https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45636870
Children have been told they will be banned from cycling to their south London school if they do not put number plates on their bikes.
Teachers at Stanley Park High, in Carshalton, are introducing the scheme so members of the public can report pupils cycling dangerously.
The secondary school said the main aim was to keep children safe.
Charity Cycling UK questioned why Stanley Park High "want to make cycling to school more difficult".
Our country is fucking absurd sometimes.
BBC News in 2050: "WOMAN SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS IN THE ISO-CUBES FOR DANGEROUS DRIVING AND HIT & RUN":
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Baby also arrested but was murdered by firing squad.
https://i.imgur.com/7WmvKQQ.webm
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In Estonia, a bicycle license is a real thing. A kid can drive on the road alone when he's at least 10 years old, knows traffic rules and has a bicycle license. It can be taught in school or by a parent and after that, there is a final exam, with 2 parts - 15 choice question with 13 correct answers and a driving exam, if you can really bike around.
It is kind of a joke for us though, I have never done it and I have never seen anyone actually check for it. Sounds like it is more like a thing to teach the kid how he has to do similar steps for a real license later on.
I have never heard of number plates for bikes here. I didn't even know you can get them.
This is just ???
You can't, the school is making their own
Headteachers in this country just seem to exist to churn out pointless rules and regulations for no particular reason. I remember the school I went to making up new pointless rules almost every month. I feel like they just do this to try and justify their pay bracket so it looks like they're doing something.
It’s 2018, and Another Brick in the Wall still feels relevant today as the day it was first recorded.
I swear that British schools are only so controlling and filled with rules and regulations, so that kids grow up desensitized and compliant to an almost oppressive government. How would you see injustice in TV Licenses, knife bans, censorship, and little privacy if you've been raised to think those kind of restrictions are normal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63NCvjX7X8E
nigga u arent even allowed to walk across the road when u want what you talkin at us for lol
also ur subject to just as much censorship and invasion of privacy as us man, its the same for every western nation
Objectively not, the UK is prosecuting thousands for random internet bullshit like reposting song lyrics and jokes about nazi dogs, stuff that'd be completely protected if you had the US's free speech policies.
Not like either the UK or the US is anywhere close to perfect though, and let's not turn this into a competition of who is worse overall, nobody wins, everyone is shit.
wut
I didn't realise people were being prosecuted for reposting song lyrics. I'm not disbelieving you, but do you happen to have a source for that? I totally agree that we need free speech laws desperately though.
Yeah sure, always feel fine asking for sources.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921
God, that's the height of absurdity - how depressing...
This sucks for the kids but i wouldn't mind a bicycle license plate. The amount of fuckers riding in the road holding up traffic thinking they're entitled to it, is too damn high. If I have to pay my taxes on my vehicles to use the roads then so should they.
Erm, I totally disagree, for several reasons.
Bicycles take up barely any space on the roads.
Bicycles are very light and as such do not cause damage to roads like cars do, which is one of the major reasons cars are taxed.
Cycling is a healthy activity and promoting healthy acts is generally a good idea.
Them being small means fucking nothing when they're dead center of the lane, or on a road you cant pass them on.
My motorcycles are light and don't tear up the road, but they're taxed.
I don't give a fuck if it's healthy. Go ride a fucking trail or a neighborhood. People are on the road because they need to go somewhere, not to be stuck behind your slow ass.
You're definitely up there for one of the consistently worst posters on this forum. Good job.
How so?
You're needlessly melodramatic and hostile. You appear to think in absolutes more than one should.
Find a single post thats melodramatic. This isn't the jedi order, absolutes are okay?
I mean, it's my opinion. And also irrelevant to this thread. And it doesn't make me a "terrible poster" considering most of my posts are in lmao pics and misc comments. I guess im sorry if it appears melodramatic?
Obviously it's irrelevant to this thread except you literally just asked me to find a melodramatic post of yours. Look, I don't want to just be bumping the thread needlessly to argue and don't really enjoy fractious conversations, but it'd just be cool to be a bit more measured. <3 Alright, that's me for the night.
Bicycles only end up on the road when there's no bike infrastructure in place, blame whoever designed where you live.
My city is really old, so pedestrian infrastructure was just a given because that's how people used to get around. Now that cars are turning out to be a bad idea, it's really beneficial to have this old style of city design.
I went to school in the UK and I remember the headteacher doing shit like changing what entrance pupils were allowed to use every week for no real reason. If you used the wrong entrance you would get punishment exercises.
It was an OK school otherwise but the headteacher was very controlling.
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