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Yup…been there.
r:B
I really do hate to sound like a cheerleader for the BBC but someone has to…here we go again, more armchair bicycling.
Anyway, I was pleased to note that the BBC has picked up on the apparently growing number of ghost bikes appearing in London… To be honest, until now, I was only aware of this phenomenon through the Yehuda Moon comics.
It is less than a year since we lost a young friend of the family and anything that might prevent other families experiencing such a tragedy has to be both welcomed and applauded. As the anniversary comes around in a few months, I might consider doing this myself…
Story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8106747.stm
r:B
Yeah yeah yeah…I’m still breathing and all that.
D’y'know what really rattles my bars?
When piss poor pop products marketing, erm, piss poor pop products manage to provoke those bottom-dwelling, Daily Mail-reading elements to complain about “health and safety”….
BBC story here – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8104658.stm
I’m not sure if pixie-like pop star Duffy regularly rides a bicycle or not but it should have been clear to any idiot with a single functioning eye and half a brain that the adenoidal diva’s post-gig, late night cycle ride was entirely fantastical.
How else would you explain her coasting through a supermarket on a tricked out fixie…unless – gasp! – they cheated and swapped in a free-wheel just to cash in on the cachet of the fixie look!
The failed complaint appears to have made no mention of the fact she was helmetless. Why? Because it isn’t (yet) a legal requirement!
Advertising Standards Authority adjudication here: http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/Public/TF_ADJ_46418.htm
Ironically – and this is perhaps what is wrong with the advertising regulations - noone thought fit to challenge the advert for promoting a product that is known to rot your teeth and make you fat. Coke that is, not Duffy!
Personally, I would have thought this represented a far more clear and present danger! Again, Coke, not Duffy!
Indeed, the health implications include diabetes, osteoporosis, hypokalaemia, gastroesophageal reflux, kidney disease and even gout. Must be true, even the Daily Mail says so…
That’s not to mention the environmental and socio-political reasons to avoid “the real thing”…
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Right on…
r:B
