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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm as AI-sceptic as the next guy but it's a bit of a stretch to say that's the worst thing about all this..!

Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sure but from the point of view of the person placing the obstacles it's not much of a deterrent if it only affects 10% of pavement users is it? I'm not saying those 10%(?) don't matter, just that it's unlikely the householder would bother...

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

*seriously considers following Talia Bhatt just because*

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I did wonder if they'd had a parking problem but it might be the corner-cutting. It's certainly not much of a pedestrian deterrent!

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You are allowed to add milk & sugar. Even in England :-)

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not so much banning as de-prioritising. I predict a growing market in secure parking garages...

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A) Yes you can. B) But anyway, nobody is saying that you have to. C) It is perfectly possible to own a car and also do most of your journeys NOT by car (and/or want to reduce how many journeys you drive). D) What do the many people who don't have a car do? So fed up with this ridiculous argument.

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wait till you see Adultbel...

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🤣 Dictation software fail or did someone actually think that was the phrase?!?

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't see why anyone would be pro-climate change. Do you mean pro- as in "agreeing that it's happening" or pro- as in "yeah, sounds good, bring it on!"?

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

YouTube ad placement annoys me to an inordinate degree. I'd usually go with Hanlon's Razor but I do wonder if the degree of intrusiveness is a deliberate nudge tactic. If so it ain't gonna work!

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Incidentally it's a useful shortcut that the conversion factor is about 5, assuming the GBP/USD exchange rate is in the neighbourhood of $1.30 (which it has been for a while)

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm in Sheffield and yeah, I said 'should'... My last bus from town is 23:30 so not *terrible* but in general services are pretty bad for a city of 550,000. And the idea that the entertainment/ hospitality sector should restructure itself for the benefit of bus companies..! How about no? Just no.

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bus services in any decent-sized city should run until at least midnight to allow people to get home from gigs. <7pm door times can get in the bin!

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, that's pretty much the norm for the UK now, and diesel's pushing £2/ litre ($10/US gal). Clearly there's been a bump recently but it's been $7‐8 for a long time...

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Congratulations! (Does anyone else silently pass judgement based on the reg plate by the way... or is it just me?) :-)

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'Thunderball' literally predicted Donald Trump. I mean I still like it but it has that edge now...

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For the cultural benefit of the nation, he should be made to drink half a pint of garum on live TV for spouting this tripe!

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Black hoodie £20, balaclava £5. Or get both for £30!"

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They'd just become self-aware and were temporarily paralysed with horror?

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I suppose if you were 21 and married a 14yo girl you might still be seen as 'old' if you'd been working a few years...

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wow, even on a bad week he's making twice my income just from his racist-shit-peddling side hustle 😮

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's funny, you 'learn' this stuff as a kid but I don't remember seeing his age described anywhere (NB I'm not a Biblical scholar!) When I got a bit older I just assumed he was middle aged (for the time), say 30-40...

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Preferably while the RNLI are a long way away looking in the opposite direction...

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It looks a lot like 'God' from Monty Python & the Holy Grail...

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And do either of these pre-date the Monty Python 'Silly Walks' sketch? 🤔

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You might laugh but it stops them rolling out of bed

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nobody knows 'oo 'e was Or Wot e was doin'

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Also 'I knew where everything was until the bloody cat knocked it all over' but that might be stretching it a little...

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well, quite. Although there is room for 'cluttered' and '100% utilised' in that metaphor too...

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Empty surfaces are the sign of an empty mind!

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

She's Buddhist but hasn't heard of karma?!?

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

OK, it's about 6" longer, I'm not sure anyone would be too bothered by that in a supermarket. My point was, not all parking spaces are created equal - it's not like an inspector will come round and demand that the spaces be made bigger. IME they tend to skimp on width rather than length anyway...

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Quite a few cars are 5m long or not far off - it's not like the ID Buzz is an outlier...

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The lwb version is a tad under 5m I think, so that def isn't a 6m space! Whoever laid them out probably read somewhere that 'a parking space is 4.8m' and didn't differentiate between normal and longitudinal - or else they were just told to fit x No into the available space 🤷

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think it was a perfectly proportionate response in this case!

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If your car is too long *and you complain about it* then yeah. No hate to anyone with a vintage Bentley or yank tank they take out once a month (I wouldn't choose to go to Tesco's in it though!)

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A lot of bays are undersized to be fair... Longitudinal bays are supposed to be 6m - pretty sure this one wasn't:

Substandard longitudinal parking space (barely long enough to contain a VW ID Buzz) at Burnby Hall Gardens, E. Yorks

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yeah, given the prevalence of auto-translate you might want to pick a different phrase..! "Message coming through, sir!" "Is it our guy?" "Nah, just some religious nutter" "Huh. Keep looking."

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

'Cringe' as an adjective is so subjective as to be meaningless. You might as well just say "I hate this but I can't say why".

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I wish that bloody worm would eat faster!

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You just earwormed me with 'Oblivion' by Terrorvision..!

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

With a name like Orla Minihane you'd think that would have come up at interview wouldn't you? 🤣 I mean where the fuck did they think that name came from..?

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Dave Redford @dave9bikes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Apparently they're only 84mm wide so that really is just bad Photoshop/ AI... or else they got Donald Trump to hold it...

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