About time too.

I used to work in an office where the 40% or so who smoked would average about one smoke break every 60/90 minutes disappearing for up to 15 minutes at a time. It was a joke.

Nuke Proof ones are nice and comfy.

Panasonic, Olympus, Sony and Samsung I believe…certainly the first 3 of those.

They could offer these positions with no pay whatsoever and they’d still have a plethora of floppy fringed boys from Surbiton and Sloaney Ponies to choose from.

If I may launch a semi- hijack of this thread…

Is the current Type-R really as bad as some people say or is it a worthy contender for those seeking a hot (or at the very least quite warm) hatch that you can actually shove bikes/surfboards/gear for a week away in?

The CEO of Omni Consumer Products got brassed up by ED-209 in Robocop.

Just been listening to Sleater-Kinney for the firs time in ages so them too.

Had forgotten how good they were.

Bizarrely, my brother was a cricketing international for errr…Germany in his late teens.

They had a squad with one German in it. The rest were expatriate Pakistanis, Barbadians and the sons of military personnel serving with British Forces Germany.

They lost to the Netherlands and Spain (who fielded an entirely English line-up), but crushed the mighty Andorra!

Minor Threat, Black Flag, Fugazi, Government Issue, Negative Approach, 7 Seconds, Bad Brains, Mission of Burma, Husker Du, Dag Nasty, The Lemonheads, Mudhoney, Tad, Afghan Whigs, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Superchunk, Pavement, Sebadoh, Archers of Loaf, Polvo, Urusei Yatsura, PWEI, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Jawbreaker, Mega City Four, Rocket From The Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, Texas is the Reason, Get-Up Kids, The Promise Ring, Bivouac, Knapsack, Propagandhi, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, PJ Harvey, The Breeders, The Pixies, Seam, Come, Done Lying Down, Man or Astroman?, Champion, Paint it Black, Kid Dynamite, Latterman, The Lawrence Arms, J Church, Lifetime, **** Up, Les Savy Fav, Gorilla Biscuits, Grade, Against Me, As Friends Rust, Avail, Shudder to Think, Helmet, Dead Kennedys, American Football, At the Drive-In, Gunmoll, Dillinger Four, Hot Water Music, Small Brown Bike, Twelve Hour Turn, Trapdoor **** Exit, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Depistado, Jawbox, Luscious Jackson, New Kingdom, Municipal Waste, Surfer Blood, Meneguar

tinribz – Member

Maybe not as bad as I thought then.

– The last person to realise your insane, is you.

I disagree with you.

And so do I.

:wink:

:lol:

Ha! ‘Red’ Ed.

Union puppet pips his brother to the post thanks to the union vote.

This combined with Labour opting for Ken Livingston as mayoral candidate rather than the immeasurably more capable Oona King and they really are setting themselves up for a long stay in the wilderness.

Which is right where we want them. And by ‘we’ I refer to the members of the sane community.

I’m reminded of the time that my corner of the public sector started to worry that it was spending too much on management consultants.

How did we react to this, you may wonder?

Did we decide to cut back on said consultants?

Not a bit of it. Rather, we opted to pay a different firm of management consultants to carry out a review into our use of consultancies.

8O

CHB – Member

Come on, someone must want to stick up for a specific Quango after having had dealings with them?

We’ll let TJ establish a new QUANGO to establish whether the existing QUANGOs are any good. Then we’ll establish another QUANGO in order to verify the thoroughness of TJ’s review.

:wink:

Will this lefty tantrum never end?

I do hope not as it’s rather amusing.

It’s getting chilly out now, they’re probably experiencing a different kind of downturn.

One other useful feature of the British variant is that it’s navalised. So, unlike the original, it can be flown from carriers, HMS Ocean and indeed any RN/RFA vessel with a helipad.

Mountain bikes in the UK: 5,000,000

People that self identify as mountain bikers in the UK: 550,000

People that STW would categorise as mountain bikers: 7 and a half.

Well, sort of.

They work in utter non-jobs at QUANGOS so look forward to them tripling their post rate in the not too distant future!

