I hate

The sainsburys ones have a red light that goes green when you're clear to take stuff off the bagging area. Sadly as a colourblind person I cannot particularly tell when that happens, and yet my OH generally puts me on bagging duty

Whereabouts is this light, please?

But no Morvelo Fuck Cancer socks? Imagine the sock slogan based fun you could be having

I only have the most recent version, which have Fuck Cancer down the achilles on both sides

The Bakerloo line. Surely the twistiest Underground line. Travelled Waterloo to Paddington this morning and was treated to repetitive prolonged squealing wheels. Felt like there was a circular saw trying to break out of my skull.

Blame basement developments...

Blame basement developments...

In the early 1900s?

Hoonigan socks say “clutch kick” and “never lift” so that could increase your word power. Quality socks btw, highly recommended.

People on the telly wearing an Apple watch. Just fuck off and shove it up your arse.

What about that woman on the news who often wears a massive Garmin watch?

I only watch C4 news. But it does have something I really really hate, which is Matt Frei saying ummm, ummm, yeah, yeah when the other person is talking. Never seen that on any other news show. Ever.

Speaking of watches, the ridiculous nicheness of a slim enough form factor to not catch on your sleeve.

Not sure the heart rate monitor would work better that way.

Sophie Raworth?

She's presented the news in trainers too (she was recovering from an ankle injury at the time and they still did that 'stand up presenting next to the desk' segment at the start of the news).

Think she's broken something again (yep).

Okay. Blame basement developments and homeowners suddenly becoming vocal about ground borne vibrations.

In the past 20years; not the 1900s.

People dig down to build a cinema room, don’t enjoy the ground borne vibrations from the Tube.

Complain and instruct expensive lawyers.

TfL/LU come up with a solution to reduce these vibrations. Except energy cannot be created nor destroyed so shall still manifest… in the form of carriage noise.

There’s a lot more to it than that, but that’s the crux.

I guess you are saying the rails are more isolated from the tunnel that they used to be?

How on earth do train drivers deal with the noise - do they wear ear defenders? It must cause permanent hearing loss and/or psychological impact.

do they wear ear defenders?

Yes, or at least they are provided with them by TfL. ASLEF/TfL have been having discussions about the long term implications, what can be done etc.

Yep! And the ever growing need for reliability means the use of modern track forms which are naturally less resilient [than timber sleepers which “absorb a lot of energy”.

Keeping trains running (track availability perspective), keeping vibrations out of basement developments… comes at a cost.

GRX front mechs.
Why are they so bloody complicated? They've got at least 2 more screws and 87 more cable loops than they need.

I mean. The only answer here is a truth you already know.

Bin it off altogether. One ring to rule them all etc etc

Garlic.

Well not quite. I fucking love garlic, but garlic this year all seems to be shit. It's like I'm getting 30-50% of usable garlic per pack.

My dad now buys one large bulb at a time and spends a while choosing it. Wondering if I should now start doing the same.

This seems to be the case for a lot of 'fresh' produce. Imported stuff waiting longer at Dover?

I got (deservedly) golf clubbed for saying the exact same thing, even picking nice looking ones you end up with a few musty cloves.

Same here. The bigger, single bulbs seem to be a bit more reliable (at least in my local Sainsbury's).

I think it depends a bit where you buy it. Sainsbury's has always been useless for example. There is some great stuff in markets in France. Perhaps the next forumer over there can do bring back a group buy?