I once called IT support as I could get my keyboard to work after logging the ticket and waiting 30 minutes the support guy turned up took one look at my computer and flicked the notepad I had resting on the space bar away, turned and left without saying a word. Whilst the whole office took the pee out of me for the rest of the day.

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Bobbins, there’s a world of difference between a management role where you have to think on your feet, take responsibility for your performance, your teams performance and often things out of your control and the traditionally working class roles, trades, machine operator, warehouse work etc. where you are only responsible for your own performance. Something a lot of working class people will never get to experience or understand, partly because their mindset won’t allow them to progress into these roles. Still, lot of rubbish management out there as well.

I really hope that was being ironic. If not you’re an idiot. That’s the stupidest thing I’ve read on here for a long time. If you replaced working class in that paragraph with gay, women, or black you’d probably be facing a ban.

I’ve been through 2 s8 2 s9s and an s10, I broke the screens 4 of them the nanosecond they were out of a case, and one broke in a case in a bike crash. I never broke the screens on any of my earlier phones, it’s the combination of edge screen and having a back made from the world’s slippest material and the fixed battery. I must have dropped my early galaxy notes dozens of times and all that happened was the plastic back would fly off.

I’ve switched to iPhone 12 for other reasons but it’s staying in a very solid case. I’m using my unbroken non edge S7 for running and biking.

Grew up in Leeds following the Wedding Present but drifted away after Seamonsters. We kept invading the stage when they were filming * punk and they threatened to pull the plug. Feel kind of guilty now.

Started to follow them again a few years back, their Bizzarro gig at Manchester Acadamy was the last one I went to before lockdown. Can’t wait to see them again.

Had the new watt bike since Christmas and the erg mode is poor it fluctuates widely around the target – see DC rainmakers review. I don’t use Zwift yet but I’ve heard this makes some of the training modes unusable but the faster gear changes on the V2 make it much better in the zwift racing.

Apparently, the erg mode was the same when the v1 was released but it improved with firmware updates.

We did find that a couple of times in Fulgaz it looked like the controller was connected but there was no change in resistance with changing gradient but a couple of re-boots fixed that.

I share it with the missus and we’ve really enjoyed it.

No music app is worse than youtube music id take Spotify anyday if i could.

I’ve been doing it since I got my Wattbike before Christmas. I use an adapter that lets you charge it aswell as the video out can drain battery, they are about £15 on Amazon plus you need a hdmi lead. Works well.

Ive actually got a Dex dock but it’s too awkward to use.

Its a great time to buy a mountain bike, you’ll be getting a bike that is what you’d get if someone stated with a blank piece of paper and designed mountain bike from scratch rather than still having carry over from road bikes. The only thing left to sort is getting rid of the rear mech .

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Dumb question, can the latest version of the camino take a conventional compact double.

Long time off retiring as I have a nine year old but when the time comes we’ll both take ours, buy a nice campervan, live of it as long possible before drawing down the rest. Annuities make no sense it a world were intesrt rates are negative

The snow seems to to have pushed the birds on to my table/feeders after 4 months of nothing just on time for this.

Electronic music, IPad, midi keyboard and a few apps and you’ll be away.

Motorhome fun sounds like a swinging/dogging site.

Netflix
Prime
Apple TV+ (never watched)
Youtube premium (so the kids can watch download) – would love to get rid, now I’m forced to use Youtube music which sucks
Singletrack
OS maps
Google Stadia (going)
2 xbox games pass
Strava
Fullgaz

I’ve got all the peak district guides, you welcome to borrow them for a couple of months to have a look through. I live your side of Macc on the Congleton Road.

The OH has the G20 + 5g and its a great phone. Im on a S10. I’ve beenbwith Android almost since day one with the HTC Desire. I got the 1st Note the day it came out and everyone laughed at my “massive” phone and I’ve had the S7 S8 S9 and S10.

I bought myself an ipad pro at the beginning of lockdown after years of avoiding Apple i’m sold and my next phone will be an Apple. I also prefer the style of the new iPhone just got to convince the boss.

