StuartM

You might be interested in 'blanding'. The tendency for individuals, groups and brands to end up all looking the same. There's a fascinating art project from the mid 1990s called People's Choice, but the trend towards the mean seems to be accelerating. http://faculty.las.illinois.edu/rrushing/501/Images/Pages/The_Beautiful.html

Perceived wisdom is that you want the front of the pad to hit the rim first. But if you have no squeak, then you have true peace!

IANAD... Digging into the full protocol, I think you would not be able to take part. A stated exclusion criteria is: Close household contact with young children or individuals who are immunocompromised (including pregnancy). https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/5/e068966.long

I've worked as a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry for almost 30 years. Taking part in a clinical trial is really important and I always encourage people to take part. The big thing is the amount of time it takes. Not just the travelling to and from assessments, but also potentially lots of time spent waiting in a clinic or trial facility and lots of, frankly, interminable forms to be completed. I'd ask questions about the protocol (the process and method by which the trial is being run) and what is expected, time-wise, of participants. Often when trials are set up now, people time how long every stage will take. You might also want to know the stage the medicine is at. Phase 1 tends to mean early stage with small groups of participants. Phase 3 are the really large studies that are needed before drugs get regulatory approval. Vaccine trials can be wonderfully chill. You give informed consent, you get the jab or a placebo version, and get followed up over a long period because they have to wait until enough people in the trial have come down with the disease to see if the vaccine worked. Scrolling down here there's a list of good questions to ask. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/clinical-trials

Textbook use of headset spacers.

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I think this comment should come with a winking face emoji. She watched the goalkeeper be given a ball and then dribbled another on the pitch and left it, positively sucking up the inevitable yellow card. Its *chef's kiss*. Wasted a bit of time and slowed down play. It's bloody brilliant. Bringing that intensity of focus is something the best teams have been doing for years.

I watched in awe at the level of game-management/timewasting on display. Credit to the England team, I've never seen better. Deliberately dribbling a second ball onto the pitch to prevent the goalie from taking a kick near the end was the finest piece of shithousery I've seen on a football pitch in my 46 years.