RLJer gets nicked
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I think it's the most popular excuse rather than reason.0
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I think I may have lost the will to live................
(Dives lemming-like across junction and is flattened by Canadian logging truck)0 -
Jay dubbleU wrote:I think I may have lost the will to live................
(Dives lemming-like across junction and is flattened by Canadian logging truck)
No need, what you need to do is simply wait at a red light. It's inherently unsafe - weadmire said so. And there are STATS to back it up.Not climber, not sprinter, not rouleur0 -
Stuey01 wrote:Jay dubbleU wrote:I think I may have lost the will to live................
(Dives lemming-like across junction and is flattened by Canadian logging truck)
No need, what you need to do is simply wait at a red light. It's inherently unsafe - weadmire said so. And there are STATS to back it up.
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Corriander, this is a purile 20-something men only thread. What are you doing reading it?Coriander wrote:Stuey01 wrote:Jay dubbleU wrote:I think I may have lost the will to live................
(Dives lemming-like across junction and is flattened by Canadian logging truck)
No need, what you need to do is simply wait at a red light. It's inherently unsafe - weadmire said so. And there are STATS to back it up.0 -
Ah stats - did you know that people who have more birthdays live longer ?0
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The Hundredth Idiot wrote:They are not particularly sociable. Although they act collectively and appear to be friendly to one another the probability is that they have not met and the bonds between them are quite weak.
I take it neither you nor your friend have read the Morpeth Social Club thread? (Though I have to confess I've never been - too many other pulls on my life at present, not least my wife and two young sons.)
That bit of the analysis did make me smile, as 100th as suggested maybe they could look at some of the following threads before making such a suggestion:
Morpeth Social Club
SCR Trip
Slowcial rides
Weekend Social Rides
SCR Summer
To name some of the more active social threads, since this time last year I've been on quite a few group rides and attended the Morpeth when I can and it's always been most enjoyable, something I hope that will repeat this weekend as we venture out around the Breacons :-)0 -
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Is this muppet paying Bike Radar for what is obviously a marketing gimmick?“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
I know of two light set ups that illustrate this perfectly on my commute. My point is, that if it is safer for me, then i will do it, as my safely comes before the thought of upsetting a car/taxi/white van driver. And I will happily justify myself to Police/magistrage/Whatever.
& they'll say. 'Why didn't you just get off the bike & walk across then?'0 -
Is this muppet paying Bike Radar for what is obviously a marketing gimmick?
Hmmm. I know there is no such thing as bad publicity, but I have to be honest & say that his/her posts haven't exactly made me want to rush out & buy a Tee shirt.0 -
8 out of 10 owners say their cats prefer salt.Jay dubbleU wrote:Ah stats - did you know that people who have more birthdays live longer ?0 -
Greg T wrote:So the resurfacing of Theo/Theo's Dad/Amy's Dad/Hans/Tstegers got me thinking.
I googled our man/girl/woman/improbable german sounding man/woman
You'll never guess what...
Now I'm sure there are many many people with the same name...... however.......The deep gravelly voice belonged to Theo S....s, an executive search specialist, or in everyday language, a headhunter.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... z0OdxDhUTL
Hah, call that googling? I've done some more detailed searching on weadmire and I think I've found his/her true identity: linky link linkNever be tempted to race against a Barclays Cycle Hire bike. If you do, there are only two outcomes. Of these, by far the better is that you now have the scalp of a Boris Bike.0 -
The Hundredth Idiot wrote:Greg T wrote:So the resurfacing of Theo/Theo's Dad/Amy's Dad/Hans/Tstegers got me thinking.
I googled our man/girl/woman/improbable german sounding man/woman
You'll never guess what...
Now I'm sure there are many many people with the same name...... however.......The deep gravelly voice belonged to Theo S....s, an executive search specialist, or in everyday language, a headhunter.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... z0OdxDhUTL
Hah, call that googling? I've done some more detailed searching on weadmire and I think I've found his/her true identity: linky link link Brilliant
AND a resolute +1 for your rather lengthy earlier post 0 -
Tyred, MSc and PhD? Baiting, ridicule?
