that site sells

Silicone Octopus 5-Mode Vibrating Body Massager

genuine octopron

genuine LOL

hmm, i have a friend in China called Grace. are you her?

i do think to a certain extent they overplayed the bullying aspect, you can get bullied for all sorts at school, kids can be evil little feckers although i guess there is a certain stigma attached to poverty

or park in Hope like what i’m going to and ride over rushup edge and down roych clough

the office wouldn’t smell like a Scalextric

that’s just a result of ‘the ether’ heating up due to everyone tweeting about it on their mobile phones

I’ve also been in the thick of a storm on the med coast on a bike. about 18ft of rain falling a second and lightning all around, loved it. I wonder why it is so fascinating?

p!ssed off i’d imagine

sweet

i often have to watch people getting into states like this at similar functions as part of my job. that however will take some beating.

i’ve been about 15ft away from a strike when it hit a lamp post on the motorway. loud doesn’t even begin to describe it and i was inside a truck cab

when i were a lad…..

… we used to live on a hill in the middle of nowhere and there was a radio antenna on our house. Lightning strikes were quite common. Telephones exploded, the central heating pipes used rattle together where the touched in a really big one, being the end of the power lines meant that we’d frequently see all out lights drop to about 20% for minutes at time. I loved it, nothing better than being curled up on the sofa with the dog and a good book in the middle of a storm like that, especially as my bedroom was in the attic (well hay loft technically).

plus my dad was struck by lightning on a norwegian mountain, he was on a TV programme about it and everything

and keep your eyes on this http://www.videolan.org/vlmc/

whilst it is not a new thing, it is on the increase which is inexcusable.

The proportion of children living in poverty grew from 1 in 10 in 1979 to 1 in 3 in 1998

source: endchildpoverty.org.uk

do you teach at an FE institution? If so the BBC will probably provide you with a copy for educational purposes.

some of the images are a little dark on my (profiled) monitor. perhaps look to make them a little more consistent?

I’ll just stick some air in the normal tyres then.

other way, less pressure = less pebble related trauma

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-tyres-for-cannock-in-the-wet

Hi Pat

I have Rudy Project photocromic lenses in my riding glasses. they are excellent. Can’t say you notice the change really, it’s quite subtle but is enough to cope with moving into wooded areas etc

a very sobering watch.

The maturity shown by most of the kids was what shocked me, kids that age should quite rightly be naive to problems of debt and unemployment. Those kids were clearly aware of the reasons for their poverty. Hope comes really from the possibility that given the right opportunities they can take their experiences and better their own lives further down the line.

Sadly the likelihood of those possibilities being presented to them in any meaningful way is pretty low.

campag are much stricter on max/min gear capacity when it comes to mechs.

best to check exactly which mechs you have and have a furtle about on the web for gear capacities

i’m in Bournemouth right now

i don’t live here though.

tollah – i look forward meeting her ladyship.

seeing you will of course be a necessary evil.

Sadly K is on a girly camping weekend so won’t be in attendance.

will they utilise a floating octopus pivot design?

depends how good the sensor is and if you are shooting HD. If your final output is going to be a small image on youtube etc then pushing the sensitivity/gain/ISO doesn’t really matter.

I’d experiment with a moving object first.

yes

the issue is that you will cut down the amount of light which may cause the camera to bump the ISO right up or the whole scene very dark. depends how much light there is.

Maybe it’s a US thing of efficiency and time/money saving being more important that health and safety

that may have been true in the 20s but nowadays the US is a nightmare for H&S thanks to the culture of litigation. Unless you are mexican or poor…….

no, you said

True, but poor application of the rules does not make the rules bad.

a point i had already made

H&S laws are generally very good but applied poorly by people with little understanding of the actual risks involved

hadn’t even spotted these replies – wow, that’s service!

thanks Dale, i finally got round to sending the tent off to cascade and there’s a new inner and footprint on it’s way so that’s great service from the manufacturer AND the UK distributor.

well done MSR

BT business direct are good and have excellent customer service

not as easy as it used to be for me although it’s endemic in my industry. I have a 4 hour sleep minimum now. used to hit the bar every night until the wee small hours but nowadays restrict it to once every few days on a job a the most.

anyway, there’ll be no agreement on this, it’s like the bike helmet debate, some peoples attitude to risk to themselves varies to others, simples.

there is no excuse for causing risk to others though.

like i said, they’ve clearly accepted the consequences of their actions

Of course i know people who take foolish risks and i’ve done it myself. After one incidence of very nearly causing injury to another I am far more aware of the risk to others. H&S laws are generally very good but applied poorly by people with little understanding of the actual risks involved. For instance a venue i worked at recently insisted on those at height wearing a hard hat and high vis jacket, neither of which helped to prevent injury to me or others yet those working below me were not required to wear a lid, arguably of far more use.

I’ve seen a rigger fall from height causing a serious head injury, he didn’t fall because he wasn’t using PPE, he fell because he did a stupid thing, if he’d been using a harness clipped in to the ladders he’d have likely pulled down the ladders, 80ft of heavy drapes and all the hardware associated with it causing injury to others. wearing a standard issue strapless hard hat would have done nothing to prevent his head injury, they are designed to prevent injury from falling objects and striking you head on obstacles at head height.

are they wearing harnesses?

Many accidents happen to highly competent individuals who have become blasse or hardened to the daily risks they face

these are no longer competent people

you are correct about the law although as is common with H&S regulation it provides little flexibility for different working environments. Case in point – regarding picker baskets, clipping in is to prevent users being ‘bounced’ out of the basket and more indirectly to prevent you form climbing on the guard rails, this is not a realistic scenario on the kind of surfaces that my work takes place on, if i feel it is a possibility then i clip in.

fake says I

look at the shadow of the front rider in comparison to the other

Why do you think we have safety rules

originally we had safety rules to prevent injury or death through the actions or negligence of others (employers) in the course of work, not to prevent harm caused by oneself through lack of ability. Those guys will clearly be provided safety gear by their employers, this fulfils the safety rules. Should they choose not to use it without risk of injury to others then that is completely fair enough. I don’t know a single rigger who clips in to the basket of pickers despite it being a requirement.

that video gives me the willies though, i’m used to height yet i get butterflies in my stomach just watching it.

quite the buzz though i’d imagine

i’ll quote myself

If you are willing to accept the consequences of your own actions

no, in an environment like that where (acts of god weather aside) you are entirely responsible for your own safety then knowing your own limits is a far more reliable form of protection than any fall arrest device

Big balls yes, stupid, yes. There is no justification for not clipping in.

piffle.

the most effective form of safety when working at height is not to fall off. If you are willing to accept the consequences of your own actions and trust in your abilities then the lack of hindrance is great. I’d love not to have to clip in when moving around on truss.

a structure like that is too tall to accommodate an inertia device, it’s add considerable time to the climb if the had to move protection every few feet.

[caveat] risk to those on the ground needs to be considered