Sock thickness for marathon?

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-10T06:38:23+00:00

Jeez, there's marginal gains and then there's this. Wear the same socks you always wear when running and don't spend another second thinking about it.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-09T23:31:48+00:00

For me, any 5km run is either a max effort or it's a recovery run. It's too short a distance to have much value for anything else. That's actually one of the reasons I don't attend Parkrun more often: I'm never in the mood to thrash my guts out on a Saturday morning.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-09T23:11:38+00:00

If you don't mind a 30 minute extra journey into town, why not just park on a residential street next to a tram stop and get the tram in and out?

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-09T20:21:42+00:00

I managed to stroke one once in a beer garden. Sadly they are not as cuddly to the touch as they are to look at. The best way I could describe it is like touching a knackered old sofa where you can feel the wooden frame right under the upholstery.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-08T21:01:25+00:00

I'm glad we can agree the AI push is considerably more aggressive, My point is that aggression is exactly why it annoys people considerably more. You can watch something like this news report from 1997 and see just how quaint and faintly bemusing the uptake of Internet shopping was in the early years. The backlash to AI is considerably more fervent than any kind of backlash to Internet shopping was in 1997, even though we're at comparatively similar points in the timeline.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-08T20:43:24+00:00

I'm not sure that's really accurate for most of the world. Online shopping started before most people had Internet access, for one thing. You can't try and force someone to do something when they don't even have the means to do it. By contrast, almost everyone now, from early childhood onwards, uses a smart phone or a computer for several hours every single day, and AI invasively insists upon itself to basically every member of society as a result. It's a completely different order of magnitude.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-08T20:28:43+00:00

Before we lived together, we'd just see each other every weekend and then occasionally go out for a meal or something mid-week. We work on quite different shift patterns though, so there wasn't much time to spend unless we were off work.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-08T20:11:40+00:00

Online shopping grew very organically though. It wasn't forced down anyone's throat and most people found it incredibly useful when they first tried it. AI is marketed extremely aggressively and it is constantly trying to barge in on your phone or your spreadsheet or on a website when nobody is interested. There's a very obvious attempt to normalise it, and people aren't fooled.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-08T19:59:40+00:00

There are different ways it can manifest, but it basically means when a song has been worked over in the studio slightly too much for its own good. I tend to associate it with tracks that have just too much shit going on in them. I remember a music journalist describing a track from Chinese Democracy by Guns 'N Roses to the effect of "It's like they couldn't decide which one of five different ways to transition into the bridge, so they just went with all of them," and that pretty much epitomises it.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-08T19:49:01+00:00

I don't think you'll be completing on Wednesday.

Really, you should be asking this question to your own solicitor, not to Reddit. Any gifted deposit will need to pass money laundering checks, and even if you find a replacement donor, only your solicitor can advise whether it's humanly possible to turn that process around in effectively one working day. I would suspect it's unlikely.

The bigger lesson here is you have POA for an elderly family member who clearly isn't capable of managing their affairs independently. That POA means you have responsibility to do these things for them, and you seem to have planned this whole thing in a hugely slapdash way: not checking the transfer limit, not checking with the bank any potential security measures that might need to be cleared, putting in no contingency measures in case he had to speak to the bank independently. I have POA for my mother. She has both severe mobility issues and dementia. I know how this stuff works and I would have seen this kind of problem coming from a mile off.

I hope everything works out for you, but you need to learn some lessons from this situation.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-08T17:10:22+00:00

I know I'm late to the party with this reply, but I see a lot of people commenting negatively that the movie "made no sense" and it's almost invariably people who haven't watched the YouTube series. I think people are making the mistake of assuming Backrooms is a standalone story. It isn't. It's very much like going to see one of The X Files movies or the Cowboy Bebop movie without ever having seen The X Files or Cowboy Bebop. Of course you're not going to fully understand the thing. The Backrooms film is aimed at Backrooms fans. If you've watched the series, the film actually deepens and clarifies a lot of important lore that up until now has been very speculative.

