Bloody hell this thread has gone off topic.

He wasn't executed for being bi-polar, schizo, strange, bonkers or whatever.

He was executed for being a drug smuggling scum bag.

Now – my medical knowledge is not all it could be but I am sure that being a drug smuggling scum bag is NOT a symptom of bi-polar disease.

I don't know him. I don't do drugs. He's a crim. So many reasons not to care……

Being adaptive to a variety of peoples needs and making sure that they do what you want in the way that best suits them.

Job done.

Same illness as Stephen Fry – would they execute him if he got caught trafficking 4kg on Heroin?

Dunno – but Dawn French got caught smuggling drugs in Heathrow over Christmas! She dropped her bag going down the green lane and when she bent over to pick it up the customs official saw 50 kilos of crack!

Fotopic banned me for such photos in the past…

Is the peak supposed to face forward? If so, then I probably do have it on the right way.

It is very odd as it did used to fit perfectly. I've not fallen off and squashed my helment or owt.

Perhaps my head has actually become misshapen…..

The worst bit is the front pads leave a dent in my head that last about two hours now after I've taken the damn thing off!

Dr R Swank

Lethal injection….

Shame they didn't pump the **** full of the heroin he was smuggling – ironically fitting me thinks.

Hmmmm,

I is narked. Jacko, madge, etc ain't bands! They're people(?)

Bands are never overrated. These are groups coming together to produce wondeful sounds.

As for PF – great gig in the sky is still a huge fave.

Darkness – never really met their time

Elbow – been around ages nit just the Seldom
seen kid

I like music me, but it has to come from a band. Play it yourself and you're not overrated

Hmmmm,

In my early career years I worked as an early phase statistician for a large pharma company.

I went on a fabulous pharmacokinetics (that's the way a drug is dealt with by the body) course in Manchester.

We all had to introduce ourselves.

One guy, seemed a nice chap, introduced himself as, and I spell this as it's said ….

Dr Ram Dikshit

Its fair to say smirks were mandatory!!!!!

I am a fat IT specialist and I fly a lot! I spent around 25 weeks out of last year in the US and I am VERY happy they have thorough screening.

To be frank, I don't care who they screen. A fat man, a black man, a muslim, a christian, a member of the Krankies fan club! It only takes one **** to crash a plane – and I'd rather not be on it.

It is a pain in the arse – but less of a pain then being dead.

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I rest my case

If Lambert was climbing first with Connery following it'd be pretty **** camp!

Look –

French man who barely speaks English pretending to be Scottish = CAMP
Soundtrack by Queen = CAMP
Lots of male bonding = CAMP
Starts off with wrestling = CAMP
He's called Russel = CAMP
He's been alive for 500 years and only had sex twice = CAMP
He uses a sword instead of a chainsaw, or a ruddy big gun = CAMP

It's a camp film people. Good, but camp.

LOL – I'm not dissing the film – it's just camp as!

And I'm not dissing camp – I quite like dressing up in ladies clothes…..

What's homo-erotic about folk chopping each others heads off?

It's the overt masculinity about wandering around (in skirts) insisting on chopping each others heads off, whilst still being all brotherly "give me your hand brother".

I'm surprised they didn't baby oil up before each fight!

It's a good film. But it's VERY 80s and Christopher Lambert couldn't act his way onto Eastenders!

Oh, and Queen did the soundtrack.

Here endeth the Camp-analogy…..

Glad it turned you on, but it didn't work for me on that level!

Try watching it wearing a kilt – it makes all the difference……

Actually Harry the Spiders precis is better.

The Alien was wearing a kilt.

Job done.

It's complicated:-

Present Day
French poof watches wrestling but decides to go back to his car.

Days of old
French poof with a crap scottish accent goes to fight some other men in skirts

Present Day
French poof has a big scrap with a fat Nicolas Parsons in an underground car park.

Nicolas gets his head cut off and lightening comes out of his body.

Days of old
Frenchie has a scrap with the other men in skirts but no-one will fight him. Clancy Brown sticks his big chopper right inside Frenchie.

He's about to get his head chopped off (which you know won't happen as you've already seen him in the present day section of the film) when his family save him.

He's supposed to die, but doesn't.

His missus decides she'd rather he was dead and declares him in league with satan.

He gets banished from his village

Present day
Frenchie fails to drive his nice sports car out of the underground car park in time to evade the cops in New York (and hey, that would NEVER happen).

