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Totally agree on Strange Cargo and Bassomatic

But I'll never forgive him for that awful version of Barber's "Adagio" - that was horrible...

I never had a Raleigh bike

Even as a kid

(Small violin) We didn't have much money so my bikes we always second hand until one Christmas when I got a Halfords own brand racer

It's a shame on one level

But I can't feel too sad as I've not considered them as a viable option since I was a kid

Same with all the hand wringing about Jaguar etc, no one can really claim to feel all that sad if at the same time they've actually chosen to not buy one of their products

"It's a ...

Not sure if anyone else is watching this, but I've become a big fan this year

The racing and circuits are all excellent - the cars are really close in terms of performance, and the circuits are much more interesting than the huge, often flat F1 tracks

Loads of bumping and rubbing, massively ...

I was once at the petrol station on the A47 just near the entrance to Sacrewell and while I went in to pay a short old man in a long coat purchased 1 of every dirty magazine on the shelf, must have been around 20, paid for them, put them in the basket of his Honda City Express and zoomed off into ...

Currently enjoying the new "Fabric presents" by Mount Kimbie - proper bouncy!

https://mountkimbie.bandcamp.com/track/ ... inuous-mix

The lower the price of TSLA the cheaper it would be to fold it into SpaceX

Just finished Widow's Bay on Apple TV

Really enjoyed it

Supernatural spooky thing set on a fictional island off the coast of New England

We're off to Les Gets in the French Alps (near Morzine) on Saturday for a week with my fam

We go to France together every year - the last three of which have been amazing road trips with the Boxster

This year, we're going to a gig in Brighton on the Sat night, so we're getting an overnight ferry ...

What a crap game

I blame Obama

When it doesn't matter, we score six goals

Our timing is impeccable

And don't forget (re payload) that their Moon/Mars plan requires that "Ship" is carrying enough fuel with it to the moon such that it can slow itself down (with no atmospheric resistance to help), land, then take off from the Moon again, fly back to earth, and STILL have enough fuel to slow itself ...

None of these space exploration companies are going to grow until they figure out how to get heavier things into space imo.

Space X especially, their success is pinned on starship working and there isn’t even a working theory on how to do that yet.


Not according to their IPO filing - in that ...

The seemingly massive spike in Virgin Galactic stock only looks significant on a relatively short timescale view of their stock price (say a year)

The spike doesn't even register on a longer term view because the price has utterly collapsed in the last 5 years...

Over 13 mins at 465W is pretty bonkers. The speed downhill is mad too; I remember seeing 85km/h before but 100 with no suspension on a bike is fucking fast.

ETA: seeing 85km/h downhill on the TdF, not myself. I’ve seen nearly 40mph on my full suspension eMTB down a steep hill in the Cotswolds and ...

I found some data from Pog's ride up the Tourmalet this year:

He completed 16.89 kilometers in 43:08, with 1,346 meters of positive elevation and an average gradient of 8%. His average speed was 23.5 km/h.

That equates to 1,875 meters of elevation per hour.

Power estimates place the total effort ...

Americans having to learn why government regulation is good from first principles for the third time in 50 years :lol:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/14/explosive-diarrhea-cyclospora-outbreak-investigation


"The true number of infections is almost certainly higher, because many ...

dinny_g wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2026 11:05 am

DaveE wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2026 9:55 am I'm a big dan of charity shops - both donating and also buying

Agreed - I picked up the entire works of Charles Dickens - an illustrated set from 1910 - for £45 recently.

What a result!

I'm a big fan of charity shops - both donating and also buying

Especially for media (CDs, DVDs, books etc)

I basically use them like a library - buy something for a quid or two, read/watch it, then take it to another charity so they can resell it

It's cheaper than renting a digital copy, and it ...

Simon wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2026 7:22 pm
Shame you didn't capture yourself polishing it as well.

Brasso?