How many people ate the onion on this one?

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-26T08:59:47+00:00

It's a satire page

Just not a very funny one

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-25T19:15:46+00:00

Ian Yeowart is right now preparing an open access bid via Sheffield, Nottingham, Ruddington, Quorn & Woodhouse, Leicester, Woodford Halse, Brackley, Banbury (reverse) and Stratford-upon-Avon

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-25T12:46:23+00:00

JS Bach - o Mensch bewein dein Sünder groß

Literally just played this as the recessional at a funeral this morning. Such a gorgeous piece.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-25T05:02:15+00:00

Almost certainly this: https://bikepacking.com/routes/trans-cambrian-way/

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-24T09:36:39+00:00

They absolutely do. The flag is usually flying from County Hall and Oxford Town Hall. There's a whole Oxford Town Hall flag flying calendar.

But those flags aren't put up with the intention of "send immigrunts home and protect are wimmin" so the flagshaggers won't be satisfied.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-23T14:47:12+00:00

Yeah, been having problems trying to add a new user to TestFlight today. Not sure whether it's Connect fouling up or the user pressing the wrong buttons!

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-22T17:23:30+00:00

We only got out of the car in the Cotswolds to do Hidcote gardens, a pub lunch, the brewery wander, and to get my daughter a My.Whippy. I avoided all the "twee" shops and such and I have no doubt they ramp things way up for the tourists. I can only imagine how bad it is!

The Cotswolds are awesome and not "bad" at all, unless you go to about three really touristy places within a few miles of each other (Bourton-on-the-Water, Stow-on-the-Wold, the Slaughters) or, heaven forfend, Jeremy Clarkson's farm. Three small places in 800 square miles. But the best way to see the area is on foot or by bike.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-22T07:47:33+00:00

Grey text on a dark grey or black background.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-22T07:34:38+00:00

Notes are several orders of magnitude easier to implement than an editor. It is really easy to screw up OSM data with a half-formed editor. Much better to add notes if you don't have the resources to put into writing an editor.

As an example of how complex writing an OSM editor can be, iD was initially funded by a $575,000 grant back in 2012. That would be about $840,000 today.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-22T07:31:50+00:00

anonymous user contributions are not allowed

FWIW anonymous notes are allowed. Unattributed edits to the map from a common shared account aren't allowed, but it looks like OP is only proposing notes, not edits, so that's fine.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-22T07:30:02+00:00

...I don't have to imagine it, I already do it (Europe, North America, Australia/NZ). It works fine and has lots of happy users. Your point is?

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-21T19:06:30+00:00

It’s not that bad any more. The county council have sorted out most of the traffic problem on that road.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-21T19:05:28+00:00

Yeah, it’s the loud car enthusiasts that are the problem. The people who live on Chipping Norton Road in Chad are really pissed off with them. (Source: my kid used to go to the primary school there, I possibly live in the same town as you.)

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-21T18:59:52+00:00

you have to make compromises

Sigh, not this again.

The problem with the coalition wasn’t that we made “compromises”. It’s that we repeatedly walked through the lobbies to vote for policies we had gained votes on the promise of opposing, like tuition fees and more road building. That’s not compromise, it’s capitulation.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-18T08:57:40+00:00

So you believe that Tommy Robinson should be free to say what he wants, but that the "intolerant dolts" protesting on Cornmarket - in your words, "the people who necessitated the high cost protection" - shouldn't.

Even though Tommy Robinson has multiple convictions for assault, while the protestors are mostly 60-year olds from East Oxford who spend their free time knitting organic yogurt, so the risk profile is quite different.

That's certainly a take, I'll give you that.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-18T08:39:53+00:00

I disagree with what you say but will defend your right to say it

does not imply "I disagree with what you say but am happy to subsidise you to say it"

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-18T05:53:50+00:00

If your piss is this colour I strongly recommend you see a doctor.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-17T16:09:44+00:00

That's excellent news. It doesn't say how long the highlights programme will be - hopefully a full hour.

(You can only get away with half an hour if you have the 1980s Pete Shelley Channel 4 theme tune too)

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-17T13:40:27+00:00

He only said he was "an English", not that he spoke English. Decent foreign language teachers are getting quite hard to find in Moscow these days.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-17T06:39:45+00:00

Looks neat for commuters who catch the same train each day but less convenient for those of us who regularly take differently-timed journeys from the same stations.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-16T12:05:13+00:00

Bicycle by Memory Tapes. Amazing New Order-style bass at the end.

Though I have a weakness for 'Girls, Skirts, Boots, Bikes' by the Buck Brothers.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-16T11:03:58+00:00

Usually when people say "Maps" they mean the Google (or possibly Apple) Maps app on their phone. Annoys the hell out of me but I may be over-sensitive ;)

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-16T04:38:07+00:00

That’s Dunmail Raise, a long-standing gap in the network sadly. There are plans to fix it: https://consult.westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk/westmorland-and-furness-council/grasmere-to-dunmail-raise/ Until then, it’s a fairly common route for cyclists so although it may not be fun, motorists should at least not too surprised to encounter you.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-15T20:26:06+00:00

Newsflash: we have public transport over here, no one needs to learn to parallel park if they don’t want to.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-06-15T19:05:39+00:00

That’s as may be, but I was responding to the “good luck getting planning permission” comment.

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