saw him in the 70s twice. A total hero.

Missed seeing him at the Forum in Tunbridge Wells last year – I wanted my 16 year old Bass playing son to see him. My son has now played the same venue a few times.

I could cry 🙁

Back on the topic for a second…

This…

It just seems to be this simple- the new rules are pro-seller, anti-buyer. Certain sellers think this is great, for some mysterious reason. Buyers can’t possibly gain from it and can potentially lose out. Decent sellers had nothing to fear from reasonable criticism in the first place. (and fwiw, I sell as much as I buy)

I pay a sub, I like the mag, I like the community atmosphere,and don’t see why people posting in the classified ads section, who are not paying subs, not paying Mark a fee for the ad and often not posting much in the rest of the forum get a free pass at screwing over people who do contribute.

I also don’t see how sensible comments, positive or negative, in for sale threads reduce STWs income… So why make the rule?

It does make me wonder if those at ST Towers find the forum embarrassing, or a necessary nuisance, or just don’t like the idea of the forum being a Community with its own views. I could understand some of this given the PITA it has probably been sometimes.

If they charged per ad, and then put in place a decent feedback system I wouldn’t mind the rule. But this isn’t ebay.It should be more than that.

I think it’s really sad.

Now I’m spending a few days a week in a flat, I rely on one. Got an induction hob and a combination Panasonic microwave. No proper “cooker”. I use the oven function more than the microwave. The heat is a bit patcher than the big ovens I’ve been used to before, but it works fine.

I’ve needed something like this twice in the last 2 years, but was not alone.

On one occasion whilst the ambulance took me to hospital, a friend drove my car an hour home, and my wife collected me later.

Then a month ago, things had changed slightly and I was closer to home and my new partner was dropped off by her son and drove me and my car to A&E where the pelvis I’d ridden out of the woods on was found to be broken in 2 places.

So the car getting home wasn’t an issue.

So it’s not quite your scenario, but I was thinking earlier today what would have happened if I hadn’t have been with mates… Could well have died in the first case (possibly fitted and might have had respiratory obstruction) and would have had a bloody hard time getting out of the woods the second time. Time to reevaluate my skills and choices.

Someone told me, a surveyor, that, the homebuyers report is the one where they actually get out of the car but don’t go in the front door…

So no hope I suspect.
But good luck. That sounds bad. Really bad.

Got wires running up there? You sure where they are?

You might want to hold fire on the drilling blind.
Tap with your finger or something to locate them.

Or… Some wire/metal detectors have a setting which will allow them to find joists and studs

Phone your GP. We ain’t on holiday. 😥

The evidence for ski helmets reducing the risk of major injury on the slopes is way better than that for cycle helmets.

There is not good evidence yet that they reduce death rates on snow, but deaths on the slope are not frequent enough for simple statistically powerful enough trials. Same thing really applies to MTBing, available studies apply to road not MTBing hence TJ will always have an argument.

Saxon clinic appears to be BMI, not BUPA owned. although BUPA have contracts with them.

Usually BMI or other private hospital providers are providing the room and clerical support, and the Consultant is not working for them but is self-employed for that element of their work, but may be reimbursed by BUPA if they are your insurers.

So… follow the money…

If your consultation was paid for by your insurers, I’d possibly contact them and complain, with a copy to the Consultant.

If you are paying for the consultation yourself, I’d initially write to the Consultant himself, setting out your complaint. If you are unhappy with the outcome, contact the manager of the Clinic.

I had a 2008 320d touring with various bits and eco-toys. For 2 years only. I usually keep cars for 6-8 years.

Good things – the engine and gearbox and seats and heating
Bad things – totally unable to get anywhere in snow and ice (and winter tyres were a fairly costly, non-manafacturer endorsed option). The electrics were awful, the parking sensors and steering wheel controls would randomly stop working. The condescension of the dealers who are really just selling a German Mondeo. The flimsy vallance at the front.

The boot would take my singlespeed with both wheels out, but the FS was a stretch and a faff.

My last BMW was a 1981 316, which was much more solid and trustworthy.

Now I have a scooby legacy. The engine is less powerful and less economical, but in every other way the car is hugely better.

But RWD or 4WD/AWD is certainly hugely better than front-wheel so you will be making an advance there at least.

Finished steak and chips
Watching tv with the kids and some red wine.
Hardtail I’d say. Not riding this month. Broken pelvis. 🙁

I’m getting divorced from someone who I didn’t go to the pub with, and shacking up with someone with whom I do go to the pub…

It’s not exactly proof though.

