I ran a 2012 Doblo for 8 years. Mini camper conversion in the back. Did multiple trips to the Alps and back. It was only the 1.3 diesel but it happily sat at 85mph on the french autoroutes. Reliability wise it was brilliant. Zero issues with the engine. Lower wishbones were a known weakness and I went through a couple over the years but other than that I had zero issues. In fact I’m actually toying with buying another right now

TVTA is not the Trail Fairies. All a bit People’s Front of Judea/ Judean People’s Front but TVTA are down the golfie and the fairies are glentress

I’m not sure where you got the 250 number

Ah, my bad, I didnt look at the seeded numbers. Bizarrely it’s not on R&R but Id looked at the sportident results. Looks like it was just under 400

https://www.sportident.co.uk/results/TweedLove/2024/International/

So he’s suing companies for not advertising on Twitter.

If he wins, my lawsuit against Margot Robie for not going out with me it’s a guaranteed win

The “festival” element of Tweedlove was rubbish

I’d disagree massively with that. This year was an unfortunate washout with horrendous weather, but in every other year the “festival” bit has been very busy all day, loads going on, great for kids, beer tent absolutely rammed, showed movies at night, live bands, all the exhibitors, a real buzz about it

Participation is definitely down significantly.

Looking at the recent Tweedlove International race in June, they had about 250 entrants.

Pre COVID that race had 450 – 500 entrants

everybody who doesn’t pick up a shovel

Forestry Commission in the valley are apparently very difficult to work with. The trails on the inners side for example get zero maintenance. There’s been a couple of high profile digs of very short sections, but general necessary maintenance is zero from the forestry commission. Adrenaline Uplift have been pushing for ages to take on some of that work and the forestry simply won’t allow it. I get the liability angle, but it’s not an unsolvable problem. It just seems like a lot of barriers to getting the work done.

The trail fairies are no more. TVTA have a very limited number of trails they’re allowed to work on.

2025 could be a very empty year

Enduro wise there’s really nothing left other than the smaller races up in Aberdeen. Muckmedden appear to be doing some team enduro race this year, but they stopped all their other races a few years back.

Glentress 7 is also a big loss. Not something I’ve ever done but it was really popular.

Shots fired at Mr Ball.

There’s no love lost between them apparently. Fell out after the EWS in 2015 according to rumours. Controversy over the super long pedally stage that all the pros complained about, that ultimately ended up being dropped after the weather deteriorated on race day

they warned me recently when I quoted the Bob Marley song Small Axe

I got an Instagram warning last week for violence because I said something looked like “a punched lasagne” yet none of the 100s of racist, homophobic or hate filled posts I report ever get taken down usually because the culprits are smart (or stupid) enough to change one letter in the offensive word or post

Does she own the bikes?

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I have a permanent, unappealable, unrevokable lifetime ban from Twitter for saying Trump was the C-word and everyone who votes for him is a C-word. Hate speech apparently. Permanent ban and unable to register new accounts.

Honestly, it’s the best thing that could have happened. I give it zero attention now. I can view maybe 3 or 4 tweets before I’m “rate limited” and can’t see anything for an unspecified time. My mental health is much better without it in the current climate

But 90%+ of those he effectively shares a platform with obviously will be

Very true. See also Joey Barton.

The terrifying reality is if we let these clowns win, first it’ll be the immigrants, then anyone of colour, then “the gays”, then the women, etc.

I  believe the answer is no. He’s even more of a thicko than he appears

To be fair, and as much as it pains me, I’m not aware of Tate being a racist or anti immigrant. Horrific misogyny, 100%,, but I haven’t seen or heard anything Tommy Robinson esque from him, but happy to be proved wrong

And you only need to end up in A&E briefly to have a moment of enlightenment or at least realisation about immigration

There was a post in the big Brexit thread we had that has stuck in my head ever since. One poster said their relative voted for Brexit because a Nigerian nurse was rude to her when she was in hospital. Unfortunately there really is no cure for stupidity

Is it such a vote loser for a politician to come out and say it’s not uncontrolled immigration, it’s actually controlled via work and study visas? Is it election suicide to say we need these people to fill jobs that we don’t have enough skilled workers for? Why doesn’t someone point out the obvious that we stopped being allowed to let European people in for work with no issues, so we have to go further afield to bring people in?

