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StreetCowboy

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  1. A few nights back, I had cycled out to buy beer and bread, thinking that while I was about it, I would stop for dinner and a few pints at the pub next door to the mini-market. You can imagine my dismay when I discovered that the supermarket had shut up shop, leaving us nothing but a couple of 7-11s, some local convenience stores, and a few greengrocers that close before 8 pm. And all the pubs and restaurants… So I set off to Centrepoint, and the slightly larger supermarket, but took a sudden unexpected dismount at a pothole that had been lurking under a puddle at the get-away from some traffic lights -seen below photographed in sunnier and drier conditions No harm done, I bought a fancy loaf of bread and two six-packs to lash on the rear rack, and I was back in the pub for sardine masala and three pints of Guinness quicker than you can say “Lucky the lights were red”
  2. As far as I am aware, you can ride a bicycle anywhere that you want to, and it is a matter for the police to prosecute you if that is against the law, not casual passers-by. Sadly, traffic planners may not understand what is safe, or unsafe, for cyclists, and that issue may not be high on their list of priorities in any case. "Regardless of whether our road is the safest for you to ride on, by posting a sign prohibiting it, we can claim absolution from any accident that you suffer on our road" My view is that we all have a duty to drive or cycle, walk, pogo-stick or space-hopper as best we can, and any accident that is down to our negligence cannot be completely absolved by posting a sign saying "you are not welcome here". However, in the absence of fault or carelessness by others, it is hard to claim against them. SC
  3. As a law abiding person, I trust the judges to make sure that conviction is sound more than I trust the police to make sure that they get find the right man
  4. That's a great point, Swissie. Maybe it is time for internet life to cast away from the mundane, the temporal, and focus only on the Virtual, on what goes down in the Virtual World, whether that be this forum, or Youtube, or anything else that does not require a relationship with the temporal world of concrete real life. The Cycling Forum will not be going that way.
  5. Do you have a ranking for that? As a big-spending Big-Nose, I have found Thailand quite welcoming, albeit potentially bureaucratic, and I am not sure how people from neighbouring countries on whom the economy relies for cheap labour find the bureaucracy SC
  6. Don't tell him, Pike. He might suspect we all think that.
  7. The concern is not that people are arrested for doing illegal acts, rather that it is considered news-worthy because of their race. If the new read "Last week XX Thais and YY Foreigners were arrested for ??? offence, and yet the ratio of population is AAA / BBB compared to XXX / YYY", then their race might be relevant. Without those statistics, the headlines are just rant-bate.
  8. At works nights' out, I frequently meet colleagues who are far more familiar with whisky then I am. I generally don't drink whisky, and I do not feel that a failing on my part, nor a strength on theirs. I do not envy people who can enthuse over different cheeses, or whiskies, or tripes. Like haggis, shark's fin is an acquired taste, and like whisky, I do not think that I would be any the better for acquiring a taste for shark's fin, and I am sure that the world would be worse.
  9. There's "like", and "appreciate" I buy strong-flavoured commodity cheese, which I think is based on Cheddar. I live on my own, and my thoughts of soldiering my way through a whole round of camembert, over a few weeks from "fresh and tasty" to "more tasty" to "really quite ripe" and "only a tiny morsel remaining" - well, I think I have thought them too much already. Maybe I have a Tiger left in the fridge to wash those thoughts away SC
  10. Good on ye, Charlie; you're doing your best to keep a moribund forum this side of euthanasia. Scotland beating UAE is a good result - and perhaps one that helps give us a peer group with whom we can compete and improve: - Netherlands - Afghanistan - UAE ....
  11. As I was dressing for dinner, I thought it sounded like rain outside, but all was clear when I looked out the window. As I was waiting for the lift, there was no sign of rain on the pool. As I was unlocking my bike and putting on my helmet, the rain sounded heavier, and sure enough, by the time I left the car park the rain front had reached us, and I was in no mood to cycle any further than the pubs across the road. Dinner and two pints later, there’s a veritable storm blowing, which I hope will not last more than a couple more. There was a cat sheltering under my bike; I hope it was able to keep clear of the chain.
  12. Show me any of the ten pressed men who are better, but until then he’s Greater Over Average than Ten.
  13. Sex in the afternoon is haram during Ramadan, except in Aberdeen, when Ramadan falls in Winter. This post was brought to you by the Aberdeen Muslim Estate Agents’ Association
  14. If no-one else appoints one, a volunteer is better than ten pressed men
  15. I don’t really understand the seasons here; in the wet season it rains heavily most afternoons, and in the dry season, it sometimes rains in the afternoon. And we get two of each every year. I could maybe find on my Strava records the heaviest rain I’ve cycled in, and the worst floods that I’ve cycled through, but I am not sure that data and facts would contribute much to the tale.
  16. Back in the day, I moved into my apartment, and both the tumble dryer and washing machine suffered problems. I replaced the washing machine with an Electrolux, which I hope will last till I move out, and the drier may survive with some special operating instructions and work-arounds till the same date.
  17. In answer to the OP: No. If you do want to have a debate, I suggest that you propose a motion, such as: ”People who identify as cats should be ignored, and if they become troublesome, incarcerated”. Poorly managed threads give our neighbours and friends the opportunity to display their prejudice and ignorance, which is not in their best interests.
  18. I think many people dream of shooting the American president, but only in the USA is it a constitutional right, albeit still a criminal act.
  19. When the military refuses to co-operate with the government, we call that a military coup, and citizens with muskets or tommy-guns would be as well keeping on the sidelines.
  20. The reason Americans are allowed to own guns is so that they can overthrow the government. Generally, the courts take a dim view of people that use them for that purpose. So you need to do more than just shoot the president.
  21. I like to walk around the house naked, but the policeman said "Aye, fair enough, but you have to do it indoors"
  22. I think it is interesting that other peoples' alleged inadequacies excite so much ire against them. I am not aware of him attacking or belittling anyone, he only occasionally intrudes onto other threads, he posts interesting alternative music videos. He posts the way that he posts. If you are not happy with that, you can ignore him - your happiness is not his problem
  23. when there is an active terrorist insurrection funded by donors from the the USA, it is challenging to prevent violence. Were shooting incidents more common in Northern Ireland at that time (per capita) where there was an ongoing terrorist situation, or in the USA?
  24. To be fair, he generally starts his own topics, and you can ignore them if you prefer.
  25. Cool in the kaftan, Love and Peace, man!
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