I hold Chris Moyles personally responsible for the death of music radio

Only fitting that an acolyte, a child of the tyranny he put into place, takes over to continue his misdeeds. A child who has known no other way but the regime of his predecessor, and so has had his mind soiled by the unpunished crimes. The Kim-Jong Un of breakfast radio.

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You can’t go wrong with the Vans Classics range…

There’s the Authentic, original (and some might argue) best.

The Era, basically the same as the Authentic, but with the addition of padding around the heel.

The Old Skool, introduced the trademark v-stripe and Henry Rollins and Ian Mackaye wear them, so they’re certainly good enough for you.

Yeah, there’s also the Chukka, Sk8-Hi, Half-Cab etc etc, but I’m a busy man and you have the internet. I’m not actually a busy man, but you do have the internet.

Colourwise, we live in an age of choice so go for the the limited edition Supreme x Hello Kitty x Pot Noodle special edition. Actually, don’t. Buy blue or black and you can’t go wrong.

Alternatively, New Balance are nice. They have that geography teacher-chic thing going on. They’re also perfect for sitting in overpriced coffee emporiums with your MacBook Pro and one of those £15 cycling magazines.

Puma Suedes still look as good as they always did.

Nike are to be avoided, other than the Nike SB range which are really nice. The mainline range makes you look like a looter and that’s so August 2011.

Not on my watch.

I’m not having this country turn into a despotic totalitarian hellhole with armed police, like the Netherlands or Denmark.

Armed police would terrify the British public, there’s a good reason why Brits refuse to go on holiday to places like Spain, France, Italy, the United States and Australia.

Did this start to pick-up then?

Watched first half season of Season 1, could never understand why the aliens didn’t descend en masse on that high school, where they seemed to be pissing about for ages and kill them all.

Lead guitarist from Strung Out can certainly shred.

I was account manager for a chap called Mr.W.Ankers once.

I also utterly lost it once when meeting an American colleague who quoted aloud from Oprah Winfrey during a meeting. I had to pretend that I was choking.

My girlfriend told me she was interested in getting into S&M, so I bought her a crayfish and rocket sandwich on focaccia bread and a cashmere blend cardigan.

Apparently I don’t understand her.

CFH – I have that The South West t-shirt. Got some funny looks when I walked past The North Face stand at a trade show in the States!

Fruit of the Loom for plain tees, super cheap multipack buys on Amazon.

American Apparel are alright if you’re a racing snake, quality not what it was though and their shops are staffed by some of the worst people on earth.

I really wanted the EP3 when it was released, I had to make do with the rather less glamorous VW Polo 1.3 instead (it was the coupe though, not the other one that looked like a hearse for gnomes).

My grandad was a Spitfire pilot (trained in South Africa, qualified too late to see any significant action).

Yeah, I’ve got Nixon’s ‘The Don’. I bought it 10 years ago and it was £100 at the time. Nice simple stainless steel design…not too chunky either so works well with suits.

I’ve also got Nixon’s frankly ludicrous ‘The Newton’ in black which looks like this:

http://www.logicalmart.com/bnixon-newton-watch-blackb-p-13200865.html?osCsid=24a5e4fb727e2b1324255bf7964f51cd

Hot Water Music – ‘A Flight and a Crash’

Echoing some previous posters, I believe that this is the natural result of many years of accumulated greed by executives, be they captains of industry or public sector chiefs/QUANGOcrats.

My initial feeling was that it was indeed an utter liberty to demand a bonus for performing their regular jobs, but what may be seen as cynicism on the part of the bus drivers/train drivers etc is easy to understand. Even if they do get these £500 payments, this will be a mere 160th of the £80,000 bonuses that TfL directors stand to receive.

Elsewhere we see so-called golden parachutes for failing executives, often for as much as 5 or 6 times what the average Brit will earn in a lifetime. Meanwhile those nearer the bottom of the employment pyramid are made redundant and often offered as little as 1 weeks salary per year worked with whatever the company or organisation is.

At the risk of straying into tinfoil hat territory, I think that we are rapidly approaching a tipping point where widespread social unrest/violence will result.

I used to temp for Lloyds TSB in the holidays way back when I was in my late teens, their canteen was good.

JPMorgan Chase had a whole array of brilliant, but fairly expensive canteens. However, the best one that I ever encountered was the one at the RNLI HQ in Poole. I imagine prices have risen somewhat since, but back in 2004 it was possible to get a MASSIVE roast dinner any day of the week for £3. Then you’d eat it alongside a bunch of highly charismatic salty sea dogs, it doesn’t get much better than that.

Christopher Ward have some timeless (err…for want of a better word) pieces.

I’ve been wearing a Luminox Field Alarm Chrono which can be found for under £300 if you search around the net. Can’t praise it enough, but I wouldn’t wear one of their Navy SEAL watches (although I do have my 50m badge).

First the vote and now this!

It is my sincere hope that HM makes a public proclamation of gratitude to Mr.McGuinness and announces that he will be awarded the OBE for his many years of hard work on behalf of British intelligence.

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Sean Penn.

Boba Fatt – Member
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This came from their latest album that was out last year, a pretty strong contender and Tanya Donelly shows up too (my teenage crush)

That sounded great, will have to investigate that album further.

