Nah the road legal ones cost extra so they just use the “use on private land you have permission to use” ones instead.

I think they should close down that loop hole and only allow the sale of  road legal.

It’s a bit of a fun killer as then you have the mot,tax,insurance and licence requirements and people who do have the land and would stick to the rulez are getting penalised for the muppets ruining it for us all.

I do think there’s a place for them but people want the speed and that them brings them into the realms of mopeds/motorbikes.

They just replaced the pit bike ‘menace’ so it’s  same type of numpties that again ruin it for us all.

TBH I’d love one :-)

The only issue i have with them is the range but for something to run around on without too much noise and pollution they are hard to beat but a Honda  Groms cheaper.

Yep…

Surrons and their clones are not an EAPC and classed as a moped or 125cc

 for A Road Legal Sur-Ron LBX you will need a licence, registration and insurance. You will need to be 16, speed restricted to 28mph and carry L plates. The Surron Storm Bee and Surron Ultra Bee Road Legal are classified as L3E (125cc equivalent), which means they can be ridden on a CBT or A1 Licence.

so the laws in place for these.

and for non EAPC

Any electric bike that does not meet the EAPC rules is classed as a motorcycle or moped and needs to be registered and taxed. You’ll need a driving licence to ride one and you must wear a crash helmet.

so we have a law for that.

Just need a will to prosecute.

none of the offences are cycling, they are way more serious.

It’s lack of enforcement,there’s plenty of laws to cover it.

I suppose in the big picture regardless of what you think they aren’t causing that many deaths/injuries per day compared  with everything else which are roughly (from 2022 figs)about 4.5 deaths and 76 seriously injured.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-provisional-results-2022/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-provisional-results-2022#overall-casualties

(I do find it funny how all YouTube van lifers seem to be regularly  getting BSO e-bikes and doing dire reviews on them as they aren’t really cyclists and the main thing seems to be the speed element and how you don’t have to pedal.)

Drive down to here

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This is why a lovely commute can be such a perfect thing. Putting aside the benefits of the cycling (or walking) part of it,the biggest win is that it’s ‘You time’.

Free of the day to day demands,your A to B is all you need.

Signed … an X-supercommuter

This is what I miss the most :-)

A good start to the day and a good end.

Just pay for your own stuff.

So easy and would look a hell of a lot better than freeloading. I really don’t care so much about the rules on this one – it’s pure optics.

I think it’s as simple as that, Joe Public may use their uncles holiday home in Portugal but I doubt if unc is paying for their tickets to fly them there.

I’m just surprised over how quick they jumped into behaving like the tories did.

The WFA is just a staggeringly stupid political move and will just fuel their demise at the next election.

They got in on people not voting , reform have many years to polish their lies.

I’ve tended to to follow the van life ones tbh but just think that the whole ‘wild’ camping thing is a bit off and overly freeloading when applied to some of the park ups and I’ve lost the love.

I’ve been watching a lot of  Quad-bike videos but apart from the bloke rebuilding them (Michael Sabo)they can be annoying.

(In Spain the Suzuki LTZ-400 is very popular although you can’t buy a new one so a young one is 2008, they did an updated efi version but I’m not sure if ever seen one here for sell.)

Yep I’d expect a low rate but 2% !!!

I found this an interesting read

https://www.saunders.co.uk/news/virtually-all-rape-victims-are-denied-justice-here-is-the-roadmap-to-failure/

I’d not really thought about the generational differences to consent.

Again the police have absolutely failed a group of mostly young woman.

TBH the numbers of successful convictions for rape are mind bogglingly bad. :-(

during 2021-2022, of the 70,330 rapes reported to police only 1,378 led to a conviction. This is a conviction rate of less than 2%.

It’s also about 1-2 years for a hearing date.

If I won the euro-lottery tomorrow it wouldn’t make me think “at last, what can I get away with now”.

It’s a little more nuanced than that, assume you were born into a family with great wealth and surrounded by  people happily enabling all your whims :-)

I’m intrigued by the timing.

I must admit I did wonder what it was being used to hide.

I’m keeping it to watch for Christmas :-)

Hmmm,

Clarkson started as a motoring journalist at the Rotherham Advertiser and now worth £50-million, must have done something right.

