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Flighty. Glib. Flivorous.

Flighty. Glib. Flivorous.

I assume you’re alluding to flibbertigibbets?

flibbertigibbet | ˌflɪbətɪˈdʒɪbɪt | noun
a frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person.

gebhardt (or similar) 110bcd chainring in 46t?

Sonic have 46T 110PCD Classic road rings in both black and silver
https://www.soniccycles.co.uk/products.php?id=110&cat=2

Shoo fly.

Lovely word, must use it more often! My poor brane is not doing well on the words today. Sometimes they are a strong point. I was good at them in the past. Was highly complemented on my writing when I was a journalist. But I have ME, which sometimes turns my brain to mush. And I fractured my skull once. I reckon quite a few memories were erased. It's just not my day to be answering wordy questions. I'll stop now.

Cheers. I should have specified track chainring, but it looks like Sonic could get hold of those too.

looks like Sonic could get hold of those

Yes, they will order anything Gebhardt can make. Lead time will probably be pretty long, it took more than 8 weeks to get my 64T/130PCD and that was before Brexit/Covid/Supply chain apocalypse

64T

That's some chainring!
Hopefully worth the wait.

Do blue tits still take the foil off milk bottles and drink the cream?

It's not a particularly big job, last had it cut about a month ago so just a tidy up really! She gets bonus points if she doesn't describe my very fine hair as "baby hair" as the last two places I've been to have, ha ha.

I think 'butterfly' is sometimes used in that sense.

PG Wodehouse used "butterfly" in that sense (through the voice of his characters) to describe someone who "flits from flower to flower" (IIRC) i.e., someone who is unfaithful or moves through partners rapidly. So it's an expression with pedigree @ewanmac, if not exactly current.

Cheers all. I’m not sure butterfly or mayfly is what I originally had in mind… neither sound nearly as derogatory as I recall, but I think buttfly seems like the best bet for now.

[buttfly was a typo but leaving it because I quite like it as a shitty version of a butterfly :) ]

I bought a kitchen drawer unit from Travis Perkins. It arrived today and the quality is a bit shit. No problem I thought as I plan on modifying it to use as desk drawers in my studio. So I went ahead and built it, and it's beyond shit. The melamine chips if you so much as look at it. There's no way to build the drawers so the drawer fronts sit flat. It's comically bad. What are my rights to return it?
I mean, with a lot of messing about I can get it to work with my plans, but it would be a damned sight easier to get something from IKEA. Yes this is partially buyer's remorse, but equally this thing is a joke. I have no idea how you'd ever make an entire kitchen with this shit!

If you can, take it back to a branch of TP as soon as possible, in person, hand it over the counter, say 'this is a pile of shit and I'd like my money back please' and hopefully it'll be easier for them just to give you your money back

I was leaving the house at 4:30 this morning and I saw this from the back door, it approximately north-east of Portsmouth. It was a line of lights slowly traveling towards the ground at angle, I also have a 40 second video from an iPhone. Have Aliens landed? Would somebody be out with their drones at that time in the morning, it was a clear morning with 20mph winds.

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Have Aliens landed?

possibly, its Elon and his starlink satelites

possibly, its Elon and his starlink satelites

I've just had to google that, it looks very much like it, but the other videos are moving much faster, more like a shooting star. This was a slow move across the sky and not disappearing until it went beyond the horizon.

ISS?

That moves pretty fast too really.

Do shimano 105 br5800 come in different drop/reach sizes or am I dumb: I had one on my bike with different pads and a different rim and it reached the brake track fine, put another one on and it’s no bueno - too short. The rim or brake pads shouldn’t make a difference should it?

rim or brake pads shouldn’t make a difference should it?

The pads move in an arc, so rim width makes a very slight difference to effective drop. Not all pads/shoes are precisely centred on the holding screw. Rims with the same bead seat diameter don't necessarily have exactly the same overall diameter.

The ISS tracker site will tell you where and when it appears.
ISS looks like a steady bright star and moves quickly.

Don't know if you are sorted yet but I'm placing an order for some Gebhardt rings and could add yours onto that.

When I order a £200 jacket from the UK to Germany, what's the fees I'd have to pay?

According to the German tax office it's about €70 import taxes (plus a small sum for DHL) -
but will there be some export / Brexit taxes / fees / whatever as well?

Ta.

19% VAT on the total for goods and carriage, plus whatever the carrier charges to collect the tax.