Any question answered...

Balaklava.
There's a bunch of Hindi words like thug, chit and shampoo plus all the others horrible histories told me.

Balaklava

There are any number of toponyms which started life as adjectival forms (Chicken Kiev[sic] for example), the balaclava is only unusual in that it has almost entirely lost it's subject (helmet) in common usage.

a bunch of Hindi words

Like balaclava, most of the common ones exist in English from before the 20th Century, so while modern in the technical sense, they hardly meet the spirit of the original enquiry.

Bungalow. Dungarees. Sure if you opened your Hobson-Jobson you could find a few more.

Balaclava - Now there's something the Turkish make a song and dance about but I can take it or leave it.

are there modern foreign language words that have entered common English parlance?

I cheated with google and got this list of 20 https://cudoo.com/blog/something-borrowed-english-words-with-foreign-origins/ The only tech one is avatar

Emoji. The west adopted the idea and the name from Japan completely unchanged.

A term irritatingly used by chefs to describe anything they're having trouble describing and never the taste of MSG.

It's because it's one of the 5 basics tastes. You can arrive at an umami flavour without adding msg.

Pokémon is a portmanteau of Pocket Monsters, which was already trademarked in the west and thus couldn’t be used for the brand.

Was the trademark issue even a problem, given the love of English-derived portmanteaux in modern Japanese culture, e.g. cosplay, bodycon and others

Do these monstrous Zoomo E Bikes have a throttle on them in the UK? Regardless if its illegal or not....

Aftermarket mod.

I’ve got an Ultegra r8000 left hand shifter that’s gubbed. It seems to jam when going up into the big ring. Wiggling the lever about eventually gets it to shift, but it’s far from ideal, sometimes it won’t shift and requires a bit of off the bike footering.

Is it a lost cause trying to fix it?
I have googled and finding mixed reports. Any shop mechanics here got any pro tips or is it fucked beyond repair?

I have some Juin Tech R1s and I need to replace the pads - does anyone know what type is required?

What do you want to know?

I mostly use flats off-road.
I have a few pairs of FiveTens but more recently have been using Shimano shoes (I can't remember the model, soz).

I don't really have issues. I do sometimes miss being able to drag my foot up (carrying pizzas back to the hotel one-handed is harder when you can't get the pedal into a nice starting position)

My missus used a cheap pair of FiveTens for Seven Serpents just last week. She had some knee issues but we couldn't get to the bottom of them. It could've just been simple overloading with not enough training in flats beforehand. Will use again but need to keep an eye on it.

Oh, I started out using Nukeproof pedals and those long midfoot ones (Catalyst) but I have massive feet and they got sore so I went for wider pedals rather than longer and have been using Crank Bros Stamp 1 and 7 in Large with no issues.

It's great only needing to worry about one pair of shoes. They do get pretty stinky though if you're keeping them wet and then hoping to use them for casual stuff later. I might look at different inner soles to help with this. More regular sock washing and less "spending all day and night in pissing rain" might also help.

EDIT: They're GR7s:

https://www.biketart.com/products/shimano-gr7-shoes

and it's actually the cheap PX merino socks that smell worse than the shoes after all the waterlogging.

Oh, I don't use clips or straps. Half the point of using flats is so you can bail off the bike easily when riding anything beyond your pay grade (which for me is basically everything)

I don't think I'd use trainers or hiking boots or anything like that because they usually have uneven outer soles that would sit in awkward places on spikey pedals. I like the soles to be flat so you can position feet where they need to be and not where the shoe wants to sit (because of some groove or what not)

Why is LFGSS.com blocked by public Wi-Fi? LNER on Friday and Grand Central today.

Umami is the taste of MSG. It's not "I'm not sure what to say it tastes like, so I'll say umami"

Gov WiFi won't show the pictures.

Can’t say I’ve found many chefs saying that.
Msg adds an umami flavour but when you taste umami it isn’t always simply msg crystals added in. It occurs naturally in loads of foods.

Why is LFGSS.com blocked by public Wi-Fi?

Maybe their DNS cache needs refresh after last week's shenanigans?

I have some Juin Tech R1s and I need to replace the pads - does anyone know what type is required?

Shimano A shape, I don't think they ever bothered upgrading the compound as they're not used much anymore, so A01S.

Umami is the taste of MSG. It's not "I'm not sure what to say it tastes like, so I'll say umsmi."

I don't think you understand your mouth as that's just bullshit. It's perfectly possible to create umami flavours without MSG, the word was coined to describe the effect of adding MSG has to flavours, but it's not like that taste was new, just poorly described before MSG was invented as an easy way to enhance that flavour.

Is there an aquarium/fishkeeping thread on here somwhere?

Would have thought there would be but search isn't finding anything.

Ooo, we have a keeper! gets coat

What’s the best way to remove rust stains from a white T-shirt?