Watching coverage now and grateful I don’t live in the UK where it looks like there’s no way to watch it! Looks like the classic “can they do it on a cold, rainy night in StokeBournemouth” game.

Team: Kelleher. Gomez, Matip, Quansah, Tsimikas, Elliott, Endo. Jones, Salah, Gakpo, Szoboszlai

Substitutes van Dijk, Konaté, Núñez, Mac Allister, Adrián, Jota, Gravenberch, Scanlon, Alexander-Arnold

Surprised we’re starting Mo - although he does get to wear the armband. Maybe he couldn’t resist those lovely white and green shirts lol.

No idea how Mo can shrug it off with a smile when someone grabs him with two arms and wrestles him to the ground with not even a foul given.

I think there’s an assist there for Darwin - which breaks his “I only assist for Mo” record.

Edit: apparently I’m wrong… I guess makes sense that the post breaks the chain. The streak continues!

It’s certainly feels like there’s a 2nd goal in here for Toulouse.

Also it looks like the away end is on fire. No… literally on fire. Camera caught a brief shot and it’s a solid mass of flares… you can see the smoke starting to drift across the rest of the pitch now.

Commentary:

“Endo didn’t need to do much with that cross”

“The technique on that header was excellent”

🙃

Talk about a manager stamping their style on a team, this feels like nothing more than all those Dyche Burnley games.

Solid side out today - doesn’t matter where Everton are in the table, this one always matters. Glad Richarlison is no longer an option for them… always felt like he couldn’t keep his head.

Photo of an estimate from a local mechanic? And same with you - take all the physio you need and bill the hell out of them. Hope the knee’s settled down now but an expert opinion might spot something long-term that can be corrected now.

Sorry to hear :( Feels like we’re all one momentary lapse of concentration (usually someone else’s) away from a life-changing coming-together. I’ve lost track of the situation with the shifting sands of ICBC and what they will/won’t do these days, but can you claim against them for a) any out-of-pocket medical expenses (eg physio) and b) damage to bike/helmet?

Ahhh right, sorry - must read more carefully - I see you’ve already said ICBC will cover the helmet. If you get the bike in for a mechanic to look over & give you an estimate then presumably they’ll cover that as well?

I’ve never understood why there’s a fuss about default wallpaper. It ships with a dozen options and you can obviously install your own. I guess it’s the opportunity for a news story and a sign that things have reached a certain level of development and are getting close to release.

Personally, I saw the item on installing your own dynamic wallpaper at https://www.omglinux.com/dynamic-wallpapers-for-gnome-desktop/, followed the instructions on github and set up a lovely time-of-day based wallpaper based on the game Firewatch (https://github.com/manishprivet/dynamic-gnome-wallpapers#code-firewatch) - I love all the sunrise/sunset options there but if you’ve played Firewatch then this one might speak to you :)

sometimes it’s better to take the Evo than my own car just to avoid parking and dodging traffic on the way back.

I know right? Sure, the Evo concept is not a solution to every traffic/vehicle related problem but there are so many use cases where it’s hellishly handy. I’ve definitely done the same - an Evo into town and no worries about parking… lock and WALK AWAY :)

If this is successful then I’d like to see them consider staffing the bike parkades at Main St, Commercial, Metrotown etc. At the moment there’s too much theft going on there for me to ever think about leaving my bike there.

All you’d need to provide is a desk and staffing - all the infrastructure is obviously there already.

One Evo can replace a fair number of parked cars…

A rep from Evo told me once that their data suggests each Evo takes 7 privately owned cars off the road. (I know that’s worded badly and yes I’ve seen the way some people drive Evos…)

Absolutely - I think there’s some real estate mantra about how land is the only thing they’re not making more of. Using 18 sq m of it for possibly storing one vehicle is a heck of a waste. I saw some stat that there’s apparently 8 parking spaces per vehicle in the US - they need one at home, one at work, one at every mall that you might want to visit. So that’s 144 sq m of asphalt for storing each car.

True re condo prices… it might work if there was competition and sufficient supply… but we all know that’s not the case.

I would love to see the occasional development that goes hard against parking. Build it over or across the street from Skytrain, provide 10% or more Modo/Evo spaces and zero or near zero residents parking. Then cut the price of everything by $60/120K given you’re not having to build the cost of underground parking into the prices.

But even if you could persuade the appropriate council to do away with their parking minimums AND there was some way to discourage car owners from buying (have a neighbouring building with lots of parking? Sign some sort of contract?) I know people’s lives change. Just because you work downtown and can take the Skytrain today, doesn’t mean you’re not going to be working in White Rock or Maple Ridge next year. Or a bunch of people are going to shrug, lie about car ownership, buy the cheaper unit and plan to park on the street somewhere - then complain about how they don’t have parking in their building.

Actually, my GENIUS PLAN is for nobody to “own” any parking in a building. Have all the spaces owned by a parking organization that rents them out on a month-by-month basis. That way you reduce the price of every unit by the $60K that each space costs to build and the family buying a 2-bed who don’t need parking don’t pay for it and the couple buying a 1-bed who need two spots can get it too. Also there’s none of the “I drive a monster truck but my unit came with a ‘small car’ space” or “I’m disabled but my unit’s space is miles from the elevator” issues… you just rent out appropriate spaces to each unit depending on their needs.

But obviously the developer is going to want their money up front for the parking they built so whatever organization owns & manages the parking is going to need DEEP pockets and the return on investment is very very slow.

New West kinda breaks down into several areas where this pretty much applies already - uptown, downtown, Sapperton etc.

Obviously there are places where you can live and not be within 15mins of everything but it does have multiple centres not too far from each other. Maybe setting this as policy might make it easier to add things like neighbourhood corner stores.

I think the ship has already sailed for Surrey. Even if the city wasn’t designed around cars, council seems too busy focusing on themselves and police forces to do anything useful for their residents.

Small and dense Canadian city here… not sure we even have school buses although I’ve seen them in other nearby school districts where I assume the catchment areas are wider.

And yes, they’re the standard yellow school bus 🙂

There is a nice sweet spot when they’re old enough to have phones but not old enough to complain about having you track them 🙂

It’s great to have them walk, even when they’re very young and you need to walk with them.

Back in my day (insert grandpa Simpson gif here!) I had a 10min walk to a bus stop and caught a public bus. Felt sorry for the adults that had to catch the same bus with 40 wild children.

These days I think my friends’ school age kids all walk or cycle - we’re in a small city with fairly good bike infrastructure.

someone high up had a shitty idea and told engineering they had a month to figure out how to make it real

Ever see that Simpsons episode where Homer gets to design a car? Always reminds me of that.

It’s also pointy as fuck. Mobile guillotine.

North American trucks in general are death on four wheels for pedestrians, cyclists etc. The tall vertical leading edges hit pedestrians in the hip and torso and then toss them under the wheels.

In the EU there’s regulations about this stuff, designed to ensure that people are hit (ideally not hit at all, but you know what I mean) in the legs and thrown up onto the hood. Plus regulations about spacing underneath the hood to the hard engine components which allows for a certain amount of cushioning deformity when the victim hits the hood. Would love to see that sort of thing regulated in North America but not a chance in hell of it happening.