Bike shops are awash with innuendo. Part of the fun of working in them.

I'm lacto-ovo veggie and the number of people who can't fathom that I don't eat meat (in the UK where it's really quite common) is mind boggling.

"What, not even fish?" 🙄 No, mate, if it has a face I won't eat it, but thanks.

People also tie flavours to specific foods. I have a friend who has a north African partner and they tell me often they'd go veggie if it weren't for their partners chicken "which is so much better than ours". No shit, he uses a fuck ton of spice and lemons. If you threw that on some veggies it would be a pretty close flavour experience. I get missing a texture (slow cooked beef? I miss that) but the flavour thing just doesn't add up to me.

The right answer is "yes". Some cash in the moment is a nice thing to do, and will alleviate an immediate want or need potentially.

Donation to an organisation that will help the problem long term is a worthwhile thing to fund.

Why not give a man a fish to eat while you're teaching them to fish for themselves, if you're in a position to do so?

You could have asked him what he wanted first, if anything at all?

It smacks of elitism, that's all.

The OS is simply a means to an end. If Linux offers a way to do what they want in a way that is less hassle, and it meets their needs, then that's a good thing.

To get nice new/modern trains would involve widening our tracks and updating the infrastructure. Where I live in the (flat) country who gives a shit - it's all just land banking farms anyway, but near towns and cities it's going to involve a huge amount of, at best disruption and and worst the massive displacement of the population who have homes that back onto rail lines.

Also we'd need all new bridges, tunnels, etc.

And we're currently broke as fuck because all the rail operators have been siphoning profit to foreign governments shareholders since we privatised the fuck out of the country.

There's not much that will kill you in the UK but there's a lot that will make you want to die.

They shouldn't have violated the ceasefire by returning to Northern Israel Their Homes a DMZ.

/s, obviously I hope.

customizable and configurable

Whatever you think of OPs proposed use case is definitely falls under the above.

It's this kind of 1337 h@xor approach to the OS that makes people feel like it's unapproachable when that's so far from the reality these days.

But please always have a spare tube as well as a plug kit.

My great uncle left a load of masonic stuff but my dad returned it to his lodge before I could have a rummage through it.

My parents are religious and took a dim view of it.

Some of that stuff was pretty cool - it was a part of my great uncles life I would have loved to asked him about and I didn't find out about it until he passed. Sad stuff.

That's just what the ringfenced funds can be used for if the local authority decides to implement it.

Personally I have zero issues with this - most places in tourist hot spots do this and it just gets bundled in with the cost of staying there when you book accommodation anyway.

young women are taking up sex work for financial stability when they shouldn't have to.

This is true, and depressing.

But I think Kate Nash and Lilley Allen pros have other options to raise cash here - I doubt OF is a last resort for them. It is, however, a headline grabber for the British gutter press and will generate a lot of cover for two artists who really don't have a huge amount of space in the public consciousness these days.

For what it's worth, there are also some sex workers who do it because a)they enjoy it and b)it's a faster way to make money than other avenues available to them. Nash and Allen both seem to fallm under this bracket.

It's how a lot of "green" policies work. Totally bizarre logic.

My energy provider offers gas on green tarrifs by offsetting it with "carbon credits".

What the fuck

Do they mean shares as in, shares of a publicly traded company, or is this just glorified crowdfunding?

Probably best not to ask for that level of reporting from the BBC.

How else are you supposed to treat the peasantry? They ought to know their place.

Bought my partner a belt drive. It's amazing. Really lovely bit of kit once you get the hang of the eccentric bottom bracket.

Road.cc is chronic for that kind of thing. They have a "near miss of the week" section on their site - they thrive on being exactly the sort of irritating cyclists people get annoyed at.

Their primary product is rage bait and mediocre review content.

"I've seen this one before!"