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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,572
    rick_chasey said:

    pblakeney said:

    In response to KG and focuszing, wot pinno said.
    It is an irrelevance in wasted energy and saves me fitting a bell. 😉

    Sure but Pros do it
    They ride what they are given. Ask the teams.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,661
    How people of TV makeover shows set a budget. The wife was just watching some garden makeover programme where a woman was getting a fairly small garden done. She had a budget of £20-25k which seemed huge for the size of garden and which I would class as a £20k budget with a 25% contingency. The end cost somehow came out at £32k (struggling to work out where it all went especially considering they chose to remove a pergola that was in the design).

    They classed going over by 28-60%, depending on which end of the ‘budget’ you use, as being slightly over. It seems to be a similar case on any of those type of shows too. I can understand with major house renovations in the current climate of construction inflation but a few days work in a garden using a design by a professional that is supposed to be working to a budget?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,572
    The people in the show are probably very happy. Anecdotal story…
    A few decades ago a colleague was on one of those makeover shows. Not only did the TV company pay for the garden and conservatory but it went right down to plates and cutlery level. In TV budget sense it is cheap TV.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,661
    Pretty sure on this type of thing they fund the budget themselves. Not sure who picks up any over-spend though.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited February 2023
    People who are doing politically sensitive work on the train.

    Mate, I can read your entire letter to the parliamentary select committee. Get a bloody screen protector.
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,174
    edited February 2023
    pblakeney said:

    rick_chasey said:

    pblakeney said:

    In response to KG and focuszing, wot pinno said.
    It is an irrelevance in wasted energy and saves me fitting a bell. 😉

    Sure but Pros do it
    They ride what they are given. Ask the teams.
    Pro's don't tend to freewheel though, they're pedalling when it counts. They'd be pointless gains but what was it "margarine gains" or something?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited February 2023
    focuszing723 said:

    pblakeney said:

    rick_chasey said:

    pblakeney said:

    In response to KG and focuszing, wot pinno said.
    It is an irrelevance in wasted energy and saves me fitting a bell. 😉

    Sure but Pros do it
    They ride what they are given. Ask the teams.
    Pro's don't tend to freewheel though, they're pedalling when it counts. They'd be pointless gains but what was it "margarine gains" or something?
    Why would you not want the most efficient bike?
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,174
    rick_chasey said:

    focuszing723 said:

    pblakeney said:

    rick_chasey said:

    pblakeney said:

    In response to KG and focuszing, wot pinno said.
    It is an irrelevance in wasted energy and saves me fitting a bell. 😉

    Sure but Pros do it
    They ride what they are given. Ask the teams.
    Pro's don't tend to freewheel though, they're pedalling when it counts. They'd be pointless gains but what was it "margarine gains" or something?
    Why would you not want the most efficient bike?
    Because it's noisy, makes clicking sounds.

    Click, click, click, click...












    Click, click, click. "Ohhwww I don't want to pedal"
  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,666
    rick_chasey said:

    People who are doing politically sensitive work on the train.

    Mate, I can read your entire letter to the parliamentary select committee. Get a bloody screen protector.

    Tweet a picture of it, that will get them to crack down
    - Genesis Croix de Fer
    - Dolan Tuono
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    pangolin said:

    rick_chasey said:

    People who are doing politically sensitive work on the train.

    Mate, I can read your entire letter to the parliamentary select committee. Get a bloody screen protector.

    Tweet a picture of it, that will get them to crack down
    I’m not a d!ck.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    We’ve all had our day ruined by delays already, no need to make it worse
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,174
    rick_chasey said:

    We’ve all had our day ruined by delays already, no need to make it worse

    Why do you keep bigging up trains, when you know they're a bit $h1t?
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,174
    In a car it's like you're home.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,174
    edited February 2023
    I guess to be fair you don't have many choice because of traffic in London, not all Cities/Towns are like London though.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,075
    focuszing723 said:

    In a car it's like you're home.

