“morning dress does all stem from Queen Vic spending too long in mourning dress! “

er. actually no it doesnt, It comes quite literally from being a gentleman’s riding attire for the town, for a morning ride /constitutional. It’s precisely why the jacket is cut high for sitting on horses etc. and can be worn up till & 7pm if a long day out, and no opportunity to re-attire is available, but only till 5pm otherwise. It’s why the jacket is cut high, for sitting on horses, boneshakers etc. Grey is perfectly acceptable for male members of the wedding party and has been for over a hundred years provided that is what the groom is wearing.

hammer + cut off broomstick or piece of doweling thats a reasonably snug fit in the steerer tube

If you tap it in too far, keep going and it just falls out the other end. Start again.

in my opinion obviously…….

The 420 bhp chevrolet LT1 small block v8 with, holley four barrel 450cfm carbs and edelbrock steel twin-four branch shorty extractor manifolds running through a pair of corvair turbo mufflers and three inch pipes, like what my ’90 Vette has.

there now, in Siolim, just got back from vagator beach, its alright if you like beaches, off to hampi, which is stunning tomorrow for a week then back to goa for a few days, then off to kerala for a week then off to trivandrum for a week, I’d come again, my wife lived and worked out here for years, nowt wrong with it at all,apart from f****d up ravers and bright red package holiday types cluttering the place up anyway, but yep try and stay south of the capital when your here

er, no………..:)

there are no good Mexican eateries in Manchester, Have a curry or go to Que Pasa or it’s sister restaraunt Tirano on Lark lane in Liverpool,only forty mins away from Manchester thats the nearest half decent one.there’s el machos in Man city centre but it’s shit.

would be my advice……..

i’m on newington green, but I’ll be buggering off to Zanzibar to get married on the 20th, then six weeks in Kerala and if I try to wriggle out of it for a jolly, there’ll be trouble. But count me in for when we get back in the middle of april

flyingmonkeycorps….. I was about to say Cash’s cover of The Mercy Seat…….

early Triumph Hurricane, had one

Harley xr750, want one

That Triumph Trident that that Norman Hyde fella built that had four cylinders

Ariel Square four, want one

Schroedinger’s Cat’s Buell (XB12?) on the other bike thread.

Canadian Import V-max, have one

it would appear that I don’t like bikes with fairings or jellymoulds glued on. Only just noticed that…..

Really, call social services or if not available your local a+e department, I work in mental health and all the a+e departments around here have a duty psychiatrist and a crisis team on call 24-7-365 days, I assume that yours will as well unless you live right out in the sticks,It’s going to be bloody cold out tonight if she decides to go walkabout outside. They will have a crisis team on duty, paid and trained for this sort of thing.

I dont know about landlords, butas clwydrider said, most fire services will supply and fit them for free if asked, Iknow many of the ones around here do anyway.

Alfa Romeo Montreal two votes so far, stunning and understated, and just beautifully put together for an Italian exotic.

Alfa Romeo Disco Volante, well and truly ripped off by Lyons for the e type.

road going stratos, all the snarling aggression and pace of a testarossa or countach, but with the agility and nimbleness of an x-19 or mr2

ISO grifo, muscla and grace, gorgeous car.designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, who designed the 250 gto, who claims the ISO was the improved gto, that ferrari wouldn’t let him build.

original De Tomaso Pantera, before it copped for all the boy racer spoilers and body kits.

Oscar India AM v8, again before all the body kits and airdams ruined the lines completely.

69 Dodge charger

69 Mustang fastback

too many others depending on my mood

i had set of them on a raleigh hustler, they were ace. you see cowhorn bars on quite a few american bikes still though.

cocktail sausages.

cocktail sausages.

dog is Jane and cat is Colin, who is sadly not with us anymore, any excuse to post it again:)

oh and for folky stuff try fish records, most of their releases are hdcd…..

and I’ve just looked at “El Corazon” never noticed……. ta for that

Emmy Lou Harris’s “wrecking ball” is on hdcd as well and worth every penny,and I reckon if you’re looking for folky stuff, that’s a good buy.

What woody2000 says, It’s what I do and I pay about 4/5p per minute with a lebara international sim card, don’t have to mess about finding an internet connection, just use the phone.

