Glad to see UKIP fostering international relations, even if it is with the Mole People
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I ZimbraWorst song, played on ugliest guitarRegistered Userregular
And I can't imagine there would be any difficulty doing extensive underground work in a city that's been inhabited and built on for millennia. Piece of cake, I'm sure.
And I can't imagine there would be any difficulty doing extensive underground work in a city that's been inhabited and built on for millennia. Piece of cake, I'm sure.
As smooth as crossing rails.
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KHANAGE sounds fucking sick if I was Sadiq Khan I'd use that all the time
That ought be Khanate, shouldn't it? I mean I'm not that surprised this idiot couldn't even be bothered to make an actual historical reference, even though I feel it would work way better for the unsubtly racist and xenophobic rhetoric of their party, though I kind of doubt his supporters would know the difference if he did.
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Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Lincoln
If im reading that right, that dude thinks 2 million miles of underground roads have already been built! They're just waiting to be opened up for surface dwellers.
But thats like 200 miles for every mile of road in London already. are there multiple layers of these underground roads
Just how deep do these roads go? Are we in danger of awakening Balrogs?
Given it's UKIP, there is a non-trivial chance that the 2 million miles figure come from some kind of conspiracy theory nonsense about secret underground bunkers for the elite
"We're gonna build a whole new world for ourselves. Look, they clap eyes on us and we're dead, right? So we gotta make a new life where they'll never find us. You know where? Underground!
You should see it down there - hundreds of miles of drains - sweet and clean now after the rain! Dark, quiet, safe. We can build houses and everything, start again from scratch!
And what's so bad about living underground eh? It's not been so great living up here, if you want my opinion!"
Take a look around you, at the world we've come to know
Does it seem to be much more than a crazy circus show?
But maybe from the madness, something beautiful will grow
In a brave new world...
With just a handful of men,
We'll start- We'll start all over again!
Given it's UKIP, there is a non-trivial chance that the 2 million miles figure come from some kind of conspiracy theory nonsense about secret underground bunkers for the elite
And which likely misclassified pipes, utility cables, and sewers as a fully occupiable tunnel.
KHANAGE sounds fucking sick if I was Sadiq Khan I'd use that all the time
That ought be Khanate, shouldn't it? I mean I'm not that surprised this idiot couldn't even be bothered to make an actual historical reference, even though I feel it would work way better for the unsubtly racist and xenophobic rhetoric of their party, though I kind of doubt his supporters would know the difference if he did.
"carnage"/"khanage" isn't it
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Lord_AsmodeusgoeticSobriquet:Here is your magical cryptic riddle-tumour: I AM A TIME MACHINERegistered Userregular
KHANAGE sounds fucking sick if I was Sadiq Khan I'd use that all the time
That ought be Khanate, shouldn't it? I mean I'm not that surprised this idiot couldn't even be bothered to make an actual historical reference, even though I feel it would work way better for the unsubtly racist and xenophobic rhetoric of their party, though I kind of doubt his supporters would know the difference if he did.
"carnage"/"khanage" isn't it
I suppose that works in some accents. Still dumb though.
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Lincoln
I've been watching videos about cycling transport in the Netherlands, and London would be so perfect for it.
Instead we get these god awful cycle superhighways.
Why do town planners in the UK not use the Netherlands as a model?
The standards exist, but local authorities aren't required to use them, so they don't because paint is cheaper than redesigning junctions
Also because building this kind of infrastructure is fiercely resisted by a relatively small but extremely loud contingent of car users, and by the car lobby (which itself has a sympathetic media) which talks about being in favour of cycling infrastructure in principle, provided it never, under any circumstances doesn't favour car users first
It's a brave local authority that decides to buckle down and implement it anyway, and weather the resulting media and protest storm
Why do town planners in the UK not use the Netherlands as a model?
It's worth bearing in mind that the Dutch were forced into rebuilding a lot of their city centres after the war and took this as an opportunity to actually plan around how a modern city could work. UK cities have never had rebuilding forced on them to such a scale so any new traffic schemes have always had to fit around the existing layout.
Why do town planners in the UK not use the Netherlands as a model?
It's worth bearing in mind that the Dutch were forced into rebuilding a lot of their city centres after the war and took this as an opportunity to actually plan around how a modern city could work. UK cities have never had rebuilding forced on them to such a scale so any new traffic schemes have always had to fit around the existing layout.
