aracer – just fairly ordinary in a “get a child to draw a plane” sort of sense

[regarding B-29]
Y’know, that’s kinda what attracts me to it: it’s perfectly proportioned and looks exactly like a plane ‘should’ look. Indeed we all do have differing opinions on here, so to add my tuppence: that Mosquito, whilst a fine aircraft is, to my eye, rather aesthetically unpleasant (I think it’s those engine nacelles, plus the points mentioned above).

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But anyway…

…peekaboo!

Used for some pretty evil purposes, but still the most beautiful plane that has ever flown:

So some poor bloke who obviously hasn’t got a clue posts a ramblin’ rant about not being able to work his new iPod and it descends into the usual toing and froing in only 30 minutes?

Ho ho ho, classic STW stuff this.

Blimey, I hope you’re trolling there, gav, otherwise comparing a fictional ancient religion to a middle-age-spreading TV presenter is… disturbing.

Good news everyone! Last in the series means no more Top Gear threads on Sunday nights.

Hallelujah!

Lovin’ this thread.

I heartily appreciate the effort train spotters put in so that when I want to find out astonishingly geeky details about trains, it’s all there for me on wikipedia, though I would vehemently deny being a train geek 😉

Also: have a strange OCD habit of HAVING to count the number of cars being hauled by freight trains…

Classic.

Pics or it didn’t happen.

Yes it is, Grumm, and no you’re not thick: it’s presented in a style that is intended to immediately provoke a reaction that prevents one from seeing the actual numbers.

“Oh my, dear no no, by all that is holy, look how the foreign red devils are swamping us civilised blues!”

In fact, now that I think about it some more, after my initial laughter, I’m quite disappointed that anyone (mentioning no names…) would perpetuate such tosh by posting it anywhere else (i.e. here).

Biggest surprise:
Bought a Tange-framed no-name frame off the classifieds for commuting & put some longish Kona Project 2s on it – grin factor 10 everyday. I should really try it off-road. 😀

Biggest disappointment:
Was massively excited about and privileged enough to go on a frame-building course to build my dream bike. Somewhere along the line (more than likely my fault) the sizing and geometry have gone to hell and the bike is no fun at all… 😕

Those graphs posted by Stoner made me actually clench my fists in anger. Not because of the contents ‘showing’ how Johnny Foreigner and all his foreign mates are coming over here and taking our jobs, but because of the deplorable use of scales in the first and third graphs.

Accurate and truthful they very may well be, but unbiased they are not.

EDIT: Oh crapola, I just fell off my chair in painful hysterics when I looked beyond the pictures and noticed where the graphs came from and read what Stoner said about that twonk’s graph-making abilities. Genuine LOL.

I will absolutely be ordering form them in the very near future, specifically this beauty:

Geezer looks well chuffed with his!

The axle length is dependent on the chainset, not the BB shell width. Use the same axle length as before. 🙂

The last time I tried flats in anger was on my Brompton a couple of years ago = broken collar bone.

I’ve no idea how to ride with flat pedals. 🙁

I’ve just got no idea what I could possibly leave out.

Perhaps paranoia sums it up?

Thank you all again for your continuing contributions. Thanks for the link, leffeboy, and thank you so much, juan, for your lovely nativeness.

Erm… laissez le bon temps rouler! (Quite want to have the opportunity to use that phrase everyday.)

Aw, but surely there is a way…

Like, I dunno, “C’est n’est pas science d’rocket!” but more accurate.

Unoriginal and common, but socks. **** socks.

The weird thing is that as you get older you start to appreciate the gift of socks more and more until you get to the point where you’re like: “Oh socks! ****ing yes! I NEVER remember to buy any of those little ****s and here they, delivered by Santa and his band of merry ****ing elves. Warm feet for another year!”

It may be time to sleep.

Thank you for your contributions. 😉

Yeah, I’m aware that direct translations are usually nonsense, hence the disappointment with Google translate. What I’m looking for are translations of these phrases that are as close as possible whilst still retaining the spirit of the original. Does that make any sense…?

