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#brokenglass

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Ian Tindale

First half of the day was taken up because I had to walk my bicycle home with a back wheel puncture at the apex point of my morning cycle (just coming off from the pier of Royal Wharf), which I’m sure you all appreciate is heavy going

I fixed the puncture and after the patch was on securely (the first patch didn’t feel good so I ripped it off while it was still possible to and re-sanded the area and put another patch on it) I ran my fingers around the inside of the tyre as I couldn’t see any obvious intrusion (always run your fingers round the inside to feel for sharpness) and I felt something really sharp and lengthy and then saw the top of it embedded in the tyre – it would definitely have re-punctured it again as soon as I put the inner tube back into the tyre and pumped it up again

Apropos of this, to all inconsiderate cunts who smash glass out in public on pathways etc (and there’s a lot more broken glass now than there ever used to be for some reason), you’re not only inconveniencing cyclists but also people with wheelchairs, people with prams, little children on bicycles, dogs, children playing, etc – just stop smashing glass out in public, you cunts

#cycle #puncture #glass #BrokenGlass #bicycle

Where the puncture is in the inner tube - near the centre of a crayon-marked circle (marked as soon as the hole was located)
The intrusive object embedded into the tyre, seen as a circular tiny flat thing in between the treads as I grip the treads to push them apart
This is what it turned out to be – a small but very sharp long shard of green glass that went all the way through the tyre
About to put a patch on, the gum has been curing for 5 mins (I was later to rip this patch off again because it didn’t seem quite okay to me so I re-roughened the area and started again and it’s fine now)
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J. Steven York RESISTS

I have a phobia about broken glass (or glass that could break) so the idea of a folding phone has ALWAYS given me the heebie-jeebies, so the notion of FOLDING a piece of glass is like most people having a phone made out of black-widow spiders. MAYBE I could get used to the idea, but this is not encouraging:
arstechnica.com/google/2023/06

#phones #foldingphones #phobias #brokenglass #abridgetoofarquestionmark
#yikes

Ars TechnicaRIP to my Pixel Fold: Dead after four daysThe closed display halves almost touch, and that can smash debris into the screen.
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