Just finished a 16.6 km mountain bike ride in 43:43.44. That extra one hundredth of a second is going to bug me all evening long.
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@neil Warm weather for all those hills! That’s probably what slowed you down.
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@Indigo The warm weather—and lockdown easing—brings out all the idiots. Had a young lad try to play chicken with me doing 25 mph. I was wearing a helmet & protective pads. He wasn’t so he would have come off far worse than me.
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@neil I keep wondering if there’s a place that’s nice enough to have tourists, but doesn’t.
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@Indigo For the last four months, I’ve been charging around the forest at break-neck speed and rarely seen another soul. This week, I’ve lost count of the numbers of times I’ve shouted or sworn at by absent-minded visitors.
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@neil Will they go away again in September?
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@Indigo The way the R number is going in England, I wouldn’t be surprised if Wales puts another travel ban in place soon.
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@neil Most of your neighbouring English regions are at risk of leakage from the Manchester stuff, I imagine. (That’s where my family are.)
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@Indigo If it spreads to Cheshire, then I imagine the First Minister will have to do something.
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@Indigo The devolved nations have been far more cautious than England throughout this whole episode. Most people I know have been very supportive of that. Even those in the tourism industry.
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@neil Most of the world has been more cautious than England, but I suppose that’s what you’d expect from a nation that thinks Johnson is a good person to elect as leader.
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@Indigo I wonder if there’s any correlation between countries lead by chubby leaders with bad hair and poor handling of the pandemic.
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@neil Since you shared it, it's bugging me too. Gah.
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@neil At least it isn't April 3rd.
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@33MHz That would only be an additional bugbear in the US with your backwards date format.
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@jeremycherfas On reflection, I wouldn’t consider any date that’s numerically similar. Whether it’s the 4th day or the 4th month, 4 isn’t prime, but 43 is. 43:43.43 soothes my mind for the prime consistency. As would the symmetry of 43:44.34 // @33MHz
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@neil The proneness has not struck me, but I see now its force.

/@33MHz
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