Voodoo Ray is the tune though but it’s already been suggested.

Mr Fingers. Can You feel it.

Maurice. This is Acid

Guppies are another bright colour that are easy to keep and as the are live bearers you may get the added entertainment of some fry. (the baby fish kind not the battered kind)

Tetra safe start can be used to cycle the tank quicker.

I have a pair of DZRs that look acceptable with jeans and fit my flipper like feet.

So on cold mornings I cry like I’m having some form of breakdown. Goggles stop that and I can actually see where I’m going but after 10 minutes of vigorous riding I’m warmed up and then they mist up and I’m blind again anyway.

People

I just upgraded a 10 year old Sony 40 inch HD set to a Sony 55inch 4K HDR all bells and whistles set. Ive been blown away by the quality improvement but that’s with sources like a PS4pro etc.

What he said.

+1 for the Orbea MX Dirt

Agree. My son had a 24 inch Specialised Hotrock XC. My daughter has the Orbea MX Team (I think – the one with the Alu forks) Its a far better bike.

It was because of bribery with alcohol that we ended up with kids in the first place…

I’ve been caning GT sport beta on the PS4pro in all its 4k HDR beauty. I have been out of the gaming world for the best part of a decade and it’s absolutely stunning to look at. Just wish my old g25 wheel was ps4 compatible. It’s going to be so much better with a wheel.

About 15 years ago I left a wallet on a café table in Bangkok with $250US in it and then headed off to Cambodia for a month. When I returned to Bangkok we walking past the café and I thought I’d pop in and check, never expected it to be there or with the $250 inside (the cash would have gone a very long way for whoever found it)

I tried gifting the owner some of the cash but he wouldn’t have any of it. Honest and humble.

On the flip side I found a wallet on the floor in PC world carpark with a thick wedge of £20’s in it and an ID with a phone number which I called. The guy just said “wait where you are” and hung up. Rocked up about 10 minutes later and didn’t even say thanks. ****!

I hit a stag on my bike at Sherwood. In the “bike park” came over a little rocky jump in the middle and it ran across in front. Just managed to divert enough momentum so my shoulder glanced off it’s hind quarters. Barely an impact but I still went over the bars and totalled my brake levers.

My 11yr old son is a dedicated coach potato with a love of computer games and a real lazy streak. He’s also particularly fond of helping himself to food. The upshot is we had an episode in the summer where he admitted to me he felt uncomfortable about playing in the pool with the other kids as he was to fat.

This was heartbreaking as a dad so I promised him we’d work together to make him feel positive about himself. I suggested we go cycling together. He said he’d prefer to run. That was the wrong answer but I wanted him to lead so running it was.

The thing is the first attempt he gave it his best for all of 45 seconds and then wanted to go home. When I pointed out we haven’t reached the end of our road he went full on stroppy teenager. He proceeded to pant and wheeze like he was having a seizure, whinging and crying, claiming I was going to injure him or he was going to collapse. Now I know my son and this was all for effect as he wanted to get back to the TV. I pushed him round and forced him to finish. To any onlooker would have looked like such an arsehole.

However, the next time it was a bit better and the time after that it was OK and afterwards he thanked me for making him do it and now a few weeks down the line he’s feeling far more confident and happy added to that he is physically healthier.

I guess my point is that in some cases what may look like a pushy dad is actually a dad doing the best they can for their kid, admittedly not always but you can’t judge without all the evidence.

I have an inner voice that, every now and then, tells me to kill myself. I have no intention of doing so. I always assumed I was a bit mad (too much acid in my late teens/early twenties can’t have helped).

Some of the above comments are reassuring in that other people get the morbid thoughts as well. It’s not something I’ve ever mentioned incase people worry I might actually do it.

Say what you like about paedophiles but at least they drive slowly past schools!

There seems to be an abundance of girls whose parents liked red at my kids school.

Ruby, Scarlett, Rose.

You could have a look in B&Q at the colour charts and see if you can find something suitable.

Not that it helps with the email deluge but it’s probably worth a bit of a security review. DO you use the same password for a lot of sites? If so I’d start to address that. If they’ve accessed your email account they could use that to get into other places.

any human being with nothing to hide would not have fought their innocence with such venom

Thats not entirely fair. If I had my child abducted but was repeatedly accused of murdering her I think I’d be protesting my innocence pretty hard.

y…apparently she’s filthy in the bedroom and up for anything

She began dating the 26-year-old lead singer of Lostprophets

Thats worrying given his perversions.

Apparently he’s a Belgian Genius, with a 24” Penis and scores all the goals while his bell end hangs by his toes.

I guess Belgians are well endowed.

I think it’s especially impressive to be playing top flight proffesional football with a sub 24inch inside leg.

https://flic.kr/p/YLouNg

Your Five Series might be ok. The fancy traction control is pretty good as once you get a bit of forward motion. Just park pointing downhill.

