Be Excellent To Each Other

Awesome pics Mali. All that's needed is a KTM 660.

Thanks, although I'd love to know what I'm advertising on my chest.That's the Cam Gill Road out of Kettlewell*. As we cycled along it, lots of cyclists coming the other way were wishing us luck and calling us a little mad. We weren't quite sure why. "Jesus fuck" were the first words I used when I saw where the road went. That was an ace day out in the Dales, mind you. route available on request.


*"The first and most obvious act of cowardice in Tour de France 2014 stage one will happen in Wharfedale, when the peloton sweeps over the bridge at Kettlewell. At this point any self-respecting cyclist turns right up Cam Gill Road for the brutal masterpiece known to cyclists as Park Rash (bit.ly/1nmoTjU), a climb of 303m in little more than 2km.

Outsiders could be tempted to think that here is a neat short-cut to catching the Tour in two places – Kettlewell then Middleham. But take care: this is a monster. You would be well-advised to stop in Kettlewell for a final espresso with lots of sugar before continuing. A short, nasty hill gives a mere taste of pleasures to come, then you see the valley end in a vertical cliff, up which some idiot has built a tarmac road at gradients that officially hit 25% but seem steeper."

Meh. To be fair the aforementioned posts were to wind Malc and Curio up but to be actually serious, that just looks, and sounds, utterly awesome.

I'd love to have a go on a £4000 bike; my son-in-law's a keen cyclist and is looking to spend an unfeasible amount of cash on his next steed. I myself am moving office out of Manchester to Knutsford, and this will mean I'm in "cycling range"... I can get an aces bike tax-free on that scheme people talk about so, poacher-turned-gamekeeper, I'll be getting my fat arse on a pushbike saddle soon! I refuse to wear lycra though...

Thank goodness Wullie's gone quiet else he would've had my man-vegetables for garters by now in this thread.

Can we dump all this cycling bullshit in its own thread. There are few enough threads on this forum without self-righteous political bullshit already, turning B&B into this politicised cycling crap is just about enough. Mr dave is correct, cycling on a major road and holding up traffic is a bad thing, but only if there are cycle routes. Otherwise it is a valid use of the road, and car drivers do not have right of way over a bike, simply because it is going slower than the speed limit .

Yeah charming. No-one's even mentioned or remotely alluded to politics, not once, so I'm afraid that's all in your head. You think cycling in the middle of a busy road is "valid use of the road", but others disagree with your opinion, which is far from indisputable fact. We don't all have to agree with you on pain of being booed out of this, or any other thread here. So deal with it.

Don't worry I've finished my bit of work and am going out, so you can have B&B all to yourself. I wait with baited breath for the witty, apolitical gems of wisdom and discussion that you'll doubtless initiate and sustain...

It's probably not advertising, but a slogan along the lines of "Keep calm and go fuck yourselves, motorists."

And possibly the most dangerous. I did a week of project work in London a few months ago, doing network migrations in a well known chain of phone shops. I had up to 4 shops to visit each day and it was like the Wild West a lot of the time .... or Italy. Cyclists and moped riders were the worst, they seemed to have no sense of danger and there was a disproportionately high number of them compared to most cities in which I've worked. Scared the crap out of me.

Aeons ago, I cycled to work for around 30 years in Manchester, and only got knocked off twice, though there were many near misses. And I took my cycling proficiency test when I was about 10, so maybe that got me into good habits early on.

Perhaps part of the problem with cyclists is that they don't have to take any kind of test, anyone can buy a bike and go straight on the road, and if they aren't also car drivers, maybe they don't understand how much of a hazard they are to motorists.

Like a number of people here, I've been both a car driver and cyclist, and have seen dangerous behaviour from both, as well as motorcyclists and pedestrians, so I think Rule 1 should be applicable for everyone.

As to why motorists hate cyclists, quite apart from when they break Rule 1, there's an interesting piece on the Beeb about the psychology behind it.

I recently read that there are only 4 escalators in the whole state of Wyoming. I asked a friend who lives out there if this was so, as I really want it to be true. He said that he couldn't think of any, but would keep count for me.

Your friend is amazing.

I'm not convinced counting to for is that big of a deal, Meems.

FTFY

I see from Facebook that the conspiracy theorists are having a whale of a time with Malaysian Airlines. Apparently the second plane (shot down) was actually the first (missing) plane being flown on a 'false flag' operation by the Americans, trying to make Putin look bad.

