Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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I too get cheesed off by idiot cyclists, but equally I get cheesed off by idiot pedestrians (who also cause accidents). I'm not sure how you legislate for either, either proportionately or otherwise.
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You can kill someone by inadvertently parking over them, but the speed limit for cars in towns doesn't reflect that.
Can you stick to your logic please?
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It's all entirely irrelevant if there are no police enforcing the laws anyway.
Speeding and using a mobile phone while driving both have quite serious penalties but nobody thinks they will get caught (and they are probably right), red light jumping by cyclists can be enforced by pcso's I believe.
Make as many new laws as you want, the low hanging fruit is to enforce the existing ones.
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It's the person with the dangerous weapon's job not to endanger other people. Otherwise, you can blame all those dead Americans for not correctly dodging the bullets.
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Good grief but that would require funding police.
What on earth is wrong with you, there are fiscal rules you know.
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That's true, they could enforce it and make money at the same time.
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That would be my choice. Blitz the roads, especially in urban areas, fine the hell out of everyone fir their terrible driving/riding and don't stop until its no longer self funding.
Except "war on motorists" of course.
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Yes I remember a lad on a bike got killed by a car at bank before they did it up.
next day rozzers were on most of the major traffic lights on the main cycling routes. One gave me grief for being 1m over the white line.
🙄
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I assume that cyclists who have killed people (the one or two per year) will use the same stay-out-of-jail card that seems to work for motorists who kill by carelessness.
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Takes more effort to kill someone with your bike than with a car, so less likely to be careless? 🤨
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Do you need one? 😁
It reminds me of a similar argument some years ago regarding women less likely to get off with manslaughter than men under assumption that they are less aggressive and weaker so required more effort and most likely pre-meditated.
Rubbish of course, but I could see cyclists might be disproportionately blamed in the same way.
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Not yet.
Mind you, I did once almost run over a chihuahua - not on a lead, darted across the dedicated cycle path (there's one for pedestrians next to it). I managed to stop, suggested that the lady keep her little furry thing under control (fnarr, fnarr), to which she exclaimed "It was!" I suggested that she might be mistaken, as I'd just stopped to avoid running over it.
But I'm sure she went home and blamed all cyclists for being, erm, something.
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Quite correct, don’t know what spurious source I used. That puts you in the same group as Rick. Sorry. 😉
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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Have any other planets occupants in the universe created snooker and if so have they achieved a 147?
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Latest water bill says our usage went up by about 100 litres/day. Probably just that the previous figure was an estimate but now I need to check the meter myself and check for leaks.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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I'm sure that would be fine if motorists didn't have votes. And the point that it would start again once the clampdown stops.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
You don't vote for the police and I don't recall any party campaigning that we need fewer police officers.
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The probability is high.
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Not really intriguing but nowhere else to put it. Not done much cycling recently but a fair bit of swimming - means I have weird fitness on the bike.
Can do certain things but not others. Feels really weird. Like I haven't been on the bike for a while and the usual eyes-faster-than-legs but I can suddenly knock out 5 mins at 35kp/h into a headwind, but then weirdly long recovery, but then I'm not massively pooped afterwards.
Obvious, but weird.
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Tipping in restaurants. These I'm usually presented with a card machine already set to the bill total and not many people have cash. So has tipping declined?
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Don't they usually stick an overly large amount on the bill in the hope that you'll be too embarassed to ask for it to be reduced / removed? Or have that button where you have to openly decline to pay a tip (I've had that a few times as I still prefer to tip in cash if I'm carrying any).
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I think you might have been paying the service charge without realising.
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Sometimes if you ask they can add it but I went to a local pub/restaurant recently where the management had removed the tip option from the card machine
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I'm sure I haven't. Let's say this subject is an overlap of my key skills: eating and numbers.
On a different note, I did query a bill in a posh restaurant as it didn't add up. They weren't impressed with me.
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The removal of the tip option is interesting to hear. I genuinely think it's changing. I rarely see a bill with "Service not included" written on it any more.
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Think it's been around quite a while. My grandparents, for example, would tip waiters, hairdressers and taxi drivers.
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