I did grow up watching him and he was originally a breath of fresh air on top-gear with his taking the Ferrari shopping, decades ahead of the rich kids/scammers on insta/YouTube showing off the latest car they’ve bought/borrowed/hired.

Even Mrs DoD used to enjoy his car dvds back in the day and we enjoyed watching one at at Christmas for a few years, he did have an entertaining way with words describing the Lambo’s.

I do think the Clarkson screen persona just didn’t age well and ran on beyond its best before date.

Theres a certain skill/mix to making a good show to appeal to a wide range of people and for a long time they had it before they then started to play caricatures of themselves.

Interestingly if you hop onto our companion site  you’ll find a thread about how they were in Tesco previously in 2003 :-)

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5035956-does-anyone-remember-tim-tams-being-released-in-the-uk-some-time-in-the-2000s

But is this a direct result of our special deal with Australia that we could only achieve outside the EU?

More like a marketing thing for the supermarket,first time I heard of Timtams was when BJ was waving a packet.

If they were a ‘thing ‘ then someone would have exported/imported them years ago like Australian wine and anything else you could make coin on :-)

But he just made himself look even more insane

TBH how insane do people need him to be before they realise that he lost the plot way back :-)

I always remember the President in Judge Dredd (2000AD)who started the nuclear war (President Booth)and worry.

If the EU is so great why are it’s people voting for nazis everywhere,

Discontent and easy answers.

I always find it weird that in the U.K. the people who would bang on about the war are now so keen on reform and leaving the ECHR.

The fact we have main stream politicians pushing on leaving it is disconcerting.

Pretty much the worst from an environmental aspect though

TBH that wasn’t known at the time  I adopted my ethical position :-)

I do think that if you can get cheap and tasty alternatives to meat out you’ll be on a winner, it’s all about the taste of the food,if it’s well tasty and dirt cheap  I don’t think people would care if it’s plant or animal based.

The vegetable burritos in Bath are well nice and I preferred them to the meat.

I was veggie and vegan at times decades ago before it was  ‘thing’ (not any more and feel better for it) and at that time it was definitely seen by most other veggies/vegans as a moral/ethical thing, not a (often questionable) health choice like is today

Oddly I only eat meat from big animals so that their death would fulfil the ‘needs of the many  as opposed to the needs of the one’.

I’d not want to kill something small for food or anything,I’d rather have a pot noodle and a lot of times I’ll go for the veggie options as they can sometimes be tastier.

Obviously if I find myself in the wreckage of a plane in the mountains then I’d appraise my moral/ethical  qualms accordingly :-)

Ah well the UKCA mark takes another  hit.

We have listened to the findings from the Independent Review of the Construction Products Testing Regime. This was clear that there is currently insufficient testing and certification capacity in the UK alone to provide the volume of conformity assessment that would be required were CE recognition to end.

https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2024-09-02/hcws62

He or she might be on here without you working out their nom de plume

Yep, we had a junior dev do a lot of moaning on a forum that someone was on :-)

What have you been wearing on your feet indoors for the past 20-30 years?

TBH I’ve so far lived my life without the need for slippers (and a smoking jacket).

Always seemed the reserve of people with those white doilies  on the sofas .

No contest – The Mysterious Cities of Gold – it seemed to go on for years too!!

Yep, it’s interesting if look at the Wikipedia on it , started off as a 40 episode Japanese series then got the French made sequel of 3 seasons of 26 episodes !!!

I have a feeling I caught a few then left school, I do like cartoons but working would probably mean different hours.

Wot not ‘Fists of the North Star’ :-)

re Battle of the Planets,  & the addition of 7-Zark-7 think the UK version  was heavily edited/cut in a different order to the source so it helped pad the runtime and cover plot gaps

Never revisit your childhood, I watched the first episode of this and it was dire :-)

Another great Brexit benefit.

British pensioners to keep winter fuel allowance – if they live in EU

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/british-pensioners-to-keep-winter-fuel-allowance-if-they-live-in-eu/ar-AA1pwX2O

Expats living in the European Union plus Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland are guaranteed the allowance by the Brexit withdrawal agreement.