I do love articles like that. Always funny. I think at one point it said, "We all know it has already been conclusively proved that the plane was hijacked and landed at an airfield..."

It is conclusive! I read it on a blog!

And now I've read it on a forum so it's definitely conclusive.

It's not conclusive until someone says "empirically".

Yeah, I read all that stuff. Nobody seemed to have an answer as to where all the passengers from MH17 have gone though...

They are working on Duke Nukem Forever.

FTFY

FTFZ

FTFG

Fans of the English language do we like either of these sentences?

"... it is possible but not probable."

"... it is a possibility but unlikely to be probable"

I like the first..

How about

"...it is possible but unlikely to be probable"
"...it is possible but unlikely"
"...nah guv, no chance"
"...WHAAAAT?"
"<teeth suck>"
"...nae bother, it'l happen tomorrow, I promise"

The first of the two is much better than the second; 'unlikely to be probable' is a horrible phrase in so many ways. 'Possible but not probable' seems a perfectly sensible and efficient phrasing.

The woman across from me is having lunch. This is the story so far.

A glass bottle of water, with a resealable top.
A bag with at least 1ltr of green gloop in a large jam jar.
Two whole, raw, unwashed carrots.
Some tablets from an unmarked little plastic pot.
A vial of some sort, from which she drops a drop of purple liquid onto a tablet and then eats the tablet.

Thought as much. Sensible and efficient, like my love making.

odd...

There's a significant amount of Palestinien (-ian?) flags around Bradford. Huge stickers on cars, and flags from the windows. George Galloway deigned to turn up in the city at the weekend and say that it should be twinned with Gaza. (Because he's a fucking idiot, mainly). There's men shaking buckets at road junctions for Islamic Relief and loads more than I've seen before.

"Jesus, fuck". Follow the wall. This is not the whole hill.

EDIT: I've just planned a 100 mile ride taking this in. I'll need someone to stand at the top of hills with newspapers and water for me.

Is it childish to be amused by the news as they talk about fracking this and frack that

Is this right: the Greater Manchester ambulance service was sold/taken over by a bus company!?

Non-emergency I think, picking people up for appointments and whatnot.

There's this new thing they've come up with, a 'search engine' I think they call it? Looks pretty good.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ma ... r-19883403

It's not the emergency service they've taken over but the other part:

I'm driving and stopped at the lights so less of your lip, son.

Seems they undercut the rival bid by the actual ambulance service and then turned out to be shit:

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... me-7247960

Bloody hell that's pretty embarrassing - 54% didn't make their appointments and 60% weren't picked up on time. That'll surely put a strain on the hospitals affected by this service whilst they are waiting for their patients to turn up.

But I suppose that's back-door privatisation for you.

would be interesting to see what the service was like before.

Yeah, for all we know that could be a better service than the one they had.

Just got emailed this



At work so wont visit the page but its been gone for years and seems strange for it to restart like this ?

(Also wasnt this one of the sites where various US agencies were trying to get user info from ?)

It's been back for a while, I logged into it last month sometime then had a poke around and forgot about it.

I had not seen - at the time it had a much better selection of books (written and Audio versions) than any other torrent site although i guess all of the others going or being blocked in some way often just help out TPB becoming bigger

Had a look through one of those "crazy shit on google earth" lists that get posted on facebook this lunchtime. Had all the usual weird lines in the Nevada desert etc... and then the next picture was the Whipsnade zoo chalk lion, which is about 10 miles away from my house. That was a little weird.

"I hope that you had a nice Eid". This is a perfectly fine thing to say, isn't it?

Too bloody hot here.....

I made a google calendar reminder to send the turkish phrase "Bayraminiz mubarek oslun" to my old Team Leader where I used to work as she was always dead pleased that I actually paid some attention to the Muslim calendar etc.

She sent me something back in Turkish which probably means - "Cock off Cock face"

Or "put your cock in my face".

London next week! for a one hour meeting! Then back again! Sorry, Troops, I can't probably do lunch or anything as I'll be running up the road back to Kings Cross from Holborn (which is pronounce "Ho-Burn" much to my amusement), and I'll have people in tow.

Say you forgot something and ditch the losers.

Just got tickets for 'Avenue Q' when it comes to Oxford again in early August. Saw it back in 2012 and loved every second so looking forward to seeing it again lest I forget what the Internet is for.