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I voted last week, surprised how busy it was, hopefully it continues and there’s a good turnout

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So I've been on a family camping holiday in the Cote d'Azur and have rented a bike for the last week. The place is like a cyclist's wet dream. Glorious roads, nice steady climbs and great views, all with 32degree weather. I managed a trip up to Ventoux on Friday which was epic. I expected it to be ...

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4 weeks out and I'm getting to the point in the build up to an event where I'm just bored and sick of training for it :lol: . Did 3200m climbing on Wednesday which was the most I've done to date but given the geography of where I live, the longest climb was 5km at 5% so I'll get a serious kick in t...

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Awful news, was a wonderful player. RIP. I showed this to my wife as we are moving our family to Austin this summer and she is now panicking about our safety :( Assume you’re going to rent for a while as Austin has experienced a significant increase in real estate prices over the last 5 years and t...

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Very sad news. He also coached Rice University, I believe they have set up a GoFundMe page for his family.

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Flockwitt wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 7:17 pm
Spyglass wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:46 pm I'm busy erecting my non-scaleable fence....us folks in the suburbs need to be prepared
There's a rush on aluminum siding?

Sold out at the hardware stores, I'm going with plywood and a generous coating of grease

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Mr Mike wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 7:09 pm
Spyglass wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:46 pm I'm busy erecting my non-scaleable fence....us folks in the suburbs need to be prepared
Locked and loaded?

Cleaning them as I type. Any recommendation for load sequence for the 12 gauge - should I go No 8, No 4, buckshot and repeat

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I'm busy erecting my non-scaleable fence....us folks in the suburbs need to be prepared

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Clogs wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 3:10 am
shanky wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 2:58 am clogs

what is that?

cobra?
Yeh. Not too many original ones lying around, but some seriously good kit cars to be had.

I wouldn’t go near a kit car, but there are some excellent factory built turnkey cars available from: Superformance (pictured), Kirkham and ERA.

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5" of rain overnight, it's eased off but is still coming down, it's supposed to stop by midday.

My son's high school graduation is scheduled for this evening at the football stadium, I can't see that going ahead

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Yes, NATO uses Full Metal Jacket (FMJ) rounds, it's a general agreement between the worlds military's (although the US is now going to use 9mm Jacketed Hollow Points (JHP) in their service pistkols). FMJ has better penetration through objects and since assault rifles are full auto you aren't as wor...

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Yes, NATO uses Full Metal Jacket (FMJ) rounds, it's a general agreement between the worlds military's (although the US is now going to use 9mm Jacketed Hollow Points (JHP) in their service pistols). FMJ has better penetration through objects and since assault rifles are full auto you aren't as worr...

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Yes, NATO uses Full Metal Jacket (FMJ) rounds, it's a general agreement between the worlds military's (although the US is now going to use 9mm Jacketed Hollow Points (JHP) in their service pistols). FMJ has better penetration through objects and since assault rifles are full auto you aren't as worr...

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Yep especially with the hollow point rounds that are used by the cops, the head squashes on impact and then makes a mess inside x( Wow that seems fairly barbaric? I thought hollow points were outlawed by Geneva Convention.(or whatever the relevant piece of law is) Seems not the case ... stopping po...

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The choice there seems to be let him get away and everyone lives, or shoot him, and he probably dies. And as pointed out, they know who he is and can find him again surely. Sure, by their laws they're probably just about justified, but that doesn't mean the laws are right. I'm no gun guy so am all ...

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The choice there seems to be let him get away and everyone lives, or shoot him, and he probably dies. And as pointed out, they know who he is and can find him again surely. Sure, by their laws they're probably just about justified, but that doesn't mean the laws are right. I'm no gun guy so am all ...

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Well I watched a Joe Rogan clip where Rogan claims that the guy asked the cops to get him an Uber and if they did that and had his car towed then fingers crossed the guy can wake up in the morning and possibly think about getting help for any substance problems he has. But I don't know if what Roga...

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Sandstorm wrote:Can someone please send me the home address of the cnut @ Microsoft who decided that the Search box on the O365 client should move from the RHS of my Mailbox and up onto the top of the mother-bastard application border?

Thank you in advance

Thanks, I was wondering where it had gone

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Mr Mike wrote:
Good luck to your son for the next stage.

Thanks, he'll be studying engineering at A&M, so we'll have an Aggie in the family, which will be a bit of a cultural change for us Englishers....

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Judging by the number of “looters will be shot on sight” signs posted around our gated community during Hurricane Harvey, I think there was a firm view formed that looting is generally unacceptable. Fortunately we had some community minded folks patrolling the lakes and streets in their kayaks “loc...