Yes, I remember liking Tanya along with Nina Gordon and Louise Post from Veruca Salt, Sonya from Echobelly and this lovely Dutch TV presenter turned frontwoman:

Not from that album, but my favourite Buffalo Tom song (and that’s a fiercely contested category) was…

I remember praying that the specialist chart wouldn’t be dance that week! Erasure are on there due to their label being independent, it used to throw up some unlikely chart toppers.

The info bubbles were great, very Ceefax

jon1973 – Member

I see what you’re saying, genetically create a bread of highly aggressive soldiers with wings, who can fly in to battle.

It’s worked well in the past…errr future…

Immediate tax rise on Audi estates, pies, high end XC-oriented full suspension bikes and levies on IT sector salaries.

Great film, amazing soundtrack, her from Mad Men and Gosling making double denim work. What’s not to like?

I had some nice Argentinian wine the other night.

As to what the ‘original’ inhabitants of the islands called them…well, i guess that until we learn how to converse with penguins, we’ll never know.

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DezB – Member

What a useless reply to a reasonable question. Trying to be funny or clever and failing.

Just typical STW sub-Guardian level snarky bullsh*t.

SamCooke – Member
And that’s how they do it

‘They’ being the Zionist Occupation Government, right?

Luckily I’ve stockpiled old-style KitKats and am now frantically unwrapping them to provide cladding for my hat.

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SamCooke – Member
Chav is appropriated by the power elite, used to demonise and ridicule the working class because they appeared to be forming an identity and coherence. They did it with shades and casuals they, did it with mods, they do it everytime the working classes start taking pride in themselves and their identity.

The traits commonly associated with the people that have come to be regarded as chavs have absolutely nothing to do with class pride or related feelings of unity and shared identity. Quite the reverse if anything, it’s the ultimate expression of contempt for those around you. It certainly can’t be compared to the mods, a youth movement or the violent subculture of a minority of sartorially inclined football supporters in the 70’s/80’s.

Chav may have become synonymous with socio-economic status, but it has far more to do with how you conduct yourself and the way that you treat those around you.

There are loads of monied sorts around my way who could be said to exhibit the traits that we associate with chavs. Brash, rude, no respect for others, resorting to entirely unjustified levels of violence and aggression over the pettiest of incidents.

It is not some kind of catch-all term for the working classes (how would you define who they are in 2012 anyway?) and it isn’t restricted to white people either. Personally, I think it’s somewhat insulting when middle class liberals take third party offence on behalf of whoever they imagine the working class to be. The chav culture (and I use the term loosely) is anathema to traditional values of self-reliance and hard work (not that these were exclusive to the working classes).

The people I know who use the term most frequently (and with the most venom) aren’t particularly wealthy, often living on or significantly under the average wage, but who wouldn’t dream of giving up on life and/or outsourcing responsibility for every facet of their existence to organs of the state.

Not sure how they rank in the coolness stakes anymore, a relative term anyway. But, Manhattan Portage are built to last. My Large Europa Expandable (ooooh!) is still going strong after 8 years of daily abuse.

http://www.manhattanportage.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php/europa-lg-p-114

Newly single MTB lady?

200 replies, then the thread gets locked!

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It’s a brilliant day out. Whatever else I may think about the previous government, it was such a good move making so many of those big London museums free.

The National Army Museum is worth a look too.

matt_outandabout – Member

Are we brothers?

If we are you forgot again, but it’s okay I signed the card from us both!

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From your use of ‘pish’ I’m guessing you’re reasonably local?

My bike got to Dorset in 2 days so give them a ring!

Got my dad some Maynard’s wine gums, liquorice allsorts and a walnut whip. He considers these the holy trinity of dad sweets.

The Strongbow one is just their attempt to position themselves as cider purveyor of choice to the LAD market. It’s all a bit puzzling really, because I’d always assumed that they’d already cornered that market.

I guess that Magners have muscled in to an an extent, but basically the whole Oi Oi! Lads on tour, epic bants, Archbishop of Banterbury, just off to the lashpoint, they should send me to Bantanamo Bay, don’t get many of them to the paaaaaaaaarnd, d’ya daaaarlin’? thing always seemed to be domain anyway.

Bought a new Commencal from them a couple of years ago.

Really nice guy, he pretty much assembled the bike for me prior to popping it in the post as I knew less than nothing about bikes at the time.

Declare the tree a Site of Special Scientific Interest, then campaign to have your garden designated an area of outstanding national beauty.

Before they know it, you’ll be getting permission to demolish their house on the grounds that it overshadows your tree.

Next, rub salt into the wound by installing a widescreen TV in the tree so that the nesting birds can watch Sky on your neighbour’s dish. They’ll wish they’d gone for cable.

konabunny – Member

Not a reflection on the geezers that were doing it but surely there is something better for 1500 troops to be doing than decorative duties when there is a war on and “we’re all in it together”?

It’s not a zero sum game, they go on operations as well.

This brings to mind my repeated attempts to explain to the moron in my office (not comparing you to her by the way!) who used to say ‘Apparently there are 25,000 troops based in Germany, why don’t they help in Afghanistan?’ that they do deploy there too, not just hang around at the schnell-imbiss and down Paderborners in the mess…although a bit of that goes on too.