It was amusing seeing the contrast between the men and the women.

They certainly seemed to fit the Irish traveller stereotype of beautiful, highly feminine women who looked mature for their age and flat faced, short arse men with faces like bulldogs licking piss off a cactus.

All of them shared a horrendous dress sense though, the women favouring the turn-of-the-century riverboat prostitute look and the men going for Tesco Value gangster.

Abysmal in the main.

To be honest, it was like Groundhog Day most of the time. I’d go in, have a lengthy discussion with one of their consultants, fill out a million and one forms, hand them a copy of my CV (in addition to emailing them a copy as an attachment too), then I’d leave.

Then, whenever I returned to their office they’d claim not to have my details on record and I’d have to go through the whole palaver again!

In the end, I abandoned any real hope of getting a job through any of them. So I just started calling into the one with the quality filter coffee, and the attractive girls in pencil skirts and stiletto heels on the odd chance that something came up….by which I mean a job. I think.

That was about 3 years ago though when the recession was very evident, but nobody was referring to it as such. Temporary jobs were thin on the ground, maybe it’s better now?

There’ll be tears on the streets of Warsaw.

:wink:

Also overheard:

‘You’re going home in a ******g Range Rover’

and

‘Who ate all foie gras? Who ate all the foie gras? You fat bastard, you fat bastard, you ate all the foie gras’

Probably.

Berghaus Goretex Paclite.

Not the best for MTB to be honest, it’s my emergency festival/car boot waterproof really, but my only other waterproofs are my Finisterre Matanuska M65 which is too nice for biking or my Westbeach Ridgerunner snowboarding jacket (ditto).

Wouldn’t mind a biking specific jacket, but I’ve just spent £115 on some Timberlands and am trying not to buy myself any more gifts this side of the January sales!

Send the tyres you oxygen thief c*nt.

People like you make life just that little bit worse for all of us.

Mine was a white H-reg VW Polo 1.3 coupe.

Great little car.

don simon – Member

Had DMs years ago (oxblood and black)and can say they’re not that good in icy conditions. I would go for another pair though except I hear the quality has gone downhill in the last few years. Please tell me this isn’t so…
Otherwise they’re ace.

The regular ones are made in Thailand/Vietnam now and the consensus seems to be that the quality has suffered.

There’s a premium quality subdivision marketing the classic oxblood (or quillon) and black 8 and 10 holes plus a view other designs manufactured the traditional way in England. Obviously, you pay a premium for this!

LINK: http://tinyurl.com/3y33udc

(£99.95 for the ‘Made in England’ 8 hole 1460z rather than £54.95 for the bog standard 8 hole 1460z for example)

Quite like the look of these…

http://tinyurl.com/2wbpvza

I used to love my cherry red 10 hole DM’s.
Must have worn them every single day for about 5 years!

I’ve eaten at The Keg in Banff on numerous occasions whilst on ski seasons out there. Loved it every time.

The best steak in town though used to be in a place called Bumpers, opposite the Inns of Banff hotel.

Argentine steak is the best there is. The last truly exceptional steak I had was at an Argentine place in errr….Andorra.

The steak in Alberta, Canada is incredible too.

Best melodic HC in the UK right now?

I think they’ve split, but The Steal get my vote:
http://www.myspace.com/thesteal

A couple of decent local bands:

Attack! Vipers! from Portsmouth (not really meloduc HC though):
http://www.myspace.com/attackvipers

OTDH from Southampton:
http://www.myspace.com/ourtimedownhereuk

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Markie – Member

Strike Anywhere and Against Me! here…
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I’ve seen Strike Anywhere too many times over the past decade, lost interest after Exit English, but the ep and those first two albums are excellent.

Watching Against Me with **** Up in Southampton on 22nd October. Last time I watched Against Me was at the Joiners (also in Southampton…that was about six years ago). Haven’t heard any of their stuff since eternal cowboy though.

billybob – Member

Sounds like a good evening session from the 90s

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It’ll always be 1994 in my head!

ChrisL – Member
Wilco are really doing it for me at the moment.

Have you watched Ashes of American Flags, Wilco’s live DVD?

It’s stunning.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wilco-Ashes-American-Flags-DVD/dp/B001RTYKWM

…and Shellac, Quicksand and The Organ.

Obvious parallels to the never less than tedious world of music snobbery.

Thousands of people were off to see Linkin Park here the other night, not to my taste, but I bet they all had a good time.

I’m going to see Health in a rather more down at heel venue with maybe 150 others soon. Everyone’s different, everyone’s having a good time…horses for courses.

You don’t need a Class 3 Hipster Licence to enjoy yourself.

Mixed feelings about this.

