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Day of Ashura so I'm told.

Not a demo or protest, a Shia commemoration of one of their martyrs

*edit* just googled this and looks like I was told wrong

What "already"?

 

There many different definitions of the term and I was referring to Halibut's which would be incorrect without the exclusion qualifier.

The official one not the sheffield forum chatter one

The definition needs to include the exclusion of food, nutrients and water.

The definition excludes nutrients of essential dietary requirements already.

Alcoholic drinks are not essential. Just because the usual means of consuption is to ingest it, brewed in with other ingredients no more excludes it from being a psychoactive drug than would consuming hash coffee* just because the hashish has been mixed in and ingested by drinking

Alcohol is a drug. An illegal drug in some parts of the world. And there is an argument that it would be classified as an illegal drug if it had only recently been discovered and manufactured but it is historically part of our culture. That doesn't make it "not a drug", just one that is considered "socially acceptable"

*Caffeine too is a psychoactive drug

Alcohol a drug, that's news to me my friend.

Well, you can say you learned something today. Alcohol is classified as a psychoactive drug.

A few on here are all for legalising drugs, I wonder if spice is on the list.

"A few on here are all for legalising drugs, I wonder if alcohol is on the list." <-- what you might have been saying if alcohol was banned and someone related a typical Saturday night in town...

In all seriousness though, synthetic cannaboids were created as a way to try to get around the drug laws. They probably wouldn't exist if it were not for the criminalisation of drugs.

Does this mean it's possible to walk along the footpath near the climbing place now?

well now tell me what a somalian refugee at 28 years of age got to offer....

Yeah why doesn't someone tell him that "his lot" are supposed to come over here and not integrate so we can moan about them not integrating. So it's a damn cheek coming over here and integrating

So it's bad that First have bought some buses as one might break down one day.

Right. OK then...

OK, let's say "...yet."

Them grapes taste BAAAAD

they seldom indicate and when they do some think that doing so gives them the right to make their intended maneuver regardless of traffic ..they seldom use life-savers probably due to most of them having had no training. they are bit like baby birds in that respect once they can take off (or stay upright and pedal) they are on their own and if birds survive all well and good. .. if cyclists fail to survive then unfortunately some poor sod probably has some repairs to do their vehicle

Oh, we're on Audi drivers now?

Its a preposterous layout that gives a cyclist both green and red simultaneously. It would never be set up that way for motorised traffic.

However there is a stop line at the red light and it is possible to, and correct to stop there, in that respect its no different to left turning vehicles passing the green light and reaching the red crossing light.

As for following the green line on the OP's map, that would also involve crossing the stop line of a red light, the pedestrian crossing lights there being timed to coincide with the cycle green light, so is no different.

Ridiculous as the layout is, cycles should cross the road junction on their green but stop at the crossing red.

(Just as drivers should stop at the new crossing on Brook Hill by the university at a red light and also not enter the crossing when the exit is not clear queueing across the crossing, then set off despite pedestrians crossing on their green - since we're generalising about road users)

John Mothersole the chief executive at Sheffield Council earns £184,283 per year while the prime minister who one would think has the hardest job in the U.K earns £40,000 less.

- "Yes Donald"

- "Of course Donald"

- "Three bags full Donald"

Not difficult at all

Why do a certain few people on here get so worked up about SCC council contracts? I couldn't give a toss about what Amey and SCC are doing, none of it really affects my life one way or the other. To post constantly about the subject seems a bit strange. I could probably understand it if it was about failing hospitals, but not trees and road surfaces!!!

 

Why not just get on with your life and stop worrying and being so hateful. Who really cares?

Oh the modern "haters gonna hate" line

Council tax keeps going up, services keep getting cut but public money gets pumped into publicly traded multinationals for shareholder profit at the expense of service provision (including that which could be better spent on health and social care) and the response is "oh, you a hater"

You REALLY don't care why your council tax bill keeps going up, don't care why, don't care where the money goes? Happy with redacted secret deals with your money?

I despair

Lunchtime today thieves were stopped breaking into outbuildings on properties adjoining Rivelin Valley - they ran off whilst police being called.

Seems to be thieves looking for metal in this instance.

