It also means that all other things being equal, Ineos are going to lose any tacking battles unless they get a close cover and give NZ dirty air almost immediately the tracking battle starts.

But they won the second race yesterday and only cover-tacked twice.

The technique my pal was teaching is called Total Immersion

This….I was a rubbish swimmer, had lessons following Total Immersion, now I’m not.  Technique is everything.

Still find pool swimming as boring as….something v tedious…but I can swim properly in a pool.

Get lessons.

Wow…that was close!

I think that’s the first obvious mistake from NZ.

It’s not a rumour, they have live data feed to and from Mercedes HQ

I could be wrong but I don’t think the data feed from HQ is live to the boat….certainly the chase boats aren’t allowed to communicate with the AC75 during a race, so is be surprised if HQ were.

I hate to agree with Johnson, but he’s right that, following the referendum, Cameron’s government should have prepared a white paper on how to respond to the referendum result, not just f’ed off.

Potassium is probably more important for heart function

The cardiologist above says magnesium Heart palpitations: Proof that magnesium works for ectopic heart beats

AF and palpitations are very different things.  AF can be v dangerous depending on the type, whereas palpitations aren’t, generally….I assume your doctor has told you it’s palpitations?

I’ve had AF, stopped after an ablation.  I still get palpitations on occasion. It’s well worth looking at these videos (recommended by my GP not some random) York Cardiology

I’ve reduced caffeine but it hasn’t made any difference (btw I think 4 cups of tea gives you quite a lot of caffeine in a day).  Alcohol definitely makes it worse, as does dehydration.  Not tried magnesium but may do at some point (tho I believe standard magnesium supplements aren’t the right type..they are normally magnesium citrate or oxide or glycinate and it should be magnesium pitolate but it can cause GI issues).

Yeah fantastic win.  Bring on NZ!

(Saw that NZ have been training against Alinghi and Alinghi managed to capsize…oops).

Rumours that Perez is going to announce his “retirement” at Mexico.  Horner saying something like “ideal scenario is Perez in Red Bull next year” but that “2 weeks is a long time in f1”

I think people around Trump will definitely have a plan to try and contest the vote if he loses

The plan is already in motion….Network of Georgia election officials strategizing to undermine 2024 result

Or this Trump’s plan to steal election is taking shape

I’ve watched both episodes of The Trump Heist.  3 things strike me…

1. I find it really odd/disturbing to see “normal” people walking round with assault rifles
2. I don’t see how the US can ever have a normal election again, given how easily people are taken in by utterly garbage conspiracy theories
3. do they really accept that the “greatest country on earth” is such a banana republic that its election can be so grossly manipulated

Went with simOptions. Bought a 10gb.

But you said you were on O2 …your existing data allowance is useable in Europe, no extra cost?

I was looking into eSims but they all seemed to get terrible reviews.  I’m with O2 and rang them and got a deal that is half what I was previously paying, 5 times as much data, and full roaming in something like 70 countries including US and Canada (O2 has always included Europe roaming).

So I didn’t bother with an esim.

Slingsby says the flight controls aren’t working well enough, but cos of design decisions taken months ago, they can’t be changed.

I agree that the recumbent cyclors just don’t look as efficient…they did seem to run out of hydraulic power in one of the round robin races (allegedly)

Yeah…weird accent.   Weirder than Lando’s even

GBR teamwork has improved so much.  Now able to sail well in strong and light winds.   Potential LV final against Italy could be amazing.

I was convinced GBR and swiss where going to collide today

Where is Bearman from?

If he was actually good enough he wouldn’t need that.

Lando has outqualified Oscar 14-2, and beaten him in races 10-6.  So there’s that.

Shirley I’m not the only one to remember the episode from The Waltons where one of the kids breaks her legs playing on a logpile?!

The Ordeal

It warned me off for life

They’ll put Lance in WEC.  And who’s Fred?

