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This thread really is delivering. Those that identify with the left expressing a sense of disillusion at the cultural hegemony.

Surely this is to be expected?

And those that identify with the right are smarmy dickheads?

Is there any part of the budget that hasn't been leaked? I remember those days when you actually had to watch it to find out what was in it.

See also; any policy about to be announced by the Tory party. It's like they do it to quickly check it's not going to go down like a sack of shit, then they've got 24hrs to deny it or come up with something else

We had an all staff email from top brass yesterday about 2 budget announcements affecting our work (positively), sent as they didn't want us to hear via a leak rather than via the budget.

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This is absolutely what happens.

Madison had super epic pricing on SP41 and BC9000 the last year, boxes of 40m BC9000 in various colours for a tenner, eventually the grey (which most people will tolerate) was also a tenner. So bought a few years worth of all of them.
Most OE + mid tier jagwire was pretty crappy, found the outers decayed from age/UV within about 18 months which is pretty rubbish, their higher tier stuff was good though. Their OE grade 'compressionless' had a lot of friction. ID's own brand compressionless and elvedes faux carbon wrapped stuff is better.
Before that was happy enough with elvedes outer.
Ashima smooth stainless inners good enough for most bikes, Elvedes top level many strand die drawn smooth stainless stuff for everything higher tier, price per cable is fairly eye watering, but found out of all stainless cables they last the longest inside shimano road 11 STI vs anything else I've come across. Also mad smooth. Their super flexible road inners are unreal levels of smooth and low drag for rim brakes, but they 'spring' too much for mechanical disc brake usage.

Do a lot of mobile stuff so everyone gets the good cables as I can't carry options, slick stainless jagwire are decent but not tied to the brand, never had an issue with the outer but using the better stuff, prefer it to shimano but not by enough to care. Elvedes cheapo brake outer seems OK at my other job but needs lubing on installing to not feel a touch draggy. Clarks stainless die drawn cables seemed decent from the testers I was given. There's options.

We pay our bill around 26th for the month gone. Is paying upfront for service that common? I'm not quite sure how the free hours makes that much difference vs how most operate.

It's good that you can afford to pay all your fees upfront like that. But that is not the case for the majority of people.

Agile innit.

Who else has been shorting Credit Suisse shares today?

Interesting study

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Don't think anyone thought all those sugary gels were good for their teeth.

Duh - plaques are the things on trophies that you write your name on.

More worried about my venous palmares.

https://southwarknews.co.uk/news/baby-hospitalised-in-collision-with-bike-hanger-that-council-was-warned-could-be-dangerous

Seems so odd to me that the blame is being shifted to the cycle hanger. This is a pretty wide road with a 20mph speed limit. And the cycle hanger is in a parking spot. I don’t know how someone could drive square into it unless they were not paying any attention or going much faster than they should have.

Shares in Credit Suisse fell 24% on Wednesday after it said it had found "weakness" in its financial reporting.

CS in "hiding shit from the regulator, and not actually having a fucking clue what their rainmakers are into" shocker.

An abject "failure"* on not bank's and regulator's part.

* air quotes, because it's not as if this sort of shit is not an expected , dare I say intended, consequence of the incestuous relationship between watcher and watched.

If it was a car this definitely would not have happened, no-one has ever crashed into a parked car!

In the of a cost of living crisis and an NHS crisis, Hunt's budget not only cuts tax for people with millions in pensions but also blames it on doctors.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/mar/16/budget-backlash-jeremy-hunt-pension-tax-giveaway-labour-conservatives-latest

Those bike hangers are well known around these parts for pranking drivers by jumping out in front of them.

Seems pretty obvious it's there. Not quite sure how you'd drive into it

https://goo.gl/maps/co69DAc9SXXbvr8p7

If that's dangerous, imagine the danger of all those cars parked in the road.

Wonder if the councillors were reportedly warned about the dangerously parked cars in October 2020?

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4666311,-0.0856419,3a,75y,143.31h,74.37t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sqBml5OoWKhIAmkp5ItWeFA!2e0!5s20201001T000000!7i16384!8i8192

Driver injures child colliding with a stationary object, so obviously we blame the object.