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But is there an actual verb to cycle? I.e. can you express this without using the word bike?

Bicicletear. AFAIK it’s mainly a South American colloquialism. Readily understandable for most Spanish speakers I expect, but it does sound odd.

I'm up early to go for a ride

Me levanté temprano para salir en bicicleta.

They're both odd sentences starting with buenos dias.. are you trying to say in the morning's generally?

It’s a set phrase: buenos días, buenas tardes, buenas noches, all refer specifically to the present day. I don’t know the origin or reason why, but they’re not odd at all in Latin-American Spanish (no sé en España).

Greeno is correct about adding the ‘me’ = ‘(yo) me levanté temprano’.

‘(Yo) Me levanté (de la cama)’ means I picked myself up (from the bed). Por ejemplo, me levanté temprano toda esta semana. It can also be used for picking oneself up from somewhere else, such as in ‘me levanté del suelo’, or picking oneself up in a certain manner, as in ‘me levanté de un brinco de la silla’.

Me levanto means I pick myself up, or I wake up. Por ejemplo, cuando me caigo de la cama, me levanto y me sacudo. Los domingos me levanto tarde.

Also interested in set or just rear of track 28s.

Lake Winnipeg

24,000 km^2! Israel the country is like 20,000. You’d need a bush plane just to get from one side to the other on the regular.

Ditto.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s, I mustelask you to leave.

Not much more material for this one, that’s fisher.

Any recommendations for a fireproof safe to store important documents (passport, overseas ID,etc)? The ones on Amazon will either burn in sunlight or withstand the heat death of the universe, depending on which review you believe. Other websites have reviews for safes >£120 + shipping, which is less than the cost of replacing my documents and my time, but I’d need reassurance the damn thing works as advertised before dropping that amount of ££ on a glorified box.

Related, are there any full time fire(wo)men on here? Out of curiosity, as we seem to have all sorts of folks but I haven’t seen someone say they’re a firefighter.

a pun-off...

I’m up ferret.

I think they meant contact juggling, massive waste of time.

Maintaining bicycles is not rocket science, despite what many would like to believe.

It does sound like there’s a story there. Also you underestimate how bad some reasonably intelligent people can be at understanding mechanical stuff.

You know you’re old when you empathise more with Homer than with his kids.

I’m guessing that’s in either Australia or South Africa? Could be Alaska in the summer but less likely. Bush pilots are infamously crazy and crazy good.

Nice find.

Just avoid anything with power torque cranks.

Why so?

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There’s a person in the Components section often selling vintage Campag stuff in new or near new nick. Worth a look for ideas (do you want an embossed logo or printed lettering, etc).

Lol

Carpal tunnel and finger tendinitis here we come!

And what are we supposed to do about it?

Make your voices heard in a peaceful, lawful, democratic way. Think of positions of power you have in society: you’re not just a citizen, you’re a neighbour, you’re a parent, you’re a consumer, you’re an advertising target, you’re a social media participant... Social media and numbers are force multipliers for your efforts.

If you think something is important:

Tell your neighbours, send short and sweet group letters to your MP clearly saying that you oppose the bill and they will lose your vote if they support it. Try to avoid emails because they are easier to ignore, and visuals of bags and bags of mail get the attention of politicians and the media.

Tell your parents association, tell your friends, tell the guy who serves you coffee. Get kids to send letters to your MP, take mosaic pictures and send to a newspaper. This is your kids’ future too, and whole families carrying placards attract more media attention than working class adults.

Find out who the local and corporate sponsors of your MP and each party are. Tell local businesses about the bill, ask for their support. Check online to see which companies donate to which party, and tell them on their social media that they will lose your business if they support this kind bill and its proponents. For example, Regatta Ltd., an outdoor clothes company, donated £20,000 (correction: £25,000) to the Conservative party recently. My gf bought some £10 waterproof trousers from them, but I’m blotting out the outer label and never buying from them again, hypocrites. Find out who retails or is in business with those donor companies, and ask them flat out if they, like their business partner, support that sort of initiative too. Tell them they, like their business partner, will lose your business if they do.

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/financial-reporting/donations-and-loans/view-donations-and-loans/donations-accepted

Put all of this online. Tag every public person aligned with these companies and brands, and ask them if they support this. Tell them your business, your attention, your money is going somewhere else if they do.

What do people in power care about? Your obedience? Your silence? Your money? That’s where our collective power is.

Fresh off the farm.

Jaja, sí, asumí que estabas en otro huso horario. ¿Hay mucho hispanoparlante en la República Popular China? (Suponiendo que estás ahí)

People describing shining a light outside and the ground changing colour from all the rodents running from the light. A supermarket trapping 4-5 hundred vermin per night. Children crying as their parents are taken as tribute to the mouse king...

Apparently a flood or cold snap is what’s needed to stop them, which I guess means that Australia has been officially overrun and their fate is in God’s hands now.

Esta bien, se enteran de lo que quieres decir. Yo he corrido unos 10km esta mañana. Luego un vermutillo con 3 cervezas y ahora a dormir la siesta.

¡Hombre! ¿Tan temprano? ¡Pero si la siesta se toma en la tarde! Mejor toma otras cervezas y tomas la siesta cuando sea socialmente aceptable.