My grandad was only 9 when the war started, but he has vivid memories of people being blown to bits in his neighbourhood (Essex Thames estuary coast…)

I feel terribly guilty that, while he was telling me some tales of those days last weekend, I blurted out “just for balance though, we [the RAF] did kill ten times as many German civilians”. Everyone went quite quiet and I realised what a terrible faux pas that was… Idiot. 🙁

Sorry, just had to confess this somewhere.

I’m well aware of that, and I love it just the way it is, though votre mère’s just beats it…

This[/url] and this, for super-über-awesomeness on your bike.

What tyres for rising up against your oppressor?

I may be biased (being human and vegan) but…

Recognising that we can overcome our “animal” instincts.

Pretty unique on Earth, I believe.

You can’t have a thread about the Russian military, without involving invoking an Ekranoplan

FTFY, as surely they are mystical creations to be summoned from the Netherworld™.

Twenty years ago the cost of a Sherbet Dip Dab was 10p, now I can’t find one for cheaper then 34p online.

It’s a swizz[/url].

I’m so proud of this forum that it only took three posts to get to Ekranoplan! 😀

Well done, Elfin.

Depends entirely on traffic and traffic lights!

(and if you stop at them, which is another debate… I’ll just say that traffic lights are awesome for practising trackstands and sprinting starts.)

What herbivore and iainc said: Endura MT500 is suberb: has just enough wind protection. I carry around the ubiquitous Montane Featherlite Jacket for when additional protection is required.

In fact, that setup can see you through quite a lot of the winter with the right base layer (e.g. Helly Hansen Lifa Dry)

(Disclaimer: in the South of the UK at least…) 😉

Maybe it’s just a matter of semantics:

A dish cooked in the manner of risotto that is spicy is still tasty and viable, but should simply not be referred to as risotto.

Make sense…?

“That which we call a chilli risotto would, by any other name, still burn as painfully.”

And I bet the brakes are the wrong way round…

Pah, all your klickage claims are nowt compared to the commutes most of these guys had to get to work.

I know someone who has a lovely Alfine wheel for sale, at a very good price… 😉

Post some pictures so we can make a more informed decision, please.

Hope you’re not too badly hurt.

convert –

I use an old geko 301

301? Get you and your fancypants schmoovygroovy modern GPS! 😉

Been using a Geko 201 for (ahem) many years and absolutely love it, for all the reasons given above. What I’ve quite liked is, over the years, building up a scrawl of tracks of routes ridden across the face of Memory Map:

(Including a couple of cheeky tracks of airliner flights…)

It does really shine for touring rides into the unknown on hitherto unseen roads as it stops all that faffing about with maps at junctions: you just go where the route you’ve uploaded into it takes you. I do find that I quite often have to remind myself to just ‘trust the other me who plotted all this on the computer; he wouldn’t have wanted you to go astray’!

Top tip: batteries.

Short of sourcing from Europe yourself, Evans will be your only option in the UK. Ring up the mail order number – always quicker than emailing.

EDIT: or you could go for an aftermarket one, as suggested 🙂

Someone who actually knows the proper Excel way of doing it will be along soon but I seem to recall getting around a similar problem with a nested IF function…

=IF(0.125<x<0.375,0.250,IF(0.375<x<0.625,0.500…etc

Does that make any sense…? (And it’s not “x” you use, it’s the cell reference)

As I say, someone with some real knowledge will come along and be less speculative soon!

“Been injured in an incident that wasn’t your fault?”

Sound familiar…?

Hope he has a swift recovery.

the bit where they meet the bird

Oh thank you VERY MUCH! I haven’t seen that film yet and now, thanks to your post, I don’t NEED TO!!

Please be more considerate to others in future and include the words “SPOILER WARNING” in 50pt text at the beginning of any posts in which you might let slip vital plot elements.

Hypnotoad? Nah, Jamie, you don’t know what you’re missing to get a couple of these puppies on board:

Feels good man.