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    [Film] Film or TV lines you use in your everyday lives

    "Cornetto" whenever me or the wife ask each other if we want anything from the shop
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    [Travel] Potential Speeding Ban

    Because a lot of us CAN multitask and drive manual vehicles!
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    [Travel] Potential Speeding Ban

    Jesus wept, just admit you're shit at driving and we can all just go to bed 🤣
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    [Travel] Potential Speeding Ban

    You are obviously correct it isn't as simple as I make out but what would be the fun in being a keyboard warrior if we were all reasonable and thought about all the possibilities eh?! 😉
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    [Travel] Potential Speeding Ban

    How can a ban be an effective deterrent for breaking the law when all you have to do is plead exceptional circumstances because you use a car a lot and they agree not to ban you?! Probably a. Unpopular opinion but they should just say tough luck, you were told the consequences when you were...
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    Official Running Thread

    Got annoyingly close to 80% age grading at the serpentine last Friday of the month 5k yesterday 17:24 for an age grading of 79.9%
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    [Help] Carpenter/builder advice please - creaky stairs

    Unlikely that you will completely get rid of all noise without completely replacing them. Had our 30s house stairs looked at by a carpenter and some of the noise was back within a few months
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    [Misc] Retirement

    You can still get decent returns on cash held in a s&s ISA so it should make no difference
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    [Football] Favourite Albion Goal at Selhurst?

    McShane, love a smash and grab
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    [Misc] Retirement

    Trying not to focus too much on how much my investments are falling and planning to spend the 1st Friday of my new 4 day working arrangement cycling and drinking beer in the sun, why wait for retirement!
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    [Other Sport] April

    Where's the cycling options?
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    [Other Sport] Cycling geeks

    More proof that WBD are only interested in money and not continuing to promote cycling then! https://www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/uci-track-champions-league-cancelled-after-four-years Another blow for UK cycling given that 2 of the 4 events were in the UK!
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    [Finance] Payday loans.

    Cancelled my Barclaycard when they reduced the minimum payment to 1%, there is only 1 reason they made that change and it was to trap more people in long term debt!
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    [Other Sport] Cycling geeks

    For some stuff, VPN and SBS Sports live stream from Australia which is free to air
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    [Finance] Does earning 100k a year make you feel well off these days?

    TL;DR: If you are boringly sensible and don't increase your expenditure to match your salary, you should feel pretty comfortable, maybe verging on rich on 100k. After the minimum pension contributions for auto enrollment, the take home pay on £100k is £5600 per month for a single earner and...
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    [Other Sport] Cycling geeks

    I felt the same watching cyclocross when VdP and Wout turned up, the races just turned into an F1 style procession, the racing was much more exciting without them.
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    [Technology] HELP Skype phasing out, need auto-answer video...

    Have you looked to see if any of Amazon's Alexa devices do anything like this?
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    [Technology] Can you remember what phones you've had in the past? Post pictures of the old and interesting ones!

    Siemens mc60 (1st camera phone) Nokia n91 (1st phone with music player) Otherwise just the usual midrange garbage Id quite like to turn back time and get rid of my smartphone addiction and use an 8310 again
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    [Other Sport] Cycling geeks

    I've only ever really done this route which is quite enjoyable, my in-laws live in Duras so it's a convenient one for me once a year. https://www.freewheelingfrance.com/bike-routes-in-france/circuit-vignes-et-vergers-en-duraquois-cycling-duras.html Really well signposted circular route, although...
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    [NSC] How much do you spend on SUNGLASSES ?

    Bought a transition prescription pair of these for over £300 a couple of years ago and then broke a lens on a run, they wanted £250 to provide a replacement lens so I got the super glue out instead...

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