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Fucktarded toilet paper rags, including the Torygraph and their anti-scottish rhetoric, eat humble pie and issue apology. Cunts.
Daily Mail apologises over flag story
Um, it's not anti Scottish, it's anti SNP. Unless you think that bunch of divisive morons speak for everyone in Scotland?
Makes you wonder why anyone would bother tuning in any more. Looking at fit birds gave F1 the glamour.Formula 1: 'Grid girls' will not be used at races this season
Good to see that finally women can do what they like with their own bodies. Apart from stand in front of a racing car for an hour, in return for a decent wage and full paddock access to the race.
Makes you wonder why anyone would bother tuning in any more. Looking at fit birds gave F1 the glamour.
The racing's pretty fucking dire, so what else is there to tune in for?
Also a bit ironic that they are worried that grid girls are an outdated concept when they jet around the world racing cars that get 2 mpg...
When someone moves something from a place in a room its always been to another room without telling you before you've looked for it (including the kitchen bin)
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Just knocked a guy of his motorbike, pulled out off a roundabout and didn’t see him, he swerved and went down, but I didn’t make contact with him. Still shaking now.
He was ok even though a bit shaken. Not had an accident in years, FFS
Just knocked a guy of his motorbike, pulled out off a roundabout and didn’t see him, he swerved and went down, but I didn’t make contact with him. Still shaking now.
He was ok even though a bit shaken. Not had an accident in years, FFS
How was his bike? Insurance claim?
Bet he had a few choice words.
Hope you're not too shaken up @Edmond.
The fact that it's so easy to miss people is the main reason I don't have a motorbike and why I tend to ride my MTB on the pavement - penalty for something so simple on the road is potentially so high if cars are involved.
In other news: I've not pooed in about five days.![]()
Yep. There's definitely that. (Made the same decision after doing my CBT at university). There's also the times that people see you, notice that you're on a bike and then pull out / make their maneuver anyway.I did my CBT a few years ago and after that day i decided that i didn't want to ride, as people just don't see you.
Yep. There's definitely that. (Made the same decision after doing my CBT at university). There's also the times that people see you, notice that you're on a bike and then pull out / make their maneuver anyway.
There's something about entitlement with British drivers that makes a significant proportion of them think that they don't have to share the road with anything non engine-driven.
Despite the fact that it's utterly nuts and empirically a more dangerous activity, it was much more pleasant on motorbikes and bikes in Vietnam because everyone's in the same boat. Even here!
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Not got a lot of experience of road riding in lots of countries. Got bags in Britain, some in France, a little in Germany, a fair bit in America and most of my holiday in Vietnam and Cambodia.Not sure why you think its a British drivers thing; they're better than most.
Not got a lot of experience of road riding in lots of countries. Got bags in Britain, some in France, a little in Germany, a fair bit in America and most of my holiday in Vietnam and Cambodia.
Vietnam and Cambodia, whilst probably being the most dangerous, was far and away the most pleasant experience. By a huge huge margin.
Everyone's in the same boat. Everyone rides bikes or motorbikes and makes allowances for exactly that. Small mishaps are greeted with a smile or a laugh because everyone knows shit happens. Cars are a problem (massively, there'd be almost zero traffic if it wasn't for cars - put in that context it's starkly obvious how much space cars physically take up compared to the number of people they move around, also how dangerous they are compared to all other forms of transport) but even then the occupants probably cycle or ride motorbikes too (or at least have a lot of prior experience) so there's only one word when you get over the initial fear of the chaos: Beautiful.
France, Germany are their own thing. It's not great riding with traffic, but meh. America is setup for cars almost exclusively - to be fair, you're taking your life into your own hands there, but it's consistently uncaring in America - so you know exactly what you're letting yourself in for and amend where you think is OK to be.
Britain is the ONLY place where I deliberately get "buzzed" by drivers. Where I get abuse off drivers. Where people have clearly seen I'm on a bike and have made the choice that I mean less than them and moved out in front of me giving me no time to stop and then shouted at me for the inevitable collision. (Twice).
The press doesn't help - setting up an "us and them" - but we're us and them in so many of our walks of life that it's hardly surprising. It's not that we're technically bad drivers - far from it - but we're cultural arseholes.