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As it turns out both myself and my better looking half race cross so I will no doubt be seeing you there Sean!

😯 which is your better looking half?

If I’m having fun on my chosen bike for that particular days riding then I’m not over biked. I’ve had my DH bike with me at a BMX track. That was bloody good fun.

There are, but a little appreciation that the ‘rules’ often favour parents might not go amiss sometimes. I appreciate that generally someone’s family/kids is the most important thing in the world to them – just a little awareness that it isn’t the most important thing in the world to everyone else might not go amiss sometimes.

Indeed

Dead animals with bits glued on innit.

Not really Charlie; thats our land in the last pic

I’m disappointed there isn’t a photo of your pooch sitting in front of your palatial estate smoking a cigar.

My wife would certainly identify with some of the minor points raised – not getting first dibs on holiday selection, having to cover for other working mums and dads who take time off to care for their kids at short notice but its not really a problem, more just something to occasionally moan about.

We’ll just take the piss when we have kids so it all balances out in the end.

There are only tangfastics in the glovebox.

Might want to check the BBC news website regarding Tangfastics and car electrical systems.

Sounds like it’s being an awkward little prick. Get rid.

it’s a bevelled spill trunnion.

The skate kids would refer to them as spill trunny’s.

I think it’s just being in or on any sort of road going vehicle that alters people’s personalities. From cyclists to lorry drivers and all in between.

We all seem to have the potential to become complete ***** when we are on the road.

Neither but then I’m not a social sort. Personally when it comes to road cycling I like the escape and solitude of it. None of this club/group riding shenanigans.

My dad used to ride with Swindon Wheelers however. He always enjoyed it.

I agree! There was this one time, this lanky bloke parked across two bays, then moved to a disabled spot. i was initially quite pissed off, but soon realised it was so he could go fetch his old da who was in a wheelchair. i decided to h ave a go anyway, just to wind him up a bit. He went off like a good one! Security came out, saw he was just a bit ranty, all mouth and no action so they just left it.

😆 gold.

PS4 for me. I think MS have dropped the ball with the Xbox 1. Price point alone makes it any easier decision for me.

My 22 year old cousin announced that he was now a hipster last weekend. He made the statement like it was some revelation that we all needed to hear. The first thing he bought was a ‘retro’ fixed gear for 700 quid off eBay, and attempted to grow a fashionable beard.

He’s now well into his new hispster life and embraced it fully. However, he lives in the middle of Oxfordshire countryside (no where near Oxford city centre) so has no hipster comrades to share his new found passion with and essentially just rides his fixie, in super skinny jeans and lumberjack shirt, around deathly quiet country lanes all on his lonesome.

I give it a month.

My downhill bike ( NP Scalp) liberally laced with Saint stuff, CC Double Barrel shock, Fox 40’s has elevated my DH results far beyond anything I thought I would ever be able to achieve. I’m slowly starting to believe I’m actually pretty good at this downhill lark (5 mins 11 seconds at fort bill few weeks ago) but I am absolutely aware that the bike has allowed me to ride beyond my limits.

It’s 100% perfect. For me.

My cousin was on blind date many years ago. She was the ‘picker ‘ so was guaranteed a free holiday. Can’t remember where she went but I know her luggage got misplaced at the airport so the producers bought her an entire new wardrobe.

I also remember that she was in a fairly serious relationship at the time and therefore had to lie all the way through the application process.

If someone had asked me 15 years ago if I’d been googling myself…. I’d just have said yes. Who didn’t at 16 years old?

I can’t add much more to this other than to say it is a truly horrible place with largely horrible people. *shivers.

I like my steerer to be like that. It means I can do wicked no handers everywhere on any terrain.

On so many levels so very very stupid. She may as well go and withdraw the cash for the lawsuit whilst on her way to see the plod.

Ultimately the child will be yours. If you can’t honestly say that at this time in YOUR life that YOU want a child, then don’t do it.

This. That is the essence of what they are asking of you.

