Good luck!

Good luck. It is a very tugh job market and getting yourself through to the real people who actually do the job is the key, as you realise. My experience of HR people is that they have never done the job and have no idea what it’s about, hence the “behavioural” BS highlighted above. It’s better than showing themselves as numpties.

It sounds like you’re tackling how to get through that stage. I’m sure once you do then you’ll have few problems.

Dear dear, apparently so many “rules” for riding on the road. It’s all so confusing, isn’t it?

But at least I know that if I should ever have to venture onto a road on my mtb, I must not overtake Al so I don’t hurt his feelings.

Oh just thought of another one – to end my days when I’m 107 through being beaten up by the jealous husband of a beautiful model.

Selfish: I wish I was on much better terms with the suede genie.

Bike: I wish I could ride whenever I wanted with no risk of injury.

Final: I wish there could be just one long post on STW on a topical matter in which all the usual suspects engaged in thoughtful, courteous debate, and listened and evaluated the various points of view in their own right without resorting to petty insults. With proper sentences and no spelling errors. I reckon that’s the hardest one!

Same as maccruisken. We stopped driniking in the week a couple of years ago – suprisingly easy too – and have far less urge at the weekends to open a bottle. Rather odd.

I wish I was home though to eat at 6.30!

RS7 on cheapie ST BB here – no problems.

I doubt it as I don’t think the “STW online team” have suddenly transmogrified into Americans. However, that aside the spelling is much better so if it is bogus he must have had some help (from an American).

“Online team specialists”?? – I also doubt they’d use management BS

Post ’em up on here – I’m sure she’d be delighted!

It was a relief for me too.

I still think one of them has six legs. You may force me to sulk.

What courgette for fantastical threads?

Why’s one of those things in that picture got 6 legs and the other 8? Why? WHY?

It is absolutely verboten where I work. Which is a shame.

A little pink pussycat has just taken Bradford West

Can I just say that this is the second time I’ve appeared on this thread?

Quality. Has to be made up, but so entertaining. Thanks.

On-one stainless vote here. It’s had a load of grief from me over a couple of years and still as good as new. You know it mkaes sense.

Rear singlespeed wheel here. It’s been fine for about a year so far – it did need some grease on the pawls when new though (it was making a horrible grinding sound).

It’s fourth down the page now.

Smurfhat’s spelling miraculously improved after the initial trolling posts. More identity amnesia!

Of course. Generally just put them straight on to the next chain and keep the new ones in spare. Never had one break. got some chap home at Marshbrook at the weekend with one of the spares.

I found that the compressor was missing off my car when I bought it (a little while after actually buying it). Taught me a lesson about buying cars from lockups beside the road. I was quoted £800, so came to the conclusion that opening windows is a cheaper option!

Excellent. We did the short course but really enjoyed it, especially the technical bits. It also had the advantage of bing really easy to get to, rather than the usual 4+ hours deep into the Welsh hills.

Mrs Ononeorange and I did the Marshbrook CRC too – and had a throughly good time. Weather couldn’t have been better, she rode brilliantly and the course was perfection. And the best bit – she wants to go back! Result!

MTG – This thread is useless without pictures!!

“For a truly useless political leader you need to find someone who has done badly with the electorate, someone no one actually remembers or cares about”

If that’s the criteria, then it’s that undead-botherer Michael Howard then.

Macrusiken – excellently said. And the year’s delay from 1938 – 1939 allowed Britain to get radar functioning, which was arguably the necessary edge in the Battle of Britain.

I am genuinely suprised that some people comment that they wouldn’t know there’s a recession on – pleased for them of course, but I am curious where they live / work. From my perspective it’s been appalling for the last 3-4 years and doesn’t seem to be improving.

No no. It’s Friday and so it has to be Jammy Dodgers.

I think that Justinian was pretty effective as an Emperor.

My money would be on Thatcher. She may have got what she wanted so successful on that level, but took the UK backwards culturally, economically, morally etc about 250 years, so staggeringly unsuccessful on a wider level.

Trotsky ended up pretty ineffective too once Stalin got him in his sights. Not sure if he counts as a prty leader though.

By far the best thing about it is that at no point will you be relying on TfL to get you to work on your weekly commute. You might actually get there!

Hmmmm…..wife thjinks he’s “awesome”, a BMW, no mates. It really is him, isn’t it?

Does he live in Cornwall?

Maybe your mates wood chip in for a new one?

Had on/off appendix thing when I was small. It was indeed painful. Various Dr’s told me to Appendix TFU then finally out it came in not great shape. Unfortunately I reacted big time to the anaesthetic (and I suspect the surgeon was a blind cobbler), took weeks and weeks to recover. And the worst thing was I asked my brother to ask them for it in jar just before I went down and I never got it!!!

Thinking about this relationship, there really is no point weeping like a willow. I’ve really no idea what you’re on about in some of those (wooden) posts either, but maybe her bark’s worse than her bite and she’s just trying to make you feel saw? I’ll put ten-on that being the problem.

Yes – although less battered and more stung and cut. I am slowly recovering from an ankle op in April, pushed it up today from my previous maximum 15 miles to nearly 40. Physio will go nuts, ho ho! Flipping tired (forgot to take food) but really happy.

The only thing I couldn’t believe was the amount of mud – it was like winter in places.

Excellent call Sue on the biking etc / shopping preferences.

Yes. Fact.

We had just ridden through a liquid sea of what I was certain was mud. It wasn’t. It was cow slurry. I think the question saved the day!

Yet another Amityville, all over again.

Did you say that your house is on an Indian burial ground?

Hitler, nukes and globl pollution are worse than punctures but they are next. Definitely.

I rank rides by the number of punctures/distance. Anything less than 3 in 10 miles is a good, almost flat free ride around here. I do use tubeless intermittently but then the flints tend to destroy the tyre which is a) expensive and b) a long walk (especially as I usually ride solo). Bah! Punctures! I curse you. Farmers seem to be cutting thorn hedges already so it’s peak season now.