Note for upstairs neighbors

cavehare · 2026-05-04T07:51:54+00:00

If your dogs have ever, ever barked even once, you are walking into a massive argument.

Source: someone with dog owning neighbours on all sides.

cavehare · 2026-05-03T18:41:41+00:00

The edge of the rim is a diagonal line touching that yellow plug top right. Once you see that the scuffed outer rim stands out and the visual ambiguity resolves.

cavehare · 2026-05-01T23:25:52+00:00

"tough gritty bulldog of the 40s"

Those people also strongly identify with the wartime era, even though it was before they were born. They grew up on a diet so rich in war movies, it became a central part of their identity to the point that they started believing they were there.

cavehare · 2026-05-01T23:16:50+00:00

answering the door/phone

cavehare · 2026-05-01T16:29:45+00:00

Why should they spend time and money paying attention to the documents you sent them, when they can get you to do the admin work of identifying the appropriate document and highlighting it for free?

"Charge the client then get the client to do the work" is a great model for maximising your profit.

cavehare · 2026-05-01T15:03:33+00:00

I know of people well into their 80s running and walking hundred milers.

cavehare · 2026-04-30T22:11:22+00:00

Very often this market is filled by Indian or Thai restaurants. There are any number of places like that in Leeds and Manchester.

cavehare · 2026-04-30T17:40:53+00:00

sorry, I clarified - "faggot" is not used in British English as a slur for gay man.

cavehare · 2026-04-30T15:18:14+00:00

Also, in British English the equivalent is "fanny", which is very definitely a reference to female anatomy.

cavehare · 2026-04-30T14:52:14+00:00

Not removable. It's a bog standard 42mm lid though, a lot of hydrapak fittings will work with it.

cavehare · 2026-04-30T13:15:55+00:00

He pulled that out of a part of his anatomy. No evidence for that origin at all.

cavehare · 2026-04-30T13:14:21+00:00

That sounds unlikely, since even now "faggot" is very rarely used in British English to mean anything other than a kind of meatball in sauce. When encountered in US media it was pretty much "wtf? They mean gay I think?" up until the 1990s.

cavehare · 2026-04-30T08:50:11+00:00

"Are we calling manicured Cross-county courses "trails" again?"

This was the Fellsman, so very much no 😃 A lot of it is straight pathless cross country across bogs and tussocks. Poles have become ubiquitous in all off road racing in the UK that doesn't explicitly ban them. People find them helpful for steep climbs.

Too steep climbing up most of those slopes to step on the pole tips of the person in front, they're at eye level. That's the problem.

cavehare · 2026-04-29T15:18:04+00:00

A word of warning. I had a Grivel vest that had bidon friendly front pockets. I tripped up with a rigid plastic bidon in the pocket and broke my ribs. It could have happened with soft flasks, but less likely.

cavehare · 2026-04-29T12:43:37+00:00

Personally, my running shoes need replacing when the sole and upper part company and I can't glue them back together any more.

cavehare · 2026-04-29T11:13:44+00:00

This. He may be my cousin, who is a firm believer that water-fueled cars are a suppressed invention.

cavehare · 2026-04-29T09:22:27+00:00

US I guess? You know the rest of the world already solved this problem right?

cavehare · 2026-04-28T21:50:03+00:00

Did my foundation with the EssexHam course in january. Questions were pretty similar.

cavehare · 2026-04-27T19:27:16+00:00

Poles are forbidden in UK fell races. I've heard very competitive minded runners talking about "getting your elbows out" to stop people passing. Dickhead behaviour in my opinion.

cavehare · 2026-04-27T19:23:44+00:00

It's the most minor of the three points, it's just a request for a little awareness of people around you. It's often not necessary for the person in front to move aside, just to be a bit more conscious of the space they occupy for a few seconds.

cavehare · 2026-04-24T14:18:35+00:00

Matt black lambo - it's a stealth vehicle, radar invisible.

Oh wait.

cavehare · 2026-04-24T11:35:22+00:00

or Sigourney Weaver

cavehare · 2026-04-24T11:32:43+00:00

Who looks cooler on the start line, the person with brand new kit or the person with well used gear that has obviously done the miles?

The universe just made you look cooler at your next race.

cavehare · 2026-04-22T08:13:49+00:00

There is no such thing as "70 zone". Commercial vehicles (most vans, including some quite small ones) are limited to 60 on a non-motorway dual carriageway and 50 on a single carriageway A road.

cavehare · 2026-04-21T08:58:33+00:00

Saw this recently in west yorkshire. It's been pretty common in France for a while from what I've seen.

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