    Traffic delays are almost unheard of.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    focuszing723 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    We’ve all had our day ruined by delays already, no need to make it worse

    Why do you keep bigging up trains, when you know they're a bit $h1t?
    I’ve explained it enough on the thread. Go have a look if you are actually interested.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,606
    focuszing723 said:

    pblakeney said:

    rick_chasey said:

    pblakeney said:

    In response to KG and focuszing, wot pinno said.
    It is an irrelevance in wasted energy and saves me fitting a bell. 😉

    Sure but Pros do it
    They ride what they are given. Ask the teams.
    Pro's don't tend to freewheel though, they're pedalling when it counts. They'd be pointless gains but what was it "margarine gains" or something?
    Margarine to dampen the noisy clicks. That's frikkin genius.
    Hang on - is there still an EU butter mountain?
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,923
    edited February 2023
    People who read your stuff over your shoulder on trains annoy me. Nosey bar stewards. But that's for another thread.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Stevo_666 said:

    People who read your stuff over your shoulder on trains annoy me. Nosey bar stewards. But that's for another thread.

    I wanted to know why he was quite so engrossed in his writing that he continued to bump into my broken shoulder.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,661
    pangolin said:

    rick_chasey said:

    People who are doing politically sensitive work on the train.

    Mate, I can read your entire letter to the parliamentary select committee. Get a bloody screen protector.

    Tweet a picture of it, that will get them to crack down
    Nah, sell the picture to a newspaper. Capitalism at its finest.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,661
    rick_chasey said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    People who read your stuff over your shoulder on trains annoy me. Nosey bar stewards. But that's for another thread.

    I wanted to know why he was quite so engrossed in his writing that he continued to bump into my broken shoulder.
    Even more reason to take a picture and sell it to the papers. Sounds like a selfish tvvat to me
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,274
    Anything interesting?
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,174
    edited February 2023
    kingstongraham said:

    Anything interesting?

    A shrimp's heart is in its head.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,174

    Here's a picture and everything.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,174
    edited February 2023
    Oh, i've got a good one.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-64784031
    The reactor pressure vessel is the first to be built for a British power station for more than 30 years.

    At just 13 metres tall and weighing 500 tonnes, it will create the heat needed to make steam for the world's largest turbines.

    It is the first of two nuclear reactors to be installed to provide low carbon electricity for three million homes.

    God, look at all those cranes!

  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,174
    rick_chasey said:

    focuszing723 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    We’ve all had our day ruined by delays already, no need to make it worse

    Why do you keep bigging up trains, when you know they're a bit $h1t?
    I’ve explained it enough on the thread. Go have a look if you are actually interested.
    OK, fair enough.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    kingstongraham said:

    Anything interesting?

    Royal Mail CEO follow up to Darren Jones MP after they got roasted a few days ago.

    He clearly doesn't write the letters himself.
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  • Munsford0
    Munsford0 Posts: 680
    .Be funny if he actually posted it and it took a fortnight to arrive like some things we've recently sent...
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,661
    focuszing723 said:

    Oh, i've got a good one.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-64784031

    The reactor pressure vessel is the first to be built for a British power station for more than 30 years.

    At just 13 metres tall and weighing 500 tonnes, it will create the heat needed to make steam for the world's largest turbines.

    It is the first of two nuclear reactors to be installed to provide low carbon electricity for three million homes.

    God, look at all those cranes!

    There’s fewer than there was, I’ve been there numerous times since work on site started and it is seriously impressive.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited February 2023
    I love miserable music, the more miserable the better, and my all time favourite, am-top-0.5%-of-listeners-on-spotify, is radiohead.

    Therefore, the "moody" mood playlist spotify generates for me is right up my street.

    Yet they include "let down" by radiohead in the list; surely one of their more uplifting songs?!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z_NvVMUcG8

    Is this, in fact, a miserable and I'm just so immune to it, or is the algo wrong?
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