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• Rugby

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 hour, 45 minutes

  

  Bris poor again. No serious preseason games is coming back to bite them. Wrong call there, Pat.

  Worryingly, they just gave up at the end. Not good enough. Going to be a tough old season. They look the worst of the bunch at the moment.

  Missing Siale. Big mistake there.

• Rugby

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 hour, 48 minutes

  

  Good to see Tigers back on form

  Agree with the rest. But having Tigers fans crowing at me in Nottingham for a couple of decades, including my formative years, has led me not to be able to cheer on that particular club.

• This morning's commute and other commuting stories

  in General • 1 day, 19 hours

  

  Ta. Will get onto it in the morning.

• That Starmer fella...

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 19 hours

  

  I hate to say it but I'm not sure many voters give much thought to discrimination and prejudice in politics.

  Oh I don’t know... I think for some it’s a positive motivation - “they hate xxx like I do”. Helps explain some things in politics that have happened over my lifetime. But sure for others, probably the majority, it’s not the deal-breaker that it should be.

• Proper leather shoes

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 1 hour

  

  Fair enough. Nice to know.

  Just had a look and you can get those NPS Blair Derbies direct with leather soles also (same £££):

  https://uk.nps-solovair.com/collections/­mens/products/952-027?variant=2882539431­5328#image-2

• Proper leather shoes

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 1 hour

  

  For a chunky look? Solovair Gibsons? Or whatever the Sanders military Derbies are called?

  (disclaimer - never tried Sanders formal shoes, but I like their chukkas)

  Edit - I quite like those Trickers also

• This morning's commute and other commuting stories

  in General • 2 days, 7 hours

  

  Eddie Stobart cab towing Morrisons trailer made a complete cobblers of coming out of Regent's Park gate at Park Square East, turning left onto Marylebone Rd towards Euston. Driver couldn't make the turn and had to forward/back several times in rush hour traffic - lights very red at this point, almost as red as the driver's face. Driver then gave up this approach and just went for it, with the back quarter of the trailer smashing into the gates and scraping down the side. Big dent in trailer, but I was too busy trying to make the turn (having waited on the yellow hashed bit, already through the junction in the opposite direction) to see whether they had trashed the gates too.

  Will tweet Stobart and Morrisons to at least put on their radar, not that they will give a shit. Anyone else to report to (no idea of extent of the damage, as not in today - will go past tomorrow am to check)? (didn't get plates, as I was riding)

• Which decent casual SPD shoes? Dzr, Chrome, Quoc Pham, etc

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 days, 4 hours

  

  Been underwhelmed by chrome offerings in the past (might have been kursks, I think?). Not great either to walk or pedal in.

• Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 1 hour

  

  (drools...)

• EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 2 hours

  

  I think the government has just bribed / been lobbied by / been blackmailed by (pick one) CF Industries for them to start up production again.

  Magic money tree, lalalalalalalaa....