Worth checking your own outbuildings, allotments, and reporting to police. Local allotments have been having problems recently.

And if you saw anything today - vehicles loading up metal etc and have a dashcam reg let the police know please.

Incident number to give as reference?

There, there - It'll all be forgotten about by June despite the obviously unprecedented hardship being suffered right now.

Or the sun might not come up in the morning and it reaaly IS the end of the world.

One of the two options

Oh okay so let's not worry about the motorists who are risking their life on the roads. Sorry but if somebody feels its appropriate to pull up and leave their car because they fear for their safety then I have no issue with it.

Did your attention span not last as far as

now that the roads are driveable?

There was reason for leaving the cars (although the sense of attempting to drive some of the hills can be called into question) but as a temporary measure until the roads cleared. Most main and "main side streets" are now clear enough, so there is no reason for the cars to remain abandoned in such a way to obstruct the pavement. Even if it is not possible to drive down some of the smaller side streets, it is now possible - and an obligation - to drive the car to a place where it is parked safely, legally and not causing obstruction.

It's also been raised with streets ahead and the parking services vehicles are perfectly capable of reaching to issue tickets where cars remain dumped within parking restrictions, so it would be wise for those people to return asap, not "when they can be arsed"

Can the people who abandoned cars blocking the pavements around Crookes and Walkley get off your lazy backsides and move them to somewhere more suitable now that the roads are driveable.

There's no need for them to be left there anymore and people with prams are struggling enough up the pavements which still have snow without having to lift the pram over the pile of snow at the kerb edge and onto the road into traffic because you can't be bothered to retrieve your car from where you dumped it after you thought incorrectly that your little shopping cart was some kind of quad bike and that you could handle any weather conditions and stupidly tried spinning up the hills until you got stuck.

Thanks awfully

Thread ressurection.

Looking to self-drive hire a 12-16 seater. I have D1+E so entitlement not a problem and plenty of 7.5T experience much larger than a transit minibus so size not an issue.

Just looking for suggestions for the best value

Can pavement parkers please answer this question.

I understand the logic where a road is 1.5 vehicles wide (plus a bit of margin) thereby parking half on the pavement allows traffic flow to continue largely unimpeded - and where the pavement is wide enough for this it's reasonable enough - technicalities and legalities aside.

However many roads like those around Walkley and Crookes are only 2 vehicles wide (plus a bit of margin). Parking on the road leaves only room for 1 vehicle to pass. However parking on the pavement still only leaves 1.5 vehicle's road width so only allows 1 vehicle to pass unless it is the Harry Potter Knight bus. Impeding the traffic flow just as if they were parked wholly on the road.

So aside from getting in pedestrians' way just for the hell of it, what's the point?

That is an old photo the road has been newly tarmac'd and new lines put on.

All cyclist's use it as a cycle lane

No, they don't

and cars also recognise it as a cycle lane although it has not been sign posted as one.

They should take a refresher course then

I wear reflective clothing, hi-vis, flashing red lights on each arm and a front facing white light. Sometimes I think they merely act as a target for drivers to aim at.

NOT suggesting lighting up is a bad idea but the light can indeed act as a target. If it catches attention and is different to normal, drivers may start to look at it. People tend to aim where they are looking.

That's surely a good thing using local labour to collect and repair the bikes.

Indeed. As opposed to the kind of "McAmazon Bike" scenario that was being suggested

How on earth is this company making a profit if they have six engineers driving around the city performing repairs?

The bikes seem to be also picked up on a trailer - pulled by another bike - so I doubt they have 6 people driving around all the time.

Zero-hours contracts probably.

The maintenance is performed by an existing local Sheffield business

I imagine, from the amount of "Abandoned" bikes posted on facebook by people (for "Abandoned" read "Parked up safely and within the geofence"), police are sick of hearing about them.

Why do people seem to WANT any scheme fo fail? In such a hurry to gleefully post how the bikes are being "abandoned" by being parked up when that's what they are for!

On a trip to the main SHU building I observed 4 "students" (youths of the expected age) racing the damn things down Arundel Street!!!

 

Another use for them

There will definitely be strava segment challenges going on!