I used to work with a Norn’ Irish lass called Ursula.

We would regularly get calls asking for Ashleigh.

My mate Huey’s real name is Adrian. He became Huey after a big drinking session at Uni over 25 years ago. No one calls him Adrian.

EDIT: John F Kennedy was known as Jack. As above, it’s really not a recent thing.

DOUBLE EDIT: I discovered yesterday that there is someone in our large organisation whose real name is Wing Man. No, really. They must be great on a night out…

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Technically booze, because my liver is on its arse (medical term) because I took too many drugs last year (doctors told me to take them, m’lud)

I was told by my doctor that i had an enlarged liver.

I said well that’s lucky cos I drink fricken loads!

I’ve given up making promises I can’t keep.

use a bigger lever. no, seriously.

I have no idea which is which but the first three pics are fugly (especially the third) and my vote would be for the fourth pic

I think the vocal on this drum and bass track is better

dunno why video tags don’t work; try old school link

theotherjonv

don’t judge someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.

Then say whatever you want. You are a mile away; and you’ve got their shoes!

trailwagger

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It feels like they are getting paid huge sums, just for completing paperwork!

Salesmen should be selling not completing paperwork

Contact Gavin at Evolution bikes[/url] and tell him Richard from Diary of a mountain biker recommended you. He’s a top bloke.

As they say; some days you are the dog, some days you are the lamp-post

well done mate. I weighed less than you and didn’t need to lose so much but I did low carb last January and lost a stone and a half which got me below my target weight.

I’ve kept that weight off despite now eating carbs again. Mainly I find that I just can’t eat as many as I could before.

a bit of self-analysis is always good. Just think through the last situation (doesn’t matter what it was). Now think why did you react like that (again it could be good or bad). Was it due to the deeply held beliefs?

Could you react differently next time? In what way? Did it go well or could it have gone better in which case how?

You don’t have to change as a person or change your beliefs but you can change the way you react to things.

Just thinking about things post-event can often get you to think about them at the time. Subtle changes will make a big difference.

How the hell does this happen?

This is how…

tomhoward – Member

@mtbidle this. Properly life changing for me. Expensive put worth every penny Constant glucose monitoring without having to finger prick

Cheers, will pass it on

it’s a bit like some good advice I was given at work a long time ago. It was suggested that it would be better if I leave some of my emails 24 hours before replying i.e. after jabbing the keys with an angry or emotional response, just leave it be for a while and then re-read it before firing it off.

It usually turned out that I could retype a less confrontational email or in many cases just ignore what had previously riled me for the tosh it actually was.

Worked for me.

P.S. I actually wrote this yesterday and left it before replying 😆 😉

Ditto a lot of the above so I won’t repeat. My wife of 26 years is a type 1 diabetic and has been for circa 40 years.

She did the DAFNE course and has used the pump for 3 or 4 years. I’m not familiar with the patches though.

We both did a LCHF diet last year. She didn’t find it too difficult to adjust to. Obviously there’s a lot to consider as echoed above and IANAD but after a bit of experimentation she managed to get her insulin doses under control.

Have you tried GoPro studio as opposed to Quik editor? They come as part of the same package but are separate editing software.

😀

I have two Motorhead/Lemmy anecdotes.

Number one, my mate Nick Hancock (no, not him) and I went to see them at Hammersmith Odeon circa 1982. We were in the second row and as soon as they came on we jumped over the seats in front of us and were hanging over the front of the stage. We were so close that we could feel our eyebrows singeing as the smoke bombs on stage went off.

Nick worked at Sainsburys (North Cheam) and had a till-roll in his black, leather (natch’) jacket ‘cos we had previously planned and discussed how we would use this as a ‘streamer’.

So he unrolled a couple of feet of till-roll and gave it to me to hold while he launched the rest of it towards the stage.

Of course instead of the till-roll unfurling in a nice looking streamer, it ripped immediately and roughly a kilo of tightly wrapped paper flew in a fantastic arc right over Lemmy’s head with him looking slightly startled as he watched it pass him by to disappear somewhere at the back of the stage.

