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It was worthy of appearing twice.

As the comments state, if you don't have cruise control the replacement badge is considerably cheaper as it doesn't have to be made in a way to let the radar magic through.

Buying parts is always like this. I remember 20+ years ago a motorbike magazine priced up a £6k bike that was £50k+ if you ordered all of the parts individually.

The cost of having cheap cars is expensive replacement parts. If you want cheaper parts the base car price will have to go up a lot.

(I'm for the cars in the smelter option.)

Not usually worth staying up for local election results, is it?

No, I just meant the exit polls that appear bang on 10pm.

We've got a local council by-election in my ward too, which should be counted pretty quickly.

4th year (at least) in a row that I won't be riding it.

2024: Pulled hamstring in March has destroyed any chance of decent training
2023: Tore my MCL a week or so before
2022: Some family thing came up
2021: Something else

Not selling my entry because (a) you shouldn't and (b) I just need Ride 100 to finish the London Classics thing and someone else completing it will mess that up.

Given that I was getting emails about there still being spaces available just a couple of weeks ago I think I may not rush to sign up for 2025, but then I know if I do that I'll be in perfect fitness and health and then find out it is sold out.

happy start of the downfall of the tory party day everyone.

Genuinely can't wait to see how bad it is for them later tonight/tomorrow.

The telly at 10pm (with the exit polls after the polling has offficially closed) will make great entertainment (after watching the various bits of football).

I know I shouldn't read the comments but the stupidity in the comments is amazing.

The majority of people are simply forgetting that most IDs expire, so it's quite easy to end up in this situation.

Yeah, that page looks woefully out of date. Ah, it does say it is incomplete and asks for people to add missing items.

https://www.nationalworld.com/sport/football/back-to-back-promotions-list-of-clubs-football-4141274

has more...

"
League 1 to Premier League

Watford: 1997-1999
Southampton: 2010-2012
Norwich: 2009-2011

"

Potential back to back promotions into football’s top tier is proper 1980s stuff.

There's a Wikipedia page for everything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_football_clubs_with_multiple_consecutive_promotions_or_relegations

tl;dr no

You can't park there mate.

DOWN WITH ACRONYMS! 

Two 40 minute league games back to back (so there was a ~5 minute half time). The team after us (who we often borrow players from to make up the numbers) needed a favour returned. My other weekly game is a mates game that's 60 minutes (well, 50 minutes as at least two of the twats are late to every single game).

Physio appointment booked for 15th May (although I may get bumped earlier if there's a cancellation). I'm not in a rush as I'll be having at least 3 weeks off football. Time to take the pull buoy to the pool though and get swim fit again.

If your warm down is 4 pints

What kind of half-arsed warm down is that?

Yeah, I'm just more annoyed that I thought I'd done enough to recover from it first time, be able to play for 1h20 and then rip it apart in a supposedly easier game.

Failing to recover twice is my limit for this kind of thing, so it's time to hit up the physio via Bupa.

Not sure where 7 days comes from. First gap was 21 days, second gap was 19 days.

I'll never give up 5-a-side, I've been playing twice a week for coming on ~25 years. In my Thursday game there are still 5 of us from our original game back in 1999.

Hamstring went again last night. Getting a physio on the case this time as I can't shake it on my own.

19-MAR-2024 Pulled hamstring playing 5-a-side football sprinting for the ball. Rested, did stretches, iced it, after a couple of weeks tested it out with some faster walking and slow running. All seemed ok.

09-APR-2024 Played 5-a-side for 1h20 with no problems. Thought it was all fine now.

11-APR-2024 Playing 5-a-side again, felt the same hamstring go again 25 minutes into the game. Rested, did stretches, iced etc, took it gently, tried out a gentle run and it seemed ok.

30-APR-2024 Playing 5-a-side, felt it start to go 10 minutes into a game.

First time I'd say it was an 8/10 on an arbitrary scale. When I played again afterwards I was very wary and so I stopped as soon as I felt something go, so only a 5/10 (compared to the original 8/10). Last night I managed to stop at an earlier sign (3/10) so hopefully I'm not ripping it to pieces.

Will hopefully get to the see the magic guy at my local physio and he can get to play with his ultrasound machine.

Yeah, mostly that.

Last time we had a cleaner it was for 3 hours once a week for a 3 bed flat. Could be done in 2 hours but the extra hour was to do a deeper clean on each of the rooms in rotation.

I miss it because we were just more likely to keep our place in order to avoid the "pre-clean before the cleaner comes" panic.

We stopped it last time both of us weren't working full time (hard to justify otherwise) and then Covid/WFH meant we've never restarted. We've tried to find a cleaner a few times since but all of the ones recommended to us (from neighbours/friends) already have enough work on the days they are in the area.

Safer (and easier) to lick your temples and the bits behind your ears rather than the headphones.

It's only a half kitchen at that price.

The frozen sausages equivalent is one or more of:

• Swim past them and accidentally rip their goggles off with a well aimed catch/pull
  
• Swim over them, especially coming up to a turn
  
• Swim into them repeatedly and either say nothing or a very nonchalant "oh hai"
  
• Stopping in front of them mid length
  
• Do intervals overtaking them at breakneck speed and then cutting in front and swimming even slower than they are going
  
• etc
  

Since this is the Tri thread the usual tactic is to just use them for mass start swim-biff training.

(In reality I've had better outcomes by explaining things to the lifeguard and seeing if they can get them to move.)

If you've got an iPhone then be aware that many of the cheaper providers don't provide visual voicemail.

But, yeah, switch. For example I'm on EE and pay ~£25 to cover three different mobiles with >100GB in total data.

Turkeys voting for Christmas?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cpegd3dy8j7o

Can't wait for cricket - standing in the sun and cancellation if raining.

And bonus is that we can get to all of her cricket fixtures by public transport.

Some of her football fixtures have been barely accessible by car. Last week was against Churt who play at Haslemere Community Rugby Club which is 40 miles away from SW15 and only just inside the Surrey county border.

Some of her cricket training is still miles away though. Good news is that her secondary school sports hall is getting cricket nets and is being added to the Surrey State School Sixth Form programme from next year.

... season is over ...

Daughter's U14 football season last fixture May 5th.
Daughter's U14 cricket season first fixture May 12th.

You're a winner every year then.

I dunno. As a pretty liberal person I'm still in two minds.

My daughter was born in 2009 so she'll never be able to legally buy stuff herself. Right now she couldn't think of anything worse than smoking/vaping (given that she's so sporty) and isn't interested in it if any of her mates offer it to her.

Then again, I was massively sporty at that age and it all fell apart when I went to uni. I smoked pretty heavily all the way from 18-30.

It's hugely personal but looking back there's a massive amount of stuff in my life I regret doing and wish I could magically change, but if I was only able to pick one thing it would be that I wished I never started smoking.