The Fridays London Ride - Windows and Death - 29th December

[Andrij]

Lenin, a bicycle and Henri Labrouste! Can it get any better?

A listing of Leninist-Stalinist crimes against their people?

 

[ianmac62]

A listing of Leninist-Stalinist crimes against their people?

Yep, one has to wonder, in a non-Marxist way, how different Russia, the world and the twentieth century would have been if either of the bike crashes - in Geneva or in Paris - had proved fatal for Lenin.

In the cemetery at the bottom of my street is the grave of Violet Gibson, "the woman who shot Mussolini". At point-blank range, she grazed the bridge of his nose. Would Italy etc ... have been different if the bullet had been an inch nearer?

 

[Recycle]

Would Italy etc ... have been different if the bullet had been an inch nearer?

Does that qualify as a miss or a close pass?

 

[dellzeqq]

A friend of Tim H
Abbe M
Adam B
Adrian C
Alice L
Amelia D
Andrew Br
Andrij B
Anne H
Brian L
Cate R
Charlie B
Charlotte B
Chris B
Chris By
Clive B
Dan P
David M
Davy S
Diana
Eddie C
Els V
Gail G
Geraldine M
Grace W
Grahame D
Helen S
Iain C
Ian McS
Ian S
Jenny M
Joan A
Jocelyn C S
John B
John G
Julia B
Julia R
Julian N
Julie G
Katharina S
Kilian F
Kim T
Liz Bt
Louise M
Marc C
Marilyn B
Mark G
Mark P
Martin B
Martin S
Martin T
Martin W
Michael A
Mick D
Miki Y
Miranda S
Moses A
Olaf S
Pamela W
Paul R
Paul Rb
Peter L
Peter M
Philip K
Rebecca O-B
Rebecca T
Ronald R
Ross C
Ruth L
Sandra S
Sig E
Sonia W
Stephen O
Stephen T
Steve W
Stuart A
Stuart G
Susie F
Tacey L
Tilman B
Tim H
Titus H
TJ A
Tom B
Veronique F
Xi C

now closed..........

 

[mmmmartin]

In the cemetery at the bottom of my street is the grave of Violet Gibson, "the woman who shot Mussolini".

I'm not sure I ought to come on this ride. I am actually a bit of a thicko.

 

[subaqua]

I'm not sure I ought to come on this ride. I am actually a bit of a thicko.

So am I , so don't worry.

 

[Recycle]

I'm not sure I ought to come on this ride. I am actually a bit of a thicko.

+1
They can speak slower for us.

 

[dellzeqq]

 

[slowmotion]

You need at least an MA to understand the previous post.

 

[User10571]

What's the problem?
It makes perfect sense.....

 

[mmmmartin]

I see we won't have to stare in disbelief at the grade one listed health centre that looks like an abandoned warehouse. Does Helen know we'll be peering at her undershaft? (fnaar fnaar)

 

[ianmac62]

Just come across a reference to Lenin cycling in London. On September 24th 1902 he wrote from his lodgings near King's Cross Road to his mother in Russia, "The weather has been surprisingly good ... Nadya and I have cycled round a fair number of neighbouring districts and found very fine places." (Andrew Rothstein, Lenin in Britain, 1970, p15)

 

[clarion]

On the subject of DETH, I see that this exhibition:
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/death-a-self-portrait.aspx
is on till 24 February at the Wellcome Collection on Euston Road. Next associated event is a full day of feature films about Death on 19 January.

 

[dellzeqq]

I see we won't have to stare in disbelief at the grade one listed health centre that looks like an abandoned warehouse. Does Helen know we'll be peering at her undershaft? (fnaar fnaar)

I gather the Finsbury Health Centre didn't do it for you?

Actually, if you look at it through half-closed eyes it does have some charm. It's just an unpalatable fact that flat roofed, white rendered buildings with steel windows go off a bit after a while. And that, for whatever reason, the tiling is and was always rubbish. And sitting at the front desk was like being in an oven.

 

[ianmac62]

It's just an unpalatable fact that flat roofed, white rendered buildings with steel windows go off a bit after a while.

Here's one I snapped while pedalling around Germany this summer: