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Yeah I'll be fine. I actually do have a Drs appointment next week, I could mention it there but I'm quite certain nothing will be made of it.

Could you provide some links to these trials? I've only heard of one trial of minimum income in Canada back in the 80s(?) and one fairly inconclusive one in Finland recently.
I quite like the idea of minimum income or negative income taxes but universal basic income sounds inpractically expensive.

It happened a couple of weeks ago, and I've had no symptoms save the headache on the day, there's not much to check out. Doubt the hospital is gonna run an MRI just in case.

Is $1000 a month enough to live on in most of the US?

So you're saying I should.wap my wang out in the therapists office to save time?

4 is odd

Was she one of the fairly mainstream ones? Should I just Google her?

I thought they were.

Out of what?

Well Dan my suggestion was not that businesses would stop paying people to commute but rather that they should pay the actual cost (or pay such wages as to make it worthwhile for their staff to pay the actual cost) rather than have the taxpayer do it.
The road tax argument makes little sense to me, it is paid for by road users. I am suggesting that railways be paid for by rail users.

No, if businesses in London want to attract a commuting workforce they can pay wages to compensate for the commute. Having the entire  nation subsidise this is not fair, and it obscures the actual cost of these commutes. If you're not willing to pay £15 a day for your journey to work for example then it obviously isn't worth that cost, or perhaps in the long run it will make you consider moving closer to work or finding alternative transport - but if we subsidise it so you pay £5 you may well be happy to pay this, use an inefficient service and ruin the entire country Jacob! And since buses seem so much cheaper to run than trains, why trains? (And apparently it's not the environmental argument because buses are on average less damaging than trains per passenger).
Assuming we can't prevent people from commuting to London means we should subsidise it? If it's undesirable I don't think we should be financially encouraging it, but possibly it is a case of being the lesser evil. But assuming we can't prevent people from commuting to London would be silly - we can't prevent all people from commuting but we most likely could reduce the number by actually making them pay the cost of their commutes. Perhaps we should be subsidising business that make an effort to recruit locally? Is making sure London remains the epicentre of business in the UK actually important or even useful for our economy? Is it worth the monetary cost? And if so is the economic gain worth the environmental and human cost of commuting? Can we not just stage fake terror attacks on commuter trains to stop this nonsense?

Btw I actually like trains. I also don't care that much about whether or not they're nationalised. But I'm not sure the case for doing so is particularly good.

Bus goodest?

Probably not the most relevant thread but whatever.
Trains. Those old choochoomobiles. J Corbs has been pretty big on re-nationalising our rail network since forever and he wants to reduce fares too apparently, the economic argument seems pretty feeble to me since they compete with buses, carrs, planes etc and the "fairness" argument seems even weaker since I don't see how it's fair to make people who drive, walk, cycle or bus to work subsidise the commute of those who use the trains.
But then there's the environmental argument, which seems legit. Except maybe not, because a long commute is still not environmentally friendly when you take the train and the discussion around rail fares seems to be centred on people commuting from smaller towns to London or other cities. And subsidising such commutes would presumably increase their prevalence.
Can't remember why I started writing this post.

The second I believe. It's alright though, that was just a particularly cold night, it didn't get to freezing temperature the night after the concrete was laid.

Dw, I'll be riding a bike throughout the winter, plenty of opportunities to die yet.
Many years ago my family sold our house and bought a huge massive old barn to convert into a house. It was poorly plAnned and the family home is still "temporary accommodation" but we are finally getting some shi t done. We've had steel work laid down for the flooring for a while now, we did some of the outbuildings already but r an out of concrete for a small pad round the back. It was pretty easy work, chuted it in from the concrete lorry and the  just had to do a little bit of spreading and tamping. We did the main barn this morning, I expected much the same. I also expected a couple more guys in the workforce. So I went to the gym last night and didn't worry about it.
This was much much harder. Then chute could only just get in the barn doors So We had too spread it all from one small area out to the whole floor, it's a big floor and the structural engineers were rather cautious about how much depth we needed so it was really ducking deep too. We all assumed that pushing a wheel barrow over the steel or through concrete over steel would be more effort than spreading it with rakes and shovels. We were wrong. VerY very wrong. I haven't worked so hard in at least a year and possibly never. It was literally freezing this morning but I was working in just a t shirt and dripping in sweat. We worked out that wheelbarrows were far more efficient by the time the second lorry turned up, but it was still pretty hard. AnD then when we'd finished filling the barn floor two of us took the remaining half cubic metre or so in wheelbarrows all the way around the barn to get to the pad at the back - including a short but rather steep incline and a pebble driveway.
**** me. Muscles hurt. My shoulders were on fire by the time we finished. Deadlifting yesterday and lots of bending and shovelling and lifting today = somewhat sore lower back. I plan on having a pretty lazy Sunday.

I remember getting told about it on a school bus to the swimming place where we swam. Can't remember if I actually gave a ****.

I didn't get it checked out, still alive though. Did get a new helmet.

You monster

Oh **** I somehow missed the end.

Riding to work yesterday when I got to a stretch of road which was being harvested of sugatbeet. Unfortunately this involved spreading an absolute **** ton of mud onto the road, and it's rather difficult to ride a motorbike when the wheels are sliding. I was coming up to a corner when I hit the mud and I hadn't noticed how bad it was until I hit it.
It was an odd moment, I knew I'd slide off if I tried to steer so at the time it felt like the best course of action was to stay straight until I hit the verge and try to steer off when my front wheel was on something solid. It very quickly became apparent that this was a bad plan, the bike flipped over whilst flew off and headplanted. Some damage to the bike (entirely superficial I think), probably damage to my helmet but not much damage to myself except a fairly persistent headache and some aching muscles.
Exciting times. Hopefully it won't cost me too much.