I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
The British domestic scene is a bit of an oddity in Europe. The scene is very different from what’s on the continent and this means that it can attract a handful of riders that are arguably better than what you’d expect to find at Continental level.
Going into 2022, the biggest news is that it seems almost certain that we’re down to four teams from last year’s five with SwiftCarbon Pro Cycling looking almost inevitably to have disappeared or at least considerably reduced in aspiration (no social media since National Championships and have lost quite a few riders). This does mean that it’s likely all teams will get an invite to the premier race on their calendar the Tour of Britain which was otherwise going to have a qualification for the four places.
Whilst I typed this out Tuesday evening, in the meantime the British Continental has published it’s take. We overlap a lot but they make some really good points too.
One interesting thing is that the British Continental website is currently saying that the British National team are planning on racing the Tour of Rwanda. Would be a really clever idea ahead of the World Championships there to get riders and staff experience out there and also a great coup for the race itself as the British National team have a good history of being competitive in races like the ToB.
With that behind us, we shall start with the team who were the first to announce signings:
Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling
Ribble had quite a strange offseason, they’ve retained a lot of riders but predominantly lost a lot of their star riders. Bigham has joined INEOS as some kind of rider/coach (the riding aspect is purely in non-UCI races), Matt Gibson has moved to Wiv-Sungod along with Gruff Lewis, Charles Page has joined Saint Piran and James Shaw has returned to the WT with EF. That’s five of their six Tour of Britain riders gone. Technically they also lost Mark Stewart who currently leads the PCS ranking on account of winning the New Zealand Cycle Classic for his new team, however, Stewart hasn’t raced with Ribble for two years on account of being in New Zealand for that time so I don’t really class him as a outgoing. He’s been doing incredibly well out in New Zealand though.
Notably Cameron Jeffers (of Zwift and YouTube fame) is staying with the team as does the sixth member of the ToB squad, Simon Wilson (now 41). With all of those outgoings th
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I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
DATE Saturday 13th November 2021
LOCATION Sheffield Arena, Sheffield, UK
TELEVISION DAZN (Selected Worldwide)
TIME 7pm (Sheffield), 11am (LA), 2pm (NYC), 6am Sunday (Sydney)
Note: Preliminary undercard starts 1 hour 50 mins earlier on 'Before the Bell' (DAZN)
Kid Galahad vs Kiko Martinez
12 Rounds
International Boxing Federation World Featherweight Title
| Kid Galahad | vs | Kiko Martinez |
|---|---|---|
| 28(17)-1-0 | RECORD | 42(29)-10-2 |
| 31 | AGE | 35 |
| 5'6.5" | HEIGHT | 5'5" |
| 125.25 lbs | WEIGHT | 125.25 lbs |
| 67" | REACH | 66" |
| Orthodox | STANCE | Orthodox |
| Sheffield, UK | HOMETOWN | Alicante, Spain |
| 4(2)-1-0 | LAST FIVE | 3(1)-2-0 |
| Dickens (RTD & TKO), Clary (UD) | KEY WINS | Romero (TKO) |
| Warrington (SD) | KEY DEFEATS | Russel Jr (TKO), Warrington (MD), Santa Cruz (TKO), Frampton (UD & TKO) |
Chris Billam-Smith vs Dylan Bregeon
12 Rounds
Cruiserweight Division
| Chris Billam-Smith | vs | Dylan Bregeon |
|---|---|---|
| 13(10)-1-0 | RECORD | 11(3)-1-1 |
| 31 | AGE | 27 |
| 6'3" | HEIGHT | ? |
| 199 lbs | WEIGHT | 197.5 lbs |
| Orthodox | STANCE | Orthodox |
| Bournemouth, UK | HOMETOWN | Nantes, France |
| 4(2)-1-0 | LAST FIVE | 5(1)-0-0 |
Terri Harper vs Alycia Baumgardner
10 Rounds x 2 Minutes
World Boxing Organisation World Female Middleweight Title
| Terri Harper | vs | Alycia Baumgardner |
|---|---|---|
| 11(6)-0-1 | RECORD | 10(6)-1-0 |
| 25 | AGE | 27 |
| 5'8.5" | HEIGHT | 5'6" |
| 129.25 lbs | WEIGHT | 129.5 lbs |
| 65" | REACH | ? |
| Orthodox | STANCE | Orthodox |
| Denaby Main, UK | HOMETOWN | Fremont, USA |
| 4(2)-0-1 | LAST FIVE | 4(2)-1-0 |
Other Undercard Fights
- James Flint vs Dom Hunt
- Donte Dixon vs Jordan McCorry
- Raven Chapman vs Karina Kopinska
- Stevi Levy vs Polina Golubeva
- Khalid Ayub vs Stanko Jermelic
- William Cawley vs Stephen Jackson
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Live Round-By-Round Coverage
Kid Galahad vs Kiko Martinez
Round 1
Did Martinez just kiss his trainer on the lips? Either way, we’re off. Martinez scores first with jabs to the body. Galahad looks so much bigger than his opponent, and the Sheffield man gets to work with his combinations. Martinez repeatedly ducks to avoid Galahad and scores with a rib-tickler of his own. Galahad corners the Spaniard and lets his hands go. Martinez is in trouble already. Martinez manages to get off the ropes, but Galahad is dominating. Nice right from Galahad through the guard. Galahad continues to put hurtful punches together.
