Jamie,

Are you with Admiral?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235261/Car-insurers-Admiral-penalising-drivers-speed-awareness-courses-instead-taking-points-licence.html

Unless the insurers ask specifically, I wouldn’t introduce it into the conversation. It’s not a conviction – it’s education, as an alternative to prosecution. Once you have successfully completed the course, no further action will be taken and you will have no record of this on your licence.

EDIT – PS. You’ve brought shame on yourself, your family and the forum.

He’s been released on appeal with a suspended sentence then. Seems sensible in the circumstances.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20547557

Pezzers – Member

What is it with Cove’s that makes people have more than one.

What can I say – I love Coves, bit of a fanboi.

If you’re 5’11” you ought to really think about the next size up. Coves come up quite short in the top tube.

My Hustler just feels spot on in terms of geometry. The suspension feels reasonably plush and carefree – you don’t really notice it, which I think is a good thing – it goes about its business without too much fuss. Great on the climbs – hunkers down but doesn’t sit/ squat sluggishly in its travel.

Very capable bike.

Well done Cfh.

I’ve Noah idea.

robsoctane – Member

Dead Can Dance

Absolutely +1

mW,

I wish you and your partner the best possible outcome.

Be strong – I’m sure many of us will reflect on your closing sentence.

Mesh – electro industrial/synth pop band from Bristol.

They’re still about – never going to be massive but still should be bigger … certainly more lauded than they are. Bigger in Europe than the UK I think.

as far as im aware all hes done is block a cul de sac off in finsbury park

kimbers – you are Entwistle’s Home Affairs Correspondent and I claim my £5. :D

Number 17. Anyone thinking what I’m thinking?

Notes Apple link.

Cougar exonerated on a technicality.

Strange on a number of levels.

1981miked +1.

What was the other article Cougar?

Just acquired Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt.

Purchased after I’d overheard someone discussing Levitt’s theory on how the decision in Roe vs. Wade (US – legalised abortion) effected the crime rate.

In all seriousness – I know quite a few off here and ride with two – three regularly. All top people.

I’ve only ever brought my association with this forum up once with a rider on the trails that I’d just met and he looked at me as though I was something that had just fallen off the bottom of his shoe – so I’ve not been inclined to mention it since!

There’s a few on STW who I think would be a good laugh to hook up with.

Was he a holier-than-thou lefty conspiracy theorist asshat or an uber right wing nut job? We know forumites are either one or the other. :D

Turnip-top from Hicksville.

Xmas in Scotland.

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve poured cold water from the kettle into a cup thinking that I’d hit the on switch when I hadn’t. I have similar & regular attention FAILS.

… and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you!

Ace. Thanks.

That must have been shot last night. I saw the marked police car parked up on the Portway in company with the two people wearing fluorescent tabards (not police).

There you go.

Vomitous.

Cadbury Camp, Tickenham.

Bregante,

Probably worth making the point as well that eBay themselves have come on too, in terms of providing information in a time frame that empowers us to do something. Their processes going back 18 months to 2 years ago when I was acting on a Priority Crime Team was not the fastest turnaround TBH – far from it. Often victims would see it as police failings – when quite frankly it wasn’t.

Another insidious step towards privatisation and erosion of accountability?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9623068/The-secret-US-lobbyists-behind-Police-and-Crime-Commissioner-election.html

Imperial Stormtropper.

kimbers – I know this, of course I do. More so than any of you lot! I’ve been doing it since I was 16 and have been an officer for 17 years. The truth remains that despite the undoubted failures, the successes outweigh the negatives.

I try not to get drawn into these threads – I’m off to play XCOM Enemy Unknown, which any gamer with any self respect should steam into.

queens finest urban fist fighters

What? Genuinely, what? How bizarre!

The police deal with people in a state of very poor health on a daily basis. Since 1990 – I’m surprised the number isn’t higher than that TBH.

We know that people die … sometimes this happens when they have had contact with police … or A&E … or the Brigade or …

When I see threads of this sort – I can predict with unerring accuracy the regulars that turn up providing links to police inaction or failure – never the successes. The mind boggles (not really) at why they should rock up with mind numbing regularity – almost as though they have an axe to grind – hey ho.

Not the OP who I know to be a good bloke.

PS – Glad Mitchell’s gone, ****.

I don’t know whether they actually do a sandwich called a Myocardial Infarction, but they should do, it sounds ace if you say it with a Bristol accent.

LOL at this – I found myself putting on a Wester / Bed-me accent trying to pronounce it!

“Felix, this is serious. Please confirm that Strava has been set” …

First – Depeche Mode

Next – Depeche Mode (a few of the soon to be announced 2013 dates unless something comes along in the mean time – unfortunately they’ve never been the same since Wilder left).

Just tucked into a 96 Warre’s Port. Lush.

Scrambled egg on toast with two slices of ham and a few cherry tomatoes, woofed down in no time following a nice ride this morning. My wife had to shut the door into the lounge/kitchen due to the ‘disgusting spectacle’.

That is ridiculous.

How do you get to that level without dying?

The righteously indignant that spend too much time on forums getting all vexed and het-up about stuff on what are clearly light hearted threads :D

Being held up in a queue by old biddies/gits that spend an age rooting around their wallets / purses searching for shrapnel and loose coins to pay for their shopping without using paper cash. Pull out a note FFS and get on with it.

Yes.

As a visual spectacle it’s very good and there’s entertainment to be had for certain, but the truth remains that narratively it’s a flawed mess.