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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #625 on: 26 July, 2015, 01:43:06 am »
Well, not learned, as I don't believe it to be true.

I've just read on twitter that adding "The" to the names of major roads is a Birmingham thing.
The Pershore Road and The Bristol Road are examples near me.
But surely other towns do this too don't they?  Whoever speaks of "Edgware Road"?

I'd always heard it was a Londonton thing.  Roads are "the", everything else is not, hence "the Mile End Road" or "the Leyton High Road" but "Oxford Street" and "Northumberland Avenue".

I always thought it was a courier thing - The TCR (which incidentally is the only road in the West End), The Beak, The Dean etc etc

ian

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #626 on: 26 July, 2015, 12:41:00 pm »
It's always been The Old Kent Road, and The Edgeware Road. Seems to apply to roads that go to places (like Old Kent, no one bothers with New Kent), though is random in application.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #627 on: 26 July, 2015, 12:42:57 pm »
Well, that's the general distinction. The London Road is the road going to London, whereas London Road is just a name.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #628 on: 26 July, 2015, 01:04:09 pm »
It's always been The Old Kent Road, and The Edgeware Road. Seems to apply to roads that go to places (like Old Kent, no one bothers with New Kent), though is random in application.

The Caledonian Road doesn't go to Scotland...
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« Reply #629 on: 26 July, 2015, 01:04:30 pm »
Yeahbut, where's Old Kent. Logic seems to think it's New Cross. In which case where the hell is Old Cross.

I've just broke my theory by remembering that we used to live 'off the Askew Road' in W12 and I don't think there's an Askew to go to.

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« Reply #630 on: 26 July, 2015, 03:27:55 pm »
Presumably the Old Kent Road was just the Kent Road until they built the new one.  Just be grateful that the Rochester Way Relief Road isn't the Even More Channelling The Zeitgeist Kent Road.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #631 on: 26 July, 2015, 03:46:41 pm »
Through my annual visit to ITV4 thanks to the TdF, I learn that The Sweeney is really rather shite. A carnival of bad acting and cut price fisticuffs.
Harumph!  For (some of) us wrinklies an hour of The Sweeney followed by an hour of TdF is as close to televisual perfection as it is possible to get.  I just wish the bloody continuity announcer wouldn't talk over the end credits drowning out the lovely melancholy arrangement of the theme tune.

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« Reply #632 on: 26 July, 2015, 06:36:49 pm »
That new cables was not the cure for the shite shifting of my rear cassette, and neither was cleaning all the goo that I didn't get out properly when I last cleaned the bike . :(
Things to try next: hanger, followed by new cassette.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #633 on: 26 July, 2015, 08:48:55 pm »
Check the jockey wheels too.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #634 on: 27 July, 2015, 02:41:42 pm »
Not to symlink /bin/bash to a partition that needs a working shell in order to be mounted.  (DAHIKT)   :facepalm:

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« Reply #635 on: 01 August, 2015, 05:05:50 pm »
Cows like dandelion leaves - a lot. Give them a handful & they'll gobble it down then follow you along a fence hoping for more.

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« Reply #636 on: 01 August, 2015, 10:06:29 pm »
Check the jockey wheels too.
I put the new cassette on and it still didn't work.  :facepalm:

Then I RTFM and stuck it on the 4th smallest sprocket, adjusted the placement of the jockey wheel and all was well. Oh well, it was probably getting on for time for a new cassette anyway.

The moral of the story, sometimes you should read the manual instead of relying on the Park Tools website....
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #637 on: 04 August, 2015, 07:40:10 pm »
That King sized beds are not just 6" wider than doubles, but also 3" longer.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #638 on: 04 August, 2015, 07:53:41 pm »
That King sized beds are not just 6" wider than doubles, but also 3" longer.

Duvet/sheets too small?
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« Reply #639 on: 04 August, 2015, 08:00:01 pm »
Looking at replacements for my current '5 legged bed'* , so reading the Sleep Council's 'Bed Buyer's Guide' - http://www.sleepcouncil.org.uk/pdf-downloads/bed_buyers_guide.pdf


*I added a leg on one side as a 'temporary' repair after smashing through the main beam when falling over and kneeing it a while ago
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #640 on: 05 August, 2015, 12:43:53 pm »
That King sized beds are not just 6" wider than doubles, but also 3" longer.

Moreover, Queen sized beds are sized for Brenda at her current height rather than that she had at the time of the accession.
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« Reply #641 on: 05 August, 2015, 12:57:47 pm »
When I literally made the bed back in 2013, it was to take a Euro Kingsize mattress (which provided optimal width while maintaining a length that would fit the room).  It turned out that if you want such a thing in the UK, your choice is restricted to Ikea divans, or hideous leather bachelor-beds.  Hence all the woodwork.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #642 on: 06 August, 2015, 11:06:06 pm »
There used to be a rail bridge across the Severn Estuary which was destroyed when two fuel barges collided with it in 1960.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #643 on: 06 August, 2015, 11:30:44 pm »
What one of my friends might look like in 20 years time having seen his doppelgänger on an online documentary.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #644 on: 07 August, 2015, 09:34:20 am »
More proof that time travellers are among us.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #645 on: 07 August, 2015, 01:39:33 pm »
That a smidgen is a genuine measurement!
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #646 on: 07 August, 2015, 03:21:51 pm »
That Shimano 11-speed cassettes have many separate sprockety and spacery bits that like to fly in many different directions. At least it makes it easy to clean. :-\

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #647 on: 07 August, 2015, 08:20:51 pm »
People are very amused by the sight of a cat out for a walk with his owner, without a lead or harness.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #648 on: 08 August, 2015, 08:54:36 am »
Mine follows me as far as the end of the estate when I am on the wheelchair ☺ .
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ian

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #649 on: 08 August, 2015, 11:31:58 am »
Bad Cat will follow me to the swimming pool. OK as far as the 100 steep steps up the hill at which point she stops and gives me the 'Srsly?' look.

Edit: Oh yeah, I forget, and then I have to carry a loudly miaowing cat back down the hill to the house, which I am sure makes it look like I'm kidnapping her.