whilst it may raise during exercise, that in the hours after, you should return to a normal

my belief too – just wondered if you were doing your first pressups first thing

Intense exercise can increase blood sugar – I guess smashing out some pressups might count as that ?

Endurancey type exercise tends to bring it down (activates/promotes insulin-independent cellular uptake I believe)

https://diabetes.org/health-wellness/fitness/why-does-exercise-sometimes-raise-blood-sugar

I think its a stretch to expect someone who’s never heard that phrase or its background context to immediately associate it with a specific set of crimes regarding inciting racial hatred in a particular period of rioting in the UK

Depends what else people have been jailed for in relation to social media posts, dunnit ?  The things you mention are the most recent and highest profile that I’m aware of.

If the individual had just said “…than you do for saying something on twitter” (in their workplace,(apparently as some sort of a leader within it), they’d have been a grade A **** and would deserve whatever they had coming – it still implies that calling for, as a specific example, burning down hotels full of asylum seekers is a minor transgression in comparison to (whatever else they said)

If that phrase came to their mind spontaneously then they’d still be a **** but also “guilty” of using a childish term to trivialise the reaction (grade A+, perhaps).

If they used what apparently is a term favoured by Nige, Tommy & chums (I didn’t know) marks them out as whatever is worse than a grade A+ ****.

Bloke over the road from me had one in his garage – that and a hovercraft.  Fitted the stereotype perfectly, I think

Spend £200 on getting a new rim built on?

you can get a rim for 50 quid – buy one and rebuild the wheel together (sounds like you maybe haven’t before but it’s not hard, especially if you tape the 2 rims together and swap one spoke at a time)

I once cut the (fleshy) tip of my finger off using one of those reciprocating hedge trimmers.  I was about 9yrs old.

Didn’t dare show my mum & dad so I washed it under the tap & stuck it back on with an elastoplast.  Amazingly it took and nobody found out.  Finger tip looks normal until my hand gets very hot or cold – and the bit in question is also numb

How? you ask – well I’d worked out that if I could hold my finger steady on the upper blade, NOTHING would happen when I pressed the trigger*, and of course that’s what I did

*… unless, of course, there was any kind of recoil/kick from the mechanism

None – you’ve decided to drive

If your saddle is too high then you are probably rolling your hips to help

and

Can’t you just try dropping your saddle height incrementally until it doesn’t ruin your back?

I’ve tried it – not a massive success but I didn’t persevere for all that long

Wow, that’s a tough read.  Best wishes to you and your family; I hope things go as well as they can for your dad.  Good plan to get home & see what’s really going on in his mind

Watch as batteries and motors shrink rapidly

or maybe, just maybe, become reliable and durable ?

The Defender is much earlier on – 4 minutes or so into the vid

Very nice – stem notwithstanding

That URL won’t open in 2 browsers here, and malwarebytes is having a hissy – are you sure it’s legit ??

I’d be wondering what other bodges/mistreatment have been inflicted on the shock and looking at the possibility of a refund

oi, ssstu – you calling me fat ?!

I’ve a good mind to waddle over there and .. oooh, there’s a Greggs

#savethejamjar

Need any help shoving it onto the flat-bed ?  I could likely get there if it’s Southampton

Not only that, there’s a dedicated umbrella drawer under the front seat

Isn’t that supposed to hold the lifejacket ?

??weird but OK:

Here’s to websites that ask for user feedback to help improve things – and then ghost the users for months. ;-)

In the spirit of offering something that’s not peanuts, and fearsomely expensive:

https://uk.iherb.com/pr/blue-diamond-almonds-bold-wasabi-soy-sauce-16-oz-454-g/112046?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3vO3BhCqARIsAEWblcCeR0HMwAxs9-Cxi8siKokAErDeG7yimEE0sh97zkS_c2-3jQpXff0aAqLsEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Cut the wrist sections off a pair of marigolds* and use them as gaiters above waterproof socks.

