Well, good luck with that interesting and well informed approach… 🙄

Neither, and unless you already have ischemic heart disease don’t bother.
No role for aspirin in primary prevention these days, hasn’t been for years.
Might make you bleed more when you crash though.

Planes are getting quieter
Most people under the flightpath moved in knowing there was an airport there.

Actually both LGW and LHR need extra runways.
Like it or not we live in the modern world. Planes are getting quieter and more economical. And we expect to be able to fly, and to compete with markets in Europe.
LHR has good rail links to London but nowhere else. But this could be fixed.
LGW has better rail connectivity, but it is at capacity, and small problems screw it up.
And how can LHR shut at night and still get flights from Hong Kong?

I really don’t envy Cameron and co in making the decision. But we have to grow up and ensure it is taken.

All the above. Plus go and tell those who love you that you are sorry, want to fix this, and need their help.

Great producer. Shit live act.
Pharell is good at both though.

Thanks mods for acting.

sorry – exercise ECGs of very little use actually. A normal one rules out almost nothing.

These days we skip that stage and go to various types of imaging. Around here, CT Coronary Calcium Score +/- Angio if low-moderate risk, full coronary Arteriogram if higher risk.

In answer to the OP – some get warning, some don’t.

I know a roadie whose first inkling was a cardiac arrest on his bike. But if you do get an unexplained reduction in exercise tolerance, be it by pain discomfort or breathlessness, get it checked.

Gatsby – I think that last post is OTT and have reported it. That is just nasty to someone who came here for support. There is putting a contrary view and then there is being a plain a***.

sad mate, but the plural of “anecdote” is not “evidence”…

Didn’t work out in your case, doesn’t mean it cannot in others.

The Police have a difficult job to do and they virtually never see people who have turned their lives around and are now good/clean etc etc. Because they don’t get 999 shouts to people being reasonable… So I would take Gatsby’s input with a bucket of salt.

From a more health-based viewpoint I do get to see people who went feral between 16-25 say, and then get it together, become responsible, good parents etc. So if the OP’s boy has insight into what he did wrong, is willing to change, to live somewhere away from the people he has been around, I’d want him to be helped with that and try and keep him out of the system. Once.

But sadly sometimes some people cannot/will not be helped and you might just have to wait for that stuff to burn out.

Agas in Towns and Cities. It’s a big storage heater from the 19th century. It means you don’t like cooking and read a few too many glossy mags back in the day.

If you have one, and don’t own at least one field, have a word with yourself. 😕

Was out of touch with mine for 25 years, aged 25-50, a petty argument, then moving away, then neither of us really trying.

Back in touch now. I can see the connection, and there is some of him in my behaviour. I’m trying to be a better dad, but since I no longer live with my kids full time, that isn’t that easy. I know that whatever happens it is always on me to break the silence and be the bigger man.

My father really just isn’t important to me, interesting but not important. He wasn’t the person I needed as a child,but he wasn’t terrible. But some fathers are terrible. And those with happy families often just don’t get it, in the same way as those who are still with their first spouse have a real difficulty empathising with people who have taken the decision not to be.

It’s a cliche, but sometimes you have a biological family and a logical family, and they ain’t the same. 🙁

Thanks chaps

Not every day is a perfect day. Kids will be happier if they can get on with a range of people. No challenges means no growth.

😆

TG was stale and formulaic long before JC went off on one, so Chris Evans, who knows what he is talking about and has shown some signs of growing up, unlike JC, is a welcome change.

And I agree with v8ninety – not a redhead myself, but my partner and her kids are, and I think it is absolutely pathetic when people use hair colour as a pejorative label.

and my 2008 3 series, steering wheel switches and reversing warnings would stop at random…

Subaru on the other hand – no issues with 3 of them. Built like brick shithouses…

Try duolingo, a free app, which seems to do Norwegian. My elder son and his friends really recommend it.

First had it perhaps 15 years ago at Bubbas BBQ in Jackson Hole Wyoming. It’s not new. It’s just hipster trendy here at the moment.. Last year hamhock terrine with piccalilli. Next year who knows….

Done warm and cold with kids younger than that, including transatlantic flights. It’s doable. They won’t remember it when they are 13 & 19 though.

Take a tablet to amuse them on the plane.

