Brexit, for once some facts.

flecc

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People don't live in Russia. They exist.
Never mind, since 1980 our our governments have been doing their best to ensure we catch up with them.

We are all on state handouts now for cost of living and fuel, first £150, now £400 to follow. Income Credit for many, Winter fuel allowances and well over 2 millions of us have to beg at our 2600 food banks for something to eat.
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This is an important treatment... We were actively considering it for my son, who had C Dif, after that scuppered his lung transplant options. It was pioneered in Russia
When I was prediabetic, I had bowel troubles (they now have polaroids of my lower colon on NHS systems, for pleasure and blackmail purposes), hence my fermenting Natto. The idea of a poo transplant didn't appeal at all - in my case I think it was caused by a combination of pre-diabetes plus post surgery antibiotics for weeks. Kefir didn't work completely, but Natto after a long regimen of Kefir plus 2 and 3/4 stones of weight loss has improved matters considerably. Increasingly common, horribly embarassing debilitating stuff - that *** is a right pain in the ****! I hope all forum members get it ;) A poo on all your houses lol! It's hard to get a sense of how awful such funny sounding conditions are, without personally experiencing their terror.
 

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Never mind, since 1980 our our governments have been doing their best to ensure we catch up with them.

We are all on state handouts now for cost of living and fuel, first £150, now £400 to follow. Income Credit for many, Winter fuel allowances and well over 2 millions of us have to beg at our 2600 food banks for something to eat.
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Yep, Gulags will be nice and warm with plenty of food this winter.. And hospitals over there have to leave windows open they are so hot. Folk fall out of bed and land 6 floors lower on the pavement.
 
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jonathan.agnew

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I can barely remember the last time i went to a gym. They're always warm, many are in contant use, and it's here that superbugs are made . Only the meanest survive constant antibacterial chemical application... it's survival of the flesh eating baddest. Aircon ensures delivery of airborne nasties. Great eyecandy in gyms though. I prefer compund exercises using free weights. Gym machines only exercise a few muscles at a time, whereas compound exercises with weights or bodyweight uses dozens. My preference is bodyweight exercises. Bought a suspension harness, which is fantastic.

In agony having (by bike) towed 156.5kg 16 miles yesterday, I really should have taken a plunge into a cold bath afterwards. Where's my ibuprofen?

Muscles are useful things. I've discovered that I can no longer open plastic packaging. Am I becoming feeble, or has plastic packaging become vastly stronger? I struggled and gave up trying to open the wrapping of a chocolate bar the other day, had to go look for scissors. Trying to get at cherry tomatoes last night, was almost as difficult.
All of that is very true, but I've succumbed to the tory-truss philosophy of not giving a **** about the future as long as I can avoid, escape immediate pain at any cost. Or I've reached that point in middle age where leaving the house on a winter night to run off into the dark feels a bridge too far. It's a lot more entertaining to be in the gym (until one contract a new omicron variant)
PS - 156kg? For 16 miles?
 
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guerney

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All of that is very true, but I've succumbed to the tory-truss philosophy of not giving a **** about the future as long as I can avoid, escape immediate pain at any cost. Or I've reached that point in middle age where leaving the house on a winter night to run off into the dark feels a bridge too far. It's a lot more entertaining to be in the gym (until one contract a new omicron variant)
Or a rash caused by a fungus medical science has hitherto never seen or have treatment for :eek: Or it's human equivalent.

PS - 156kg? For 16 miles?
Two loads, two 8 mile hauls of - spring water from local hills to my garden. I was risking my life with drops into a ravine through the woods on steep path descents (no fences), and my brakes had a really hard time (V), and my tyres would not stop the overall 174kg momentum unless I went extremely slowly skidding my rear wheel and hoping the trailer wouldn't jacknife... but on recent trip I found a shortcut through the golf course they've built inside the nature reserve, which they can't legally stop me traversing. Much safer.

What were your interactions like with Sicilian Mafioso? There must be many traps set for visitors, I would imagine...
 
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guerney

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I've succumbed to the tory-truss philosophy of not giving a **** about the future as long as I can avoid, escape immediate pain at any cost.
:D:D:D Very well said!