You’re welcome

* Pink FTW, obvz

**** it, I’ll own up:  I use hand protectors (those EWS wannabee plaggy shields) for commuting & winter xc to keep the wind off.

The Southampton one is at the sports centre (where WCA’s original jump/pump park is.  Not sure what’s been/being developed there but there was talk of some money coming in for wider development a couple of years ago

The Andover postcode (SP10 3LF – sports centre again) is listed twice with slightly different descriptions (maybe they count BMX tracks as 1 and “other facilities” as another – storage, maybe).  There always was a fairly decent BMX track there (tarmacced major turns if I remember right)

Soz, haven’t been to either recently

Wow, @reeksy, I thought I was endearingly shit (87pts) – you are a shining beacon for the rest of us ;-)

Oh, dear god – just found FreeLonger, which seem too fit the grotesquely anatomical bill to a T.

I’ve also got one pair of step one, “cheap” in a promotion.  Not sure they’re all that, to be honest (presumably I need a bigger pouch ;-) ) (More seriously, I didn’t feel the pouch was enough of a separate pouch, although what I’m imagining would look utterly grotesque if I was ever caught wandering around in just the pants !)

I then bought some underarmour ones that promised the same and pretty much underwhelmed to the same extent

^ tell ’em there’s a war on

Saddle seems to be “chained” down (for security?).  I quite like that, would def like a go on it (I’d like to imagine that the important bits might be in perfect order).  Perfect disposabike

thanks all – found a relatively cheap “set” so gone for that (sadly I’m getting on for as far from the Tweed Valley as I could get and still be on dry land)

I’ve smashed a few Shimano SPDs over the years

Annoyingly, the only failure I’ve had was one dropping off its spindle.  Guess how long ago I threw away the un-needed pedal shell :-(

I tried it up against a few screws in the garage but the head on them was always too big for the right htread dimension

r-m, yeah that (but 1 screw and no “body cover” – and preferably under 12 quid :-( )

yeah, think I may have to do that, superficial (imagine that, though – somebody actually killing one of those pedals !)

Have had a couple of creaks caused by dry/dusty insertion points of cables into shifters (or cable brakes in the good old days).  Intermittent problem because when it rains they don’t creak.  Took me ages the first time

Oh, not an early chub club then ?

No idea about cheapest – costs def mount up though if you need dozens (then storage etc)

I just did a quick google “race tape post pin polypost” which showed quite a few options (Mole??) but there may be better options around

you can just call them ships

I’d have def opened this sooner if it said “ships overhead”

the “near-death” experienxe

“…On the occasion I was nearly hit, I would admit that I was partly responsible. Part of what happened was my fault and I would take that criticism—but I never saw this person. They disappeared, cycling at least at 30 miles per hour…”

My inference: And there we have it; daft old duffer steps out on cyclist, gets a shock and wants “revenge” so exaggerates the circumstances to reinforce his shit point

At the risk of winding up the many, many former contributors to this:

Would you do it all over again if you got the choice?

What do I want ?  How much output, how much storage?  (Moderate users, 2-4 occupants.  SE facing garage and SW main roof but with 2 dormers in it to reduce area quite a lot).  Sunnyish southern England.  {adds – gas CH/HW}

No EVs currently (pun deffo intended).

Is there a specific standard/grade of panel/inverter/battery.other gubbins that is far better than others?

What should we avoid?

On the motorway, me, wife, 2 daughters.

Some dick cuts is up, so I say “what is he, girls?” to a joyous chorus of “he’s a moron!”

My wife said that we shouldn’t be rude about other drivers who make mistakes, and that she doesn’t call people morons, does she?

Cue little’un in the back “mum says ‘fuggerell'”

*************

My brother (or maybe even one of my parents; they were definitely there) once told my daughter (maybe 9 or 10) that he and I had  grown up in Stockton

“Isn’t that the bag of skin that holds your testicles?”