Just saw this thread.
I'm addicted to the game – PS3 – Andyc709292

In rush defense I use the "SAIGA 20K SEMI" on medic with shotgun mag upgrade. Tis excellent to defend a position with that gun, and as a medic you can revive/heal people at the scene, making it almost impossible to breach.
Attacking – well, I use the add-on MG3 – SPECTACT, it's pretty handy, and with 4x scope it's excellent.

In the laguna/jungle conquest sessions I'm an engineer with mines, many, many tank kills that way…

Other conquest maps – chop and change depending on mood and gameplay, if there's too many snipers I'll go in as an assault or medic. Actually, since I've unlocked the 4x scope in medic assault seems pretty redundant.

Off to play now…

Helmet off on the DH bike climbing back up the closed tarmac road – lid back on once got to the main road and subsequent DH.
I think the only way I could bang my noggin doing that would be if I feinted from the effort of the climb…

Meh, drops are for wusses.
Risers all the way – probably needs some bar ends too…

Best advice I had about driving was to expect to meet yourself coming the other way.

Oh, and the wasps are Aussie ones so think more hornet sized (and probably lethal).
…

Actually, I don't like killing wasps, the ones around our house make little cocoons and stuff a spider in them as food for their young. Though I think this is probably too big to box up:

More on the mud nest wasps here. Australia is ace.

Used a high pressure attachment on the hose and blasted the one we had – wasn't a large nest though, but could stand far enough back not to be in their sting zone. It knocked the nest off, they rebuilt, I did it again and they moved on.
Almost humane!

Another over here in Aus post…

We have an annual put shiat you can't bin onto your front lawn and get it collected day (catchy name). I ditched an old strimmer, push mower, pool steps and some other stuff.

Anyway, before the bin lorry comes round various types come round with their utes and pick out the salvageable stuff. I say good luck to them and what an excellent system.

We now posses a mini see-saw for the kids that was being thrown out. Next year I'm going to canvass a posh road's houses – should be good stuff there!

Yes that is a long post…

Did the same on my hope caps, +1 cut slot.
Now have some more meaty screws that look a bit agricultural but won't strip.

I always hand on my ticket if I can – as far as I'm concerned that ticket entitles a car to park until the indicated time.
However, around where I used to live they started having machines that required license plate number to be put in – I guess to stop exactly that.

A long time ago I remember it used to be pay at the booth on exit. What a much better system – you're paying for the chappie(or 'ess) anyway to be a ticket nazi, so why not put them in a nice little booth thing and collect cash on exit. Everyone's a winner.

Tewantin woods (Noosa/Aus).
Been raining here, but that'll just settle the trails.
DH bike time!

If anyone is up round there, use this map
On an XC you can do the lot in a day no trouble.

@ carbon337
I wouldn't have it any other way. Love my kids, love my life.
And yeah, I bike less. But that's because I spend more time with my family, that's a choice and one that I am happy to have made.
I have had few moments (haven't we all) where I'd trade a kidney for one less nappy change. 😀

Mate and I did Picos trails (not MB trails really). He was supremely fit and rode an old specialised with u-turns on it. Whilst I wasn't, and had a Heckler.
it probably levelled us out pretty much, except on the climbs where he'd scoot off then come back down to taunt me…
He managed it though, and really enjoyed it – only comment was around being stood up for half the day on the bike, really tired his legs out.

Im really confussed i feel like i need to be doing something

Go riding now – it'll end soon enough.
Get everything you own that's expensive in the house and break it, at least you'll have the pleasure rather than nipper.
Draw on the walls with marker pen or crayon (your choice) don't worry about being precise.
If you're thinking you'll weather the storm, take a shiat on your carpet, tread it in.
Break a rib, or at least practice dropping 15kg+ weights onto your chest/head/legs/feet
Get some marmite, spread it liberaly around your genitals – then try and wipe it off with a wet-wipe (you'll become a master at doing it to your bub).
Have a massive curry/beer fest (why not it'll be your last) then when the inevitable fall-out occurs, stick your head in the pan and breath deep, you'll get used to that smell too.
Set your alarm to wake you up every hour, day & night. In fact go 2+ days without sleep to see what happens.
Learn to sleep at your desk, learn to sleep with your eyes open.

That should have you in the zone.

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Talk about delivering bad news in a nice package…

Fantastic thread BTW.

We just get this:
boring nothing to look at but the weather

Only thing I watch on TV is House, and occasionally Criminal Minds (though that's been pants of late).
40" TV is for kids, movies and Top Gear downloaded (we get it a year late in Aus).
So wouldn't ditch the box (kids would kill me), in fact we have two, as I'm on a PS3 playing Battlefield Bad Company II most nights at the moment – hopelessly addicted. Other half gets the comfy couch and big TV.

You can keep him, I'm still watching that warm front move across the west cost…

I want to be on night rides with you – I won't be needing lights!
Nice though. But do agree on bar ends and risers – bullhorn lookalike.

1. Remember being at boarding school, breakfast on a long dinning table thing. Anyway, I pick up the milk jug (2+ litre thing), and as I do the chap opposite grabs it by the top as it's a stainless steel heavy duty thing. Anyway, a bit of an argument ensues with his thinking he should have it (he was a bit of a bully) and tugging on it etc. So I agreed in the end, and let go. To this day I can remember his face as he threw milk all over himself.