All the people I knew at uni who went on to an MSc and a PhD did so for want of something better to do. All of them had pretty average first degrees and not much idea of what they really wanted to do for a living. Typically they started to believe their lack of progress in finding work, for the most part measured by a perceived lack of reaction to their much sent CV, was to do with the quality of their first degree. The inclination to a MSc was born. This process was repeated for their PhD. Does this describe you? Did you excel in your first degree or did it not quite properly reflect your real prowess?WeAdmire.net
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weadmire wrote:Tyred, MSc and PhD? Baiting, ridicule?
All the people I knew at uni who went on to an MSc and a PhD did so for want of something better to do. All of them had pretty average first degrees and not much idea of what they really wanted to do for a living. Typically they started to believe their lack of progress in finding work, for the most part measured by a perceived lack of reaction to their much sent CV, was to do with the quality of their first degree. The inclination to a MSc was born. This process was repeated for their PhD. Does this describe you? Did you excel in your first degree or did it not quite properly reflect your real prowess?
Another example of you knowing everything based on wild generalisations/flawed analysis.
I did a PhD after my initial medical degree because I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. As a result of this I am now a medical consultant at a major UK teaching hospital.
Maybe if I'd really tried hard at Uni I could have been selling T-shirts by now but C'est la vie. 0 -
weadmire wrote:Tyred, MSc and PhD? Baiting, ridicule?
All the people I knew at uni who went on to an MSc and a PhD did so for want of something better to do. All of them had pretty average first degrees and not much idea of what they really wanted to do for a living. Typically they started to believe their lack of progress in finding work, for the most part measured by a perceived lack of reaction to their much sent CV, was to do with the quality of their first degree. The inclination to a MSc was born. This process was repeated for their PhD. Does this describe you? Did you excel in your first degree or did it not quite properly reflect your real prowess?
You do like your generalised assumptions don't you Weardmire. Don't know what degree you did but you'll find quite a few areas (specifically in science) require a Masters as a minimum reqirement for the job and you would not be eligable for the majority (if not all) of the "high flying" scienctific positions without a PhD.
Anyway, again, still waiting for the indesputable evidence you promised way back when 0 -
weadmire wrote:Baiting, ridicule? Blah blah blah
I'll say one thing for you Theo/Hans/Amy/various fathers (I can't work out if your actual Dad was tasty / but got knocked off a lot or if it's fictional Amy's fictional father or your real father grafted onto fantasy Amy - you see my dilema) Headhuunter/Hans/Tstegers - you have a wicked sense of humour.
How do you class the 1st class degree of Hans? I presume "her" degree gives her credibility despite being
1. Entirely fictional as he/she is a wildly improbable gender confused fabrication
2. An undergraduate degree (albeit made up etc etc)Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.
What would Thora Hurd do?0 -
Your degree was psychology, wasn't it? Did you get a Desmond? Or was it an A-level (so called because that's the only available grade).weadmire wrote:Tyred, MSc and PhD? Baiting, ridicule?
All the people I knew at uni who went on to an MSc and a PhD did so for want of something better to do. All of them had pretty average first degrees and not much idea of what they really wanted to do for a living. Typically they started to believe their lack of progress in finding work, for the most part measured by a perceived lack of reaction to their much sent CV, was to do with the quality of their first degree. The inclination to a MSc was born. This process was repeated for their PhD. Does this describe you? Did you excel in your first degree or did it not quite properly reflect your real prowess?
I did okay in my first degree (which was not an MSc). I scraped through with an Oxford 1st and I was only in the top 15% or so, but I can't complain. No need to do an MSc for me, but of course I don't have a bachelor's degree. Ho hum, such regrets.
Given that it was in a pure science, I did have a fairly predictable career path, but as I wasn't dedicated or interested enough in spectroscopy to be an academic, I've since changed a couple of times and I'm relatively happy with patent law.
You are a hydraulically actuated resilient tubular member with a first end operatively connected to a pubic region and a second end formed and arranged to dispense nonsense passing therethrough.0 -
You have to admit, that sounds better than having lots of letters after your name, and an online t-shirt shop.0
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No, I think there is an actual shop._Brun_ wrote:You have to admit, that sounds better than having lots of letters after your name, and an online t-shirt shop.
