Recent content by cliveb

The family was in Villars on a ski trip that year and we were confined to the apartment because of a blizzard, so we watched some Olympics. We all fell about laughing when Jacobellis did that. Being American made it so much funnier.

Roads shouldn't be made from tarmac. Tarmac is a cheap, easy to lay material that is not suitable for heavy traffic. Asphalt is what roads should be made from (and my guess is that they are). Problem of course is that pothole repairs are typically done on the cheap with tarmac, which lasts next...

And when you're at home you won't be able to bitch about your manager.

Yes, was there in December and the bunkers were pretty much unplayable. Absolutely rock hard. Hasn't been like that in previous years. The 6th tee has also been squeezed over to the left to protect houses. Makes for a very tight tee shot trying to pass by those tall palm trees without hitting...

When you do something naughty like that, the letter comes from the constabulary, not the DVLA 😮‍💨

How noisy are your DW and WM? My wife can't sleep if ours are on. Re. £1000 for new charger: saving 1.5p per kWh, if your car does 3 miles per kWh, payback is 200,000 miles 🥴

She's had surgery to stabilise a fractured leg. It's a very sad end to a stellar career, especially considering that she was pretty much blitzing the field in downhill this year, and until her crash a week or so back was looking favourite for Olympic gold.

You've never skied at 80mph on sheet ice, have you? (Nor have I, but from my recreational skiing experience, am certain they won't hear it).

That looks like an unpowered hub. It's better to get a powered hub so you can plug in multiple devices that need more than trivial amounts of power (eg. external disks). I suspect this is a different issue to his previous question about downgrading to Win7 (which he asked about in 2021).

She already has a bionic right knee that seems to work just fine. Perhaps after this Olympics she'll go for a matching pair.

Surprised nobody else has posted this sooner:

It does seem a bit ambitious, but this is almost certainly her last Olympics, so it's understandable that she wants to give it a go. If you have strong enough leg muscles they can stabilise the knee. And I suspect Lindsey Vonn's leg muscles are about as strong as it's possible to get.

And Lorena Ochoa, she was pretty dominant in the early 2000s

Nothing churned out by PSB qualifies as music, so of course it was correct to fail you all.

Is this the cue to vote for the greatest cover version ever? I nominate Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower.