Didn't read the source material, see me after class. But I do see what you did there (still get a detention).

15.

judda6610 wrote:

15.

not quite, but close.

Go for 16.

(1*[1+1500/100] = 16)

Yay, we have a winner!

If the amount of the increase (i.e. "the rise") was 1500% [of the original 1] then the increase is 1500/100 times the original, which is to say the increase is 15 x 1 = 15. An increase of 15 over the original 1 gives a new total weekly sales of 16.

Percentages are generally understood up to 100%. Tell someone that sales were 100, and then increased by 15%, they probably get that sales are now 115. Tell them sales increased 100% and they get that sales doubled. But say that they increased 1,500% and many people just think, gosh - that's a lot.

Although, I see it has now been edited. Well done for changing 1500% into "15 times". At least the number is meaningful instead of just impressively big. However the ambiguity remains. Is it the difference (the amount of the increase, i.e. "the rise") or the new total which is 15 times the original amount. I'm betting most people would understand the latter, although the original text (1500% rise) gives the former. Maybe not important at 15 or 16 times, but the 500% figure - are we talking a new total of 5 or 6 times the original?

For me the winner on the twitter thread was someone called

Adam Tyson

Clearly an A-level art project, a powerful statement on society.