sententious

That’s a word that doesn’t get used enough IMO.

Who’s fault is that? The information is easily available if you bother to do even a tiny bit of research.

For what purpose, so I can argue with you?

That intent is everything? Well given her political views, the intent becomes obvious.

So again, my point still stands.

^^^
Looks cute but is a little terror. Cats life is miserable.

Except we know that she is a supporter of a party of nasty, racist thugs, so we do know about her mindset on this matter.

I didn’t know that. Now I do it puts the comment in a slightly different light.

My original point still stands though.

a sedentary lifestyle leads to boredom, boredom leads to cravings. I’ve been sat at my PC many a time believing I’m hungry but when I get up and do something there’s suddenly no desire to eat at all, sometimes for several hours. The reason is because I’ve become occupied with something more interesting.

Absolutely. Activity in any form is the key. Activity burns calories, keeps boredom at bay thus dampens the desire to eat for the sake of eating.

All is good.

BBC in revelation shocker

Typical Greeks though eh?

😆

Lastest addition to our family.

Well if a South African is offended we have no argument whatsoever. 🙄

+however many for Stewart Lee.

Not everyones cup of tea evidently but he’s always fascinating to watch perform.

I’m forever ‘tweeking’ my facial hair. I’ve had full grown beard, goatee and most recently the Johnny Depp style faint moustache and chin hair (sadly without looking anything like Mr Depp much to my wife’s disappointment).

It’s one of those comments where intent is everything. It’s not outwardly or obviously racist or xenophobic, it at worst seems to be ill judged and something that she should have realised would go down like a lead balloon.

If her mindset was one of a deep seated distain for Africans or for Africans being in her country then the intent of the comment, I would argue, would have been one based on racist foundations. But I, and seemingly no one else has any idea what her mindset or opinion is on this matter so it’s not particularly fair to make an assumption on the intent of her comment. A quiet word in her ear by someone and maybe an apology/explanation would have sufficed IMO.

Do you think it’s possible to use this combo to make a chocolate cheesecake?

Whoever designed that London 2012 football stadium seriously plagarised Cardiff.

There’s a first.

Have you actually listened to the language in a primary school playground recently? There isn’t a swear work the average 9 year old doesn’t know and use when out of earshot of his/her parents. The idea that a child would learn any bad language from Singletrack magazine is absurd.

So, does that mean we should encourage swearing, especially amongst our primary school children?

Could give a s***

You do give a s*** or you couldn’t give a s***?

I can’t be arsed arguing with that.

Why can’t more people on here have that attitude.

+1 for the Stanton Slackline.

i think serious was possibly a bad choice of words, connotations of boring, try hards, rules, clubs etc, perhaps committed or fervent was more what you were after.
STW is certainly a forum of committed bike owners

I shall pick my words far more carefully in future, when starting a thread designed to stimulate some conversation about a shared interested, in order to avoid any offence and keep those tiresome bores who constantly need to find fault and start an argument not relevant to the thread well away.

I think you assume way to much.

I ride a ‘mountain bike’, which is pretty much no different really to the type of bike I’ve been riding since the 1970s. And I still ride the same type of terrain. It doesn’t take up a large proportion of my life because I have other hobbies I equally enjoy.

I don’t consider myself a ‘mountain biker’, let alone a serious one

Then this thread wasn’t aimed at you evidently. But thanks for contributing to this thread.

Sad that when I think of Sharon Davies I just think of her stint at presenting the Big Breakfast on Channel 4.

Yeah, I’d have one. It would by default make me better than everyone who doesn’t have a gun and I could kill people to death with it until they were dead.

n’ stuff.

some are born pig faced, others have pig faces thrust upon them

…or spend a lot of money to obtain a pig face.

I’d buy a ratty old mk1 MX5 but with a decent engine, and with this in mind:

That’s got some potential. I like that idea.

Save it for when there is actually something you want to buy!

Crazy talk.

Educate yourself. Buy yourself a £2000 random selection from here and get with the program, white boi.

You’re so street. I’m impressed.

You could pay off you credit card debt or buy better kayaks..

Kayaks is more for the wife than me and I’m growing more comfortable with my mini-debt. 😉

I just don’t have the room for another bike otherwise I would.

6K extra now in exchange for potentially years of worry and stress.

Inspiring 3 times now.

But does anyone know if he was wearing sunscreen. If not, then the parents should be locked up.

… and access to fresh drinking water?

Hang the scum.

In the UK we have fairly strict gun control and one of the lowest rates of gun crime in the world.

In (some parts of) the US they sell automatic weapons next to the baked beans in the supermarket and they have around 40 times as many firearm homicides as we do per capita.

A naive observer might think that these facts are somehow related.

You and your crazy theories.

Incidentally, as a potential buyer (I’m not, they are horrible) I also wouldn’t care how you got them (Again, as long as they weren’t stolen). If I’m getting something I want at a fair/good price then why would I care?

Me

What do you want?

I don’t understand that logic. It makes no difference how you got them (as long as they weren’t stolen obviously). The point is, you have them and you want to sell them.

Because you got them for free that means you should give them away? I don’t think so.

I sadly do suffer with OCD. I’ve assumed it’s something that has been with me all my life although it only became a problem for me when I was about 14.

I was quite happy with my need to compartmentalise, organise and clean but as I got older it affected my life dramatically and stopped me doing ‘normal’ everyday things. I rarely went out with school/college friends because all day at school I was thinking about something at home that wasn’t right. I was desperate to go home and re-organise and clean which would literally take from the moment I got home from school to bed time.

My biggest problem was, strange as it sounds, dust! I couldn’t allow anything to get dusty and I was cleaning the same things over and over again to remove any trace of dust. I had a plastic box full of cleaning tools which were sealed to ensure no dust could get to them so that when I cleaned things I wasn’t spreading dust around. When it really started to get my down my solution to the problem was to remove as many items from my bedroom as possible to avoid collecting dust. So I had a bedroom that had a bed, a table, a lamp, a wardrobe and a portable TV.

Anyway, long story short, I’ve managed to control it for the most part of my adult life but I still clean obsessively and am frighteningly methodical. It doesn’t control my life anymore but it’s always with me. It was good to see that documentary last night and it was a surprise to me just how much it can utterly take over and devastate peoples lives.

The bricks were probably made of asbestos. Sue the brickie.

Have you watched any of the bike sections Jason Bradbury has properly been involved in on GS? He is a really handy rider, from seeing him ride an MTB a few times I’d guess he grew up riding BMX

He used to race Downhill when he was younger.

Nolans genius is that he doesn’t patronise his audience. His ‘blockbusters’ are smart (inception, Batman trilogy). He assumes that his audience are as smart as he is. More of the same please.

You can get them off the net. Just Google it, you’ll find a free one to download somewhere.