We live in near the middle of Macclesfield partly for the reasons you describe. I grew up in Leeds without a car and living a big city relying on Public Transport can be crap. All the shops are in walking distance, trail running is within a mile, there’s a very large running club with group runs every week night if you need company and mountain biking in the western peak district is from the door. Manchester is 20 mins on the train if you need to go to a gig or show when those start again.

The guy who built my extension has a specialized s-works tarmac with three grand wheels, I doubt he’d be interested in nicking my planet x road bike and Boardman MTBs. In fact he’s responsible for me having more bikes as he convinced me to buy a Wattbike.

Same thing happened to mine after about 3 years. If you google it is a common problem with that generation of cranks

https://www.bikeradar.com/features/shimano-crank-failure/

I have the the current IPAD pro and used it over the summer hols to edit our GoPro 7 footage with no problems. The new AIR is essentially a the IPAD pro with a better processor so it should be fine.

I got one around September, set myself a limit of one LP a month to give myself to listen before the next one arrives plus I gave my wife a list to pick from for birthdays and Christmas from the kids in-laws etc its great no more crap presents. Just reminded me to order January’s.
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We have an i10 for running around town, I’ve driven it a couple of times over the M62 from Manchester to Leeds and it’s not a nice experience in bad weather. I’d certainly want something a little more planted, felt less vulnerable in my base model punto 25 years ago. I used to do that journey a lot in a Focus and it was fine, that’s the size car I’d be looking at. I have friend who does Halifax to Macclesfield everyday and he always has Diesel Golfs.

The i10 is ace round town where it belongs but the wrong tool for the job

Streaming isn’t going away and artists are going to have to adapt. It is crazy that a monthly family subscription is £15 which about the same price as a single CD was at their peak price.

The reality for all steaming services TV /Movies and Music is that they are not competing against CDs and DVDs they are competing against IPTV, Bit streaming and dodgy Russian movie streaming sites. The choice is that the artist get what people are prepared to stump up for convenience versus going and getting it for free of the internet and them getting nothing I suspect that music piracy is significantly lower now than it used to be but how many people have IPTV to watch football as the cost of subscribing sky sports / BT sports etc is still prohibitive.

Personally I buy vinyl now off my favourite artist website if I can, I’ve crowd funded a few LP’s as well and during lockdown I’ve paid to watch a few streamed gigs to try a support them best I can.

I don’t normally road ride this time of year but went out last week, the roads were at peak tractor mud/leaf sludge, horrible. The Wattbike arrives later this week and I’ll probably leave the roads until Christamas Hols by which time they tend to have cleared up even though I’ve just had full Guards fitted on the winter bike.

I’ve done it the manual way described here before and it worked fine but after a while the tablet went a bit laggy so i factory reset it, that was a HD10.

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I’ve just bought some HD8 on prime day and I’m going to do it using Amazon Fire Toolbox mentioned in the comments in the link as I’ve got four to do.

Some folk need to get a grip pleny of actors have played Hitler he was a bit of a wrong un too. David Tenents just done Dennis Nelson and his saucepan on ITV, shall I not buy anything that was advertised in the breaks

Growing up in the 80s on Leeds everyone had a story about someone having dodgy encounter with Saville. Never mind the BBC been complicit a whole city was.

I think I had Covid around Easter and fortunately it took about 6-8 weeks to shake of all the symptoms. Though getting myself back motivated has been really tough before lockdown I was getting back towards sub 3 hour marathon shape now I can just about be bothered to run round the block.

I have had on going post viral fatigue that from a illness I picked up in my early 20’s. I went from a sub 1.30 half marathon runner to having to sleep for a day if did any mild exercise or feel really depressed. The doctors weren’t that good at the time but overtime it wore off though it does flair up every now and again I understand the triggers much better though I sometimes choose to ignore them.

I hope if any good comes of this pandemic with so many people been exposed to a new virus and health impacts so closely monitored that they’ll gain a much better understanding of long term impact that viral infections in general as well

We had the same discussion, i struggled with the air quality issues.