Nope. The Dutch cycling renaissance dates to the 70's oil shocks and mass protests over the number of children killed by cars. Basically black lives matter, but it was Stop de Kindermoord (child murder).
As far as I was aware the Netherlands didn't go all in on cycle infrastructure until the 70s, with the protests about child road deaths, I don't think it was a post war restructuring thing
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Entertainingly, there is a pro-monarchy faction within the SNP that maintains that she is "Elizabeth I and II" in a similar vein to James VI and I, on the basis that there has never been an Elizabeth I of Scots, and so she has no right to claim the title of "Elizabeth II" in Scotland.
Because John Nicolson, SNP member of parliament for Ochil and South Perthshire, was congratulating the Queen on her jubilee today
I've been watching videos about cycling transport in the Netherlands, and London would be so perfect for it.
Instead we get these god awful cycle superhighways.
Why do town planners in the UK not use the Netherlands as a model?
Don't say that we've just started copying the "Dutch style" roundabouts here and they are fucking death traps.
(Also I'm told The Netherlands have started removing them because they are so dangerous)
What's wrong with those? I used one that looks like that near Battersea park and it was great as a cyclist.
The biggie is that the whole idea is that crossing cycle and pedestrian traffic is supposed to have priority over traffic leaving the roundabout, as at a zebra crossing. So, drivers should yield to pedestrians or cyclists on or approaching the crossing, but many just ... don't
They're nerve wracking in the same way that zebra crossings on NSL roads are: it's a relatively unusual arrangement that relies on the driver of the larger vehicle behaving correctly for them to be safe
Having said that, they are infinitely better than those roundabouts that just have a cycle lane hugging the perimeter inside the boundary of the roundabout, using those is just asking to get left hooked
I've been watching videos about cycling transport in the Netherlands, and London would be so perfect for it.
Instead we get these god awful cycle superhighways.
Why do town planners in the UK not use the Netherlands as a model?
Don't say that we've just started copying the "Dutch style" roundabouts here and they are fucking death traps.
(Also I'm told The Netherlands have started removing them because they are so dangerous)
What's wrong with those? I used one that looks like that near Battersea park and it was great as a cyclist.
The biggie is that the whole idea is that crossing cycle and pedestrian traffic is supposed to have priority over traffic leaving the roundabout, as at a zebra crossing. So, drivers should yield to pedestrians or cyclists on or approaching the crossing, but many just ... don't
They're nerve wracking in the same way that zebra crossings on NSL roads are: it's a relatively unusual arrangement that relies on the driver of the larger vehicle behaving correctly for them to be safe
Having said that, they are infinitely better than those roundabouts that just have a cycle lane hugging the perimeter inside the boundary of the roundabout, using those is just asking to get left hooked
They're a bad idea for the same reason putting traffic lights on or just off the exit of a roundabout is. When I first got my licence I'd run those things all the time because I was so busy concentrating on the roundabout whoops I didn't have time to notice the light on the exit has just gone red. It's not a problem for me now but I can totally understand why new (or very old) drivers may not have the experience or reaction times to notice they need to yield at the zebra crossing. It's not just a "lol drivers are dickheads" or that people are trying to mow down pedestrians, it's just a bad design expecting you to be keeping track of people on the crossing while navigating a roundabout.
Senior No 10 source says Dominic Cummings is out by Christmas - after hours of speculation HE tells me 'rumours of me threatening to resign are invented, rumours of me asking others to resign are invented'.
He said 'tonight's rumours that somehow the Brexit negotiations are involved are invented and comical to anybody who knows whats happening in no 10', but when asked about rumours he would quit at Christmas Cummings said 'My position hasn't changed since my January blog' - when he planned to make himself 'redundant' by the end of 2020 - he's off.
This is what he wrote in Jan - 'We want to improve performance and make me much less important — and within a year largely redundant' - here when he was advertising for misfits and weirdos - it's been likely for ages that he would go in next few months as he wrote then but has accelerated dramatically since last night and Cain's departure
Laura K is political editor at the BBC.
Two important things here; firstly that Cummings is apparently definitely leaving before the end of the year, secondly that Laura's "senior number 10 source" is Cummings, surprising no-one
It never ceases to amaze me how Cummings and his planet-sized ego seem to think his blog is some kind of all-powerful, omniscient thing that beams his sacred words right into the heads of the entire population.
