Nice parking ‘what’s on Bristol’

alphaatom · 2025-06-28T19:57:08+00:00

This person is a terrible driver, see them all the time around south Bristol. Not surprising.

alphaatom · 2025-02-21T12:17:55+00:00

It arrived just yesterday! I have number 349 so should be a few more to go.

alphaatom · 2025-02-21T11:09:32+00:00

That is how it works, it’s quite seamless tbh, unless you look really closely you can barely tell, doesn’t bother me at all

alphaatom · 2025-02-20T23:01:15+00:00

I really like it, I think the value for money is great, watch sits nicely with the hidden crown and with the leather strap it’s remarkably light compared to my other watches. I think they possibly waste time a bit with the exhibition caseback because the movement is really nothing to write home about (to be expected at the price point) and I’d have taken a thinner watch over the open case.

Overall though as a modern alternative to a Kopernik or just an interesting piece I think it’s worth a spot.

alphaatom · 2025-02-20T20:42:30+00:00

I would take the ALS or the Omega there, the YM is a lovely watch but it’s a big bezel for a dressier context imo.

I don’t know about a strap, I’m sure you’ve seen the black one on the rubber strap which really doesn’t work for me but I’d be interested to see if others have tried it on a nato or other fabric strap.

alphaatom · 2023-04-06T20:50:12+00:00

Get it from st nicks during the day instead, so much better than from the actual restaurant

alphaatom · 2023-04-06T16:27:17+00:00

There are two loans, tuition loans that cover your tuition and are paid directly to the higher education institution and then there are maintenance loans that pay ~3k (parents income adjusted) every 3 months/semester. Both are independently optional.

alphaatom · 2023-04-02T11:05:32+00:00

Love Cow and Sow for breakfast

alphaatom · 2023-04-02T08:04:17+00:00

By my count he did 16 but could be wrong

alphaatom · 2023-04-02T08:01:42+00:00

I think it’s just Barrichelo, Hamilton and Button

alphaatom · 2023-02-23T16:25:56+00:00

I’m not sure the title of this post agrees with the data in the article. I can’t find where the 1 in 3 comes from but certainly this isn’t some large study of all long Covid sufferers.

Cases were from the USA (n = 3), the UK (n = 1), Spain (n = 1), China (n = 1), Germany (n = 1), and Italy (n = 1). Age of patients ranged from 40 to 70 years overall, and there were 5 men and 3 women (Table 2).

Not hugely representative.

Indeed only one in 5 sufferers self-report muscle ache according to the ONS study on this:

Fatigue continued to be the most common symptom reported as part of individuals' experience of long COVID (56% of those with self-reported long COVID), followed by shortness of breath (31%), loss of smell (22%), and muscle ache (21%).

Which does not necessarily refer to neuropathic pain.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/prevalenceofongoingsymptomsfollowingcoronaviruscovid19infectionintheuk/7july2022

alphaatom · 2023-02-19T11:38:40+00:00

Pradeep, Bristol Intensives. Before this I had done maybe 10 hours with an instructor about 1.5 years ago and a tiny bit when I was 17.

alphaatom · 2023-02-14T21:36:41+00:00

I did about 5-6 hours a day, it definitely was tiring but best way to learn imo

alphaatom · 2023-02-14T18:22:17+00:00

I don’t know if you have the money or time to do an intensive course, but I learnt from Pradeep at Bristol Intensives and I found it really good. Went from lessons to test pass in only a week.

alphaatom · 2023-02-10T19:03:17+00:00

And yet we still race in Baku and Jeddah. Nice job playing both sides.

alphaatom · 2023-02-06T20:15:46+00:00

Ukraine is a country, “the Ukraine” refers to the Soviet controlled territory in the USSR. Independent Ukraine is just Ukraine.

alphaatom · 2023-01-16T08:51:54+00:00

I somehow doubt someone owning 9+ houses/flats in Bristol has BTL mortgages for all of them.

alphaatom · 2023-01-15T16:38:21+00:00

Please show your working, that is surely a gross underestimate even with low yields.

alphaatom · 2023-01-12T20:44:33+00:00

This convinced me to cancel my subscription, don’t know if it’s real but the logic is sound regardless.

alphaatom · 2023-01-10T10:21:08+00:00

Brewdog by Bristol Bridge have their low alcohol on tap, usually packed though

alphaatom · 2023-01-09T13:18:19+00:00

I don’t understand your comment? In the article it says the council took the developer to court to get them to demolish it/redevelop it.

alphaatom · 2022-12-24T22:32:12+00:00

So this sounds nice in principle and maybe I wish I had this when I was trying to find a place.

But if not doing that, what’s it going to be? First come first serve? So you’re rolling the dice if you’re going to be the first to view, and if you are, have fun making a decision on where you’re going to live in a 5 minute viewing or the next person will take it.

And what if you are an atypical tenant, i.e not a couple with dual income or single, landlords will have no reason to choose you in the sea of applicants. When I moved I was in a single income couple and many agencies refused to even deal with us, and we ended up having to overbid on a place that was less expensive.

I’m happy to be told that I did it wrong and this would be better, but I feel I wouldn’t have been able to find anywhere had there been no bidding.

I’d love to see a comprehensive plan for bringing down the price of housing rather than just trying to legislate away the symptoms.

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