I find this outrageous.

[Accy cyclist]

Thread drift.
Where was this rally due to be accy?
I was in clitheroe when it was on last year and have a vague memory that some folks said it would most likely not be held there in the future.
Also, do you or the mutt have a scooter?

I don't know about the venue changing. I was talking to a scooterist the other week about it being cancelled. He said it wasn't cancelled as such as due to the lockdown back in March it hadn't been organised then with it being over 6 months off the date. He told me that him and his scooter club still have Sunday ride outs. When you say it would most likely not be held there in the future. Do you mean held in the Ribble Valley but not Clitheroe,or out of the Ribble Valley altogether?
As for me and mutt having a scooter or having scooters,no we don't. I had one way back in 1979/80,but not since. Though at last years rally i saw a dog in a sidecar attached to a Lambretta.

 

[Blue Hills]

I don't know about the venue changing. I was talking to a scooterist the other week about it being cancelled. He said it wasn't cancelled as such as due to the lockdown back in March it hadn't been organised then with it being over 6 months off the date. He told me that him and his scooter club still have Sunday ride outs. When you say it would most likely not be held there in the future. Do you mean held in the Ribble Valley but not Clitheroe,or out of the Ribble Valley altogether?
As for me and mutt having a scooter or having scooters,no we don't. I had one way back in 1979/80,but not since. Though at last years rally i saw a dog in a sidecar attached to a Lambretta.

I had the idea it wasn't going to be in clitheroe - can't remember why - concerns from council/it getting too big? Very welcome in clitheroe as far as I was concerned but gawd knows why they selected it in the first place. I had two scooters - both Vespas - crashed the last one into the front of a car and that was the end of my scooter career. Luckily no dog on board.

 

[Drago]

Can't have those scooterists cutting up rough. Half a pint of shandy and they may tell a crude joke or somesuch, and that would be the end of civilisation as we know it.

 

[Oldhippy]

I wonder if the German population had these discussions in the thirties but just let it happen before their eyes before realising they could no longer have a choice.

 

[Badger_Boom]

I wonder if the German population had these discussions in the thirties but just let it happen before their eyes before realising they could no longer have a choice.

I always put it down to people being dim enough to think that they are ‘us’ rather than ‘them’ and it being too late when the penny drops.

 

[Blue Hills]

hang about - has anyone actually established that what was in the OP is actually true?

 

[Oldhippy]

That's the thing though isn't it? It becomes 'real' as the conversation progresses wether it ever was actual or not.

 

[Edwardoka]

Who can forget the bit in Nineteen Eighty Four where Winston's neighbour Parsons was turned in for thoughtcrime by his own child!
It's a slippery slope!

 

[Oldhippy]

The Stasi and Gestapo used people's greed and fear to get the job done, we have the Murdoch empire as a mouthpiece.

 

[Blue Hills]

That's the thing though isn't it? It becomes 'real' as the conversation progresses wether it ever was actual or not.

not for me.
i fear this thread is disappearing up its own orifice.
and for folks to peddle their various apocalyptic conspiracy theories of a damp sunday.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Theres a few people I don't like. I will bubble them for nowt but £50 makes worth while. Does it have to be true? Or can I just make it up!!

This is why the Stasi in Germany had so much information they could barely handle it: people dobbed anyone they didn't like for anything, true or not.

 

[DRM]

That law never came into force as it was found that the minister who wanted it was a director of the firm manufacturing the breathalisers.

Plus if drink driving was stopped who would buy all those vehicules sans permis.

 

[DRM]

Maybe not for that,but if i foolishly open the door and they get a whiff of my cannabis farm can they demand entry?

I'd also like like to take you to task Mr D about your comment(post 36)regarding posters on here posting pictures of their pets! Here's my mutt wearing his mod parka,in anticipation of wearing it at the Ribble Valley mod/scooter weekender this weekend,which due to the virus had to be cancelled. You can't begin to imagine how upset he was when i broke the news to him!

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Put him a Jam album on the stereo to make it up to him

 

[DRM]

The Stasi and Gestapo used people's greed and fear to get the job done, we have the Murdoch empire as a mouthpiece.

The Stasi deliberately recruited knarks who were too frightened not to spy on neighbours, friends and family, usually by having something on the person they recruited

 

[Drago]

Love them or hate them, you can't deny that the Stasi got things done.

No faffing about with fines or the like on the Isle of Man. No siree, break the rules there and you go to prison for 6 weeks, doesn't matter who you are or the excuse, no arguments. So far the island remains C19 free.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-53868709

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-53814795

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...d-isle-of-man-breaking-covid-quarantine-rules

Perhaps the students that are bleating about being confined to their rooms could try visting there and see how they get on.