So many great mixes – I hadn’t realised they are still going. USed to download loads off the mixing bowl – I think its time to log back in.

A great one for listening to at work: Trentemoller

There is something about those old Sci-Fi films and the realism of their practical effects in 4k that just looks so much better to me than some of the CGI from just a few years ago.

The American girl complaining in the heat that her fanny stuck to the chair….. I know I’m childish but…. she said fanny!

Well someones lost that loving feeling

I was going to draw up a bingo card but I would never have expected “they defecate in our front gardens”

For a moment I thought they were showing this 🙂

I don’t think its fair for the teacher to put parents in this position. Most parents can make an informed decision in the home for their own child, some are going to say yes, some no. However, not every parent is considered enough to make an informed choice for their child (not intending to be patronising but thinking of the parents at our kids school blindly letting 6 year olds play Call Of Duty and Grand Theft Auto). Incidentally 6 years later these kids seem more often than not to be the trouble makers, and yes I know there is far more than the maturity of the films/games at play here.

If you end up excluding a few kids some of the others will pick on them. Why create the ammo?

I doubt a diet of cocaine, Marlboro red and the odd salad is going to leave you feeling that healthy

That’s why I replaced the salad with a burger…

I had one of these days for my 40th. The Gallardo was most fun, I had its tyres squealing on the curbs, which makes you feel like a driving God even if it is a bit slower. The Ferrari instructor was a bit limiting and wouldnt let me really hammer it and as much as I was really looking forward to driving the Atom it was a handful and needed more laps to get confident and not spin it off. In the end I felt like the Atom was a bit of a waste of track time.

The instructor lap in the Aventador was properly mental.

Next track day for me is a drifting day in Caterhams, quite excited because I am seriously considering building my own.

What’s wrong with masturbation then?

You might fall off your bike.

bellow if you need more information:

I’d just duck tape that back together and carry on 😉

Maybe it could be livened up a bit by someone throwing a dead fish at Nigel.

I’d recommend Tuna. No need to take it out of the can though.

I had to stop wearing my Fuct Jaws Tee when my son started reading everything he saw out loud.

I used to take great amusement wandering through Reading town centre on a weekend and warning everyone wearing the obligatory James tshirt that they had Come on their back. Oh the laughs we had.

Although I imagine a certain entertainment companies trademark lawyers might have something to say.

That model is huuuuugggggeeeeee.

Is series 1 still available ? I never got round to watching it but I think it’d be my kinda thing

It’s on iPlayer

We’ve had this the past 3 years. Starts with spotting one here and one there. Next thing you know there are 10 on a window sill every morning, then they try and take over your house.

The ones we have stink so I believe they are an invading species from Asia. I assume they are picking on me as I voted remain and they see me as a soft touch.

This Autumn my son reported finding loads in his room and when we opened the windows there were thousands of them in the mechanism and in all the gaps they could fit. I ended up hoovering them up from around all the the windows upstairs and at the front of the house. It half filled the see though cylinder on our Dyson and it stunk for days after. Felt a bit brutal killing them like that but apparently they are killing of indigenous species so in the words of Pope Jean-Paul the second f*** ’em.

Very weird. Everyone knows it’s flies in soup.

But if you need to get rid of the fly…

Been watching them live since the days of their harlequin jump suits.

Such a sad loss.

Just keep a copy of Lonely Planet/holiday brochure by the shitter and read it while you sit there. This works on 2 levels

1) You aren’t looking at the bathroom so won’t notice the sealant is mouldy
2)You’re thinking about the holiday so won’t care as much about the bathroom

Job done. (Pun intended)

I was expecting fitting my Rimpact to be a royal PITA however on 35mm rims with 2.4 tyres it was ok.

they aren’t feet that go on something like one of those old cloth drying racks are they?

An example of how a score can completely change the tone of a scene.

NSFW – bit gory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GjNSUatTc4

On a more serious note there is a sound playing in Irreversible that really adds something to the already unpleasant tension. Not really music but its a use of Audio that really enhances the visuals.

The scary tricks that Noé deploys for the fire extinguisher assault in Irreversible include spinning, vertiginous camerawork, disorienting red strobe lighting and, most effectively, a slow moaning siren soundtrack that includes a consistent 27-hertz rumble from the cinema’s sub-woofer speaker – which translates as a vibrating sound that gradually induces nausea in the viewer (and is occasionally used by American police to quell inner-city riots by making the overexcited participants physically sick).

So. After careful consideration I decided the Clockwork 29 Evo was the better tool for the job. I have the Spitfire for rides that are more rocky or downhill orientated.

I built it up from parts, XT groupset, Pikes, Halo vapour 35mm wheels with 2.6 WTB tyres. Finished building it ready for a ride yesterday and its brilliant. Not sure if its the bigger wheels, fatter tyres or just the new bike placebo but it corners like a beast!

