Wastethread.

Well, that went a bit weird.

Views differ. Such is life. For me, the only off-putting thing about STW is the spite shown towards others.

I suspect some of you wouldn’t be so nasty in person. On the other hand some of you probably would, thinking nothing of it. Maybe you should think more of it.

It makes sense, but could restrict people from trying and buying. You might have to demo a few bikes before deciding and it’d start adding up quickly.

No shoe is entirely useless..

*lurks*

Do you? Oh.

It said blinging, not minging!

Which paper was it?

What kind of mistakes would a novice likely make that she would take advantage of?

Trusting her with your credit card?

why does somebody … create a log on to be truly offensive to other forumites?

[shrink mode]This is what they are actually like as a person, but they value the veneer of decency their other name affords them. It hides their dandyprattishness from others, and they like it to be hidden. Sometimes, this becomes stifling, and their dandyprattishness needs oxygen. But in letting it out they would ruin their precious good name. So they make a disposable name up, eager to preserve the shell they know they will need to climb back into. But they can never hide it from themselves. NEVER![/shrink mode]

Our time is up. That will be £300 please.

Psychology? Why not just GET HIM!

A really good (select bodily function of choice).

Are the hamsters wibbling, or does the true identity of our mystery poster not show up where it says who the ‘topic author’ is?

Could anyone oblige with pics of the results, please?

lol at “clandestine backcountry trail ninjas” on carouseldesignworks website!

What are we supposed to DO until then? 😯

They’re all OS. 🙁

*realises own slip towards obsolescence*

we rarely get any definitive legal advice on here.

Or any free lunches.

Cotton should be fired. Like this.

i’d only drunk coffee/ tea or beer for 10 days.

This is my normal fluid intake. 😳

Watching Peter Mandelson toy with Osbourne on the documentary shown recently was amusing, and revealing. Irrespective of their policies or likeabilty, it was clear PM ran rings round GO. GO was left bemused, and not really understanding what had just happened to him. The guy is not the sharpest tool in the box.

Tho OP had his own TV 29 years ago! 😯

Pester power is driven by big company marketing and fuelled through the playground.
Dont **** give into it. Good parenting is about saying ‘no’ rather than bringing them up with the contents of your wallet.

The best post so far on this thread.

There are the stalwarts, and there are the rarities to be brought out to make an occasion that little bit more special. Gotta love the rich tapestry of profanity available to us all.

I recently heard a QC describe some people as something that rhymes with ducking dastards. It was his perfect delivery that made this most mundane of epithets into such a fine example of pottymouth.

Who?

mmb = Jeremy Clarkson

It’s like a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge bike shop.

I think he does an excellent job of taking the viewer with him on his own journey of discovery. He’s not a wide-eyed and credulous hippy, nor is he a dismissive scientific know-it-all. Because he doesn’t have a ‘position’ it’s hugely engaging to see his exploration of what he finds.

Once I’m over this flu, I’m all about the gin-soaked rags!

I’m incandescent with rage. Not sure what about though. 😆

Fairy Nuff. Pleasure chatting with you.

*goes off to make today’s 14th flu-beating cup of tea*

great social levellers, open to all men and indifferent to social status, and as a result associated with equality

There.

Is this what you people get worked up about? 😐

six pints of heinekin = not flu, only manflu.

You always do, Elf. 🙂

IdleJon – Member

UK didn’t ‘do’ coffee like this until relatively recently. In the 60s hanging out in a coffee bar was cool,

The coffee houses were great social levellers, open to all men and indifferent to social status, and as a result associated with equality and republicanism. More generally, coffee houses became meeting places where business could be carried on, news exchanged and the London Gazette (government announcements) read. Lloyd’s of London had its origins in a coffeehouse run by Edward Lloyd, where underwriters of ship insurance met to do business. By 1739, there were 551 coffeehouses in London; each attracted a particular clientele divided by occupation or attitude,

From wikipedia. Coffee houses are nothing new.

I never said they were. 🙂 My point was that UK didn’t ‘do’ coffee like this until relatively recently.

If I’d really wanted to get into it my coffee related musings, I could have gone on to say that the first coffee houses here were far from the egalitarian havens you suggest, and must have been full of social climbers. In fact, the wiki page you quote goes on to say clientele included Tories and Whigs, wits and stockjobbers, merchants and lawyers, booksellers and authors, men of fashion or the “cits” of the old city center. Hardly a chimneysweep in sight!

Having had very similar problems, sounds like a fake to me. Try http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/ If that doesn’t work, I’d just buy another one from a trustworthy dealer.

Mark Datz is a don. 😆

Never ceases to amaze me the snobbery involved with coffee, much akin to the snobbery in the choice of wine .

Agreed. I’m a very new convert to coffee, having had a handful of espressos in the past month or so. Some I liked more than others, as you might expect. I’m sure I will try other types of coffee in due course.

What is it about coffee that makes people really enthuse about it? And why doesn’t it apply for tea? I think it’s a cultural phenomenon largely imported from America (no criticism implied.. I love Hip Hop, Jazz, House, etc).

UK didn’t ‘do’ coffee like this until relatively recently. In the 60s hanging out in a coffee bar was cool, teenager-y, and rebellious. For centuries before that the usual drink was tea. And we didn’t keep going on about it.

It’s a bit like golf, I think. On the basic level it’s hitting a ball round with a stick. But that’s not what makes it into a kudos seeker’s paradise. Imagine people parking up their flashy cars to go and play a few rounds of Lego! Ha!