Kevevs – Member

It’s interesting that isn’t it. On the same day lots of innocent iraqis get killed by bombs. But that’s not all over the news &social media. Still innocent humans going about their day in a foreign country. Equally tragic

Bombs going off somewhere that hardly ever has bomb attacks in bigger news event than bombs going off somewhere that has bomb attacks most days SHOCKER!

Is it about someone dropping a camera?

Art house, black and white, Hungarian with subtitles.

camo16 – Member
I’ll take your cream horn.

This isn’t the dogging thread.

kimbers – Member

oh look! fat women

A bit rude to be honest. I believe they prefer to be known as ‘baker’s friends’

I think the Custom was the first board that I ever really wanted, have had two of them over the years, both great.

I’ve got a Lib Tech TRS now, can’t say enough good things about Lib.

Pigface – Member

Arrrrrrrggghhhhh my download went a bit pete tong just before the end

Up to then it had been a great last episode
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At about the 42 minute mark? Did the audio revert to the bit where Rick, Daryl and Michonne turn up at Woodbury with Karen?

That’s what happened to me, I stream it from the usually highly reliable Falcoepisodes.

Only vaguely related (but this is STW, so whatever), but has anyone tried one of those 4×4 Passats yet?

I’ve managed to minimise my tax exposure by being incredibly unsuccessful. Sure, I live in a manky suburb that makes Royston Vasey seem aspirational, but other than that it’s all going very well.

End of the Road in Dorset

Truck in Oxfordshire

Latitude in Suffolk

Teh Toriezzz!!1

Bike wise I’d also add in Moors Valley Country Park, Lordswood (Southampton) and you can get to Queen Elizabeth Country Park near Petersfield in just over an hour. The South Downs are also within easy reach.

In terms of nightlife, Bournemouth has some decent options…

Unfortunately we’ve seen some good places go in recent years. The Consortium was a great little venue/club at the bottom of Richmond Hill and Mr Smith’s was a seminal venue on the UK toilet circuit that died a death due to campaign run by an adjacent yuppy bar. Champions in Westbourne was really shaping up too, but that’s gone now.

However, away from the commercial ‘Ibiza Uncovered’ horrors of the Old Christchurch Road (and Horseshoe Common in particular) you’ve got 60 Million Postcards plus Smokin’ Aces, Flirt and The Winchester all handily located within 75 metres of each other in The Triangle. There are lots of good restaurants, I’m particularly fond of Koh Thai Tapas (both town centre and Boscombe locations, Tapas Plus and Westbeach.

Away from the town centre…Charminster caters to a slightly older market with plenty of bars and restaurants. Boscombe is alright too with the likes of Urban Beach (plus sister restaurant/bar Urban Reef on the beach), Reef Encounter (if you can forgive the name!) and The Cellar Bar which is genuinely fun place with a quirky mixed clientele…probation officers and ex-cons drinking side by side…no, really!). Boscombe is also home to an o2 Academy…love them or hate them they’ve brought Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Henry Rollins, Propagandhi, The Wedding Present, Spiritualized and many more to town. Westbourne has a great pub called The Porterhouse with a decent range of ales, The Libertine (expensive mind), Soho, one of those Lounge places that seem to be appearing everywhere and some decent restaurants…including Chez Fred which may be the best fish and chips I’ve ever had. Then in Poole you’ve got Ashley Cross with The Cow, Le Bateau, OX, The Bermuda Triangle, etc

In short, you don’t have to subject yourself to the hell of Walkabout, Yates, etc unless you really want to. Oh, there’s also a classic sticky carpet rock dive called Sound Circus (previously The Villa) by the railway station. It’s surprisingly good fun and very cheap and down on Lansdowne you have another rock bar with a late licence called The Anvil nestled amongst the student haunts…it’s the only place in town where you’ll hear Reign in Blood played in its entirety on a Friday night.

