I was planning on buying one for the commuter on my lunch break today.

I also once got told off by walkers for not having a bell whilst riding on the Ashton Court trails in Bristol…

Are they all shared use around there or just certain trails?

anyone seen the snake bite photo on his twitter account

Just seen it and felt quick sick 😯

I’m not expert but that’ll be a serious recovery effort to get over that if its real, which I’m guessing it is.

Quite frankly, unless your colleagues eyes are watering and they’re literally chewing the air it isn’t worth it.

Do they also think it’s a waste of money? I’ve met some that do.

In any case, it’s widely acknowledged that being fluent in any second language is a major educational benefit – even if it is Welsh

Plus, if you’re looking for casual work as a student, you get some great opportunities if you speak Welsh and live in Cardiff – lots of people having to provide services in Welsh and not very many speakers.

The other plus being that when she is a stroppy teenager she can abuse you in front of her mates without you realising what she is saying 😀

Don’t answer the door with you’re wang out. Oh sorry, wrong boundaries 😉

Its a little lengthy for as quick watch but I’m not hugely creative and enjoyed it all the same so had to share it 🙂

spider bite?

I was expecting a thread about the Scorsese remake of Infernal Affairs 🙁

Always liked the look of these. Waaay more bike than I could do justice though.

Can link to a pic but here is a link to one.
http://forums.mtbr.com/foes/2008-foes-fxr-444017.html

Edit: Foes FXR btw

I have both the Mucky Nutz and Neoguard on both my bikes. One is running a Fox 32 Vanilla and the other a Reba.

I find the clearance with the Mucky Nutz on the Reba a bit too tight with a 2.3 Purgatory tyre if I’m honest, although it is workable.

No problems with the Vailla with regards clearance.

They both do an admirable job of keeping the crap out of my face but perhaps the Mucky Nutz just edges it for me.

Where does the stove pipe exit from? His behind?

I was checking out the Maindy Cycle Track in Cardiff and noticed someone had set Strava times. Average speed was something around 60-70kph so I wasn’t sure if this was some seriously quick roadies or someone cheating on a motorbike!

Only kidding 😉

Your other thead had me in stitches earlier 😀

TuckerUK – Member

I ‘have a friend’ who’s jobs sometimes involves using company vehicles. Apparently his usual co-driver is a bit more of a perv than your regular run of the mill perv. He doesn’t just glance admiringly at the ladies, he swivels round in his chair to ogle them as we pass. Cringe worthy. Apparently.

camo16’s son?

Okay so not really a colleague but someone in the same building as me.

At first it started off with a bra left hanging on the cubicle door in the mens toilets. Much hilarity ensued and there were rafts of giggles around the office.

About 6 months later yet another bra was found in the same toilet. Ha ha very funny, yes we’ve seen it before.

Next month a womens floral dress appears. Okay it was funny the first time but give it a rest now. Plus we’re accumulating a load of lost property.

Then with ever more frequency the items change from clothing to a weekly deposit of items such as a candelabra, a china cat, a small (and quite frankly hideous) doll, a teddy bear etc etc. It was beginning to get a bit like a live episode of the Generation Game by now.

Not only that we had a box of this shit cluttering up the office.

We had our suspicions and names were mentioned. Office gossip was, as you can imagine, rife.

A quiet spell ensues and then it returns.

First up we have a single egg. Placed discretely on the floor next to the toilet.

A few eggs and weeks later and small piles of salt appear on the floor.

This is getting annoying now and it must be equally as confusing for the cleaners who keep finding these presents. Not only that there is now genuine concern that someone may not be taking their medication.

Now the small piles of salt have a egg gently placed on top like some odd little shrine.

Its hard to know where to go from an egg and the straw that breaks the camels back is a smashed egg on the toilet floor. Being a tiled floor this is obviously quite slippery.

Managers now have really had enough and question their prime suspect no 1. It soon stops after that.

Bet you cant guess this is Local Authority 🙂

Hmm, thinking of examples for this is quite literally making my blood boil.

Round by me they just park in the bike lane so you couldn’t ride in it even if you wanted to!

Don’t mention nanotubes here, it’ll kick off!