Keep a slightly underfed Doberman Pincher in the garage. If it’s not hangry enough then get it one of those leather studded collars but fit it inside out.

Not sure how your going to get in your own garage but no one else will get you bikes either.

In my experience DPD are normally the best, however, the competition isn’t exactly tough. I think half the issue is the owner driver business model. That certainly accounts for the variability between areas. I read that My Hermes pay their drivers by the “successful delivery” so they are personally out of pocket every time they have to return. Probably goes someway to explaining why they consider front doorsteps, wheelie bins and my hedge to be a “safe place”.

Quick update – It seems my assumption that most people are dishonest was misplaced. I had a call from a lady saying “This is going to sound a strange question, but were you expecting a bike to be delivered today?” Seems her husband took delivery on his way out the door and she was expecting a T-Shirt that she had bought online, she was rather surprised that it was in such a large box…

I have just heard back apparently they mistook my office building for a 2 bed terrace house 15 minute drive away in a rough end of town. Its not like a its a small box to ‘accidentally’ take delivery and sign for. I guess someone thinks that they have had rather a stroke of luck and been given a free frame, they haven’t contacted DPD yet and did sign for it. Its probably already in cash converters.

What would you do with the now redundant holes in your frame?!

If you’re spunking £700 on a seatpost then Swarovski crystals would do nicely

Pah! Just wait till I bring out my seatpost & gear system that works on thought process. All you say is, ‘saddle down/up’ or ‘gear up/dpwn’. Not even any buttons to press.
You’ll see.

Sorry for the pedantry but what you described was voice activation. I’m pretty sure my Go-Pro has that functionality and I know my TV and Google Home stuff does so thats pretty easy to implement. Whether I could manage a clear vocal instruction when I am blowing out my arse is debatable.

If they open up the control you could replace a MIPS liner with one of these and really use thought control https://www.amazon.co.uk/OCZ-NIA-Neural-Impulse-Actuator/dp/B00168VU4U

Its a brave new world out there!

@rocketdog – unfortunately my short stature suggests I’d be better off on the Medium.

Last car was a 530d Touring. It was very nice. I traded it in for a XF 3.0S Sportbrake. The BMW had better handling, was more capable(relatively) in the snow/bad weather and had a bigger boot. The XF has a nicer engine, looks better and feels more luxurious inside. The Jags satnav is atrocious but the stereo kicks arse.

Running wise I did put 90k miles on the Beamer so it needed a few bits an bobs. The suspension seemed to have a few issues (it had the adjustable suspension and liked to tear holes in the airbags) and once moisture got in a headlight which was a £450 repair!!!!

The Jag has been fine until the dog vomited in the boot and killed the fuse box (actually it was my liberal sloshing about of water clearing it up that did the damage, but I still blame the dog) that cost nearly £1k.

Who is Akala, and why would his opinion on Brexit carry any more weight than some loudmouth in the local boozer?

Because he’s running the local cub pack?

Another happy Orbea MX parent here. Daughter has the 24 and son now has the 27.5 in XS.

so you wouldn’t be able to see them from a range of 2 miles from the gun sights on a Dreadnought?
fairly low risk.

That depends on where you commute…

Serves me right for trying to be clever with the link – sorted it.

I was thinking it would be very handy if the Chromecast had a microphone/Google Assistant. Its a lot easier to just ask it to play something, instead of having to find your phone and use the app etc.

Something like the Google Home Mini with an audio out would be good.

You can configure a Home mini to control a specific Chromecast so all audio is automatically played through the Chromecast. I do that in a few rooms. Voice control and a decent set of speakers.

I apparently lost 8 pounds last week. I have been weighing in every day and its been dropping pretty much a pound a day so scales are consistent.

I have been intermittent fasting so only eating between 13:00 and 19:00. This means basically 2 meals a day in which I am eating minimal carbs and lots of protein. I have also dropped my multiple lattes and gone to drinking black coffee and am staying off the booze.

Exercise wise its cycling to work (only 3 miles each way), Daily 15 minute HIIT (Joe wicks fat burning workout of you tube) workout before work and weights after.

I am assuming that as I was in poor shape at the end of last year (long hours lead to poor diet and little exercise) and Xmas and NY were so excessive with booze and food that this is a fast start and things will slow to a regular pace over the next week or so.

Trying to abduct a woman who has run into a Karate Dojo is also a bad idea.

Another sufferer here and as above I never knew there was a name for it.

I look like I’m having a nervous breakdown after about 30 seconds of cycling in the cold. Goggles work a treat on the MTB, but commuting on the road-bike they may appear a little OTT and if spotted would probably result in a thread on here “Saw a prick with Goggles riding a road bike today” 🙂