Fortunately the austerity doctrine has proved to be so successful over the past 15 years that we can now just discard any opportunity to change and just keep doing the same thing again. I believe they call it grown up politics, although to me it looks more like a dogmatic adherence to continued failure.

Yep,like some old bloke once said:

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.

The only success is that people still seem to believe  the lie that you need austerity.

Oddly that road runs down to mine, I’ll put the kettle on for ya  :-)

Meh, I’d rather see Blur  but tbh unless they come to the Murcia Bull ring, I don’t think I could make the effort :-)

I never really got on with running , so tend to do more walking, it’s nice round here thou,which I find motivates me.

I plan on walking a bit in the mountains but it’s a bit warm still.

I think you have to mix it up and not obsess on one fitness thing, overdoing it thru getting overly keen ends up with too much time recovering from injuries.

Maybe kids are just a little more molly-coddled today generally ?

Dunno,I always thought people were more worried about stuff than they should.

Living life is inherently with ‘risks’

Its perception of risk and a click bait media that always looks for the worst to serve up for the viewers entertainment  :-)

I can say with certainty that any child of Ms Allsop will have seen their fair share of airports, train stations, countries and cultures. This won’t be their first rodeo, even if the first one solo.

TBH this was what I was thinking, he was sort of brought up with travelling.

I think the 15 years old was muddying the waters as all his classmates were older (not sure how many months he was behind) and 16, which is old enough to join the army but not fight.

The majority of kids at his age have 24/7 accessibility to parents money and a multitude of resources  via the phone, way more than we had in the 70,80’s

As we have seen with the rioting,age isn’t exactly an indicator of much.

(I think he’s back so he managed to survive it)

Now what I  don’t understand is why some people create such a fuss about asylum applications from people arriving in small boats when we are in fact talking about such piddling small numbers – 2% of the total immigration into the UK apparently.

I think it’s the optics of a boatload of people turning up on the coast makes for more dramatic visuals for the ‘invasion’ scare mongering.

I’ve noticed the hate factory on Facebook seems to be stepping up a notch with more anti Muslim/immigrant rhetoric.

More ai pictures under the guise of humour.

Also seem to also have a bloke visiting a 5 star asylum hotel and trying to portray it as some £165 a night dream stay  and seems unhappy that they actually feed the residents, considering they aren’t allowed to work and I’m not sure of how many 5 star hotel rooms have a kitchen.

We all know the answer to this is to properly reform the asylum system and improve people’s lives, neither of which are easy or quick. The vandalism of the previous government didn’t just stop at running the immigration service into the ground, they also tore up most of our established treaties and agreements with our partners through the travesty of Brexit.

I think if labour can sort out the hospital waiting list and access to doctors then people won’t be fixated on the boats/immigration thing that they were never interested in until it got forced down their throats by the usual suspects.

TBH people forget the suffragettes were a bit naughty and it wasn’t particularly all peaceful.

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/suffragette-bombings-city-of-london-corporation/2wVxgPLt7aWiKg?hl=en

I’m not anti or pro on JSO, but you do need people to protest for environmental issues as when it’s too late,it’s too late :-(

TBH Alien was about 44 years ago which is mad and they did wait 7 years till doing the first sequel so it’s pretty old .

I don’t mind the prometheus stuff but it’s a bit too weird compared to the original  and similar to the Star Wars prequels when people just wanted to see more Han,leia and  Luke but got jar-jar-binks.

I think it’s always going to be awkward as Alien sort of created the genre so it’s going to be hard to come up with something new.

I wasn’t old enough to see it at the cinema as I was too young :-), it was released as an X so you had to be 18+ but that would have been great to see in the cinema.

(Alien was also pretty low budget and they basically went to a scrappy that had lots of airplane parts and built the flight set out of that which made it realistic)

I can’t wait to watch it again on streaming :-)

Although I’d be quite happy to let them serve the sentence in our Rwanda facilities :-)

Given them heafty sentences I’m certainly going to think twice before an evening’s rioting.

Trouble is it doesn’t really achieve much,they will have to let out a load more prisoners early to squeeze this lot in and then there’s the on-going  cost of keeping them there.

It’s too simple an answer to the problem, same as the the whole narrative of the ‘boats’ which has got us to here.