I often think what would be perfect would be Brighton, but relocated to Bournemouth’s far more picturesque location (with infinitely superior beaches), then again it’s the proximity of Brighton to London which allowed its cultural/arts scene to grow I guess.

As a final thought, Bournemouth isn’t a small town. Bournemouth and Poole combine with Christchurch and various other settlements on the periphery to form a conurbation of around 400,000 people. It’s said to be the largest non-industrial conurbation in Europe and is the largest urban area in the UK that doesn’t contain anywhere with city status. You’re bound to find things that interest you and other people who share those interests. Tourist board spiel over.

Rents are fairly reasonable here in Bournemouth, depending on the area obviously. However, Dorset as a whole suffers from arguably the biggest
gap between average salary and average property price in the UK.

There are a lot of very wealthy people in the SE Dorset conurbation, but th vast majority of them earn it elsewhere/have moved here from London/Home Counties.

The retirement village comments are laughably far of the mark, whilst that is true of Christchurch (and to an extent of Poole) AFAIK Bournemouth’s age profile is actually younger than the UK average. there’s a growing university here (though, technically it’s in Poole…only just though), an art school and umpteen language schools. Plus the hospitality industry ensures a constant transient population of 20/30somethings. The town feels very young.

Re: The reef…yes, total failure. But you’ve got K-Bay just down the coast and on a good day the piers are a laugh. It’s not the North Shore though!

Livingstone may well be an odious, corrupt little scrote, but in no way should anyone wish a painful death on him. Pathetic.

I amusingly got a short ban on here for saying that ‘at least Prince Phillip won’t be around for too much longer [to make stupid often offensive comments]. In my opinion, nowhere near as offensive as the comments made here. I wonder if such moderation will be applied equally in this case?

The trouble is…nobody actually posted that. What a drag hey?

1) Somebody pondered what Ken’s reaction would be
2) As a throwaway line I posted that all being well he’d be next
3) Proteus threw a tizzy and had a little cry about how mean I was
4) I reposted a post from a thread he started last year in which
he was going on about how the death of a Thatcher lookalike provided an opportunity to practice dancng on her grave. Hypocrisy, you see?
5) He hasn’t reposted since.

So, just to clarify…nobody posted that.

Proteus, what a ****.

proteus – Member

With the sad passing of “Lady” Margaret Thatcher impersonator Janet Brown today, do we get the chance for a wee dancing-on-the-witches-grave practice in?

It’s what she would have wanted, etc.*

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Wind your neck in princess 😉

enfht – Member

Ken Livingstone will be gutted.

All being well, he’ll be next.

I remember the very early Burton ones, they look stacks of fun…

Because the government would introduce 15 layers of inept management, halve the fleet and double the cost.

That would be just right for you.

Mon – Fri: The Times
Sat: Guardian
Sun: Sunday Times

I also read the Daily Telegraph if there’s one lying around.

Get him to switch to the Observer on Sundays so he can read Julie Burchill’s latest bigoted rant against transexuals. There’ll probably be some borderline antisemitism too.

I’ve used Dragon DX since way back in 1997 and always have two pairs on the go at any given time (one x amber, one x polarised). One of my current pairs have been going strong since 2001! I love them, comfortable, stylish, not too expensive (I managed to pick up the Dragon x Jack Daniel’s onlien for £45).

Some people think they’re a bit on the small side, but I’ve never found that and unless you’re a baker’s friend I’m sure you’ll be fine. Doubtless there are other goggles that offer better anti-fogging, but it’s never been an issue for me.

b r – Member

BREAD SAUCE. WTF. I thought they were having a laugh when they told me what the funny looking white sauce with cloves stuck in it was? I mean, Bread….Sauce????

Showing your age I’m afraid, standard Christmas Dinner staple for those of us over 40.

Standard for me too and I’m 33!

eadlydarcy – Member
And Cameron fears that this is the party to which disaffected Tories will flee?

Well, they wouldn’t want to vote BNP with all of those ghastly disaffected Labour voters. 😉

paulosoxo – Member

Levi 511’s. I like ’em.

