Police spotting (junction watch)

..... asking the policeman "do you know about crank vs brookes? i assume its ok for me to do this."

He scowled but did not attempt to stop me.

Some kind of poor taste mixture of pedals and saddle perchance???

Skully, stop reading DJ's posts. It is damaging your style.

Yeah. It was kind of an 'omage, except that i forgot to use double returns and I punctuated. Meh.

shall we go off banned, hand in hand?

Beautiful!

Same junction again this morning - be aware.

there seemed to be a few police on tower bridge this morning as well... I only noticed as everyone was behaving and not doing the irritating cyclist creep

there were loads of pedalkops out this morning. i like it. prefer it to them hanging about junctions like sneakey sneakers. i like that they're getting involved in the madness that is the commutoscrum. i just wish they had flashing lights on their helmets and had to make the "woowoowoo" noise themselves. most of them are fat and slow which makes is so much more tempting to knock their helmets off, bertie wooster style, and leg it. one day, one day...

Post of the week.

Right turn off Victoria Embankment, into Northumberland Avenue.... two of her Majesty's finest, 10 mins ago, one a little portly, the other chatting on his mobile; the former taking a very detailed interest in a courier's fixie with no front brake.......

Can't recall if it's a filter there, or courier could have RLJ'd...

Underneath Waterloo Bridge, outside Buddha Bar, watching eastbound traffic. He's got three in the 10 minutes I was standing around, but I don't know how long he'll be there.
Had a nice chat with him – he's part of a traffic division, normally a motorbike cop, at the moment there's only ten of them pedalling about. He just rides around, finds a spot, waits a bit and then moves on. Come the 19th with the superhighways they'll all be going up and down them instead making sure everything's ok. He also carries a breathalyser kit which I thought was interesting.

Oh and he admitted to ASL encroaching, 'but only when there's no cyclists in them'. They haven't been told to enforce them atm, but he does issue warnings.

what a nob

Meh, ASL aren't great in the first place either way - encourage everyone to go onto the front instead of waiting alongside with other commuter.

High holborn at the pedestrian lights next to the small sainsburys (not the big one at holborn junction with kingsway). Two on bikes and about five more milling around.

Amusingly, one of the ones on a bike is a pretty big girl

Yeah, well amusing.

Cop poaching at a junction halfway between london bridge and liverpool street station going north towards hipsterville, Sorry i forgot the name of the road.

Yeah, well amusing.

the humor is found the ironic juxtaposition of an obese person using a form of transport that ideally requires one to be fit and healthy for maximum efficiency. the situation makes one wonder whether she has been sardonically placed on this duty to reduce her bulk, and it is from this ridicule that the amusement is derived.

who has displayed intolerance, prejudice or irrational devotion to their beliefs?

@ Tiswas: no but applied liberally it can be funny.

what the fucking fuck? i'm not that short.

cranks? pm me?

Really? Or are you being disingenuously obtuse.

a bit of both. don't really want to derail the thread any more, but i would describe laughing at fat people as insensitive schadenfreude rather than bigoted.

I think it might be the combination of size with the sex of the bike officer, suggesting the humour is increased by being female (otherwise why mention it?)...

Where's natt I'm sure she could phrase it better than me?!

What I found amusing was the idea of the officer on her mountain bike trying to chase down a courier. Having gone to all the effort of occupying 7 coppers' time for a day, you'd have thought they'd have put someone a bit more athletic on a better bike!

What I found amusing was the idea of the officer on her their mountain bike trying to chase down a courier. Having gone to all the effort of occupying 7 coppers' time for a day, you'd have thought they'd have put someone a bit more athletic on a better bike!

better?

is it really necessary to focus so much on whether a gender-neutral pronoun was used or not? can't we just all laugh at fat people, together, regardless of vagoo or cock?

is it really necessary to focus so much on whether a gender-neutral pronoun was used or not? can't we just all laugh at fat people, together, regardless of vagoo or cock?

^^ What velo said.

If it had been a bloke, I'd have said bloke

shall we go off banned, hand in hand?

shouldn't that be: "hand in cunting hand"

Red is RED by the way. If you wanna be treated as an equal on the road it helps to obey the laws that others have to, no?

Meh, ASL aren't great in the first place either way - encourage everyone to go onto the front instead of waiting alongside with other commuter.

You shouldn't be alongside any vehicle. You're better waiting in the position that you would if you were in a car at red lights. Slinking to the left at lights is usually pointless and sometimes dangerous.