My FiL showed me a write up of the McLaren team orders thing from the F1. I saw it all happen on the TV so was surprised to read about anger and outrage from Norris when he just seemed calm to me.

I’d be more worried about what you’ve married!

wink

i spent 2 weeks with my in-laws a while back, had a week at home then they arrived for a month’s stay. It has been good.

I am surprised

good luck aphex

Your mood could be related to the aftereffects of the general anesthetic. I’ve had a couple in the last 12 months and they are pretty heavy going. As are the post op pain killers!

I don’t think you need to feel like a fraud for asking for some additional time off work after having an operation on your neck and I doubt you GP will view you as someone trying to swing the lead.

rest and get better.

Between 8 and 6 a disabled person can park

after 6 disabled permit holders can only park for 3 hours. If they leave they can’t return for 2 hours.

I guess the restrictions outside of 8 to 6 are to stop people leaving their car overnight, or permanently.

Disabled bay at all times

Mon- Fri 8am-6pm max stay is 3 hours & no return within 2 hours. Outside those times park as long as you like.

That’s what the second image says  first and second signs aren’t the same

I’ve read this through. Is it raining too much, or is it too hot?

Would this be suitable for bullseye-ing womp rats?

My God, you shoot small animals for fun? That’s the first indicator of a serial killer, you freak

edit: lovely bike

Unlikely to get an out of control wild fire

Not a wind up post, what is the actual point of it??

Battle by walking around gorming at a phone??

That’s a dire attempt at justification lol

sounds like it is a wind-up post.

How do you send a birthday card to grandad then?

if you’re old enough to know how stamps work your grandad has probably moved on to a higher plane.

One thought he made oven chips by putting the chips in a deep fat fryer in the oven!

typical of example of over thinking by the older generations.

I have 3 bikes, but only use one of them.

I do have a variety of wheels and tyres, though.

Excellent. I’m looking forward to hearing more.

Just found the longest hair on my body.

…on the back of my ear.

in my early 30’s I found a hair growing out of my ear. I plucked it out only to discover that it was gray. humbling moments.

And don’t forget to stretch.

I said it before and I’ll say it again, I like that bike. Love the colours.

will Specialized (re)introduce a model to sit between the Epic EVO and the Stumpjumper 15 – a Camber perhaps?

my first thought when I saw the price

Because heaven forfend that we might provide anecdotal or otherwise irrelevant detail in a post.

it would help keep the readers focused on the important things

None of this is relevant to the thread.  I’m not questioning the actions of the staff, I posted to ask what legal rights they have.

If you’d left the actions off the staff out of your post, no one would be talking about them.

Store workers freak out about rucksacks because it is part of their job  if they don’t, they get reprimanded.

I’ve been to that self same store carrying that self same rucksack like twice a week for the last three years.  You’d think they’d have worked it out by now.

A couple of things leap out from this statement. First, do you actually think that members of the security staff of a tesco will remember you from one visit to the next?

Secondly why do you go to a shop twice a week if it annoys you so much? I’m assuming that it’s your only option, but if you bought more on each visit you wouldn’t need to go as often.

To be honest, writing a strongly worded letter of complaint to the head office is probably your best course of action.

the data is only available for tyres that were tested. For every mm of wear there will be a decrease in performance. at what point do you replace the tyres?

Wouldn’t that be the nuance?  when the individual decides that they are no longer comfortable with the performance of their tyres, within the boundaries set out by the law.

Also, no non-boost sizes (that I can see), so the gravel world is excluded, which seems odd given how big gravel is these days, particularly in the US.

have you not heard that gravel is gong boost for 2025?

only kidding. Aren’t One Up a mountain bike component company?

Inflatoplane – why get an eBike when you can have an inflatable plane?

because you can’t take the plane on bike trails.

But veryvarying reports on whether any of these really work with midges?

Full disclosure, I’ve not used mine on Scottish or Welsh  midgies, but they do work on the Canadian variety.

Anyone had similar?

my son did a poo like that once. His call of , “it came out before I sat down,” did not prepare me for just how brown the bathroom had become.

Thermacell works very well for keeping midges away

I think Marino machines his own dropouts

Please explain John Tomac.

he was training to race on the road. To keep a similar position and to develop the same muscles on his mountain bike as he would on his road bike he fitted drop bars to his mountain bike.

Good looking frames.

I often toy with the notion of ordering one but  never do.

as mentioned above about getting a progressive wheel rate, I’d need to buy a shorter shock to get it to work as I’d like (or think I’d like, I’d not know till the frame was built) and that puts the cost too high for me.

that said, I love the shade of red Marino uses.

I know this sounds bad, but it’s kind of nice to see that even super-humans like Remy can crash.

I completely understand what you’re getting at, but he also fractured some vertebrae a couple of years ago. Consequences are always worth considering.

Grail gloves are excellent. The specialized BG stuff is generally good in my experience.

Even encountered one mum in a full on zoom meeting with kids in tow

She probably has a job and doesn’t get to choose which meetings she attends.

👍

Has that Maxxis tyre only been doing right hand turns, looks like two different height cornering knobs on each side.

Is it’s for use on dirt ovals? Cycle speedway, perhaps?

edit:and bugger, I was happy with my tyres. Now there’s another to fret over!

I’ve got a son who has looked at emigrating long term, beyond a gap year type visa, and he needs really significant savings or niche skills or both.

there are ways to get into Canada that can get around these needs. There was also a scheme running where you could convert your gap year visa into something more long term.

This may help:

edit: the program has been paused for 2024.

https://yukon.ca/en/immigrate-yukon#

Depends how long your memory is. And which part of the UK you’re talking about. I know lots of people who emigrated to nearby countries out of economic necessity, when moving to other areas of the UK was a totally unaffordable alternative. Things have changed though… moving, broke, to a country with the hope that your job opportunities are better isn’t going to be an option if things get worse here for people in some areas of the UK.

Well true, yes, if you were moving from being the “average” UK resident to the “average” resident of the destination. But not many people did that for the reasons you state.

im talking in the context of now. if you are not a refugee you need to be able to offer the new country something that they want. The days of shipping orphans to Canada or being able to buy residency and ticket to Australia for £10 are long gone. The ability to pop across the channel to get a job, as we are all aware, is also gone.

what I was trying to do was answer the question “why are people against emigration?” My answer was, because it is not as simple as buying a ticket to a foreign country and getting a job when you arrive.

As for the uncomfortable subject of stolen land, the people of Britain had already had their land stolen from them by the same sorts of people. I’m not trying to justify anything by that statement.

I’m not trying to denigrate your efforts and success, it’s clearly hard earned. But it’s not an opportunity many have.

emigrating in modern times is very different to emigrating 100 years ago. In the context of moving from the UK as a UK citizen you’d likely be one of the better off in your native country.

Excuse the term, but it is a lifestyle option rather than an economic necessity.

edit: and being able to choose your lifestyle is a huge privilege.

@ratherbeintobago thanks for the warning. Hoping that your knowledge of this is professional rather than personal.

The big hurdle with emigration is that you have to meet the requirements set out by the country that you want to live in.

Antibiotics will clear it up.

I got one on on the underside my scrotum once.

Once she stopped laughing Mrs H removed it.

did she also find it?

I put my bike in a bike box that I got from a bike shop. Did the same for the return.

Be sure to clean your bike throughly, including around the suspension links, steerer tube and under the saddle. It will be less stressful when you arrive.

The coffee served with the complimentary breakfast in motels in the USA has to be as bad as it gets.