We saw Mark Steel live last week and he was doing an anecdote about white people in Barbados (apparently 1/5 of the population is white.) He said a white man came up to him in a bar and said:
“You waaaan game Pool?”
Steel looked around and whispered, “You can’t take the mick in here!”

That’s the same operation that killed my mum’s partner :-(
We saw Wilco when the film about Dr Feelgood came out – they showed the film first, then Wilco and his band came on and did an hour set. Great! I’m pleased to hear he’s on the mend.

Oh no!

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I think this is what you are looking for DezB
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I went for the Pro but got it for £1440. It’s certainly the most fun I’ve had on a mountain bike.

Think across the piece.

LOL at Rusty Spanner. The same could be said of Sting, and the bloke out of UB40. Thoughh they weren’t particularly trying to be funny.

I don’t remember any talk of withdrawing Concorde until the Paris crash. My memory. May be faulty.
I do remember my class being herded down to the school hall to watch the first commercial Concorde flights on the telly.

Cool wash, slow spin. Do not tumble dry.

Malcolms claim that “if elected” he would campaign to have a trail built somewhere nearby

And if a trail were to be built, how long would it be before it was used as a stick to beat riders who prefer to ride in the “real” countryside?

imba uk collapsed. CTC was meant to be developing its mtb advocacy but iirc recently got rid of its off-road officer.

Cycling Plus once included a set of free allen keys, this in a magazine full of reviews of £8k road bikes.

I don’t know how long the woods have been owned by the Wildlife Trust, but if people had been riding there without let or hindrance before that there may be a case for claiming the paths as rights of way under the CROW Act. Since cyclists can only make claims for restricted Byway status, this would also mean the Trust would have to open them all up to horses too. Of course, the chances of a claim succeeding are small, but even the threat might concentrate the minds of the owners and make them more cooperative to negotiated access.
I am a member of my local wildlife trust, but if I found they were behaving in the way AWT seems to be, I would be returning my membership card with a letter explaining why, and with a copy to the local press and media.

Donner und Blitzen! (not sure which is which)

It doesn’t seem to be going well, does it Mr Cupis? When I read the comments on the article you seem to have attracted support from a foaming USA conspiracy theorist and, er…yourself.
You’d think if it was such a problem many of the maimed walkers or their surviving relatives would be on voicing their support.

Does anyone know who the 20 were?

First video – carnage! those walkers went down like skittles. NOT.
People leaping for safety? no
Dogs run over? No
High speed riding? No
riders careering down 100ft cliffs. Sadly not.
Riding off-path? Nah. What kind of rider does that anyway? Everyone I know actively seeks out paths. And paths don’t appear out of nowhere, you know. They are lines worn by human (or animal) use.
Haven’t watched the others but if they are all as dull as that I don’t think I’ll bother.
This all sounds like some pet rant by some tuppenny wannabe politician who’s bought himself a newspaper so he can make his opinions and prejudices sound more important than anyone else’s.
I was born and grew up in Bath, btw. It was always full of people like him.

Alu gives you alzheimers, allegedly

That, sir, is magnificent. Well and truly bookmarked

Comedy is all about timing punctuation…

:-D
Ooh, ooh, I’ve written a joke just for you! copyright and all that….

“God says to Noah, “Noah, the world is full of evil. I intend to flood it and drown everything on it. Only your family will be spared. I want you to build an ark and fill it with two of every kind of animal.”
Noah says, “Yes, Lord!” But secretly he’s a bit peed off because he wanted to go mountain biking. So he leaves building the ark until the last minute, and what with fettling his bike and so on it ends up a bit of a rush job.
Well, the storm clouds are gathering so he starts rounding up two of every kind of animal and herding them onto his ramshackle ark. On they go, two by two, except for the gorillas. They are about to embark but one of them takes a look at the state of the vessel, jumps onto Noah’s mountain bike and pedals off.
“Where’s he going?” Noah’s wife (Nellie) asks the other gorilla.
“Oh, he’s just realised,” the Gorilla replies, “Noah’s Ark is worse than his bike!”

Sad haystack

Ha! I was going to make mike’s point, but from the other direction:
He doesn’t need to. They are already in his power.

Squeezebox Man is Alastair Anderson.
I think this cover of the whole of Dark Side of the Moon almost eclipses the original

The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain does more and better cover versions than anyone

I can categorically state that the least pleasant feeling is that of having a video camera pushed up your old man, all the way into the bladder. Not painful (mostly) but the constant torrent of water sent up there at the same time made it feel as though I was having a never ending, uncontrolled piss and it was really, really not nice. I never knew it was possible to pass out whilst lying down…

Had any GOOD news lately?

He is risen!

Just wait til the Muslamistick insects arrive

I have taken my tax disc out of my car and stuck it on my tent. I will be leaving it there until March…

It’s my winter of disc on tent.

…and a fave of mine that used to appear in rag mags of the era:
An American tourist is walking along a street in Dublin. He stops a local and says, “excuse me sir, what does that yellow line painted along the edge of the road mean?”
The fellow says, “ah, sir, that means no parking at all.”
“I see,” says the tourist, “and what does it mean if there are two yellow lines?”
“Ah, that means no parking at all, at all!”

Dear God, cougar. Actually, up until the punch line, that sounds like one of my dreams.
Well, if we’re doing old jokes from the eighties…
How many rock stars can you get in a mini? Five…two in the back, two in the front and John Lennon in the ash tray.

Drac, that’s alarming. I’ve always looked up to you as one of the stalwarts of Northern riding. For me, the last few weeks have rekindled my passion. A new bike has helped, but just this week I’ve been out for two lovely rides on my old hard tail, skimming over the local BW’s and woodland paths, poking into some nooks and crannies I’ve never investigated before and feeling my technique come together. Rather good.

Two chaps meet in the street. One produces, from his trouser pocket, a rather poorly-looking octopus and hands it over, saying, “here’s the sick squid I owe you!”

I prefer his bike maintenance manuals

footflaps – best one yet

That made my sides hurt

1000

EZvid – forget it!

Don’t eat fly agaric, they have a cumulative toxicity and you will die if you exceed it.

WMM is hideous, keeps crashing. I’m just in the process of downloading EZVid and might report back.

Wasn’t there a character in Swallows and Amazons called Titty?
Fat Pussy looks like our cat.

Fluffy kittens