I hope you were driving caerphilly.

If you found the 501 a little tight (and they have got somewhat slimmer fitting over the past 18 months or so), you might find the 506 more to your liking.

Had one for two years, it was bollocks. Anecdotal evidence, it’s worthless!

I also had a Samsung stereo in the early 90’s, that broke…clearly evidence of a sinister and far-reaching conspiracy against me by dark forces within the Korean industrial base.

PER 515T on a Maserati Quattroporte in Southsea
80T0X on a BMW 3 Series convertible driven by a yummy mummy
X2 RTR driven by a friend of the family who is…ex 2RTR (2nd Royal Tank Regiment)

Dakine High Roller. Not that much more expensive, but loads more room.

Oh well, Partick Thistle can always expand their stadium to 60,000

CaptJon – Member

Got this for my birthday from my parents. The clarity is amazing; the quickest glance and you can see what time it is.

I really like your Mondaine.

Is that the Swiss railway one? I seem to recall something about them modelling it after the clocks at Swiss railway stations. Anyway, it’s a great example of simple understated style.

I’d probably opt for a nice Japanese auto given the budget. I’m wearing a Luminox Chrono at the moment (not those Navy Seal ones, for I am not a Navy Seal!).

The USA is a wonderful country. It’s a pity that some people in this country (and others) seem to find it impossible to distinguish between the United States of America, the US Government and the American people.

I’ve also found that those Brits who hold anti-American sentiment tend to be the types who’ve never knowingly been right about anything. Oh, they don’t tend to have been there either.

Hasn’t it got the highest proportion of residents with postgraduate degrees or something?

maccruiskeen – Member

The unopened box trick has been catching people out here – news about folks buying laptops only to open the box to find a bottle of water

There was a brilliant one going on in Dorset last year. People were buying ‘iPads’ then getting home to find they’d bought a lump of wood…the little rascals even painted the apple logo on them just to rub the salt in!

Hunting. The dogs love it, you get to dress up, TJ will be outraged…what’s not to like?

Never bought a car from her myself, but Ling has the best website. It’s stunning! Oh, you get free noodles too apparently.

http://www.lingscars.com/

Lol! I guess Kimbers noted the OZ thing too.

I loved the bit where the guy in the Belfast charter with the cockney accent suggests that the PSNI would most likely shoot them and leave their corpses by the side of the road. On a par with the bit in OZ where the PIRA inmate explains that if he’s extradited to Britain they’ll hang him without a trial (what, in 2001?). Also, the interior of the house they stayed in was straight out of Angela’s Ashes.

No, I think right wingers generally grasp this fact.

It’s those on the left who still refuse to accept that there isn’t a magical money tree after all.

I was laughing at that website and then I remembered that I wore burgundy cords yesterday.

He was two years above me at school, don’t really remember him though.
Seems only fair as I bet he doesn’t remember me either.

Cheers.

tazzymtb – Member
don’t worry you WILL get all the fkers back who made your life hell up until this point and remember if you are going to convince someone to leave you alone use real terror

You are Charles Bronson and I claim my £5!

Don’t bother wasting two years trying to sleep with Wendy, in thirteen years time you’ll meet her at a house party and actually will…and it’ll be rubbish.

Also, Pop Will Eat Itself are not the best band in the world. They’re not even the best band in Stourbridge.

My brother used to work for them, decent outfit.

Only things to be slightly wary of (and as already mentioned) the possibility of losing half a day on the slopes in the event of traffic hell and the risk of not getting much of a kip if your fellow travellers are purveyors of ‘epic banter’ :lol:

The Guardian is hilarious. My favourite ever article was when some ultra try-hard yogurt-weaving oxygen thief wasted 1000 words telling us that those Meercat adverts were racist and that he felt outraged on behalf of his imaginary Eastern European girlfriend.

It’s the Daily Mail of the left.

Yes.

It was fun for an hour or so, but you can only spend so long running around a converted warehouse behind a multi-storey car park whilst children in neon jumpsuits shoot harmless beams of infrared at you. Afterwards we went to Pizza Hut.

Actually, forget the above. That was Quasar.

http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/a/arne/

This is where he works. My knowledge of ornithology is pretty woeful, but Arne is a great place.

My dad works for the RSPB, he’ll be out in the garden gawping at tits all weekend.

Ha! PMSL at the Radio Times anecdote. :P

Make sure your son gets some practice in at naked roll-mat wrestling.

