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You'll have noticed more and more black cabs running tractor tyres recently.

I had wondered why I passed a cab with a rack on the back this morning

I saw one sitting on a booster seat - the cabbie's spacer

its a lot harder to be come a black cab driver, you gots to do the knowledge innit.guess

Hardest Cabbie exam in the world. So hard it pushes the whole highway code out their head.

The most moral army in the world

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/16/israeli-soldier-clubs-danish-protester

did anyone read the story about the pilot who ( while flying the plane had a quick nap as you do ) awoke to see the planet venus in the sky in front of him, mistook it for another plane heading directly towards him took evasive action and ended up injuring 10 or so people on board the plane !

doh !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/17737135

Wear your fucking seatbelt and HTFU

^^^Jesus christ

Shouldn't Breivik's trial be mentioned in here, or is Velocio not allowing this thread to be used as a platform to spread his ideology of hatred?*

(*reference to trial not being allowed to be filmed)

if you post something, then it will be

The most moral army in the world

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/16/israeli-soldier-clubs-danish-protester

Sickening.

Makes you realise how much they get away with when it's not being filmed, and not involving white Westerners.

Seven interesting minutes about corruption stretching from Mayfair to Nigeria:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17740937

epic win or epic fail..

haha

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/16/israeli-soldier-clubs-danish-protester?newsfeed=true

Bicycle rally in Israel.
You know what's coming next.

Analogue TV is being finally switched off tonight in London.

The Crystal Palace transmitter will be lit up tonight as a celebration.

I saw them testing some kind of super searchlight there a few evenings ago. It was like the sort of thing you call Batman with.

Worth checking out if you can see it out of you window.

Le link

The lightshow is scheduled to take place from 9.15pm on April 18.

time to buy a digi box then

That is the general idea!

It also means the end of you favourite pixellated information service, Ceefax.

The closet thing I had to the internet when I were a lad.

Might pop up to see that

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/16/israeli-soldier-clubs-danish-protester?newsfeed=true

Bicycle rally in Israel.
You know what's coming next.

Does that Danish chap not get in said soldiers face a bit?

What does he expect?

Get in his face? He just walks past him and turns towards him, there's nothing threatening about it at all!

If you think that's a reasonable reaction for someone getting that close to you then I'm staying well clear.

Frozen cows must be blown up or set on fire

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17750245

Why can't someone just go up there, cook them and eat them?

I'll do it.

Does that Danish chap not get in said soldiers face a bit?

What does he expect?

I assume this is sarcasm.