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Rich_cb wrote:
It’s just a Labour party ‘boogeyman’ threat.
I hope you’re correct, but my cynicism suggests otherwise
Rich_cb wrote:
I do love the trope that the Tories are going to privatise the NHS. It’s wheeled out continuously but here we are 12 years in and they still haven’t done it. The same goes for the endless comparisons with the US system whilst comparisons with our European neighbours or Antipodean friends are almost never mentioned. Why do you insist on backing a system that causes huge numbers of people to die needlessly? Edit. ‘Othering’ people is never OK btw.They haven’t been able to do it yet.
It’s a classic from the right-wing playbook – intentionally cripple a service (e.g. remove 80% of available NHS workers by erecting barriers to travel) and then when people complain about the poor service, come up with “we’ve got a great plan to fix it – why don’t we make money and get rid of the expensive bits by bringing in ACME Ltd to administer it?”.
You may believe that we’d copy some good ideas from European neighbours, but that’s not how it would play out at all – look at Jacob Rees-Mogg’s plans to rip out the EU workers protections. We’re heading fast for a U.S. style health bankruptcy where the rich can afford health services (despite the rich having much better health outcomes) and the poor will be thrown out on the streets (c.f. mental health services) or at least be one operation away from poverty.
As far as ‘othering’ goes – I’m just calling it as I see it. When politicians such as Braverman can get away with saying that their ultimate dream is to witness a flight sending refugees and asylum seekers to Rwanda, then how do you expect me to think that Tories have any empathy or decency? When Johnson partied whilst relatives were unable to visit dying relatives, just what do you really expect people to think – give him another go at the job?
As long as people are supporting the policies of “I’ve got mine, so screw everyone else”, then they deserve to be called out for supporting inhumane, selfish monsters. I’m not ‘othering’ people because of what they are, but because of what they choose to do.
I can’t believe that utter facist braverman is back at the home office.She wanted to be granted an injunction on protestors based on what she thought they might do.
It’s a proper shit-show.
I do like the idea of a Hindu taking top office on Diwali, though as that puts a nice spin on it. (Got my covid booster in a Hindu temple down the road – I do like their religious imagery though I couldn’t tell you who all the gods are)
Rich_cb wrote:
Last paragraph is a bit disappointing. The fact that people in many other countries get better healthcare than we do means it’s cruel to want to emulate their systems? If a greater involvement of the private sector leads to fewer people dying unavoidably, as demonstrated in Australia and Germany for example, then who cares if profit is being made?We can’t even seem to be able to copy better cycle infrastructure, so I have exactly zero faith in trying to “improve” the NHS by allowing rich people to get good health care and the poor will get completely screwed over (most likely subsidising the wealthy).
Cruelty is the hallmark of the U.S. healthcare system and especially their health insurance. Also, compare with Sunak moving money from deprived areas to bolster up rich areas. I can personally guarantee that the Tories will sell as much of the NHS as possible over to U.S. companies for a quick buck and future generations will be paying the price forever.
Doesn’t matter how you dress it up, the Tories are evil, blood-sucking parasites.
Except our Powers That Be don’t want to come up with any social model to replace the NHS – their preferred model is the US model of paying $1million dollars for childbirth, $1thousand to be picked by an ambulance, that sort of thing…There’s a lot of money to be made from illness, especially with the Tories looking to rip out all the EU worker protection legislation and starving the NHS of money and workers (the NHS being an equal opportunities employer had a large percentage of immigrant workers back in the days of freedom of movement i.e. pre-Brexit).
It’s not just that the Tories want poor people to suffer – they want to make big bucks doing so. Also remember, that with the right-wing, cruelty is its own reward.
I use a single walled ‘wide mouth’ Kleen Kanteen, and that fits happily into my bottle cage (single walled because I never carry a hot drink, and a Kleen Kanteen because I was reading all sorts of stuff about chemicals leaching out of plastic drinks bottles…).I think the leeching chemicals boat has already sailed so I just use a typical plastic bottle. The problem with metal ones is that you can’t squeeze them to have a quick glug whilst riding.
It’s incredible there are those in the party, who think Sunak is a socialist and that the government we have is in any way left wing.They seem to be working hard to take the party so far from the centre gound as to be uneletable, but so many of their voters either didn’t notice or are extremists.
Sunak’s a reverse socialist – take from the poor and give to the rich: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/05/video-emerges-of-rishi-sunak-admitting-to-taking-money-from-deprived-areas
I’m a fan of the Klean
I’m a fan of the Klean Kanteens double walled metal flasks and supposedly they fit into a standard bottle cage, but I’ve never got around to trying that out as I don’t bother carrying hot drinks. They’re quite pricey though.
https://www.kleankanteen.co.uk/
If memory serves, I believe a similar question has been asked on the forum before, but can’t find it. I think ktache had a good recommendation that was cheaper than the Klean Kanteens.
