Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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What you are missing is that this poster has been posting nonsense, in full view of everyone.
Thanks! 😂😵💫
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.0 -
That’s how I read it, as the times not daylight hours.
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If you are WFH, can you not go for a row at 4pm then come back and do another couple of hours? Or get some MTB lights mounted on a frame like a pickup truck.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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I am aware.
However I'm not worried about being seen, because there's no night traffic to speak of on the Tamar.
The issue is clipping an oar on a floating log or a buoy or something like that. Or worse running the boat into a moored boat or a chunk of driftwood. Or a sunken bow of a tree embedded in the silt. It doesn't help that the river is tidal, so the position of the banks and the obstacles that are exposed charges hugely with the tide.
If you lose grip on one oar, it's about 95% you are going in, because the hulls have no pitch stability whatsoever and a loose oar will pull that side down.
Centre of buoyancy will be somewhere in me, because I'm 80kg and the boat is 14kg and has a draft of about 5cm.
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Incidentally, red is supposed to be port and green starboard. We used to put white blinkies on starboard instead. Strictly white is a stern light.
So that photo is all kinds of wrong.
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Yes. Or early in the morning.
Nowhere to mount a big bike light really. The bow decking is 10cm or so above the water, and fairly flexible carbon fibre. Possibly I could fix something to the rigger.
Or just use the rowing machine for a few months and not risk my life.
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Never stop 😁
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Yeah, with that list, rowing in broad daylight feels quite risky. Think you need to go for something more robust if you want to row at night. Talking of tides, have you tried the Bristol Avon? I hear the Gorge is fun 😛
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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I've not, no, but there was one in Victoria and a head race that had the same name. Crews had to be coxed upstream from the bridge over it and the downstream was aim, miss a few strokes and hope. Was fun, but then I wasn't the cox.
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Detail is important.
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I'm joking, they don't let boats out of the Cumberland Basin when the tide is going out.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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I was long gone by then, but this is the jist of it. That's kayaking water.
Them w't days. I have to question why I came back, tbh.
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From the stories my younger brother shares, it is very pretty but has it's fair share of problems. The bureaucracy sounds maddening.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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For all the space, housing cost is remarkably a problem. therea also not a whole lot to do for a living on the island so it's a bit Eastbourne, demographically.
Vancouver is a toy town, so most people who need to work for a living live in small apartments and/or a out as close to the pretty parts as you do to Wales.
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Yeah, the planning system is insane. Development within Victoria is almost impossible despite large parts of it being still low-rise large-footprint single dwellings in the middle of oversized plots.
Or you can buy a plot in the forest with no services and no amenities.
The termite and earthquake proofing is interesting professionally.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Ah, yes, I do recall houses with the upper floors on stilts with the ground floors being rebuilt.
Personally I'd go for a cabin with no services, out of those options.
And "pretty" doesn't do it justice. I think coastal temperate rainforest is the most beautiful of all of the environments I've experienced.
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Back to time. My brother is in Australia on holiday. Obviously it's a large country and needs timezones but Adelaide time is 9 hours 30 minutes ahead. That seems crazy to be 30 minutes different to other places in the same country.
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Cross country trains.
Always dirty, frequently smelly and consistently slow.
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Wow you got lucky to find a working toilet.
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People telling me to avoid dairy when I've got a cold, despite the fact that there's no scientific basis for it. Ditto vitamin C.
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Never heard that one before! Non evidence based health advice is always a help 🙄
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It's one of those folklore things that people try when they are ill, and if it happens to coincide with them getting better, it obviously it works, and then it's their duty to tell everyone else.
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You probably got the viral infection by failing to wrap up warm at some point.
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Or going out with wet hair...
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That's exactly how homeopathy 'works'
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That's more about marketing.
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I dunno, it's a little of this, a little of that.
- Genesis Croix de Fer
- Dolan Tuono0 -
Statistically, it's none of that.
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