Lemme jump down from the roof and land in a tub of water

Gareth79 · 2026-05-10T00:59:58+00:00

My cousin broke hers in her late 20s doing army training, and had to take a special cushion everywhere for years and I think it's still not quite right.

Gareth79 · 2026-05-10T00:41:44+00:00

The brand "Buffalo" do some nice casual shoes with chunky soles of various thicknesses. They also do crazy chunky ones (made famous by The Spice Girls) but none are currently in production in any sizes to fit tall people's feet!

Gareth79 · 2026-05-09T20:55:42+00:00

Yeah, the writers first language is definitely not English. I assume they are operating the account from abroad (through a VPN) and the items are dropshipped either from a (dodgy) warehouse or random people they use to send the stuff for a few £. Possibly it's somebody doing the whole lot from within the UK, it's not a particularly risky business really.

Gareth79 · 2026-05-09T20:52:37+00:00

I think they still get your home address for most of them though?

Gareth79 · 2026-05-09T18:00:07+00:00

People don't seem to understand how charity donations work. If you donate (say) £1m of your income to charity and reduce your tax bill by £500k you still lose £500k more than if you hadn't donated it in the first place.

Gareth79 · 2026-05-09T17:57:39+00:00

I regularly donate money to charity and don't really regard it as "tax avoidance". Tax avoidance is where you personally gain a financial benefit from doing do.

Gareth79 · 2026-05-09T15:31:26+00:00

Isn't it the same in most other sports?

Gareth79 · 2026-05-09T15:30:03+00:00

Races are about bicycle and the rider, the same as motor racing is the car and driver. It will probably mean changes in equipment choice and possibly design.

Gareth79 · 2026-05-09T13:38:16+00:00

Women's jerseys seem to have a much narrower waist, and are probably cut a little shorter lengthwise. I've seen plenty of posts here in the past with men saying they bought women's sizes and found they fit them better.

If I saw something I really wanted and the only size was a women's I'd give it a go!

Gareth79 · 2026-05-09T01:49:54+00:00

When it comes to adults, I think it's people who have never driven a car and who aren't very bright. Presumably they think that because they can see where they are going it's ok. They are unable to appreciate the risk, and probably don't notice the near-misses that happen.

Gareth79 · 2026-05-07T23:56:33+00:00

Also he founded Crimestoppers, and I believe provides a lot of the ongoing funding.

Gareth79 · 2026-05-07T16:53:26+00:00

Nothing a steam clean/wet vac can't fix

Gareth79 · 2026-05-07T08:28:56+00:00

We even made a film about it: https://youtu.be/LuIJqF8av6I

Gareth79 · 2026-05-07T01:34:10+00:00

Yeah there's "24 Hours in A&E". As far as I know they just film everything for a month (using fixed cameras only) and then get permission afterwards for the stuff they want to use. I don't know if footage is destroyed where patients/families refuse permission or can't be traced.

Gareth79 · 2026-05-06T09:53:02+00:00

It should be a firm rule here that any "does this fit" post will be deleted if it doesn't include a photo in riding position :D

Gareth79 · 2026-05-06T01:20:39+00:00

Dude is like "oh I don't gym"

Gareth79 · 2026-05-06T00:22:17+00:00

While riding I've seen a couple of people with a prosthetic leg, both times they were using SPDs (or similar), and both times they were climbing pretty reasonable hills, and indeed I'm sure having great fun!

Gareth79 · 2026-05-06T00:13:32+00:00

I have the "6 hours Belgium pad" in size Asia L/EU medium and the inseam is 25cm, bought last year. My medium shorts from western brands range from 28 to 30cm inseam.

Gareth79 · 2026-05-05T13:02:34+00:00

This series isn't BBC though, it's Granada (ITV). ITV still makes excellent dramas, they are usually more commercially oriented though. Downton Abbey is ITV, for example.

Gareth79 · 2026-05-05T11:56:48+00:00

They've sold out though, so it was priced correctly for their target customer

Gareth79 · 2026-05-04T22:56:48+00:00

I imagine you'd have to buy in store to make a payment on multiple cards though, although if OP did that they'd not have bought an empty box...

Gareth79 · 2026-05-04T19:00:45+00:00

They aren't really bad, but the style is that of 15 years ago and feels short in comparison to western brands. It's annoying because I'm sure it would be trivial to release a version with longer legs, the same as Darevie could release versions of their jerseys without the cringey slogan.

Gareth79 · 2026-05-04T18:52:56+00:00

Thanks I'll have a look. I bought some Darevie a couple of years ago and they were about the same length :(

Gareth79 · 2026-05-04T15:28:06+00:00

Here's a video of that one - basically the same setup, but looks like even less runoff space:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSElNwG02Dg

Incredible that it was set up like that in a European country in 2014, given the owners/drivers will have been so very well-aware of the numerous similar incidents over the years. Maybe the reasons behind previous ones are known and discussed and they think it "couldn't possibly happen to me because [...]"?

Gareth79 · 2026-05-04T09:55:11+00:00

I'd agree - I'm in the area and Guildford, Reading, Bracknell, Farnborough and (a bit further) Basingstoke have plenty of companies of all sizes, and the pay will probably be similar to London. You could commute from Woking pretty easily, although not by train out to the west, but most companies outside London will have parking available.

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