She asked me if I saw anything I liked. I said, not really. She said she was going to tell the Police I had set fire to a school for blind children. I left with sixteen jumpers and a tea cosy.

Scottish & Southern Electric – Utter f***ing shower.

grum – Member
Does anyone remember an American skate mag that was extremely ‘edgy’, for want of a better word? Lots of pics of people doing messed up things and tales of debauchery, and I think some semi-porn style ads/photoshoots? Unless I have just imagined it all.

Yes, that was Big Brother.

We have them to thank(?) for Jackass as those skits and pranks with Bam Margera, Knoxville et al originally appeared as filler in their videos.

flyingmonkeycorps – Member
Fracture! I still have the last ever of Fracture kicking around somewhere I think.

I’ve still got it too, it’s in the spare room somewhere.

It was a real shame when that came to an end, such a good magazine. I used to pick it up from Stand Out (RIP) in Salisbury or whilst at Hull University, the Adelphi.

There’s a good zine called Last Hours which I keep meaning to subscribe too, it’s pretty comprehensive and seems to have filled the gap left by Fracture.

Magazines that aren’t specific to one subject, like mountain biking, surfing, fishing etc

Huck is really good, very well laid out too.

Yeah, I really enjoy Huck too.

It reminds me of an American magazine called Heckler which was around in the 90’s, similar mix of surf/skate/snowboarding/music and art. It disappeared ages ago though.

Huck is the only magazine I buy now (my subscriptions to Private Eye and this esteemed organ apart). I used to get Maximum RocknRoll too, but my appetite for obscure Hungarian crust-punk combos isn’t what it once was! Punk Planet was my favourite magazine, used to get Heart Attack too and there was a great (free) British zine called Fracture.
Honourable mention to the dearly departed Skyscraper too which covered everything from twee indie to hardcore. Thrasher used to be good for music too, I imagine it still is.

I guess the internet is responsible for the demise of many niche publications and whilst I love being able to find out about anything online, there’s nothing like sitting down with a good magazine and killing some time.

Best snack ever!

With bacon on top and lashings and lashings of HP Sauce

To be fair, they’re just trying to make the breast of a bad situation

Only if their breasts offer free public access in return.
No more public subsidy for private pertness, it’ll
be like Railtrack all over again.

I’ll have an ‘E’ please Bob.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSKQR0k6tUY&feature=related

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Spongebob – Member

The British class system is like a cancer to prosperity. It stifles growth and prevents people from being socially mobile. It’s a big demotivator.

I spent time at private school and because the regine was so harsh, much of the school rebelled. There weren’t a huge number of proper toffs there, but it was a rubbish environment for learning and the management foisted all sorts of rubbish teachers on us. Many left and went to state school, myself included. It was a waste of money IMO.

The toffs that are closing off opportunity need to watch wha tthey are doing. If they aren’t careful, people will see them for what they are: a bunch of useless supercislious arrogant upper class twits. There will be massive civil unrest and they will get their lights put out!

The UK need a meritocracy of hard working people who arent in control due to privilidge!
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Piss poor SPG. See me.

I went to private school before leaving at sixth form to attend a far superior state sixth form college (Peter Symonds, Winchester).

LOLtastic class warrior types seem to think that Britain is the only country in the world with a private school system. I only attended private school due to the fact that my (working class) father was an army officer and moved jobs every couple of years, thereby rendering conventional schooling impossible.

For what it’s worth I would have far preferred to attend state schools and live in one town/city throughout my childhood.

I met good and bad people in both the private and state school systems. I drive a Volkswagen Golf, but don’t lose sleep over the fact that other people are driving around in an Audi RS4.

People can spend their post-tax income on whatever they like.

You’ll get people saying it’s refers to Prisoner of Mother England and all sorts of bollocks, but I think conventional wisdom has it that the term derives from the blotchy red sunburnt skin (like a pomegranate) that helped to easily identify those ‘fresh off the boat’ in colonial times.

That could be bollocks too though.

QUOTE: philconsequence – Member
we found the french skiers VERY rude to us boarders UNQUOTE.

That’s not typical by any means.

I’d wager that those who were hostile towards you were yuppy Parisiens, the local French don’t like them either. They’re easily identified in the evenings by their ridiculous penchant for sweaters tied around the neck and draped over the shoulders.

None of the above – Penfield ‘Outback’