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Didnt notice anything last night. Trail starts between Cavendish and Duckett and I binned it just before Pemberton while slowing ahead of the zebra crossing. Bloody cars, pissing streaks of doom.

Wightman Road commuters: there's a oil slick along the northbound lane so riding centrally in the lane not such a good idea if you plan on braking at all. Luckily, I seem to do all my stacks in the same pair of shorts so the ruination is kept to the one garment.

I'm not comparing, I'm saying that killing lots of civilians doesnt mean you break the opponent, as Dibble has also.
Yeah, you can have legal precedent for what makes for a war crime and who's pretending Dresden didnt get bombed? Your argument came across very much as we can't point the finger at Russia when at a point in our history our ancestors did something that would today be a war crime.
And now I will go back to not debating things on the internet.

Vietnam is a prime recent example of a nation not willing to lose, no matter the cost.
Also German terror bombing of British cities was intended to crush morale and that didn't work did it.

This "Every time we accuse others of war crimes we need to think about how our own history is seen by others" is daft. The sins of the dead do not compromise our moral standpoint today.

I liked the equivalent but more slapstick version of, if I recall correctly, "My grandfather always enjoyed good health until he started smearing himself in vaseline. Then he went downhill fast."

Descendant of this guy?
https://lettersofnote.com/2009/10/28/we-all-feel-like-that-now-and-then/

Got a mystery backpack in a charity shop - no name or volume or anything, just a logo anyone know the brand? Beats me.

I suppose the rendering could be simpler, but it was based on Real Life Events.
Maybe:
What kind of chillies can never be yours?
These ancho chillies.

I got a pack of dried poblano chilis out of the cupboard and said no one else could have any. When my partner complained and said she had bought them. I said “doesn’t matter, these ancho chillis”.

This does not surprise me somehow. I actually got a stack with the system disk, so I think I'm good for retro storage. Oddly, NIB disks seem to go for reasonable money these days if you had such things.

Thanks very much for the links.
I had a look in the case and it does indeed have a hard drive, and having switched on again to remind myself of the prompts onscreen, it says "hard disk drive not ready" ahead the disk boot failure when you put the system disk in, Having had a further rummage online, it sounds like it is an HDD issue, so I might well be spending time on a duff machine. Bah.

Thanks for the insights on the Amstrad. It's a bit before my computing experience! If it has to boot from floppy then I guess it is a duff system disk that's the problem. 'll have to have a look inside to see if there is an HD but from looking at the link, seems not as standard...

Sorry if not the right thread, but I have a prehistoric PC question - I'm seeing if an 80s Amstrad 1640 is working - when powering on it asks for a system disk, upon insertion there is a disk boot failure message - that's the floppy disk that's failing, not the hard drive, right? Assume it's trying to boot from the floppy....

I've got 3 unused tapes in N8. Lmk if of interest

Price drop bump and bike stand added

bike stand on wheels - £5

Pick up Harringay N8.

Not yet actually, will pass down the line if first dibser drops out...

For sale here is a Mavic Open Elite 700c 36h rim bought for a project a few years ago but never actually used and have no likely plans for it. £10 collected from Harringay N8. Don't have a box for posting unfortunately.
SOLD

2nd dibs - let me know if still available

That's very good of you. I shall pm

Ah, unfortunately that's a different fit to mine - mine must be an older model. Thanks for the pic though.

Hmm, I suppose my Fly6 strap is getting a bit ratty - what sort of price did you have in mind?

I was ideally after the non-out front mount, can't find it on the cycliq site but looks like this:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/222908245097
Which I suppose would work. As per above, didn't know GoPro fitting was the same

Ah, good call, I hadn't thought of using a generic compatible mount or knew a GoPro fitting would be the same- thanks for the advice.

Anyone got handlebar brackets/mounts they feel like parting with?
Ta