Posts by stephen walker
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besides, if you want funk, this is what you listen to:
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well, i would embed the clip for Love Action, by those Sheffield sour lemons, The Human League, but watching Phil Oakey videos is known to have several short and long term negative effects, so i shall refrain. needless to say, i still have a soft spot for that '81 synthpop (ouch).
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completely agree with all of the points in Ben's post above.
if you are cycling or driving down a street and someone steps out from behind a car or bush into your path, it is quite possible that through no fault of your own you may hit them. if you are on a bike, this is going to be painful so you do everything you can to avoid collision.as i already said a couple of times, it's a pedestrian and cycle path, which is fine, but it is different from a cycle path because of the dangers presented by mixing the two. i just find it ironic that in NZ it is illegal to cycle on the footpath but no problem to wander all over a cycleway... user beware is the key point then.
i totally agree that it's better than no cycleway at all!
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still, calling it a cycleway seems a bit misleading.
"shared walkway/cycleway" might be more accurate...i imagine most people, knowing it is billed as a cycleway, would keep well to one side. but there's always the tiny minority who "don't look, don't care" about other path users.
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it's also a pedestrian way
eh? and how is cycling on it any different from cycling on a footpath? (apart from absence of driveways and side streets)?
when i cycle in Tokyo, the No. 1 danger, by far, is people just walking out in front of me (on the road, not foot path) without looking at all and with no warning. a (20-ish) woman, with her friends, walked in front of me last night, right in the middle of the road, despite my screeching brakes (new pads). talking on her cellphone. she just carried on talking. felt no need to apologise. lots of abuse from me ensued as i rode away in boilerplate grumpy-old-man-cyclist mode...
anyway, how is a cycleway also a pedestrian path? is there no barrier separating the two?
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@Christopher:
tah. will look out for more accessible info in the future.
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@ Raymond:
actually, the organisers of this event seemed to want to keep it a secret. there was NO info apart from what could be found (by chance) on this web site and one other blog when i did several googles last night.
(see other thread)
i wanted to recommend it to some school-aged children in Auckland, but i didn't have much to go on...
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the kids that just about lived in his store
haha... in 83-84, that was me :)
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10:30am, at Nixon Park in Kingsland.
why is it impossible to find any official info about this event on the web? or am i using the Goooooooooooogle all wrongly?
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thanks, Simon, for the 1981 chart reference.
i remember hearing LWTUA on the radio in the 4th form, played on a non-student station only because it was No. 1 and the station did a weekly countdown. i heard it when i was at work, in a milk truck, on the way back to the depot to drop off the empty bottles. my boss said "whadja think o' that?" and i said "ah, not really sure". was way over my head. couldn't figure it out. but less than two years later when i heard Blue Monday... well i figured that out straight away. so over several weeks i bought every NO record i could find. and the last one i bought had this strange thing on the label: Ceremony (Joy Division). so i had to find out what was going on... never been the same since, really. :)anyway, well done to all the slightly older teenagers who bought all the JD singles in 81, forcing Ready to Roll play them!