What a bunch of sweet, insipid, lagers. I’m drinking little bottles of French ‘Bier Deluxe’; lots of them.

Also as far as True Grit goes am I the only person who thinks the original is the better version?

No I agree completely, you’ve got Robert Duvall, and a young Dennis Hopper in there, and I even liked Glen Campbell. It looked awesome in HD – the only offputting thins was the girl looked like Fernando Torres :)

The big Silence is another great Spag Western, dir by Sergio Corbucci (Django) – it’s totally backwards – set in the snow and the bad guys (led by a brilliant Klaus Kinski) get away with it.

But The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is the best – especially the restored version with missing scenes put back in it actually makes sense.

I’ve gone for skwosh thanks for your input peeps

aka_Gilo – that’s very nice too, I think I’m erring towards skwosh :)

firestarter – ooh that does look nice :wink:

If she hadn’t let the Torres goal stand I might have been shouting at her, as it is I think she’s wonderful – and would think the same whether she was a man or woman.

I’ve had both and they are very similar, Xen’s a bit more solid. Different sizewise though; I’ve got a small Xen which fits fine, which I got cheap s/h and sold the med Hex which also fit fine. It’s worth measuring your head and checking the ‘from – to’ sizes – imo it’s better to be top end of small than bottom end of med (or med/large) unless you want to look like a mushroom!

Nice Buns!

We don’t seem that bothered do we? Is this not a crisis or something? I mean, I know they’re Australian…

pop larkin – starting a thread asking about Android Tablets and ending up deciding you’ll get a small Laptop because it’s ‘safe’, who’d have guessed? :)

Apads are good, I bought a 7″ one running Android 1.5 for £70 off ebay, and ‘flashed’ it to a better version (not difficult) so it runs faster, battery life is longer, and it links to Android Apps. I think they’re great; you can get the internet (mobile), play music, videos, games etc., and it even does what I originally intended it for – works as a great e-reader, which plays all the different ereader formats apart from .mobi! Why buy a £140 Kindle ereader, or pay £400 for an ipad? You can get bigger, faster apads, but an apad with Android 1.5 will do most things (apart from run Kindle,which needs 1.6, but you can convert .mobi files using Calibre).

“Be on my side,
I’ll be on your side,
baby
There is no reason
for you to hide
It’s so hard for me
staying here all alone
When you could be
taking me for a ride.

Yeah, she could drag me
over the rainbow,
send me away
Down by the river
I shot my baby
Down by the river,
Dead, oh, shot her dead.

You take my hand,
I’ll take your hand
Together we may get away
This much madness
is too much sorrow
It’s impossible
to make it today.”

repeat 2, 1, 2

Assisted Suicide or Suicide Pact? “side/hide/ride” rhyme with Suicide

I’m with uplink you’ve got more teeth than you need anyway. I had root canal work done and it was excrutiatingly painful, even though I’ve got a very good dentist. And £850! That’s outrageous – I think mine was £150/200 with a ceramic crown, and that was only a couple of years back.

Hi Aus I haven’t had time to read all the above – good luck wading through it :) But I use an HTC TytnII/Kaiser – and as you know I’m an old fella like yourself – coincidentally someone has one for sale on main forum (not me!) http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fs-htc-tytn-ii-windows-mobile-smart-phone-with-gps-os-mapping-cabable

second that RS, watched it last night again, but on blu ray – fantastic transfer

here here ozzy!

Anyway, I'm not tubby, I'm fat :)

Look in shops, research, and buy online it's so much cheaper.

The Searchers (John Ford) is an awesome transfer, and a great film, too. Unforgiven, also, really looks sharp. I was disappointed by the transfer of Bonnie and Clyde, thaough still a great film. Sunshine is also a great movie, and even better in blu ray. 2001 looks great; but skip the actors in chimp suits: )Avatar is a ridiculous movie, but my son said it was better on blu ray than 3D in the cinema. Agree with everybody about Sherlock Holmes, too. I've bought Bruce's London Calling live in Hyde Park for my old ladies' birthday tomorrow so I'll see what live concert footage is like!

You don't wanna smell my farts, they make ME gag – how're YOU gonna feel?

Frankenstein – no MM doesn't give you directions, as far as I know. It shows where you are, and have been, and as it's on a map….

You can buy a handlebarmount for Smartphones (I've got one)

I've never had any problems with battery power, but I usually only do 2,3,4hr max journeys. Batteries weigh very little and are pretty small so I suppose it would not be beyond the bounds of reason to carry a spare? :D

I'd go the phone route :) if I were you, as you probably take one out when you're riding anyway? You can pick up a smartphone with gps for £75ish (HTC TytN II, Kaiser)£300 would get you a very nice smartphone and I'd recommend Memory Map; the maps are standard OS, but you can plot waystations, and it records your journey -distance,time,speed,altitude etc – this can be transferred to Memory Map on your computer, rendered in 3D etc (and Tom Tom, Google maps etc., are fine for road riding/driving). Plus you get a smartphone, WiFi, et al

thanks guys

What it does say is that they're made by the same people his other Ti bikes come from, which are Van Nicholas.

