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RDevz posted:Alternatively, you get poo poo like this, thanks to Croydon Council: Urgh, god they have a tiny bit of bus lane on the entrance to cannon park roundabout that's like that, and the worst bit is that you can turn left onto the road and the bus lane is not clearly marked so if you don't already know there's a bus lane right on your left and you actually have to go into the middle lane you're going to get dinged, it says camera controlled so I assume they also fine people for it. The whole thing can't be more than a hundred fifty yards long. Guavanaut posted:This is Leicester's one. Boro center does in theory have bollards that can retract but I've never seen them do it, all the shops have rear courtyards accessible from nearby roads or if you're the cleveland center it has an entire road upstairs inside the building with loading bays for everything. Quite cool and I never knew it was there til I did work there. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Aug 30, 2022 |
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WhatEvil posted:I mean the CIA created the Taliban, right? Ehh, kinda-sorta. It's more accurate to say that they created a state of warlordism so brutal and chaotic that the southern clerics who created the Taliban could (with Pakistani support) form a moderately popular insurgency against it. Then they did it again in 2002 after effectively destroying the first Taliban as a military/political force.
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OwlFancier posted:Urgh, god they have a tiny bit of bus lane on the entrance to cannon park roundabout that's like that, and the worst bit is that you can turn left onto the road and the bus lane is not clearly marked so if you don't already know there's a bus lane right on your left and you actually have to go into the middle lane you're going to get dinged, it says camera controlled so I assume they also fine people for it. The entire restricted bit of road on Parsons Mead in Croydon is about 3 meters long - I think it's designed to stop people from rat-running around the convoluted and traffic jammed mess that is Croydon town center.
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I would suggest something normal like speed bumps and a slalom but I guess that doesn't bring in the cash.
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keep punching joe posted:Is there a women's darts? darts players are like discworld dwarves, outsiders can't tell
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OwlFancier posted:Boro center does in theory have bollards that can retract but I've never seen them do it, all the shops have rear courtyards accessible from nearby roads or if you're the cleveland center it has an entire road upstairs inside the building with loading bays for everything. Quite cool and I never knew it was there til I did work there. *in the literal sense, it's right round the corner from this late** medieval orb and cross  **in both senses now
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Guavanaut posted:I've seen them down when on early shifts. That area is far too medieval* for either of those fancy things, so they open it up during loading hours, then close it for daytime hours unless you have a pass. There's another Before photo further down in the article 
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There's an LTN around our way. All the people living on the roads that haven't been LTN'd are upset cause their air quality has dropped, the business owners on the LTN'd roads are upset because their footfall has cratered, the only people who are happy about their road getting LTN'd are the ones who live on the same quiet residential road as our local councillor.
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Saw this amazing man chatting up some old ladies outside St Pancras today. He was spilling anecdote after anecdote about his life. He once got punched in the stomach by a policeman at Bank Station (asked why, he said 'the last train had gone' as if that explained it). He once got given two free backstage passes to either a Pink Floyd concert or just David Gilmour, unclear. He once woke up in the middle of a roundabout. And on and on. To be fair they seemed fascinated, but maybe it was just the light bouncing off the many, many shiny badges he had attached to his hat.
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I feel like you may have found a wizard
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The image is giving me weird sense of deja vu for some reason, seems familiar but I have no idea why. Perhaps this is a Type Of Guy.
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https://twitter.com/AveryOfBirds/status/1564721356440104960 bellissimo 
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OwlFancier posted:The image is giving me weird sense of deja vu for some reason, seems familiar but I have no idea why. A friend told stories of one in Norwich.
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One of the fascinating things about Lovecraft is that in the final decade of his life he started to undergo a process of reexamining - and in some cases overtly rejecting - some of his former views on politics, race, etc. Sadly he'd pretty much stopped writing by then, crippled by self-doubt and poverty, so only the very beginnings of that process are visible in a couple of his stories. He also never completed the process, because he died of bowel cancer in 1937. Rowling, on the other hand, will never stop to self-examine for a single second. Literally lower than HPL.
