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  • MattWMattW Posts: 28,119

    MattW said:

    MattW said:

    https://x.com/paulpowlesland/status/1940688546429292704

    I recently got stopped & ticketed by the City of London Police for, & I kid you not, “cycling no handed”. Even though it’s clearly not an offence, the officer said they were ticketing me under the Human Rights Act as I was infringing other people’s Article 2 ‘Right to Life’, in case I fell off & injured them: utterly bonkers stuff.

    A garrulous plonker riding a bicycle.

    The claimed Human Rights Act thing is BS; that's not what she said.

    It would be under "cycling without due care", RTA 1988 S2.

    https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/part/I/crossheading/cycling-offences-and-cycle-racing
    Her exact words were, "It contravenes Article 2 of the Human Rights Act."
    It's a nonsense, and he's still a dickhead for his behaviour - going spinning off into whataboutery like that.

    He admits in the thread that the offence charged was as I stated.

    It's a cropped video to get some attention.
    If she misspoke and said the Human Rights Act instead of the Road Traffic Act it's still quite revealing.
    I'd say the likelihood is that she said both, and he clipped the RTA mention.
  • BattlebusBattlebus Posts: 1,063

    Off topic: It is understandable that the Loser is willing to be Putin’s Patsy.

    In April, Trump beseeched Putin: “Vladimir, STOP!” Vladimir hasn’t stopped, yet Trump does not appear to be applying pressure to back up his words. Instead, at the Group of Seven summit in Canada recently, Trump complained about Russia’s expulsion from the group. He apparently continues to speak regularly and cordially with Putin, who has been indicted as a war criminal by the International Criminal Court and is a pariah throughout the West. And the Trump administration continues to block legislation, with more than 80 sponsors, that would impose tariffs of 500 percent on any nations that buy Russia’s energy products.
    (Links omitted.)
    source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/03/trump-iran-russia-ukraine/

    What I find hard to understand is why so many Americans are willing to be Putin’s Patsy’s patsies. It’s as if they think the Declaration of Independence was a mistake.

    This guy seems to have the game plan that Trump is working to. TLDR: China, China, China

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbridge_Colby

    Interesting views on the Middle East too.
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 10,287
    IanB2 said:

    I think Labour have bitten off more than they can chew with this:

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/35671855/wes-streeting-more-access-fab-jabs-economy/

    BRITAIN will be “fat free” within a decade, paving the way for tax cuts worth billions of pounds, Wes Streeting declared yesterday.

    People will be fat free or dead if the jabs have some inherent vice only revealed by Streetings mass beta test.
    People have got overweight and under-fit by eating crap between meals - that only builds appetite not stops it - and zero exercise. And there’s some simple cheat that makes them fit and well?

    Nope. God has told us over and over there are no simple “cheats” to wellness and resilience - if you want happiness it must be earned.
    God does not exist. If She is telling you something, its a hallucination.

    Everybody's body is different and there's no one size fits all solution. You need to find something that works for you. You also need to find something you enjoy, so you can maintain it.

    For me a Carnivore, Ketogenic diet has worked well as it naturally suppresses my appetite and its food I enjoy anyway so I can maintain it.

    Nearly two years on my diet and nearly at goal weight now, down nearly 70 lbs. But I wouldn't say everyone should do this, I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to try it but you need to find something that works
    for you.
    God does not exist. If She is telling you something, its a hallucination.

    Absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence.

    Belief in God is a matter of faith - as is your atheism. Neither can be stated as definitive facts.
    The evidence that religion, through history
    and with all its paraphernalia and prejudices, is a human construct is however pretty compelling.
    Religion is a human construct. That’s not evidence as to whether there is a kernel of truth at its heart or not
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