After a moment’s shock as we realised what had happened I quickly dropped the incriminating two feet of paper I was holding and we both tried to blend in with the crowd.

Number two, my older female cousin was a bleached blond, leather jacketed, wild-child, rock-chick. Somehow it made its way to Lemmy that she fancied him and he rang her up at her parents (my aunt and uncle) posh home on Epsom Downs and took her out on a date. Apparently he was a bit of a berk.

didn’t they precede/develop what became ‘speed metal’? The best example of which is the track Overkill. That drum track is amazing

Only way to feel the noise is when it’s good and loud
So good I can’t believe it, screaming with the crowd

I recall being totally overawed with the noise, it felt like my ears were bleeding but I was still chanting with the crowd “turn it up, turn it up, turn it up”

Crazy times.

Can’t help on the bulb ting but I’m always interested in how one would pronounce Evoque?

Eve-ock or Eve-oak or Ev-ock or Ev-oak?

Oh no! Motorhead were the headliners at the first gig I ever went to, the Heavy Metal Mayhem Brain Damage Party at Bingley Hall, Stafford if I recall correctly. Circa 1981 with the classic (not original as we all know) line up of Lemmy, Philthy Phil and Fast Eddie.

or following my trip to Italy last year:

Bologna
Parma
Florence
Assisi

Krakow, beautiful place, dirt cheap

Take yer bike, it’s 25m/40km from Bedoin & Mont Ventoux

I agree with a lot of the sentiment above that a light bike is nice but you will get a lot more benefit from losing a bit of weight and riding more/getting fitter so that you will forget any worries about which model bike is fractionally lighter than another one.

IHN – Member
I like the look of the Ride to the Sun

don’t forget the Dunwich Dynamo[/url]

adamr100 – Member

and look after it meticulously.

…and then posts a picture of one of the skankiest Ultegra chainsets I’ve ever seen.

suck it up buddy, 8,000 miles is a very good distance for a consumable item like that.

New series started tonight, 9pm on Discovery with Ant Anstead instead of Edd.

It was, well it was Wheeler Dealers without Edd.

I quite liked the 3rd wing tho…

EDIT: Why can’t I find this thread when I type Wheeler Dealers into the search box and have to resort to typing STW + Wheeler Dealers into Google? Bizarre.

Apparently this was part of a serious advertising campaign

Why is the Kona so slow? Yup, it’s down to the gearing.

OR, if your Kona has flat bars (a quick Google search shows Paddywagon 3’s with drop and flat bar options) it’s down to the gearing AND air resistance/body positioning.

If you want to get faster I would suggest developing asthma or something.

tell him to bin it and buy a GoPro

good list of observations form the right honourable george up there.

It’s a bit like what tyres innit, everyone has their own preferences and very rarely changes their minds.

However, you need to acknowledge that with a roof-mounted rack you will at some point in time forget it’s there and smash your price and joy on some low hanging barrier somewhere…

we looked at this and i think saying that it’s just lino is incorrect.

It’s more like laminate flooring.

in the end we went for ceramic tiles.

so it was you that posted the pic of the surly?

I followed you and you have followed me back

post the pic first and then hit the ‘edit’ button and add any #’s afterwards?

I dropped £2k on a YT Capra AL1 in 2015 without ever slinging a leg over one.

The bikes reputation seemed rock solid based on the internet without seemingly too much hype.

Key was the sizing which i was pretty happy I got correct. Still going strong.

same thing with my Canyon road bike last year; similar price, similar internet warm, fuzzy feeling. Just used the online tool to get the right size and super-happy with the outcome.

rossburton – Member
Of course, the one true mount for biking is chest mount, not helmet.

…is the correct answer.

also available on ebay circa six quid, beats the official version at around £40.

just search gopro mounts on ebay and buy a cheap version of the official gopro merch.

They are just bits of plastic

EDIT: Knock yersel’ out, plenty of options here