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forkboy84 posted:Taskmaster is the only comedy show in the last 10 years I can actually say I enjoy & go out of my way to watch. I’ve only just gotten into it, going through the old seasons now as well, some of the contestants are hit or miss but Greg seems to always pull some humour out of anything even when they are poo poo
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Communist Thoughts posted:itd be nice to have a left wing news site with a bit of comedy and edge Yeah you've just discussed everything wrong with the huffington post which constantly sends headlines to my ipad. I have no idea why. I don't actually read it. It's always 'Boris Johnson seems a bit sus, maybe someone should say something' and 'MP said X but actually it's not X! They LIED!'
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Communist Thoughts posted:itd be nice to have a left wing news site with a bit of comedy and edge I mean that's basically Twitter with the right follows.
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Oct 28, 2020 10:14
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goddamnedtwisto posted:drat straight. Now let me explain how any "road tax" should be charged as a function of footprint and axle loading to reflect the actual usage of/damage to roads and the pillory needs to be bought back for people who drop diesel on the roads. I mean that broadly is an excellent justification for why bikes clearly shouldn't pay road tax because you could have the entirety of london doing laps of the M25 on pushbikes and they would never wear it out.
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Oct 28, 2020 10:15
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OwlFancier posted:I mean that broadly is an excellent justification for why bikes clearly shouldn't pay road tax because you could have the entirety of london doing laps of the M25 on pushbikes and they would never wear it out. I'm fine with that, although I will admit to one slightly gammony opinion about cyclists - that they should have mandatory TPO insurance if they're on the road, although I'm fine with having it funded by the state.
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Oct 28, 2020 10:23
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I mean I think insurance is stupid and the things it is needed for should be covered by the state for everyone anyway.
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Oct 28, 2020 10:25
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Just RAF all vehicles. Whether that means establish a state fund to cover all third party insurance, attack them from above with Brimstone missiles, or ambush them outside banks and kill any bankers inside is for the policymakers to decide.
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Oct 28, 2020 10:32
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Guavanaut posted:Just RAF all vehicles. Imagine the Roadworks though if you have to clean up after a Brimstone strike. Maybe try those blade missiles the Yanks have. Then you can just hose the area down afterwards. More job opportunities I suppose.
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Oct 28, 2020 10:38
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OwlFancier posted:I mean that broadly is an excellent justification for why bikes clearly shouldn't pay road tax because you could have the entirety of london doing laps of the M25 on pushbikes and they would never wear it out. The vast majority of UK cyclists are also drivers so they are probably paying road tax while not even damaging the road and causing traffic and pollution with their car. If anything they have more of a right to the road than someone driving. e: goddamnedtwisto posted:I'm fine with that, although I will admit to one slightly gammony opinion about cyclists - that they should have mandatory TPO insurance if they're on the road, although I'm fine with having it funded by the state. I really can't imagine that cyclists are causing enough damage in accidents for this to be worthwhile (as a group, there is probably the very occasional freak accident that results in significant damage or injury). I'd rather have Dutch-style strict liability where drivers are assumed at fault in all collisions - you decide to take a tonne and a half of high-speed metal on the road, you are accepting the responsibility of putting everyone else who uses those roads at risk. 
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Oct 28, 2020 10:41
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Oct 28, 2020 10:45
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Really can't wait for this to appear on Dashcam Youtube.
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Oct 28, 2020 10:48
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Private Speech posted:Not actually print (sorry I know) but "the canary" and "the conversation" are occasionally decent, the latter is pretty lib though.
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I clicked on this & it showed me this other very thread-relevant tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/HKesvani/status/1321029520980324353 Just gonna go right out & say it, swap that shite underneath for something resembling curry & yeh I would definitely eat that fascist mess And have the curry for pudding if I was still hungry
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Oct 28, 2020 11:00
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To whoever said that it's important to keep tabs on what people you disagree with are saying on Facebook... It really loving isn't. As soon as you scratch below the surface in virtually any group you just get this ugly, frothing sea of blind racism and anger. And there's nothing you can do about any of it. Getting rid of Facebook has been amazing for my mental health, because you don't end up going down those rabbit holes.
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big scary monsters posted:Liability Knowing you were not at fault is a great comfort when you're dead or maimed. Being in cycle central UK, I regularly see cyclists breeze through red lights on busy junctions without even bothering to check the exits, cycle down unlit roads at night without lights, go the wrong way down roads (and cycle paths!) and cycle with noise-cancelling headphones. Intrinsically I feel that abrogating them of all responsibility for their behaviour in the absence of any other measures (traffic segregation) is just going to encourage stupid behaviour without making any material change in outcomes.
