What doesn't require a license, but should?

@Sevendays Yep 💯

@Sevendays That's occurred to me too!

@NerdyPotato That does surprise me, for a country that seems so keen on cycling.

Perhaps the Dutch don't like to go anywhere for pure pleasure for its own sake, apart from on their main holidays. I read not long ago that there are very, very few public footpaths in Holland's countryside; and that Dutch visitors to Britain find it hard to comprehend the sheer number and variety of such paths here.

Yet I'd have thought they'd be really keen on at least elctrically-assisted cycles, because I think they allow conventional, petrol-fuelled motorcycles. The only difference really, is the vehicle's power.

@ArishMell electrically assisted bicycles are very popular, but electrically powered ones are illegal. If you don't want to peddle, you should upgrade to a scooter.

@NerdyPotato Ah,, I see. Thankyou.

@SStarfish 1000%

@smileylovesgaming No breeding until having demonstrated your ability to be parents to your own children....

@4meAndyou I hate the idea of licensing bike riding for Christ's sake the helmet laws already piss me off.

I have no idea where you live but I can tell you Ohio already has laws against bike riding on sidewalks, light requirements for bicycles, helmet laws, and all bikes are supposed to be ridden on the roadway following all the laws that motorists have to follow. That is enough for me.

@WillaKissing I used to live in South Boston when I first met the ex. Things were primitive at best regarding bike riding in the city. Perhaps by now, things have improved...but bike riders did NOT use hand signals in those days, they DID ride on sidewalks, and were, generally speaking, a hazard.

@4meAndyou With all the colleges big and small in Ohio and with the way the students at those colleges acted on bicycles, and the amount of bike pedestrian and bike car accidents the state legislated laws on bikes in the early 1990's in Ohio. So, bicyclists can be cited and held legally and civilly accountable for their biking when they do it irresponsibly.


But I also recognize not matter where anyone lives in this world as far as bikes and vehicles go the laws are only as good as the folks that follow them. And why Ohio allows for civil lawsuits for bike as well as criminal charges.

@therighttothink50 haha I see what you did there…I showed my driver’s license to vote this week.

That's why I stopped voting because of Voter ID

@Jacko1971 Actually they do need a license, my older stepsister owns her own salon she has been styling since she was 19 in 1982 after she went through a local LaJames school.

@NativePortlander1970 you don't in the UK to the best of my knowledge. I believe most have done a college course of some kind.

@Jacko1971 🙄

@acpguy I believe teacher’s do get a license if they graduate, well most of them. I knew one student who was a sorority girl and she was very superficial. She was a student teacher at an elementary school. I’d ask her how it was going and she go off about a cute blonde-hair little boy in the classroom, I guess he was the pet. Anyway she let out the F-bomb in the teacher’s lounge after getting a soft drink from the machine and it fizzed up and sprayed on her clothing. They heard it out in the hall and some teachers heard it in the nearest classrooms. She got told to leave. The school wouldn’t give her a license as she was weak in a lot of things. But she had finished her classes and they gave her the degree in teaching. What she did with I have no clue.

@cherokeepatti I received a degree in education so I do know a little about teachers even though that was in 1972. My wife is an instructor at our state college for the past 20 years. What I have seen of teachers for the past 20 years is nothing but horrible as colleges today would give a degree to a rock and they do not teach only in classes they received a degree in. Most teachers couldn't write a term paper on their own, do higher level math or have knowledge of basic biology. They have their degrees from academics that are more concerned about getting their pay checks without very much work and push liberal / socialist ideals onto their students. We need to get things turned around as our kids are not even close to the level of education of other countries.

@DeWayfarer Who knew you could even be a felon ?
That was a surprise to me.

@bijouxbroussard the framers really didn't want a democracy. Only a few were pushing for one. They had to compromise far too much just to get anything.

@rinkydinkydoink not everyone minor things I can definitely overlook major fuck ups I cannot and the truth is in the last 15 years or so we have not had great leadership and it's only getting worse we are getting to the bottom of the proverbial Barrel as it were

@KingofBones1 there is no law that requires any education or degree to be a politician

@MethDozer well to my knowledge I heard that there was but if that's the case then there should be because how are you going to make laws for others when you have no understanding or grasp of the law itself that to me is the most absurd standard that I've ever heard of