Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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They were great years on Eurosport. BT bought the rights and have done a good job of the coverage but it’s not worth £28 a month. Aero, traction control, ride height devices, Saturday sprint races. Difficulty overtaking, front tyres overheating. The characters/aliens have retired so there’s no needle.Jezyboy said:
What's gone wrong? Never really followed it seriously, but used to watch it whenever it was on Eurosport, back about oh 10+ years ago...mully79 said:This weekend will be the first MotoGP race I haven't watched since 1999.
Another sport ruined as they try to appeal to an audience with an ever shorter attention span and fleece every fan for as much money as possible.
Even though the racings close it’s just not exciting for me anymore.1 -
Our pressure washer has been losing oomph incrementally for a couple of years, and leaving a little oil slick wherever it goes. I've been meaning to examine its internals for ages but it's never seemed as important as fixing bikes or cars. It finally packed up completely on Sunday when I was about 60% through cleaning the patio
The bodger in me wants to strip it down and see if it's repairable, but the devil on my shoulder wants me to go shopping for something new and shiny and a bit further up the Karcher food chain...0 -
Strip it and fix it, even if it only lasts a short while that's money liberated for more fun things.Munsford0 said:The bodger in me wants to strip it down and see if it's repairable, but the devil on my shoulder wants me to go shopping for something new and shiny and a bit further up the Karcher food chain...
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The nozzle on my old one blew up right next to where my non-trigger hand was holding it. If my hand was a couple of inches further forward it would have done real damage. Even as it was the water that hot my hand bloody hurt.Munsford0 said:Our pressure washer has been losing oomph incrementally for a couple of years, and leaving a little oil slick wherever it goes. I've been meaning to examine its internals for ages but it's never seemed as important as fixing bikes or cars. It finally packed up completely on Sunday when I was about 60% through cleaning the patio
The bodger in me wants to strip it down and see if it's repairable, but the devil on my shoulder wants me to go shopping for something new and shiny and a bit further up the Karcher food chain...0 -
The term 'period property'. As far as I can tell it just means an old house that the estate agent is unable to put into a specific time period. The definition I find when looking it up is generally that it pre-dates the First World War but I regularly see it used on properties that are obvious later than that. Also where does it start? Are Georgian houses period properties?0
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This is good advice btw. Ebay is full of top level bikes in the £3-7k range, which seems much more reasonable. Even in my diminutive size.shirley_basso said:I'd just go used. I picked up my Colnago with di2 and zipp 303s for £3k.
The trick was to buy it while my wife was still pregnant and the money belonged to me, not the family
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Euphemism for "Looks nice but will cost a fortune to modernise"Pross said:The term 'period property'. As far as I can tell it just means an old house that the estate agent is unable to put into a specific time period. The definition I find when looking it up is generally that it pre-dates the First World War but I regularly see it used on properties that are obvious later than that. Also where does it start? Are Georgian houses period properties?
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Pross said:
The term 'period property'. As far as I can tell it just means an old house that the estate agent is unable to put into a specific time period. The definition I find when looking it up is generally that it pre-dates the First World War but I regularly see it used on properties that are obvious later than that. Also where does it start? Are Georgian houses period properties?
It only recently struck me that my parents' boring semi-detached suburban house is now about 100 years old.0 -
Buy the wife on £3k bike on the Cyclescheme and then add the £1.5k saving to the budget for your new bike next yearrick_chasey said:
This is good advice btw. Ebay is full of top level bikes in the £3-7k range, which seems much more reasonable. Even in my diminutive size.shirley_basso said:I'd just go used. I picked up my Colnago with di2 and zipp 303s for £3k.
The trick was to buy it while my wife was still pregnant and the money belonged to me, not the family0 -
Chaps, we want to find a way to maximise the chance of a wing mirror clipping a cyclist. Can we give it a try?
https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/27/wavy-kerbs-installed-on-london-road-to-slow-cars-and-promote-cycling-18508232/?ITO=msn0 -
My anti-marketing software precludes me from reading this and it's a faff switching it on and off so if you would kindly fill me in on the gist of what I can only presume is a silly idea seen as we are the nation of silly walks and silly ideas. Ta.First.Aspect said:Chaps, we want to find a way to maximise the chance of a wing mirror clipping a cyclist. Can we give it a try?
https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/27/wavy-kerbs-installed-on-london-road-to-slow-cars-and-promote-cycling-18508232/?ITO=msnseanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
pinno said:
My anti-marketing software precludes me from reading this and it's a faff switching it on and off so if you would kindly fill me in on the gist of what I can only presume is a silly idea seen as we are the nation of silly walks and silly ideas. Ta.First.Aspect said:Chaps, we want to find a way to maximise the chance of a wing mirror clipping a cyclist. Can we give it a try?
