Was there any benefits from Town Twinning?

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:05 pm

Well apart from the Council members and officers going on exchange junkets that is. Lots of towns are twinned but what possible benefits could be derived from this pointless posturing. A few road signs with the twinning reference on are about the only tangible evidence that such a stupid scheme exists. Can anyone enlighten me as to the benefits?

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wine~o · Post by **wine~o** » Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:33 pm

dewaltdisney, Ringwood , Hampshire (Where I used to live) twinned with Pont Audamer (sp?) in France anyway they used to hold an annual pedal car race through the streets, So back in the 80's some time Ringwood started their own version, a bi-annual event, teams from France and England competing. (I took part myself for a few years) Raises money for charities and brings the community together https://www.facebook.com/BritishPedalcarGrandPrix/ Apart from that...

No idea.

wine~o · Post by **wine~o** » Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:37 pm

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dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:44 pm

That looks like good fun. 1 point to Ringwood

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fin · Post by **fin** » Wed Dec 08, 2021 10:34 am

wey aye south shields is twinned with wuppertal in germany apparently like

Bob225 · Post by **Bob225** » Wed Dec 08, 2021 10:51 am

Erith in Kent isn't twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham, Chatham is twinned with black hole of Calcutta

A lot of places are twinned to make them look more middle class

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Wed Dec 08, 2021 2:34 pm

That is a point Bob

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wine~o · Post by **wine~o** » Wed Dec 08, 2021 4:46 pm

dewaltdisney wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:44 pm That looks like good fun. 1 point to Ringwood

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Yes It does LOOK to be good fun, however even though I was reasonably fit and cycled a lot I can tell you it was a hard slog. A 1 and a half hour race around the streets,

OK, you did have 4 peddlers to a team, even so after 2 laps you were knackered. 2 of our 4 team members could only manage one lap before hitting the pits for a change of driver.

The pedal car we built was supposed to look like a late '60's F1 car, Low nose at the front... Once it was finished we all agreed it looked more like a mans slipper... so we called it the silver slipper.

I think it was the second time I took part that the local ITV news crew came down to cover the event. One of the crew decided to get a head on video of the action so walked out in front of the lead car, the driver went to his left to avoid a collision; the cameraman at the same time went to his right... Resulting in the cameraman being hit at quite a speed.

(Didn't see the incident heard about it later) In the meantime I was just leaving the "pits" when a police motorbike went past (responding to a call for assistance for the cameraman)

The team shouted something at me as left, couldn't hear what though.

Got up to a hairpin bend by paper mountain and the police m/c was braking right in front of me...

I hit the brakes and .... Nothing slammed into the rear wheel of the cop and very nearly took him off...

Apparently the shout from the pit lane had been "No Brakes

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Wed Dec 08, 2021 5:03 pm

The sitting angle of a peddle car is all wrong for peddling dynamics as there is no bodyweight behind the stroke, I can see you would be burned out quickly. Sounds like a great event though.

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fin · Post by **fin** » Thu Dec 09, 2021 12:32 am

be canny mad to gan to that wuppertal place. i bet theres nowt like shields there. no radgy charvers being bell ends in the town centre. no town centre weekend drinkers of their nuts on sniff, mind you.... south shields does have an absolutely Fuc$ing fantastic beautiful coastline that is quite something to see. guaranteed they dont have that over in wuppertal

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Thu Dec 09, 2021 8:47 am

My mental image of that coast remains with Get Carter.

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fin · Post by **fin** » Thu Dec 09, 2021 6:03 pm

https://www.google.com/search?q=south+s ... =599&dpr=2

fin · Post by **fin** » Thu Dec 09, 2021 6:04 pm

canny nice like

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Thu Dec 09, 2021 8:46 pm

It does look lovely Fin completely different from how I imagine it. I still prefer Mallorca though

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