Becks.

lol @ sue. Bloody wierdos. I’m NOT doing lycra this year. Oh yeah, no.1735 – Get a van! always wanted a van.

I got a Madison Trail Pannier rack from Ebay new for £16. Use it for big shopping loads, commuting and a five day tour. Used the Topeak Super tourist dx before, but that’d be overkill (and pricey) just for commuting.

Good stuff Ton!

brie is a great glue if you were wondering how many ritz you could stick together. you’d think it’d be boursin, but no, it’s brie! might put peanuts in the brie in the next tower..

This is a prime example of why I’m faffing about on the internets..

put me on the Drink Less and Cheer Up list too Hora. Can’t be doing with racing though, those people seem far too energetic, chipper and sober! Not mixing with those fit wierdos.

Your house sounds fun 🙁 I’ve done a 5 layer jacobs selection/ ritz cracker tower of brie, boursin, goats cheese, more brie (I like brie) and cranberry sauce and stuffing. It **** rocks! dunno how to eat in though..

+1 singlespeedstu 😀

Trolllol!! Why the **** do you want to work in such a horrible world as Advertising?! on that salary Id’ve quit after 6 months and found a nicer life and people to be around.

I think it’s totally precient if you live there to bring up the gun laws in a political conversation, especially if you are the president. Surely Obama could change one thing before his office is ended. these weapons have to end
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nice one ho hum i can read the crap accent
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well get those mixedup-**** in Gun therapy!

man with massive firepower kills lots of small children. I Say take away any possibility of massive firepower to any citizen and **** their so called constitutional rights. or at least legislate to anyone owning much more than a shotgun for vermin etc. Hugely deadly combat weapons do not belong in the hands of your ordinary person in the public arena. This is the only argument here. IT’s just wrong and impossible to change which is sad cos this will happen again and again 🙁

This is a good thread. Thank you in advance if I make any cockups, you never know. I know for a fact Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue do sterling work in stupid conditions at stupid hours and mostly voluntary. So those boys deserve a thanks. I just hope I’m sensible enough not to have to get them out.

mefty – that’d be amazing and I’d be up for that if I still lived in That London. Fact is, between all yer mates DVD’s and bittorrets and what haveyou, tv listings are a bit old hat. I still like a bit of CSI though and The “V” mini series that I was into in the 80’s is on at 1am everyday now. Kind of crap but kind of cool.Organising time around tv listings is a very old fashioned way of doing xmas I reckon. I watch bladerunner too much anyway, but a bit of muppets wouldn’t go amiss.

Do you reckon in 20-30 yrs xmastime people will be going, oh that bloody Toy Story is on again, how many times have I seen that cheesy stuff and the graphics and special fx are rubbish! same old same old.

there’s a website called comparethefridge.com well f*** me rigid i did not know that.This forum is still solid gold.

oh yess I’m a feeling some grizzly bearsuit/big river harp blues combo lol! now that would be a xmas present. Brilliant 😀 Yunki, unfortunately for you your brain functions like mine haha!

There you go OP, you ask, and STW gives.

May’s a good egg. He’s the square peg in a round hole and I kind of love that. I reckon a few beers would be a good laugh and a very interesting and rewarding chat with him. The other two would just annoy me and I’d be making my excuses.. anyway what’s wrong with a pasty and a jelly based sweet!

how much was the harp Yunki? might buy one for myself!

That’s a bit more serious Yunki, I think you have to graduate from the fun comedy suit to the proper A1 Grizzly suit over a few winters. Got to quit your job and do a bit of hibernating to get to that level of grizzlyness. Or get made redudndant. How many grown men, that have been made redundant are now sat at home in a full serious grizzly outfit? There should be stats and charts in The Guardian at least…

jamie is right. you’ve got it easy mate, she knows what she wants. Although, the female psyche as it is…

“oh, cheers a Hairdryer, a really good one, just like I asked for, that’s brilliant” (Iwanted a romantic weekend in paris you knob).

oh yes indeed, I want one anyway!

get something fun like a Grizzly Bear suit. then you can put the heating off and just dress like a bear and mooch about the house making cups of tea, perusing interwebs, etc. I reckon even the psychological impact of Dressing Like a Bear will up your core temperature a degree or two. I know this shit cos I watch Channel 5. They may not have made a factual programme about this yet, it’s just a matter of time though. Dressing like a bear will be the new thing after the mayan apocalyse.

fleshlight. As you have everything, why not ask them to donate to a charity of your choice. Or maybe get more whisky. From what I read on here a big collection of expensive whisky is important.

