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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    edited July 2020

    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 learnt yesterday, watching Marr, that the Chinese Ambassador is well out of his depth and terrible at misdirection.

    "I don't know where you got this video"

    From a drone in China, pal.
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  • nickice
    nickice Posts: 2,439
    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.

    And they don't seem to be too concerned about civil liberties anymore.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 27,485
    nickice said:

    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.

    And they don't seem to be too concerned about civil liberties anymore.
    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.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,511
    That Northern Ireland has gold and mountains.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 12,608

    That Northern Ireland has gold and mountains.

    It also has dragons, dwarves and an influx of hobbits.
  • parmos
    parmos Posts: 100
    my hangovers have crept into another day
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674

    That Northern Ireland has gold and mountains.

    That'll be where the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea then
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,195
    Looking for a decent cooling rack/hot stand and I discovered that they are called a Trivet.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,878
    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

    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,243

    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

    Is related to the guy who founded the massive commodity trading house Louis Dreyfus however.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,131
    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.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    That a man on rim brakes descends faster than a man on disc brakes.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    webboo said:

    That a man on rim brakes descends faster than a man on disc brakes.

    A man descending not on the brakes goes quicker still.

    But out of interest, what prompts this?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,195
    Maybe man on rim brakes is fatter than man on disc brakes.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,243
    morstar said:

    webboo said:

    That a man on rim brakes descends faster than a man on disc brakes.

    A man descending not on the brakes goes quicker still.

    But out of interest, what prompts this?
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  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    pinno said:

    Maybe man on rim brakes is fatter than man on disc brakes.

    Man on discs is on a fatter bike.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 12,608
    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.

    Dunno if rim vs disk bore any significance.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,164
    Maybe the bloke with rim brakes was going faster than he wanted to because his brakes were rubbish?
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,252
    orraloon said:

    Dunno if rim vs disk bore any significance.

    Indeed. Rider skill is way more important than disc or rim, thought that would be obvious.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,511
    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.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    So all the pro teams on discs couldn’t ride with rim brakes, that’s something else that I’ve recently learnt.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 12,608
    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.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,243
    Love this idea Alaphilippe is not a good bike handler.

    He’s won races on his descending before.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 12,608
    Hmmm. Saturday's performance, and the obvious comparison, might suggest JA ain't all that.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,195
    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.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,217

    Love this idea Alaphilippe is not a good bike handler.

    He’s won races on his descending before.

    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.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,195
    M-SR is a grind and yesterday's was what, 299km?!
    = 185 miles.
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  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Pross said:

    Love this idea Alaphilippe is not a good bike handler.

    He’s won races on his descending before.

    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.
    No it must be the discs making him in to a sh*t bike handler. ;)
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,131
    Tesla is the worlds largest car company by market capitalisation, 60% bigger than the second largest, Toyota.

    WTF?