I can lick my elbow.

we’ve had BT Vison for a year and they can go poke it up their privacy abusing spyware injecting arses, were off to Sky HD.

1986 called, it’d like its thread back please?

I fell asleep in starbucks once, I wouldn’t recommend it.

if it makes you feel any better our southern bastard electricity bill has gone up by £100.00 PER MONTH!

why? because we were paying by direct debit but they didn’t review it and we ended up not paying enough!

pfft. and we can’t change to a cheaper supplier (southern electricity are the most expensive suppler for our area) until the unannounced debt is paid.

so how would you check if your bill was normally about £60.00 and you haddn’t erected a personal street lamp?

god knows but we feel utterly stitched up! oh and the ombudsmen was hopeless. pfft.

an hour?

hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahaah

not me! that climb is monstrous!

but the descent is wonderful!

its shame realy

I’m telling the truth!!

and Johnny flynn & the sussex wit
and Laura Marling

book those two, they are outstanding!!

oh and the Ralfe Band

oh and Liz Green, you HAVE to book her!!

The Seal Cub Clubbing Club, their new album is excellent!!

you buy it here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=310096020959&Category=307null&_trksid=p3907.m29

the track “Secrets” is superb! you can hear it here: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=20194622

I’d book em :)

just picked up a couple more!!

this one, its an earlier model than my EM and the lens is 100% manual :)

and this pretty little thing:

I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to lay my hands on film for the Art Deco Kodak (although it would be great if I could) but the Zenit-E is going to be put to work for sure!! :)

Herons have 12 lungs.

Stoner, does she have a PDF that you could send to me, I know folk in the high end yacht circles ;)

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as long as you lot don’t start sending out beani hats or crappy multitools you can have my continued subs sans DVD :)

“I hate the fact, but in this situation the police have ALL the power”

excuse me?

The last time I checked the UK’s Police are Public Servants, not the government’s private army.

If you are acting within the law and causing no nuisance or manage to others then the Police should treat you with respect and courtesy.

If they have suspicions then they should voice them.

I do not subscribe to the “Nanny State” or the “its for your protection citizen” impressions that people have of our Police Forces and I also think that for the most part they do a difficult and often thankless job.

writing and playing depressing acoustic guitar based blues folk
oil painting
bird watching
playing FPS on the xbox360 (yes I’m almost 35, I know, but its fun.)

oh and film photography! :)

Stoner that looks like it could be fun to chuck it around a bay on a choppy day! :)

oh dear, FAIL!! :D :D :D

I’ve just uninstalled Inquisitor after reading a bit more about the behavior of its creator and his manipulation of the results to suit his needs.

BigDummy does your bike have tassles and a jacket in?

if so..

lovin’ them rude styles!! :clapping:

that things got two ends y’know!

well done mate!

anything under 16ft bounces too much unless you’re just gonna use it for fresh water.

speedier downstream with a greater weir to current ratio.

thats shit, I’ve bought loads of stuff off of the classifieds and never been disappointed or stitched up, was this cretin a regular poster? the name’s not familiar to me.

Blimey, well…

I’m really enjoying using my completely manual SLR camera, I’m not in a hurry to see what is on the two rolls I’ve taken over the past few days, I’ve got a couple of rolls that are being processed at the moment and I’m excited to see what they hold. Perhaps the “not being in a hurry” is part of it, I’m enjoying the time it takes to focus, the every adjustment I consciously make whilst setting up and taking shots and even the time between the films coming back!

I’m not doing it because I’m against digital, if you read my first post I was actually planning on buying a D90 but circumstances conspired against me and if I’m honest I’m glad they did. II don’t know why but using this Zenit EM is full of tiny pleasures, using a device that requires no electricity is a pleasure, measuring the light and then dialing in the settings, risking some variations to the settings just to see what happens and knowing that I won’t be seeing the results in a matter of seconds does, for me, add to the experience.

I also like listening to records, vinyl isn’t dead, I even bought the better half a record for christmas, its just a different way of experiencing things, my record player doesn’t pop and crackle and dare I say it, it sounds closer to a live performance than CD or a lossless MP3. (I also use an iPod and a Primare V20 disk player).

I’m in it for the experience, the journey can often be just as much fun than the eventual destination.

viva la difference!

oh and please keep upgrading folks, often leftovers can taste better than the nouvelle cuisine! :)

I missed all this, do tell?

oh dear! :D

yep I’m a great believer in “if it sounds too good to be true it probably isn’t”, that said this coffee tastes better than anything I’ve bought previous! I’m a happy customer! :)

oh I didn’t realise that the automatic did that, I’ve been exclusively using the manual setting and I love it! :)

great post avdave2!

there’s a switch on the Helios Lens that seems to enable you to choose if you want the aperture setting to affect the view finder or just kick in when you fire off a shot? the view through telephoto I have darkens & lightens as you change the aperture but with no option to have the view unaffected by aperture, its all dark arts to be what goes on in them there lenses at the moment!! :D

(but I’m learning!)

something sweet will ease the heat from the chilli :)

yes it is, I figured I’d take a punt on it and the result comes out like Guinness and tastes great, really smooth, little to no bitterness and throughly addictive! :)

The lass I bought it from is called: tulips2008 on ebay, if you drop her a line tell her that I recommended her and she might do you a good deal!

I called whittards outlet store and they quoted me £75.00 for 250g x4 lets just say that its considerably better value from her! :)

drove the wife around what seemed like all day and took a few snaps whenever we stopped, if I don’t get on my bike soon I’m gonna forget which way around to sit on it!!

well I’m of the belief that its better to have a slightly smaller frame with layback (although I also subscribe to long travel forks and short stems), The 19 orange would probably be spot on for a 6 footer without the layback, stick the layback on and it would suit someone slightly taller who was after something “chuckable”, best option is for him to throw his leg over one and see how it feels.

don’t worry, just be nice and don’t bite.

photobucket? thats what I use and it seems innocuous enough.

stay in, the outsides are weird, your best bet is to build a fort out of all available furniture and cookery implements, hopefully they wont be much longer.

a 19 P7 with a thomson layback and a +50mm stem would be a blast, any bigger could be a bit of a gate imho

confusion and misdirection, I actually intended this thread to be about brake pads but there’s still time ;)