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Rice bars are a good option,

Rice bars are a good option, as you can fill them with pretty much anything that takes your fancy, and because the rice is basically neutral there’s little that won’t work with it. Almond butter is a particular favourite of mine.

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hawkinspeter wrote:

I’d love a bit of techno-anarchism – like a free-market of societal systems. Open source government if you will.

Whereas what we’ve got is an open sauce government.

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I don’t want to be ‘penalised

I don’t want to be ‘penalised’ with taxes generally, but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be.

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Jogle wrote:

Jogle wrote:

Residents heard big bang as car crashes

Cosmic background radiation caused the collision?

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Steve K wrote:

One of the many, many reasons I could never have been a pro is that no way I would pee on the move.

Apparently, the number of sportives using it was the main reason for leaving Blackberry Way.

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Re. the littering – this

Re. the littering – this might just be a function of numbers. Unfortunately there’s a significant minority of thoughtless people in all walks. That significant minority of riders on a sportive may be enough to ‘lay a trail’ of litter in its wake, whereas the litter from the minority of solo / small group riders is more dispersed and less obvious – it doesn’t necssarily mean that the sportive riders as a whole are any worse.

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HoarseMann wrote:

I just can’t believe they think a driver awareness course is appropriate. If the driver really did just pass their test 2 weeks ago, they’ve literally just completed an intense period of driver training. How on earth can a ‘refresher’ course be deemed any benefit, can they really have forgotten how to drive after 2 weeks!

Perhaps they should be offering the ‘improvement course’ to the driver’s instructor and examiner?

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The councillor is right – the

The councillor is right – the parking will be a hideous blight on the street. Rather than allowing people to do it if they pay, they could try banning it altogether – that would solve the problem. 

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kinderje wrote:

I found out today that different refineries are set up to process specific types of crude oil. So, a refinery cannot start to process Saudi oil if it was originally set up for Russian supplies.

Also apparently different blends produced for summer and winter markets.

A bit like Pimms.

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IanMSpencer wrote:

IanMSpencer wrote:

until you need a wee in a gate and discover you’ve clogged your cleat.

You should probably see a doctor about that.

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It’s always weirdly hard to

It’s always weirdly hard to locate, considering it’s literally the first thing on the page. I tihnk because it tends to blend in with the browser controls.

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Simon_MacMichael wrote:

it’s often said many of us only use a fraction of the capabilities of the various gadgets etc we own

I thought that was brains?

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It’s been hacked by Pozzovivo

It’s been hacked by Pozzovivo, in revenge for making him available on a free.

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Well, at least in part, it

Well, at least in part, it will be because the source crude is only one cost of many that has to be factored in. Leaving aside costs of refinement, there will be costs of franchising, of employment, of taxes, of heating and lighting, etc., etc., which may all have increased over the last ten years. Then you also have to consider sales of other products – if those have fallen, or margins have shrunk, the shortfall would have to be made up in the price of the core product.

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Presumably popped in to pick

Presumably popped in to pick up a paper (and a special offer Twix) at the cashier-free till.

Intrigued to note that the headline takeaway is apparently the crashing into WHSmith, and not so much the other car which somehow ended up on its roof…

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