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I agree, season 2 of The Nurse Chapel & Spock Show is great. I haven’t reached the musical episode yet though so I might change my mind.
I thought season 2 was a lot of fun and I thought the musical episode was hilarious (one scene in particular, which you’ll know when you see it). By the way Star Trek Lower Decks is 3 episodes into its fourth season now.
Just finished season 2 of Foundation and thought it was much better than season 1. For some reason I found the first season a bit dull and I was trying to remember stuff that I’d read decades ago, but season 2 pulled me in a lot more.
Have to give a shout out for ONE PIECE – a Netflix live action version of an anime about pirates. It’s so much fun and the actors are superb, though I’ve never read or watched the anime version.
The dog (with big hands) said “it’s just a novelty seat cushion, honest”.I’m not a dog expert, but that doesn’t look like a labrador?
If a dog self-identifies as a labrador, then who are we to argue?
If “insist” means it’s part of the ts and cs displayed to drivers, then he hasn’t complied. He would plead in his defence that the space is unmarked.I’ve no experience of what the courts are doing with cases like this – I suspect they’re regarded as an unnecessary stream of activity.
Not really wanting to go on the drivers’ side, but companies shouldn’t be allowed to profit from making things unclear. It’s very common on websites where you have “dark patterns” that are designed to trick people into paying more or signing up for things they don’t want. If the car park has a space that isn’t for parking and drivers are genuinely confused over it, then I think the fines should be quashed until the car park owners mark it clearly as not being available for parking.
Just because something is in Terms and Conditions, doesn’t necessarily make it enforceable – it has to be reasonable. They could put in a line about BMWs having to take up at least two spaces and then charge them if they don’t, but …… hold on, that example doesn’t work.
burnhambiker wrote:
I’ve found a Prime Black Edition 60mm wheelset at a good price on eBay (2nd hand), would you suggest these are a good option or will they be too heavy for my requirements?That’s the wheels that I’ve got! I don’t consider them too heavy, but I’m not particularly light, so an extra 100g here or there for wheels makes little difference to me.
I’d question why they’re being sold and what wheels they went for instead.
just taking my Audi Q5 to B&M…Driver says B&M car park is using fake space to fine drivers £100
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/driver-says-bm-car-park-27704672?int_source=nba
The usual driver response on road noise issues is “don’t live there then”, so is there a corollary for drivers in 20 mph areas?
Anyway, scientists monitoring a bear breeding programme are recording “higher concentrations of droppings amongst the trees” reflecting the apparent success of the programme:Noise experts say new 20mph speed limit in Wales will make streets ‘more pleasant and more liveable’
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/noise-experts-say-new-20mph-27716671
That parking space charge does seem unfair. If they’re going to insist that people only park in marked spaces, then the markings should be clear and unambiguous. If they don’t want people parking in that space, then they need to just put yellow diagonal lines across it.
BetterBiker wrote:
I’m new to road.cc but certainly not to biking as I made my living in the 90’s for over a year as a courier in the city of London & West End. I confess I wasn’t always a ‘safe’ road user. Now older and more mature I want to be accepted and respected as an equal road user with other vehicles – we must start to discuss the elephant in the room around town – speeding and rule compliance.The simple answer is that it makes no difference whether or not you moderate your speed or obey every single recommendation in the Highway Code – the problem drivers can make up their own reasons to think that you don’t belong on “their” roads.
With your previous unsafe history, how many injuries did you deal out or receive that were because of your non-compliance? Now compare that to if you’d behaved recklessly in a car and you should realise that cycling like an idiot is much preferable to driving like an idiot. For this reason, we need to get idiots out of cars and onto bikes and preaching rule compliance and speed moderation might not be the best tactic.
Forgot to add – if you’re
Forgot to add – if you’re quite light, then you may wish to go for a shallower rim depth as they’re less likely to get caught by crosswinds.
The Prime 44mm and 56mm rim
The Prime 44mm and 56mm rim wheels are discounted at the moment, so they’d be a good bet. In theory, 44mm or 56mm is not optimal for climbing, but it’s unlikely to make a huge amount of difference as they’re not overly heavy. If you’re obsessed with climbing though, you may want to go for the lighter (smaller) sizes such as the 38mm.
The rim width isn’t important, but generally wider is better.
I’d probably choose the 56mm wheelset: https://www.wiggle.com/p/prime-doyenne-56-carbon-disc-wheelset
Can’t decide between “not exactly subtle” and ” blimey, I can think of people whose discourse isn’t far off this”; not being a watcher of this show, is it always like this?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvzxAOTIIUY
Why do people make such a fuss, if it’s good enough for Richard III…To be fair to the broad church that is Christianity I think there has always been some variation in views on the subject.
However – the theology people subscribe to can be quite different from what people actually appear to believe (when you probe that more subtly). If this topic is interesting I can recommend a book of Pascal Boyer’s (at least – the first half which cleverly ties together lots of fascinating nuggets of anthropology, philosophy and cognitive science; it gets a bit theory-heavy latterly).
I was hoping you were going to link to this Richard III clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivLZbPIqqe0
Noel was the most pragmatic of the two brothers, so he almost certainly won’t look back in anger.I hadn’t seen your post before I made mine, honest!
Someone asked me the other day if I was going to stop posting squirrel pics.
I said maybe…
I would tell him to learn
Some might say to learn from his mistakes and don’t look back in anger.
A failsafe system?Running out of power when parked on a hill?
Similar I guess to the application of brakes when there is a loss of pressure on artic trailers and train carriages.
But the Tesla incident is just amusing, because it probably delayed emergency vehicles and prevented people getting to vital hospital appointments and funerals shouldn’t we just ban the things…
Supposedly, the handbrake should be run off a separate 12v battery, so there’s some strange failure that took out main power and that system too. It’s a strange failsafe as the main brakes are hydraulic, so even without power on a hill, you can have the driver keep the car still while someone puts bricks under the wheels to act as a handbrake.
Telegraph – you really have gone to the darkside !My apologies. The link was posted to Hacker News and I didn’t find a better source for the info (was also in The Sun and The Daily Heil).
An interesting point is what happens with ICE cars that have electronic handbrakes and have a battery failure? There really should be a manual override in case the vehicle is blocking a hospital or fire station or other important access.
Another question that comes to mind is why the brake should be applied due to lack of power. Usually, electronic handbrakes require power to either engage or disengage it and so a battery failure would leave it in the same state, but I don’t believe that the driver would engage the handbrake during a turn.
A Tesla has caused chaos for more than nine hours on an A-road after it broke down mid-turn and could not be moved.The £60,000 electric car caused delays on the A36 near Salisbury after it failed and became stranded in the middle of the road.
A team of workmen was unable to physically move the white Tesla Model 3 Performance, which ran out of power and broke down mid-turn.
Motorists using the busy road, which connects Salisbury to Southampton, faced delays for up to nine hours as the broken down car had blocked the Lyndhurst Road junction.
The handbrakes of electric cars, and some other modern cars, are controlled electronically, unlike those of traditional petrol and diesel cars, which are mechanical. This means that the handbrake often locks when the power fails and the car cannot be pushed or towed.