• that loses most of the reason for doing it...

    yeh.

    I appreciate that people have realised there's now basically no literal way we could get away with this and are trying be as positive about it as possible, but for me sadly there's a fair difference between getting down to ldn early with the prospect of a nice afternoon hanging out with forum people, and being stuck in ldn in the middle of the night after a ride with nowhere to go and nothing to do other than sit in the cold waiting for the trains to start running. So the revised plan means I'm out, which is a shame as I saw this as one thing I could get involved with being not london based. But who cares.

    I also love it how whenever 'authority' does anything authority-like, they always try to make it as creepy and obvious that they've got all the power and there isn't a fuck you can do about it. Like with the withdrawal-of-funding threat, and the REALLY weird and creepy bit about 'yeh also I got your mobile off the site, we've now literally got your number, shall I call you up?'

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