Or you might have, but you didn’t know it – being a gypsy / traveller in the workplace is what I imagine being gay was like up until a few years ago

You have pretty poor imagination then. Gay people have always tended to care about other people other than themselves, generally abide by the laws of the land, paid taxes, not lived like foraging animals, not destroyed other people’s property, not robbed the general public, not organised bare knuckle fighting in the streets.

As far as I know anyway.

If the box is the same size as the ones they are delivered in before they are sold they might just go in. Restriction is between the wheel arches mainly. My Focus estate is a decent size and I think they’d go in with the seats folded but I’m not 100%.

Mid size estates aren’t as big as they used to be unfortunately.

They’re nothing more than a mobile mob of thugs who waltz through life thinking they can do whatever the **** they like, and couldn’t give a toss how it impacts on anybody else

Having had personal and professional experience with them I’d have to say this is pretty much spot on.

I used to take the mick out of the Honda Jazz but a friend has one of the newer models and they are actually a great little car, more space in them than you’d expect, great for city driving but good on motorway too. Looks ok too now, amazing quality and doesn’t feel Japanese either.

Should be loads of autos available too. It’d be my choice, fold seats down and you can get bikes in surprisingly easily.

but coping and managing

And that my friend means you are doing a great job.

Is that Hora?

But if I thought other’s could benefit I’d only eat a modest amount and leave plenty to share.

Hes not one of us. Burn him!

Everyone in our team is a runner or health freak and in our last team meeting there was only fruit and sugar free wafer biscuits available.

I had to hide my tears 😭

This thread has made me LOL so much!

Always remember free food has no calories or fat in it. That helps with any decision making.

Most people in my office are healthy eaters so I’m on that platter of left overs like a tramp on a bag of chips. Go for the meat every time, if the bread curls then take off half the bread and combine 2 sandwiches. Rare to see culinary delights like scotch eggs or chicken bits left over so pounce on them like you haven’t eaten for a week if they are there.

If the other people cared they’d get there before you!

Out of curiosity, where do you actually dispose of coolant/brake fluid?

Take it to your local council tip, they have collection points for all that sort of stuff. Please don’t pour it down any drain, it’s hazardous waste.

The village pond.

I hope that’s a joke.

Unfortunately the popular bands that you have sold hundreds of thousands of records so even if it was when it came out it’s unlikley to be worth much. The more valuable stuff tends to be misprints or weird bands etc.

Most people want the sleeves to be in really good condition too so that might set you back a bit too.

Might be worth checking the prices of a few online to see if there are any gems in the collection. Or maybe get your own record player and enjoy them yourself!

Apparently they got a new CEO who didn’t like the images that were made last year so have reversed them.

<span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>d</span>Of note here is that it’s a directiverather than a regulation – essentially it’s an advisory rule.

It isn’t advisory. An EU regulation is the same across the EU. A directive is slightly different in that it allows each country to enact their own legislation to achieve the aim of the directive. Each country has to do it. There is a limited time from which the directive is given to when each member country has to have it enacted in its own laws, so there may be a delay sometimes if the EU directive is pretty new.

I’ve been out of retail for a while so not aware of changes in the last few years but maybe we are waiting for an amendment to the CRA? My specialism is environmental law nowadays.

You don’t need discs for a 2 mike journey, even if it is downhill. Just makes it more attractive to thieves. Just get a second hand hybrid type bike, something like a Carrera or one of the big names basic range.

Brian Blessed is a true legend in so many ways. Simply amazing.

Angel dust ..go swivel

Classy. 🙄

I have a friend who was very busy in his personal life and with work and never grew up with proper meals – as a result he lived off takeaways and ended up with diabetes (despite being pretty thin!). He used these sorts of services for a while to get nice fresh healthy meals to improve his diet and food knowledge and was really chuffed with them. I could imagine being the same if I was on my own and they would probably work well for me too.

Some weirdo photographing everyone’s cars.

“takes a bow” ☺️

My wife had a minor stroke a few years back. She felt ok but her speech came out garbled and she lost one side of her vision – a sharp line down the centre of her vision and one side was completely black.

By the time she had got to the hospital (via an ambulance and 999 call) the symptoms were going and completely gone by the time I got there. No lasting negative after effects thankfully.

Hope she’s ok.

Proper British made Record vice. Even if it’s 100 years old and been buried underground for 50 years they can be as good as new with a clean, paint and grease. You don’t need one of the massive ones for bike stuff but why not if you can get one cheap!

