Any luck?

Hang about – isn’t Haribo made from Gelatin? You’re feeding them meat, yuk! If BSE/Scrapie kicks off in your area I’m blaming your Haribo!

I’d have given her a simple “Because I am a road user and I am entitled to this much space, I will not allow myself to be overtaken at junctions or traffic light or in similar places where someone squeezing past me will endanger my life.”

Or the classic [when somebody squeezes past you and you talk to them about it] “Oh I’m so sorry – you’re a Doctor or undercover Policeman/woman aren’t you. No? Then obey the highway code and get the frack outta my lane before you kill someone you selfish git”

chewkw :

http://www.raisehopeforcongo.org/content/conflict-minerals-company-rankings

Avoid HTC – they score around 4 out of 100 points for sourcing Tantalum that does not come from children and prosioners digging it out of the ground with a gun to their head, or where the profits do not go directly to the armed groups that control the mine. 4, out of 100.

Nokia scores 35 and that’s a high score 😯

LG scores 27 [Nexus’ made by LG ATM]

Intel and HP are the only co’s to score >50

Pathetic isn’t it?

Oh, and Nintendo scores 0 because the kids that pester you for a console have no idea about this subject – so why should they invest any money in securing their supplies ??? [been going on for years – I think it’s atrocious]

5.4+ million people dead – it continues only because it’s more profitable than peace. And yet it’s never on the news. Funny that.

What a fine colour that Nokia is.

My head f department worked for Electrolux for a few years. He points out that it’s not the motor’s power – it’s about the airflow. A well designed 700W motor should be enough – though that figure was for uprights will less hose length I guess from motor to nozzle.

Aaah but apparently they’re no good – you still have to use a knife. Maybe I wasn’t being 100% serious 🙂

It’s funny how often this comes up on STW 🙂

My rabbits eat licorice, if that helps. Oh, and my cat used to eat Marmite!

Only downsides are: it does fall over a bit too easily, and the tubes are a bit tight-fitting. Cheap at Makro.co.uk

Aaaaand they score highly of ethical sourcing of Tantalum 🙂

Shimano wears out, Campag wears in.

Good suggestion, IMHO.

On WP8 – Hmmmmm. Do you have it set to search with google? I don’t know what is going on with mine, maybe it’s waiting for that?

The problem is this. If, for example I start to type “gofasterstripes” to head to my forum usage page, there will be a 10 second delay between me typing anything, and it suggesting the rest of the address. First, after the “g” – it’ll show “google.com/whatever I last searched”, then “google.com/gosomething else with ‘go’ in it” – about 10 secs per suggestion.

Then maybe when i’ve stopped for a while, if I get as far as “gofaster” it’ll show “singletrackworld.com/members/gofasterstripes/forum/”

Deeply poo.

A quick google shows the new integrated Hollowgram chainsets at circa £600 😯

The browser is poo though. When I type an address the autocomplete takes about 10 seconds for each letter – almost unusable.

A “lifetime” guarantee that lasts as long as the lifetime of the thing before it fails, whatever time that is?? Genius.

Between this and designing a carpenter’s pencil sharpener, I’ve got my fortune made.

Oh no, wait, I can add “Unlimited downloads” to that list.

🙄

The Epiphany units are very highly rated. My father uses their Headphone amp.

In case you haven’t heard me say it – Please consider where the materials used to make the phones come from.

There’s a HUGE issue with the supply of Tantalum coming from slavery and war in the DRC.

Fortunately, Miss Stripes has written a nice introductory article on it, because with a little shopping around you can choose your next phone also for it’s more ethical material sourcing.

Clicky

An interesting account of what happens when you try this on an IT Journalist :)[/url]

and

A similar story of what happens when someone offers you Office for $30 🙂 :)[/url]

I, OTOH, found a genuine copy of Office 2010 in a skip, with a valid license, hehe.

I AM MOST AMUSED

Hang about, are you seriously telling me no-ones been able to design a sharpener for a Carpenter’s pencil that does the job??! *Sets-off to make fortune*

😯 What happens if someone in the family asks for a blue bike?

Not everybody’s such a smart dresser as you Smith

Ya great Jessie 😉

Yes it is mostly a spider, and it is kinda scary. I didn’t elaborate due to being in the bath.

^^ Yep, and that’s not one 🙂

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae

Half a pint of Moka, followed by corn flakes with raw oats mixed in. Filling, but it does make you fart a lot.

I always wanted a softail 🙂

What’s the main ingredient in these here carts? Glycerin? And you can mix your own eh? Hmmm, interested.

I’ve always rated Magura, yet they seem to be out of favour now. Hmmm.

Download iTunes, Make playlist, bress “Burn Disc”. Unless something’s changed since I last used iTunes to burn a disc, that is.

You need to ask messiah.

That’s how it appears to you, in this timescale.

Absolutely terrible. Have you seen the lighter? I thought it was on the amplifier…

If it comes to it I would imagine you can saw only the left hand side off?

Why not feed something fun into it 😉 Perhaps endless episodes of Last of the Summer Wine, or Kylie videos?

Meh – I’d do it. Looks like a calm day.

Cute. How do you get off at the top?

I think it’s just not easy to make complex shapes with Ti.

Needs a chainsaw>chainset interface. Sod Electric bikes – I want a chainsaw powered one 🙂

Whats’ she gonna do that you’d be scared of??

Oh wait – LASER expert, fair enough…