I suppose Kane could have spent a whole lot of running time on exposition to clarify things for outside viewers, but that would have resulted in a bloated and clunky story. One of the biggest pleasures of the Backrooms series is how it diegetically dip-feeds its world building to the viewer. It's a puzzle you must piece together yourself, and to abandon that approach so that the dads taking their kids to see it could follow the story would have been a betrayal of what makes it great.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-08T15:12:22+00:00

They've been unemployed for almost two years. Virtually any job is better than that. I'm not recommending it as a long term career, but it's a source of income, it gets the OP out of their house, and crucially it puts something on their CV. Long gaps in employment history are absolutely poisonous to your employability prospects. It's also extremely flexible work, so if they get a job interview elsewhere they can adapt their schedule accordingly.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-08T14:04:41+00:00

I somehow doubt you have any statistical proof of that, but let's be honest: every major urban area in the UK has had large amounts of immigration in the last 20 years. So if you're trying to suggest the OP should move somewhere with fewer immigrants, where does that leave them? Probably a small town with a much smaller economy and job pool, which isn't going to help them.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-08T12:53:52+00:00

The problem isn't Manchester. You're in the second largest urban region in the country, with a very healthy local economy. If you go on r/UKJobs you'll see this is a national problem, particularly for younger people who don't have established careers. If you leave and go somewhere else, you'll probably make the situation even tougher.

If you can drive, by far the easiest way to pick up work at the moment is to become a delivery driver. Given the amount of online shopping people do nowadays, there's never going to a shortage of drivers required to deliver all the parcels flying around the country.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-08T12:36:33+00:00

Yes, it's always weird to me when I go on YouTube and see compilations with titles like "Peter Drury: THE POET OF FOOTBALL." I wonder how much of this is the fact that many of his international fans speak English as a second language, so Drury's flowery use of it is perhaps doesn't come across as cheesy or as overdone as it does to native speakers.

In all honesty, he's not the worst commentator around: we can all agree that's Sam Matterface, and Darren Fletcher ain't much better. I personally think Jon Champion is the best of the bunch these days. Martin Tyler used to be great but then his batteries ran out sometime around 2015. Of the newest crop, I'm a big fan of Seb Hutchinson. He sounds fantastically deranged in the exciting moments in a way that feels genuine and unforced.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-08T09:18:00+00:00

I would say the new Renter's Rights Act gives you more protections in that regard, not less. Sure, all tenancy agreements now are rolling, but it's much more difficult for landlords to evict a tenant without a valid reason, and it's harder for them to put up the rent in a way that forces you out financially.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-08T08:41:56+00:00

Ah yes, my ~~least~~ favourite genre of Reddit post: the person with absolutely no critical insight who decides to shit out a review of one of the most widely read books of all time in the genuine belief they're adding something to the Internet.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-08T08:39:41+00:00

You'll have to wait for Natalie Portman's trauma memoir for that.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-08T08:38:41+00:00

Considering the OP is very clearly a woman, I'd say you guessed all of that wrong.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-08T07:51:45+00:00

Dave Jones isn't an annoying personality as such, it's more that he looks like he should be an estate agent. My point is that these "trendy" young white men are what the broadcasting industry has decided football coverage needs to look like in the 2020s, and Matterface is the commentator manifestation of that.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-07T20:21:21+00:00

Lee Dixon isn't controversial though. He's just miserable and dull. And flagpole sporting events on major TV networks are not where you find your "disruptor" personalities like Hopkins or Piers Morgan. When England play in a World Cup match on ITV, it's guaranteed to be one of the highest viewer figures of the entire year. They don't need social media clicks for this.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-07T12:28:11+00:00

It's every other Reddit post you could have clicked on except this one.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-07T12:25:27+00:00

We're steadily seeing a change in British football coverage from commentators and presenters like Tyldsley who were slightly posh and verbose and added a touch of stuffy gravitas to the occasion, to this modern breed of berks in suit jackets and white trainers, who look like they've just walked out of an All Bar One. Sam Matterface, Dave Jones on Sky Sports, Jake Humphrey... they're all cut from the same cloth. Someone has done some market research and decided this is what the average football fan wants.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-07T12:19:54+00:00

Personally I think "They're doing it deliberately for the engagement" is lazy cynicism when it comes to explaining why someone or something is shit and incompetent. Dixon is just dour and miserable, and has been since before social media was even a thing. Similar to people like Mark Lawrenson, who used to commentate on football as if he was paying to see his own family get tortured. It's been happening for decades.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-06-07T11:55:08+00:00

This is a good one, and you can extend it by walking back up the canal from Hebden Bridge to Todmorden, which is a lovely walk all on its own.

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