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i'm down for this. haven't been in ages, probably be there around sunset - bad idea?

well not sure about which one you got but the park ones do work, give 'em another try, you won't go back :)

not really answering your Q but i've used these self adhesive patches for a few years now mate, they work flawlessly, much better than faffing around with glue.

YouTube- Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)

yea it is but it the repair ain't cost effective. as long as it's straight, leave it as is.

i'm looking for a little dubstep playlist I have to play this weekend.

i vaguely remember seeing a thread called 'dubstep heads ..' on here, that ran a good 6 or 7 pages, but it might just be my imagination. has it been merged, or is it in private or something? search brings only this thread.

thanks.

really feelin' this version

YouTube- ‪Mr. Fingers - What About This Love(Dub Version) 1989‬‎

nice.

hahaha, wicked. nice one, eei.

whoops, sorry!

YouTube- Gangsta hit by ice cream truck while getting his swagger on

are russian girls known for being whores?

That's because of the mistake in the scheme of not separating the zones. What small businesses really want is to retain the zone, but make it a different rate to stop people taking longer journeys by car. Small businesses, by the way, get most of their trade from people walking and cycling to their shops.

This is a fairly meaningless statement as it ignores that 'the economy' is not one fixed, unalterable thing. The word is made from the Greek oikos/oikia (house/household) plus nomos (convention/law) and essentially means only 'the convention of running a household', applied to entities of varying sizes, including states or the whole world. Economies are merely based on convention, some completely nonsensical, such as the artificially-created reliance on road haulage as the primary means of distributing goods inside the country, or importing/exporting goods from/to as far away as China. All of this can be changed given the political will, and schemes such as specific hours for HGVs (with necessary exceptions) are entirely viable. They're low-hanging fruit and not even particularly ambitious.

Idealistic. The 'political will' you mention requires multi-national co-operation and agreement - one nation implementing a set of plans like that will only lead to failure. We will be left unable to compete in an increasingly global marketplace. That co-operation does not yet exist in any realistic way. Look what happened at the Copenhagen climate summit last year. Until every country can agree to proper reductions in C02 emissions, the efforts of the UK will be pretty meaningless, given our population. We can't introduce levys on bankers' earnings unless everyone else does it too. So for the time being, we just can't afford to introduce green initiatives with the premise being it'll increase quality-of-life, at least not beyond a few token gestures like the cycling super highway and tax relief for electric vehicles and what not .. when it comes down to it, we don't have the societal or financial infrastructure to make any real, proper changes. There will be so many people that will lose their jobs, and there will not be an equivalent amount of jobs for them to replace them in the green sector.

Oddly enough, on this ocassion, I agree with Pistantor 100%.

Are we really so selfish as cyclists, that only OUR concerns matter? Don't you people care about small businesses? I do.

And as for Kensington and Chelsea not having small business, that could only be said by someone looking at the readings of their radio telescope from another solar system.

Kensington, Chelsea, Notting Hill, Fulham, are all full of hundreds, if not thousands of small business - from specialist book shops, to furniture makers and restorers, to coffee and cake shops. Do you expect their customers to arrive and leave by bicycle......with a fucking sofa?

Please. You people are unbelievable.

I commute ONLY by bike, unless both my bikes are being repaired, or the snow is too heavy to cycle in. Daily I cycle in London, and always from Lower Sydenham to Farringdon (and back), if its to do with work, or to any other part of London if its to do with anything else. Oh yes, if I'm dressed up to go out to somewhere special, this another ocassion when I will take public transport. I don't own a car, and I don't want to. But to put our needs above that of small businesses and their customers, smacks of NIMBYism.

I'm totally against the proposal. We should all try to responsibly share the same small spaces.

We have the right to ride in a safe environment, and others have the right to not be penalised for taking a couple friends to a bookshop, when having to drive in from out of London (for example).

totally agree.

look at the whole thing objectively.

I suffer from hayfever, shall we start cutting down all the trees and chopping the heads of daffodils to help the hayfever sufferers?

Citrozine FTW

exactly ..

Why?

'cause i'm a planet-raping free market capitalist cretin ;)

So keeping peoples lives safer due to reduced traffic and the reduction of emissions that will help in prolonging the survival of our species is second to some small entrepreneurial capitalist being able to make more profit from their small business?

Well, when you put it like that .. lol. But yeah, essentially. Just sayin', on balance, the needs of bike riders and environmentalists come pretty far after the needs of small businesses to start making money again. They've been hit hard by this extension, and the reduction in consumer spending.

It's a bit like the argument that we should have specific hours for HGV's on our roads. It's not a viable plan. The economy should come first.

Well, shit. The World Cup's over.

See you guys in 2 years for the Euros :D

I do however think it's a shame for local businesses that suffer from trade and inevitably being forced to close

yea i would agree with this.

Oh the humanity! Let's have more cars and trucks, THINK OF THE LITTLE BUSINESSES!

lol. small businesses in most cases have been really hard hit by this extension.

their livelihoods are more important than me wanting to feel safer riding my bike around, or wanting to breathe some slightly cleaner air. imo.

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Discrimination is essentially blaming people for their weaknesses or perceived weaknesses and then victimising or disadvantaging them for it.

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I think you can differentiate between discriminating against something someone has no control over - like race, and discriminating against something someone does have control over, like weight, or fashion choices. There are degrees of discrimination, it doesn't all fall under one category. It's human nature to discriminate to some extent, we all do it, even if we won't admit to it or try to avoid it.

I don't get much of Bob and Vic. Sometimes surreal is funny, but I prefer more down to earth comedy. Reeves isn't funny anymore.

This like this kind of surreal .. if you like it, check out Limmy's stuff on YT, he's got a load of surreal comedy sketches.

YouTube- Limmy Pilot - Kinder egg

haha.

I thought ftfy meant 'for the fucking yes'

It doesn't even make any sense

I thought it was some variation on 'for the fucking win'. Makes no sense either.