They left a case of wine round the corner when my work was open, in full view of the high street. Left a card with no name, details or date… I found it the next day.
I told the company who sent the wine I’d never use them again if they used yodel. They have changed to citylink. (Who are a bit better)

If we all tell companies who use yodel how shit they are, and that we will buy from someone else, yodel will have to change or go broke.

Because of the way chest pain protocols work and dealing with our punters I probably have to call every 3-4 months. Absolutely excellent 95% of the time.

Had it called for me twice… Once an RTA which left two of my family on spinal boards. Once when knocked unconscious MTBing at Swinley. After that I swore I’d not bother them again.

So when I broke my pelvis in 2 places in Friston 3 weeks ago. I rode out. It smarted a bit. But seemed the right thing to do at the time.

I went day, my brother boarded after a while, and it diffused a difficult situation, and it is he who has then paid for his kids to go back to the same school, when mine have gone to state schools throughout.

I have two friends who were at the most famous boarding school (other than Hogwarts) and all of their kids have gone to state schools.

It is interesting. Before 13 I think it’s a bit odd, and I’d hate to send my kids… but on the other hand I’ve left their home and their mother… and only see them a few days a week… a bit like they were weekly boarders…

No simple answers.

Very Marmite. Very late nineteenth century literature…

You know the people who will look at this. We don’t.

“Suffice it to say” is a totally redundant and possibly alienating expression. Not sure I have ever agreed with anything I have ever seen Edukator post before… But he’s right. Surely you’ve got to grab them in the first 200 words in a simple effective and impressive manner?

Not to be confused with a diuresis…

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On an iPad or IPhone you hold your finger on the key for e until the available accents and diphthongs appear.

I don’t think you’d be able to give enough personal information, in this open forum, about your wife for anyone who knows the NHS to explain this. Your mention of politics is intriguing…

Also I am unsure whether you mean by Dr 1, the surgeon who sought a second opinion and whether that opinion was at a different hospital. Are they part of a multi-disciplinary team?

I’d love to know more to be able to understand and possibly interpret this for you, but I don’t think here is the place.

You don’t usually get Surgeons warning each other off. Possibilities might include that Dr 1 had not given Dr 2 all the information, or had realised something which made the decision to proceed to surgery less sensible. Or ???

However I can understand why you are pissed off. I would think your best chance of an explanation would come from Dr 2

Sorry not to be more use.

Chippy inverse-snob rant followed by the Edinburgh Defence?

Or poor quality troll?

We will never know. Time to move on.

Not easy to open an account for them and get money into it… You get into using gift vouchers in my experience.
I’d use your wife’s for now if they are under 16. Sync them to separate playlists. And DRM is no longer as much of an issue once they change to,their own apple id.

Did one. Interesting and good. Included an hour with an advanced driving instructor on the road. Amazing the number of people who think the NSL on roads for cars is 50mph. And I managed to claim it against tax as education. Asked my insurers, they didn’t care.

Prevalence doesn’t mean impact. There are more ingrowing toenails than heart attacks.

You need to show that, beyond an academic model, anxiety does alter pain/behaviour as much as depression, and that treatment of it alters the outcome.

Care to address the other points? 😉

Many people who are depressed have some anxiety and vice versa. It’s a Venn diagram thing really.

The PHQ9 and the GAD7 (the anxiety equivalent) are blunt tools and most of us GPs don’t like being forced to use them. Blame NICE and the DoH.

There is a huge body of work on depression in Chronic Illnesses of all sorts. For many it seems about hopelessness and loss of control, and this feeds the perception of pain and disability.

I am guessing you are the man who was SBZ etc etc. A therapist might be initially confronted by an immediate fear reaction to being asked to do things, but I’d guess it is the negative depressive cognitive mindset which has more effects on the OA sufferer’s life. May well be wrong. Anxiety may be more common, but that doesn’t mean it is more disabling…

And in any case – how does the treatment really differ where there is not a specific phobic element…?

SSRIs and/or CBT for depression and…. SSRIs and/or CBT for anxiety….

Questioning of orthodoxy is good, but isn’t a bit premature to be thinking that, a) your theory is correct, b) you are going to do quality work in a dissertation which will alter everyone’s view and cause such a paradigm shift that everyone has a urine/potato interface problem? 😉

Can’t speak for dentists – and I hope they had a business resilience plan and sensible off-site back up, but I wouldn’t bank on it…

But in GP land we have better IT than almost anywhere in the NHS, and than most primary care in the world. And yes, for those of us using the commonest system, we do mostly have off-site centralised and confidential back-ups, in case the back-ups in the fire-proof safe get cooked. And most of the GP systems… except one pushed strongly by managers… are compatible with each other… So some tosh talked above.

