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diet, training and injuries / Re: One for the runners

« Last post by lukeyboy on April 30, 2024, 01:36:05 pm »

London Marathon has published that there were a record 840k entries for the ballot this year, up from 578k last time.

There's an estimated 17k ballot places available, which means odds of success are only about 2%.

An incredible change from the days when you'd get a guaranteed place if you entered 3 (?) years in a row without success

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by SA Chris on April 30, 2024, 12:25:32 pm »

Really? OK, never seen mention of it.

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by gme on April 30, 2024, 12:18:35 pm »

Good footage of a great line. Surely one for the ground-up massive these days?

Needs a direct start too

It exists just no one does it.

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music, art and culture / Re: TV/iplayer must watches

« Last post by SA Chris on April 30, 2024, 11:26:02 am »

Started it, not bad for a Fifer

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/apr/18/i-was-severely-stalked-and-severely-abused-richard-gadd-on-the-true-story-behind-baby-reindeer

Interesting back story..

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music, art and culture / Re: TV/iplayer must watches

« Last post by SamT on April 30, 2024, 11:21:55 am »

Just 'enjoyed' Baby Reindeer on Netflix..

Ooof.  Strap yourselves in. 

Jessica Gunnings performance as Martha is as brilliant as the whole thing is mad.

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: Changing the BMC

« Last post by petejh on April 30, 2024, 11:19:59 am »

It was time 5 years ago. As I said back then - the incentives change when UK sport money gets involved. Change the incentives change the behaviour, doing the membership/recreational stuff well just isn’t incentivised as much as building an empire ‘team GB’ of managers and coaches 

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music, art and culture / Re: Anyone seen any good films lately - Part the second

« Last post by SA Chris on April 30, 2024, 11:18:09 am »

Isn’t he Welsh?

Didn't know that! His bother is a good footballer though .

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music, art and culture / Re: Anyone seen any good films lately - Part the second

« Last post by andy popp on April 30, 2024, 10:36:30 am »

So much of the writing is awful, even the starting point of an interplanetary empire that needs to rely on wheat from one small hamlet on a moon?!

Just recently saw a financial historian friend observing that, I quote: "A huge portion of Star Wars happens only because the banking & payments system in the Galaxy apparently sucks." Because ...

"Qui-Gonn doesn't get stuck on Tatooine and meet Anakin if Watto simply accepts his Republic credits, or if there is a convenient way to exchange Republic credits for local credits. How is there no exchange mechanism!?" And ...

"The Rebellion isn't funded and Andor's big heist can't go  down if the Empire doesn't have to ship 80 million credits in *hard currency* to some rural outpost in order to make their quarterly payments. Guys just get a correspondent bank."

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music, art and culture / Re: Anyone seen any good films lately - Part the second

« Last post by teestub on April 30, 2024, 10:33:33 am »

This is what Christian Bale sounds like normally!

As someone who grew up in the Black Country, his accent seemed fine to me for a movie

Also really enjoyed the film, not sure what it is about it but thought it had great spirit, maybe one of those where everyone seems to have had fun making it.

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music, art and culture / Re: Anyone seen any good films lately - Part the second

« Last post by Falling Down on April 30, 2024, 10:11:52 am »

Isn’t he Welsh?

(We enjoyed it too)