What impact does a local election ACTUALLY have? Does it have any effect on the next general election? I.e. let's say I vote green now and liberal in a general, does the one vote undo the other? If I want to vote green in the general do I need to vote green now?!

Police bikes have a few advantages over patrol cars, in a few areas of police work...and that's it. Beyond those few specific uses they're just not a very practical option for most police forces. End of the day they're just too expensive, because it always comes down to money at some level or other.

... if you are in that situation, is it even wise to get out the car? a civil conversation is not likely to happen, but if you did..... Does the other person have a weapon ??? I have a vid of a dick who, cut a long story short sped up behind me, over took and tried to block me. He has something ...

... but humans cause untold misery on our roads every single day. Precisely this. I'd add also the tranche of car drivers who now feel they can bully other road users and generally do what the feck they like - that level of entitlement that seems to be present now too. Driving a car on many roads ...

... in the automation of personal vehicles. Which will in turn improve safety for motorcyclists. Also, take the stats in balance with the reality of other non-automated road users. How many motorcyclists have been killed by human drivers in non-automated vehicles since 2016. Proportionally larger ...

... He implored me not to quit and “do what you can to make the next couple of swings”. He wasn’t able to give me definitive timeframes or promises, other that plans were afoot to reduce numbers out here PRIOR to end of production and that he would ensure I was in the first group of people to go. ...

... cleaning the front windows. OMG!!! I have vertical blinds and it hides the crap on the window... I cant believe how bad it was. I only noticed the other day when I was looking in from outside. That's enough exercise for today.

I'm watching soccer...or rather I would be if it wasn't for the ongoing debate over some team or other getting screwed out of two or three penalties, the impartiality (or not, as the case may be) of a particular referee, etc.

An old episode of Magnum P.I. - the late, great, Ronald Lacey is guest-starring.
Other than that, I'd forgotten how poorly this show has aged....it's fairly awful, TBH.

... I will lean more when there's less salt on the roads, you can see it to my right... Saying that, looking through some other pics in their gallery I was leaning more than most, and GS's are too common (rolf)

Kwacky wrote:3 Body Problem.

Just started the second episode, pretty good so far

And it's worth it for Eiza González

I started that the other day, seems promising

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In other news I got too much FOMO with everyone eating hot cross buns when I can’t (yeast intolerance) even though I used to love them. Searched for sourdough versions but nothing available locally. So researched making my ...

A mystery package...??
I've no idea who sent it or what it is, other than it's from some clothing company I've never heard of that's located down the road a few miles away.
Intriguing....I feel like El Guapo in Three Amigos - "It's a sweater!!"

... woke up at a normal time today and think I'm suffering "Jet-lag" without even leaving the country... My job hunting is turning up a few other night shift positions but I really need to get off that nonsense. I think we're still in the after Christmas slump where companies got rid of ...

... changed and made them agree to grandfather the redundancy agreement and funded it. Since then about a 1/3 of the workforce have left (moved to other gas projects/companies) so they have already made money off that. Yet as you say, it regularly feels like they are trying to squeeze us out and ...

And in fun former president-type news....Donald Trump has been fined over $350 million for civil fraud, among other things, and most of all just being a general all-round douchebag. Apparently the actual fine with pre-trial interest (whatever that is) tags another $100M onto the ...

That's fine then. Just another shooting :^ Sadly yes, unless it's local or has some other level of significance to it, a shooting here is not much more notable/newsworthy than a wreck on the freeway. It's all over the news this morning ...

Two films for the first book.

There are 6 books. You could compress the other books on to a film for each one. Dune needs to be detailed, it really sets the scent.

I guess there's going to be a Dune 3...??
I was just reading sommit about it the other day. I'd thought it was a two-part story and that's it.....$$$$ talks, I suppose.

... stands under the forks, the wheels are in the car ready for a trip to Bike Tyres LEEDS tomorrow for the Dunlop's, all back together and working other than that, although I did watch the wrong installation video and plugged the EZcan into the wrong sensor, it didn't do any harm, just wasn't getting ...