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[Tom]

The Oxford onesies (all these pro-pollution groups call themselves one-something) are going mental because Oxford Council have recently closed off a few rat runs.

Here's what they did in orange. The grey bits are what have been there for years, some decades. You can drive on the white roads to get around. You can drive into the grey areas, and the orange areas. You just can't drive through an area - you have to come back out and use the white roads to get from one side to the other.



It's the end of the world.

 

[BloodOmen]

 

[Lamp]

You don't need a parachute to go skydiving
You need a parachute to go skydiving twice.

 

[Overdriven]

You don't need a parachute to go skydiving
You need a parachute to go skydiving twice.

Same with Bungee jumping.

 

[Scouse]

Same with Bungee jumping.

Disagree - you can dive into the sky without a parachute, but you can't "bungee" jump without a bungee.

That's just "jumping".

Off a bridge.



(Unless we're saying a large number of suicide victims are just failed bungee jumpers?)

 

[Raven]

Grunewald: Blast at bomb storage site sparks Berlin wildfire

Firefighters could not get near the blaze due to sporadic explosions at the munitions facility.

www.bbc.co.uk

Thank goodness we aren't the only country to put stuff in stupid places.

 

[Lamp]

I've never done bungee jumping. I like my retinas

 

[Scouse]

Pollution: 'Forever chemicals' in rainwater exceed safe levels

From Antarctica to Tibet, long-lasting chemicals in rainwater are well above US safety guidelines.

www.bbc.co.uk

We are so fucked aren't we

 

[Raven]

Rewatching Star Trek NG

First episode.

Man in a dress
A god
chauvinism
Dead folk
Big fucking space jellyfish.
none-science, Wezly getting wet on the holo-deck, still wet outside, and so on.

Batshit crazy.

 

[Raven]

Actually, fuck it. If TNG can have giant space jellyfish, that can seemingly make matter out of thin air (including edibles), and have their own form of propulsion, then Discovery can have intergalactic mushrooms.

 

[Raven]

Or that one where they get utterly mortal on space booze.

 

[MYstIC G]

Actually, fuck it. If TNG can have giant space jellyfish, that can seemingly make matter out of thin air (including edibles), and have their own form of propulsion, then Discovery can have intergalactic mushrooms.

It's Burnham that's the problem here, not the mushrooms

 

[Scouse]

Very long read:

Revealed: how climate breakdown is supercharging toll of extreme weather

Guardian analysis shows human-caused global heating is driving more frequent and deadly disasters across the planet, in most comprehensive compilation to date

www.theguardian.com

 

[Overdriven]

I mean global warming is a myth so whatever.

 

[Scouse]

Network Rail managers accept 4% pay rise that could ease strike disruption

Government seizes on ‘fantastic news’ that should allow skeleton services during planned strikes

www.theguardian.com

Just a 10% pay cut then.

 

[Raven]

"The people already on very decent salaries not as badly affected by our country's continued implosion under a useless Tory government are happy with 4% pay increase" said a government spokesman, last night.

 

[Raven]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezSX1gviUKQ

 

[Embattle]

It’s time to ban private jets – or at least tax them to the ground | Akin Olla

Kylie Jenner’s 17-minute private jet ride is a reminder that private jets are morally obscene and terrible for the climate. The planet can no longer afford these indulgences

www.theguardian.com

 

[BloodOmen]

 

[BloodOmen]

 

[Gwadien]

Archie Battersbee: No parent must go through this again - family

The 12-year-old's family say they were "stripped of all our rights" in a legal battle with doctors.

www.bbc.co.uk

This is really sad but I don't know why it needs to be plastered all over the news.

To me it sounds like a pretty clear cut case to pull the plug, as horrible as it may sounds maybe the parents are trying to distract from the reason why he died - his mum has already said she thinks it's due to a tiktok 'challenge'.

 

[BloodOmen]

 

[Scouse]

Reported road casualties Great Britain: road user risk, 2020 data

www.gov.uk

 

[Scouse]

Cycling growth in UK at risk of being left behind by Europe, experts warn

Bicycle sales down by a quarter on pre-pandemic levels and electric bike takeup also stalling after a boom

www.theguardian.com

 

[BloodOmen]

View: https://youtu.be/dXQMtL2_woU

 

[Gwadien]

View: https://youtu.be/dXQMtL2_woU

Nah, these are better.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nvckip7qxk

 

[Scouse]

Any Freddies play the guitar?

I've had an acoustic-electric for a long time. I managed to play a few chords with it, then hurt my hand and never went back. Just picking it up again now and starting to play the old Rocksmith (2014) on it.

Any advice? Cool things I should look at?

 

[Embattle]

Cycling growth in UK at risk of being left behind by Europe, experts warn

Bicycle sales down by a quarter on pre-pandemic levels and electric bike takeup also stalling after a boom

www.theguardian.com

Didn't most exercise things go through a boom during the pandemic.

 

[Scouse]

Didn't most exercise things go through a boom during the pandemic.

Ebikes went through a boom, and it's continung in Europe. But in Blighty it's dying - the biggest obstacle being that we're (rightly) really scared of roads.

Europe's gone a lot further with segregated cycle lanes, proper cycle infrastructure etc. etc.

Went out for a ride last week - nearly all offroad. Took a shortcut back through a section of the A5 though as I was knackered. Someone threw an apple at me.

It fucking sucks cycling in Britain - and entitled drivers are the problem.

 

[Embattle]

I cycled to work for 15 years, quite frankly I found bellends in and on all forms of transport.