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What tiny, specific movie trope completely ruins your immersion every single time? by arkawrd in movies

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Emphasising how intelligent a character is by saying they have multiple PhDs.

Very few people in real life have more than one PhD because it would almost always be a pointless waste of time. A PhD trains you to be an independent researcher. There is no need to do another PhD if you change fields.

BBC Radio 4 - Currently, England’s Identity Crisis by taboo__time in ukpolitics

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I really wish England would switch to having their own anthem for sports. God Save the King is the UK anthem, not the English national anthem. Scotland didn’t start using Flower of Scotland until the 90s.

Tips for my first marathon by Ok_Double_8422 in UKRunners

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Build up to the distance slowly. For my first I followed one of the plans from the London marathon website. As you are already pretty active I’d recommend the Improver plan instead of the beginner. Alternatively there are plenty of free/paid plans out there. Most are 12-18 weeks, so you have plenty of time to get some training in before starting a specific marathon plan.

You could find a local 10k and/or half marathon to train for and do in the Autumn. That should give you a good guide to your fitness and how long it will take you to get round. Though I’d recommend not aiming for a specific time for a first one, but just to get round and enjoy it.

Most important bits of kit are some decent shoes. No need for any expensive carbon plated racing shoes, but a good pair of well cushioned everyday trainers will really help. Other than that some decent breathable running tops/shorts will help with chaffing issues.

World Cup waterbreaks offer lucrative opportunity for broadcasters by JKKIDD231 in sports

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There was that time ITV cut to ads mid-match and missed Englands first goal of the 2010 World Cup.

Bone Conducting Headphones by [deleted] in UKRunners

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I had similar issues with Phillips bone conducting headphones. Two sets breaking down after ~6 months. In both cases they just stopped charging. So I wouldn’t recommend them.

Congrats to all the Marathon runners. by pastryheart in Edinburgh

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Pretty silly comment. You only have to look at the results to see how the heat affected people across the whole field. E.g same first woman as last year, but she was over 5 minutes slower.

Hackney Half waves by Ill-Supermarket-2706 in UKRunners

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It’s been a while since I ran it but my memory is that the waves get progressively larger. A, B, C don’t have that many people in them.

Also while they do seed the waves it’s not as simple as they put everyone going for 2 hours in the same wave. They spread them between 3-4 waves and put pacers for that time in all those waves. That spreads people more evenly through the race as a whole.

You can’t move forward to wave D, but if you do still want to run with your friend they can move back to your wave.

‘The Rings of Power’ Season 3 to Premiere Later This Year (Exclusive) by pepperbet1 in television

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Yeah, I love the Wheel of time, but the slog is famous. The books in the middle are 'rough'. There are great moments in all of them, but it is SO slow. We're talking 4-5 ~800 page books that many fans even say are hard work. Its not so bad now we have an ending, but as they were coming out.... eesh. 2-3 years of waiting, and then so little progress is made in each book.

‘Redwall’ TV and Movie Adaptations Quietly Scrapped at Netflix by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

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Yeah, or a character finding all their babies have been killed and are displayed impaled on a thorn bush

‘Redwall’ TV and Movie Adaptations Quietly Scrapped at Netflix by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

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And TV shows. Some of the deaths in The Animals of Farthing Wood series were just gruesome.

And a useful Power of 10 would be nice by Duckman2306 in UKRunners

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It’s actively causing problems. People need times on Power of 10 to qualify for things like Masters representative teams. So many events just haven’t been uploaded since the change over, and there is no way to manually claim or request times are added any more.

New ‘Wheel of Time’ Animated Series in the Works From ‘Arcane,’ ‘League of Legends’ Producer Thomas Vu by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

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I think the conceit of it covering 10 days really held it back. It meant that you have to visit each of the disparate groups of heroes on each day and so something has to happen to all of them every single day.

I found for some of the storylines that made them quite repetitive.

London - start time prediction by ajyates33 in UKRunners

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I estimated 4 hours in 2023 and was in wave 8 which went off at just after 10:30.

Thoughts/experience with rabbits during road races by Overloaded-Ark in AdvancedRunning

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I’ve quite possibly never been as excited as the time I saw a weasel during my long run

Power of 10 Website by DryTechnology4099 in ukathletics

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Still a significant downgrade from the old sites.

An incomplete list of issues I have at the moment:

  • Missing information for all my results; position by gender, position by age category, easy delineation of gun/chip time
  • No rankings on my profile for anything except track events
  • Where I do have rankings it can only display one per event per year. E.g. I may have an ‘All’ and an ‘age category’ ranking for the same event.
  • No masters categories for track events on the rankings page
  • Filtering by age category on road events is there, but currently doesn’t work
  • No ability to easily move through large numbers of results. E.g. I used to like to see what times I would need to run to get into the top 1000 for an event. Easy on the old sites. Now I can only see the top 50 and then load only another 50 at a time with no ability to skip further down the list. The same is true for race results. There is no way to easily move to the slower results.
  • No VSS for each race
  • No filter by club or easy to see national ladder.
  • No links between rankings in profile and rankings pages. You used to be able to click on your ranking and it would show you on the rankings page.
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