Posts by JackElder
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dragging the bride up to the altar and forcing her to sign up etc.
"Excuse me, but before I can conduct this wedding I'm just going to need to check whether that shotgun is loaded."
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Hey, anyone else hear about BoJo nearly being killed while cycling in London? That's lorries for you.
James - nice. I'd ride those tunnels.
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defriending
I'm going to assume that's a portmanteau of "befriend" and "defenestrate".
You kids and your facebook slang.
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Oh, happy Towel Day everyone.
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does anyone know what form the 30-year plan for cycle/pedestrian access takes?
I'd be willing to bet good money that it takes the form of a basic two-step process?
Step 1, now: We can't let you across the bridge now - we'll do it when we rebuild it in 30 years.
Step 2, in 30 years: We still can't let you across the bridge - we need all the twelve lanes for traffic, it'd be too expensive to build a dedicated lane for walkers/cyclists.
Seriously, this has the smell of "yeah, we'll right onto that one, sir, working on it hard now..." about it.
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Excellent work to all. Would have loved to have been there; sounds like it was a grand day out for all.
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Have you ever seen a pike? They're bloody enormous, and attack predators to boot. They eat ducklings, man.
Tasty though.
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I'm sure there are plenty of people out there that could hit you hard enough in the face to warrant an assault charge without leaving a bruise.
To take this away from the implicit threat above: I can testify that I've recently been kicked repeatedly in the face, in a manner which both hurt immensely and didn't leave any bruising. The assailant was my 2-year old daughter, who wasn't keen on getting out of the bath and got a couple of lucky kicks in. Extremely painful but no marks.
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Damn, forgot to close off the first quote there. Apols.
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There are three possibilities ... could be... could be... could be .... I think it reasonable to assume .... Most reasonable people .... I do not know .... may be possible that ...<quote>
That's a lot of equivocation. When you have three witnesses who have gone under oath, on pain of perjury, to say they saw and heard something, there is indeed still a chance that it's wrong. But, y'know, the parsimonious assumption here is that they're probably telling the truth.
And why would we trust the father's testimony here? At the time, we have a reliable witness (policewoman) saying he admitted punching the child; after-the-fact mental revisions of his actions are not entirely unexpected. I'd expect most people to deny it if they really lost control and belted their kid across the chops. Particularly if they weren't just talking about this in front of their mates, but the whole bloody nation.
<quote> There is no excuse for a parent to be using foul language as reported on your blog.
FFS, they're either going to learn it from me or in the playground at school. I swear as part of a loving framework of correction. It's the act of a responsible parent, after all.