This blog is parked up for the foreseeable future…
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In an emergency...
Nope…just for motorists! Presumably they know the effects of the fumes. Seen at a supermarket petrol station.
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The religious wars continue…
The Daily Volk has been whingeing about bicycles a lot recently but their latest moan is about speed bumps to slow down bicyclists on a back alley in Islington. Apparently local pedestrians have complained about the danger posed by “speeding cyclists rampaging” down the street. Apparently.
from The Daily Mail, 25th Sept 2009
Hells teeth…! Just look at them, would you? Pedestrians and cyclists battling for space on a thronging suburban thoroughfare… LOOK! Look at those “rampaging” cyclists!
Can “throng” be used as a verb?
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Cracking post (as usual) over at Crap Cycling which I urge everyone to read. It inspired me to dig further into The Bicycle Helmet Initiative Trust – which I’d never heard of either… This charitable body that glories in the acronym BHIT - bit of a sick joke for a bicycle safety charity! – is apparently leading the campaign to make bicycle helmets compulsory for under-16s in the UK.
There’s an old adage which enjoins researchers – whether investigative or academic – to “follow the money”. In this case, a quick rummage through the past few years of accounts registered at the Charities Commission reveals substantial donations from the following:
David Coulthard (ex-Formula 1 racing driver, apparently)
Silverstone Motorsport (major UK motor-racing circuit)
ConocoPhillips (Big Oil! Perhaps best known in Europe as Jet)
Nestle (Major international purveyor of processed food)
Bulmer Charitable Trust (Cider – yes, cider! – brewery’s welfare fund)
I really wish I was making this up!
Marks & Spencer (retail giant)
The taxpayer via the DfT
Jo Brand (Comedienne…no, really! )
Oh…and the Freemasons!
I can offer no explanation that wouldn’t sound like a conspiracy theory.
But to back up a bit…I really wish Crap Cycling had comments turned on!
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“How desirable her seat was, how charming the invitation of her slim encircling handle-arms, how unaccountably competent her pump resting warmly against her rear thigh!”
The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien
Just check out that chrome. What? Whaaaat…?
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Expect things to remain quiet for a little while. I’m busy elsewhere.
Details to follow…
