Bo Ningen

Lauren Viers

(Not a double bill)

Richer Sounds do some deals on Sonos stuff…not amazing, but better than full RRP.

I have similar symptoms, but for me a pronounced click is now present, so I think it’s Morton’s neuroma (inflammation of the nerve tissue I think). I’m waiting to see a specialist about it (physiotherapy has not helped).

I can’t stress how much I’d go to a GP or pref. find a good physio who can establish a root cause (not one who plugs you into a Tens machine for 30mins a session) and not take other peoples experiences from internet forums.

Maybe it’s caused by driving SMax’s ;-)?

I used to get the Guardian every day…it’s standards have dropped a lot since them. Telegraph is now a broadsheet Daily Mail.I find the Times a bit dull. Newspapers have now been replaced with Internet and R4.

I better PM it!

Yes mate are you on there too?

Yeah…paid up, even got the sticker :-)(not displayed though).

Looks familiar from SMOC Renton ;-)

Mine got the ECU fixed on my car with a single trip to a decent garage.

I like this thread

Can’t say I do…Pg1 was a bit of a low watermark even for STW.

How much was the quote?

This, after 3:55. First job I got made redundant from I was totally gutted, but this got me through….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0HMwiygsTo

You’ve got to keep your self respect, You’ve got to keep your self respect.

Personally, main dealer. As well as warranty issues (I think under law you can get it serviced anywhere, but it gives them reasons to wiggle out of a claim), there is also ‘goodwill’ so if you have a claim on something not covered under warranty, they are a lot more likey to be sympathetic if you have used main dealers for servicing.

IME you can haggle with most main dealers to get the cost very close to indie garages.

Haha, nice one king tut :-)

Good agents are pretty rare, and can be very useful,if not essential. In the industry I work in (engineering) there are a few guys who have a good reputation, are trusted by clients and treat candidates well. The majority are hopeless, but once you find your feet, it’s easy to work out which are the ones to avoid, as they will usually give themselves away within the first phone call.

I don’t have much time for the commonly held view that they are all leaches…IME it’s not true. There are good ones and bad ones, and if you treat them all as ars******, you will end up dealing with the bad ones, and it becomes a self fullfilling prophecy.

IME decent clients eventually find decent agents, and the same goes for candidates.

In the OP you ask if there any benefits of using an agent, and in many cases, its a moot point…the client won’t deal with you directly as they hired an agent to find someone for the role. Aside from that, a decent agent can negotiate hard for you, give you a market overview one outline options, filter out the bad clients, give you a constant stream of work and manage the client if you want to move on.

You say you know someone, I’d go and talk to him. Also talk to other people in your industry to get a feel for what’s about and who are the decent agents. Agents are a classic example of something where you want a small number of the good ones, not a big number of the average ones.

Took a while to get, but LOLZ at CFH ;-)

Bought a giant defy from them at the start of summer, no issues, bike arrived on exactly the day I wanted. V.pleased.

Yeah, and loving it. This is the bestest family holiday ever :-) I am really starting to appreciate how amazing Wales is.

We are stopping at Rhandirmwyn (camping and caravaning site) and totally loving it. There is a really nice mtb route within 2 miles, good pub, steam for the kids to play in, lovely walking.

As a result of an upcoming house move I’ll be losing access to my telewest/blueyonder/virgin media email accounts that I’ve had, like, forever. I’m actually looking forward to the reduction in spam (of all sorts). It’s a bit of a pain trying to work out everywhere I’m registered with those email addresses though.

Ditto here…Virgin were charging nearly £30 more p/m than BT, so I felt I was being held to ransom (been with them 15 years w/same email address).

It’s actually been pretty easy, over the last month I’ve updated all the account details for stuff I deal with regularly, then I had one night of downloading all the emails off their server using outlook and scanning through mails to see what I wanted to update. I kept a plain text file in Dropbox to record what had been changed. Most of the stuff I was glad to leave behind. It was handy doing this before I lost the old email address so you can still get sent password reminders.

So far Virgin have not cut off the old email…despite them telling me it would be pulled the day of transfer.

It’s been a lesson learned…never use ISP email.

