Old and Past it

If one person gets a holiday instead, then pretty soon everyone will decide they want a holiday instead.

Is this self-entitled behaviour a one-off from this employee, or a pattern?

The idea that it’s a holiday is complete bullshit.

As an example, my employer pays for something similar. The very first year I did it, I ended up chatting to someone from a completely different department who I never normally saw about AWS bills. Between us we realised…[Read more]

If you wait a bit longer, and it _is_ gallstones, then when it does finally strike properly you will get rushed to A&E in an ambulance just in case you’re having a heart attack.

You can tell them as often as you like that you’re *not* having a heart attack but they just ignore you. Experts, they just think they know it all!

Pro Tip: Gas and air…[Read more]

Tow bar all the way.

I was going to suggest Morocco when I saw this thread. I went two years ago, and it’s incredible.

After years of doing it with a hammer and bits of wood, without any problem other than performance anxiety, a friend of mine assured me he would do a great job using a vice.

He got it partly rotated, and it only went in straight because, after watching him mess around getting in crooked, I insisted he start it off with a hammer and a block of wood.

Does anyone find that long hill climbs on normal bikes are just so boring

I really like the climbs. It’s a chance to breathe, to sweat, to feel the visceral pain of being alive.

Doing a climb I know well just adds to the pleasure. I tick off the sections as I’m going up, greeting each section like an old friend.

Favourite climbs:

– The one…[Read more]

Fitted kitchens suck.

Get the one that can be recycled when you get bored of it.

My creaking bottom bracket and I were both just too tired to do any riding or pushing the pedals at all.

But I had a good run. So good, I even ended up in some traffic on the way home and was able to get home to finish the whole thing with a time of 7 minutes.

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But I’ve attached a postit note to my screen at the place where they are displayed, so I can’t actually see them.

I lose a bit of screen real-estate, but its worth it.

You may or may not need to remove a spacer from behind the cassette.

I bought about 250g of the stuff years ago, and I’m still working my way through it, but if you could try rapid electronics: https://www.rapidonline.com/rapid-lead-free-solder-wire-22swg-0-7mm-100g-reel-85-1166

A BMW driver gave me a gap so I could get off a slip road onto the hateful A14 the other day; he flashed me, and then slowed down so I could get in!

Lead free solder is no harder than leaded if you have a soldering iron that can get hot enough, which almost certainly it will.

As above, technique is a lot more important, but it’s not difficult unless you want to start using surface mount components.

That solder you linked to, it’s it tim/lead? Why not silver solder?

I’ve got a broken Neff dishwasher waiting for me to summon up the strength to attack it again.

2 years old, it was tripping the RCB every time it was plugged in. I’ve now replaced the control module, but now it comes on, and then some other light comes on.

The previous wishdosher ran for about a decade.

To be honest, I might go back to doing it…[Read more]

Good grief.

Do Labour just not want to be elected?

Choose the one that doesn’t have a fatally flawed bottom bracket design.

I stayed at an Air-BnB in the Bay Area where the owner had left the UK back in the 1970s, in the days of the 70% (or was it more?) tax rate and the infamous “brain drain”.

So Callaghan’s attempt to raise revenue by raising tax just had the exact opposite effect, as this guy has been happily living in his fancy house in the hills ever since, not…[Read more]

I think Farage is serious about standing in most constituencies and that will really damage the tories badly.

It will be great news for the Tories if Farage manages to put forward some candidates, because he can then claim that the Tory party is once again the party of the sensible, moderate, centre-right voter, compared to the loons from BXP Ltd.