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Gears are for going, brakes are for slowing.

OK Boomer.

Aggressive engine braking is bad. Aggressive (normal) braking is bad.

In general, the better drivers are the ones that can anticipate, see further ahead than the 10 yards in front of their own bonnet, and have to do neither.

Of course, seemingly "good" drivers can still have off moments, which is a shame when it ends in the loss of life of someone completely innocent.

#fuckcars

That desperate migrants are being chucked in european prisons.

Have you ever used yours? I've never touched mine...

Boomer? U ok hun?

I took my test decades ago, and engine braking was a thing. When I took my C licence some years later I was told that engine braking was no longer a thing. My wife took her test two years ago and that’s still the current position.

Engine braking like your mum used to do because cars had shitty drum brakes all round, or like boy racers do is unnecessary. Engine braking to maintain a lower speed on long or steep hills without dragging and possibly overheating your brakes is worthwhile. Like skid stopping your sweet fixeh, may trash your tyres instead of your clutch and is pointless if you have working brakes, but slowing the bike down by resisting momentum though the pedals shows forward planning and an ability to win at a game of bike or car.

My wife took her test two years ago and that’s still the current position.

It's not that I disagree with this because it's true that you aren't taught to engine brake but being the twat of a pedant I am, I wanted to point out that engine breaking is indirectly covered in the clutch control part of the driving syllabus. I.e don't engage the clutch for longer than necessary because you lose the ability to engine brake. It's in the highway code too. Pedantic and half relevant I know, but that's me.

engine breaking

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Wasps.

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lol, whoops

Not necessarily in this order, but I do hate all three.

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Yes, loads. In auto mode mine change up/down then return to auto when the car thinks you’re done with what you were doing. In sport mode it’s full manual with F1 flappy paddles in a heavy sluggish SUV, but it makes driving the B roads more fun when they’re not clogged with sodding cyclists.

People who are eternally victims and guilt-free no matter how badly they’re at fault. Extra points for when they use passive or overt aggression to defend themselves, trying to provoke their counterpart into lashing out.

Booking parents evenings (x3) and after school clubs via parentmail. It's like trying to get tickets for Glastonbury. Blink and you've missed it.

The parents evening ones were disappearing before my eyes.

Got 5 lots of after school clubs for my three though, so that is not something that I hate. White the opposite! Woohoo!

Bee stings. (Not bees, I know they're quite necessary in the world.)

Got stung on my hand simply by stretching my arms up in the air as I was about to go for a walk.

This happened yesterday (so no worry about anaphylaxis) but my hand has swollen up and I can feel the swelling has gone halfway down the inside of my forearm. Will be off to the chemist when it opens to get some advice/antihistamines, and about to take some Ibuprofen and get an ice pack on it again. Anything else?

I got stung recently and rubbed Germolene on the sting and it eased the swelling and pain.

Also I take it that used pulled the "sting" out ?

Umm, yes, pretty much straight away. Leaving it in for ~24h might have been an odd thing to do.

Local surgery is open but the pharmacy attached to it doesn't open until 9am, will go to one of the bigger ones on the way to meeting a friend.

My understanding is once the swelling / itching is established, the histamine reaction is done, and antihistamines have no real effect.

Excellent. I'll ask if the pharmacist has a time machine too.

My wife got stungnin the top of her head this morning. And our dog got stung on the face last week. Fuckers.

Oh and a piriton seems to have done the trick for both dog and wife....hope it works for you too.

Ime urine really helps.

A lot of people think you can get away with just pissing on the sting, but ideally you need some sort of emulsion to help it stay. The easiest is to add some oil into a jar in a 2:1 and shake it.

Alternatively if your mayo is in a squeezie bottle you can empty half of it and shake it up in that. The squeezie bottle also makes application easier.

Last time I was stung by a bee, it was on the neck.

An itchy red rash developed, and spread to my armpits and down to my crotch (as well as mild wheezing).

Anthistamines did nothing. Which was super fun.

To save precious seconds you should always make a batch up ahead of time and keep it within arms reach at any outdoor picnic