Voucher for an uplift day at a trail centre.

'Too posh to push', geddit?

TAXI.

andemJeremy – Member
There simply is no need for the scale of cuts proposed

They still don't get it, do they?

Luckily those who share your viewpoint are firmly out of the picture now.

Baseless scare story in a shit newspaper.

£60 from Central London to this girl's house in Sutton.

She put out though, so it wasn't that bad.

Despite promising to pay me half the fare she never did, I suppose technically it was prostitution!

You ought to get Orange to set a credit limit on her mobile. Assuming her contract is around £25 p/m, arrange for the phone to be disconnected the moment the bill passes £50.

It's not that long since I was 19 either and I remember what phone calls with 19 year old girls are like, **** pointless!

My ex used to go all teary when I sought to end the daily call at any point prior to the one hour mark, even if I'd seen her earlier in the day.

That's her birthday and christmas sorted for the next 5 years then.

Sack off the beer and go to Gordon's!

http://tinyurl.com/2vp2lnw

Didn't it win the DH World Cup?

I'd say that counted as a reasonable review!

U31 – Member

Take this as a very harsh lesson and move on for your own sake, this is starting to reek of the obsessional.

Hardly.

Expensive bike stolen within the past week or so, any normal person would be hacked off and have the matter very much on their mind.

Not everyone is a jaded fatalistic recluse.

The bike bag is a good idea though.

Rail*Replacement*Service

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!.

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bravohotel9er – Member
We seem to have wasted some of the public purse educating you sorry
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No, the money was wasted on you.

I have no credit cards, no hire purchase agreements or other loans, have paid off my student debt and have plenty of money in the bank. I'm a responsible member of society, enjoy the reckoning! :p

There's a certain kind of automaton Labour voter that just won't accept the trouble the economy is in and refuses to face up to the fact that we have massively overspent, for years.

I can only assume they're either landed aristocracy with substantial private incomes or third generation lifestyle welfare recipients. I just cannot see how any thinking person from the remaining 95% of society would continue to swallow this pityful New Labour regime apologist bullshit.

Useful idiots.

Polly Toynbee must be worried, do you own a holiday villa too TJ? 😛

Cold Cut 'More Beats and Pieces'

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aP – Member

Shame that it was 20 years of Tory government that put them there with no hopes of ever working isn't it?

Ahh…so, chip firmly on shoulder and unable to face up to the fact that the Labour government was an utter disaster you've adopted the 'Sunset Beach' approach and are now pretending that the years 1997-2010 were just a dream sequence.

Stretch to £1,600 and get a Specialized Pitch Pro

NO
Tax avoidance is within the law – tax evasion is always outside the law

Right.

Pedantry aside, my point is that what many people consider to be tax evasion is actually tax avoidance.

So, we should just leave benefit cheats to it then?

Not all benefit cheats are 'poor' either. By their very nature they're claiming benefits that they're not entitled to, their actual take home pay could well exceed yours or mine.

As for tax evasion, genuine tax evaders should always be pursued.

The trouble is, the sort of people who do it tend to have whip smart lawyers and accountants who know all of the loopholes. Whilst you could well argue that their conduct is morally wrong, very often it's within the realms of the law.

Err…I was holding it for a friend, honest!

Nowhere near as old and they weren't exactly a constant fixture in the charts, but I heard Ride's 'Leave Them All Behind' for the first time in years when I was in a bar the other day. Made me feel 13 again and reminded me just how good those first two albums were.

Point taken, but those little follow-on efforts are at risk from the legions of useless tailgating drivers out there.

Well, they didn't get the money.

Peter Jones described it as 'pretty niche' though so I imagine your orders are going in right now! :p

Drink loads of Jack Daniel's and ginger beer on the rocks, then go to her place of residence in the small hours and serenade her with Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power in it's entirety.

Steak and blow job by Wednesday or your money back.

Takeaways/fast food: Try and limit myself to twice monthly.

Quite often I won't have any, but then when I'm at festivals etc it can be twice daily!

Anyone else been to Mumtaz in Bradford? What a place that is!

Their turnover must be tens of millions.

Did anyone else think this thread was going to be about err….'ghost' bikes?

http://www.ghostbikes.org/

ernie_lynch – Member

From the eighties onwards, all youth fashion, music, and life styles, was completely dominated by business interests.

I'm sure that'll come as a surprise to anyone who's ever been into hardcore (punk), the college rock scene that morphed into indie rock breaking out of the underground, hip hop (the 4 elements, not the bastardised product you see on MTV Base) or rave culture/the free party scene.

