I used to think the Sam Hill riding to Rob Zombie in 3Minute Gaps was the best 3 minutes ever.

It’s been bested, if any non cyclist ever asks what I do on the bike I’ll show them 8)

Never heard that.

But for me it’s a super super super bike letting rip. Even better heard on a motorway in the distance.

*squirrel*

Piles.

BaaBaa merino ones done me three years of frosty mornings still in perfect condition.

Who says if it went wrong “back in” means “back to how it was before” rather than something better, but different.

There’s a lot of money to be made from the “I need a bike, what does the internet say?”.

Hans Dampf on the arse and a Ralph up front was good for me.

Wanted something more burly so now on Minion DH 2.5 front and High Roller 2 2.35 60a rear.

Which is incredible.

I wonder how many people there are who have not registered and are just planning on showing up.

“Aye but, yes, but…”

Mad perspective.

Norco trials Ryan Leech bike, original Inbred 26-bars facing wrong way there- and Mrs. C’s Kona.

All those boxes are bits. And there’s a cupboard of frames, wheels and bars. And 2 Hi Ten BMX’s in the garden.

Spectacularly elaborate. Lift one = absolute joy.

Oh, right, you’re north of Glasgow?
Considered “highlands”.

Means they can do whatever they like.

This is wisdom from someone who used to have all the direct dials and they were only useful for deliveries to the Highlands, and to central London.

Comparable logistical black holes apparently.

Good luck. There’s only one response a depot manager will give a member of the public showing up to collect their goods.

Those who have it ain’t up for giving it out, most likely.

Kind of like “can you phone the queen?”

“Well, I can phone the queen”.

^^^f me. That’s the reward for replying to the posh dinner thread on the margarine thread.

Jesus, never done that before.

I bet there’s a post now telling the guy to order Bertolli at la Gavroche.

The skill to “dressing” down, IMO, is to appear as if you chose not to wear a suit. Not that you only own one.
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An older pair of non-curly shoes, some ironed tailored lovely jeans and a “looking good” shirt. Cufflinks, tie pin, shave. Little things that make you feel good too.

No advice on wearing a suit all day as that is my own personal hell.

Butter all the time except when I think “you’ve had too much butter this week” and I swap to a popular Olive oil based spread.

I am 27. Cholesterol control for life, ya.

“Old git got knob stuck in zip cue the kind of camaraderie only found from lifelong friends and respect of the youth.”

When I die cold and alone, I want the landlord to notice I’m missing.

Wiggle

Just listened to Burning Red it’s bloody awful apart from “Lies”. Doesnt age well.. message in a bottle….

Locust for the win.

Gig is worth it for Davidian, Imperium + hopefully Call to Arms alone.

Fair bit of the same feeling here but after the Liquid Rooms gig which blew me away I’m going for hopefully a decent live set rather than a new album play through.

They’re going in a “simpler” direction apparently.

Competition.

Couple racing pigeon coops around, that’s the a grade feed it appears.

I got a verbal warning once as I was complained about for telling a “victim of employment” to “just leave then” every single time they said “I hate working here”.

My offensive nature offended him A HIM!

This was in retail.

Spot the Robin.

Had a couple Tits for the first time this year.

“Birdtrackworld”.

I’ve never known Intellectual freedom, I don’t know anyone who has. I don’t believe it exists.

I had my first Hotmail account 15 years ago. MSN, Audiogalaxy and Napster soon followed. If it’s all logged, there’s a lot of information.

If you don’t want someone to know, don’t put it on the internet. The whole worlds going full speed “Children of Men” at the minute.

I wrote an actual letter the other day and folded it up really small.

Always burgle the house with CCTV.

The only one we ever did was techno quest.

Which is already on it’s third generation of young people so it’s definitely paid fir itself.

I miss Techno Quest

And in my experience, the aforementioned folk are often late 20’s, living at home, no rent or chores or responsibility-still- have an ITV2 related phone wallpaper and **** LOVE “the bants”.

Often drive a fully paid for -by dad-Mini countryman. This includes the guys.

There’s a foo fighters song about this, or something.

To be honest, until life started kicking, I was that guy ^.

Now I’m this guy.

That’s more of a waste of time than my 250 stolen Skyrim hours.

Precisely the reason why I quit gaming.

Now I sometimes play games.

I’m off digging then. And fat balls. And things.

Getting obsessed cause he was back again this morning. We have a lot of bark which hides slimy things I suppose.

Also, magpies like YumYums.

There’s a coked up Bruce stream of consciousness shtick on YouTube which is overwhelmingly pretentious and nonsensical.

I’ve been in awe, truly life changing, recently of various stand ups philosophy and power to improve consciousness. I rarely laugh, just chortle and “oh, yeah, that’s right”.

Leary opened the door to me a long time ago, but I’ve been advocating comedy as an art for a while now.

Park at the Glen Nevis Visitor Centre, look at some taxidermy and pick a walk.aforementioned wire bridge a must.

Nevis Bar below Nevissport. Nae locals other than wee jock. Proper fire, always got an aviemore ale on.

Avoid the locals, I was one.

There goes my POIDH

Aha, so, on the topic of Brendon Burns:
The aforementioned comics pretty much changed my perception on many sociological topics since they appeared at just the right time of furious mid twenties.

Where’s the happy **** ’cause if you go back, it’s Carlin Pryor and Bruce and they dont **** help either.

And it’s all Al Murray’s fault. Explaining standup is method acting with such candour I’m confused.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

Thanks to this thread, I will go to FOPP tomorrow.

Done that. Same rules apply.

Although further reading on Bill suggests he wasn’t as full of misanthropy and malaise as his stand up persona suggested.

Further reading on Stanhope verifies he **** hates you.

Edinburghs going a bit mental with bike thefts right now.

Lots of stolen bikes, lots of scrotes on shiny bouncers, not many folk getting their property back.

It’s a shame.

As usual I’ll keep a look out in Gorgie/Dalry/Hailes end incase it’s traversed the thief border.

Fingers crossed.

Question should have been “What three bikes would you own if you could”.

And we had a parcel tracked in London, Paris, Italy and finally Nottingham.

It was going to Leeds.

Ta TNT.

I have been blessed in the past with direct dials for warehouse distribution managers up and down the country.

**** doing their job every day. Working with them to resolve “I have a P.O.D but it’s not my customers” were brilliant days for me but these guys were literally firing people on the spot for not giving a shit.

Fedex, DPD, DHL, PF, Interlink, BPost, Royal Mail all suffer from devastating levels af staff disenchantment and piss poor accountability from the ground up.

Got a call back once to be informed that while delivering to a rural Scottish coastline, a contract driver had left a 2k coat “in your boat”.

Wasn’t the customers boat.

Lost coat. Courier company down a grand.

:D

I know the area well and very very often, “hobby cyclists” shit themselves when they realise they’re in a bus/tram dual carriageway with nowhere else to go.

Or not. Still, it’s not often there’s a “Horse Causes Emergency Stop Whiplash” or “Bluetooth **** causes Collision” headline. It’s a scatty publication at the best of times, the sort that leave comments open on a cyclists death, not a motorists.