Any question answered...

I would have rathered you to have done this.

My suggestion was to use preferred which is a real word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFTgkibl7DU

I would have rathered you to have done this.

That's dreadful, trying much too hard: are they very self-important?

"I would rather you had done this.", no?

If may not have been considered a verb by many now, but it probably will be considered a verb by many in 5 or 10 years time.

Well, I've never heard it used as a verb until now and I think few people will have. The step from nouns to verbs in English is obviously very small, so you expect that it will be taken all the time. It's much less common for an adverb/preposition to take that step.

Language evolves and is driven by usage, usage doesn't always conform to the rules.

You don't say. :) However, linguistic creativity originates from a person's understanding of language rather than being a question of passively accepting 'usage', whether people know what they're doing or not, and linguistic understanding is always subject to certain rules. Rules get broken, but new ones get introduced, too.

I would have rathered you to have done this.

My suggestion was to use preferred which is a real word.

Ta. I've never heard that before and I think it's ugly. The test is always whether it'll catch on. Lots of inventions don't. 'Preferred' is certainly, for the time being, to be preferred.

Or "I would rather you had done this..." EDIT: just seen SS suggested this as well.

Verbing a noun is very easy: "I cycled over to my brother's house," "I phoned the police."

"Rather" is an adverb, which don't accept the treatment so readily: "I happily this cake," "I stupidly this test."

I'm off to the pub tonight to get absolutely rathered.

What are the main differences between Hope Pro III and Hope RS mono hubs?

Can someone tell me definitively if a GX 11spd rear will work with my 11spd Rival road levers?
~Answered myself- No.

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The step from nouns to verbs in English is obviously very small

Like almost any word into a term for being drunk

( @Landslide beat me to it)

So ... I just swapped the default Cannondale stem for a shorter FSA SLK stem on my new Synapse Carbon. The conical spacer plus one 5mm spacer below, the rest on top (as it was before).

Somehow I've introduced some horizontal movement between the fork and frame. Checked everything is tightened using a torque wrench, and everything is pushed down as tight as possible. This is the limit of my powers, what am I missing?

what am I missing?

Is the headset adjuster cap hitting the steerer when you apply the bearing preload? This is likely if the stack height of the new stem is less than that of the old one.

I understand about half those words. The new stem is taller than the old one (I had to lose a spacer). Pretty sure it isn't hitting though - there is about 2mm of spacer appearing above, as it was before.

there is about 2mm of spacer appearing above

If you're using a conventional cap which sits down inside the top spacer, it could take up all of that 2mm once you've tightened it. It only needs about 0.2mm difference from what you had before to make the difference between the cap clearing the steerer and the cap hitting the steerer before the bearings are free of play.

Anyway, you can answer the question definitively by putting the other spacer back in and trying again.

I did just that and the movement has gone. Excellent stuff. Thanks a bunch.

Is there a "hall of meat" thread? Accidents, crashes, injuries etc.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/152897/ ?

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/230993/

Going back to the 'rathered' conversation - is 'rather'd' an acceptable shortening of 'rather had'? It doesn't look good written down, but it sounds like something you'd hear in speech.
I'd rather'd you'd given me that cake.

ANYway. New question - is it worth getting my 5-6 year old £200 dishwasher repaired? It's a bit old-feeling, and it's now properly broken - wash cycle behaving weirdly, getting down to one minute and then the pump just sucks dryly for ever. (A bit like my sex life?)
Previous to this, it has been getting slowly worse at washing; guess the insides must be getting a bit furred up etc. Bits of plastic are slowly but steadily snapping.

One last question, for now, shimano pedals, or crank bros?

mtb/cx pedals? Time.

Cx

+1 for Time

(Look S-track pedals appear to be alright too)