On one hand he (or at least the persona he has adopted) represents everything I hate about Brits abroad, but at the same time it makes something of a refreshing change to the usual breathless travelogues, complete with pseudo-mystical bollocks about being on a journey, being a traveller rather than a tourist etc etc

AC4 new Swedish hardcore band featuring Dennis and David of Refused ‘fame’. Touring the UK very soon, going to watch them at Southampton Joiners.

Have been listening to last year’s Dillinger Four album ‘C I V I L W A R’
a lot too recently.

I love adjustable forks, I really don’t see how it’s a ‘hassle’ to stop and adjust, much less if you can do it on the fly.

It reminds me of those snowboarders who used to say that they used Flow bindings in order to ‘save time’ at the top of lifts. Woo! 5 seconds saved.

Rock Shox Pike 454 Coil U-Turn on a Commencal Ramones 2 hardtail here.

I really enjoyed it.

Not an Affleck fan in particular, but he gave a fine performance both as actor and director.

Blake Lively is just a force of nature too. Even when playing a blue collar communal bicycle, and general purpose scum bucket, she still manages to come across as the most beautiful woman on the planet.

For anyone in the Dorset area looking for a decent independent VW specialist, I can advise you to head to Colehill Garage in err…Colehill, nr.Wimborne.

They worked on my old Polo and Golf, my brother’s Polo, my mum’s old Polo and current Golf and will probably service my dad’s Scirocco once the warranty expires.

Stickers arrived and in my sticker drawer. Yes! I have a sticker drawer and I’m 30 years old.

Many thanks Charlie.

:lol:

CHB – Member
Leeds, best fish and chips in the UK.

Yes, I can almost smell that Leeds sea breeze now :wink:

I don’t actually object to him having a tantrum over this.
I imagine they had a conversation way back when, and both agreed to serve in each other’s shadow cabinets, in the event of either one of them making the ascent to power. The difference being that D.Miliband never actually believed for one second that he would be put in such a scenario!

What I do object to (if reports from multiple media sources are to be believed), is his wife throwing a hissyfit on his behalf.
I think they were expecting an annointment a la Brown.

Interesting that both Blair’s favoured appointee (D.Miliband) and Brown’s (Balls) both failed to make the cut.

It wouldn’t be the Military Police as it isn’t a matter specific to the British Army, it’ll be the MOD Police.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he did leak the documents though, politicians can’t help briefing against each other. Especially in the absence of a credible opposition.

All jeans do this after a week or so, but good denim will snap back into shape after a wash/iron.

I favour Levi’s 501/506 for regular or Volcom for a looser cut.

My ex reckons I knew nothing about cunnilingus.

However, the joke’s on her because I’ve flown with them on several occasions.

TAXI!

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Elfinsafety – Member

Just have a wander round Manhattan. Posh shops up on 5th Avenue near the park. Some good bars round Bleacker St/Greenwich Village area.

If you see a Russian lass with a kid of about 10, you don’t know me….
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Did you try and convince her how much happier she was under communism? :lol:

…they’re import only, but available here:

http://tinyurl.com/ya38h2k

Pretzel M&Ms
Coconut M&Ms
Peanut Butter M&Ms

…all are DELICIOUS and you can fit loads in your luggage!

Anything by the BMX Bandits or Kerbdog.

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have the tories got a new leader? i thought they were waiting until after next year’s election?
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You’ll be able to hit your target weight once they stop your benefits.

:wink:

Replaced one on my old X Reg Polo tdi a couple of years ago.

Just in time too according to the mechanic, but then they always say that sort of thing.

How were you expecting Cameron to treat the Pope, exactly?

Spinning bird kick?

Like it or not, he’s the Prime Minister which involves having to interact with other statesmen/faith leaders. At least he isn’t Blair who lacked the guts to follow his instincts and convert to Catholicism until after he’d left office.

As for the new leader of the SS Titanic Deckchair Rearrangement Committee, nobody cares.

Guy in the yellow tee shirt = Ed Miliband and the naked ginger appears to be Hazel Blears.

Backstage party at the Labour conference?

Pretty grandiose term for gazing at women on buses.

What rubber for Emma Thompson’s fudge tunnel?

There’s no point getting all chippy about it whatsoever. The facts on the ground are that people who speak ‘street’ lengthen the odds of landing themselves a halfway decent job a thousand times over.

I see it at work the whole time, suburban white kids who speak in that pathetic ‘Jafakecan’ patois. The UK is starting to get ‘lapped’ by other European countries, a lot of kids in places like the Netherlands and Denmark now have a better command of the English languages (in all of it’s forms) than native born Brits. That is an embarrassment.

Similarly, India is packed to the brim with millions of bright graduates and even high school leavers who speak grammatically correct English and know how to read and write it too. Either we sort this out fast or resign ourselves to full economic collapse.

D’yaknoworrimean, blud?