I suspect that of the fathers among the commentators, not one of you, not a single solitary one of you, gave the same amount of thought to the moment you impregnated someone…

My wife and I have discussed it near enough every other day for the past year. We are still no closer to making a decision on whether to have children or not. The biggest decision we will ever make, shouldn’t be taken lightly under any circumstance.

No, here’s your pointy hat, go to the back of the class…

A pointy hat with a D on it? Am I the new Doctor?

I think you have to be selfish about this and think only about you, the impact on you short and long term. It could become very complex very quickly and long term the potential for things to go wrong for you, in terms of your involvement, future relationships, your decision to have your ‘own’ kids with your partner etc. on top of that there is the potential for psychological issues for you, them and maybe the child ( unlikely).

Likewise I’d be very flattered and overwhelmed and the thought of ‘gifting’ someone something like that would be incredible, but personally it is not the sort of complication I would want in my life.

Good luck with your decision, whatever it may be.

As someone who doesn’t watch Doctor Who, am I right in thinking that all will be revealed in an episode being screened tomorrow?

I haven’t read it.

If someone parks to closely to me I smack my door repeatedly into there car with more vigour each time, as though I am trying to smash a clearing.

That’ll learn em.

Can’t say I ever was or am a fan. I read the interview and all the “one life, one love, live life, love life” balls that she comes out with does my nut in.

Has a quentin Blake style about it. I like it.

Out of interest – when you were little how many of you had to eat everything on your plate before you were allowed to get down from the table?

Only child with uber liberal parents. No rules or limits. I have taken that approach into adulthood – I want it therefore I shall have it, I am entitled to it because I am me and I am impervious to any ill effects of anything I do.

It’s a bad psychology but true.

Which chilli peanuts were they?

They were just a bag of KP chilli peanuts. Nice, not super hot but I still needed the entire tub of Ben and Jerrys to cool things down obviously.

You remind me of me. Do you know, one of the most energy draining, mind sapping, time wasting things you can do is beat yourself up over stuff.

You won’t get obese overnight, its done so move on. Oh and btw, have you ever heard of treat days? Even the most advanced athletes do it, and as well as being mentally restfull it can prevent your metabolism from storing fat.

You may have inadvertantly uber-trained yourself

Thanks everyone else for the contributions to this thread but really this is all I wanted to hear.

Thing is I went for a 45 minute run this morning. Took the dog for a two hour walk. Yesterday I went for a 30 mile road cycle and have at least been out on the bike everyday this past fortnight for at least an hour so was feeling really good, full of energy etc.

It’s like I’ve just undone it all for the sake of an hours sugary goodness.

I was thinking I might try and counter it by eating lots of salad and drinking gallons of water for dinner tonight. Solution?

There must be something wrong with me. I really don’t get most of American telly. I liked the sopranos but hated Lost. 24 didn’t engage me that much. I liked the first few episodes of dexter but got bored with it quickly.

Not seen the wire or breaking bad, I suppose I should give them a go. I assume they’re available on Netflix or Lovefilm.

I agree with you Samuri. I hated 24, detested Lost, Dexter bored me, in fact most television no matter which side of the Atlantic it comes from, bores me. But BB shocked me. After the first 3 episodes I was hooked completely. I’d at least give it a whirl.

LoveFilm subscription. Saved me an absolute fortune.

Reminds me of the Karl Pilkington story about his mum putting a dot of Tipex on a house spider so she could keep track of him.

(Also about his dad getting boxes and boxes of knocked off Tic-Tacs and using them as kitty litter because they’d got too many to know what to do with)

Without his family Walt would have had no motivation to start cooking meth. If you’d rather Breaking Bad be solely about a chemistry teacher battling cancer then I understand your point…

Yeah, his family is the catalyst for the entire series. They are hugely important to the narrative.

Depends. If it was choice between shit tip in idyllic village or palace in troubled urban sprawl then location choice would win for me but sounds like your choice is less clear cut.

The second property sounds like its in a decent enough spot with all the other benefits you mention on top. I’d be giving the second option serious thought.