Look at wikivorce for DIY divorce advice

Have done all DIY so far, but planning to use them for the financial side of things (clean break agreement )

(2 year separation before kicking things off in my case also)

You can upload rides from cyclemeter to strava BTW. Just email the ride file from cyclemeter to yourself, then upload the ride to strava via the website

He’s a bit emperors new clothes I reckon because he’s never really done anything that was massively successful, he’s just been around a long time and done some films.
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I love long single shot sequences

The start of Touch of Evil

The start of The Player (in which the characters discuss the start of Touch of Evil)

The pool party in BoogieNights (included the camera going underwater.

The bit in Goodfellas where they enter the nightclub through the kitchens

The final chase through the train station in Carlitos Way

All awesome

My current fave song

Jump into the Fire by Nilsson – appropriate and awesome

wow takes me back – suprised they are still going (although surely a 90s band?)

I saw them at the Town and Country club – great gig but before they came on stage the “Nevermind” album was played in its entirety – and there was almost as much moshing to that as the band themselves. A sign of the fact that metal was about to become very unfashionable

i couldnt live without drops on a commuter.

I think it depends on the commute. If its all urban stuff, weaving through slow moving rush hour traffic – flat bar all the way for the better control

if it’s riding on faster open roads – then drops all the way

Ss bikes – just wipe it with a tag and add more wet lube. Black gunk doesn’t seem an issue when there are no jockey wheels

Geared bikes – I clean new chains in white spirit. Then use squirt lube – which doesn’t go black and doesn’t require constant chain cleaning.

I didn;t get the BB faced on my cotic

or any of my other bikes

and all my BBs last for ages

Hollow tech 2 BBs are a doddle to fit – you just need the spanner thing

IPlayer radio
Tweetbot if you twitter
Lovefilm if you have a subscription (30 day free trial)
Dropbox
Simplenote
Tetris
Amazon

This Dar Adel character is where it’s at – series 3 will be about a conspiracy within the us intelligence services . Dar Adel has done away with the CIA so he can create a new more powerful agency he is in charge of. He will have given the order to spare Brody – as he was needed as a fall guy

I keep reading this “Saul is the mole” theory

Surely if you watched the show back from ep 1 with this theory in mind the show would make no sense at all

Think series 2 has been pretty thin compared to series 1 to be honest

Came down the stairs into the living room and there on the mat, on it’s stand, was a Grifter. That mental image will always be with me. Utter childhood joy.

Funny how timing is everything – I got a grifter too one Christmas, but it was the year that everyone (and I really do mean everyone) was getting a BMX. My mum knew what I wanted but decided she knew best and went for the grifter because the saddle looked more comfortable. I can’t claim it was the worst gift I ever got, but I still feel the pain today.

The ministry of sound “alternative 80s” CDs are very good indeed.

Star Wars trilogy
Raiders
ET
Back to the future
Ghostbusters
Goonies

Grown men riding bikes on the pavement,

X 100000

I have a set of crests with the same hubs . No issues in about 18 months of use – front was easily converted from qr to bolt through. Still on original bearings

Tubular bells? Tell me I’m wrong grandad

i would have said superstar chain device

but mine cracked on a cold morning ride the other day

still highly likely that it will get repaired/ replaced with the same thing TBH

I carry anchovies (and a spare tube) for moments likes these – lucky enough not to have had to use them yet – but better than walking

I once had to keep topping the tyre up to finish the ride – when I got home and opened up the tyre I found two ping pong ball sized balls of dry latex.

I top up more regularly now

Anyone else think they were going to be directed to a link to another celebratory arrest story?

feels like a movie

the “end bit” when the godfather kills all his enemies in one go.

BBC get further weekend by newsnight stuff,Levenson report is published – government don’t pass any new laws, Clifford (who has presumably pissed a few people off in his time) gets his reputation trashed

Hugh Grant should be watching his back right now

18 works for me

I know the trail you mean chief. There is one very rooty corner on that one which you may be thinking about. With that one I find I get best results if I enter the corner very wide, which means I’m actually turning before I get to the roots. I then able to clear the roots in a more or less straight line.

I recently got a rega turntable off eBay – I quite enjoy buying cheap 2nd hand vinyl of discogs and owning old records.