And the finger of blame for what has happened in hospitals and the wider NHS, points in two directions – some private contractors who made stupid promises and sold snake-oil, and incompetent managers who didn’t listen to users and changed their mind every 5 minutes and wrote poor contracts..

How we laughed at this 👿

No

Not when you can get an entire XTR BB from Rosebikes for less than the cost of replacing one sides bearings of a hope ceramic BB. I’m moving away from Hope BBs, just as i’ve got rid of their QRs and Seatclamps both of which suck. I like their hubs though.

Thanks. The damp issue would be a problem. Time to think again.

I think he has kids.

It’s a toughie. Been there or something similar. The step is scary but was worth it.

It’s really difficult to see how anyone could take Lance seriously since the Simeoni affair in 2004.

Lots of us have thought he was dirty for years, including lots of people on here. So for people whose delusions and illusions have been shattered in the last week to characterise this as a new bandwagon STW members are climbing on is just tosh.

It isn’t a USADA witch hunt either. It is the kind of forensic dissection of Lance’s MO that was necessary to get most people to understand that he really was a cheat.

It is brilliant to see the vindication of those non-riders or clean ex-riders who were bullied or persecuted by Lance. I do feel ambivalent about the doping riders who have testified. Shame they didn’t MTFU.

And yes, the UCI needs a top down stable-cleansing.

It was going to be age 60, with 8 1/2 years to go. but impending divorce means that it will be sooner as we cash up and move on. But I’ll have to work till older than planned… So good news and bad news really. That’s life.

Renting now (although partly from my self…) and wondering if buying will ever again be the licence to print money it has been at home, and for business that it has been in the past.

popcorn anyone?

Good for him. Be proud.

I have met a few people who came out of the forces screwed up, prison and mental health issues etc, but I suspect they were like that when they went in.

GP

Best job in the world if you like people

EBM is fine. bwaarp. But I think you’ll have to produce a bit more evidence than you have so far, and stuff which has managed to be published in journals relevant to the field. And a good 40% of what appears in Journals is later found out to be erroneous or misinterpreted. As I’m sure you know.

I’m not sure ability to feel pain is a great criterion in any case. There is no simple easy answer, but pragmatically I think we have it about right at the moment.

Z11 – nice story. Really touching.

I have a 10 year old and a 16 year old. Separated from their mum 4 months ago but live only 400 yards away. It seems ok so far but I really miss checking the 10 year old is tucked up and asleep each night. It is going to be a challenge, but seeing a fair amount of my boys. Main issues seem to be:

1) Keeping regular phone contact – but not making it seem artificial and forced.
2) Making sure we do boring things as well as exciting things.
3) How things work out for the kids with the woman who is in my life.

I don’t want to be one of those dads who are in pizza express every sunday lunch asking their bored kids about their mum’s new boyfriend.

The thing which I have dreaded most is that my 10 year old might end up calling someone else “Dad”.

9.3 doesn’t seem that many. Nice to be rather above average in something. Although mostly that was 25-30 years ago.

Does make me wonder if there are a huge number of people with answers of 0, 1 or 2 to skew the mean away from people who used to do rather better.

Yes, but only ones inside my own workplace.

Many meetings should end with an honest appraisal of whether anything has been achieved and whether it is worth meeting again, rather than routinely scheduling the next date.

Strangely I have a relative who lives in that tower block, who has bumped into Arthur a few times. I wouldn’t characterise it as a yuppie haven.

Time to get a better plan? Managed 11gb in one month recently… Although there was a fair bit of tethering involved. 3.6 gb in the last 5 weeks.

The 1970s were a very different time, and there was (unfortunately) perhaps more acceptance of dirty old men. Not all the stories are about full-on rape or penetrative sex, and those which weren’t might have well been given short-shrift by the police. In addition – without the open discussion of such issues that there is today – young people may have lacked confidence to take things forward the way they might now.

My partner tells a couple of stories about a neighbour and someone else trying things on when she was 10-14 in the early 70’s. She didn’t tell anyone, and she by no means is a shrinking violet.

Autre temps, autre moeurs and all that…

SO – just because the girls did not go to the police then, does not make them liars.