Found the thread I was thinking of: https://road.cc/content/forum/270157-3cs-cycling-coffee-commuting
(Well, actually I found this thread: https://road.cc/content/forum/looking-insulated-cup-recommendations-272307 which does have a particularly fine squirrel picture and a link to the desired thread)
I spotted that Jacob Rees
I spotted that Jacob Rees-Mogg is trying to scrap any EU legislation that protects workers: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/oct/24/post-brexit-proposals-mean-2400-laws-could-disappear-lawyers-warn
I’m surprised that no-one foresaw that as one of the outcomes of Brexit.
(A more amusing article here: https://newsthump.com/2022/10/24/i-only-came-back-from-my-holiday-to-make-jacob-rees-mogg-look-like-a-twat-insists-johnson/)
Here’s an unusual one: https:
Here’s an unusual one: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/biker-taken-hospital-after-driving-7738046
A biker has been taken to hospital after driving into a parked car. Emergency services were called to a street in Weston-Super-Mare this afternoon at around 3.45pm.
Avon and Somerset Police said it was called to a report of a motorcycle in collision with a parked car. The rider of the 125cc motorbike is going to hospital for assessment to injuries which are not currently believed to be life-threatening or life-changing, it added.
There is a small canon of jokes along these line, probably now only used by children’s entertainers.The formula is-
feed line/ set-up: <news announcement of incident> (typically, a lorry has shed its load, or something has been stolen)
Punchline: “a police spokesman said” <describes police response, involving a pun on, or other reference to the set-up>Example: lorry load of hair oil / police are combing the area.
In our little world it might be “the Part of the Sheldon Brown site that talks about English, French and Italian bottom brackets has been hacked – cyclists don’t know which way to turn”
The Two Ronnies featured a lot of news headlines like that:
We’ve just heard that a juggernaut of onions has shed its load all over the M1. Motorists are advised to find a hard shoulder to cry on.
West Mersea police announced tonight that they wish to interview a man wearing high heels and frilly knickers, but the Chief Constable said they must wear their normal uniforms.
A cement mixer has collided with a prison van on the Kingston bypass, motorists are told to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.
Now that Halfords has conceded the point by offering a complete replacement bike, I can’t see them publically refusing to provide a tyre. The main fault lies in importing a lot of bikes without a single replacement tyre. I don’t need a new tyre for now- my repair using x-ray film and Gorilla tape is working well and is undetectable while ridingWhilst I don’t doubt the quality of your repair, I’d be cautious about the rest of that tyre not being faulty – keep an eye on it.
There’s plenty of other width
There’s plenty of other width Schwalbes on eBay, so it looks to be a less common width, though I did find this new pair of 1 3/8″ for £25: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255768282556?amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoJjBp8yHn%2BXlTj49XEfNZMCKTxUCFGEUtKYY%2B%2FQxQQoxghK9voMv%2FvEdZaAqvYi0l%2F%2BMZTzSnI9yqfY%2BW8grdz0GjPCvN3MWXDPagPuh3nmhtjxsenu3jWuiikRVWSb8%2Bv5vArgihS841aKiAdMd1P5iB2PNWCvuZYRjMVcyrsDN0Uqg%2FBr85rx22%2FCORqTb1YE6nzEKVf2kn0SxEVAS%2BQY%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR5jmq8GAYQ
Maybe Halfords would go for giving you a £25 voucher (presumably just for Halfords stuff) and then you could just go buy a pair of replacement tyres? (Alternatively, buy the replacements and then shoplift £25 worth of stuff from them).
Nice to see I’m not alone in thinking Park Tools are not all that their marketing and fanbois claim. Worst tools I’ve had the pleasure of working with and poor after sales/sales support/retail support.I’m quite disturbed to see how many Park Tools I’ve accumulated over the years – I’m no fanboi of them and usually have a look round for cheaper alternatives, but somehow I’ve ended up with lots of them.
I’ve got one Mavic wheelset with aero spokes – do they twist more than round ones, or is it that you can have a holder for them?The problem is that twisted aero spokes look bad and defeat the whole purpose of them. Also, being straight pull spokes, they will twist more than J-spokes as they can pivot all the way round.
As for a suitable tool, you could easily just make a slot in a bit of wood that would work as well. Pliers would work, but you’d want to protect the spoke a bit.