But I only buy stuff for a couple of quid or so. There is no way I’m paying 15/ 20 quid for new music on vinyl when the cd can be had for a tenner or less – and the music was recorded using digital equipment anyway

It is a tad odd and nonsensical

I watched it from a film geek POV cos it’s directed by Michael Mann

Apparantly it was filmed in a disused quarry (village and exterior of the keep) and disused mine (inside the keep) near betws y coed

I feel I may be offering advice to people who are already much better riders than me – but I find the whole exaggerated heel down, brake levers angled higher up thing helps here.

In this position even though you are pushing the bike into the ground, your body position on the bike means your knees bend naturally to soak up the bumps

I’m hopeless at choosing a top 5 or whatever but new albums by these bands have all been good this year

First aid kit
Tame impala
Jack white
Mark lanegan
Alebana shakes
Grimes
Bobby Womack
Dirty projectors
Girls (might have come out 2011)
Calexico
Ben Kweller
The Shins
Cat Power
Grizzly Bear

That there is more to life than working “hard”/ working when you are ill. Whether that’s for “the man” or for yourself

Sky quality is crap anyway (well ours is, but it’s through a SCART cable).

Have you waggled it? All scary cable related problems can be solved by waggling it

Yep – amazon marketplace is great for DVDs and CDs. Prices seem to be based on demand and number of items in stock – so sometimes you get lucky and get what you want for very little

And if you heat it really gently the coffee comes through really slowly which creates amazing but very strong coffee.

Mine comes through slow too

To be honest I think regular mocha users adapt their technique over time to what works for them and how hot their hob gets

I’m on electric now, on my old gas hob a lower heat seemed to work better because on a high setting the burning gas didn’t seem to make proper contact with the relatively narrow base of the pot

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I also don’t think she is being honest

Her story sounds like classic “damage limitation” to me. “what is the minimum I can admit to so I can get away with this”. She has had all night to think her story through

I would prepare yourself for the possibility that the affair started around the time your relationship notably cooled, and involved plenty of physical contact

I could be wrong of course, I think you probably know how honest she is being if you are honest with yoursrlf

I don’t get this “gentle” with a mocha pot thing. Surely the water has to reach a specific temperature in order to rise up and through the ground coffee?

The speed it reached the temperature is immaterial? The water hits the ground coffee at the same temp whether it wad heated slowly or quickly. I always put my hob on full whack and get non burnt coffee

The coffee goes bad if you leave it on the heat after all the bubbles start coming up, and the coffee starts bubbling boiling and spluttering in the hob. The trick IMO is to leave the lid up whilst the water heats up, then at the moment when the last of the water comes through, and air starts to come through instead, put the lid down and remove the pot from the heat

Good point above

Separation and divorce are all very well – but if you want to remain part of your kids’ lives you have to maintain some kind of functional relationship with your ex

It can be very hard sometimes. Things can be rattling along ok, but IME it takes very little for the pair of you tone fighting again like old times

But well done for being positive. The fact that your wife is annoyed about you going out without her suggests she is a tad confused – isn’t she about to move out? I think the pair of you need to decide if you are proactively working as a couple at fixing things, or negotiating your exit strategy.

Good p

I would go for something like that. I live in a small flat – and the only way to get a muddy bike out back to clean it properly is to take it through the hall and living room. A bag I could leave by the front door before a ride, then pop my bike in when I return – leaving me the option of delaying cleaning to a more convenient time, would be a very good thing IMO

You are lucky in that you don’t have kids

IMO this is the thing that really locks you in to the life you describe

I had kids young, of course I don’t regret it but it did set me on a very “safe” path which I do have pangs about from time to time.

Do it, sell up/ rent out your home. Volunteering overseas would be a great start – an opportunity to get some perspective on what your long term ambitions might be.

Some of the annoying yummy mummies at my kid’s school have got into the habit of doing whip rounds for the teacher at the end of the school year. I have no problem with a few quid for a bottle of wine and box of chocolates, but they were shooting for an iPad this year! He wasn’t leaving or anything and my boy told me he spends most of his time watching antiques roadshow on iPlayer during lessons.

I don’t know if he got it or not, not on the basis of my contribution that’s for sure