It’s like Desert Island Threads. “You get the complete works of Binners.”

Something about removing a wasps’ nest from the loft sticks in my mind.

Make him watch Sunderland.

I  met him when he was still a cabinet minister. Had quite a long chat. I expected to hate him, ended up liking him.

Wee on their chips.

Sounds awful.

Well, now we’re getting our country back and can make our own laws, all this stuff should stop.

Don’t forget to open the jar every day during fermentation, to avoid an explosion.

Bob Elliot & Co is now distributing them here. Have a look at their website and find your nearest retailer who can order it for you.

+1 for Bettablast, I never had any problems with them not masking what needs to be masked. It’s quite a thick finish, though – one bike I had to buy a bigger seat post clamp!

I think I’d take deep rims on a tommasini over the travesty that is those handlebars.

Them’s genuine 3TTT I’ll have you know! (inserts smiley though there’s none to be found).

How a Tommasini should look…

Apart from the fact that’s it’s a Pegoretti if I’m not mistaken! But I agree, green speedplays, what were you thinking?

I was looking at the one below the equally desecrated Colnago. Some people don’t deserve nice things!

In general, what’s the point of putting carbon deep section rims on a touring bike? It’s like putting a rear spoiler on a Land Rover.

^^.Doing that to a Tommasini is a travesty. IMO.

Nearest I’ve got is riding in pig’s gah.

<span style=”color: #444444; font-size: 12px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;”>I never quite decided if Adams was developing his concept or trolling everyone the way the story changes in quite significant ways from one telling to the next. </span>

As I understood it, Adams had serious writers’ block in the second series, John Lloyd having to bail him out for most of it. As a result, when it came to the books, Adams had to re-plot heavily, because most of the material wasn’t his.

<span style=”color: #444444; font-size: 12px; background-color: #eeeeee;”>the traffic is so heavy in both directions during this time and the actual single carriageways aren’t particularly wide. Despite this many cyclists insist on battling the headwinds and trudging along, meaning a frequent queue of traffic directly behind them, sometimes stretching back for a mile itself!</span>

So the queues are the fault of the cyclists and not the heavy traffic in both directions?

:-)

Other bike shop owners had better come on here and apologise for his actions.

They were taking the pith, surely?

Today,I am two separate gorillas!

Writing a pop song about the Mexican war of independence that’s a pretty remarkable thing to do. Such a rich story with so much context

sure it isn’t about the Spanish Civil? “Though we never thought that we could lose…”

As soon as I turned 50 I gained a stone in weight and bought a bike with a kickstand.

Alnmouth, Bamburgh, Alnwick, Hexham/Corbridge, Durham.

Riding around there was considered Old School a decade ago! Character-forming stuff.

Ooh I am looking forward to this! :D

who or what is responsible for us having to spend the majority of our lives toiling away mostly in utter futility until we die

An excellent question, the short answer to which is: because rich and powerful people have taken a huge share of the world’s wealth and only give it back to us in tiny amounts in exchange for our labour, or a share of the product of it.

Studies suggest as hunter/gatherererers, we would work less hard:
http://www.greenuniversity.com/Green_Economics/wealth.htm

‘traditional’ songs by Wizzard and Slade et al

:roll:
Early 1600’s:

There was an interesting programe on Steam Radio this morning about Icelandic Xmas legends which are coming back into fashion. If kids aren’t good, they get abducted by the trolls and eaten.

It was indeed a PSA and I just dropped in to say “thanks for the warning”.

We spent last Christmas in Hall in Tirol, Austria. Not one shop felt it had to play crappy Xmas hits. Not one. Any Christmas music was performed live, in the market square, by a choir or a brass band. At lunchtime on Christmas Eve everyone made their way into the square, shook hands with their friends, toasted each other in wine or gluwein and enjoyed the atmosphere. No drunkenness, no houses covered in tacky lights, and best of all NO BLOODY WIZZARD!

Thanks, Perchy, some snot flew out of my nose.

On the bright side, only two more sleeps til Christmas.

Screentest was mad, in retrospect! I wonder who the drummer was?

I’d like to nominate Shoestring:

Great post, Rusty!

Imagine no posessions..
I wonder if you can.
No Santa Cruz below you…..

Seriously, though – it’s a good test of voice. People forget what a bloody good singer JL was. Next week it will be 37 years since his murder.

I knew his Welsh half-brother Dai…

Somebody I know has just been killed by a guy in a Tesla. I’m sure his family will be delighted to hear a faster one is on its way.

Why go to the trouble of posting this ad and then putting a preposterous asking price on it?

All our local WT holdings have signs saying “you are welcome to walk in these woods.” One has a sign saying “No horses”. I have never seen anything for or against cycling.
I have been a member for 20 years. Their newsletters, mags etc are all about how to enjoy your local WT wood etc. They issue a comprehensive guide to their holdings with notes about access, what can be seen there etc.
I have never seen any connection between WT and the chasing and killing of “furry things”.

As Lord Buckethead tweeted, it’s not the winning, it’s the baking tarts.

Muslim immigrant kills cyclists on a cycle path. The ultimate quandary for the Daily Mail.