All sounds like good advice, some slightly offbeat suggestions:

Capitola (near Santa Cruz) on the coast is really nice, pretty low key and very chilled.

Obviously you have to do Yosemite, but on a weekend the valley floor can be like a traffic jam. Hetch Hetchy is really nice to get away from it all and do some walking. I’ve stayed at the Evergreen Lodge a few times and really, really love it.

Good point about the Tioga, this link gives you an idea of previous opening / closing times.

http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/seasonal.htm

I honestly think it would be pretty hard to have a bad time out there…the weathers great, there is loads to do, the people are great and appear to love the Brit’s, the foods great.

7 year old boy, currently reading Danny, Champion of the World. What a quality book.

He also likes Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (another quality book…nothing like the film).

So, if you get sick, through no fault of your own, and have time off work, or dare have a long term medical condition, then you should expect your colleagues to make negative comments and undermine your work?

Glad I work at a place where that doesn’t happen.

3 months off in the first 9? I wouldn’t expect to get negative comments, but I wouldn’t have a job either. I’d be glad to work somewhere where that doesn’t happen, but for many people, that is the reality.

To me, it doesn’t sound like bulling, it sounds like someone who’s not very nice. You’ll find them everywhere, so you might as well deal with it where you are working. Never worked for the public sector, but there are very few employers in the private sector who would tolerate such a lot of time off for a knee problem, so things don’t sound too bad to me.

That SLK looks amazing for the money…I wonder what it would be like to actually own an expensive car of that age?

they’ve got 30k to spend, they should be able to spend it, and get advice without pious comments like that.

Massive +1.

Yes he should have gone through the right channels, but then again what is the point because you know that unless it is a mock georgian/tudor barrat box you are going to fail.

I guess the point would be that you don’t go to all the effort to build a house, and then have it knocked down?

HiFi was a lot more fun back then…I’d love listening to that Sansui amp even if it sounded rubbish…it just looks so cool.

I have done this on loads of DVD’s (used to be a member of LoveFilm, I’d copy the disc’s and return them ASAP…half their disks would not copy as they were scratched). I used an old t-shirt and Brasso. You have to use a fair bit of force on badly scratched disks (i.e. 20mins worth of fairly hard effort), but I think I only had one disk I could sort.

Interestingly (ok, not really) , towards the end, quite a few disks came where other people had done the same (the surface of the disk looks matt, not shiny).

hdew are uk based but selling grey import stock. Warranty is handled by HDEW (think using Canon approved UK canters).

Dunno if it counts, but Shame by Brad was (is) an amazing album, which does not get much of a mention.

I test drove one a few years back…very nice. I didn’t really rag it, but it just felt effortless. A lot of car for the money.

Vetiver – The Errant Charm

Costco has some nice stuff, which is pretty reasonably priced.

I have a toilet in my caravan, I find the hassle of emptying it far less than the hassle of using camp site loos.

For No. 2’s? Nooooooo!

I never has a problem on campsites, typical sequence of events….

Wake up

Wife goes to toilet, leaves me w/kids

1 minute after she leave the caravan, I really need to poo

I wait

I wait

I wait

She comes back after 30mins.

I run to the toilet block. By the time I get there, I’m so desperate, I’d poo in front of Kate Middleton eating an ice cream. Never have the luxury of thinking about the situation.

It’s the toilets in America where the gaps around the doors are big enough that YOU CAN SEE IN THE CUBICLE!! WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH YOU AMERICAN TOILET DESIGNERS!!!!

haha, massive +1. I hate it, why are they designed like that? And yet the flush systems are amazing…properly sucks everything away….zero chance of floaters.

I once sh&t my pants test driving a car (hungover). Fortunately the car had black leather seats, so I was able to say my goodbyes before the salesperson realised.

Have you seen the dvd where Gruff goes to south America tracing Welsh emigrates? Quality bonkers viewing ;-)

Edit: It’s called Separado!

Long Eaton ???? WTF!!! Its a shithole

I must admit, It’s been a while since I’ve been there, but I have to agree.

I guess your probably looking at West Bridgford, Keyworth in nice, but a bit further out (possibly better for your commute as you can miss the A453 widening work). Ruddington is OK, but a bit close to Clifton (not nice IME).