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by simonineaston
18 Mar 2024, 5:19pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Would it be unreasonable … ?
Replies: 12
Views: 365

Re: Would it be unreasonable … ?

I’ve been upset by this issue since it cropped up with the arrival of cheap, powerful LEDs. I have concluded with a heavy heart that a significant number of cyclists - often otherwise reasonable and kindly folk - are too dumb or too selfish to engage with this oh-so-simple fact.
After a lot of soul searching and incredulity, I’ve decided to pop it the box marked, Exactly why I hate most humans and, frankly, think they (we) will Deserve All We Get.
Which is just all too sad, really…
by simonineaston
17 Mar 2024, 4:13pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Just how long will it take to turn this ship around?
Replies: 30
Views: 751

Re: Just how long will it take to turn this ship around?

I don’t think on the whole, people have grasped how utterly desperate things are…
I have sympathy with that idea - after all, who want to go like oh that’s it then - my kids will likely die of war, famine or heat… ?
by simonineaston
17 Mar 2024, 12:03pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Just how long will it take to turn this ship around?
Replies: 30
Views: 751

Re: Just how long will it take to turn this ship around?

As far as I can tell, we’re entered into a “new chautaqua” - or do I mean “paradigm”? I don’t know.
Parliament is pretty much broken, as the last of the decent MPs are heading out the door. Democracy is bust, too, now that all real power has been ceded to finance and tech..
Austerity (which Alexei Sayle reminds us is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused by there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton…) has systematically stripped our public services of all the funds needed to give us all the core services we depend on, for cradle to grave care, especially for anyone vulnerable.
And if that isn’t a bleak picture enough, recall that the above is no accident. The neoliberal, Hayek /Rand worshipping hard right worked out years ago how to turn us all in to cash cows, pocket all our hard earned in the form of profit and make it all disappear into their personal wallets, never to be seen again. And they are not about to let any of that change! Nothing will change. We face two options - revolution or, more likely, extinction.
Happy Saint Patrick’s day - have a glass of stout on me…
by simonineaston
16 Mar 2024, 12:33pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Witnessing the end of the NHS
Replies: 213
Views: 18490

Re: Witnessing the end of the NHS

It wasn’t that long ago that anyone who campaigned against the “sell off of the NHS” was regarded as crazy lefty or unhinged socialist. Now we’ve arrived at a time when all but the dullest wit can recognise the harm done by successive governments to a wide range of public services inc. the continual and deliberate underfunding of the NHS, we might do well to recall that it was us the electorate that put them all in power… We’re all too keen to vote for the party that promises the lowest cost of living, the least “tax burden”, the hardest driven of efficiencies and the most swinging of local government funding. And now, that’s exactly what we’ve got.
We get the governments we deserve. We ask for it and they give it us. We’ve no one to blame for the current state of affairs but ourselves. Anyone who points out that it wasn’t them that votes Conservative just isnt trying hard enough. Protests in support of our GPs, hospital doctors and nurses? None. We just stood on the doorstep and mimicked Boris and Carrie. Pathetic. As thou shalt sow, so shall you reap…
by simonineaston
14 Mar 2024, 4:01pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: screenshot (pun intended…)
Replies: 3
Views: 341

Re: screenshot (pun intended…)

I’m liking that, what with the P as a logo, an’ all… When the owner comes back on line, I’ll ask him and post the response.
I get where he’s coming from, when I recall the zzipper fairings available for the AMs
by simonineaston
14 Mar 2024, 2:39pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: screenshot (pun intended…)
Replies: 3
Views: 341

screenshot (pun intended…)

A fellow Moultoneer has a natty electric f frame jobbie - do you, dear reader, recognise the screen?
screengrab of bike
screengrab of bike
by simonineaston
12 Mar 2024, 5:17pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: last second ebay bidding
Replies: 51
Views: 2397

Re: last second ebay bidding

Imagine the smart left by the crushing sweaty sensation that what you thought was going to be a stonking great bargain has been whipped from between your very fingers ! It is like I saw the other day, which was my local sparrow hawk , removing in a trice, the coal tit from the nut feeder…. BHOOOOFFFFFF it went, leaving nothing but a puff of tiny feathers… oh dear
by simonineaston
12 Mar 2024, 9:48am
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: cycle.travel app
Replies: 14
Views: 515

