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Re: How many?

kije.rem...@this.bit.freeuk.com.munge (Tom Crispin) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:23:32 UT

On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:38:41 +0000, bugbear
The definition of 0 degrees was originally the line that passes north
to south through the cross hairs on the transit telescope in
Greenwich. However, just outside the boundary of the Millenium Dome
there are at least four Prime Meridians marked. People often

Re: Loophole in the new "tax on motoring"

kije.rem...@this.bit.freeuk.com.munge (Tom Crispin) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:03:00 UT

On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:39:14 +0000, Matt B
I have no doubt that is true; I have little doubt that the following
is also true: wearing goggles is an effective means of protecting
cyclists against eye injury. That doesn't imply that wearing goggles
is necessary for safe trips by bicycle.

Re: This will be a good decade for bicycling!

edo...@iw.net (Edward Dolan) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:27:01 UT

[...]
uneducated.
It is all a question of what works. You do not see many SUVs in Europe
because of the high taxes on gasoline and also because the streets are often
not wide enough for them. Many European villages do not even have streets
wide enough for a typical American sized car.
Kids going to college do not need any kind of car. They can walk, take

Re: URCM?

congo...@congokid.com (congokid) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:08:33 UT

In article <eLidnVLPqrjPe6HWnZ2dnUVZ8oli4 ...@giganews.com>, Tosspot
<Frank.Le...@esa.int> writes
Whatever was stopping my posts appearing (two missing posts in December)
now seems to have been fixed.

Re: More pavement killers escape justice

marie.law...@yahoo.co.uk (Marie) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:53:31 UT

Doug, please answer.

Re: How many?

mas...@bp.com (MasonS@BP.com) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:48:21 UT

Apparently not:
[link]

Re: How many?

bugb...@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim (bugbear) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:38:41 UT

I though that bit of brass was 0 longitude *by definition* ?
BugBear

Re: How many?

mas...@bp.com (MasonS@BP.com) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:24:42 UT

I'd agree except that the Victorians correctly celebrated the new
millennium in 1901.
Quote:
The Victorians celebrated the start of the twentieth century on 1
January 1901. On 31 December 1900, The Daily Telegraph published an
article on ‘The Departing Century’ by Sir Edwin Arnold. Christmas 1900

Re: Dumb question - Bra Bag?

nos...@thanks.com (caroline) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:49:55 UT

Thanks all for the proper replies....but I like this one the best! :-)

Re: Its one of those pavement killers again!

matt.bou...@nospam.london.com (Matt B) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:40:15 UT

SW wrote:
Would you blame _gravity_ as the "source of the danger" if a bridge
collapsed killing many people? Especially if the integrity of the
bridge system relied on defiance of, rather than compliance with, the
known laws of gravity?
The safety of our road system today absolutely relies on human beings

Re: URC v URD, UKT & URCM

hnkjqr...@sneakemail.com (FrengaX) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:37:20 UT

Not from where I'm looking. All three newsgroups have largely
descended into mud-throwing forums, where people take deliberately
polarised views and just start new threads saying how all motorists
are out to kill cyclists, or how cyclists are a bunch of law-breaking
tossers, etc etc. Oh, and there also seems to be little distinction

Re: How many?

hnkjqr...@sneakemail.com (FrengaX) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:32:54 UT

And there was no year "1" as such, by which I mean no-one said, at the
time, "hey, it's year 1". It's all an arbitrary start point (even
calling the start point the birth of Christ seems to be ot by a few
years, according to current 'experts'. So why not just accept that
it's easier to call 2000 the start of the millenium, etc etc?

Re: How many?

budstaffdotusegr...@btinternet.com (Budstaff) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:21:45 UT

Agree with you 100% in principle, but ISTR that the 'millennium' was
celebrated a year early 10 years ago, so I was just going with the flow.
Perhaps I should have said 'Now that the noughties are over...'

Re: URC v URD, UKT & URCM

mas...@bp.com (MasonS@BP.com) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:08:36 UT

Is there a list of known urc trolls anywhere so that those of us who
may be guilty of not ignoring them can then do so?

Re: How many?

i...@astounding.org.uk (Ian Smith) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:58:33 UT

It's also a slightly less interesting debate than anything posted by
doug. Surely there are more interesting and less repetitious topics
to discuss, like the common sense of wearing a helmet or the
mandatoryness of cycle lanes?
regards, Ian SMith