https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/27/wavy-kerbs-installed-on-london-road-to-slow-cars-and-promote-cycling-18508232/?ITO=msn
- Genesis Croix de Fer
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As far as I can tell, the council wanted to prevent traffic going through a rat run by blocking it off so there was no through traffic down a busy shopping street. Some residents and businesses objected and wanted traffic through there slowed down instead, and now the compromise is being mocked.pinno said:
My anti-marketing software precludes me from reading this and it's a faff switching it on and off so if you would kindly fill me in on the gist of what I can only presume is a silly idea seen as we are the nation of silly walks and silly ideas. Ta.First.Aspect said:Chaps, we want to find a way to maximise the chance of a wing mirror clipping a cyclist. Can we give it a try?
https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/27/wavy-kerbs-installed-on-london-road-to-slow-cars-and-promote-cycling-18508232/?ITO=msn0 -
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Local resident also annoyed it won't slot down the woke cyclists.- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Just looks like a chicane increasing the chance of a pinchpoint and conflict.0
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There is this further down the article, there isn't room for 2 cycle lanes in the chicane so possibly the cycle lane is outside the kerb lineMotor vehicles will be banned from the road from 8.15am to 9.15am every morning and 3pm to 3.45pm every afternoon, with exemptions for residents and key services such as ambulances.
A cycle route will also allow bikes to travel with or against the direction of road traffic.0 -
Strange exclusion times, presumably, to stop school run traffic.
If a cyclist was to occupy the middle of the road, no vehicles could get by them.
How long is this stretch of road?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
keep the kerbs that high and nobody is going through that faster than a cyclistpinno said:Strange exclusion times, presumably, to stop school run traffic.
If a cyclist was to occupy the middle of the road, no vehicles could get by them.
How long is this stretch of road?0 -
150 metres total, about 30 metres of it with the wavy kerbs.pinno said:Strange exclusion times, presumably, to stop school run traffic.
If a cyclist was to occupy the middle of the road, no vehicles could get by them.
How long is this stretch of road?0 -
Just enough to hold up an increasingly impatient car driver.kingstongraham said:
150 metres total, about 30 metres of it with the wavy kerbs.pinno said:Strange exclusion times, presumably, to stop school run traffic.
If a cyclist was to occupy the middle of the road, no vehicles could get by them.
How long is this stretch of road?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
If the only way to change motorists' behaviour is by pîssing them off, then this idea seems to have merit.
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To then act in frustration?briantrumpet said:If the only way to change motorists' behaviour is by pîssing them off, then this idea seems to have merit.
[further fueled by the Daily Heil et al - Re.: murdering cyclists, after the bloke on a fixie killed a pedestrian. Remember that?]
On that note and as a slight diversion (probably not worthy of yet more compartmentalisation BT), I am behind Harry and others who are trying to take the gutter press to court. First obstacle was yesterday's preliminary hearing.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
pinno said:
To then act in frustration?briantrumpet said:If the only way to change motorists' behaviour is by pîssing them off, then this idea seems to have merit.
[further fueled by the Daily Heil et al - Re.: murdering cyclists, after the bloke on a fixie killed a pedestrian. Remember that?]
On that note and as a slight diversion (probably not worthy of yet more compartmentalisation BT), I am behind Harry and others who are trying to take the gutter press to court. First obstacle was yesterday's preliminary hearing.
I suppose we should be grateful that it's only cars that the UK population has be brainwashed with, and not guns.0 -
The resistance across the water to relinquishing guns is alarming and illogical.briantrumpet said:pinno said:
To then act in frustration?briantrumpet said:If the only way to change motorists' behaviour is by pîssing them off, then this idea seems to have merit.
[further fueled by the Daily Heil et al - Re.: murdering cyclists, after the bloke on a fixie killed a pedestrian. Remember that?]
On that note and as a slight diversion (probably not worthy of yet more compartmentalisation BT), I am behind Harry and others who are trying to take the gutter press to court. First obstacle was yesterday's preliminary hearing.
I suppose we should be grateful that it's only cars that the UK population has be brainwashed with, and not guns.
Does the UK gammon compare to the US redneck on the IQ scale?
