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DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 12:59 pm
SaintK wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 12:55 pm
DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 12:36 pm Steward needs Mike Browns sprint coach, big lad and looks sluggish. Brilliant at his core skills though.
Margot Wells
That’s the lady.

Wife of Allan Wells - known by some as the rattler - not to do with snakes

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It made me lol out loud, the meanest of posters moaning about ‘Bad PR’. While sometiems funny, the entirity of their posting for many years was just to attack, catch-out or troll posters they disagree with. Eddie- great coach, turned England around and the Oz tour was a pinnacle. Now he’s on a long...

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Cycle helmets have compulsory in NZ for years. I don't think it has caused any drop off in participation in cycling for fun, sport, exercise or commuting. I was thinking at least 20 years but I looked it up and it was introduced in 1994. So nearly 30 years. NZ's own figures show roughly a halving o...

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For general savings, 4% is the standard number. i.e. if you can live of 4% of your savings anually then that should be sustainable indefinitely. 4% after tax Is actually a tough ask. It needs professional help. I would hope that most people with enough savings to even consider living off them have ...

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For general savings, 4% is the standard number. i.e. if you can live of 4% of your savings anually then that should be sustainable indefinitely.

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CM11 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 09, 2021 6:57 pm What are the benefits to upgrading?

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UK currently importing a net 5.1gw electricity Solar/wind generating 4.7gw Average price on the Agile electricity tracker is 31.7p/kwh Unless we get a windy winter, UK is going to be in trouble with power generation. They better get the coal plants out of mothballs. We usually import power as it's ...

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Wow, top rack for an old bird. When she started cranking up I was thinking this is highly inappropriate and then when she started singing I was like, hang on, this is probably his mrs rather than his daughter. She was performing at Wickham festival a couple of weeks back with the SAS band. Giving i...

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Nieghorn wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 8:31 pm Quite a collection of snaps from New Zealand in the 1970s: https://www.vintag.es/2021/08/new-zealand-1970s.html

Several of those places look much the same as from my trips to NZ in 2003 & 2011.

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Duck and cherry pie. I just could not see how it worked. Then I tried in Gatrile's in Jo'burg when I lived there. Food of the Gods. Duck and cherry, beautiful. Potato and garlic, disgusting? ;) Duck goes well with sweet fruit. Duck and Cherry is a known Belgian/French dish - without the pie though....

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Last night I went to the session in Connolly's in Chiswick. I sort of knew the match was on, but did not quite put it all together until I walked in about 5 minutes before the end. The pub is actually about the same distance away from the new stadium as Griffin park is. The place was full of people...

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Last night I went to the session in Connolly's in Chiswick. I sort of knew the match was on, but did not quite put it all together until I walked in about 5 minutes before the end. The pub is actually about the same distance away from the new stadium as Griffith park is. The place was full of peopl...

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Sounds more like an IRA bomber than a rugby coach. That purely based on the irish name? Ill be sure to raise it next 6n for farrell, Daly, and Itoji It o’ ji? There is no way he os not Irish, just everything about him. Can't believe you poached him off us. Quite scandalous One of the Mayo It o’ji’s...

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The law of unintended consequences, Gatland finally plays a Scot and we get Blackmac going all parochial on us and thinking the opinion of a Scot matters. Coming from the Irish? Adorable. Next time you tarmac someone’s drive, don’t forget to thank us for inventing it . I didn't realise you were Wel...

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So is the movie getting a good review? It's got to be better than the David Lynch attempt which while visually sumptuous was an absolute disaster of storytelling. Villeneuve seems to be really up for trying to do a decent job of it which gives me hope a la Peter Jackson and LOTR. Humblebrag - my co...

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Coming back to Cav and Quickstep, they bottled it... makes you wonder why they did not try to go for the win on stage 19 to take the record. Arrogance? Excess of self confidence? I think they were bollocksed after the mountains to be fair. 47.7km/h average speed on stage 19 might also have had an i...

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Thanks for posting that Shanky... I've seen a few of Harry's videos before, he has a nice style that suits his format. To summarise... Lord Bowman, owner of JCB industrial machines was challenged by his son (who owns a bus company that will switch to hydrogen fuel technology) over the possibility o...

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lilyw wrote: ↑Sun Jul 11, 2021 7:24 pm On another topic: what is going on with TGH? He doesn't seem to be contributing anything at all.

At the time there was a view that last year's Giro was a weak renewal. Certainly the subsequent form of the principals would support that.

His back is f**ked.

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Simmonds did fine- 5 carries for 28m, 3 tackles and a dominant run of 17m. The biggest issue the Lions have is loosehead. Sutherland needs to be wrapped in cotton wool as the other two are absolutely f**king useless. Not one single positive scrum metre made by Wyn Jones and Mako in 102 minutes of r...

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Yeah, its funny that. I remember at some place I went to in England they had one on display (way after they were rtired), remember beingsurprised at how small they were in real life, if you know what I mean. Had to be for obvious reasons I suppose. They had one at Brooklands Museum for years. Been ...

