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The Zed is glorious silliness; reason alone for me to lust after a Look. But wait - the different versions aren't backwards compatible?

That's hilarious.

forks

/ Inspector Dreyfus eye twitch

Do you eat with a knife and forks?

Sorry, I might need to up the dosage on my pills

Neatsfoot oil

Discontinued shortly after Abe Simpson's turlet went into production?

Yeah, have fun with their budding arrogance... Just wait till it's in full bloom, it'll be like a corpse flower.

Not all cultures are equally valid

Well, she's plainly correct - the dominator culture she's part of which has brought untold misery and desolation, soaked the biosphere in a cocktail of toxins, is constantly rendering species extinct, and threatens our actual survival, is very definitely somewhat sub par.

Fuck yeah! That's the shit

Hell yeah.

It's amazing how much changes when people trust in others and operate on a basis of paying it forward.

Domination is the one true original sin; all is immiserated around it.

IKR.

It gets old how folks keep acting like any valid critique of an all-pervasive system must somehow come from outside it...

It's on par with taking up smoking because some bloke dying of emphysema told you it's a bad idea.

But your Nikes, lol. It's not a serious rejoinder; it's flippant as fuck.

When I fly alone I'm like, fuck it, I'm sitting on my arse for as long as I can avoid standing in the dumb queue. I expect there to be sufficient overhead storage if I'm last on the plane, because what the fuck else is the carry-on size restriction for. They try to tell me it's going under the seat in front and I'm like hell no, it can fit in here, see?

cram, rearrange, jam, shuffle, shove

See, toldya

When you are booked as the featured dancer in a club called Rear Endz at 12 but have a baptism at 6.30.

Haven't the faintest whether truth or artful mockery

How about the fact that cops were only invented a couple of centuries ago to beat down on Paddy? How ever did we manage for the previous hundred thousand years, fetch my smelling salts.

Ah, the comforting flavour of boot sole. If I keep on licking I can outsource my collective responsibility for our destiny to those who so obviously know best

Billionaires aren't likely to punch you in the face, but they sure are in the habit of creating the circumstances which increase the likelihood of you getting punched in the face. And the circumstances in which archery may become a necessary life skill for our kids and grandkids.

We're born into a system which, although occasionally claimed to be about lifting us all up Maslow's hierarchy, is based on a zero-sum mentality which sees us all increasingly pushed down that hierarchy. We're sold this impoverished view of human nature which maintains that people are greedy and lazy, and society is already optimally organised because only the wolves at the door make most people contribute... to ever-increasing corporate profits. Morale will improve if only the beatings are continued.

Fuckwit who punches you in the head on a Saturday night only does so because we've been convinced that refusing to invest in people is what makes them turn out well. And we'll maybe throw him in a cage with a bunch of other antisocial types to sort him out, because somehow we're too thick to realise that the best possible punishment is making him fully comprehend the consequences of his actions, at which point the vast majority of folks would feel remorse and want a chance to atone.

Saturday night fuckwit is a Saturday night fuckwit because his da was a Saturday night fuckwit, and they watch the footy together and gamble and eat food made out of numbers and all the things that get advertised to them by the vultures and parasites given pride of place in our society, while fuck-all ever systematically happens to edify anyone not born in a swimming pool of cash.

You get the picture?

It's called a structural hot glue slammer

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

They said I was a madman

I just invented something wonderful.

Dipped Kingston biscuits in Irish Cream, OMFG

Stanley. It seems alright, certainly not toy grade but nothing fancy.

The Makita one my old man got me for my birthday (after he heard me musing about grinding one down) is a fair bit nicer; bit less slop in the jaw and metric and imperial measurement on it.

...Although now I look at it, the Makita has lightly serrated jaws and a very slight clamping action, which is a bit annoying

the psychopath test by Jon Ronson

Seems fair enough; the wiki page appears to convey the gist.

Not a fan of the term 'psychopath' it seems too broad to apply to something that specific; 'sociopath' is much better IMO. And concerning the context I employed it, the folks I meant by it are a demonstrable pathology on society.

Which is why we should be turning on them instead of each other; billionaires don't deserve an iota of admiration but rather a movement dedicated to their eradication. Their existence is obscene.

I just recently removed a Shimano freewheel with a spare cassette tool - I just ground down the last couple mm a tad until I could hammer it in, and held it there with the wheelnut. Worked fine, still good for cassettes too I bet, since it'll insert past the tickled bit

if anyone buys one and needs to source the solid carbon one piece crank, I have a spare one of those too which I will sell for not loads (<£100?)

Holy moley, that's gotta be a tiny fraction of what you'd generally have to pay... I bet a Zed crank goes for about the price of a carbon frameset.

Do you need to fix a typo? Can't quite get your meaning

Hey, I believe in solidarity.

Of the 99.99%.

purely hypothetical

A small group of sociopaths continue to make everyone's future ever worse by the day, and the need to do something about is... hypothetical?

A learned journo I read says all that old class stuff is all but meaningless now, and the new division pits the 'knowledge class' against everyone else...

Not sure how much of it I buy

therefore 200m is harder to achieve without making it disproportionately thick

Pff, pretty sure I've seen dudes on YouTube making a water resistant watch good for 300m just by putting oil in it... Why doesn't someone just do that in the factory? Probably best as something with wireless charging, I guess, but still.

Getting towards the actual point, as a free will sceptic I'm inclined to say the only thing to be ashamed of is shame itself...

Otoh, western society is rather blind to the staggering opulence afforded by subsidised fossil fuel consumption, and perhaps we should feel unending guilt over our complicity with this systemic domination of the global south and the rampant exploitation and poisoning of the biosphere, huh