Don’t expect to get much adult time, be it smart meals, culture or peace and quiet.. So the same as at home, unless you take gran… So enjoy them being up late the way continental kids are, and hope you get some peace in the daytime.

If you think you can’t get the things you want from the holiday don’t go. It’s for you, not him.

Must be very expensive tyres for this to be worth it unless other consequential loss, or you can do this all via small claims.

Got mine a bit cheaper on Amazon.de. Might be worth a look

Feedback is your friend

Thing is, crime is falling and the police want to continue to have a large number of forces and officers, and for many law abiding tax payers, our only contact with them is when things like this happen. It may not be rape or murder but it does upset us, the customers. So they should take it seriously and where we can give info which might deal with some scrote, they should at least try. Not launch a man hunt, but try…

Tim Hortons. Canadian and still the best. The fresh little ones from machines at he seaside next best. KK are awful. Not good.

So far this year

Copenhagen, not as pricey as they say… Flights cheap too
Berlin, quite weird and cool
Marrakech. Brilliant

Bilbao is fun

Takes a lot to beat Barcelona, Paris or Venice though.

No need for a travel agent these days.

Thanks chaps

We did not continue employing someone, at least partly because of this issue, when it came to the end of their initial trial period. As much because of what it said about them personally, as much as what they actually said.

25 for me last year.
Life just gets better and better.

We’ve been separated for the last 3 you see… 😉

Difficult being a mod.
Perhaps things like this should be dealt with by Chips or the STW team rather than volunteer mods.
But yes, it can be a problem, and it is annoying.

a bit of an unnecessary diversion from topic.

I’d have done the same as you OP. He should feel really bad for putting you in that position. And since this happened when he is no longer a colleague, I would also feel happy about telling anyone who asked about him, what he had asked you to do.

As a GP with an interest in this topic, it is embarrassing to hear some of the stories above. Ectopics during exercise cannot be assumed to be normal. Missed beats at rest only almost always is. Capturing arrhythmias isn’t always easy. Lots of tools though. Saw two people today with wiring problems, documented then and there with one of these

To the OP. Please take this a stage further, emphasising the exercise bit. The chances are you won’t have anything bad but it needs checking.

Ernie – logic fail… again…

I did vote for them – in a constituency where they came fourth – but I wasn’t so blind to reality that I didn’t realise in places where they needed to win to swing it, they weren’t going to.

The Labour party presented an image and/or policy package that the people who they needed to vote for them didn’t like. They lost. This was predictable to people who aren’t self-deluding and who remembered the margin-of-error in polls. Blaming anyone else but Ed and the core of the party is silly.

What would you rather have – an ununelectable solidly socialist party, or one which actually represents the views & wishes of leftwards half of the electorate?

Trouble is – often it takes time for Politicians to realise that people have moved on without them, and they are fighting yesterday’s battle.

I think he did really well at maintaining a dignified distance.

Supporters of Labour (of which I am one) need to decide if they would rather have a) a party which had a more left wing party line and never had a chance to implement any ideas at all, or b) a more centrist platform which picks up voters other than those who would vote for Labour whatever, and which actually has a chance to do something.

Choosing Ed was a message to the electorate that the party had chosen a)

The older ones of us remember Foot and Kinnock. Ed was a similar electoral suicide note.

If palpitations are just “missed beats” at rest (actually usually a small early ectopic beat) then it is usually no biggy. But I’d want to see a resting ECG.

Missed beats DURING riding and exertion are not normal. Cut out the coffee but if they persist I’d be taking things further. Are you on any meds? We’d often be doing a 7 day ECG monitor.

Aspirin is no longer (as of last year) much used for anti-clotting or stroke reduction properties in heart rhythm problems.It has very little effect. Warfarin and NOACs if you really have an arrhythmia which increases your stroke risk.

Gogglebox 😥

6X – ]an old classic
Longman Best

Interesting dicussion depite the rather ironic start given the OPs ongoing annual whinge about discussions here.

But I’ll stll be voting Labour in one of the safest Tory seats in the UK.

So, OP, what do you want to discuss in the Chat section?
Are Pubs only for people who want to get pissed?

You don’t have to read it or post you know. A bit jealous of people who have stuff in their life other than MTBs perhaps? 🙄