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Old 07-20-20, 10:09 AM
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Looks like Ken Block drove his Ford Escort to 2nd overall in Ohio. Gonna have to look for video later.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Hey Velo Vol your state is looking red.


i’ll be chattanooga tomorrow. Perfect.
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Old 07-20-20, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
i’ll be chattanooga tomorrow. Perfect.
Lovely city, but as AG and I have long-term discussions about where we would ever potentially move, we’re looking at responses to this. Sadly, TN is dropping the ball, even by comparison to it’s regional and political peers.
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Old 07-20-20, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
Lovely city, but as AG and I have long-term discussions about where we would ever potentially move, we’re looking at responses to this. Sadly, TN is dropping the ball, even by comparison to it’s regional and political peers.

I’ve never stayed there before, it will be interesting to see what the hotel policies are during all of this.
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Old 07-20-20, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
Without wandering over to another subforum, does anyone here know if pro cycling is still on track to start in like two weeks? The NFL was talking a big game right up until it’s collapsing now as they start to actually come to it.
Last I checked, yes at least in Europe.
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
Sadly, TN is dropping the ball, even by comparison to it’s regional and political peers.
Deaths per capita are fewer than any of its neighbor states, except Arkansas. Also fewer than Texas.

https://www.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Deaths per capita are fewer than any of its neighbor states, except Arkansas. Also fewer than Texas.

https://www.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases
Deaths aren’t the primary metric for skill handling this. And part of the reason we’re having the discussion is that Texas is such a ****-show.
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[QUOTE=Velo Vol;21597295]Deaths per capita are fewer than any of its neighbor states, except Arkansas. Also fewer than Texas.

I hope that holds. There is a median delay of something like 18 days from symptom onset to death, so give it a week. And, as BH points out, mortality is the tip of the iceberg.
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I notice chamois cream threads every now and then. In spite of having ridden for many years I have never felt the need or desire to use it.

If it's not broke, don't fix it. Right? That's what I am thinking, but I sometimes have this thing I recently learned is called FOMO*.

*Fear Of Missing Out
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Old 07-20-20, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by datlas
I notice chamois cream threads every now and then. In spite of having ridden for many years I have never felt the need or desire to use it.

If it's not broke, don't fix it. Right? That's what I am thinking, but I sometimes have this thing I recently learned is called FOMO*.

*Fear Of Missing Out
Back when we used real chamois we had to use something. I used Vaseline Intensive Care lotion. Nothing since synthetic liners came out.
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Originally Posted by datlas
I notice chamois cream threads every now and then. In spite of having ridden for many years I have never felt the need or desire to use it.

If it's not broke, don't fix it. Right? That's what I am thinking, but I sometimes have this thing I recently learned is called FOMO*.

*Fear Of Missing Out
Originally Posted by big john
Back when we used real chamois we had to use something. I used Vaseline Intensive Care lotion. Nothing since synthetic liners came out.
I have an absolute requirement for it to reduce friction or very bad stuff happens. I think if you need it, you know it. I use a water-soluble product marketed for the purpose and just put a small dab on the contact points. The last tube I bought was the purportedly womans' version. Makes me feel...special down there.
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So I mask up and enter the post office branch. There are two clerks manning the service counter. After a few minutes waiting in line, I luck out and see the one who, shortly before I got to the window, went into the side room to have a coughing spell.

I explain that I'm looking for a package, and he sends me around the corner to a "package pickup" door, where you have to ring the bell.

A couple minutes later an old lady opens the window. I say I'm looking for a package.

"Do you have a slip?"

"Nope."

I tell her my plight and she says she'll look for it, but "I've got 2,000 packages back here."

Oh.

A few minutes later she comes back and says she doesn't see it. The supervisors are locked in a room doing a conference call. (wut)

Then she says, "Every morning they ship stuff back to the big house [the main post office]. Then they get returned."

I ask how I might get the package. What if I go to the main post office and ask?

"Oh God no, there's 100,000 packages there, no one will look for it."

Welp.

Anyway, she wrote down my phone number and said she'd ask the carrier if he "remembered it" (wut).