He isn’t going very fast, especially compared to race speed. Amazing video though – quality is much better than I expected.

their capable of stuff a normal mtb cannot do like riding around my coast at low tide.

I must have been imagining those times I’ve ridden along beaches on my normal MTB then. :rolls:

Looking at their company info on gov.uk their accounts are very overdue with Companies House. I deal with investigating companies in my job and when this happens (even though company is not registered as insolvent) there would be alarm bells ringing. Add on poor online reviews and it’d make me think twice.

Everyone seems to be ignoring the fact you’re buying a waterproof bag for storing tools in. Which don’t need to be waterproofed. Weird.

That amount of money – petrol and Japanese. Do not pass go, do not spend money on another countries cars (including German which are no more reliable than anything else).

Honda Civic estate is the one I’d go for.

…or a 3rd option, buy a normal bike, engage will power, ride it more than 3 times, find it tough at first

….speaks someone who has never been properly overweight. It’s miserable and a vicious circle as it brings on depression which makes you eat which adds more weight on etc etc.

Ive got to go through the whole losing weight thing again after I hurt both my ankles. I originally lost about a fifth of my body weight but then hurt myself and I’ve put it all back on.

Making the decision to do the dieting and exercise is easy. Doing it was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. The first few weeks of going out running (only very short distances) had me in tears while I was running, I was mumbling to myself “I don’t want to be fat” over and over again as I tried to run (jog) for more than 30 seconds.

If there is anything that can help this guy then just go for it. He’s going to find it indescribably hard for a while yet so keep going.

Shame on anyone who doesn’t want to ride with these guys “cos it’s not interesting”. I would have been so grateful to have someone to run/ride at my pace to encourage me. A big beaming smile when he gets up his first big hill or completes a mileage goal is an amazing reward for both of you.

Sadly all the metalwork in my ankle means I’m expressely forbidden from having a go myself

Never stopped Matt Hoffman.

I’ve always used DMR V8’s, they aren’t too big and have a decent amount of grip.

EDIT – just found out they redesigned them last year and now they are bigger. No idea when they keep making pedals bigger, I have always used V8’s as they last forever and seem the perfect size for my size 10 feet.

Best for the money are from Hunt wheels.

Their cheapest wheels are 3x the price I was looking for!

street bins were removed all over the UK.

I dont understand this. Especially in train stations. I can’t see how removing the bins stops bombers. I could leave a small rucksack in a train station (hypothetically of course!) and be well away from any blast very quickly – doubtful it would be moved safely or even reported  in a few minutes. Anyway the worry is more on suicide bombs and cars now.

I was in the Birmingham New Street station last week and it’s absolutely massive but I couldn’t find a single bin.

Nope. I mostly skip them, especially when they (quickly) become a pissing contest to see who can come up with the most obscure artist.

This.

Plus they all seem to be depressing or political or pretentious or some obscure stoner hip hop/dance track.

Brian Wilson – Smile. Only just listened to it recently after owning it from when it came out and – wow – it’s perfect for days like this.

I just can’t stand SRAM shifters, which pretty much means it’s Shimano all the way for me.

If it gets the kid out on his bike and let’s him have some fun even though his dads abandoned him it’s worth every frustrating second.

Had a great time at my first one of these events – my wife loved it too, thanks to all involved.

We took our litter with us as we always do, mainly because I didn’t see anywhere to put it once we’d walked up from the bombhole. There was one bag on a tree at the little bar at the first gap jump but apart from that I didn’t see anything. Maybe some more litter points might help next time? Even if they don’t get emptied and they overflow at least all the mess is in one place.

We had to go after the first run so couldn’t help at the end for the cleanup – I would have challenged anyone dripping litter but while we were there I didn’t see anyone doing it.

I’m wearing a Shimano mechnics shirt and a blue baseball hat if anyone wants to say hello.

Any tips for spectating/ parking etc? First time I’m coming.

 so it wouldn’t be unreasonable for those people to extend me the same courtesy.

You’ll be waiting a long time to get that on STW.

Another one for Quadlock, tried a couple of others and they were ok but QL is miles ahead. I also have a stick on mount for my car dashboard (not tried the car mount as I don’t like things on the windscreen) to use phone as a sat-nav – unobtrusive and you can almost throw the phone at the mount once you are used to it!

I’ve got the QL case and used an otterbox case with a QL adaptor stuck to it. Both work really well but the QL case is quite low profile and you don’t notice the “hole” in the case where it mounts. I actually like the hole in the back now as one of my fingers rests in it when holding the phone – feels weird to have a case without it now.

The system isn’t cheap but I’ll be buying again for sure.