All from the eighties onwards and all of which defy your statement.

Read:

Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad

Get in the Van (The Black Flag Tour Diaries) by Henry Rollins

Read Steven Blush's American Hardcore or watch Paul Rachman's documentary of the same name.

If you're looking for fiercely independent youth culture you're bound to note obvious parallels.

…same in the West End though, full of Essex/Kent types taking their princesses out for a big night.

Saw some pretty nasty stuff in New Cross when my friend was studying at Goldsmiths too.

Yes.

Outrageously, there were no bike facilities whatsoever.

Three minutes after departing Sandbanks we arrived at Studland though so all was okay.

RichPenny – Member
Going to Bournemouth next weekend for a night on the town, can you recommend anywhere bravohotel9er?

If you head towards the BIC there's a great bar called '60 Million Postcards' which majors in all things indie and electro. It attracts a student/art school crowd. There are loads of seats, a nice big beer garden and a good range of drinks.

I used to think they had some sort of anti-scum forcefield, but the manager informed me that by refusing to stock Stella, Carling, Carlsberg, Heineken and 1664 they can achieve the same effect without having to resort to stealing Star Fleet technology!

'Bar So' is next door, another nice bar, but it may well be full of the Ben Sherman demographic at the weekend. '1812' is in the other side of 'Bar So' and is rather more upmarket.

The main drag (Old Christchurch Road) will be like Beirut throughout the weekend, but there is a place called 'Camel' bar about halfway up it. Loosely themed on a souk bar, they have bars on two floors, a beer garden and a 'secret garden' type set up where people smoke shisha pipes. It's also rammed full of pretty ladies.

Other than that, the top end of Old Christchurch Road and the Lansdowne is considerably less scummy. there's an interesting little place called 'iBar' which is owned by the guy who invented the computer game 'Worms'. It's a good bar/club and there's never any trouble there.
'Sound Circus' is a rock club in the grand tradition complete with sticky carpets and girls in slightly ill advised PVC numbers, it's opposite the station.

Whatever you do, avoid 'Elements' or whatever name it's trading under this week. It's the biggest club in town and is situated just up from the equally terrible 'Toko' and 'Bliss' which serve as feeder bars for it.

If you can be bothered to get over to Boscombe, you'll find the excellent 'Urban Reef' right on the seafront, that and 'Pier Pressure' (just up from the beach on Sea Road) plus sister bar 'Urban Beach' are all worth a shot if you wish to combine daytime drinking by the beach and delicious food.

I think the same goes for Winchester too…

One minute you're sipping cocktails and chatting to well spoken girls with Boden accounts and designs on a new Aga, the next you're treated to scenes of untold savagery as Mid-Hampshire's least eligible bachelors engage in a series of face/pint glass interfaces.

I've always found it to be a great place for nights (and indeed days) out, but this being the UK even the most genteel of locales can play host to carnage due to lager fuelled mobile berzerkers.

I'd wager that my native Bournemouth is many times worse in the casual violence and 'LOL! Randumb' stakes.

Things to do in Dorset: I wouldn't bother with Lulworth Cove, it's depressing.

What on earth is depressing about Lulworth Cove? It's one of my favourite places, indeed I was there yesterday.

If you mean, it's getting a little commercialised I can agree to an extent, but far less so than most other tourist honeypots. Okay, the cost of the parking is depressing, but you can park for free by the general store five minutes up the hill.

Supermarkets are awful enough without adding being heckled by robots into the mix.

Give it a few years and they'll become self aware. Then they'll probably refuse to let you pay until you replace your tub of Pringles with some tofu.

For those in Bournemouth…

Winton Tandoori, Winton – Brilliant 'neighbourhood' curry house. Never had a bad meal here.

Indi's, Westbourne – Upmarket Indian fusion cuisine, but they do all of the classics too. Additionally, they have the best wine list/alcohol selection of any Indian restaurant I've ever been in.

Regrettably my LBS don't stock Fox. They've agreed to fit the forks though during the service, but didn't mention a price.

I was just speculating on what it's likely to be, I'll feel terrible (in a strange way) if they do it for nothing.

The difference is, I've lived in two of them and wouldn't mind living in the other three either!

Barcelona, San Francisco, Vancouver, Berlin, Amsterdam

Just been on the website for Saffron, menu seems to contain loads of culinary delights…think I'll give it a go.

Thanks.

'The men who jump off buildings'

.,..and it was on C4 so you'll have better luck on 4OD!