Cindy Ngamba who’s just won the Refugee Team its first medal

Predictably, the social media comments were absolutely horrific

Flo Jo never tested positive

I listened to a podcast with Victor Conte years ago, he of BALCO fame, where he stated pretty much every US athlete did test positive but the tests were suppressed and everything brushed under the carpet. Basically every US track and field athlete in the 80s was juiced to the gills (as we’re most other country’s athletes)

Those parallels need drawing very clearly and very publicly

I don’t think the guy with the swastika tattoo needs to be told he’s a Nazi but you never know

Been arguing with various quarter wits on Reddit. What’s become apparently clear is they have no idea what’s actually going on with regards to immigration numbers

They think asylum seekers numbers are significantly higher than they are, by like a factor of 10+

They have no idea about work visas or student visas

They think people are just rocking up to the country with no visas and we’re letting them in

They have no idea how essential immigrants are to our economy (14% of NHS staff were born overseas for example)

They have no idea how our immigration levels compare to other similar countries (it’s almost always lower here)

When I’ve shared official, credible, respectable links to evidence all this, I’ve been accused of cherry picking stats. Apparently this isn’t the kind of research they like when it comes to doing your own research

Summer school holidays are an all round shit show in the UK

Sorry, have to point this out, not the UK, just England and Northern Ireland. While we have knuckle draggers up here, who predominantly wish they were English, and bare remarkable similarities to the trouble makers in NI, we simply don’t have anything like what’s happened over the past few days in England

In some positive news, fat incoherent swastika man has been arrested

Passport stamping about to go digital so it’ll be much easier to monitor stays

UK Skiers Urged to Prepare for New Entry System to EU Next Winter

Social media is an outrage machine. It is designed for emotional contagion and its aim is to keep our eyes trained on the feed.

It’s mad when you remember a geeky Harvard IT guy started a website to rate women in his class because his girlfriend dumped him and now we’ve got riots on our street thanks to that

The CCTV footage that was posted back on page 8?

Just watching these live feeds on YouTube. Nice of them to gather all this evidence for the authorities

In Hull they appear to be attacking a car garage “owned by foreigners” and smashing up all the cars that are there being repaired.

Now they’re building a barricade on the road using old car tyres which I assume they’ll set on fire shortly

Weighted Average is what you’re talking about

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/video-weighted-average-c1ad3cd4-cf64-4461-b3b7-0767498b2135#:~:text=We’ll%20use%20the%20SUMPRODUCT,the%20SUM%20of%20the%20weights.

Quite simply, the Tories spent the last 14 years making these people poorer along with damaging the NHS, social care, council budgets etc, and the likes of Farage etc managed to convince these people that it’s all the fault of foreigners.

They got Brexit done, now they’re going after anyone who isn’t white

They need to start teaching this in schools

https://youtu.be/Z_iBOEDb7PM

https://youtu.be/Z_iBOEDb7PM?si=UuYGzoe9bJKe1gEQ

@ianc it’s the gardenhall

Went for a pint at our local last night and spotted they had some charging bays in their car park. This is a much better setup. Actual clear instructions on what to do

Thanks all. She’s calmed down a bit. All of her and her friends will be there on the day to give evidence so hopefully this prompts the defence to change the plea to avoid them having to get involved.

I’ll report back after and give you the details on the incident as it’s absolutely insane what happened!

If it was you that got beaten up/attempted murder then you would want any witnesses to turn up.

I’m very mindful of details here, but the 2 victims are apparently denying anything happened to them. I don’t believe they want the reason for the accused’s visit to be known to the authorities if you get my drift

Is it Scotland

Yeah

How the hell did we get here?

Social media. These people have always existed, but they had no real idea of realising how many people shared their views. Previously it was just their mates down the pub. Felt pretty isolated. Now they can see solidarity on social media and feel emboldened by it, fed lies by the right wing poster boys like Farage and Robinson.

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HSDLP94

Been looking at the CPS site. They don’t half make it difficult for non UK residents to access their charge points. What a hassle this is compared to simply touching any bank card against a reader and getting charge out the machine

https://chargeplacescotland.org/guidance/account-set-up-outside-uk/

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 think that had more to do with an officer pointing a taser

And probably realising they were armed police and they were a bawhair away from getting shot if the carnage continued