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I wish I could laugh at that. But my pensions are paid in Sterling. It just ain't funny. :mad:

I think it's possible to cycle to the shops for essential shopping. Probably for travel to work if that's your only transport. Otherwise, yes. In fact, even leaving your house/apartment is banned. I can see a park where dog owners empty their dogs and the Guardia are questioning the owners to...

There's your challenges.. stylish lycra trousers and a tiny pie chart next to a giant pie chart.. There! FTFY!

I was amused this morning when Gove threatened fines of 30 quid. That's a round of drinks in the pub! The fines here start at 1500€ for errant cyclists (although I think that walkers get away with a fine of 300€) and go up to 60,000€. That's the way to empty the streets!

That's the problem with lockdowns: too much pie! We'll be too fat to get out the doors by the end of this! :ROFLMAO: (Oh, and pie charts can't properly handle exponential growth. Just like the belt in my trousers cant handle the current exponential pie intake...)

The lament of every father of a teenager! :cry: By the time my lad had reached 22, he was amazed at how much I'd learned in the intervening years... :unsure:

Then I think we may be on the same page. Moving average works best with a near linear data set. It's a very long time (about half a century) since I did my statistics courses, but I seem to remember that, with epidemiology statistics, it is necessary to weight the moving average to prevent...

If you need to go faster to make the trails more fun then you'd do better with a motorbike. (A very expensive version of which is a derestricted EMTB).

Nothing there I disagree with at all. Good to see someone else not trusting our journalists and political masters to dish up the unvarnished truth. One question, though: why the polynomial curve fit? You'd do just as well with straight lines (maybe two or three per curve where there are...

In my opinion, this doesn't really matter, as long as the testing regime stays consistent. Only testing severe symptons will still indicate a rising or dropping infection rate, in just the same way that testing the whole population will. What is important is whether the speed of increase of...

An opinion is not necessarily fact. Therefore not everything is fact. Ergo your statement is demonstrably wrong and I claim my £5 :sneaky:

I think the Beeb's problem is their culture of "balance". They'd have to devote equal time to someone telling us that it's just a mild cold, so wrap up warm and carry on... :unsure: BBC bizarrely chooses to interview Nigel Farage about coronavirus on Newsnight (I find it utterly heartbreaking...

Oddly enough that had been bothering me as well, so I went to source data and did my own graphs, dividing the infection and death rates by population size. I found taking a start point of 0.2 cases per million of population and 0.2 deaths per 100,000 of population gave some startling visual...

Actually, you can compare them. That's why this is so frightening. Unfortunately I don't have an ft.com subscription, so this graph is 4 days old and shows the development of the virus in many countries after the 100th case.

I take it all back :eek: I've just seen a video of a mate with his ebike on the rollers. It's a lightweight road bike. One of those Orbeas with a rear hub drive. I thought he was joking that it wasn't really giving him a lot of assistance to "do the hills" but I've just seen a video of his...

At least you still have the decal. There's another thread on here somewhere about how to buy a new decal after the previous one dropped off on a ride.

Done 1500km on my Focus and haven't noticed the motor clattering for quite some time. Could be getting drowned out by the bloody awful row the loose cables running behind the battery are making, though :unsure: [Edit: Should point out that the cable slap is there when I'm pedalling. Whereas...

My I suggest that such a forum be named "42"? :unsure:

And did you read the BTL comments? All the writers claiming it was fake and that she was never in intensive care? The largest number of downvotes is for the person wishing her a speedy recovery (3341 when I checked a moment ago). I guess this must be from the same folk that claim that the...

Damned left-wing, commie rag! :whistle: [Edit: "rag" is English slang for a newspaper. Thought I'd better make that clear. Especially as the DM is to the left of The Morning Star]