Retail's the thing to be in, you know. Just look a Theo Paphetis.... oh, wait.... wow. I'm impressed....0 -
I don't have a degree (dropped out of my B.Ed.). You guys are making me feel inadequate. 0
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Agent57 wrote:I don't have a degree (dropped out of my B.Ed.). You guys are making me feel inadequate.
Why don't you invent one? This is a free space and anything goes. I'm last King of the Roman Legions today.Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.
What would Thora Hurd do?0 -
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Always Tyred wrote:
Your degree was psychology, wasn't it? Did you get a Desmond? Or was it an A-level (so called because that's the only available grade).weadmire wrote:Tyred, MSc and PhD? Baiting, ridicule?
All the people I knew at uni who went on to an MSc and a PhD did so for want of something better to do. All of them had pretty average first degrees and not much idea of what they really wanted to do for a living. Typically they started to believe their lack of progress in finding work, for the most part measured by a perceived lack of reaction to their much sent CV, was to do with the quality of their first degree. The inclination to a MSc was born. This process was repeated for their PhD. Does this describe you? Did you excel in your first degree or did it not quite properly reflect your real prowess?
I did okay in my first degree (which was not an MSc). I scraped through with an Oxford 1st and I was only in the top 15% or so, but I can't complain. No need to do an MSc for me, but of course I don't have a bachelor's degree. Ho hum, such regrets.
Given that it was in a pure science, I did have a fairly predictable career path, but as I wasn't dedicated or interested enough in spectroscopy to be an academic, I've since changed a couple of times and I'm relatively happy with patent law.
You are a hydraulically actuated resilient tubular member with a first end operatively connected to a pubic region and a second end formed and arranged to dispense nonsense passing therethrough.
I guess it depends on the uni.....only people with a geoff were even considered for PHD in my uni....and not necessarily accepted either.....
I decided however that academia was not where i wanted to be so got a job (in academia :oops:), then moved out to private consultancy after that....
i must remember to call someone a hydraulically actuated resilient tubular member though....Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.
H.G. Wells.0 -
Oh, god, I didn't used to work with you did I?cee wrote:I decided however that academia was not where i wanted to be so got a job (in academia :oops:), then moved out to private consultancy after that....0 -
Just back from Kiev, obviously with my low-acheiver job.
Can I say that Weadmire's entertainment value improves with each and every posting.
I move out there on the 1st September, I will keep you informed about the joys of commuting in Kiev.0 -
tebbit wrote:Just back from Kiev, obviously with my low-acheiver job.
Can I say that Weadmire's entertainment value improves with each and every posting.
I move out there on the 1st September, I will keep you informed about the joys of commuting in Kiev.
Can you get bullet proof bike tyres ?0 -
Tyred, Wow. Aren't you pleased I asked the question? But what happened, how did you end up at the patent office. Isn't Einstein on record as saying they are very dull places and poorly paid? Thinking of Einstein wasn't it the case that he did two years at a patent office because he had a choppy academic record? WeAdmire him by the way: http://www.weadmire.net/product.aspx?productid=10827 and http://www.weadmire.net/product.aspx?productid=8279 and one of his key collaborators, Sir Arthur Eddington. (The Eddington is not up on the site yet but email us an order we will get you one, £5 off to you for either of the Einsteins or the Eddington.) I can see Sir Arthur waiting at traffic lights but somehow I doubt Einstein would have waited at them, I think he would have been a RLJ'er. Not really intellectually consensual our Einstein.
Aquila , or should it be Doctor Doctor? Remarkable career to date.
This will seem a little off topic but hey we are off the topic until the reports arrive. I am told we will have them by 17 September by the way.
In 1997 my eldest brother developed Crohn's disease, he was 17. After some confusion in the diagnosis the proposal was to treat him with steroids and immune suppressants. The prognosis of this treatment for a very athletic young man is pretty miserable, anxiety about everything you eat, become bloated thanks to the steroids, catch everything thanks to the immune suppressants, surgery because the drugs don't work very well, die circa 45. My parents wanted something better.