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Yup. '97 or '98 I think. Most noticeable thing - it was noisy. The seats were plenty comfortable once sitting in them (I flew before the interior refurbishment) but you had to stoop to enter the cabin and your seat. The windows got hot to the touch despite it being -50 outside. Wine list was excell...

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Yup. '97 or '98 I think. Most noticeable thing - it was noisy. The seats were plenty comfortable once sitting in them (I flew before the interior refurbishment) but you had to stoop to enter the cabin and your seat. The windows got hot to the touch despite it being -50 outside. Wine list was excelle...

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So I spent the night in ER in what felt like the worst case of bloating imaginable. Painful as fudge, had to have morphine. Turns out I have gallstones at the ripe old age of 41. I have a consultation tomorrow for surgery and then I guess surgery to remove the gallbladder at some point later in the...

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Some doubts about Bernals fitness after his back injury plus Skineos having 47 separate GC contenders they need to keep happy. Bernal might go to the vuelta with Yates. G needs his team mates to attack the Slovenians from the start to have any chance The fact that Ineos have so many riders who are ...

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I’ve told this annecdote before but as a teenager I was riding a girl who’s brother was a commonwealth games athlete- just outside olympics. I see him and the personality athletes with PEDS. Same with rugby, whether they still juice when uninjured is up for debate but to get the initial size they’r...

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I’ve told this annecdote before but as a teenager I was riding a girl who’s brother was a commonwealth games athlete- just outside olympics. I see him and the personality athletes with PEDS. Same with rugby, whether they still juice when uninjured is up for debate but to get the initial size they’r...

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I would not describe oxycodone as performance enhancing. You might have noticed that opiates are piss easy to get in the USA and there's a big scandal about it. Neither did I. But it doesn't matter it's a banned substance . I'm not questioning the ban however this is a rare occasion where the proff...

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I would not describe oxycodone as performance enhancing. You might have noticed that opiates are piss easy to get in the USA and there's a big scandal about it. Neither did I. But it doesn't matter it's a banned substance . I'm not questioning the ban however this is a rare occasion where the proff...

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I am suspicious of the woman who recently ran the second fastest 100m ever. 10.63 or something like that. Flojo just seemed like a pinup for doping, so anyone who makes it close to her is going to seem very suss. Shelly-Ann Frazer-Price does have a doping ban previously. For pain meds after dental ...

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Their beers are very much style over substance and always have been. Another company that seems to think the alcohol content is more important than the taste of the brew Quite. I like a decent session IPA for the rugby but many of the craft beers are knocking on the door of 6% which will just fudge...

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Nice victory for Valverde. I don't know how many 41 years old have won a World Tour stage but the man has an amazing career. Geoghegan Hart has better legs than Thomas, wonder what it will look like with the long climbs during the two closing days of the race. But he could challenge Thomas.... TGH ...

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Is ExpressVPN blocked there? It's usually good to use I have Express VPN on my current laptop but all VPN sites are blocked here. They don't have a blacklist of sites which are blocked they have a whitelist of sites that are allowed and I think its only about 1000, hence the importance of the VPN, ...

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One option. Nearly all videoconferencing software has a file transfer option built in.

Get somebody to download the relevant VPN software, videoconference with them and download it using the file transfer features.

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Uk #metoo starting to blow-up with Noel Clarke accusing John Barrowman and about 20 women accusing Noel Clarke. Clarke was given a special award by the BAFTAs recently, but apparently they knew of the allegations in some shock of UK institutions covering-up or ignoring sexual misconduct allegations...

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Liebherr - will last a lifetime. This. End of thread. Thirded. Zanussi/Electrolux are also good, but Liebherr fridges are tanks. Liebherr and Miele are made in the same factory and share a lot of components. They may be solid but their reliability is nothing special and they are very expensive to r...

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When I replaced my Miele a few years ago after it failed catastrophically for the 2nd time, I asked the repair guy what he would recommend as a replacement. He said they were all shit these days and not to spend too much.

I ended up getting a Bosch but I don't think it matters that much.

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Did you drive through them on your odyssey some years ago ? Not a chance, not that ballsy :lol: Although I did meet a couple of crazy Belgians in Brazzaville who had driven south from Benghazi through Libya, Chad and CAR in a Citroën 2CV. They had broken their axle in Chad and thought that was the ...

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Nope... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_Tibet Translated into 32 languages, Tintin in Tibet was widely acclaimed by critics and is generally considered to be Hergé's finest work; it has also been praised by the Dalai Lama, who awarded it the Light of Truth Award. :lol: :thumbup: It was a hu...

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guy smiley wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:53 am

Fake. He'd be reading the Tibetan edition.

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I spent a lot of time in Koln so have a love for Kolsch but you're right, has to be fresh. It doesnt travel. We have Schlenkerla available in my local offie. It's like marmite. Bizarre drink. I cant get enough of the doppelbock Marmite you say...I spotted this local brew in my liquor store. I wasn'...

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