monkey wrote:

At some point people will be sick of the lies and sick of him. Might take a while though.

They dont seem to though. Like the trump, the more he lies, the more support he seems to pull.

My main worry is that apart from the likes of Trump and Johnson being in power, it only encourages similar fuckers in other countries. And these pricks all seem to back each other. Trump backed Johnson. Orbán backed Trump and Netanyahu. Bolsonaro sent nice letters to Trump. Fucking on and on, its depressing.

All is well again. Great Britain is getting a great boat. That will impress the simple minded colonials.

I like big boats and I cannot lie

I remember William Hague writing a piece about getting a new royal yacht.  Pure colonialist wank fantasy.

Honestly I want out

Its natural that people like Johnson will hark back to the ways of the Empire, they never left it.

Boats and hoes!

Apparantly we don't have enough fighter planes for the aircraft carrier we built. It cost something like £5bn.

I’ve got an update on the LTNs on my road. I’ll post a pic tomorrow or Tuesday.

In short
They have admitted that it is causing an “issue” for the emergency services. So are removing the planters and bollards and replacing it with Anpr till the end of the consultation period. Gonna be a massive money maker as every sat nav still sends people down my road as if there is no LTN.

Then. Cunning Merton council. They say we can feedback online. They don’t give us a url. Just an area on their clusterfuck of a website. Me and others obviously go to find it and it’s not there.

If I was pushing an agenda like they are then this is exactly what I would do.

It’s not going to work though. I’m going to print my letter and when the URL does go live I’m going to print it off at work with an accompanying latter and post it to everyone on my road. Two can play that game.

The argument is that it means more traffic in the non-LTN places (even if less overall).  If you suddenly have traffic jams outside your house, and often poorer main-road houses getting more pollution, then it's not wholly unreasonable to be a bit aggrieved, and declaring NIMBYism is arguably unfair too.

I mean maybe? I'm not sure it's a meaningful distinction though cos there's not exactly a shopping list of competing LTN implementations.

Yeah I've heard the same. But I suspect the people who are complaining are just nimbies who won't come out and say it or admit it to thselves.

For me the first few weeks of lockdown 1, hardly a car in the street, kids and people reclaiming roads, was a life changing event. Since then, congestion has got way worse and not because of LTNs. It's because people are driving way more to get out.

When the pandemic's over, and public transport is undoubtedly safe, I want LTNs slapped all over the fucking place. I want that time back. It will work out better. There must be pain in the meantime. Better that than starvation and the eventual turning of our planet into Venus. It. must. Happen.

That and a million other things. Glass bottles for everything, no plastic on veg, no plastic on meat. Grab the veg, put it in your bag. Go to the butcher, get a cut of meat. Trade in your empty bottle for a full one. It was like that growing up for me. Fucking irrational shite consumerism, we're fucked because of it.

Fuck people's feelings. Also, go to your local school down the road, fuck off with your school run. Some kids spend less time outdoors than prison inmates. I was shocked at that stat
7% or something.

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nick_md wrote:

Sweet, happy with that. Sorry again Sparks. I am also officially calling out Fossildog for shit tier xenophobia, what a cowardly piece of shit. Come in here with teenager level insults then do one. I don't have enough knowledge/time to counter but still want to point my finger and call the fucker out.

You don't have enough knowledge/time to counter. So you get all salty, rally the troops against something that you don't fully understand. Feelz over facts. Here is a crazy idea, why not take a bit of time to break down what I posted and let me know exactly where I am wrong? That would be the mature, adult thing to do? Easy to reeeeeeee against something, a bit harder to deconstruct it and treat this place like an actual forum where ideas are voiced and counter arguments are made without playing the man and not the ball.

You are clearly upset over what I posted, why not close your eyes and concentrate really, really, really hard, wipe the tear from your eye, blow your nose and try to identify where the bad man touched you?

When was that even from?

Has he been on pause all this time?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57338465

This is interesting.