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I learnt yesterday, watching Marr, that the Chinese Ambassador is well out of his depth and terrible at misdirection.rick_chasey said:Not sure where else to put this but I do find it oddly coincidental that the BBC broadly ignores the gulag problem in China for half a decade but as soon as China takes over HK they start publishing drone footage of prisoners being loaded into trains to be sent to them.
"I don't know where you got this video"
From a drone in China, pal.Ben
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And they don't seem to be too concerned about civil liberties anymore.rjsterry said:Mixed. I think the whole political spectrum is a very limiting idea but if I had to pick a single point on the spectrum probably dead centre. Dare I say a centrist Dad. Have voted LibDem previously, mainly because he was a damn good constituency MP and as you've probably noticed I'm pretty pro-European, but they seem to be lost in the wilderness at the moment and shifting too far to the left for me.
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What was this in reference to? I notice they couldn't be bothered to support Maajid Nawaz's petition to ensure a Commons debate on Chinese treatment of the Uighurs. For such a small ask, this just seems to confirm that there's no one at the wheel.nickice said:
And they don't seem to be too concerned about civil liberties anymore.rjsterry said:Mixed. I think the whole political spectrum is a very limiting idea but if I had to pick a single point on the spectrum probably dead centre. Dare I say a centrist Dad. Have voted LibDem previously, mainly because he was a damn good constituency MP and as you've probably noticed I'm pretty pro-European, but they seem to be lost in the wilderness at the moment and shifting too far to the left for me.
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That Northern Ireland has gold and mountains.0
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It also has dragons, dwarves and an influx of hobbits.TheBigBean said:That Northern Ireland has gold and mountains.
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my hangovers have crept into another day0
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That'll be where the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea thenTheBigBean said:That Northern Ireland has gold and mountains.
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Looking for a decent cooling rack/hot stand and I discovered that they are called a Trivet.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus isn't actually married to Richard Dreyfuss
I always thought she was.
Don't know why.
In fact their names are even spelled differently
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Is related to the guy who founded the massive commodity trading house Louis Dreyfus however.tailwindhome said:Julia Louis-Dreyfus isn't actually married to Richard Dreyfuss
I always thought she was.
Don't know why.
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Jeez. I knew it was designed to mess with my head, but always assumed it was based on something other than a random number. Wonder how widespread that is.rick_chasey said:0 -
That a man on rim brakes descends faster than a man on disc brakes.1
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Maybe man on rim brakes is fatter than man on disc brakes.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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Think it was commented elsewhere but that was a lesson in how not and how to descend at speed. Alaphilippe was all over the road and bike, WvA was cool and composed.
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Maybe the bloke with rim brakes was going faster than he wanted to because his brakes were rubbish?"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1
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Indeed. Rider skill is way more important than disc or rim, thought that would be obvious.orraloon said:Dunno if rim vs disk bore any significance.
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Surely the explanation is easy. You only "upgrade" from rim brakes if you're not very good with them. So all else equal the disc rider is worse than the rim rider.0
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So all the pro teams on discs couldn’t ride with rim brakes, that’s something else that I’ve recently learnt.0
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If you get a chance, watch the Cipressa and Poggio bits at the end of MSR. Some 'interesting' cornering techniques from Oss, Alaphilippe et al.0
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Hmmm. Saturday's performance, and the obvious comparison, might suggest JA ain't all that.0
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Van Aert caught JA on the descent without looking sketchy.
So VA went quicker and JA was on the edge on sooo many corners.
Super finish though. I've never been that keen on M-SR. Not much happens till late on.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
I think he'd have been caught by the bunch yesterday if WvA hadn't shown him the correct lines after crossing the gap. It wasn't as though he was running wide as he was on the limit of the bike's capability as van Aert was going faster and smoother. I was surprised how bad he was as like you thought he was a good descender but then with 300k in your legs your concentration goes I suspect.rick_chasey said:Love this idea Alaphilippe is not a good bike handler.
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M-SR is a grind and yesterday's was what, 299km?!
= 185 miles.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
No it must be the discs making him in to a sh*t bike handler.Pross said:
I think he'd have been caught by the bunch yesterday if WvA hadn't shown him the correct lines after crossing the gap. It wasn't as though he was running wide as he was on the limit of the bike's capability as van Aert was going faster and smoother. I was surprised how bad he was as like you thought he was a good descender but then with 300k in your legs your concentration goes I suspect.rick_chasey said:Love this idea Alaphilippe is not a good bike handler.
He’s won races on his descending before.
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Tesla is the worlds largest car company by market capitalisation, 60% bigger than the second largest, Toyota.
WTF?0