Dorset’s own PJ Harvey is my favourite by a million miles.

Mention in Dispatches to:

Peaches
Louise Post/Nina Gordon (Veruca Salt)
Kim Deal/Kelley Deal/Tanya Donnelly (The Breeders/Belly/Throwing Muses)
Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)

Well, I opted against a McFlurry after my medium value meal last night. But, on the other hand I happily spent £400+ on a new snowboard deck.

rootes1 – Member

yes army air corp apache built under licence from Boeing by Westland helicoptors…

uk apache has more powerful engines and other UK features… (probably making it less effective lol – daylight/clear weather only chinnock anyone)

Actually, UK variant generally considered superior to the American.

Well, if it means that a few thousand Guardian readers are going to have to switch to Tesco Value gnocchi then it’s alright by me.

:wink:

I love Meantime. I bought it when I was 14, but didn’t come to appreciate it until years later (I’m 30 now).

Point taken regarding Helmet’s ‘second wind’ following the post-Aftertaste hiatus. The last two albums weren’t great, but this new one appears to be something of a return (not quite) to form.

I’d love to see them live.

The new Helmet album ‘Seeing Eye Dog’.
I didn’t like it on first listen, but it’s growing on me now.

The new Les Savy Fav album is in my car, that’s been getting a lot of play. Still waiting for the new Thermals album that I pre-ordered ages ago.

How does the Enduro compare to the Pitch by way of ‘ride experience’ (copyright. every MTB magazine ever), out of interest?

I’m interested in both for my first full-sus.

I do hope that the ANG are taking good care of those A10s.

If Terminator Salvation taught us one thing, it’s that they’ll form the cornerstone of our air combat operations in the forthcoming post-apocalyptic war against Skynet.

:P

CountZero – Member
Bravohotel, that’s a pretty good list, plenty on there I’d forgotten, like TV On The Radio, and a fair few are Canadian, as are some on my list. I love Canadian bands, it was 6Music introduced me to them five or six years ago with Metric’s Monster Hospital and Stars Ageless Beauty.

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I seem to listen to a disproportionate number of Canadian bands…

Grade, Hot Hot Heat, The Organ, 3 Inches of Blood, You Say Party, Propagandhi, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Death From Above 1979, The Weakerthans and Depistado spring to mind.

I lived in Vancouver for a while and there was a great scene there in terms of gigs, house shows and indie clubs. Several exceptional record shops too, particularly Zulu and Skratch.

CountZero, do you post on DrownedinSound by any chance?

I found this list of indie rock albums from the 00’s on the net.

Strangely, they’ve gone for a Top 63, I disagree with some of the choices (I certainly wouldn’t have included the abysmal Los Campesions) and there are a few obvious picks that they’ve omitted, but then it’s somebody else’s opinion after all.