**Galahad
... keep reading on reddit ➡For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Hey guys, if you have ever considered investing in IPOs, or companies that have gone IPO in the recent years, then this post is for you. I did a bit of a quick research into this recently. But first, a quick recap of what Warren Buffet says about investing in IPOs:
- Warren Buffet has always been very vocal about his views on IPOs. His thought process is that "there are always better businesses to buy than IPOs". He always compares IPOs with other alternatives in the market, and so far, he has not found a strong justification for investing in an IPO versus another solid business at a good price.
- Buffet also dislikes the fact in IPOs, there are commissions that go to the stock salesmen, remember that IPOs are executed by investment banks so there is a push to sell IPOs like any other product, He likes to buy stocks where "no one is making any money on the sale".
I'd like to share with you some stats that I put together. Bear in mind the following:
- I took the full list of IPOs in the last 20 years from iposcoop.com.
- Filtered only companies that went public between years 2000 and 2015, so that at a minimum we have at least 5-6 years of post IPO performance.
- Calculated annualized performance using stock price from the first day close of IPO and current stock's price at the time this video was made.
- Performance from companies that are not currently trading were excluded.
- List here for your reference.
Results:
- Total number of companies: 1396
- 45% of the companies (qty 616) have had negative annualized performance.
- 14% of the companies (qty 189) had sub 5% performance.
- Almost 60% of IPOs between 2000 and 2015 underperformed the market.
I also came across an academic study on Initial Public Offerings by Jay Ritter, a finance professor at the Warrington College of Business in the University of Florida. One piece of information that caught my attention in his paper is Figure number 2, labeled Percentage of IPOs with negative EPS. If you check the figure, you'll notice how in recent years over 75% percent of the companies that have gone public have had negative earnings.
When you buy shares of companies, you get a piece of the ownership and therefore a piece of the earnings . Well, with
... keep reading on reddit ➡In the 80s and 90s, Dr. John Marks prescribed controlled doses of legal pharmaceutical heroin, amphetamine and cocaine/ crack for hundreds of addicts in Cheshire (United Kingdom), as you can see here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy_86iVhmkQ The results were extraordinary. First, there was a 93 percent drop in theft and burglary between his patients. Michael Lofts, from the Cheshire drugsquad, said: "You could see them transform in front of your own eyes. They came in in outrageous condition, stealing daily to pay for illegal drugs; and became, most of them, very amiable, reasonable law-abiding people."
Dealers started disappearing from the streets. It was estimated by the local police and Home Office coordinators that Marks Widnes clinic alone took £5,000 per 100,000 population per week out of the black market. Lofts said that "prescribing whatever drug the addict needs seems to have done more to wipe out the drug trade than years of old-style police enforcement." He also said that "since the clinics opened, the street heroin dealer has slowly but surely abandoned the streets of Warrington and Widnes." The health of users dramatically improved because they were using clean medical-grade drugs instead of unregulated substances often cut with adulterants even more noxious than the drugs themselves. Many addicts got jobs and became functional. The recovery rate of those given drugs was the same as those who were not offered drugs, showing that a legal steady supply does not prevent abstinence. HIV rate reduced to zero!
The mortality rate was also reduced to zero. In all the 13 years in which Dr. Marks prescribed for addicts the pharmaceutical form of the very drugs they were addicted to, he never had a drug-related death among his patients, even though addicts injected alone in their own homes and some of them took truly massive doses. Because the drugs were legal, they knew exactly how much they were taking. After the British goverment put an end to Marks prescription program because of diplomatic pressure from the US and addicts went back to street drugs, 20 users were already dead within six months, and 41 were dead within two years. More lost limbs and caught potentially lethal diseases.
Dr. Russel Newcombe, who had worked in the clinic, tells that survivors "were immediately forced back into the street... people who had jobs lost them. It split relationships up. People rapidly went back into debt and crime. The average person thrown off John Marks's
... keep reading on reddit ➡Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
They’re on standbi
Hello all,
I am trying to move to Warrington from overseas, I am currently not in UK and never been to UK before.
I am trying to find a place to rent in Warrington, this should be a house or apartment, not a shared house. I have tried rightmove.co.uk and different realestate agencies but I found that most of time, the advertised properties are already rented. On top of that I am overseas that means I can not view any property physically, although virtual viewing os possible.
Under these circumstances, can anyone please help me with some advice how should I proceed to secure a place from overseas? I am trying to move in early January. One option can be to stay in hotel or in a temporary stay and search from there but I am trying to move with family, so if I get a confirmed place beforehand that will be really helpful.
Thanks in advance.
Pilot on me!!
