If only it was sunny….

Shit – they even took the pole and hat!

Ha! Good one 🙂

Ecky – he’s a very small man but at least he’s got the valves lined-up

EDIT: eer – looks a little silly now because of the above, heh.

Excuse the shitty workmanship [coursework beckons] but…

😉

joshvegas likes : wobbling around on the spot, breathing very hard and sweating?

A wave within a wave….. fracking beautiful.

I’ll be on a boat, ta 😉

If that was my bike I’d use the Lennon one as wallpaper!

Breakgiffing, eh? I like that.

Shame I don’t usually do animooted. Maybe I better fix that 😉

Yo, I said pop culture dude – not modern culture 🙂

It’s connected alright – maybe not exclusively so but…

Interesting point though, I wonder what the trend for this is over the last few years?

If you’re on FB you can see a pic from Porthcothan taken by a coupla friends of mine on Sunday

https://www.facebook.com/idenna.ltd

Here’s another they took a few years back:

If you want to know about big waves – watch Riding Giants.

Here’s a video of Teahupoo, perhaps the most extreme piece of hydrodynamics that exists – my fave wave [not that I’d go anywhere near it], just for the beauty of it:

EDIT: Nice bun, MW

That “MTB” video is crap. The down-the-top aspect is really jarring and naff [and yes – the thin end of the wedge]. It’s pathetic actually, really low of the t-shirt company – they should be ashamed.

The Skiiing one doesn’t have any todgers of more than 3 pixels in shot [har har yes I bet it was cold] but it does feature a few shots of breasts, but I don’t think it showed much in the way of man breasts…

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against nakedness [done a bit of life-modelling, and there’s a documentary in a museum somewhere featuring several minutes of me with no clothes on and an AMAZING tan], not am I against sexual nakedness or imagery – but the latter is far from easy to find that doesn’t come from exploitation.

The figures for the number of women that have been harassed on the street are shocking:

“Catcalls, sexually explicit comments, sexist remarks, groping, leering, stalking, public masturbation, and assault. Most women (more than 80% worldwide) and LGBQT folks will face gender-based street harassment at some point in their life. Street harassment limits people’s mobility and access to public spaces. It is a form of gender violence and it’s a human rights violation. It needs to stop.” http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/

This is NOT unconnected to the objectification of women we see every day in pop cultures.

Then there’s the sex workers and the trafficking of women [and men] for sex – this stuff is all connected. Objectification, gratification without emotional involvement, all connected. Yes they have root in human desires, but so does murder and that’s not accepted.

Sometimes things just have to change.

Oh and for the record CountZero – taking and publishing that photo was out of line. Or did you ask the women if you could take it?

Used to love mine on D521’s.

Found in the wet they took a few seconds to bite, but in the dry they were great – lots of power; beware flex damage to frames – use the Magura booster.

Fitting pads is a cinch, but setting them up in the first place is a pain in the ass.

I found they wear the rims very fast too.

Any CSS Rigida rim you can find.

What if you melt the aluminium out?

I’m a big fan of ‘Spoon’s Veggie burgers 🙂 As a meal it’s fairly balanced and at £6 with a pint it’s great.

At the very least can’t it be a

..and one battery?

Dremel the shield off and then use Molly-gripps

I would imagine it’s very hard steel, so you might need to get another little cutting disc half way through.

http://www.futureagenda.org/pg/cx/view#0

Brand’s doing great. It doesn’t matter whether you agree with him or not, he’s got people talking, something that isn’t happening much these days.

IanMunro – Member
Dalai Lama

BAN HIM!

…..Actually he is on the banned list, of the Chinese Government.

This is wrong place to ask.

Toymotor thought he’d ordered a 650B for the price of a discontinued 26″ anyhoo.

Of course he can – how do you think they track past moderation decisions and try to ensure continuity?

The only one that interesting me here is the chap who got a call from the editor!