The sim cost me a 20 quid with 10 quids worth of credit on it from vodafone shop, cheapy hand-set cost me 20 quid. Costs a lot less than using a UK service provider as far as I can tell. Might be able to get cheaper but I can’t be bothered looking as I’m happy with the service and coverage etc, used it in India, Israel, the US, Tanzania, Panama…. all over the place really without any problems, and I can top up online if needs be as well.

And for the US, if you try keepspeaking.com, they do us sim cards and will even rent you a handset for use while y’there.

not got any pics of most except the Hamer on this computer: but a tele thinline, 73 les paul custom, 2 Jay Turser 355 copies, a Jay Turser resonator les paul type thing hybrid with gretsch filtertron pickups, a yamaha pacifica which is f*****g awful and i only bought cos it was very very cheap, but terrible and I wish I’d not bothered,a somewhat euphemistically named Hamer standard custom, and a custom tele copy,that was built for the Manchester guitar show last year, and a grant les paul copy i’ve had about thirty years.

Oddly enough my favourites are the two Turser semi’s and the electric resonator which are terrific, and were the cheapest.

if i’ve got the hotlink right……

If you were my father, I’d drink to excess as well 🙂

“I dont give a toot about race,we are all the same in my book. “

as I asked before, why mention it then?
🙂

mr crushrider, just wondered what the relevance to the story actually was? I can can only assume from your use of the term “P C superhero” and “Nob Heads” that you a thwarted bigot of some description?

That may sound like me being a “nob head”, but at least I can spell knob correctly. which I believe makes me sound less like one than somebody who cannot:)

whoops, finger trouble there

I would have ignored it and got on with my life.Cannot see what possible pertinance him being Asian could have on the story either.

ignored it and got on with my life.

if its still on go and see the Byzantine exhibition at the RA, went a couple of weeks ago and it was superb……….well impressive, lots of ikons and stuff to gawk at.

currently back in the uk, but the most annoying thing about most other countries I’ve lived was unfortunately the type of Ex pats who spend thier lives whining about pretty much everything, I avoid ’em like the plague. met the odd one who is ok but mostly I pretend to be Basque, Mustachistani or Afrikaans just to annoy them and hopefully make them leave me alone. That and chicken and mushroom pot noodle longings

Assuming infinitely good eyesight,the required level of fine motor control and a precisely defined enough cutting tool, Occam’s razor may be good here.

can you cut a piece of titanium (for example) exactly 1.9 recurring cms long? no you cant.

can you cut a piece of titanium (for example) exactly 2.0 recurring cms long? yes you can
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so no ,regardless of what Bertrand Russell and other assorted philosophical mit mots think, they are not exactly the same number at all, they may however be functionally identical numbers, unless the definition you need in your calculation is massively high.

ah fair enough, I apologize for taking the p**s then, carry on 🙂

Why in the name of sweet zombie Jesus, how old are you?……do you have cammo pyjamas as well? you’d better have a good excuse for buying toy guns. imho anyway.:)

It might just be the best idea in the world ever, if not it’s extremely close I reckon, the fella who showed me how to make it deserves a knighthood or something.

if you have no grill, make a cheese sandwich using whatever is your preferred method, and fry in a nice oiled skillet, ( a frying pan will just burn the edges of the bread unless you are very lucky getting the temp in the pan just right, a skillet on a very low heat seems to heat more evenly and results in less carbonization and more overall tastiness ) on both sides for about three or four minutes.

Or…… make your cheese sandwich, cut a hole in the middle of it with a glass in a biscuit cutter stylee, plop an egg in there once its on the skillet and fry for about four or five minutes on each side, also with this method, the bit you have cut out of the sandwich will be ready to eat about a minute before the rest of it it, so you can scoff that whilst waiting for the rest.

mind you, I’m a greedy bastard and always make about three on the run.

I Like going uphill cos I generally do myself less damage, and I spent long enough scaring the crap out of myself for a living that It stopped being funny many years ago, prefer a pie and a pint to an afternoon in a&e. I’m a sad old duffer really……

buy both and have both fitted, springs….. cart, coil or otherwise settle with use and may in actuality be a different rate or length regardless of what you think you’ve bought, that being said,you wont notice a difference till you really need to brake in a straight line, and then it wont.

With older or classic cars, it’s not uncommon to buy a a 2 inch or so lowering kit and find out the car is exactly the same height as it was before it was lowered as the springs have settled under load. I wouldn’t risk just changing one in a car that age. but maybe that’s just me……….

kung hei fat choi etc.