Also good of Laura to finally out the motherfucker as his own source.
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It's surely only a matter of time.
Sadiq should adopt the nickname Shao.
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"2 million miles" is 200 times the amount of actual roads in London, and about 8 times the total length of the entire UK road network.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
As smooth as crossing rails.
That ought be Khanate, shouldn't it? I mean I'm not that surprised this idiot couldn't even be bothered to make an actual historical reference, even though I feel it would work way better for the unsubtly racist and xenophobic rhetoric of their party, though I kind of doubt his supporters would know the difference if he did.
But thats like 200 miles for every mile of road in London already. are there multiple layers of these underground roads
Just how deep do these roads go? Are we in danger of awakening Balrogs?
The existence of 2 million miles of useful tunnels is the fever dream of a madman.
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You should see it down there - hundreds of miles of drains - sweet and clean now after the rain! Dark, quiet, safe. We can build houses and everything, start again from scratch!
And what's so bad about living underground eh? It's not been so great living up here, if you want my opinion!"
Take a look around you, at the world we've come to know
Does it seem to be much more than a crazy circus show?
But maybe from the madness, something beautiful will grow
In a brave new world...
With just a handful of men,
We'll start- We'll start all over again!
And which likely misclassified pipes, utility cables, and sewers as a fully occupiable tunnel.
"carnage"/"khanage" isn't it
I suppose that works in some accents. Still dumb though.
cars go underground, people stay up top.
Like Metropolis.
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insert quote from Mel Gibson's "Ransom" film here..
Instead we get these god awful cycle superhighways.
Why do town planners in the UK not use the Netherlands as a model?
is Gammon.
I know everybody's noticed that, but. Guys.
The standards exist, but local authorities aren't required to use them, so they don't because paint is cheaper than redesigning junctions
Also because building this kind of infrastructure is fiercely resisted by a relatively small but extremely loud contingent of car users, and by the car lobby (which itself has a sympathetic media) which talks about being in favour of cycling infrastructure in principle, provided it never, under any circumstances doesn't favour car users first
It's a brave local authority that decides to buckle down and implement it anyway, and weather the resulting media and protest storm
Don't say that we've just started copying the "Dutch style" roundabouts here and they are fucking death traps.
(Also I'm told The Netherlands have started removing them because they are so dangerous)
Nope. The Dutch cycling renaissance dates to the 70's oil shocks and mass protests over the number of children killed by cars. Basically black lives matter, but it was Stop de Kindermoord (child murder).
https://youtu.be/XuBdf9jYj7o
The Twitter account for his campaign is called Gammons4London.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
They're doing this on purpose. Surely. Surely.
This is a "we're taking it back" thing?
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I mean, it's one way to get people to commit the leader of your tiny, politically irrelevant party to memory.
Because John Nicolson, SNP member of parliament for Ochil and South Perthshire, was congratulating the Queen on her jubilee today
They prefer being called the lost subterranean tribe of Picts.
What's wrong with those? I used one that looks like that near Battersea park and it was great as a cyclist.
The biggie is that the whole idea is that crossing cycle and pedestrian traffic is supposed to have priority over traffic leaving the roundabout, as at a zebra crossing. So, drivers should yield to pedestrians or cyclists on or approaching the crossing, but many just ... don't
They're nerve wracking in the same way that zebra crossings on NSL roads are: it's a relatively unusual arrangement that relies on the driver of the larger vehicle behaving correctly for them to be safe
Having said that, they are infinitely better than those roundabouts that just have a cycle lane hugging the perimeter inside the boundary of the roundabout, using those is just asking to get left hooked
They're a bad idea for the same reason putting traffic lights on or just off the exit of a roundabout is. When I first got my licence I'd run those things all the time because I was so busy concentrating on the roundabout whoops I didn't have time to notice the light on the exit has just gone red. It's not a problem for me now but I can totally understand why new (or very old) drivers may not have the experience or reaction times to notice they need to yield at the zebra crossing. It's not just a "lol drivers are dickheads" or that people are trying to mow down pedestrians, it's just a bad design expecting you to be keeping track of people on the crossing while navigating a roundabout.
Laura K is political editor at the BBC.
Two important things here; firstly that Cummings is apparently definitely leaving before the end of the year, secondly that Laura's "senior number 10 source" is Cummings, surprising no-one
Also good of Laura to finally out the motherfucker as his own source.
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