OP, for you own sake don’t shop in Ikea US either:

You’re bound to be disappointed.

Likes Rohloff lube, Magura hose clamps and 50mm O-Rings.

Hello hello hello….

The reason they all look similar externally is because the costs of a mould like that is several tens of thousands, so chinese factories share the moulds, sell them on when they’re worn and reverse-engineer other moulds from existing products to save the trouble of designing a mould shape that works.

What I am getting-at is: It’s not a great surprise when something you buy that is of very low price turns-out to have been made exclusively down to that price, by cutting as many corners as possible.

Quality is defined as “Meeting customers requirements” by J.S.Oakland*; and the form this takes varies depending on the market, market segment, and also the industry.

“Quality” in a hospital, is different from “Quality” in a restaurant, “Quality” in a £38 light is different from “Quality” in a £300 one.

Here the examples include: features [output, run-time] @ the price-point. However, unless there’s some crazy market being exploited [Lupine..?] then the £300 light is going to be made with more-expensive components, more expensive labour, more of these components and also, better quality-management practices, and so therefore the reliability, longevity and [importantly] the safety of the electronics [incorporating over-rated components, heat-stable ones and number of fail-safe features] which is not visible to the eye will all have to be reduced in cost to the supplier to continue the normal percentage markup.

With these sort of gadgets, we’re usually looking at manufacturing cost being approximately 15% of the retail price, but to be kind here lets say 20% – so the SStorm light was made for about £7.60 or likely less.

So – for £7.60 you might get a lot of lumens, but you won’t get a safe charger.

I guess that’s what I meant, but due to the remains of a hangover I didn’t feel like typing that at midnight-ish.

I am quite tempted to buy one though 🙂

*Linky

Good post Northwind, very quotable.

From an ebay ad for one of these:

“We’ll try our best to ensure that all the problems you encounter will be solved immediately.”

Reassuring!

Cheap tat in “I never thunk it’d burn down the house” shocker.

Here’s some info from the ever helpful Tom

Best Gaming CPUs for the Money

Also – mmmm new AMD graphics card goodness launched today R290x – quite a beast!

What % overclock you lot running?

http://www.retail-week.com/people/halfords-appoints-pets-at-homes-rob-swyer-as-its-retail-director/5047207.article

This might have something to do with it….

what exactly was wrong with fred?

Oh hell, not this again!

*bails*

Stuck between a { and a ] ?

Email the dev.?

A friend of mine asked me to shoot him with an air rifle loaded with a bread pellet once, it was pretty much the first time I’d handled one.

I aimed for his manhood, shot from 3m away and watched him drop to the ground. Luckily for him, I missed and hit his thigh, as it made a 5x10mm impact, and around that the skin had parted about 2 or 3 mm deep like it’d been cut with a scalpel. He was wearing trousers.

This same air rifle, [later and not with me there], hit him in the hand and went through, splattering blood on the ceiling.

I haven’t picked one up since.

The little shits want locking up something else to do, a verbal hiding and some serious education.

FTFY

I never understand what’s so bad about using your trousers…..

And those Dyson things suck* – try looking up into them at the build-up of crud your hands are likely bouncing off.
Yuk.

A damn good shake and troo’s for me**. And if someone thinks that the handprints on the front of meshorts are the result of a molestation, well, it’ll only help when it comes to pay-rise time 🙂

I’m more concerned about the guy that wipes his arse [?] and then leaves without washing his hands, so I tend to use a piece of looroll to open the door and bin it outside. That should be gross*** misconduct in my book.

* Sorry, early.
** Ultra energy efficient.
*** Again, sorry.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/how-the-bible-and-youtube-are-fueling-the-next-frontier-of-password-cracking/

Dustin’s computer can perform 30 billion guesses per second against standard Windows hashes. The $800 system uses four AMD Sapphire Radeon 7950 cards.

Be afraid.

Also

KeyPass for me, BTW.