In the news

Re the fracking and energy convo

File on 4 - Fuelling the Future? - @bbcradio4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000qr9

Yes, but they've now spent six weeks in prison. I can't imagine that the previous judge didn't know that his 'judgement' would be overturned on appeal, and I would assume that he was going for that deterrent of them being in prison for the interval. Pretty disgusting.

I had some of this on Monday night ...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/which-survey-reveals-uks-worst-stations-with-london-terminals-topping-list-of-shame-a3962651.html

Reports of a high school shooting in Ukraine killing 18 students. No one giving a flying fuck since they aren’t yanks, nor do the deaths fit into the grander narrative of conflict in Ukraine.
(Maybe the conflict made it easier for the shooter to get hold of a weapon?)

Edit: 19 dead. 40 injured.

Kleenex ditch mansize tissues.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/17/kleenex-ditch-mansize-tissues-gender-inequality-complaints/

Yep, 6th story down on BBC News within 2 hours of it happening. Crazy

Got a tiny passing mention on the Today programme, then it was back to why Theresa May didn't have a beer at the same time Merkel did at the EU Summit last night.

Well this got weird real quick
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/marc-sutton-rape-cyclist-killed-alps-mother-facebook-rot-hell-a8589141.html

France considers bike register as part of drive to increase cycling

French cyclists would have to register their bikes on a national
database under a proposed law aimed at increasing cycle use and
reducing thefts.

Bike owners would be given a “certificate of ownership” similar to car
documents to be either presented to the police if the bicycle is
stolen or transferred with the bike when it is sold.

Each cycle frame would be marked “in a readable, indelible, permanent
and unforgeable way in a clearly visible place”, the draft text says.
The registration number will be in a form that can be verified by an
optical reader.

The proposal is part of a 25-point, €350m (£308m) “Plan Vélo” to be
unveiled by the government before the end of the year. It is expected
to come into effect in 2020 and is aimed at tripling the number of
short journeys made by bicycle by 2024.

Presumably combined with not shooting them dead in the alps?

One can only hope.
I do like that the plan is also pinned to a financial incentive to cycle to work.
Denmark has a tax break for cyclists and i imagine its the kind of thing required here in the UK to re-frame the entire Road Tax bs.

Cue my father sending my brother and me a link along with

Will clothes shops remove reference to ladies and mens.....

and

If you are uncomfortable to buy man size tissues....then don't buy them....

facepalm

Exactly. PR exercise by marketing bods.

The thing is I was always under the impression that the large size was for... well the extra bodily fluids men tend to produce.

Not because big tissues are inherently more manly.

Naaaah, real men wank into grease covered rags

... and wash their balls with Swarfega.

Swarfega for lube, real mean don't wash their balls.

What's to stop someone grinding it off with a bit of sandpaper?

But good I guess. Bike theft has got to be tackled one day...

Glad I saw what you were replying to, thought you'd turned the sarcasm up to 11 for a moment there!

It's a multi-purpose comment :)

One of the suspects in the Khashoggi case has died “in a car accident” in Riyadh.

Mmkay.

shoulda waited until he went for a bike ride amirite

#toosoon.

Even Tory MPs won’t vote Tory hope maybe at hand.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/conservative-mp-johnny-mercer-theresa-may-brexit-tory-party-a8591001.html

Watch him be whipped into line.