+2 on the Levi’s 511s. Superb jeans, it’s taken me years and many hundreds of pounds wasted to finally settle on the ultimate fit (for me).
I’ve currently got 4 pairs (medium blue fade, indigo blue, jet black and grey) and another blue pair waiting to replace the medium blue fade pair when I eventually wear them out.

6″0, 12.2 stone and 33 years of age wearing 32/32.

wrecker – Member

Follow him home. The next time you see him; recite his full address. Say nothing more, make no threats.

Better still, get a mate with a Norn Iron accent to say ‘You still driving that navy blue 57 plate 1.6 Honda Civic*?’ 😈

*or whatever it is.

I was thinking the same…and then I read the office shenanigans thread!

wellwellwell – Member

Ok I’ve nailed her, down to ‘lunch’ on Saturday.

The M1 Southbound.

What’s the point in having a North/South divide if we aren’t going to police it?

All points North of Oxford are a wasteland.

Matter of opinion really, I think it’s wrong and would never smoke around children (back when I did smoke), but other people think differently.

I’m always astonished at the amount of women who still think it’s okay to smoke whilst pregnant!

faz083 – Member

the easiest way to get police on site any day of the year. Just say “I think one of them has a weapon”.

Does this not require an attendance?

Better still, tell them not to bother rushing because you have a weapon.

Armed response on scene ASAP!

*That should be public sector rather than pubic sector, but y’know..whatever.

One of the most dispiriting moments of my life was listening to a short talk by a Chief Inspector at Hampshire Constabulary’s assessment/training centre. He began by pondering aloud as to whether the police were there to counter crime before answering ‘Well, that is one of our areas of interest’. I ended up joining the probation service instead and to be honest we have the same problem with regard to failing to focus on the core reason for our existence.

Lots of great people in the police, some of them are friends of mine, but they are hamstrung by layer upon layer of administrative bullshit, a target culture that is worse than in any other area of the pubic sector and (much like the probation service) a management tier jammed full of pussies and yes men.

A lot of the offenders I come into contact with got caught because they are **** stupid. It really wouldn’t take much effort to be a reasonably successful crook, remembering to pay your road tax/insurance/MOT and sticking to the speed limit when transporting drugs would be a good start, something the inept drug dealers I meet still haven’t realised, even after several spells in prison.

My friend has recently got engaged to a lovely Chinese girl (BBC, I believe that’s the slang term…British Born Chinese?). Her mother was really frosty with him for a long time until she realised that her daughter was in love with him and that it wasn’t a passing phase.

Now he’s the apple of her eye and is regularly treated to slap-up feasts and the sort of lavish hospitality usually found in Ferrero Rocher adverts!

Clarks Desert Boots, original and best.

These ones are black suede, but I also have wolf (taupe) suede and cola (medium brown) suede in the rotation.

http://www.ranshop.co.uk/products/clarks-originals-desert-boot-black-suede

Northwind – Member
A mate of mine said he was going to nip into the “**** shop”, which I thought was a bit off, then I remembered the shop he was going to is owned and run by northern irish immigrants.

Sounds more like a packie shop.

TAXI!

Kat Dennings is a force of nature with more front than Harrods.

One thing about this show though…

Comedy black guy (a bit fly, ladies man), comedy Korean guy (short, sexually inexperienced), comedy Ukrainian guy (smelly, bit of a pervert), comedy generic East European woman (no dress sense, possibly an ex-hooker)…not quite sure how they get away with it.

Out of the rain.

Northwind – Member

Zulu-Eleven – Member

Depends if they ‘magically’ get better again

That is brilliant… “No I’m not injured, I just love crowdsurfing!”

Nazareth supported by Nuclear Assault?

Because adultery is an offence under Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

BritMil have equivalent rules too, not that it doesn’t go on. His offence was to get caught. The military sets itself higher standards otherwise they may as well be politicians or IT contractors.

Busted down to traffic duty.

He’s unconventional, but he gets results!