I’d get a great big turnip in the country.

About a 5 at the moment. My department is being merged with another, which means redundancies so i’ll soon be a 1 or 11 on the doom scale.

I guess it depends if your wife has any form of imagination. If so, she’ll be bored out of her skull after about 30 seconds :)

Cafedirect

“the ammo was keept at the opposite end of the ship from the gun”

Reminded me of a boast from a trade magazine in which they were extolling the virtues of the new automated munitions management system on the ship that would be using the same conveyor technology as terminal 5..

The John Bunyan, Coleman Green.
Mainly because I live next to it :)

I didn’t say that, but you would be correct to assume I don’t accept cycling as a practical mode of transport. Neither is the motorcycle. I do both, but generally neither works very well as transport.
It’s a far more practical form of transport for my daily commute than a car, no queues, no hunting for a parking space, no walking miles (well a 1/4 mile) from the parking space to the office. Obviously your milage may vary though.

why have laws if there are acceptable criteria that make it ok to not participate?

that train of thought has serious consequences…

I guess it depends on the law. I’d hazard a guess that most people on here choose not to obey the law on fitting pedal reflectors.

Although deaths per km is pretty meaningless, deaths per hour or deaths per journey would better reflect the risk
Why?
Because comparing risk by distance when objects don’t travel similar distances gives skewed results. Let’s say I live 100K from work. If I drive I have a 0.00000028 chance of dying, 0.00000295 for cycling and 0.00000448 for walking. So cycling’s would appear to be 1.5 times safer than walking. But in reality people don’t walk 100K to work or cycle 100K to work, they choose a different form of transport. Let’s say the average uk commute is 30 minutes, you average 60Kmh in the car 20kmh on the bike and 5Kmh walking. So the distances travelled are 30km, 10Km and 2.5Km respectively. The death rates for the journeys are 0.000000084, 0.000000295, 0.000000112.
So taking into account the speeds people move at and the time they’re exposed to the risk you’ll see that cycling is 2.6 times more dangerous than walking, rather than the 1.5 times safer the base line statistics would suggest.
A moment’s thought will tell you that it’s patently absurd that walking is more dangerous than cycling. Try thinking of all the times that friends and work colleagues have regaled about all the near misses they’ve had walking into work rather than cycling.

Anyway, It’s a sad day when I can’t walk around the streets wearing my white pride t-shirt because of asians shoving me.

Would you do the same if you found someone was uninsured?
I guess it would depend if the car was being driven or not. If it’s parked up with flat tyres I wouldn’t be too worried.

Like drac says, there’s not enough information to draw any conclusions. For all we know the cyclist might have veered in the vans path. I’ve certainly done dodgy stuff in the past sprinting against friends.

Yes
No
Dunno, somewhere nordic or germanic i’d guess.

can you cut a piece of titanium (for example) exactly 1.9 recurring cms long? no you cant.
Rather depends on what your dial is marked in. Mine’s mark at 120 degree intervals. So 3 marks per revolution, giving me settings (assuming infinitely good eyesight) of 1/3, 2/3 and 3/3. Now it’s indeniably that 1/3= 0.333…, 2/ =0.666…, 3/3=0.999… etc. So 2.0 turns of my dial yields a 1.999.. cut.

4. Death

Job done.

1/3 = 0.333 recuring
2/3 = 0.666…
3/3 = 0.999…
4/3 = 1.333…
5/3 = 1.666…
6/3 = 1.999…

They can’t help it. It’s genetic, or glandular, or something similar.

If you liked napoleon dynamite would you like superbad? Or is it completely different?

I should have typed quicker :)

I guess it depends on what you mean by ‘cheap’. We got some very cheap ones at work for students to play with that worked, but I wouldn’t really want to use regularly. But if you mean cheapish, then a base level garmin etrex or gecko will do everything you need. They are restricted in the number of waypoints you can have, but in practice people use tracklogs rather than waypoints downloading to the gps, and the limitations on these normally won’t cause a problem. You also need to figure into your costs a pc link cable, as this won’t be supplied with the gps.

You can simply change the order by turning the screen upside down.

I ordered a PAYG iphone yesterday. It’s got it’s faults but from the brief play’s i’ve had, it’s streaks ahead of win mobile phones. The only downside is that it looks a pain in the arse to write apps for if you don’t have a mac. I thought about waiting longer for prices to drop, but it crossed my mind with the current weakness of the pound, it might even become more expensive.

It’s up there with hanging a monkey as a French spy :)

I dunno. I’m sure it’s not that simple, but it seems like yet another group of stupid idiots who think they are harder than nature.

What you mean like smokers, drinkers, people that don’t exercise enough, people who it crap food. You mean like those stupid idiots that make up the majority of the population in denial of nature, or some other special sort of stupid idiot?

The memories of Glastonbury will last longer than the seatpost though.

Though having said that, you can see the dilemena the BBC has, as iirc it rebuked last year for allegedly having a pro-palastine attitude to news reporting, or something to that effect.

Tony Benn on Today show: …about 22 mins in.
That was genius. Good for Tony.

.now who’s in the wrong here
Well you know the answer to this one. It’s a bit like a bank robber complaining they’ve been nicked because the police have invaded their privacy by tailing them :)
But I take your point. I might be worth further investigation as to what counts as privacy and ownership of data. I suspect that most of these go out the window if you’re commiting criminal activities. Now how you detect criminal activities could be a breach of your privacy, but I suspect they’ve got this covered.
BTW how much music had you downloaded?

It’s unwise to penetrate a goose.

Great tyre in mud and a good mile eater. Pretty lethal on stuff like wet roots, but the speed you gain inbetween more than makes up.

You can milk anything with nipples.

Ow! Just got cramp in both hamstrings.

Hmm.
Maybe riding in london’s different. But I my book to deliberately brake check someone drafting is really poor form. I’d certainly repsond with a body check if anyone did that too me. Lead them into pot-holes, parked cars by all means, but brake checking is a different matter.

Still, at least the northern rock staff are getting their bonuses.
Something we can all agree is a great idea..

Bugger:(
Sorry to hear you’ve had no luck yet Jedi.

No school can discriminate on grounds of religion.
Of course those of a religous persuasion would argue that’s it’s god’s will as to who get’s in :)

I’d say it’s a decision to be made based on your personal level of risk taking, rather than the attitude to risk of the forum as a whole.

Unless of course it’s a really powerful laser that melts cars that cross the beam. That would be ace.

I love the artist’s impression of what it would look like. Of course in reality you’d get a flickering wobbling mass off fuzzy red light wobbling in tune with the rider. It’s also fatally flawed because it says to the driver, providing I stay clear of the patch of light, the cyclist will be happy with the overtaking space i’ve given.