Re: cycle.travel app

Richard Fairhurst wrote: 12 Mar 2024, 9:22am I've got a long list of features to add to both this and the iPhone app this year.
How exciting! I do like using c.t, although I’ll admit that my go-to planner for years was Satmap’s 2 versions of Xpedition which integrated well enough with their gps device.
But the combination of c.t website and app more than makes up for the demise of Satmap. Funnily enough the clincher for me was probably the arrival on the market of weather-proofed phones. When I first began using Satmaps, they could be made sufficiently weather-proof to be practical, whereas most phones would, as they say in the vernacular these days, “brick” at the first contact with even the tiniest drop of rain…
re developments for c.t, while I am excited and positive on the subject of change, I have in the back of my mind the slightest of sinking feelings as I recall how for example Apple’s iTunes morphed steadily from a nimble thing of genius, to a ghastly indeterminate wobble fest.
EDIT: note that I’m not intending to imply that our Richard in any way resembles Steve Jobs… :lol:
by simonineaston
11 Mar 2024, 7:17pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: cycle.travel app
Replies: 14
Views: 515

Re: cycle.travel app

Going to the app store and updating c.t has done the trick. :-)
by simonineaston
11 Mar 2024, 7:13pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: cycle.travel app
Replies: 14
Views: 515

Re: cycle.travel app

Jdsk wrote: 11 Mar 2024, 6:59pm
What version of cycle.travel?

Jonathan
I don’t know how to find out without being able to launch the app, but a sensible guess might be the last-but-one vs..
by simonineaston
11 Mar 2024, 6:57pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: cycle.travel app
Replies: 14
Views: 515

Re: cycle.travel app

My iPad is likewise 17.3.1 now, with 17.4 available tonight.
by simonineaston
11 Mar 2024, 6:20pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: cycle.travel app
Replies: 14
Views: 515

cycle.travel app

My cycle.travel app icon is a gloomy grey, suggesting all is not well. Clicking there on produces no response - any ideas, dear reader?
all is dark….
all is dark….
by simonineaston
11 Mar 2024, 4:07pm
Forum: Electrically assisted pedal cycles
Topic: Night p*nct*re scenario comes to pass
Replies: 23
Views: 937

Re: Night p*nct*re scenario comes to pass

Bmblbzzz wrote: 11 Mar 2024, 1:42pm I've just noticed this is on the e-bike board. I'm in the dark* as to why many manufacturers don't take advantage of that lovely big battery to tap a tiny fraction of the power for built-in lights. I know some do, but I really can't see any reason not to do it on all of them.
I was offered the facility to power the front dynamo lamp on my Brompton from the battery pack, once converted to ‘leccy power, by nano, the company offering the conversion. In spite of that, I still always carry a head-torch separately. It’s one of those accessories that are only occasionally needed but are often indispensable when the need arises, especially as eye sight deteriorates with age.
by simonineaston
11 Mar 2024, 10:43am
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: last second ebay bidding
Replies: 51
Views: 2397

Re: last second ebay bidding

One way or another, all bidders seek to game the system, to a greater or lesser extent. I often use a so-called sniping website because a) I’ve decided on my highest bid and b) I don’t want to reveal that limit. Some folks think this is cheating, but as its a legitimate part of modern on-line life I don’t agree. There’s been many occasions when I’ve been outbid by a snipe, however the timing is irrelevant. What often matters most to me is how high I’m prepared to go.
Having said that, I do recognise that the disappointment experienced from “losing” an auction (isn’t it interesting that these transactions are couched in terms of a competition like a running race, that you can “win” or “lose”…?) can be quite a strong sensation, especially if the item is something the bidder coverts - and doubly so, if there’s a chance of a bargin via a low bid. Cautious auctioneers often advise placing your highest bid in good time, but that doesn’t take into account the many many folk who’ll do whatever it takes to beat the competition to the post (that running metaphor again…). Of course those who come second - and worse - feel cheated! But on the whole, I think it’s a miracle of modern technology that ebay auctions are mostly fair and equitable, albeit occasionally disappointing!