cannibal seagulls in thistle street lane that ate the spicy duck from the chinese on frederick street were not good
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CEC election 2017 (May 4th)
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You are implying that the Chinese restaurant is actually serving up Peking Greater Black Back and not duck?
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this was prior to 2001, bird eating bird equals vleeseter? There was some feedback that the duck in that restaurant was very salty. Anyway owner deied he was putting binbags out instead of paying for A bin that seagulls could not rip the feck out of.
reminds me
What did the cannibal say to his wife when they were eating the clown?
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Does this taste funny to you?
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Cllr McInnes motion for Thursday Full Council meeting has been watered down. Still good the new TEC Convenor is getting straight to work, just not as good as it was. Please contact your Councillors and ask them to support it.
" By Councillor Macinnes - Action to Improve Conditions for Vulnerable Road
Users
“Recognising that officials have already started to examine issues of cycle safety, in light of the recent tragic death of Zhi Min Soh, a promising University of Edinburgh medical student, while cycling at the west end of Princes Street, the Council wishes to consider and implement measures to improve cycle safety and provide a greater sense of security for cyclists on Edinburgh’s roads.Council therefore agrees to:
1) A review of the infrastructure at the junction at the west end of Princes Street where it meets Shandwick Place/Queensferry Street/Hope Street/Lothian Road/Rutland Square, to ensure that pedestrians and cyclists can use this junction safely and conveniently. This will include early engagement with, and consideration of suggestions from, cyclist and pedestrian groups on this review;2) A continued roll-out of the proposed West-East cycleway (previously known as the Roseburn-Leith route);
3) A thorough infrastructure review of the tram line, focussing on the section between Haymarket Yards and York Place, and including points at South Gyle and Edinburgh Park where pedestrians and cyclists interact with the route; to recommend design, infrastructure, and traffic light phasing improvements to increase cyclist and pedestrian safety
and convenience; this review to engage with cyclist and pedestrian groups at an early stage; and a scoping report on this work to be brought to Transport and Environment Committee within 2 cycles;4) Steps taken to ensure design of any future tram line extension reflects council's policies to prioritise pedestrian and cyclist safety and convenience including consideration of segregated cycle lanes;
5) A medium-term action plan, to be implemented before the end of this Council term, to improve the public realm in the city centre with the aim of improving conditions for, and prioritising access for pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users; and for a scoping report on this work to be brought to Transport & Environment Committee within 2 cycles.
6) That regular progress reports on this work will be made to the Transport and Environment Committee"
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I see "acceleration" of the East-West route has now become "continuation". Anything else been watered down?
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Removal of the segregated path on Princes St.
"Continued roll-out". If the original plans had been kept to then the Roseburn/West Coates section would be underway and due to be complete in August.
That's a far weaker motion than the original. It isn't really committing to anything concrete. Political realities no doubt.
Sigh.
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I noticed the Transport Comittee membership is now published (I hadn't seen it before so this may already have been posted):
Lesley Macinnes (Convenor,SNP)
Karen Doran (Convenor, Lab)
Scott Arthur (Lab)
Gavin Barrie (SNP)
Chas Booth (Green)
Graeme Bruce (Con)
Steve Burgess (Green)
Nick Cook (Con)
Scott Douglas (Con)
Gillian Gloyer (LibDem)
David Key (SNP)Good to see David Key on there. Cllrs Arthur, Booth and Burgess all confirmed cyclists as well.
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Nick Cook and Chas Booth are antiparticles and will annihilate in a flash of light at the first meeting.
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That's 5 administration councillors and 6 opposition (which probably shouldn't be surprising).
3 out of 11 being women is slightly lower than you'd expect from the proportion of women councillors (~38% chance of three or fewer female committee members if allocated randomly)
Zero of 11 having a name which begins with a letter from the 2nd half of the alphabet is incredible, if mundane.
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"Zero of 11 having a name which begins with a letter from the 2nd half of the alphabet"
And only one M.