If I was a betting man, I’d put money on Max going to Aston in 2026.  Lots of money.  Stroll Snr seems the kind of guy Verstappen Snr would get on with.

Done a bit of reading….apparently new factories are excluded from the cost cap.

Williams managed to get an increase in the budget cap of £15m of Capex…..so they could build a brand new factory for 100s of millions and not be capped, but only 15m to upgrade existing.

Can someone explain hown Aston Martin (Stroll Snr) can apparently invest hundreds of millions of dollars into new facilities (including a new wind tunnel) without breaching cost cap rules?

I seem to remember reading recently that Williams were wanting to  update some their factory facilities and had to ask the other teams to give them special dispensation to do so.

I agree with Baz….definitely not a fairy tale ending.

What’s needed is for the EU to implement its “concentric circles of membership levels” that France and Germany seem keen on.  UK could join the outer, most loosely bound group and still claim to not be in the EU i.e. the core members in the eurozone. Probably 10 years away tho.

Also, the idea that the EU wouldn’t want the world’s 7th (?) biggest economy back in is ridiculous

Randal won a prize! (Best Dog in Show and 2nd Best Rescue)

just use google lens to figure it out?

Yeah you’ll be fine..remember to save a few for the coroner ?

Autosport is reporting that Newey’s signing for Aston is about to be confirmed.

Wing complaints rejected

 Have you honestly never heard the jokes about the yoghurt weaving, sandal wearing, tofu-bothering, po-faced, militant lesbian, eco-campaigning lentil activist (etc) Guardian readers?

Is very different to “humourless prigs” I think

is the OP not referring to the comments about the article

Dunno…I never read comments made against newspaper articles, so didn’t here either.

I must admit I didn’t know the Guardian had a reputation for being read by humourless prigs.

Not sure what the problem is…someone decided to stop being late for everything?  Good.  Being late suggests you think your time is more valuable than mine. People who are consistently late really annoy me.

gas oven is nice

Are you living in some 70s time warp? I’ve not seen a gas oven for…30+ years!

can you use le creuset style pans on them?

Yes. Just don’t slide them across the surface

Some publicans and other critics say the smoking ban played a large part in this. Simon Clark, of the smokers’ rights lobby group Forest, says the impact has been “devastating”.
But there are other factors too. There has been a massive decline in the amount of beer people drink, external.

The British Beer and Pub Association cites the rise in the tax applied to drinks – and beer in particular. The beer duty escalator meant that between 2008 and 2013 the duty increased by 42% and this has come at a time when supermarkets have tried to entice shoppers in with discounts on booze.

At the same time as the smoking ban came in, the economic crash was about to start. It had a massive impact on incomes in the UK. Average real-terms pay is still below where it was 10 years ago.

With all these factors happening at the same time, BBPA spokesman Neil Williams says it is “pretty impossible” to unpick exactly what the individual impact of the ban has been.

And of course, many pubs have thrived since the smoking ban, changing to focus more on high-quality food and trying to attract families – including those with young children – who would previously have avoided smoky atmospheres

From BBC

The original smoking ban did have a catastrophic effect on pubs

Source?

Er…which is my point.

To me it’s just like all the F1 issues but magnified – take a sport that’s fun at amateur and (relatively) low cost level then  professionalise the concept and throw stupendous amounts of money at it until you’ve wrung most of the initial joy from the thing and all that’s left is a tech nerd fest.

Yeah but it’s not as simple as that…SailGP is ultra hi tech, expensive, but it manages to create spectacular, exciting racing…..10 big foiling cats going at up to 100km/h in touching distance of each other

I know the America’s Cup is match racing, but i don’t think the format works with this generation of boat.  The SailGP format works much better. At least at the last AC, the boats and sailors weren’t this good so there was some sense of jeopardy.  Now, it seems if you win the start you win the race by min 30s (so far at least).

Also, GB seem to have built a slow boat.  The US boat looked tiny in comparison, and at 40knts wind resistance must make a big difference?