It doesn't sound like my chances of receiving my long-awaited Taiwanese package are great.
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Long-suffering spouse is calling her partners to tell them she's retiring, effective 31 Oct.
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Long-suffering spouse is calling her partners to tell them she's retiring, effective 31 Oct.
I hope that's a good thing?
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Originally Posted by datlas
I hope that's a good thing?
It is and she's been considering it for quite a while, but COVID-19 was the precipitating factor. She is bracing for the catastrophic reactions, since she is the the Big Mama of the group (though not the oldest) and the de facto managing partner who knows how all the financial, legal, and regulatory stuff works.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
. The last tube I bought was the purportedly womans' version. Makes me feel...special down there.
In touch with your feminine side?
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In touch with your feminine side?
Ohhhh, yesss.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
So I mask up and enter the post office branch. There are two clerks manning the service counter. After a few minutes waiting in line, I luck out and see the one who, shortly before I got to the window, went into the side room to have a coughing spell.

I explain that I'm looking for a package, and he sends me around the corner to a "package pickup" door, where you have to ring the bell.

A couple minutes later an old lady opens the window. I say I'm looking for a package.

"Do you have a slip?"

"Nope."

I tell her my plight and she says she'll look for it, but "I've got 2,000 packages back here."

Oh.

A few minutes later she comes back and says she doesn't see it. The supervisors are locked in a room doing a conference call. (wut)

Then she says, "Every morning they ship stuff back to the big house [the main post office]. Then they get returned."

I ask how I might get the package. What if I go to the main post office and ask?

"Oh God no, there's 100,000 packages there, no one will look for it."

Welp.

Anyway, she wrote down my phone number and said she'd ask the carrier if he "remembered it" (wut).

It doesn't sound like my chances of receiving my long-awaited Taiwanese package are great.
God, that sucks! We have bad postal service here and I have had some luck complaining to my congressperson's office, where there was a staffer with a JD whose job seemed to be "congressionaling" fed agencies on behalf of constituents. She was great at it.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
I have an absolute requirement for it to reduce friction or very bad stuff happens. I think if you need it, you know it. I use a water-soluble product marketed for the purpose and just put a small dab on the contact points. The last tube I bought was the purportedly womans' version. Makes me feel...special down there.
I have some ladies chamois cream for special occasions. It's a nice change of pace from generic Performance Bikes tub of goo.

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gnome I had no idea that you had that type of landscape available to you. Beautiful!
yep. A twenty minute cycle gets me to the beach. A two hour drive gets me to the mountains. It's pretty good.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
I have some ladies chamois cream for special occasions. It's a nice change of pace from generic Performance Bikes tub of goo.

I'm going to try that next!
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So I'm in the car, taking the kids out to a park to explore and get a little exercise. We're sitting at a light, fourth car back. Light turns green, first two cars go. Third car, just in front me, sits for about another 5 count before I give a single, brief beep. Driver finally looks up, presumably from a phone, takes their foot off the brake and flips me the bird while pulling away. One block away, at the next intersection, said car gets in to the left turn lane. All of the traffic in front of us cleared while the other driver was staring at the phone, which means that I pull right up alongside.

"Do you have a ******g problem?" the middle-aged, white lady says as I look in her direction.

"Yeah - the car in front of me wasn't paying attention and I didn't think that I'd get through that last green."

"You're a real *******, you know that? Just mind your business."

"Maybe you should pay attention to the road when you're behind the wheel."

"**** you!"

"Yeah. Have a nice day, Karen."

Oh, that one landed. That one landed squarely. It took her a second to process, but when it did, she could only manage an unhinged laugh while sporadically honking and saying, "you like that? Honk your horn! Honk your horn! Beep away!"
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Karen "**** you!"

Nice role model for the kids in the back. And you all say us Badgers east of the river have issues
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Originally Posted by datlas
I notice chamois cream threads every now and then. In spite of having ridden for many years I have never felt the need or desire to use it.

If it's not broke, don't fix it. Right? That's what I am thinking, but I sometimes have this thing I recently learned is called FOMO*.

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For rides longer than an hour I'll almost always slather some on. For shorter rides, flip a coin.
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Originally Posted by datlas
I notice chamois cream threads every now and then. In spite of having ridden for many years I have never felt the need or desire to use it.
At the beginning of the season any rides ~30+ miles need and then rarely thereafter depending. I try to use sparingly so as toughed that area up. My pedal stroke must not be even as only need on one side.
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