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Interesting that the 2 non-administration councillors for the Roseburn ward ( Murrayfield/Corstorphine) are on the TEC...
Please do contact them (or any other local councillor as applicable) and express your views about changing the local Transport mix to less polluting and more active travel modes...
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incredible, if mundane
Top CCE.
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Not that incredible. As I was collating the data of those elected across Scotland for Walk Cycle Vote, I got interested in how much more frequently candidates in the first half of the alphabet got elected compared to those in the second half. I did actually do the calculation, although I don't have it to hand at the moment - but basically if your name is 'Walker' don't bother standing for election. I think this is a known effect generally with elections, but I wondered if it was stronger for these ones where you have to put the candidates in order, especially as they are already listed in alphabetical order on the ballot paper. At that point, real life intervened and I didn't do any further analysis, but there's undoubtedly a small research project in there for politics students
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I also seem to remember from my politics student days that in America the candidate with shortest name usually wins
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in America the candidate with shortest name usually wins
Didn't work for Malcolm X.
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@sallyhinch, there is research that shows in an election where there is broadly no difference between candidates that voters just go down the rows until they run out of votes thus if your name is near the beginning of the alphabet you stand a better chance of being elected. You see this in elections to trade union national committees where maybe four places and five candidates, none of whom you might know.
Also when I challenged the leadership of a certain co-operative society they decided that the existing candidates whose names all started with W would be at an unfair advantage so names were drawn randomly on to the ballot. Strangely despite my name being the nearest to the start of the alphabet, I was randomly last on the ballot.
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Not that I think that being a 'cyclist' is a prerequisite for making sensible transport decisions, but I stumbled across this as I was looking for his Twitter account...
Following on from the Gala committee he then cycled 500 miles from Balerno High School to Paris, raising £2,500 to buy a Smartboard for an English classroom. He also cycled 1,000 miles in 12 days around all 42 Scottish football clubs to help raise money for a 2G pitch at Balerno High School.
https://www.edinburghconservatives.org.uk/people/councillor-graeme-bruce
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You may have spotted that it is not 500 miles from Balerno to Paris? Further details available on request.
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Lesley Macinnes is interested to see footage of the busy London CSHs: if anyone has some good links please send them on.
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@gembo, yeah more like 700 miles.
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@crowriver I think the 500 is made up of Edinburgh to Hull and zeebrugge to Paris. Which is fair enough as I think one time both land sections were done on bicycle.
Sometimes the crowd who do that Edinburgh to Paris event will use a minibus from outskirts of Edinburgh to get to a ferry to Belgium. The route from zeebrugge to Paris is all done by bike I think. But they need to start it in Edinburgh to justify the kilts etc.
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“I have found in my experience that those that are casual of dress are casual of mind.”
Oh, I like this.I wonder if it works with other adjectives:
Old-fashioned?
Defunct?
Antiquated?
Obsolete?
Pointless?
Archaic?
Antediluvian?
Redundant?Just a few randomly chosen adjectives, of course.
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"casual of mind"
Which is meant to mean 'lazy', 'messy', 'untidy', 'careless', 'unprofessional', 'unfocused', etc.
Can also be used to suggest 'flexible', 'open-minded', thoughtful', 'innovative', 'creative' etc.
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“I have found in my experience that those that are casual of dress are casual of mind.”
Absolutely.
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In late 2013 I was interviewed for, and appointed to, the role of manager in a bank without neck-wear of any kind.
If you can get a job as a bank manager without a tie pretty much all other bets are off.
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This chap is a stickler for rules:
http://www.scotsman.com/news/oap-to-lose-satellite-tv-after-locals-dish-the-dirt-1-969820
With people like him on community councils it is no wonder we don't get nice things.
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"I object strongly to all satellite dishes. There is absolutely no need for them and they are an eyesore. There are more than enough channels on television."
And they say satire is dead.
Presume he can see quite a few satellite dishes around Fairmilehead.
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