The free world where it is difficult to get an abortion
The free world where you can own a gun and potentially kill someone
The free world with it's highly democratic 2 party state and if you think outside of the box, you are a woolly liberal
The free world with it's huge gap in equality
The free world where you are free to die of a life threatening illness if you cannot pay for the best medical care
The free world where if you are rich enough, you can afford the best lawyers and generally get away with it including homicide
The free world where you can by an AR 15 that can fire 150 rounds in 15 seconds (and some try to argue that it isn't an assault rifle, I kid you not: https://www.nssf.org/msr/ )
I don't like this 'free world'.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
The Prince of Woke does not seem very good at funding his battles.briantrumpet said:pinno said:
To then act in frustration?briantrumpet said:If the only way to change motorists' behaviour is by pîssing them off, then this idea seems to have merit.
[further fueled by the Daily Heil et al - Re.: murdering cyclists, after the bloke on a fixie killed a pedestrian. Remember that?]
On that note and as a slight diversion (probably not worthy of yet more compartmentalisation BT), I am behind Harry and others who are trying to take the gutter press to court. First obstacle was yesterday's preliminary hearing.
I suppose we should be grateful that it's only cars that the UK population has be brainwashed with, and not guns.
I once met a lawyer who used to be funded by Max Moseley to represent members of the public who had been trampled on by the tabloid press.0 -
Interesting:surrey_commuter said:
The Prince of Woke does not seem very good at funding his battles.briantrumpet said:pinno said:
To then act in frustration?briantrumpet said:If the only way to change motorists' behaviour is by pîssing them off, then this idea seems to have merit.
[further fueled by the Daily Heil et al - Re.: murdering cyclists, after the bloke on a fixie killed a pedestrian. Remember that?]
On that note and as a slight diversion (probably not worthy of yet more compartmentalisation BT), I am behind Harry and others who are trying to take the gutter press to court. First obstacle was yesterday's preliminary hearing.
I suppose we should be grateful that it's only cars that the UK population has be brainwashed with, and not guns.
I once met a lawyer who used to be funded by Max Moseley to represent members of the public who had been trampled on by the tabloid press.
In July 2011, The Daily Telegraph reported that Mosley was financially guaranteeing the court costs of claimants who may have been subjected to phone hacking by the News of the World. Mosley refused to comment at the time, but he later gave a television interview to the BBC and a telephone interview to Reuters where he confirmed the story.[143]
Mosley launched legal action against Google, in an attempt to stop searches from returning web pages which use the photographs from the video used for the News of the World story.[144] On 6 November 2013, in Mosley v SARL Google, a French court sided with Mosley and ordered Google to prevent its search engine from providing links to images of Mosley engaging in sexual activities from the video. The Register suggested the ruling would lead to a Streisand effect, increasing interest in the images, which are still findable through other search engines.[145] At the Leveson Inquiry,
Bit of a mixed bag was Mosley.
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Fair enough. However looks like a narrow street to me, so it's a system designed to place cyclists in conflict with pedestrians and given them no other viable alternative.monkimark said:There is this further down the article, there isn't room for 2 cycle lanes in the chicane so possibly the cycle lane is outside the kerb line
Motor vehicles will be banned from the road from 8.15am to 9.15am every morning and 3pm to 3.45pm every afternoon, with exemptions for residents and key services such as ambulances.
A cycle route will also allow bikes to travel with or against the direction of road traffic.
One way or another unless it is an 18th century solution to get horse drawn trams up a 1 in 3 Street in San Fransisco, it is stupid.0 -
Similar thing in Bristol achieved by just painting some planters
- Genesis Croix de Fer
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It's literally this stretch of road as far as the traffic lights, with the wavy bit being as far as the red building. It looks ideal for being traffic free, but I'm sure the people who live on that street or nearby like to be able to get to the A1 a bit quicker.First.Aspect said:
Fair enough. However looks like a narrow street to me, so it's a system designed to place cyclists in conflict with pedestrians and given them no other viable alternative.monkimark said:There is this further down the article, there isn't room for 2 cycle lanes in the chicane so possibly the cycle lane is outside the kerb line
Motor vehicles will be banned from the road from 8.15am to 9.15am every morning and 3pm to 3.45pm every afternoon, with exemptions for residents and key services such as ambulances.
A cycle route will also allow bikes to travel with or against the direction of road traffic.
One way or another unless it is an 18th century solution to get horse drawn trams up a 1 in 3 Street in San Fransisco, it is stupid.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5349121,-0.1035608,3a,75y,304.15h,92.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sADFz_25nguEGY9Mfi0iBYg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
It doesn't look ideal for two way cycling, cycling against the traffic flow is indicated on the consultation documents as just on the carriageway. I don't think it matters much what shape the carriageway is.
https://www.islington.gov.uk/-/media/images/content-images/transport-and-infrastructure/charlton-place-and-camden-passage-map-of-final-design.jpg0
