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Double Pfizered here and only had a bit of a sore arm for the next day after each, nothing more. Cases are increasing rapidly though, @JT! Although hospitalisations and deaths etc. aren't currently following as previously.

I dunno... Overpriced? Probably. Too much chrome? Check. Shit to ride? Check. Basically pointless? Definitely. Sounds like a Harley to me...

Note to 20 year old me: Bitcoin. Buy some Bitcoin.

It's something that I can get that the theory means is should work (and also at model scale as shown on the actual treadmill) but at full scale on a somewhat rickety vehicle with bearings and chains and imbalance and an 80kg passenger I'd be surprised if that could do it. Having said that it's odd that none of their explanations mention the rotating prop sees a totally different air speed to the wind that the vehicle sees...

Ok, so came across this on 'I f**king love Science' and it's got the grey matter working. The logic behind the reason it could/should operate is fair enough but the explanation of how/why it might work doesn't really follow in my mind and it reminded me of the aeroplane/treadmill classic but with a twist. Definitely an interesting one...

Incredible that he was over 6 seconds faster than everyone else in quali... what the hell?!!

Is that being filled via the gutter?! I feel that Martin Lewis would be proud!

His confidence, power and accuracy just seem insane...

Apparently Lewis had accidentally knocked his 'magic' button before the restart which completely screwed him at turn one on the restart.

Prices seem to be going pretty crazy at the moment... Glad things are looking promising for you, Mark, and you're finally at the end of being dicked around!

If that was me it would turn into an expectation vs. reality meme... vs.

That thing looks lethal... Centre of gravity is all wrong for jumps it seems.

Sorry to hear of Jane's loss but that does sound really promising for you guys. Hopefully you can work something out with her brother once the estate is sorted out.

I hope you're not paying your solicitors per hour (or per letter/email etc.)! Such dickheads!

If there's one tiny little positive to Brexit, surely reintroducing the one thing that made paint stripper strip paint to bloody paint stripping products should be it... Edit: Just looked on the petitions.parliament website and the current most popular petition is "Allow non-professional singing in groups of more than six indoors". People have some weird priorities. Paint stripper all the way.

Not sure why but the blue wishbones offend me... just look wrong to me! Looks like wicked fun though! In totally unrelated (but at least car related) news we had Aston in the tunnel this week and one of the chaps was telling us about the Mercedes Multibeam LED headlight system that was totally new to me and very impressive. I think there's probably more tech in one of their headlights than in the whole of my car (and probably as many parts to go wrong too) but very impressive tech providing it works.

One for the 'things I don't get' but why do people have cats? They're basically just dickheads who would sooner watch with utter disinterest than piss on you if you were on fire and show zero affection...

Was it 'Getta Grip'? Edit: Yup.

The problem I see is that the career for most will be very short. It's fine finding out how much a DH racer earns in a normal race year but given that chances are they may only be a competitive pro for 10 years if they're lucky (assuming they don't suffer any career ending injuries) how many are actually able to continue to make a living in the industry once they retire? My guess would be that of those who take any kind of salary and can be considered a pro only a tiny proportion will be able to make a living outside of racing.

Can we have some more steps please? My head just exploded.

And this friend... does his name start with G and end in f?! Sorry, I've never been any good with probabilities! Obviously the first one has a one in one chance of being 'new' so that leaves you with 11 to go with a 1 in 12 probability of the next 19 being 'new' but beyond that I couldn't tell you. Gut feeling is the odds are against you getting the remaining 11 in 19 shots though!!

I'd include the current ones in that to be fair...

Why do car companies insist on trying to make bikes? Just stop already.

Yeah that's very true. On big (for me) jumps I'm now happy letting the bike just do its thing beneath me but on smaller ones I'm still bad for basically bunnyhopping out of the lip to get extra air which isn't how jumps are supposed to work!!