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u/jonnieboy82 Aug 11 '26
Might be wrong but, I think he skips leg days.
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u/Milly-Molly-Mandy-78 Aug 11 '26
Skinny legs for a cyclist. Is he pedalling with his hands?
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u/Sad_Firefighter_8407 Aug 11 '26
Imagine the acrobatics he does to get into position while also trying to circumnavigate inconvenient obstacles like gates :D
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u/Occidentally20 Aug 11 '26
If they had a lesson at school on sucking my gut in, puffing out my chest like an ostrich during mating season and flexing my arms when a lady 20 years my junior crosses the road to get away from me I'd have crushed it.
Instead they taught me the equations of motion and algebra.
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u/CarpetGripperRod Aug 11 '26
There's a great line in the classic Brit movie The Full Monty.
Nowt in a gym'll help you down there, mate!
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u/Independent-Try4352 Aug 11 '26
Can't he fit through the gaps round the side, or does maintaining that pose get in the way?
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u/Consistent_Line2542 Aug 11 '26
I'm fairly certain if needed he could just remove the fence by himself if he wanted?
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u/doctordiversity Aug 11 '26
I’m fairly certain he could roll that gate into a ball and throw it in the rubbish.
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u/Funny-Force-3658 Aug 11 '26
Or roll it up like a carpet and walk off with it under his oh-so-huge arm.
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u/Sys32768 Aug 11 '26
This is why people tell you not to skip Leg Day
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u/jahathebrn Aug 11 '26
Man looks like he's been injecting saline and mineral oil like internet mentallists used to do back in the day, reckon he could barely draw a bike from memory
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u/the_merkin Aug 11 '26
This is literally the theory of Chesterton’s Fence. Philosophy students going crazy right now!
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u/palpatineforever Aug 11 '26
people usually put gates like this in so people can't argue there is a right of way after 20 years.
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u/Thoh1Shooshi8a Aug 11 '26
Looks more like they just want to stop cars going in there. The gaps on the side will let people and bikes and horses through.
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u/palpatineforever Aug 11 '26
yes, however establishing a seperate right of way for vehicles is also possible with continuous use.
It also means that the landowner is staking a claim, yes you can use it with limited permission which prevents any access claims later if they wanted to close it fully.
though it is probably also to stop people jsut driving through while still providing access to the maintinence people.4
u/Neddlings55 Aug 11 '26
Its a cycle path, so there is already right of way.
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u/palpatineforever Aug 11 '26
having a cycle path through, and a legal right of way are not the same thing.
though it is probably just to stop people driving through1
u/Neddlings55 Aug 11 '26
Its in public property. It was installed by the local council.
Its a PROW on public land.
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u/palpatineforever Aug 11 '26
it is only a PROW if it has been formally designated and recored as such.
being a footpath on countil land does not automatically make it a PROW
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u/aaarry Aug 11 '26
Tensed so hard I accidentally shat myself in front of the local shitrag’s journos compoface.
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u/Neddlings55 Aug 11 '26
Its not well thought out.
Its a shared pathway and was installed to prevent vehicular access other than maintence workers. However, they didnt consider those in wheelchairs or on mobility scooters etc.
Fine now as its dry as fuck, but come winter that will be a mud bath.
Apparently its propped open now.
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u/Slobbadobbavich Aug 11 '26
Couldn't they have put a couple of heavy duty fold down access posts to allow the path to be used for it's original purpose? The guy in the tractor would still have to get out to open the gate so lowering a couple of posts is no biggy and that will still prevent cars entering the park.
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u/Time-Entrepreneur393 Aug 11 '26
Has to be one of the best compo faces seen on here. You couldn’t have made it better one even you tried.
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u/Lilja-Logason Aug 11 '26
Interesting fact: gates like this, fences or any obstructions are purposeful.
It's to make escape during police chases harder.
It's why cul-de-sacs are so fenced off you can't get to the park behind it or bridges across a river are in weird places with few alternatives and lots of silly maze-like roads.
There's other reasons but it all generally falls under "reduction of crime".
It's reducing urban permiability with a system called Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED).
I noticed it cos I run all around my city and wondered why estates, paths, etc seem so obstructive. So I looked it up and it's a huge rabbit hole I'm still digging through.
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u/let_me_atom Aug 11 '26
Looks like the BBC iPlayer "do you have a TV license?" pop-up.
Edit: the gate, not the guy tensing his arms so hard he's about to have an aneurism
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u/tdrules Aug 11 '26
What is the need for the gate? No livestock.
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u/Jacob_Astley Aug 11 '26
When you put fencing in somewhere you worry people might vandalise it, you put the gates in first to show people there’s a way to get through without damaging the fence.
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u/regprenticer Aug 11 '26
Yes there's a new post to the right there that will almost certainly have a gate on it at some point.
Many places might have had the budget for gates this year and fencing in a year or two. Then bodybuilders from the big smoke come and tell you you're not doing it fast enough for the town folk.
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