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it depends on terrain, mine is hilly so I need a 540% gear range, and mileage (I do about 100 to 150 a week) so its either Rohloff or derailleur. I have both and prefer Rohloff (crunching changes, starting in too high a gear, frequent adjustment issues, etc becomes a noticeable PITA with...

I agree, except it sounds more entitled, uncaring, selfish than that to me in a world that really needs brexit and walls like a Donald Trump or le penn at this point in time. A bit of me thinks a few stalingrads may be the prescription for getting this ugly selfish generation out of their very...

so far this week its difficult to know what to make of what the exchange rate says. RBS - look all the way down this https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/gbp-live-today/5392-gbp-to-eur-and-usd-house-prices-9822 advisers maintain that the stay in the pounds fall is a blip and that brexit is a slow...

some may call it draconian, but i think the nordic solution of very high taxes and equally high quality public services and so living standards is good

i worked in a hospital in africa, in - per capita - the second poorest country in the world. 40 to 60% of the population was permmanently unemployed ,living a subsistence life, of sorts. Crime was spectacular. Not in an imperosnal third perosn sense. Directly, the three or so local shopping...

morality is difficult to legislate for when one is being legislated by a cabal of self interested politicians funded by big business. I kidnof agree with you inasmuch as i dont see that changeing. I like Corbyn, a lot. I'd vote for him and in a parralel world, with an electorate with enough...

i half agree. if you were a gordon brown presiding over an electorate with insatiableneeds for gratification (big fat german cars, life on cruise ships, hair implantations, that sort of thing) persistent and ever increasing economic growth is a condition for happiness an dstaying in power. So...

that's a bit like Philip green saying he didnt contribute to the company pension fund to protect custoimers from price rises. I think not, i think he prioritised his greed over the needs of thousands of low paid workers and pensioners - and i think apple prioritises the needs of...

not so much something obscene as hugely blatantly obscene IMHO. In the Irish health service there's been a steady increase in SUI's (serious and untoward incidents, suicides, self harm) since the 08 crisis with the struggle to fund health care. Apples tax contribution could change all that. But...

possibly because Theresa's hubby is like dodgy Dave's parents chin deep into offshoring themselves..

But I guess we're all a bit disoriented. I'm over the copulating moon that it seems to have played a key role in sinking ttip. Our children will do repetitive BBC documentaries thirty years from now about the way a completely thick self indulged generation got one thing right.

Yes,I have a hase tougan with air suspension (recumbent so no option of bopping out of saddle on potholes,and could loose control,so safety really), and none on old 531 with cromo forks and big apples, both great for intended purpose. If I had one bike and a budget of 50£ ID spend it on...

The next week will be interesting. Murdoch press - sunday times - alleges hedge funds have bet 8.5 billion against recent steadying of pounds decent. Economy aside I guess what the pound does is a barometer for the size of the squall ahead,and article 50. Who knows what will happen,we live in...

a nice thing about fantasies is that one can reject any facts that don't agree with it. One moment the BBC can be an undisputable source of evidence that migrants are violent; then when it turns out that's not what they said, one can dismiss the BBC as biased. Way to go soldier, cling to that...

These are just the kind of services jobs in the EU brexit is threatening

again, the antagonists were the "armed people smugglers" (FWIW my fantasy is that they're all native English benefit cheats from somewhere "oop north") not the people.

good, good (apart from the snag that it was the "people smugglers", not the people using the tree, but I wouldn't let facts intrude on a well developed fantasy if I were you).

Nothing wrong with a rich fantasy life (especially liked the "scythes" bit, made me remember buffy the vampire slayer for a moment). Segregating populations on the basis of ones fantasies seem more dodgy. perhaps it would work better in north korea, or at a trump rally?

that distinction exists in your mind. In reality, out there, having lost several family members, ones house and town being permanently destroyed, the two "categories" (f you insist, experiences I'd argue) are much more enmeshed.

I blame it on dissociation, seeing suffering on a tv, from far away, if a fraction of what happens in Aleppo happened here we'd be distraught.