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Yeah, there's a lot of not-very-good leftie news sites out there being run on shoestring budgets, full of hastily-written, preaching to the converted articles about Bad thing is Bad or dumb Twitter bullshit and stuff. The Byline Times seems more thoughtful and in depth and I'm thinking about subscribing to that.
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Oct 28, 2020 11:04
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Comedy chat I've been enjoying Ghosts on the Beeb. I wasn't expecting much since everyone my mum was raving about it, but its a genuinely good comedy Best british comedy since My Family
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Borrovan posted:I clicked on this & it showed me this other very thread-relevant tweet: They look a little too cooked for my tastes, but that's a moderately competent poached egg at least. Did Loomer have an almost identical awful-meal-but-competent-poached-egg picture a few weeks back? Is this some weird signal? Are poached eggs the new ok sign?
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Communist Thoughts posted:itd be nice to have a left wing news site with a bit of comedy and edge Well there's always the onion, albeit they're American. e: e.g. Amy Coney Barrett Promises Catholic Faith Won’t Interfere With Court’s Crushing Of The Poor, Downtrodden Private Speech fucked around with this message at 11:27 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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Oct 28, 2020 11:24
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knox_harrington posted:NB don't buy a Tesla. If I was going to buy an electric car like you're describing next year I'd be looking at one of these That was on my list as well as the VW ID.4, but we're on the preorder for the Ford Mustnnnng Mach-e. As for vans and seeing over other vehicles, it comes into play most at 2-lane roundabouts where you can see clearly over those to your immediate right.
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Oct 28, 2020 11:54
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Gonna get the polestar because it sounds rude and isn’t.
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eh, if they're not going it's not safe and if they are it is or they're going to get hit first e: I guess if you're trying to turn left immediately it might be safe for you but not them, but I don't trust people to indicate/position themselves properly so I don't really like pulling out unless they're very clearly going to carry on going round XMNN fucked around with this message at 12:02 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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Oct 28, 2020 12:00
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Biggus Dickus posted:As for vans and seeing over other vehicles, it comes into play most at 2-lane roundabouts where you can see clearly over those to your immediate right. Wait for them to go and if someone hits them it's not your problem  Works better with articulated lorries.
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XMNN posted:eh, if they're not going it's not safe and if they are it is or they're going to get hit first Or you get the situation where the guy to your right goes and it wasn't safe but because Satan likes bastards they don't get hit. But had you gone when they had there likely would have been a collision. Like I have seen so many people pull out on roundabouts, not giving way to traffic on the right, but very often they don't suffer any consequences. One reason I got a Dash Cam was so I could report other drivers for doing stupid poo poo if I caught it on camera. The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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Oct 28, 2020 12:03
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Yeah I only do that if its a lorry, although another lorry slamming into the side of it would probably wipe me out too
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If two lorries hit each other and you're parked next to one of them you're probably dead either way.
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I just wish motorists, in their idiot-proof two ton metal cages, would wait the two seconds it takes for the other lane to clear, and follow highway code 163 (cycles should be given as much space as a car when overtaking). Instead, of course, they come so loving close I could shave on their side mirrors. I use lights at night, I stop at all red lights, I keep to the side of the road - I even wave for cars to pass me if I feel it's safe. But every time I get overtaken with so little space I pray to God "not today please", I drive a little closer to the center of the lane. gently caress you, cars, your acceleration is far superior, wait the two goddamn seconds to overtake safely.
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Total Meatlove posted:Gonna get the polestar because it sounds rude and isn’t. The 2 is goddamn gorgeous in the flesh (saw it at Goodwood).
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Depends on the car and the road, my car is poo poo so I can't overtake safely a lot of the time, especially not when you most want to overtake which is going up a hill because there is usually a blind summit at the top and cyclists go at walking pace up them and your car needs 3-5 working days notice to get up to speed as well. So i end up following the cyclist trying not to stall my car driving it at 2mph. Make the lanes wider and put cycle lanes on steep hills. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 12:25 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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Total Meatlove posted:Gonna get the polestar because it sounds rude and isn’t. Biggus Dickus posted:(saw it at Goodwood). 