There is a waste hierachy that businesses are encouraged to follow though, and I think its been bought into the Waste Regulations 2011.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/waste/legislation/waste-hierarchy/

I beleive there will also be a requirement from 2015 for waste collectors to seperate recyclable waste i.e. paper, glass, plastic etc so this might affect households and businesses alike.

Are the trails around Castell Coch pretty easy to find/follow then?

I’ve done a bit of riding up there but mainly over the common towards the Maenllwyd so think I’ve missed most of the ones around the Castle.

Ell_tell

Aye. On paye the tax man takes all the payments stores them up and then once a year writes a cheque to slc on your behalf.

This means you accrue interest on the whole amount the whole time.

Yep, I had heard that before but wasn’t aware setting up a dd would get around this. Will investigate further thanks.

FWIW I graduated in 2003 with around £12.5k and have been paying back ever since, yet I still owe around £9k. Seeing as I’m stuck home with man flu this weekend I might tot up all my repayments from my payslips over the years to see what I’ve actually paid back as this doesn’t seem right to me.

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Yep, got the obligatory letter from Orange regarding their price increase.

My 24 month contract is up in June so I reckon I’ll be going sim free with GiffGaff or Virgin/Tesco. I don’t like being tied into a 24 month contract and almost had an issue with Orange near the start of mine. The phone developed a fault and stopped charging and they wanted to charge me £120 for a replacement. I kicked off as it was only 5 months old and managed to get a free replacement but it did make me feel like Orange are a bunch of shysters.

Same here 🙁

Survived the whole winter without illness and now its looking like a decent weekend out there I’m holed up feeling rough as a badgers ass with a nose that wont stop running.

PAYE is a terrible way to pay it off, your employer takes the money off and makes one payment a year on your behalf I only noticed my loan going down after I started to dd it myself, not that that didn’t stop them threatening me despite me having references for the agreement to change to a dd….chuggers!

So let me get this straight, if I make dd payments my outstanding balance will come down quicker than if I stick with PAYE?

I suspect this never ending winter is not helping much.

Have you access to a sauna? You could try sweating the bugger out?

Only a very high earner could appreciate such a thing as Jazz.

I don’t know about engineering as I’m from an environmental background, but my recollection of applying for jobs post graduating was that you are considered a graduate, and therefore applicable for applying to grad schemes, for a number of years after graduating.

I know this doesn’t exactly answer you’re question but at least if you work in admin for a while and then go travelling you won’t necessarily burn your bridges with regards your gradtuate status.

Emergent Service Worker here. Clearly I listen to the wrong genre of music…

Had a lovely piece of lamb when we ate at Sheilas Cottage and was impressed by the food there. I wouldn’t describe the atmosphere as romantic candle lit though if that’s what you were looking for.

Really enjoyed the food at Zeffirelli’s too. Think we were there mid week and it was very quiet so lacking a little atmosphere perhaps but at least we had quick service.

I’d target people who cant drive on the motorway correctly, i.e. people who sit in the middle land irrespective of surrounding traffic and those who join from a slip road without indicating expecting oncoming traffic to simply just shift out of the way.

Ahh right, thought as much as I really couldn’t see anything funny 🙂 It is after 12 pm I guess so fair cop.

Err am I missing something on that review?

or staying with the nautical theme we stared with….

Or if you’d stroked the old dog then you wouldn’t have had two kids… sorry 8)

or staying with the nautical theme we stared with….

Err.. is that ship carrying the oil rig called what I think it is?

Previously on shedtrackworld

Reads thread with interest. Approves very much 🙂

Yep, I generally stop for people I see lying on the floor when others around me are quite content to walk on by.

Notable ones include the drunk girl unable to stand and with no knickers whose skirt had ridden up 😯

Closely followed by the guy who seemed a bit annoyed that I had woken him up – I guess he must have been homeless or very tired.

Then more recently I came across 3 elderly people in the spate of 3 months. One guy was at a bus stop and apart from myself and another lady everyone else just walked past and ignored him.

What are the two ipads for on the existing shed roof?

I have to say this thread is simply crying out for some flapjack related puns.

Am in Cardiff wysiwyg. Close to you?

Due to age and condition I’m not looking for anything for em and would be nice to see them go to a good cause, but likewise didn’t want to get stung for expensive p&p costs either.