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What really grinds your gears?

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ChrisHB Oct 2020 10:53pm, 14 Oct 2020 19,887 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB Tonight I was dazzled by a torch held by a normal pedestrian. I think that was a first, but I increasingly think running on most streets around here after dark is a pastime for the young, agile and bouncy. I am convinced that the streetlights, all new in the whole borough, are specified to cast a minute amount of light onto the road but none onto the pavement.
ThorntonRunner Oct 2020 7:26am, 15 Oct 2020 3,961 posts	Quote Pin ThorntonRunner [Marky - the one thing I'd say re bike lights vs. car lights is that car lights are specifically set for dipped / full beam, and as long as drivers dip their headlights for cyclists - which I know too many don't - then they are not too dazzling. There's no such (and realistically can't be) regulation of bike lights, and some of the powerful bike lights now available, if badly adjusted, can dazzle]
ChrisHB Oct 2020 10:01am, 15 Oct 2020 19,889 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB Someone who has emailed a few hundred people saying "See the website for further information" before asking me to change the website to include it.
Keefy Beefy Oct 2020 10:13am, 15 Oct 2020 9,488 posts	Quote Pin Keefy Beefy [Because my bike is a German brand it lights are made to German lighting standards, so they have a cut-off to the top of the beam to stop you dazzling oncomers.]
WA Oct 2020 10:19am, 15 Oct 2020 7,596 posts	Quote Pin WA People assuming that once your kids get to secondary school age they don't need support any more. The type of support is obviously different, but in many ways the pre-school and primary years are more straightforward (that doesn't mean they are easy by any stretch of the imagination)
XB Oct 2020 11:06am, 15 Oct 2020 10,479 posts	Quote Pin XB “Sensible offers only” Why don’t you just say how much you want for it? I don’t know what you think is sensible and I’m not going to research the second hand market to determine what is the going rate for a 3 year old widget with “some wear and tear“.
lammo Oct 2020 11:09am, 15 Oct 2020 10,225 posts	Quote Pin lammo piss poor workplace communication
Nicholls595 Oct 2020 12:54pm, 15 Oct 2020 22,472 posts	Quote Pin Nicholls595 Taking the first bite out of a sesame seed bagel (with peppered salami) and suddenly having a plain bagel and a desk covered in sesame seeds
Fragile Do Not Bend Oct 2020 1:11pm, 15 Oct 2020 6,982 posts	Quote Pin Fragile Do Not Bend [Sorry Nicholls, that ^ made me laugh ]
Nicholls595 Oct 2020 1:15pm, 15 Oct 2020 22,473 posts	Quote Pin Nicholls595 (my own stupid fault for eating it upside down)