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fossyant

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
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South Manchester
stowie said:
Hang about... wasn't this show supposed to be about celebrities pitting their skills in a remote jungle or something? And this is now going to be located in Wales? I mean, I am sure it will be exciting to see if the celebrities will be able to manage the 6 mile journey from the castle to Rhyl McDonalds, but it just doesn't seem to have the same air of adventure as the Australian Jungle.

And they may have to relocate again? Where to? Basildon? Maybe they could locate to Milton Keynes and challenge the celebrities to navigate successfully through the bike paths without going round and round in circles. Because I never managed it....
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They won't survive a trip to Rhyl McDonalds - they will die of food poisoning. Vile filthy store. I have unfortunately been once. :laugh:
 
mjr

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
Location
mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
stowie said:
Maybe they could locate to Milton Keynes and challenge the celebrities to navigate successfully through the bike paths without going round and round in circles. Because I never managed it....
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Milton Keynes's redways make perfect sense: you just need to remember that the Horizontal routes run SW-NE and the Vertical routes run NW-SE, both at roughly 1km spacing, but only the even numbers have redways alongside, plus Horiztonal 5, H9, V7, V11 and the "high" end of H7, and there's a gap in V10 between H9 and H10 and the grid sort of squashes into where V5 should be where it doesn't exist higher than H4, while National 51 follows H8 and National 6 follows V6, except both National routes have huge kinks in them so they visit the city centre near (H5,V7) and Sustrans can say all the city is within 3 miles of the NCN.

Oh and then there's the 1970s network of routes which failed because they're too slow and convoluted to ride, that meander roughly halfway between most of the 1km grid of fast motor roads and join up the district centres directly but are basically impossible to navigate unless you know the names of the district centres that you'll pass through and no-one has spun or stolen a route sign... or you have a map...

No, you're right, it's madness and I'd probably not find my way around if I hadn't grown up riding into it! I bet they're not giving redway directions to the covid test centres!
 
stowie

stowie

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mjr said:
Milton Keynes's redways make perfect sense: you just need to remember that the Horizontal routes run SW-NE and the Vertical routes run NW-SE, both at roughly 1km spacing, but only the even numbers have redways alongside, plus Horiztonal 5, H9, V7, V11 and the "high" end of H7, and there's a gap in V10 between H9 and H10 and the grid sort of squashes into where V5 should be where it doesn't exist higher than H4, while National 51 follows H8 and National 6 follows V6, except both National routes have huge kinks in them so they visit the city centre near (H5,V7) and Sustrans can say all the city is within 3 miles of the NCN.

Oh and then there's the 1970s network of routes which failed because they're too slow and convoluted to ride, that meander roughly halfway between most of the 1km grid of fast motor roads and join up the district centres directly but are basically impossible to navigate unless you know the names of the district centres that you'll pass through and no-one has spun or stolen a route sign... or you have a map...

No, you're right, it's madness and I'd probably not find my way around if I hadn't grown up riding into it! I bet they're not giving redway directions to the covid test centres!
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I used to get the train to MK Central and then hire one of those share bikes to get to an office there. Around 3 miles by car. First time I did it, I looked at my google timeline and I had basically just circled the office for about half an hour. The only things that seemed signposted with any degree of accuracy were "local shops". "Local shops but farking where?" I would shout into the void. Still, useful to know where to get energy drinks so I didn't dehydrate as I did laps around MK.
 
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PK99

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SW19
stowie said:
I used to get the train to MK Central and then hire one of those share bikes to get to an office there. Around 3 miles by car. First time I did it, I looked at my google timeline and I had basically just circled the office for about half an hour. The only things that seemed signposted with any degree of accuracy were "local shops". "Local shops but farking where?" I would shout into the void. Still, useful to know where to get energy drinks so I didn't dehydrate as I did laps around MK.
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This section of this thread is hereby awarded the CycleChat Annual Award for Most Creative Thread Diversion
 
stowie

stowie

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CanucksTraveller said:
Just had a concerned message from a distant great aunt, (let's call her Janice), she's something like 80 and very frail. She's frightened to death of catching Covid because it'll likely be the end of her so if you do see her she insists you stay well away, quite right too.

Her granddaughter "Ellie" is at Leicester University, where she's apparently been feeling a bit homesick. So Ellie's mother offered to go and get her from Leicester and bring her back home, (they live near me somewhere). The plan was for her to have some time with her Mum to get over being homesick, but she mentioned to her Mum that she also misses "Granny" (Janice), so the Mum suggests that they both go to visit Janice, which they did at the weekend just gone.
But they don't sit outside, no, they go in, and Ellie and her Mum go giving Janice big hugs all round, Janice says she couldn't say no because she felt bad to insist that Ellie keeps her distance, what with her being homsesick and all. They stayed for over an hour.

Anyway, you guessed it, on Monday Ellie developed Covid symptoms and is now waiting on a test result. Round of applause for that genius.
I'm not sure how many red flags she needed to make her stop and think.
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This is heartbreaking. I hope the test comes back negative.

It would be easy to say that Janice should know better (and taken as read that Ellie and Ellie's mother should know better). But if you are 80 and living alone, the sense of isolation must be huge during this time. I can easily see why Janice would take a risk.
 
mjr

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
Location
mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Tiers of a Clown / Three Tiers and 57'000 Funerals

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/Trump_ton/status/1315905784534962186
 
Rusty Nails

Rusty Nails

We remember
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Living in the slow lane
McWobble said:
It's quite wrong to assume that this sort of behaviour is limited to the young. I've seen no shortage of older people acting similarly - for that matter I'm still seeing lots of social visits to the houses around here - when all indoors mixing between households has been banned. Again, that's something that all demographics are indulging in. The resurgence in CV19 can't be blamed on just the young - or indeed on any single group.
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I have read in various sources that the resurgence in the past month or more has hit different age groups at different levels, with the highest increase for those aged 16-29 years.

It is now starting to hit older age groups. We literally are all in this together.

I don't asume that only the young behave badly, but I don't see many examples of people in their 50s/60s/70s dancing in the streets outside pubs and clubs like those in the video shown, so that sort of specific behaviour is mostly limited to the young.

Yes, there are idiots of all ages getting together in groups that risk spreading the virus. Older people just do it in different ways.

Nowhere in my post did I attribute blame to any age group, just made an observation that there is nothing morally or socially special about this generation of young compared to the present older generation or previous generations of young people. As a boomer, who is used to being blamed for many of the countries recent problems I couldn't resist the cynical/sarcastic response.
 
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