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I replaced all my annoying Schrader tubes with Presta ones ages ago, without any extra gadgets. Am I missing something?
January 6, 2026 at 11:38 AM
I replaced all my annoying Schrader tubes with Presta ones ages ago, without any extra gadgets. Am I missing something?
Someone must be - apparently when you ring the ambulance service and say you can't find a pulse, they tell you to cover the person with a coat to keep them warm. This is woeful stuff.
January 1, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Someone must be - apparently when you ring the ambulance service and say you can't find a pulse, they tell you to cover the person with a coat to keep them warm. This is woeful stuff.
You forgot the extra lag before the light goes green, to allow all the cyclists and pedestrians to pass by, and the intersection to be empty.
December 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
You forgot the extra lag before the light goes green, to allow all the cyclists and pedestrians to pass by, and the intersection to be empty.
As with Brazil, it's another movie where if you're rooting in your bag for something at the start and you miss the first minute or two but you think oh well I'll catch up - you won't.
December 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
As with Brazil, it's another movie where if you're rooting in your bag for something at the start and you miss the first minute or two but you think oh well I'll catch up - you won't.
Closer than John Torode's infuriating "tewmeric" though.
December 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Closer than John Torode's infuriating "tewmeric" though.
Not only that, but someone goes round putting temporary stickers over the junction numbers to redirect cyclists, so tourists like me who are following the route numbers don't get lost. Imagine something like that happening in the UK. <sigh>
November 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Not only that, but someone goes round putting temporary stickers over the junction numbers to redirect cyclists, so tourists like me who are following the route numbers don't get lost. Imagine something like that happening in the UK. <sigh>
Sadly, if you look left first you might be very sorry. I notice that almost all drivers do this at junctions, and I don't know why. It's right first, then left, then right again.
November 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Sadly, if you look left first you might be very sorry. I notice that almost all drivers do this at junctions, and I don't know why. It's right first, then left, then right again.
Wasn't it always understood that if you leave your cutlery like that it means you have finished eating, and the plate will be removed? English tradition, good manners, clueless, blah blah ...
November 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Wasn't it always understood that if you leave your cutlery like that it means you have finished eating, and the plate will be removed? English tradition, good manners, clueless, blah blah ...
Gone undercover at the biodigester?
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Gone undercover at the biodigester?
I think that's a whoosh.
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I think that's a whoosh.
I am so thrilled to discover that this is even a thing! It's been a secret thought-experiment of mine for a long time - that just paint (no belisha beacons) would be cheap, and by the time the paint had worn away the giving-way behaviour would be pretty engrained.
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I am so thrilled to discover that this is even a thing! It's been a secret thought-experiment of mine for a long time - that just paint (no belisha beacons) would be cheap, and by the time the paint had worn away the giving-way behaviour would be pretty engrained.
Only the ones with cars. What about all the others who currently don't get a benefit at all.
November 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Only the ones with cars. What about all the others who currently don't get a benefit at all.
Amazing how well Helen's recovered, to the point where she's happy to go off alone with some random bloke in the middle of nowhere?
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Amazing how well Helen's recovered, to the point where she's happy to go off alone with some random bloke in the middle of nowhere?
'Three or four weeks'? Surely it's just one night?
November 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
'Three or four weeks'? Surely it's just one night?
Then staff get pressure to work for less, and so it goes ...
October 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Then staff get pressure to work for less, and so it goes ...
Very good. The Graun is gleefully reporting this today (including Kemi's "That was just a typo") in a stream that is so chock-full of typos it reads like it's being transcribed from a live interview by AI. Hello Pot, hello Kettle.
October 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Very good. The Graun is gleefully reporting this today (including Kemi's "That was just a typo") in a stream that is so chock-full of typos it reads like it's being transcribed from a live interview by AI. Hello Pot, hello Kettle.
Clouds in my coffee.
October 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Clouds in my coffee.
Stewart Lee's riposte to that idiot Matthew Parris was such a joy and something eagerly anticipated, by me at least, for some years. Well done Stewart, and thank you.
September 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Stewart Lee's riposte to that idiot Matthew Parris was such a joy and something eagerly anticipated, by me at least, for some years. Well done Stewart, and thank you.
Too much bloody shouting, when everybody can see there's a bloody car there. Just shut up.
September 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Too much bloody shouting, when everybody can see there's a bloody car there. Just shut up.
So do I, but it's about 40p more expensive now. I just think of 40 years of three plastic milk bottles every week that I'm not responsible for.
August 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
So do I, but it's about 40p more expensive now. I just think of 40 years of three plastic milk bottles every week that I'm not responsible for.
Do they not go up over the shoulders?
July 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Do they not go up over the shoulders?
Standards drop for me every time someone uses 'lead' for the past tense of 'to lead'.
July 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Standards drop for me every time someone uses 'lead' for the past tense of 'to lead'.
Hey, let's play Predator and Victim.
July 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Hey, let's play Predator and Victim.
Tooth grout falls out when you floss. Pointless.
July 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Tooth grout falls out when you floss. Pointless.