Good luck bakes – that crossed my mind, too, as 've got a coil Vanilla upfront, but coil shocks seem a whole other world rider weight springs, weird lengths and strokes, and I don't have any idea what a bump stop is. The frame's a Stumpjumper btw and I figured anything would be an improvement on the 165mm Triad it turned out to have on it – an interesingly slack head angle and pedals hitting the tarmac alerted me to the fact that something was wrong :)

Taking into account the knowledge displayed above I've bought a 200mm :)

Is it 'cos i's orangeon ebay now :)

TBH if it's having trouble loading SP2 it sounds ike you've got problems, as SP3 has been out for ages! You could go into Programs> Accessories>System Restore, I'm not sure how far that lets you go back though

They had some heated gloves in our Maplins:) But I use Altura 'Pilot' waterproof, which have 3 layers – as above I'd never where them in warm (even wet) weather as they would get too warm

I've got an Emprex (from Maplins) which is like an external HDD – so you can suit yourself as to how much storage you want to put in it – it's very easy to do – I installed an 80GB HDD – and it's got Media Codecs – Plays DVD files, avis, DivX etc., and connections – rgb, optical audio (I think) USB (I don't think there are any TVs with this facility built in as yet, so you'd need something like this to 'mediate' between the USB and the TV I think), plus I can 'stream' from the computer (or transfer files to the HDD) by ethernet connection (obviously computer 'on' for this), but there are WiFi boxes that do the same thing; you'd have to have a nosey around yourself but they're out there (at a price I'm sure). I've got mine connected to my surround sound system with standard audio connections. I think 'Streaming' is still in it's early stages – I can 'stream' a file I've already d/l; which I do with music, and films, but I don't think there's much at the moment where you can stream web content 'live' – it's the old 'agreeing a standards' problem I think, although I'm sure this will change. I'm surprised that there's been so little congruence(?)between computer and TV tbh; but I'm sure Apple will copy the existing technology and market it as 'iTV' or whatever (like mp3 players never existed before iPods,and smartphones never existed before iPhones, duh! I suppose once bitten (by Bill Gates) forever shy :)

Hi Aus – this one's for sale £1100ono Martin :) more pix –
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24489579@N07/sets/72157622926155550

I'd like to add

7)Insensitivity
8)An inability to tell the truth (or recognise it)
9)Bullshit

Personal experience of HRM at City College Brighton up until May this year

Martin, don't know if you saw my other reply to your ad but I've also got a Dialled Prince Albert 853 frame? Cheers Martin

I tried once but he fell off, no, no, serioulsy; I think epoxy resin used to be used on some alu frames (I had an old Trek 6500? – very smoothe joins), or superglue, I guess, as it sounds like you are just bolstering the top of the seattube using the shim as reinforcement and it's not load bearing – directly anyway.

On One make good frames, and the 456 would be ideal ideal with a Talas

Employers will do everything to tick the boxes so that they've covered their backs, fact. Basically, they want an easy life – don't we all? but as soon as you're suffering WRS you're grit in the mill – and, of course, they will never, ever, admit that they're the cause of the problem. I remember my father talking with contempt of 'time and motion' study men; now the world's overrun with them; they're called 'managers'. My problem is that although I want to work, I cannot take these people seriously, especially their lip service to mental health issues, and yet they're ruling the world – result 'stress'; which is the gap between you're philosophy, even compromised, and theirs, not. You've seen 'Brazil', read '1984', even seen the 1st 'Matrix' (we are intelligent enough to appreciate that some people are caught in a web of deception but we think that's not us, or if it is, like the turncoat in the Matrix crew, even knowing the truth, we'd prefer not to accept it; but until we do we'll never be free.

I hung on for 2 years at my previous job (working as an ESOL teacher for City College Brighton) scared to leave because of having a family and kids. In the end, after I'd tried therapy, drugs – which I'm still on, and a couple of phased returns, we came to an agreement that I should leave. By then I didn't care, I'd got into bike building and with the 3 months money they gave me I bought loads of bike bits. I then sent my CV round the local language schools, and got 4 offers, of which I took one, and I'm working teaching business people English, without any time to build up the bikes! I get paid less, there's a lot less security(the work will probably tail off in November), but I'm a lot happier. But really, my GP was the most helpful person in all this, and if I'd taken his early advice to leave I could have saved myself a lot of hassle. It's very difficult to know what to do for the best as each situation is unique, but if you think you can get another job then I would strongly recommend leaving.

:)

Yes, my Dr recommended it. But I don’t think it will speed up recovery or ease pain, just makes your joints stronger, and you’ll need to take it for a while to feel any difference but it does seem to work over time. I’d advise looking online for it, you can get it a lot cheaper.

I got a Gary Fisher Ferrous, which is very BMX influenced, but also fine for XC (and has an ebb for SS), and they’re Bright Orange, lovely frame; I was going to sell it but kept it over a Ti frame I had.