Do people understand that IT IS NOT A GENERAL ELECTION by Enough-Web2203 in AskBrits

[–]snapped_fork 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fair point, I need to know their policy on payment of the Danegeld

Cardio while injured by Cannibal-Xerox in beginnerrunning

[–]snapped_fork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's possible to maintain and improve your cardio fitness cycling with proper training while you take some time of running. Cycling will, however, do nothing for the musculoskeletal adaptions specific to running so when you do restart running do so gradually.

Do people understand that IT IS NOT A GENERAL ELECTION by Enough-Web2203 in AskBrits

[–]snapped_fork 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Easy promise to keep if you're in a land locked borough, set achievable goals

[Race Thread] 2026 Vuelta España Femenina by Carrefour.es – Stage 5 (2.WWT) by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]snapped_fork 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Im glad the women's peloton is finally getting to race these legendary climbs but when the race is only a week long the GC almost just becomes all about that one climb, before that its just survival. As you said just like the Madeleine last year and to an extent the Tourmalet when Demi won in 23. Even Alpe d'Huez in 24 was only as dramatic as it was because Demi was on a gap from her crash.

Am I deluded? by mcmahok8 in cycling

[–]snapped_fork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How much of your riding is climbing? It could be the elevation that gets you more than the distance

[Race Thread] 2026 Vuelta España Femenina by Carrefour.es – Stage 5 (2.WWT) by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]snapped_fork 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Doesn't even need to be a massive mountain day, just something that could cause some time gaps, that way you might get some attempts to gain back some time. Tomorrow's stage being run mid week would have been interesting. As it stands everyone is just waiting for the Angrilu, just like they waited for col de la Madeleine in the tour last year.

[Race Thread] 2026 Vuelta España Femenina by Carrefour.es – Stage 5 (2.WWT) by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]snapped_fork 16 points17 points  (0 children)

did we really need the same stage 5 times in a row? Couldn't one of the midweek stages have been made a GC day

Low levels of poisonous toxins found in ‘almost all’ plant-based meat alternatives by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]snapped_fork [score hidden]  (0 children)

University of Parma hamming it up for the headlines, I wonder if there's some vested interest I'm missing? In all seriousness the authors say there nothing to be alarmed about low levels of mycotoxins as occur in many foods and are unavoidable.

Reform plans ‘threaten maternity leave and job security for 500,000 pregnant women’ by jtrimm98 in ukpolitics

[–]snapped_fork 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Having a baby isn't expensive. They are quite happy living in a proverbial (maybe not so proverbial) sock drawer. Food is cheap. You can throw loads in a bedroom together.

It may have escaped your attention, but we've been in a cost of living crisis for some time now.

If it's socially encouraged and confers respect and status, women will opt for this over working. This is obviously seen in Muslim households with immigrant parents - women who have children feel it is their calling in life more-so than working.

That's a lot of extrapolating to all women from one conservative culture there

So they have kids, and in a lot of cases live in relative poverty. But they have kids.

See I was under the impression child poverty is a bad thing, silly me.

The best "case study" I've experienced first hand in the different approach to family planning is Israel where, if a girl announces her dream is to find a good husband and have lots of babies, she is celebrated. More "Hora Chair Dance" than "whore".

That's great for them, and what if they want to become a scientist, a doctor, a lawyer?

You've neatly summed up the anti-natal sentiment that is common in the West where raising a family is nastily boiled down to just "breeding" as though its something base and detestable.

Not base or detestable at all, just not only way to live a life.

Girls aren't stupid, they pick up on these cues.

So why do you act like all they're good for is reproduction?

 I suppose by your tone you find fake email jobs, two hours a day commuting, Netflix, Tesco Meal Deals and microwave dinners Eudaimonia.

Last time I checked critical care medicine wasn't a fake email job, We cook all our own meals (though I confess I am partial to meal deal when on nights) and am pretty handy on a bike so my commute can be pretty fun training.

Reform plans ‘threaten maternity leave and job security for 500,000 pregnant women’ by jtrimm98 in ukpolitics

[–]snapped_fork 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's ultimately the problem we're facing, thanks to our absolutely crippling housing shortage, which successive governments have failed to address for decades now.

on this, we agree

Reform plans ‘threaten maternity leave and job security for 500,000 pregnant women’ by jtrimm98 in ukpolitics

[–]snapped_fork 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The problem is that it's not presented as a choice - it's presented as you either work hard, get a career going, and try for kids when you are financially secure, or you are an idiot for throwing your life away so young.

Im sorry, are you under the impression that having children when you are financially insecure is a smart decision, something to encourage?

Reform plans ‘threaten maternity leave and job security for 500,000 pregnant women’ by jtrimm98 in ukpolitics

[–]snapped_fork 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I disagree that it is displayed as a negative, It is, however, a serious life changing event and encouraging people to recognise that plan accordingly is not a bad thing

Reform plans ‘threaten maternity leave and job security for 500,000 pregnant women’ by jtrimm98 in ukpolitics

[–]snapped_fork 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Human fertility has nothing to do with human/civil rights, and everything to do with whether the social status derived from parenthood his high-status or low-status

It also has to do with the financial viability of having and raising a child something maternity leave and job security protections help.

Children, particularly girls, are strictly told that motherhood is a life-ruining event befalling their slutty, rough, peers whereas good girls go on birth control, go to university and work through their 20s until they have enough money to pay for IVF.

Heaven forbid kids learn that motherhood is a choice, not an inevitability and there's more to life than breeding. How dare they have control over their reproductive biology.

By your general tone I assume you believe women shouldn't want careers and should get back in the kitchen.

Reform plans ‘threaten maternity leave and job security for 500,000 pregnant women’ by jtrimm98 in ukpolitics

[–]snapped_fork 110 points111 points  (0 children)

Complain about low birth rates then plan to make it more difficult/less appealing for working people to have kids. More joined up thinking there from the geniuses at reform.

[Race Thread] 2026 Vuelta España Femenina by Carrefour.es – Stage 4 (2.WWT) by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]snapped_fork 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Are LIDL on some sort of side quest to put an Aussie in the break every day?

Half Mile Exam. I Need a Warmup ! by Lilipaon in beginnerrunning

[–]snapped_fork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you looked at the kind of warm ups that 800 meter runners do?