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Judging by the number of “looters will be shot on sight” signs posted around our gated community during Hurricane Harvey, I think there was a firm view formed that looting is generally unacceptable. Fortunately we had some community minded folks patrolling the lakes and streets in their kayaks “loc...

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ukjim wrote:On a happier note I have just bought some new wheels.

Perfect for chasing those KOM's....during your group rides, obviously

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So what's happened to Strava. I'm guessing they don't like me not paying them money so are dumbing things down to zero. I'm just too cheap I guess. Their business model of giving almost everything away for free seems to have been unsuccessful. Especially with all the extra lockdown log-ins. Probabl...

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Been looking at a Kamado for a long time to accompany my enormous masonary grill. Still not sure I want to shell out for it You can't go wrong with a ceramic grill, BGE has got the established industry name but I don't think there's a lot of difference between most of them. I ended up going with a ...

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Just got a Treager Timberline 1300, huge leap forward in functionality with WiFi enabled control. Great kit. https://contentgrid.homedepot-static.com/hdus/en_US/DTCCOMNEW/fetch/FetchRules/Rich_Content/312506102-tfb01wle-traeger-timberline-1300-pellet-grill-consistency-3-2020.jpg Nice one MM, that s...

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Butterfly the leg, season and marinade for 24 hours in garlic and rosemary, charcoal grill rare. Delicious broke in a new treager smoker over the weekend with some brisket. That recipe sounds like an overdue return to my heritage.... I use a Big Green Egg and love it. A friend of mine has a Treager...

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Butterfly the leg, season and marinade for 24 hours in garlic and rosemary, charcoal grill rare. Delicious

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Uncle Fester wrote: You can tell I'm process rather than mech eng, can't you!

I just can't understand how us engineers get the reputation for being anally retentive.....

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Is it specialist equipment or infrastructure? Swagelok supply both, so it's not an issue sourcing metric fittings. We use a shit load of 1/4" SS piping, but we purchased a huge portion of our equipment from a Finnish company, who deal.in metric. Can cause issues the odd time, bit it's mostly ok. In...

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Is it specialist equipment or infrastructure? Swagelok supply both, so it's not an issue sourcing metric fittings. We use a shit load of 1/4" SS piping, but we purchased a huge portion of our equipment from a Finnish company, who deal.in metric. Can cause issues the odd time, bit it's mostly ok. In...

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I presume you mean MW - Megawatt? rather than mW Kind of depends where in the world you are as power consumption per home can vary a lot, but you would expect somewhere between 350,000 and 600,000 homes I did, thanks. So pretty chunky then? I have some follow up questions if you, or anyone else, kn...

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I presume you mean MW - Megawatt? rather than mW Kind of depends where in the world you are as power consumption per home can vary a lot, but you would expect somewhere between 350,000 and 600,000 homes I did, thanks. So pretty chunky then? I have some follow up questions if you, or anyone else, kn...

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Hmmmm beef ribs... good bump Hey MM, how are you guys doing, keeping up the Houston tradition of totally ignoring any Gov't guidance, particularly when it comes to Covid :roll: . Unfortunately we went back to the office this week, but at least the traffic is light..... Doing well thanks and hope al...

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Mr Mike wrote:Hmmmm beef ribs... good bump

Hey MM, how are you guys doing, keeping up the Houston tradition of totally ignoring any Gov't guidance, particularly when it comes to Covid

. Unfortunately we went back to the office this week, but at least the traffic is light.....

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Whole house system is the best vacuum with the minor complication being that you have to install the piping when you build the house

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I used to use a Kurt Kinetic which was fine but I found the VP calc wasn’t very reliable and I wanted to be able to use ERG mode that smart trainers provide, which makes sites like TrainerRoad, Zwift, etc a better experience. So I got a KickR when they were first released and would highly recommend...

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Pity I've no big boat these days, got about six gallons in the outboard tanks when I got back from the holidays. Probably end up putting that in the car which is full right now. I read somewhere yesterday that you can fill up , in the US mid-west, for 12 cents a gallon. I think someone's pulling yo...

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I used to use a Kurt Kinetic which was fine but I found the VP calc wasn’t very reliable and I wanted to be able to use ERG mode that smart trainers provide, which makes sites like TrainerRoad, Zwift, etc a better experience. So I got a KickR when they were first released and would highly recommend ...

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Yes I'm surprised it loses pressure, I was under the impression that the sealant would take care of any minor leaks. Before I put the sealant in I left the tires for an hour or two to allow the beads to set and the tires to settle into their actual shape. During this time they went down to about 20...

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has anyone actually gone tubeless? Friends and family are raving about it but it seems a bit of a hassle and not easy to get right without the right tools and being of sound mind - both of which may be an issue. See my post above. I converted three weeks ago and have about 500 miles on GP5000TL's. ...

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