The wife got it for Christmas, played it a couple of times, bloody hilarious, but not for anyone capable of being offended…by anything

Can’t vote green, there’s no point them standing here (safe Tory seat + first past the post system).

I think the main problem for the greens is that, in order for their policies to be successful, it would require people to make big changes to how they live and actually face the fact that we can’t carry on living the way we do. While all the other parties are promising us the earth, I don’t think most will vote for a party that’s asking them to consume less.
Who eats the cous-cous at the buffet when there’s steak on offer…

Also, I think the green’s policies on GMO and nuclear power aren’t that crazy if you put them in the wider context of more sustainable consumption.

Then there’s the matter that people will consider voting for a man who wants to ban data encryption but ridicule well meaning attempts at sustainable consumption…

I’ve always had dark sides/white chin beard since I was in my early 20’s, never saw the need to worry about it, though some people have suggested I dye it. Don’t really trim my beard (except around my mouth for ease of access) but have to admit I do look like I eat out of bins…
I suppose it does annoy me that beards are “cool” now, but only because it means hipsters now think I want to talk to them about my beard, which I don’t.
Also, women love a beard. :wink:

Just couldn’t help myself…

You can have my dog TINAS, once she’s tasted one of his special Dutch ovens she’ll never sleep in again…

I’m so glad I let the bed salesman talk me into getting a mattress protector…

it’s ok pictonroad, he appears to be suffering from a touch of the runs, very much a once in a lifetime scenario. actually feel a bit sorry for the little fella…

Still, it’s never nice being woken by the smell of a freshly laid dog egg!

Slept like a log until I woke up and realized one of the dogs had got under the covers and cacked himself… :evil:

Best thing to do is test ride both. Doubt you’ll notice much (or any) difference.

Witnessed a nasty crash at a crossroads Friday night. I was behind an old geezer who almost seemed to wait until a car was coming before pulling out onto a national speed limit road. Luckily for him and his family, the 4×4 that hit him at about 50 miles an hour hit his front wing, not his door, everything forwards of his windscreen disintegrated. Luckily no one was hurt, but that didn’t stop the old geezer’s daughter getting out and hurling masses of abuse at the poor woman driving the 4×4 and her 3 very shaken young kids.
I have never witnessed a greater act of stupidity, a timely reminder to slow down when approaching side roads, you never know when someone might try to kill us all…

these do?

(Might take a bit of bodging, mind…)

I’ve had depression for about as long as I can remember, it has, at several points in my life, had a very destructive and negative effect on both me and the people I love. It was only when I began to understand that my mind is just a part of me that I began to feel better. I still have existential panic attacks on a regular basis and fear and unhappiness are always in the background, but I don’t try to hide from these feelings. I try to live in the moment at all times, find beauty in every situation and when I feel low or depressed, I don’t hide from it, I confront it, I share it with my beautiful wife and we move on from it. I find comfort in the meaninglessness of the things we tend to worry about.

I also don’t watch adverts or the news…

Try meditating (never thought it would be something I would do, but it is excellent) and remember that we are only here once, so try to appreciate every moment in the moment, which is the really difficult part…

Sorry, sound like a proper hippy, just think this is an approach which can work.

Beacon hill in Woodhouse Eaves. Police aren’t even coming round to have a look, they just kept going on about CCTV and there’s none of that round here… I imagine the bike is long gone by now, she never rode it anyway…

following, have stuck a few on, staying in the 80’s after today’s reminiscathon…

Wouldn’t call nirvana metal, mainly on the basis that most nirvana fans would run a mile at Carcass et al. But then I was a carcass fan and I listened to nirvana…Sod it, who cares anyway…Just shows how much variety there is in hard rock/metal.

Probably

Or

Even this

Basically, too many to choose from…

Fair point, MSP. I agree, sliding dropouts would have been better…

Forgive me if I’m wrong, MSP but I was under the impression that the longitude does have sliding dropouts?

You can’t ride 10 miles wearing a bag with a couple of shirts in it?
There are several solutions to your problem, and none of them involve your employer…

joined.

The whole point of human rights is that they are UNIVERSAL, however uncomfortable that may sometimes be…

So because a handful of dirtbags allegedly misuse the HRA for their own gain none of us get to have rights…
This is how dictators think.

Also chip, I’d be interested to hear your understanding of who “let” Rotherham happen and why (and what it’s all got to do with licking windows).

To bring it back to the topic…

Though I agree in principle with the idea that we could stop serious criminals getting in,I also agree with the idea that, if someone has served their punishment, they should be integrated back into the world.
Proper can of worms this…

Anything made by Italians between 1970-1985.