Or I've reached that point in middle age where leaving the house on a winter night to run off into the dark feels a bridge too far.
While walking 4 miles last week to meet a client, after my train journey without bike... I wondered why I didn't just jog half the way there. Unlike laptops, tablets and phones are much less prone to failure when jogged about, and they're mostly what I now carry instead (when not lugging around camera and lenses etc). But then I remembered how smelly and sweaty I was the last time I did that. So I'm back to cold dark morning slow runs...
 
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jonathan.agnew

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When I was prediabetic, I had bowel troubles (they now have polaroids of my lower colon on NHS systems, for pleasure and blackmail purposes), hence my fermenting Natto. The idea of a poo transplant didn't appeal at all - in my case I think it was caused by a combination of pre-diabetes plus post surgery antibiotics for weeks. Kefir didn't work completely, but Natto after a long regimen of Kefir plus 2 and 3/4 stones of weight loss has improved matters considerably. Increasingly common, horribly embarassing debilitating stuff - that *** is a right pain in the ****! I hope all forum members get it ;) A poo on all your houses lol! It's hard to get a sense of how awful such funny sounding conditions are, without personally experiencing their terror.
Yes, had pompholyx, innocent enough eczema unless it cause a staph infection, sepsis (and one find onself screaming an A&E ward awake on 40mg diazepam)
 
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jonathan.agnew

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Or a rash caused by a fungus medical science has hitherto never seen or have treatment for :eek: Or it's human equivalent.



Two loads, two 8 mile hauls of - spring water from local hills to my garden. I was risking my life with drops into a ravine through the woods on steep path descents (no fences), and my brakes had a really hard time (V), and my tyres would not stop the overall 174kg momentum unless I went extremely slowly skidding my rear wheel and hoping the trailer wouldn't jacknife... but on recent trip I found a shortcut through the golf course they've built inside the nature reserve, which they can't legally stop me traversing. Much safer.

What were your interactions like with Sicilian Mafioso? There must be many traps set for visitors, I would imagine...
Sicilly was a complete surprise - one expect something like naples on steroids (mad, emotional, uncontained, some risk of aggression) and instead it's profoundly civilised, polite. But also just rough enough not to be on eggshells. Highly recommend it.
You must have really needed that spring water? Or was it for the fun, an experiment? I tried something similar a few years back (on a 100kg cargo trailer, behind a pedelec). Bizarrely it didn't work at all, couldn't stop the train weight with the bicycle (am 17, 18 stone). Have no idea how parents pull multiple toddlers in bike trailers
 
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oyster

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Anyone know which cabinet minister and aide are implicated in the sexual abuse story that broke on Sky?

(Not expecting the names to be included in a reply.)
 

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Judging by this Google search, it's all Sky seem to do.
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I do my best to keep away from everything to do with Sky.

I was a bit surprised the other day, a new neighbour got a Sky dish installed. Then BT OpenReach for broadband.

I was under the impression that people could simply use broadband instead of a dish these days? And satellite dishes almost always look horrible and drip rust streaks - at least, when they have been up for a while.
 

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Demand for gilts has fallen sharply in recent weeks. FTSE is depressed.
It's bound to happen sooner or later with Liz Truss taking over.
The Pound has fallen more than 13% since March this year. That leaves me with no other choice than putting my prices up in October.
BJ seems to have chosen the right time to leave to come back later as a knight in shining armour after the next election.
I suppose they will blame Russia for every wrong decision of theirs in the past.

 

oyster

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Demand for gilts has fallen sharply in recent weeks. FTSE is depressed.
It's bound to happen sooner or later with Liz Truss taking over.
The Pound has fallen more than 13% since March this year. That leaves me with no other choice than putting my prices up in October.
BJ seems to have chosen the right time to leave to come back later as a knight in shining armour after the next election.
I suppose they will blame Russia for every wrong decision of theirs in the past.

Can't quite see Johnson successfully pulling it off. Don't think he's done equine cosplay:

Yes, you could be mine
Tonight and every night
I would be your knight in shining armour
Coming to your emotional rescue

You will be mine, you will be mine, all mine
You will be mine, you will be mine, all mine

I will be your knight in shining armour
Riding across the desert on a fine Arab charger
 

oyster

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It doesn't matter which way you look, this government has failed. Including managing brexit (still? again?):

Britain’s ‘uncontrolled’ sewage dumps may breach Brexit deal, warns EU

Brussels official says UK has ‘non-regression obligation’ to protect waters as part of trade deal
 

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