badgerx16

We deserved that.

From the BBC live text : "45:00 +5:01 Eljero Elia (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half. 45:00 +5:01 Foul by Richard Dunne (Queens Park Rangers)." That doesn't get anywhere near describing events !

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spider

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/charge-people-making-appeals-against-decisions-to-withdraw-benefits-leaked-document-reveals-9142783.html "Disability minister Mike Penning last week told MPs the scale of appeals - around 600,000 since its introduction - meant there was “real concern” about the work being carried out. The new proposals are particularly worrying given that anyone wanting to appeal a decision that they are fit to work first has to have all their paperwork looked at again, while receiving no sickness benefits. The Citizens Advice Bureau believes this will result in thousands of people being wrongly forced to survive on no income at all." "Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary, accused the government of presiding over a “broken” benefits system. She said that 58 per cent of appeals against DWP decisions to withdraw jobseekers allowance are upheld." Makes you wonder about the efficacy of the original assessments.

smudge

Cycle lanes are often more dangerous as their surface breaks up because it's just a smear of red tarmac over a standard pavement, and they can be "shared space" with pedestrians, who don't mix well with road bikes @ 20+ mph. They're a nightmare on dustbin collection day. The worst ones I've come across run on the road surface, in the opposite direction to the motorised traffic on one way streets, with just a painted white line segregating the cyclist from tons of steel approaching head on.

highlights

As for the front light, riding on unlit country roads, ie no pavement or kerb, requires a strong light - but one that is angled slightly towards the left, so as to highlight the verge. As for "blinding drivers", too many of them blind me because their lights are badly adjusted or they're driving Chelsea Tractors, so quid pro quo. ( And remember, a large proportion of adult cyclists are drivers as well, so know both sides of the argument ).

A rear reflector is a legal requirement, as are reflective panels on the pedals - makes all of us riding with cleats illegal

It's not just the iron work, the road surface itself tends to be more potted, and there's all the detritus in the gutter just waiting to ***** it's way through your inner tube. I ride at least a foot away from the edge of the road whenever possible I have 3 rear lights 2 of which are set to flash, ( plus the obligatory reflector ), and the 'searchlight at the front, together with 2 small flashing LEDs. No chance of a 'SMIDSY'. As for other idiot bikers, last week, riding home in the dark, I passed a PCSO in uniform on a bike with no lights and no reflective of any sort - gave him a strong word or two as I went past.

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Sergei

Or turning right at a roundabout with double lane exits - use the right hand lane as you leave and then merge if required, don't swing across to the left hand side as you approach your exit. Then again, there are also the numpties who are sat in the left hand lane and refuse to let perfectly legitimate traffic merge from the right hand side.

The real b@st@rds do it from the middle lane !!!!!

oboe

Genesis

Teacher: ‘Craig, you know you can't sleep in my class.' Craig: 'I know. But maybe if you were just a little quieter, I could.' -------------------- Stressing the importance of a good vocabulary, the teacher told her young charges, "Use a word ten times, and it shall be yours for life." From somewhere in the back of the room, came a small male voice chanting, "Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda." ------------------- Teacher: I want you to tell me the longest sentence you can think of Pupil: Life imprisonment! ------------------ Teacher: Why have you got cotton wool in your ears, do you have an infection? Pupil: Well you keep saying that things go in one ear and out the other so I am trying to keep it all in! ----------------- Kid comes home from 1st day at school. Mum asks, 'What did you learn today?' Kid replies, 'Not enough. I have to go back tomorrow.' ---------------- Pupil: Teacher, would you punish me for something I didn't do? Teacher: Of course not Pupil: Good, because I didn't do my homework --------------- The little boy wasn't getting good marks in school. One day he made the teacher quite surprised. He tapped her on the shoulder and said ..."I don't want to scare you, but my daddy says if I don't get better grades, somebody is going to get a spanking."

Helpful hint - don't believe anything TalkSh!te broadcasts, it's all made up BS. Better still, don't listen to it.

patch

The people that made lots of money from the event ?

Smith

One hour on the track at the Velodrome certainly seems to have been a much better option than watching Saints this evening.

Clementine