I’ve got Patagonia. Very durable and comfortable. Completes the Dadcore look along with some Merrel Moabs.

According to the book I read, the only reason that Giuliani became Trump’s attorney was because he’d work for free, and no one credible was prepared to do the job.

If you are concerned that his wife is not acting in his best interests then it may be worth a call to the OPG

And the social services adult safeguarding team.

It amazes me how miserable most of these super-successfullucky people seem to be.

@Jolsa these

Facebook is the digital equivalent of selling fags. Technically legal, and some would say respectable, but you’d have to be doing some mental contortions to not be aware of the harm that you’re perpetrating.

I’m a fan of lighter tyres at lower pressures with inserts.

I used Cushcore because that’s what I tried first. Some people say that inserts can make the tyre feel dead through the high ramp up, but I don’t find that with Cushcore.

If I was buying again, I’d use the slightly lighter weight Cushcores.

Examining them whenever I change tyres is interesting because it shows just how many pinch flats they’ve prevented.

I actually find it easier to fit tyres with Cushore than without because they tend to inflate straight away.

I wear earplugs at night and sleep much better for them.

Get up at the same time every day, no lie ins.

Amen brother. Increasingly harder to find though sadly, it’s all 8% IPAs that taste like Lilt these days…

+1

Assuming I recover, does having had it confer as much protection as the jab?

Generally, no.

Set up a custom reminders list on your phone for the shopping list. Share it with other people in the household.

Same goes for meal planning. Just make the checked options visible and uncheck them to put them back in the plan.

Also to use your phone on the tube, you need to have a debit/credit card registered with Applepay or equivalent and the express transport option enabled.

I’ve used the Euston Travelodge a few times to catch an early Eurostar. It’s not a hotel, or really an area that I’d like to spend a lot of time hanging around in, but it’s cheapish and convenient and the rooms are clean and comfortable. I’d go so far as to say it’s much better than it looks from the outside.

However it’s not really a special occasion hotel.

5 – winter flats, summer flats, winter clipless, summer clipless, commuting clipless.

The “deplorables” aren’t big enough on their own to give him a majority, however without them the Republicans have no practical way of assembling an election coalition of voters.

The main thing that they care about is immigration.

Fox and the Murdochs despise him, as do most of the people who’ve worked for him, but they love the money that he brings them. However the fascination that he holds is starting to wear thin, even with Fox news watchers.

 R2D2-ing

Top level verbing there.

And one for the stolen from STW lexicon alongside “throbber”.

I grew up with an emotionally abusive and controlling father.

Some conflict is normal in families, especially with growing children as they move toward independence. It also does them good to realise that their parents (and by extension other people) have limits and are not perfect in a safe environment.

The difference between this sort of normal conflict and the actions of people like my father is that he deliberately set out to provoke it for his own reasons.

The very fact that you are reflecting on the consequences of your parenting actions tends to imply that you are a “good enough” parent, which, honestly IMO, is as good as you can get. Paradoxically being a “perfect” parent can cause it’s own problems.

To my mind, the main benefit of upgrading to Performance Elite is more damping adjustability. If you’re likely to use that then great, go for it, however if like me, you aren’t then I’d get it serviced and save your money and spend it on something else.

My bikes have got a ’22 Fox 36 Performance Elite and an old ’17 Pike RC. I can honestly say that as long as they’re both decently set up and serviced I don’t really notice a difference from one to the other.

60 miles for one day isn’t a lot. Over 5 consecutive days on a ridiculous bike, to my mind, it’s quite a lot.

There are loads of myths in (Italian) cooking that aren’t really based in fact.

I may have done this before but “gift” as a verb.

I’m currently half way through experimenting with Squirt drip wax for this very reason.

There’s already a thread on this.

Having read the Secret Barrister’s book, although there are things that we could do to improve the law (speed and quality of justice, reforming our ridiculously biased libel laws), the presumption of innocence is always going to be an issue in these sorts of cases, especially where the defendant has greater resources than the prosecution.

I do think that the culture needs to change. Optimistically I think it is, although I’m aware as a man who works in a female dominated environment that I’m likely to be blissfully unaware of most of it.

That’s a hell of a commute.

Is the Arkose 1* or 2*?

The thing that slows me down are the mudguards, rack and bags that I have on my Arkose for commuting.

Have you thought about a hardtail?

Gorogoa

High Dam is both a lovely walk, and possibly a good place to wild swim.

I doubt they’d be awful, but to my mind 35s go with 2.6s.

I’m currently reading “Siege: Trump under fire” and one thing that jumps out is that Trump and his family are not conventionally clever (to say the least), but he is very good at getting what he wants.

A Dirtsuit for when it’s truly filthy.

I also saw it years ago in London, and found it both hilarious and offensive to the point that the offence was part of the hilarity.

Even so, when I saw it, people got up and walked out at various points, and at the time it felt like they’d almost come deliberately to be offended.

Are people still performatively walking out when it starts to get “offensive”?

Agree entirely about Andor and Rogue One.

The rest is for the fan boys and girls.

Yeah, I’m really pleased with mine too.

Was it the faintest echo of someone telling everyone that they “ride a Geometron”?

It’s very specific the a Geometron G1 frame.

Mutators.

I was going to suggest 25mm.

Thanks.

What glue would people recommend to glue the pads back to the helmet polystyrene type material please?