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Lunar Suite posted:I just wish motorists, in their idiot-proof two ton metal cages, would wait the two seconds it takes for the other lane to clear, and follow highway code 163 (cycles should be given as much space as a car when overtaking). Instead, of course, they come so loving close I could shave on their side mirrors. You should honestly just cycle in the centre of the lane, a car needs to partially enter the opposite lane to overtake either way so you might as well make them enter it completely and not have them try and squeeze past
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Put cycle lanes everywhere. Unban electric scooters and let them in the lanes. Fine anybody riding in the road when there's an adjacent cycle lane. Uses those fines to build more cycle lanes. In the meantime though, cycle in the center. That way I won't feel anxious about needing to overtake you because the car behind me is right up my rear end. God I hate everything about driving.
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Lunar Suite posted:I just wish motorists, in their idiot-proof two ton metal cages, would wait the two seconds it takes for the other lane to clear, and follow highway code 163 (cycles should be given as much space as a car when overtaking). Instead, of course, they come so loving close I could shave on their side mirrors. They're not cheap but can thoroughly recommend a rear camera Its incredible satisfying sending off the footage of a close pass to the po po (I have no idea if your local police force actually allows this, in wales there is an online video uploader specifically designed for it)
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the government continues it's bold action towards equality by launching a call for evidence for a committee undertaking an inquiry into the conclusions made by considering the analysis of the responses to the consultation regarding its proposals to consider reforming some aspects of specific legislation, considering the decision the government made on the balance of reasoned debate that it would kindly decide provisionally to not make things actively worse. love this loving country https://twitter.com/Commonswomequ/status/1321392870075568128
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blunt posted:That way I won't feel anxious about needing to overtake you because the car behind me is right up my rear end. This is the other thing, it's a lot harder to just follow people when you're holding up a big line of traffic by doing it, you might be technically in the right but so much of driving involves keeping with the flow of traffic, it's why you don't stop to let people out or cross the road unless you're already stopped or there's a lot of space behind you. Also why you will tend to speed if the person in front is doing it. Driving sucks and I hate it.
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Lunar Suite posted:I just wish motorists, in their idiot-proof two ton metal cages, would wait the two seconds it takes for the other lane to clear, and follow highway code 163 (cycles should be given as much space as a car when overtaking). Instead, of course, they come so loving close I could shave on their side mirrors. It's shocking. I always leave a car width if it's safe to pass because you just plain don't know what might happen. A couple of months ago I was driving around a road that is basically one big bend and also slightly uphill so I stayed behind a cyclist who was cycling at a fair speed anyway. It was too hard to judge if a car was coming the other way the whole way around but it was going to take two minutes max to get around the bend. This woman behind me was having none of it though and tried to overtake both me and the cyclist only to have to swerve back in to dodge a van bombing up the hill the other way. She was so close I saw her stupid, startled face right up in my wing mirror. Two loving minutes
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Angepain posted:the government continues it's bold action towards equality by launching a call for evidence for a committee undertaking an inquiry into the conclusions made by considering the analysis of the responses to the consultation regarding its proposals to consider reforming some aspects of specific legislation, considering the decision the government made on the balance of reasoned debate that it would kindly decide provisionally to not make things actively worse. love this loving country
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blunt posted:Put cycle lanes everywhere. Unban electric scooters and let them in the lanes. Fine anybody riding in the road when there's an adjacent cycle lane. Uses those fines to build more cycle lanes. This bit is a bad idea, and could only work if there was a near-perfect network of well-maintained segregated cycle lanes that make cycling from A to B as or more convenient than the road, for any given values of A and B. Otherwise you end up with cyclists being fined and abused by everyone when the adjacent cycle lane is unsafe or not really there. Even then, it would require rewriting the law on what roads are for - I believe I'm right in saying that in the UK (England?), roads are for everyone including pedestrians and horses, unless they're motorways or something, which is why we don't have the concept of jaywalking.
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They've spent the last year or so installing cycle lanes down the main road near me. A good idea, but the traffic was already complete poo poo for at least 5 hours every day and this hasn't helped the situation (well, neither has covid, since it's meant the work's taken at least twice as long as it should have). Part of me thinks it's because I live in the poor part of my borough and the council (whoever runs it, to be fair) never seems all that bothered about trying to make the traffic better. A three-mile car journey (to somewhere without convenient public transport) can take 30 minutes, when the first 25 minutes is just trying to cross over to the 'nice' side of the borough. Still, the cycle lanes do look nice. OwlFancier posted:so much of driving involves keeping with the flow of traffic, it's why you don't stop to let people out Part of the drive I mentioned has a rat-run coming out into it. It's infuriating that other drivers let people out of it and I utterly refuse to do the same. Generally speaking, though, I'll let a car out if I'm in no particular rush
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