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Met Police - learning results of submissions
London camera cyclists may be interested to know that, according to a response I've just received from the traffic public reporting team (after I said that if they wouldn't tell me the outcome of a submission I would have to make an FOI request for it) that apparently "a project is underway and hopefully will be live in December 2024, where you will be able to view the results of Public Reporting traffic offences." That would be a definite step forward if it comes to pass!
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- hapaxlegomenon 1 hour 7 min ago
Not a single picture of the rear dropout....
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- Hypnoswan 2 hours 25 min ago
I am surprised You didn't comment on the different length of the hems between the watershed fabric and the internal fleece as it's a good couple of...
- eburtthebike 3 hours 32 min ago
No. The BBC has been anti-cyclist for at least forty years. Like you, I'm puzzled, but I've been puzzled for forty years and nothing seems to...
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You two need to go for a bike ride.
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pretty sure Force had fairly significant hood changes in D2.
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Would love to hear what Briggs has to say about this. Yup won't hold my breath
- geofft 6 hours 40 min ago
Can't say that was my experience touring Taiwan last year. Taipei was a bit hard in places to find or keep on the bike route but no worse than...
- Dnnnnnn 7 hours 13 min ago
That's why I tend to go via Colston Street and Park Row!
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Perhaps it was one of those terrible military "accidents" where bio-weapons were released and went further than intended or lingered for too long? (Like Gruinard Island)
Now boy did you forget your Latin? What case should it be in, write it out 100 times all over this nice clean wall. Romani ite domum.
Abbreviated from Monty Python
Just remember the LancsFilth Dodge! They refused to tell me what they actually DID when they claimed they would take action after a gross offence by a bus driver. FoI, ICO, Information Tribunal procedure terminated by the Upper Tier Tribunal when I was refused leave to appeal there. That takes ages so I'm going to repeat the FoI request soon. They're prepared to spend all that time and effort refusing - obviously because what they did was send the joke advice letter or did nothing at all. They don't like lying in print!
Nice use of 'Tribunal', in a non-Roman context
I'm reminded of King Leonidas's comment at Thermopylae "...if".
Spartan response to Philip II of Macedon ("If I invade Laconia you shall never rise again!" Spartan response: "If.") I think, a century after Thermopylae, but yes, we shall see...
You two are going to have to help out the undereducated here!
On a side note, very happy to hear the Met may be publishing the outcomes of reporting. Will have to wait and see what it ends up being.
The Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) was one of the most important battles of the ancient world, where 7,000 Greeks, led by the Spartans under Leonidas, defeated a Persian invasion force under Xerxes of between 120,000-300,000 men. 140-odd years later Greece was invaded by Philip II of Macedon; having defeated several of her city states, he sent the message to Sparta as above, "If I invade Laconia you shall never rise again!" to which the Spartans replied "If." This is the origin of the word "laconic" meaning brief and to the point, Laconia being the region of which Sparta was the capital.
On the sidenote, yes it will be interesting to see whether they fulfil their promise, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for the moment. The email I received yesterday promised that not only would cases be listed in future but there would be access to historical cases as well so it will be interesting to catch up on old submissions where no information has been provided apart from the fact that in an NIP was issued.
Cheers for the lesson! Wasn't expecting one so was pleasantly surprised, especially getting to find the origin of "laconic"!
Thermopylae is generally thought of as a Persian victory as they killed every Greek and those Greeks that were sent away when they found out Xerxes had circumvented them retreated, the 300 Spartans and some allies then held the Persians up for a further day but were all killed. The naval battle Salamis was the really big defeat for the Persians and Platea was a bit of an undecided one but the Persians retreated so the Greeks are probably justified in claiming it.
Yes, that's a fair enough way of looking at it. I suppose it's in some ways the same as the Blitz in World War II, by any objective measure the Germans won the Blitz, having killed so many and destroyed so much of Britain's infrastructure, but the British just managed to hold them off enough to prevent an invasion, so in the wider context it's a British victory.
They were handed the victory on a Platea?
Readers may be interested to hear that the war was started when the Greek philosopher Idsius (who Plato later described as a bit of a numpty) proposed abolishing horse lanes which were used to provide segregation from close passing chariots. Idsius also proposed that all horseriders wear Greek alphabet plates, as this would eliminate all known traffic safety issues.
The Persians on the other hand were very pro safe horse riding and had recently expanded their lane network, with several redesigned roundabouts, including the famous Mashad double decker gyratory system. When the Persians heard about Idsius' proposals,they were enraged and invaded.
My blunder will have those that had the thankless task of teaching me Latin & Greek to be turning in their graves!
My posts would have those who had the similarly thankless task of teaching me leaping from their graves and crying, "My God, it's only taken 40 years but Harris has actually remembered something at last!"
Alea iacta est.
"Hoc Rendel dixit"; tu quid?
Erm... "Caecilius est in horto."
Yeah, I bet he's just lounging around whilst his slave is working in the atrium
Poor old Grumio. But I do seem to recall he had a good thing going with the kitchen maid and possibly Caecilius' missus as well so...
There's a book that can help you with that! I can't remember if it covers traffic jams on the Via Appia specifically but I'm sure there are some suitable phrases for addressing other road users.
It's terrible - I did Latin at O level (got an A, IIRC). I remember doing Virgil in the exam. But now I'm reduced to this…
Somehow "veni vidi erravi" doesn't have quite the same ring as the original.
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