Interesting Links for 15-11-2024

[andrewducker]

1. New Counterstrike map inspired by Edinburgh

(tags:Edinburgh games video )

2. The Onion acquires Infowars

(tags:wtf TheOnion )

3. I tried the best £5 dinner in London: The Ikea restaurant

(tags:ikea food )

4. The Onion's official announcement "Here's Why I Decided To Buy 'InfoWars'" is hilarious

(tags:TheOnion funny )

5. Is it time to disestablish the Church of England?

(tags:religion UK politics )

6. Kawasaki norovirus symptoms and how to avoid UK's 'highly contagious' winter bug (I'm pretty sure this has gone through my while family in the last week or so)

(tags:disease )

7. pedestrians spend more money than people arriving by car, and pedestrianised town centres have higher sales.

(tags:walking business )

8. Scottish councils reject SNP proposals to partner with religious charity that says sex workers are "possessed by demons"

(tags:sexwork Scotland OhForFucksSake )

9. Loved ones of those choosing assisted dying are being unfairly maligned

(tags:euthenasia death love )

Comments

[cmcmck]

5. It's been time for decades!

8 If 'tis so, then they were some of the kindest people I ever met unlike some religious groups.

[simont]

#5 struck me as a very impressive counterexample to Betteridge's Law!

[bens_dad]

7. Misleading sub-head ?

pedestrians spend more money than people arriving by car ...

Our high streets don't have "drive-thru's" and most high streets shops don't have their own car parks, so this line misses the point. At first I thought this was about people who walked to the high street.

Kendal still has a high street and it was pedestrianized twenty plus years ago*, but cycles can go both ways and buses and some other motorized vehicles can go one way, so it isn't plain sailing for pedestrians. I do remember visiting the greengrocer when the high street was still the trunk road to the Lake District, and being able to park on the streets just off it.

I suppose my real problem with the article is that my issues are more about the hassle of both parking and getting the bus (cycling is usually my preferred solution to that conundrum) and I see the issue as more about the relationship between where people live and the high street than whether you can drive through it.

*by someone I was at school with.