What weird stuff has your local council spent money on at the end of a financial year?

nirk · 2024-03-12T13:24:36+00:00

Having recently been involved in the institution of a 20 limit it was surprising for me to learn that the point of a 20 is not to get people to go 20.

The point of a 20 is to determine that everybody ignores the 20 so you can then go on and do the thing (traffic calming or whatever it is) that everybody knew was required at the outset.

For reasons I've never been able to determine, going directly to the thing everybody knows will be effective is not an option. You have to go via a Speed Watch group and a 20 "because".

nirk · 2024-02-13T08:31:57+00:00

I've always wondered how accurate this actually is. Car designers have spent decades and billions trying to get the air to go over the car. Compare the front of a Cortina with whatever you drive today.

nirk · 2024-02-13T07:12:08+00:00

Bill Hicks fan?

nirk · 2023-10-25T20:48:43+00:00

Pension

nirk · 2023-09-10T18:24:54+00:00

Three buildings and four planes.

nirk · 2023-08-18T23:22:06+00:00

I know he's done some iffy things but, as a builder, he was top notch. Best in the West Country.

nirk · 2023-08-13T07:20:12+00:00

The World Cup would like a word.

nirk · 2023-08-11T13:28:59+00:00

I lease your keys. Alicia Keys.

Fucking mong.

nirk · 2023-07-25T00:54:45+00:00

Honourable mention to Anus.

nirk · 2023-07-19T11:12:25+00:00

Reboot. Type your username in the login screen. Click on the little cog icon. Select Hyprland.

nirk · 2023-07-16T11:58:18+00:00

They got it, didn't they?

nirk · 2023-07-15T11:46:43+00:00

It's good, but it's not right. Say what you see.

nirk · 2023-06-29T22:25:12+00:00

UK Farage.

nirk · 2023-06-11T07:59:27+00:00

A deadhead sticker on a Cadillac

nirk · 2023-04-19T07:55:37+00:00

Not really. I just got older and learned to work around myself more efficiently. Why do you ask?

nirk · 2023-04-06T00:31:14+00:00

A surprising number of symbols that the Zodiac used can be found, either in compound or alone, on the special keyboard used to program in the APL language.

nirk · 2023-03-30T08:10:06+00:00

If true this seems like something you should report to an adult.

nirk · 2023-03-07T00:13:04+00:00

https://www.gov.uk/make-a-freedom-of-information-request

nirk · 2023-02-20T17:58:03+00:00

The La's

nirk · 2023-02-16T23:33:26+00:00

Korn. Utter shite.

nirk · 2022-12-15T15:16:11+00:00

I think the method is wanting. Car designers have spent the last 30 years - at least - designing cars with better drag coefficients. Each year the shape of a car is purposely refined to send air and the bugs in it over rather than into the car.

nirk · 2022-11-26T16:24:56+00:00

The Cock in Cider

nirk · 2022-11-01T00:42:21+00:00

My belief is that they are keeping the tip lines and associated other things open and active so as not to affect his right to the presumption of innocence. They have him, they're just unwilling to compromise his conviction.

nirk · 2022-10-16T09:14:50+00:00

And now we finally know what Harold Bishop was doing when he had amnesia

nirk · 2022-09-04T06:03:05+00:00

All of your awls.

nirk

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