2. One of the regular trains I'm on has a class fault the door into the carriage from the boarding area (it's an old style train) sticks open, you're supposed to press a button, but it must stick on the floor as when you walk through it's just enough to release it, and it's pretty hard to stop. Makes my commute great fun. Best was some pompous bird with coffee.

And this:

Here

Always liked these:

And these:

Sounds silly but… take the seat post out and go for a ride around the garden. See if it still creaks.

I have a gear inch calculator spreadsheet – adjusted up to 36 tooth rear.
Good for comparing the spread of your rings. 😯

Interested?

was Opera, went pants in the last version so now on Chrome. All good.

😯 – imagines you looking up and dropping over as you black out…

I slept on my front with my arms (angel like) in front and under me.
Woke up and thought I'd lost my arms as they were completely dead.
Funny now, but not for a few seconds after I awoke.

I miss Afan.

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Religious nonsense 1 : People going to heaven over that one 0.

Can't wait for the first mosque or similar to try the same. I really can't believe that we're such martyrs to the dominant religion.
I'd have told them to **** off loudly and proudly in the sunday service for that one.

I always like the tiger tank, saw one in a tank museum in France, easily the most impressive tank there (and there was a lot) except for this one:

That was huge.
This museum, worth a visit[/url]

An an aside, my step father used to put a bit of petrol in the diesel for the tractors in the winter – stopped it getting too viscous.
My understanding is as above really, older engines are more tolerant. New common rail etc are pretty fussy.
Reading the posts though, sounds like it's a fuel pump failure followed by ingress into the engine of said failed pump – I'd be tempted to get a quote on a replacement pump to be sure.
And comments around reusing the fuel that's drained – no chance. We went from a petrol pump to a diesel pump on the farm the cheap way (run till empty then switch) – ended up with some hundred gallons of 'mix' that wasn't really useful for anything, certainly wasn't about to put it in a car!

Rebuilt my downhill bike and did the same last weekend. Only half a day and a couple of pinch flats, but back into cycling again now!
Need to find the time though!!!

+1 Malwarebytes

You're moving out – let it go and don't rent from that agency again. Life's to short to really do anything about it.
If you feel the need, write a letter stating that next time you'll press charges for home invasion, but really, you'll be gone by then.
Sounds like the LL is good – don't bother upsetting the agency.
The rage will only make you feel bitter in the future. In a few years time you can be serene about the fact you let it go for the right reasons.

Old post:

Back in the day spacemen came down and setup a biosphere on planet earth.
The new colonists (Adam and Eve) tried earth produce, thus contaminating them with local bacteria, so they ended up stuck on Earth, and so the world was populated.

Then, you’ll have heard about Noah, he was one a group of scientist who heard about deteriorating weather patterns, so they gene sequenced as much flora and fauna before the weather patterns failed completely. They fled in a spaceship. Once the weather had settled down they returned and re-stocked the earth to the best of their abilities.

Some time passed…
Around about 2000 years ago…

An off planet survey group came to check up on the Earth, arriving in a spaceship the planted it in low orbit. Then using EVA suits they came down to earth and impregnated a lady (jetpacks-wings, halo-helmet glint). She insisted to her doting husband that it was angels…

Following the successful birth the ship left low orbit using fusion drive, visible by the naked eye from earth.

The young lad grew up knowing he was special, not least as he was regularly communicated to by off planet beings. They taught him some key medical knowledge, and provided him with special equipment – he was also not genetically the same as most humans. This transpired into:

Healing the sick – with some (by today’s standard) simple medical procedures.
Feeding the hungry – concentrated dehydrated rations and some water.
Living with the lepers (as they were called then) – not affected by human illnesses so much).

As his life continued the off world beings came in more contact, towards the end of his life they landed a craft in a local lake.
The ‘chap’ rowed out then walked on the deck of the submerged ship, appearing to walk on water.

Eventually his antics became untrusted and so he was condemned to be crucified.

Being not fully human, typical capital punishments didn’t fully terminate him, so when removed he was not completely dead.

Following a few days of recuperation, he used his off planet strength (the beings were from a hi-G world) to open the cave door and exit.

The off-planet observers took the opportunity to use a tractor beam to take him off planet.

We’ve been talking about it ever since, and a long time later some folk wrote a book about it…

I think I would be more scared of the snakes and spiders the size of dinner plates hiding in my wellies than anything else though

Actually I've not seen a snake whilst out riding – creaking seatposts are good for that…
Anyway, have seen dinner plate sized turtles and a few lizards/monitors that are around 2m long, they're impressive.

take the seatpost out and try riding around like that for a couple of minutes. That's what made me realise that it was the seatpost.

Heckler has/had this.
For that bike it's either the seat rails – I fixed by putting some material tape around the rails and tightening onto that.
Or it's the seat post insert in the frame, and around there. Tiny bits of grit get in there and crunch and squeak all the time.
Can solve it, have done a few times, but it generally comes back again soon enough.

I'm reminded of this:

Anyway, I live & cycle in Australia.
End of.

aP,
OK I'll bite.
If I were doing 30 in a 40 and I didn't touch the brakes as I run into you I I reckon you'd be in much the same state as if I were doing 60 20 yards before and slammed on the brakes – i.e. mush.
It's not the speed that kills, it's the transfer of kinetic energy. Matey boy in the article would have been fine if he had been in a tank and not on a bike.
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Was about to post some 'balance' by pointing out that the person who caused the accident will have to live with the guilt for the rest of their life, and whilst that's not a punishment in the terms of retribution it is still something that most wouldn't want to live with.
Then I read the article and he's got prior.

Sticks and a match please