In the early 80's two Australian Doctors, Barry Marshall and Robin Warren a GP and a pathologist got together because the GP, Barry Marshall, did not buy the received wisdom concerning stomach ulcers: stress, acid, ulcers, Zantac. The pathologist suggested they analyse the contents of the guts of his ulcer patients. In about 90% of cases a particular bacteria was present. The 90% proportion told them it was causal not coincidental. (I wonder if they properly considered all the confounding factors, of course they might have but I think they just got on with it. ) They isolated the bacteria and asked the Australian medical establishment for permission to test their theory on animals. They received a flat refusal. They became ever more strident but the establishment was implacable.
They decided to conduct a clinical trial limited to just one person. Barry Marshall drank the contents of an appropriately filled petri dish and Robin Warren administered the antibiotics. As I understand it they overdid the bacteria and Marshall nearly died.
The press got hold of “Doctor nearly dies for the cause” story and perhaps because The Times is/was owned by an Australian they published the story. My parents read it, the year would have been 83/84.
14 years later my parents recalled the Marshall/Warren story. When you look at pictures of the lesions that are characteristic of Crohn's and the lesions characteristic of most stomach ulcers you have to be struck by the similarities. This point was repeatedly made to the doctors treating my brother. The doctors initially treated my parents with polite patronage, this quickly became something more unpleasant in the face of my parents' insistence. The doctors became overtly insulting. Do you recognise this pattern of behaviour in your own? Ultimately with the statement “the pathology of Crohn's is completely different to that of stomach ulcers" my mother was told to leave a consultant's rooms in Tunbridge Wells hospital, my 190cm brother who now weighed less than 50kg and had just turned 18 was there for a consultation. This was the day my parents capitulated and went to the pharmacy for the immune suppressants and steroids.
Tom had taken one of each when the son of my mother's cousin had one last look at the results of googling Crohn's. This time to be greeted by a report of a trial of treating Crohn's by Professor Herman Taylor of St Georges College Hospital Tooting using the antibiotics Calrithomycin and Micobutin that had been published on the web about a week earlier He had a 86% success rate. A proportion almost exactly the same as the proportion of stomach ulcer sufferers who had the particular bacteria in the contents of their guts. Confounding factors?
My mother called Prof Herman Taylor the following morning. He told her to arrange a referral and in the process, having asked about Tom's circumstances, said that he did not want to promote false expectations but his success rate of patients with a history similar to Tom's was 100%. Within about three months my brother's health was pretty much restored.
In 2005, about 23 years after the breakthrough Barry Marshall and Robin Warren won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
My questions:
1/ Why do you think the proposal to treat stomach ulcers with antibiotics was so bitterly resisted by the Australian medical establishment?
2/ If my parents could see the similarity between the lesions associated with Crohn's and stomach ulcers why did the GPs and consultants have such trouble?
3/ Do you really think that asking a basic question concerning cause and effect of a medical condition such as stomach ulcers is really worthy of a Nobel Prize? Put another way what does the award of this prize say about medics, er "generally"...? Or put yet another way is challenging a consensus worthy of such a prize and therefore might I have helped you to win one? (I think there is no hope for tyred his head is too far up his Crohn's)WeAdmire.net
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My questions:
1/ Why do you think the proposal to treat stomach ulcers with antibiotics was so bitterly resisted by the Australian medical establishment?
2/ If my parents could see the similarity between the lesions associated with Crohn's and stomach ulcers why did the GPs and consultants have such trouble?
3/ Do you really think that asking a basic question concerning cause and effect of a medical condition such as stomach ulcers is really worthy of a Nobel Prize? Put another way what does the award of this prize say about medics, er "generally"...? Or put yet another way is challenging a consensus worthy of such a prize and therefore might I have helped you to win one? (I think there is no hope for tyred his head is too far up his Crohn's)
Sorry - my PhD is in the geochemistry of subduction zones - I can however answer all questions on the Pre-Cambrian back arc volcanics of mid Wales0 -
Please make a T-shirt with the logo "We doubt Einstein would have waited at red lights".weadmire wrote:Tyred, Wow. Aren't you pleased I asked the question? But what happened, how did you end up at the patent office. Isn't Einstein on record as saying they are very dull places and poorly paid? Thinking of Einstein wasn't it the case that he did two years at a patent office because he had a choppy academic record?
Even I'd buy that.
Btw - the Patent Office is in Newport. That's a hell of a commute from Edinburgh, where I live.
You are right though, if I did work at a patent office, it would be dull and I would be poorly paid.0
