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I don’t understand. Who out there thinks bikes going round a car racing circuit is in any way interesting? But they keep doing it.

It’s boring and looks stupid.

Watched As Bestas (The Beasts) the other night, and I'd highly recommend it. Had us on the edge of our seat the whole time. Which, considering it is about neighbours in a tiny Galician pueblo, is quite something.

My dad, who in his old age and with the advent of technology has switched from working class labour to die hard Tory, spouted this exact theory; Starmer is just a puppet to get Corbyn back in.

Just bonkers.

Didn’t know that Eurosport Player is going away. Cycling is getting impossible to watch.

As of today Express VPN works with iPlayer from Spain, so download the 30 day trial of that and then you should be fine with the Beeb.

Just to clarify my comment a little, if labour were in power with the majority that they’re expected to have … nothing lasts forever.

My hypothetical is that which is preferable, letting the tories in at the next election and losing another 15 years, or moving away from FPP to ensure there is always more balance at the expense of absolute power.

I guess I see electoral change as the Labour equivalent of boundary changes. Just depends what they hate less, being in Opposition or being part of a broader coalition.

Is there a scenario where this is the last FPP election? The tories get battered in this election, but Labour, after a term in power and seeing they won't get back, finally see sense and change the electoral method using their massive majority before the election after this one?

Leg warmers and short sleeves. Is nothing sacred anymore?

This happens seemingly every year at the Giro. You'd think by now they'd either move the race in the calendar or avoid these high stages?

I have no idea what you mean by this.

I know this is a loaded question but how is Pogacar that much better than every other rider?

Hey folks. Anyone have experience re-rendering the outside of a house? We’re looking at a place (not UK) that has that awful textured painted finish on the entire exterior. It looks and feels terrible and filthy. We trying to understand how big a project it would be to fix it up.

How big a job is it, how costly? A detached house, about 200m2

Can someone explain why The Three Body Problem is so lauded? I'm one and a half books in and finding it a chore to be honest; I don't know if the translation is the problem or what, but it feels incredibly schlocky. Not really digging it at all.

Also those Visma time trial helmets are somehow even bigger in real life. Maybe because the women are slighter in build but they looked monstrous watching them line up before the start gate yesterday.

Fun afternoon watching the start of La Vuelta Femenina yesterday. Today they go up my local climb (depressingly only a cat-3), so mulling over how to bunk off work early and ride the route before they get to it.

This?

Not used a smart one but I have the Fujifilm M adaptor that I use to put M-Mount glass on my X-E4.

One thing to note is that the first party adaptor has a contact that switches the camera to manual focus which these ones don’t.

Has anyone ever changed a G-Shock battery themselves? Is it hard? I have a 150€ watch and the local shop want to charge me 40€ to change the battery.

Through some weird fuck-up, I've ended up with the complete run (37 volumes) of the manga Vagabond. I know nothing about manga, but since it is free, I'm tempted to give it a go if it is any good. Anyone know anything about it?

Ah, either latest iOS update or switching to using profiles in Safari has brought back the input focus bug. What was the fix?

Dunno why but a fair few folk on my Twitter Mastodon feed have all independently recommended The Steerswomen series and am really enjoying it; have flown through the first two books in a couple of weeks.

I still haven’t got a refund because I subbed via Apple. Anyone else managed it?

Yep, I think it’s 9K. We just had to pay it after selling a house in the UK after moving abroad.

Pissed that I even have to give that scumbag government money when I haven’t lived or worked there in 5 years.

It’s more for outside the house. Since its a “casita” it’s basically a shed on a plot with a pool. So we’re more concerned about how much the noise will ruin the beers by the pool!

Anyone know anything about reducing road noise at a property? We’re looking at a house that is about 100m away from, and maybe 10-20m elevated above, the equivalent of a B-Road that has cars every 2-3 minutes.

Right now there is nothing blocking the noise, just a chicken wire fence. We’d like to understand if anything can be done and to what extent, to reduce noise in the outdoor space.