The Random & Off-Topic Thread

They are everywhere, hotels, restaurants, airports, public places....

Give up lent. It's really easy. Even I managed it.....

In fact, I have been successful at that since I was teenager. 

Sometimes you have to work out stuff for yourself.

Dunno where to ask this as I remember about the WOF book today. A friend of mine is writing her book (memoir) that's why this came to my mind. I remember when I first joined, it was talked about and actually an ongoing project at that time. How did it go? I remember the profit will go for the charity.

Perhaps an internal production initially?

Los Angeles is one of the most painfully horrific cities in the State of California. The road layout is a complete clusterf**k that it makes it clear why a lot of L.A. drivers are bad. They have an excuse. The fact that the roads are this way because they were attempting to prevent street crime is laughable. One example of how the city developed through racially motivated means. I'd imagine that's why it's so segregated. Homeless litter the sidewalks. There is a large unfinished skyscraper from a Chinese company that is now attracting graffiti artists that could be utilized to actually construct comfortable homes for said homeless people. There is hardly any traces of nature. In the more richy areas of the city, trees, scrubs, grass, and other natural elements create a barrier for the rich to pretend that they're not connected to the poor. Apartment complexes are expensive and yet cram people together as if they're nothing more than sardines.

Glasgow city centre is marvellous for driving.

It was designed, I think, by Christopher Wren. It is set out in a grid, every road is a one way street going in alternate directions.

It is a real doddle to drive in, even at rush hour. The only snarl upsare trying to join the motorways...

London was offered this system after the great fir, but declined. Look at the state of london traffic now.....

Lincoln is a pain to drive around even if you do know it these days as roadworks abound and there appears to be no real co-ordination of works. The fact that the railway station is in the centre and the tracks cross roads with frequent holdups for the level crossings make it almost medieval in effect. The ring road is useful for traffic to bypass the centre but it has yet to form a complete circle and is badly organised with many normal roundabouts and single carriageway sections. They try to modernise the city but attempt to keep the old flavour as well which, to me, seems to make for an almighty mess.

It is late at night and I found a new Twitch channel that streams Japanese Sumo Wrestling. Sumo was something that caught my interest before, but sitting down to watch matches is actually really nice. This is a sport with a simple premise and a simple goal.

The Goal: To push your opponent out of the ring OR to get your opponent to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of their feet.

The matches tend to be short, but there is something so eloquent and sophisticated about them.

Look up MidnightSumo if you're interested.

I have moved this thread to the Random and off topic thread.

We have too few members to cope with lots of little threads, it makes life a whole lot easier for us mods too, and remember, there are only three of us. If you can, please add stuff to existing threads. 

Here in Britain Milton Keynes has excellent roads: the roads/road signs/traffic lights all work perfectly and it is a highly organized system.

I haven't been to MK for a while - a few years - but will be going there in the next few weeks.

Over here the current joke is to use our roads to practice putting. Every road has 18 holes.

Maybe so....

But I bet we have more rich twats than you.