Directors to look out for:

Dario Argento (though his films in this period are definitely not awful)
Mario Bava (As above)
Lucio Fulchi
Ruggero Deodato
Enzo G. Castellari
Lamberto Bava
Umberto Lenzi
Sergio Martino

Yep, that will work too.

If you’ve got a Chromecast, can you not mirror the tablet’s screen?

I don’t go home until I’m bonking, which doesn’t take long. I am quite fat and lazy…

As long as they keep making all the lovely steel bikes I couldn’t care less what they do. This is simply a move based on getting their pro team competitive in the bigger races (just as the volare was to the tour series/tour of Britain etc.). If they sell a few carbon bikes to the mamils and weight weenies in the process, good luck to them…

Thanks a lot for being patient with my fat self tonight, really enjoyed myself (in between dying up the climbs and wimping out of the drops). Will unfortunately not be around the next couple of Wednesdays (family and work), but this gives me a bit of time to get the fitness (and courage) up for next time.

You need a rear light daveski, I have a couple of spares?

I’m in, I’ll be the guy no-one recognises…

Brilliant! See you there…

Room on Wednesday for an overweight slowcoach with limited skills/ability/fitness/courage?

A new LP would be bloody fantastic.

Really? A government petition? About surface dressing? It’s not that big a deal, surely?
Is it that hard to drive at 10mph for a few days while it beds in?
I think the problem is not the surface dressing, but the idiots who belt down it spraying gravel all over everything, probably whilst moaning about how it scratches their car…

Look at it from Tesco’s point of view. If they put the calories and fat for the whole pack on the front, no-one would buy them, as they would be “unhealthy”. If they only put 25g in the pack, no-one would buy them, as they want more than 5 nuts per pack. So, the happy medium is to put out a decent size pack, but put information for a small serving on the pack. I think Tesco’s would call this giving the people what they want (or not giving them what they don’t want).
Not saying I agree with this, but I can see how this silliness has come about…

Trans-fats in processed food make you fat, as the body cannot do anything with them. I lost 3 stone last year by removing all hydrogenated fats from my diet. I used real butter, full fat milk and didn’t take much notice of fat content, beyond any hydrogenated fats.
People are fat because they eat flora instead of butter, because they choose lower cholesterol (not really a very big issue unless you are over 50) and un-saturated (trans) fats over natural ingredients and healthy fats.
Sorry, bit of a rant and I do agree with the silly labelling in this case, but I am far more troubled by companies selling people food that is very bad for them (or at best has no benefit) on the promise that it is good for them…

Rant over…

Got rid of my sky box, got a Chromecast, Netflix subscription (plus hola for US VPN), a now TV box with entertainment and movie package and free access to BT Sport. £50 outlay and £19 a month gets me more TV than I could ever hope to watch. On demand streaming is the future of TV and Chromecast is so cheap it is silly not to get one if you are into streaming TV/music/photos…

Bought the hope tech xc rims on pro 2 hubs in leisure lakes a couple of months ago for £320 (15% VIP discount)…very, very, very happy with them. Light, fast and strong enough to carry my 16.5 stone bulk around!

I have two staffies, both from rescue kennels, both strays that show signs of mistreatment. In the wrong hands, both of my dogs could be dangerous, but they are not, as I am a responsible dog owner. In the year that my two dogs have lived together, they have never had one fight. My bitch, Nessa, has a few anxiety issues, most likely related to being kept in poor or isolated conditions. If these scumbags don’t own staffies, pit bulls etc, they will own huskies or rottweilers and make them dangerous.
I don’t mind when people cross the street to avoid us when out on a walk, because they see that my dogs have good temperaments and are well controlled, eventually they might see things differently. What I do mind is when chav scum see us out walking and presume I have have staffies for fighting. They don’t usually like it when I tell them my dogs were lucky enough to be rescued from scum like them and are now two of the softest dogs you could hope to meet.
I guess the main breed related problem is that if a Labrador or German shepherd goes for someone, their instinct is to go for arms or legs, whereas bull breeds tend to instinctively go for the neck or face. Staffies are no more likely to attack than any other dog (if looked after properly), it’s just that, if they do, they are more likely to do serious damage.
I see far worse behaviour from so called family dogs around here, all too often my dogs have to deal with uncontrolled dogs off lead in the fields or aggressive dogs and their clueless owners.
I’m far more worried about someone who can’t control his spaniel than I am about my dogs attacking someone…
Back to the show, typical channel 5 nonsense…