I broadly agree with a majority of it though…

63. Everything All the Time – Band of Horses

62. One Beat – Sleater-Kinney

63. Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not – Arctic Monkeys

60. Boys and Girls in America – The Hold Steady

59. Domestica – Cursive

58. Summer in Abaddon – Pinback

57. Nouns – No Age

56. Oh, Inverted World – The Shins

55. Murray Street – Sonic Youth

54. Atlas – Battles

53. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix – Phoenix

52. Microcastle – Deerhunter

51. Give Up – The Postal Service

50. The Execution of All Things – Rilo Kiley

49. Hercules and Love Affair – Hercules and Love Affair

48. For Emma, Forever Ago – Bon Iver

47. Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes – TV on the Radio

46. Too Much Guitar – The Reigning Sound

45. Farm – Dinosaur Jr

44. Castaways and Cutouts – The Decemberists

43. Silent Alarm – Bloc Party

42. Wonderful Rainbow – Lightning Bolt

41. Bitte Orca – Dirty Projectors

40. The Creek Drank the Cradle – Iron and Wine

39. Fever to Tell – Yeah Yeah Yeahs

38. Apologies to the Queen Mary – Wolf Parade

37. The Moon and Antarctica – Modest Mouse

36. Boxer – The National

35. I Am Not Afraid of You, And I Will Beat Your Ass – Yo La Tengo

34. Hometowns – The Rural Alberta Advantage

33. Baby, It’s Cold Inside – The Fun Years

32. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga – Spoon

31. Twin Cinema – The New Pornographers

30. Z – My Morning Jacket

29. The Glow, Part 2 – The Microphones

28. Drum’s Not Dead – Liars

27. Before the Dawn Heals Us – M83

26. The Airing of Grievances – Titus Andronicus

25. You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine – Death From Above 1979

24. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

23. White Blood Cells – The White Stripes

22. Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? – Of Montreal

21. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – Wilco

20. Veckatimest – Grizzly Bear

19. Bows and Arrows – The Walkmen

18. Blood Visions – Jay Reatard

17. Illinoise – Sufjan Stevens

16. The Life Pursuit – Belle and Sebastian

15. Oh You’re So Silent Jens – Jens Lekman

14. Is This It?- The Strokes

13. Yoshimi Battles Pink Robots – The Flaming Lips

12. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven – Godspeed You! Black Emperor

11. Turn on the Bright Lights – Interpol

10. Source Tags and Codes – …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

9. The Lost in Translation soundtrack

8. Person Pitch – Panda Bear

7. Bang Bang Rock and Roll – Art Brut

6. Ágætis Byrjun – Sigur Rós

5. Hold on Now, Youngster… – Los Campesinos!

4. You Forgot It in People – Broken Social Scene

3. A Place to Bury Strangers – A Place to Bury Strangers

2. Funeral – Arcade Fire

1. Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished – Animal Collective

I don’t believe that the forthcoming cuts are entirely unwarranted by any means, and I’m a public sector worker myself.

However, what concerns me is the fact that those who will decide upon the specific areas that the axe will fall are the very incompetents who have presided over the profligacy and inefficiencies for years.

My own corner of the public sector has expanded it’s management tier furiously over the past 5 years or so. 60K management jobs have rained down like manna from heaven and positions that we always managed without in the past have become ‘indispensible’, at least in the minds of those that fill them.

Our counterpart organisation in the neighbouring county services a population four times greater than our own, and yet they seem to get by with a senior management team of three. How many do we have? With a quarter of their population, we have seen fit to promote a total of 5 to equivalent posts.

Recently 36 middle managers had to reapply for their own jobs, it came as little surprise when every single last one of them remained in posts. In some cases new job titles were invented for them. By way of contrast our 3 person IT support team has been cut to just 1 permanent post!

These turkeys will not be voting for Christmas. The service to the public will suffer and we’ll carry on with an ever more top-heavy corporate hierachy as these Swiss Admirals reign over us.

The situation would have been the same regardless of the outcome from the recent general election, these deadenders multiplied under the watch of the previous administration after all. I just hope that provision has been made for independent reviews of manning levels and asset management rather than trusting the individual management structures across the public sector to decide who should stay and who should go.

If my experience of public sector management is in any way representative of the whole, then such trust is entirely misplaced.

Yours,

Disgusted of Bournemouth.

67 from what I recall.

Sheesh! Or err… shish.

mangatank – Member
Yeah. The RAF adopted Apache Gunships some years ago. It was probably on a training mission.

That’ll come as a shock to the Army Air Corps!

I use Dakine for MTB and snowboarding, not the same gloves though obviously.

Dakine Defender MTB gloves:
http://tinyurl.com/33yyy9c

I was working at the School of Army Aviation in Middle Wallop, Hants back when they were doing the trials prior to their introduction.

Impressive machines.

wrightyson – Member
Captain America? Missed that one, who got the lead part in that??

Chris Evans.

No, not THAT one!

Filthy – Member
*I have friends to get me this information from registration numbers

If they’re coppers then that’s a career ender!

President Robert Mugabe.

He’s probably too respectable though.

You Tube link, you know the drill. :twisted:

I had one just before an interview at Southampton University in March.

First one I’ve had in a few years, but I get anxious before occasions like weddings for some reason.