It’s interesting that the views of those in education are much more negative about the impacts phones and social media.

I know my other half works in a very specialist educational establishment so sees the worst of it but the stories she shares with me when she’s offloading are horrific. She’s had pupils top themselves because of the on going online victimisation. Even after they have left the school where the bullying started they are still getting harassed online.

Once a video or picture is made and shared it’s out there forever and no matter how perfect a parent you are young teenagers are impulsive and make mistakes. In our day that mistake was laughed about for a bit and then hopefully was forgotten. Now it’s online forever for all and sundry to see.

Given what a **** I was as a teenager I’m so glad there’s no permenant record of it.

What horror stories? Are they real or media hype?

I know from stuff my wife, who works in a specialist school for kids so messed up that they can’t handle mainstream, that they see them as a huge problem. Admittedly it’s actually a combination of the impact of social media and phones but the bullying that can go on is so much worse than when I was at school as it doesn’t stop when you get home anymore.

I think being aware of what your kids are doing online at this age (my sons 11) is very important. I’m with the OP in that I don’t want my son to have a phone yet but a lot of his mates do. When I relent and he gets one I think the rule will be that I can request he hand it to me at any point and I will be allowed to review any content I want. Hopefully he’s sensible enough anyway but the added knowledge that his mum and I could see what he’s doing should keep him in line. At the very least it’ll teach him about hiding his tracks and mobile security.

1) you’re a crap rider, honestly if you’ve spent the last decade on Pinkbike etc watching WC runs, Rampage runs and the like your run down Mont Cheery is going to look week, what’s worse is that without the added thrill of being the rider it looks even worse to anyone else you show, even your Mum won’t care

What he said. My Session Hero does a good job of stabilising the image but flattens the trail loads.

GtiJ has had the 24 hour ECG monitor thingy but of course no palpitations happened during that time. I used to get them a lot in my teens and twenties too.

My other half suffers terribly with palpitations – not exercise related. The one sure fire way of preventing them is for her to wear a Holter monitor.

What a bout a thick rubber style inner tube patch on the inside of the tyre?

You have 3 bollocks?

Don’t use the 6 pack. Off road lights which are so bright they blind drivers, or (even worse )cyclists coming the opposite way are a bloody nuisance and quite disorienting when it’s otherwise dark.

This^^

Last winter I nearly hit another cyclist on a narrow shared use path because the bike coming towards me had a helmet light brighter than the sun and the guy behind him had a light free from a Xmas cracker. I was so dazzled that I was unaware the second cyclist was there.

I wear my trailskins in the post ride shower every now and then.

I know BMI is bollocks but on the chart you’d have to be very short (5’4″ or less) for a chap to weigh 8 stone and be ‘healthy’. I thought most grand tour competitors are about 11 stone or so.

I think we can therefore conclude that reading between the lines what he meant was fit women look good in lycra. Men don’t. I undertook a quick survey in my house this morning and my wife looks good in lycra and I don’t so thats categorically proved he point.

Rhys Ifans

Steve Peat

You can use the FIND function.

For example =IF(FIND(“Tom”,A1,1)>0,”Tom”,”Not Tom”)

there’s no response less likely to be productive or more likely to piss people off

Your Mum pays less road tax.

I got called a **** by a passenger in a tinted window Corsa because he didn’t like me holding primary. The driver even slowed enough alongside me so he could lean out the widow and shout it clearly. I responded as maturely as I could with “So’s you Mum!”

They then pulled up ahead to berate me and invite me to take part in some fisticuffs for calling his Mum a **** while she was in the back of said car meanwhile she was reading the lads the riot act for being rude.

I know a chap who replaced all his kit when he changed his bike brand so it all matched. It makes him happy. Who am I to judge? Although it did make me chuckle when he asked why I had gone for such a stealthy no logo option when I had spent so much on my bike. He actually said “No one will know what you’ve shelled out”.

Educate them. With your mattock if needs be.

MY daughter used all my Duct tape to wrap a basket ball. Do you have either a daughter or a basket ball?

I am now far more careful going up the inside of traffic and on some stretches I ignore the ‘safety’ of a painted cycle lane and filter up the outside of the traffic like I would have on my motorbike. Watching peoples front tyres and wing mirrors to spot signs of an impending right turn by a car I am filtering alongside. This does seem to really irritate some car drivers where the cycle lane exists but its only the bellend who decided to drift further right to block my path that has caused me any risk.

I wish my commute was off road – far safer and far more fun.

I have the four bike model. Its not brilliant quality but does the job OK. I have broken several screws and it got rusty and looked tatty very quickly. Also the locks in the actual clamps provide no security I would ever rely on.