It's a very homo-erotic film. But worth watching.

I am a middle aged man and anal about cleaning and ironing.

Most irons are fine. What makes the difference is the clothes not being bone dry when you iron them (one of the plant misters from a garden centre can help here) and technique.

Either that, or pay someone to do it for you.

Ruby Wax

And she's sexy!

What makes a good driver?

Keeping all of you peons behind me where you can't cause me damage!

So instead of listening to the crap from your driving instructor "mirror, signal, manouvre" listen to this – "GET OUT OF MY WAY AND STAY THERE"

Oh, and just in case – it's a silver jag being driven by a driving god…..

You'll get a hangover last Christmas?

"a bell-end perhaps?"

Even my bell-end is god like.

I pity you mere mortals……

Assuming a bell shaped curve then half of the population will be above average drivers.

But, it is not a bell shaped curve, becuase I drive, and I AM a driving god. So the distribution is highly skewed.

And yes – I am also a statistical god.

Do you mean Kill or Call?

Call – no.

Kill……..

FFS – why can I never do photos!!!!!

RAAAAAAAGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Done by Orange. It's sliver flecked white like Tinsys above. £150 but that was for a strip, respray, stickers, head badge and main bearings.

I reckon it looks gorgeous……..

Wood is better 🙂

Er, if you have a dual burner you ARE supposed to turn them off……

I hate the thought of getting up, fancying a boiled egg, and needing an hour to warm the sodding Aga up to cook it.

They do cook things nicely – roasts are great. But they are a pain the in the arse.

A decent fan electric oven, coupled with a gas hob is better. People who support agas are doing it for the sake of it – sorry

"Ford Model Ts are the best cars" – syndrome…..

I HATE my aga.

A good stove is great 🙂 Heats the room really well and it'll still be warm the following morning if you run it well.

I am a convert 🙂

I HATE them.

They take forever for warm up, are crap for heating anything on a stove top, and smell.

I would never have one again.

We have one that is dual burner so does the heating and the cooking – and I still hate it.

Get a proper boiler and a proper cooker. Job done!

A paternity test?

He's one – a teddy perhaps…..

LOL…..

Scum, utter scum…..

Do you have clean underpants every day / week / month?

The only reason to have a car with a totally flat rear seating arrangement is to have sex in when you're 18 and have nowhere else to go. And a MKIII Capri is the weapon of choice for that.

It takes 8 hours if you don't stop everywhere and keep your foot planted.

It's actually not a bad drive.

Is it just me? But sleeping in the back of your car!!!!

FFS

You're all bleeding TRAMPS!!!!

What next "Which diesel engine is best for cooking roadkill on?"

smart arse!

ahhhh bo!!ocks. Why didn't that work?

LOL – sorry, I'm just shit with pooters.

This should give you some Christmas cheer 🙂

Happy Holidays……

Had an original Sub 5 – loved it. snapped it.

Orange were wonderful and replaced it with a Patriot in 2002 – I still use that as my main trails bike.

I also have an Alpine 160 (for sale) which is wonderful going down (ooooh-eerrrrr) but a bit lardy for me on anything XC related.

What I have worked out is bike are very individual – what suits one will not suit another. But Orange make decent bikes that have very few 'go wrong' points on them.

I have owned a great many other bikes but my Patriot is perfect for me.

Is it cult, or is it just that they've made bikes that suit some really well (rather then shit that suits the masses somewhat)?

I like oranges me 🙂

Good for you. Showing a bit of spunk in a bad situation.

:ThumbsUp:

She was gone for 5 minutes!

Well that rules me out as the father 🙂

But if you wear contacts you at least have the option to take off your 'over-glasses' if you're slobbing up a big steep hill and getting sweaty.

I used to suffer from this loads (misting up, not getting sweaty going up hill – I still suffer from that!) and it's a real bind if you actually need the glasses to see with (I'm very short sighted).

It was an utter pain back in the day when I went XC racing as I'd have to stop and clean the **** glasses which did nowt for my lap times.

So I went to contacts and over-glasses. I could then just slip off the glasses if they got misted and bob was my uncle.

Ta all, I've given up on the idea. Having done some more homework it does look like the Niteriders would be OK, but as has been pointed out, it's a lot of dosh to have no warranty.

I am here about once a month mind……