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https://twitter.com/pk_kenzie/status/1564630291301298180?t=fYZZ6y5L5DTzRxaRNTmphw&s=19 I like that the replies to the original tweet here are just listing series that are basically Harry Potter but better.
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Is she just going to keep writing books until she gets one big enough to collapse into a black hole?
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Type of guy chat: I know 3 men who look like that.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Type of guy chat: I think I canvassed with one in 2019 tbh.
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A little light in our darkest hour maybe? Not sure how it will impact on the UK but I think there must be some impact. Thanks to Europe  https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/30/wholesale-gas-prices-tumble-as-europe-prepares-to-intervene-in-energy-markets quote:The wholesale price of gas has dropped sharply in a rare respite from recent highs on signs that Europe is preparing to intervene directly in energy markets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW0Ao9r2zkY
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HopperUK posted:Saw this amazing man chatting up some old ladies outside St Pancras today. I'm not surprised this guy once woke up on a roundabout, he looks like he owns the magic one.
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Reveilled posted:I'm not surprised this guy once woke up on a roundabout, he looks like he owns the magic one. That was Dougal. Or possibly The Blue Cat.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:That was Dougal. Or possibly The Blue Cat. I thought it was Mr. Rusty, didn’t Zebedee help him get it up and running?
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Reveilled posted:I thought it was Mr. Rusty, didn’t Zebedee help him get it up and running? Could be Brian the Snail who had to slow down so as not to upset the train.
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Guavanaut posted:I like the electric bollard system Leicester uses, it targets most of the bad faith arguments against.
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Apraxin posted:i was like 'oh that can't be right, surely' so i checked the amazon listing and her new book, a 'taut detective thriller' clocks in at 1,024 pages Editors are for plebs. If any idea she had was anything other than pure unquestionable genuis she wouldn't be rich would she
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keep punching joe posted:Is there a women's darts? Yes there is, but the main professional tour, run by the PDC is, and always has been open. If you're good enough to win a tour card, you play.
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Tesseraction posted:Yeah the argument about trans women in sport (and notice they tend to complain less about trans men in sport, although force a trans man up against a bunch of cis women because of your ideology and you might see some complaints) is as if a bunch of 120 kg muscle kings suddenly sticks a pink ribbon on their beard and get to compete against a 60 kg woman in MMA. It really doesn't work like that and after a certain amount of time on HRT, I think something insanely short like 6 months, the advantages you had will have gone. Do you lose all advantages after you have been through male puberty then transition? Because the numbers on swimming for 16 year old boys vs Olympian women is quite a stark difference. I think the issue people have (whether they are outright transphobes or just looking at the numbers) is someone like Lia Thomas, on the numbers I saw (and of course there could be skullduggery going on with figures floating around in these debates) is that she lost a couple of seconds on her times after transitioning but that still made her faster than 96% of her new peer group, as opposed to something like 74% of her old peer group. Is that an advantage?
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Comrade Fakename posted:People round me* went absolutely loving mental about LTNs, it brought down the leader of the council and they got rid of them. Suffice to say, I didn’t give a poo poo, but it was bizarre to see people acting like being somewhat inconvenienced while driving through the area constituted an intolerable assault on our way of life. “Destroying our communities” one leaflet said. I don't have a car but the local LTN which entirely surrounded, but did not include, my street basically turned the street into a bypass. Made it a HTN.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:A little light in our darkest hour maybe? Not sure how it will impact on the UK but I think there must be some impact. Thanks to Europe Given that the main issue in this country is profiteering, I fear the prices remain high regardless of the supply market. Providers have learned ‘oh, we can jack the prices as high as we like with no consequences? Sweet!’, and that’s going to be a hard genie to put back into the bottle, especially with this government
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