We considered gas but as we have central heating already it would be for show and most of the time it would be switched off.

In the end we went for a fancy electric one. We can have it on in the summer evenings without the heat but over a grand for for a fan heater is a lot to stomach.

Did it last year lost a lot of weight in the first month or so. Wasn’t doing much cardio at the time due to injury. Found that my metabolism started to slow down was shivering all the time, I switched to a keto / intermittent fasting approach and continued to lose weight but was able to run marathons / fell races with little extra nutrition.

To be fair i did the 800 a day low carb and really set me up to be fat adapted .

I had a lovely HP spectre x360 laptop which i dropped a broke the screen, I replaced it with cheaper HP with the next generation (8th) i5 and there was a significant improvement in performance but the build quality was appalling and just over a 2 years later it’s ready for the bin.

I’d get a refurb business laptop at the budget you can afford the performance will still miles better than your current laptop but it will last far longer than a £500 laptop from Curry’s.

We run a TP-link mesh network off a virgin hub you can do this.

I did the the horseshoe a few times when I was younger. One time in good weather I followed two lads doing it in flip flops.

The last time I did it was with my now wife we were in the clouds and it was a bit windy, she didn’t enjoy it one bit.

Technically its easier the Jack’s Rake but it la more exposed.

I’m in France coming back next Sunday. We are coming back early so my son can quarantine before starting high school.

The infection rate here is 0.3 per 100k. At home its 7 per 100k and the government will subsidise me to sit all day in oldham Wetherapoons where the infection rate is 100 per 100k and return to home without self isolating.

We are camping, not eating out only going inside for shopping, everyone here is following the stricter guidelines than at home.

We’ve used the open air Aires for breaks when travelling and stayed in our cabin on the journey over.

I’m not a risk manager to given there only two active cases in the entire department of 650000 people the chances of catching it are extremely low. That might answer the question why people might choose not to strictly stick to the blunt instrument of a blanket quarantine when returning.

If I was you rather than mess around with changing the levers. I’d swap out the brakes to hydraulic, that one of the advantages of going flat bar it a cheaper path to hydraulic brakes. Even the most basic tektro, Clarkes or bottom of the range Shimano hydraulics are going to be better than any cable discs.

I converted my GT grade with Spires which are one of the better cable disc to Shimano deores the difference is night and day.

Edit. Your options might be limited as it’s a flat mount though flat mount MTB brakes are starting to come out

I don’t agree with the post above, I vote labour knowing that I’ll be considerably worse off doing so.

To be fair without resurrecting the Jeremy Corbyn thread, the last two times were incredibly difficult. I no way wanted to endorse Corbyn but Labour were the only chance of removing our useless Tory MP and I know the labour candidate and he’s a good guy.

Now Kier Starmier is in charge I’m hoping come the next election I’ll not be so conflicted.

My favourite tweet of the the day. He couldn’t sack Cummings it would be like Emu sacking Rod Hull.

The moors around where I live are essentially an all you can eat buffet for Hen Harriers. Strange that in 25 years on living here and spending a lot time running, biking and walking up on the hills. I’ve only ever heard one once in all that time (it was foggy but their call is pretty distinctive). I grew up bird watching so I always have half an eye Looking out for birds.

Planet X EC-130E ultegra disc not ridden it much due to injury cost slightly less than 2.5K with upgraded wheels. Off-out on it this afternoon for my 1 a day.

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This what Macclesfield police were doing at the weekend. The crazy thing I’m seeing, the same people joining in the outrage about the folk driving up to the forest are themselves running up to the forest are contributing to the perceived problem. As if been fit enough to run up rather than drive up gives you a free pass.

My issue I’ve been running 5k every other day with the kids around the block, this put us in far more contact with folks than driving 1 mile to the edge of town and running across the open countryside in the opposite direction to the peak district that no one hardly goes to.

One thing thats wound me up is we have run onto the road or into a drive whenever we’ve met someone and that includes my 8-year-old and only about 1 in 10 people thank us. People are absolute …

We keep a few IKEA bags in the hall and transfer into those.