You could become a science teacher and join the gravy train, there arent enough of them so its easy to get a job.

I know of a large private organisation shedding 1,000’s of UK jobs currently. As part of the outplacement you are offered various courses including inclusing “getting into teaching”, it’s near the bottom of the list next to “dog grooming franchise”.

You are talking shite my friend.

No I’m not, as I said, I’m speaking from personal experience.

What, your kids that much hassle?

Yep, when you are booked on a £500 / day course as a work objective – hit directly in the pocket if I fail to attend.

Dad was 50ish, 15ish years ago; mum was 60ish, 5ish years ago

I have the contract somewhere. I could dig iy out if I could be bothered. The initiative was the schools, I assume the ratiaonale was to demonstrate to the kiddies the teachers’ commitment to teach, supported by the parents, with a promise from the pupils….

My father and mother were both teacher, both had long holidays, both retired early, both did prep and marking but not beyond what was considered to be within their professional obligations – from their own admission.

Sounds like 40,000 at Castlemorton ’92

It’s not so much his large physique, prescence, and his stomping boots, it’s more the cult-like command he seems to have over his ‘disciples’.

Here’s some religious trance

I loathe and despise religion and the religious

I loathe and despise religion…..that’s my prerogative

so you’ve asked them to confirm they’ll be identifying footpaths suitable for use by cyclists and contacting the landowners to confirm that they are happy with cyclist using them and will then signpost this?

That’s an interesting concept. There are examples where riders have permission from the landowner to only then get a ‘barracking’ from walkers.

Thanks, Zulu-Eleven

It seems to me a belief in God centralizes religous thinking whereas the notion of ESP does not.

she was a believer in ESP. Yes, because she used a statistical approach to analysing the evidence and it left no alternative

Sounds interesting, I’ll take time to read it – sometime.

I genuinely fail to understand why very bright people actually believe in god.

Keep ramming the same message/s to enough people, allow sufficent time and generations and eventually you’ll get a few takers – then a critical mass will develop – then it’s becomes the norm.

Ok, but I doubt you would treat it with the same academic rigour as those who have already reviewed it

Had a quick read….couldn’t find any reference to playing cards?

Right, so even if the evidence was provided you would still look for a way to hold on to your pre-conception?

Provide me with the evidence. And I’ll check the experimental design.

What if the pack wasn’t flawed?

I would predict that the stats would indicate a 1 in 52 chance.

Don’t be ridiculous!

I recall, when I was about six years old, almost being pursuaded by religion, fearful of burning in unimaginable pain for eternity in hell fire. That does ‘grate’ slightly with me.

It would only need to happen reliably more often than chance alone would allow?

If the number of attepts at ‘guessing’ is sufficiently high I would anticipate a 1 in 52 chance could be prooven. If the result is higher than chance would allow then I would say the randomisation of the pack was floored.

Surely if you believe in probability it wouldn’t need to be 100% reliable. It would only need to happen reliably more often than chance alone would allow?

The math could determine the likihood of predicting the correct call of say a playing card in a pack of 52. I would say that’s a 1 in 52 chance of calling the correct playing card on the first attempt. So if by chance a correct ‘guess’ was made on the first attempt, this would nether proove or dis-proove ESP.

It will be interesting to see if the councils’ manage to trawl-up any relevant case law.

God was speaking to me at the time – sorry got distracted

That’s one half of it, do you then believe when there is evidence

Somehow I knew you were going to say that – honest!

‘guess which card/picture i’m looking at’

I would say this is probabilistic, a bit like roulette.
I do not believe their is any evidence to say anyone could 100% reliably predict the outcome in the scenario you descibe.

1) Do you believe in ESP (remote mind reading and so on)?

I believe in intuition and probability, whether that the same thing?

Love and happiness

Have you ever read the old testament?

The outcome, as always, is tension, upset and prejudice – another religious triumph

I’ve had atheist views rammed down my throat* WAY WAY more than religious ones, seriously. They just can’t shut up. It’s as if they are insecure about something Or maybe they miss the point…

…perhaps some of the insecurities stem from the 1000’s of years of religous wars and persecution of the innocent?

Religion in the modern Western world is mostly about love, happiness, comfort, security

…and imposition “spread the word!”

…ponce-test

what christianity needs is to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century..

Maybe stick some of the pentecosts on primetime TV So you think you can dance and let the public decide

Equally, there’s no proof that a chocolate tea-pot isn’t orbiting the sun. So that means there must be! – right?

c u at the pearly gates

….for example:
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/row-question-is-pushing-or-carrying-your-bike-on-a-footpath-legal

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/wheeling-your-bike-on-a-footpath

It seems to me that the council are potraying their ‘understanding of the law’ – as the law, which only leads to misinformation and confusion. If the law is a grey area then that’s what the councils’ need to say.

Having damaged my knee I find it painful to walk, fortunately cycling does not aggrevate my knee and helps me to remain mobile. Although I’m not ‘disabled’ (no blue badge), I regard my bike as a means of mobility (much like a motability scooter is).

Thanks jonb – that seems to be inline with other opinions I’ve seen. It’ll be interesting to see how the councils’ respond to my letter, if I recieve a response I’ll post it