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I know not the answers to your questions.

Not really a lot to mess about with tbh. She’s clearly a nasty racist. She deserves it.

Is Rod Liddle a Cunt?

Has been for years. You could also call him a "controversialist", but that just means

1. he's often happy to say things he doesn't necessarily believe because he thinks other people's reactions will be stupid, miss his "real" point and help him make a wider point.
   
2. he thinks his stale, fogeyish prejudices are special.
   
   

So just a cunt. Unherd is a special wildlife preserve for cunts like him.

The only time where the relative lack of employee protection in the US is a good thing

^ ooof, ta.

In other news... https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1265508027626475520?s=19

Four fucking years too late though eh? Won't make a bit of difference

I keep meaning to start a thread on here where we could post examples of bicycle based awesomeness in developing countries.

Stuff like this for example:

Which developing country is this from then

Arabic street signs, not too hot to cycle, fancy roads and established trees. Cairo?

Admit that you reverse image searched that

Not even sure it is but seems a safe bet. Number plates look similar, too (worked in Cairo for a very short while).

worked in Cairo for a short while

That'll help, there's a ton of images similar to this one in Cairo after a quick search, looks quite commonplace.

The most unique thing in the picture is the bumps in the road before the pedestrian crossing, I can't find those in any pictures of Cairo and I can't remember seeing any in real life either, but the number plates do look Egyptian.

Yes, to my understanding the bike based bread delivery guys is an Egyptian thing.
And I guess that would be the trouble with my idea of a developing world bicycle thread. Potential for ill-considered generalisation about those people.

This guy is doing some bike-windmill thing in Malawi:

But I mean.. fuck yeah. There's more to bikes than obsessing over whether your bar tape matches your pedal straps.

bumps in the road before the pedestrian crossing,

I forget the name of the road but there's a main road in Baghdad which has bumps like that on pedestrian crossings but the bumps are actually helmets from dead or caputred Iranian soldiers set into concrete. Some of them have bullet holes in. Its a very grim sight. Or was, if it has been removed in the last ten years or so.

https://www.dailytravelphotos.com/archive/2010/10/15/

I dunno. They're definitely awesome (awe inspiring) but the range from an act of desperation to born of everyday necessity to happily ingenious is a bit too loose to lump together.

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.0476705,31.2382868,3a,75y,94.78h,94.46t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPiSoJ0djTYHj2Gn39C9AxDZNUkDBz8iNzM2jdc!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPiSoJ0djTYHj2Gn39C9AxDZNUkDBz8iNzM2jdc%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya59.94582-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352

Yeah, you are probably right.

Good find, looks like it was taken at Talaat Harb square

https://tabdeelblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/12/gallery-the-bread-cyclists-of-cairo/

Space X launch live

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uEUbzkiLxQ8

Edit: cancelled due to weather

Such a shame, we were all ready to go out and watch it fly past fifteen minutes after launch.

The Bread cyclists of Cairo

I think I've got their second album.