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France taxes property purchases, I think Greece do too.
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It’s estimated that help to buy funds will be exhausted in 12 months and, after a short extension by government to the end of 2014, the inflationary effects will diminish during the first half of 2015.
These are powerful drivers. Acting in concert, they become unstoppable. National governments over estimate their influence over their economy and predictions are usually wrong.
Economists forecasts invariably erroneous. Look to politics for the strongest indicators; and they point to London and south east property values heading for a dramatic fall during the summer of 2015.
http://www.24dash.com/news/housing/2013-10-04-Opinion-Bursting-the-housing-bubble
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You actually couldn't parody the EDL any better than they themselves do. What a smattering if dozy plums.
My little brother says at the Norwich EDL demo a bloke had a placard saying "Down with Aslan".
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Going back a bit TFC Leytonstone's getting spruced up:
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On page fifteen, this image:
"Surprised housewife". The advertisers know their demographic, how are you supposed to interest cabbies in insurance without implying anal sex?
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Why shouldn't the cyclist be black? There's a whole lot wrong with that advert but the ethnicity of the rider didn't even register until you pointed it out.
I just wondered why they set the scene up that way. Another advert there has a dolly-bird housewife making a gasping face beneath an advert saying "Been rear-ended?"
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TfL’s 20 point shopping list of demands for cyclists is escalating the war on the motorists
STEVE MCNAMARA LTDA General Secretary
CYCLE
CONFLICT
More readers than the rest put together! 20 AUGUST 2013 | TAXI 3
impact on the majority.
I recently wrote to the Secretary of
State for Transport, Patrick
McLouglin, requesting that he reject
the cycle lobby calls for the
decriminalisation of Advanced Stop
Lines (ASLs) which would have
enabled Transport for London (TfL)
to issue tickets via CCTV. I was
pleased to receive a response
informing “That DFT has no plans to
change the enforcement regime for
either ASLs or mandatory cycle lanes”.
However, since then, TfL have now
officially written to the minister
with a long shopping list of
demands for cyclists that include a
request to create a specific civil
offence for the infringement of
an ASL by motorised traffic
(that’s you!).
Many of the requests on the list
are sensible, but a few including the
one about ASLs and additional cycle
lane restrictions would, if approved,
have a major impact on our trade;
and I have again written to the
minister requesting that he rejects
any further demands that would
escalate the war on the motorist. n
The recent Ride London event
polarised views on cycling
and provided the media with
an almost perfect divide of opinions;
the cyclists, who thought it was
fantastic, or just about everyone
else, who thought it was an
unnecessary and costly
inconvenience. It was interesting to
be reassured that cyclists are still
very much in the minority, and that
the vociferous cycling lobby groups
inevitably attract attention and
coverage far above what would
normally be expected of such a
small representative body.
It appears to me that there are two
types of cyclists, those who are
sensible and obey the rules of the
road and, what appears to me to be
the increasing majority, those who
don’t. The second group are also the
most likely to be the ones calling
for everything from lorry bans to
cycle exemptions from traffic
signals and one way streets.
They exaggerate their numbers and
importance and insist on trying to
force their minority demands on
Londoners, irrespective of how they impact on the majority -
The funny thing is it's not drivers who use cameras, is it? I wonder how many drivers bought Westminster Insurance and got a camera? And why's the cyclist black and the wigged fellah being so horrible and unsympathetic? Driver looks pissed. Ripped to the tits on molly.
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Went into a second-hand bookshop in Krakow, browsed for a while then picked up a copy of The Fairy Queen, looked inside the front cover and the 1920 nameplate was for an address on Leytonstone High Road, 50 feet from where I lived.
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Northbound London Bridge is tricky.
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Ah, Henley. So many cunts driving around the skinny roads there. I've had loads of dumb passing moves because the fuckwits never allow for the fact there might be slower traffic around a bend.
Cleared:
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His new film has been strongly criticised for racism and casual stereotypes because it shows Italians in white t shirts:
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/02/don-jon-italian-american-joseph-gordon-levitt
'Buffoonish Italian characters, attired in the usual tight white T-shirts' ... Tony Danza and Joseph Gordon Levitt in Don Jon
Fuggedabaahhhdid.
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On a frigging dual frigging carriage frigging way.
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Front page of the EDP yesterday had a big advert saying "MIND. 71% of cyclist casualties are caused by cars", just now I saw the same advert on a bus on Rampant Horse Street. It's a Norfolk County Council thing, very good idea, I was surprised by that. It's saying take care on the roads. Wonder where the money came from?
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'I can't help it if a cyclist falls over', says scientist accused of killing rider:
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That is a strange story.
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More details:
What's worst about this whole incident is that much of it seems to stem from a number of misunderstandings. According to motorcyclist Rene Towles present during the ride and later interviewed by the New York Times, the bikers who surrounded Lien's Range Rover after Lien rear-ended Cruz didn't intend to be violent at all.P
“No biker became aggressive with the driver after the incident,” said Mr. Towles, who belongs to a Brooklyn motorcycle club. “People were just trying to find out what just happened.”P
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We're The Millers. Sporadically amusing and Jennifer Aniston does a striptease twice for no clear reason. Other than she's a stripper, but the film would have made sense without her gyrating.
Casey: Did you think Lebron was [a real baby]? Oh no no, Lebron was a sack of herbs, oregano and basil.
David: Yeah, we were just treating it like it was a real baby. You know, for a summer project. It teaches the students that nothing ruins your life more than having children.
Rose: It also sends that message to teens, just stick to the big A.
David: Yeah… Anal.
Rose: Abstinence.
David: Abstinence! Neither makes a baby. -
Forget it. Sheesh, life's too short. One time I chased a driver down and demanded he apologise. He did, I didn't feel more than 2% better, let it go.
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Always look out for peds. They always have priority. Car drivers take no notice of this rule because they are cunts, cyclists are higher evolutionarily and should indulge their subjects with patience and forgiveness, even when they are woolly-headed, distracted, Danish-munching, mobile-chatting silly geese.
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More on that Henley fatality:
http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=1354657
Janick Fielding sounds like a terrible, indecent man.