Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[chickenstrip]

[to v or not to v]

[chickenstrip]

On the subject of birds, from my spare room window I can see a nesting box that someone has pinned up on a Birch tree just beyond the gardens. Too far to see what it was, but some bird was climbing up the trunk towards the box. As I was watching, I was thinking, what's that? Too brown to be a nuthatch, too big to be a treecreeper.

Then it hopped right up onto the box and poked its head in the entrance, to be instantly attacked by the resident - a blue tit I think, much smaller bird, but just too distant to be sure - and duly seen off. The resident then sat on top of the box and cheaped away in warning.

I dunno, better for "oils my gears" really, but what I wanted to reply was, I find nature impressive generally.
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THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!

[MCN]

[Islander]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[MCN]

Islander and Nobby the Bastirt R a kuplakahnts.


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[stinkwheel]

Government minister on the radio today saying internet companies who supply end to end encryption messaging services need to be made to improve safeguarding of kiddies from predators and inappropriate content and stating that the companies can be made to allow the authorities access if foul play is suspected.

Thereby fundamentally misunderstanding what end-to-end encryption actually is and how it works. Despite this being her actual job.

Also expressing concern about exposure of kiddies to inappropriate content on social media, totally glossing over the fact that most social media platforms do no allow kiddies to hold accounts and access their content. So any account they hold is against the terms of service, any kiddies found with one should be closed and what are the parents doing while their 9 year old is fraudulently posting on facebook/whatever?
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I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Freddyfruitba...]

[Ribenapigeon]

[MCN]

[MCN]

[UncleFester]

We deal with this a lot at work - kids are clever. Even if you block their wifi and turn off their internet they just use a connection shared from one of the other kids who has a working 4G connection and get online that way instead. Or they find an open internet in the adjacent area.

Little gits.

You can't supervise them all the time. So you have to make it harder for them to get accounts in the first place or stop the problem adults from masquerading as children and getting accounts on what are meant to be children only networks.
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Module 1 and 2 passed - October 2014. Happy owner of a 2017 Z1000SX, ex owner of a YBR125 / CB500 / VFR800.

[Freddyfruitba...]

[MCN]

Or shut down the entire interwebs.
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[UncleFester]

Nope it isn't. Glad i'm not a parent OR a teacher tbh.
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Module 1 and 2 passed - October 2014. Happy owner of a 2017 Z1000SX, ex owner of a YBR125 / CB500 / VFR800.

[RhynoCZ]

Two wrong turns on my road bike is what grinds my gears today.

I was gonna climb the local highest moutain peak (1324m above the sea level; my starting point is roughly at 200m). I ascended to about 720m when I realised I wasn't gonna reach the top on that route, as the road just turned into mud and rocks with 20+% gradients... so I went back down, and tried a different route, this time reaching 721m to fail in the exact same manner.

So, I asked a random hikker and right away he seemed very confused, telling me he has never seen anyone on a bicycle, let alone on a road bike on slick tyres, trying to reach the top from that side of the moutain. And it was at that moment I knew, I fecked up, twice. IF I tried this from the other side of the moutain, there is a smooth asphalt road right up to the top with very mild gradients... sigh*

Cool scenery, though.

I was too exhausted to try the road bike friendly route that's one the other side of the moutain. To be continued. I'm gonna have to print out the map for my next attempt.

By the way, the cyclo computer picture is me descending back from my second atempt (to show how fecked up the gradient was, mostly 15-20%) and those wooden structures are the pub and accommodations half way through to the top ... both closed due to covid. I tried to push the bike up to the top, so I could descend on the other side on the smooth road bike friendly road, but there was a lot of mud and my shoes were not ideal for hikking (very slippery), so I gave up and went home. Worth mentioning, it takes me about 40 km to get to the foot of the mountain from where I live. So, I wasn't what one would call ''fresh'' on my second attempt.
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'87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
'95 Mercedes-Benz w202 C200 CGI, '98 Mercedes-Benz w210 E200 Kompressor

[MCN]

[stinkwheel]

[chickenstrip]

Summit wrong with that story.
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THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!

[Tracey Suntan-King]

Bank Of Cyprus put a red flag on our current account alleging we've been trading Bitcoin.



We've got no cash. Can't withdraw funds or use cards. Please advise

PS What is Bitcoin?

Been to bank, supposedly sorted but cards still blocked

Γάμα αυτή τη μαλακία.
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[RhynoCZ]

[RhynoCZ]

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[UncleFester]