Tricky Dicky
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I had cancer when I was 14 months old - I don't think my lifestyle was that bad at the time.
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I had cancer when I was 14 months old - I don't think my lifestyle was that bad at the time.
Lord Bracknell
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Not even when you embarked on the marijuana cure?
Tricky Dicky
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Aw, I didn't start on the Jamaican Woodbines until I was at least 2 !
I know it shouldn't be funny but thank you - that made me chuckle !
Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!
Primary data is fact
Absolutely Ed, absolutely.
So I guess you cycle to work and never want to park in the town centre. The greens have been a disaster for this city.
keaton
Big heart, hot blood and balls. Big balls
- Nov 18, 2004
- 9,712
Has it got that much harder to drive and park in the city in the last year? And if so how is this disastrous?
I agree, but why build a nuclear power station in area 10 ft from the beach in a country renowned for earthquakes and sunami's? I suspect there are not many nuclear power station in or around San Fransico?
Yes and it is Lewes road a prime example a road which I have to us everyday. Parking charges have increased hugely all local retailers complain of drop in trade due to parking charges etc. I think all councillors and politicians are self serving morons the greens are in the top echilon of self serving morons.
Lord Bracknell
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Most of the delays on Lewes Road over the past few months have been down to the roadworks - which are very nearly finished. Some of the obvious benefits of the scheme are already shining through. Buses are noticeably running more reliably. And the cycle lanes are working well and much more safely than before. Pedestrians are also benefiting from the new crossings that have been installed.
Looking at the scheme solely from the point of view of a car driver is surely a bit "self-serving", no?
BadFish
Huge Member
- Oct 19, 2003
- 17,180
The seafront is a classic example. Even before they closed off the cycle lane in front of the West Pier and a lane of traffic in the same place the queues were building well back in to Hove at peak times. Oddly at the same time the amount of spaces in the Churchill Car Park which was one of the major contributors have actually increased due to the price hikes. I cannot see for the life of me how this adds up and thought I must have be going mad, but my wife drives there at least two times a week on business and to take our daughter to a Gymboree class confirms she thinks exactly the same. A couple of cabbie friends of our have said exactly the same thing too. Even if traffic studies were to show the volume has decreased the flow seems to have slowed right down.
The other point to make is that even if car use in Brighton and Hove has decreased this is not necessarily a good thing. If - and only if - people are instead driving to Shoreham / Worthing / Eastbourne / Crawley then the overall carbon footprint may be increasing and local Brighton traders will be at risk from the big nationals and multi nationals who can afford to run loss leaders. Today's bespoke jewelers or organic food shop may be tomorrow's Tesco Extra.
Lord Bracknell
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A lot of the delays along the seafront are explained by the fact that the utility companies are constantly renewing or replacing or removing bits of underground pipework. Nothing to do with council transport policies or schemes.
Barrel of Fun
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If only there were a competitor to drive down bus prices and we would be heading in the right direction.
I hope, in the future, Brighton centre becomes a car free zone - it would look much nicer and smell better.
With the greatest of respect that's not what he asked. He asked "has it got that much harder to drive and park in the city in the last year?" to which the answer is yes. Not "has the council made it harder".
kevo
Well-known member
- Mar 8, 2008
- 9,144
Fully agree. There is a great documentary film made about this. There was a guy in America in the 1950s who came up with a natural cure that apparently was a lot more effective than traditional treatments. His book became an international best-seller, but he was discredited, bullied, hounded and threatened by the medical profession and ended up committing suicide.
The problem is that anything that can be found naturally cannot be patented. But it takes a huge amount of investment just to do the legal testing required to get a drug on the market. The massive pharma giants make billions of dollars out of NOT finding a cancer cure - there is no way they are going to be interested in investing in a drug that will cut a huge swathe through their profits. Anyone who believes otherwise is naive in the extreme. Having had a very close friend recently die of cancer, and knowing how ineffective her treatment was, I know which route I would choose to go down.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
If you look at UK cities where bus companies ARE competing, you'll generally find that it's not just on price. Competition is also a race to keep operating costs down - and this is usually achieved by cutting service frequencies on routes where the competitor is providing no service whatsoever. Evening and Sunday services disappear (or require council subsidies to survive). And night buses are non existent. You'll also find that the buses themselves are much more likely to be clapped-out old bangers. As for the "benefits" of fares competition ... these will be at the expense of losing network-wide Saver tickets.
Brighton, with its monopoly bus provider, is one of the few cities in the UK where more people have been switching to bus travel every year this century.
Lord Bracknell
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If you ever discover cancer in yourself, you'll find it is totally different from the cancer that your friend had.
The Fifth Column
Retired ex-cop
Is not all about lifestyle, some 5-10% of all cancer sufferers are simply genetically predisposed to contract the disease, it's in your genes and there's nothing you can do, there are also environmental factors to consider but generally, the healthier your lifestyle the less chance there is of contracting some forms of cancer. I don't discount that some alternative therapies may have limited success in treatment although suspect this may also just be down to a combination of the type of cancer and just pure luck but I'm fairly certain that a remedy of hemp oil, marijuana and flip flops won't be top of most people's list when researching a cure. Similarly I would not seek any solace in relying on any kind of faith in a god of any description, I'd prefer the baldness and sickness option of radiation/radio therapy and drugs every time thanks.
The Spanish
Well-known member
what was the firm that ran those crappy old buses along the a259 from brighton to newhaven and eastbourne?