I’m there MightyMule, I’m there haha! one for Facebook!

aye, it’d be funny as hell if they found this thread! top tip: do not ever deviate from your shopping list and wear blinkers in a supermarket. otherwise you’re one of those **** like everyone else that gets to the till and goes “ooh, I didn’t mean to spend so much, I only came in for bread/milk/eggs” etc. Just buy what you want then you morons!! The guy on fruit and veg is an ex high level Paratrooper and global mountain climber, K2 etc. When someone asks why the fruit isd a little bruised he must just want to ram it in their face lol! like Roy Batty “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe..”

the shop where I work beginning with A has some xmas tunes on rotation.
NO sane individual on a 10 hr shift should have to listen to Cliff Richards “saviours Day” every 40 mins. it’s wrong and probably brEAKING MY HUMAN RIGHTS OR SOMETHING. I DON’T NEED CHRISTIAN PROPAGANDA WHILST DOING MY JOB. UM, AND CHRIS Reas Driving HOme for Xmas. shuttup rea it doesnt even rhyme it’s nonsense from your head whils driving home for xmas. Probably. and bloody all those 10 tunes I have to listen to on repeat all day every day. We’ve done everything we can to sabotage the CD player but it’s some hardcore indestructible shit. I went to tescos and they were playing White Wedding by Billy Idol. It’s not even christmassy I’m going to work at tescos!! you might think it’s a bitof a nightmare going for a shop for an hr or 2 in one of these places at xmas. Praise Cliff you don’t have to work there!!

I don’t get films where a man dresses like a monosyllabic rubber bat to fight crime is going to make me pay 8 quid for the pleasure, and crime being a bloke with a jockstrap on his face.

Hannibal Lecter, there’s a baddy. Or Don Logan in Sexy Beast, there’s a baddy. Or the bad guys in The Wire – who were they again?

It’s interesting eh DruidH. The US has such a short history and it’s mostly a history of US and THEM! Of division. We like to think we live in enlightened, liberal and tolerant societies in modern developed countries but you only have to look at The US and incidents like this to see it’s still a pretty screwed up human race we have here and it is time to EVOLVE!

It’s hilarious the comedy gold people think they say to checkout staff, when in reality it’s about the 30th time you heard that crazy quip today. Ha ha very good, very original. You read the mail sir, very interesting, and your diet is apalling if I may say so. Some of the checkout bunch I work with are seasoned worldly pros and some are very intelligent young graduates, and many would slam dunk your general STW bod in a second in Real Life!

That Michael Moore film Bowling For Columbine adressed the Canadian thing, where citizens had guns but also lived with their front doors unlocked and little gun crime. I don’t remember what conclusion he came to though other than the US population is pretty paranoid and fearful. is it a leftover from the cold war? did they really have it drummed into them so much that the guy on the end of the street could be your enemy? I know I’m going off on a tangent..

If you see someone pushing a shitload of trolleys don’t stop and stand in front of them in dumb amazement and ask if you can have one, as they have considerable momentum and no brakes. Also, don’t assume cos someone works in the supermarket they know where your **** special sauce is. Also, if you are a bit miffed at the person banging stuff through a checkout too fast, consider the fact they have a target they are required to meet. In our store it is 20 items per minute, in aldi it is 30. If you are not inpressed, ask to speak to a manager. Checkout people love it when customers get arsey. HTH.

“sorry officer, they must’ve changed the markings on the carpark since I was here.”

“I see. honest mistake. Don’t do it again”

conversation over. Guess you had to be there eh?!

Edit: aye, stick a google streetview link up. I’d be interested in this one as I sometimes work in a supermarket carpark.

It doesn’t matter how clever you are Zulu11, or the psychology of US society or whatever you want to pull out the bag. Fact is, if the bloke had no access to those powerful guns, he wouldn’t have been able to kill loads of people so swiftly and easily. There is no reasoning it.
and anyway, if a country/society displays a propensity for gun violence isn’t that more reason to take them away from them? I dunno how like 😕

cop just sounds like a bit of a tool to me. Get ’em in all walks of life. Ho hum!

Oh definitely, people with mental health probs should have access to the treatment they need. But In my limited experience, people come on the mental health issues radar after something has happened for the worse in one way or the other. How often to you hear about someone going at someone with a kitchen knife? it happens. No one has a perfect life, and people lose the plot all the time. Usually best if no automatic rifles were available though eh?

all I need in life’s a little bit of love to take the pain away…

What. a. tune!

When they drew up the US constitution it was a new country and people wanted to protect their new found land and property from outlaws or whathaveyou I guess. But I suspect when they drew it up they didn’t quite forsee the actual firepower a person could have at their disposal 200 years later. Probably a bolt action rifle would be as far as it’d go. No one except the miltary should have access to some of the weapons that ordinary Americans have at their disposal. It’s really ****** up IMO.This shouldn’t be able to happen in the first place 🙁

It makes me so angry that they have these stupid gun ownership laws in The U.S. Does anybody need to own assault rifles and hugely powerful handguns? It’s **** ridiculous. It’s not like it’s the first time this terrible sort of thing has happened is it? If the guy didn’t have access to the firepower, it wouldn’t have happened. Ohh, but it’s in the constitution. Well, rip up the f****** constitution, it’s ancient and out of date. or just arm everyone with pitchforks instead. Imagine how sick the parents of children killed in columbine are feeling, knowing that nothing has changed.

Wow, what a brilliant thread and great piccies! thanks