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That’s rubbish, best of luck.

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Ming

Someone I know had cause to speak to his trades union today regarding turning up at depot for work tasking when it could easily be done on conference call, turns out a lot of managers are working from home or doing half days but expecting staff to turn up and work all hours, interfacing with a lot of staff and public.  Said Really Militant Transport workers union are not at all happy about this………..

Just had a hellbender fitted to my 2015 spesh enduro.  I’m a serial bearing killer (my shop use me as guinea pig for any new bearings/systems…….I still kill em).  So far it’s survived the two months of sitting in the bike room but as its drying out it’ll be getting tested soon.

This:

I think ‘don’t be a dick’ is fully applicable here

I’ve just come off a run of 7 nights, 4 of them 12hrs shifts, I’m climbing the walls because I haven’t really exercised.

If I got stuck at home I think I’d eat and drink myself to death in about 4 weeks.  That or Mrs M would smother me in my sleep after I turned into a sex pest.😂

Luckily I’m semi rural and after 5 minutes of tarmac I’m onto bridleways so come lock down I’ll be sneaking out for night rides and dog walks (with 3 very active dogs the carnage caused by bottling them up doesn’t bear thinking about).

Maybe keeping the rides private on Strava.😁

I also have a 2.5hr commute off road that I’ll be stepping up.

@ming-the-merciless

Thought you was dead 🙂

My rampant paranoia says don’t trust any “rushed” vaccine as it’ll bring on the impending zombie apocalypse.

Also all unnecessary shops in France are to be shut BUT local elections going ahead!

Network Rail Electrical Control Room Operator.  We cannot work from home and we a very safety critical.  No unnecessary site visits for tours/training and some additional cleaning going on.

NR are a bit exposed as once CV hits a Signalbox or ECR then it’ll do the rounds rapidly and I can see manning issues arising despite they’re best efforts.

“White man”, native Americans, Maori, and aborigines are all the same species

Whilst true, I doubt the natives at the time thought this.

Well this has thread has well and truly gone off the deep end hasn’t it?

So whilst you lot are paddling round in the kiddies end of the pool my night shift fugue state insinuated this nasty little thought into my mind when I woke up today.

“what if this is only the start?”

Ming’s second axiom “Nature hates a cocky species”

Most species crippling/extinction events are actually a series of kicks in the teeth/nuts starting with stressors, change in climate, extreme vulcanism, disease, change in solar constant, asteroid/comet impact or Hostile species arriving (think white man v Aborigines, American Indians, Maori).

Is this the first one at the start of the fall of Man?

Mrs M says I still can’t buy a crossbow.

Mrs M has a 2019 Turbo Levo, its a bloody terror weapon, silent, fast and very capable

yep, Steak, jacket spud, tomatoes and mushrooms.

Just read the opening book of “The Stand”. I may have mentioned this pages ago.

@Drac that meme is great.

TBH I’m more worried about my trip to Dartmoor in May being fecked up by travel restrictions than catching the bloody thing.

Lovely photo’s, very jealous.

Sky news now saying Australian GP is cancelled.

Spoke to my father yesterday, he’s 76, high BP and he and my wicked stepmother are jetting off to Egypt for 2 weeks of sun tomorrow.  Apparently Egypt are not to affected by corona virus!  I did point out they are a second/third world country with a similar medical system and being run by a military dictatorship would you trust any official figures?

But he’s insisting on going so I’m hoping his holiday won’t get extended for viral reasons☹️  Or become permanent ☹️☹️☹️

Scarfolk Council have this sorted

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Did you mean Ferengi?

Nah, he hasn’t got the lobes to be a Ferengi but I could see him sporting one of those weird TNG Romulan suits just before he shoots Boris in the back.

“well, it’s the safest way, isn’t it?”

After about 5 years off bikes I’m back with a KTM950SMR for commuting purposes.  I love it.  Totally impractical but its my first 4 stroke twin and it rides and sounds glorious.

Am I the only one who thinks he looks like a Romulan? On that alone I don’t trust him as they’re a bunch of shady characters and remember the 47th & 48th Rules of Acquisition.   Secondly he’s a “boil in the bag” MP.

I may not be the best person to judge what makes a politician good or not.😂

Another vote for Hood jeans.

I can’t help feeling that at some point in his trial he’ll blame this all on the English.😁

RIP indeed.

Many great roles (including my inspiration).  He was Oscar nominated twice, once for a silent performance.

Mrs M has a turbo levo carbon expert, awesome bit of kit and the Brose motor is leagues ahead of the Bosch unit in her 2015 Cube Stereo.

Invisiframe kit, then an additional layer of viking tape on the down tube and then a rockguardz.  Chain stay gets a layer of self amalgamating tape.

Baby shampoo, its kinder on the Frame and my eyes when I inadvertently spray myself in the face.

Michelin wild enduro rear?  it’s a bit draggy but pretty tough.  Either that or a Bonty SE5/4/3.

Hob Nob where do ride to destroy michelins ?  Its about the only tyre I haven’t killed with Sarf Downs flints (Bonty’s (Non SE), Kenda, Schwalbe and don’t get me started on Maxxis).

Don’t forget that the data centres will have large battery backed UPS for the brief time the genie is spooling up, all that nasty lead and acid probably never being used in anger that’ll be replaced every five years or so.   How much will make it through to a clean recycling centre or just go to the cheapest waste recovery firm shipping it God knows where for child labour to extract the useful metals?

It’s always been one Rule for the Red Team and another set for the others.

Avoid Canyon, warranty nightmare for one of my mates.

Because we are past the point of no return and us driving around in mildly more uneconomical SUV’s is not going too make a jot of difference.

Banning the biggest greenhouse emitters* would be the best course of action if you think you’re going to stop things getting worse.

*that’ll be children.

I seem to only be able to reply to threads with “>>” at the end of the title, why is this, most threads I’m not able to reply to?

oh looks like other people are experiencing this, I’m on a MAC book running Catalina 10.15.3 and safari 13.0.5

Zilch

I don’t like it.

It’s different.

I’m old.

😁

Atera are an alternative too look at.

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Good to see so many fellow Scarfolk residents on the forum 😂

Man hug and KBO.

Ming

Not from Dunelm, we have a lovely dark red shaggy rug that sheds strands of itself continually, like you hoover the house and then turn round to find a strand of red on the laminate floor two rooms from where the bloody thing is., aaarrrrgh does my head in.