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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1225 on: 15 July, 2016, 11:01:42 am »
Good name for a moneylender or a Puritan patriarch.
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Guy

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1226 on: 15 July, 2016, 11:27:46 am »
That the Tour de France is a bi-athlon
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1227 on: 15 July, 2016, 11:32:24 am »
Lithic mulch.
They did that on Easter Island after they used up all the trees & a lot of the soil washed into the sea.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1228 on: 15 July, 2016, 12:13:12 pm »
That the Tour de France is a bi-athlon
I think and hope you mean duathlon.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1229 on: 15 July, 2016, 12:37:59 pm »
Well, perhaps participants are now licenced to shoot spectators who block their way.
"A woman on a bicycle has all the world before her where to choose; she can go where she will, no man hindering." The Type-Writer Girl, 1897

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1230 on: 15 July, 2016, 02:29:27 pm »
That Shimano 10 speed rear mtb mechs do not work with road shifters.   Pre 10 speed the rear mechs were compatible across road and mtb with only the front mechs being incompatible. 

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1231 on: 15 July, 2016, 02:45:47 pm »
I suspect that that little bit of knowledge took a frustrating amount of time to discover ...
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barakta

  • Bastard lovechild of Yomiko Readman and Johnny 5
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1232 on: 15 July, 2016, 08:03:17 pm »

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1233 on: 15 July, 2016, 09:29:51 pm »
I suspect that that little bit of knowledge took a frustrating amount of time to discover ...

No.  I read it in an old Chris Juden CTC article.

ElyDave

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1234 on: 15 July, 2016, 09:58:28 pm »
That i know more about the UK offshore medical requirements for a T1D than the occupational physicians who are supposed to give me the tick in the box
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Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1235 on: 16 July, 2016, 08:59:58 am »
That Shimano 10 speed rear mtb mechs do not work with road shifters.   Pre 10 speed the rear mechs were compatible across road and mtb with only the front mechs being incompatible.

Beware the Shimano DynaSys. It only works as a set. Not only is it different from 'old Shimano ' but also incompatible with SRAM. All the road groups now use Shimano's cable pull ratio for 11speed, too. So not only is it as ugly as fcuk, none of the older groups will function with it. A crash that breaks an STi now means a frustrating search for NOS bits or a new groupset.

Way to go Big S. NOT!
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Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1236 on: 16 July, 2016, 08:41:29 pm »

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1237 on: 16 July, 2016, 08:44:58 pm »
Years ago I joked that it would be possible to join together a load of sewer pipes, half fill them with mud, and charge people for an imitation caving "experience". Today, i learned that iit is possible to buy artificial caves...

Mrs Pingu

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1238 on: 16 July, 2016, 08:46:04 pm »
That i know more about the UK offshore medical requirements for a T1D than the occupational physicians who are supposed to give me the tick in the box

Figures. Last 2 offshore medicals I had they told me I should fail due to poor eyesight sans-lunettes but they passed me anyway.
(Admittedly the last doctor made me walk along a corridor and up some stairs first. )
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Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1239 on: 16 July, 2016, 10:08:59 pm »
Good thing it was you and not Mariah Carey, Mrs P.
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Mrs Pingu

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1240 on: 17 July, 2016, 05:23:36 pm »
I am delighted to say that I am not Mariah Carey. She's completely stark raving bonkers!
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Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1241 on: 17 July, 2016, 05:28:44 pm »
Plus we'd have two Mariah Careys (Mariahs Carey?) and no Mrs Pingu, which is clearly suboptimal.  If nothing else, the world doesn't need that much warbling.

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1242 on: 18 July, 2016, 07:20:00 pm »
That police using body-worn cameras have to tell you if they're turning the camera on. I'd assumed they were just on all the time in order to record things that might happen, not just things already happening.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1243 on: 22 July, 2016, 06:33:27 pm »
That video cassette recorders are still in production – until the end of next month. And that Betamax tapes only went out of production earlier this year! What's more, apparently 58% of USA households still have a VCR (but do they use it?). My flabber is well and truly ghasted.
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Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1244 on: 22 July, 2016, 06:36:01 pm »
We've still got a VCR.  It's sitting in the rack not doing anything other than filling a hole to keep the hot and cold side air from mixing.  As far as I know it still works.  Not that I've got anything that'll display a PAL video signal, unless you count an oscilloscope (which isn't a very exciting way to watch videos) or an MPEG2 encoder card that struggles to stay locked to  VHS output.

Are Betamax and Betacam tapes different?  Wait, it's Sony, of course they are.  The latter would have an excuse for hanging around this long...

Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1245 on: 22 July, 2016, 06:39:00 pm »
Only on Wednesday I plugged the VHS machine into the new distascope at Fort Larrington. I've still got one plugged in too though I can't remember the last time it was switched on.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1246 on: 22 July, 2016, 06:52:43 pm »
I don't even have any audiotapes left. Or if I do, I don't know where they are or what's on them.
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Mr Larrington

  • A bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1247 on: 22 July, 2016, 08:41:07 pm »
I've got an unopened 5-pack of C90s over there ^^^^!
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ElyDave

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1248 on: 22 July, 2016, 08:56:19 pm »
I have plenty of audiotapes, literally Discover'd a new lease of life for them when I found that as well as a 6-CD changer, my Disco-2 has a cassette machine.

VHS was ditched years ago, finally upgraded to Blurry Blue Ray this year and got rid of the final CRT
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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1249 on: 23 July, 2016, 04:15:38 pm »
Jimmy Cagney once played Nick Bottom the weaver in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight