Uniques

Some Heptones. Leroy Sibbles’s bass playing always wonderful.

Phyllis Dillon, “first lady of Rocksteady”

This on the right lines? I can keep it coming 🙂

Can’t go wrong with a bit of Melodians

The beautiful and fragile and utterly lovely voice of Dawn Penn

Joya Landis puts the beauty into one-night-stand adulterous shagfests

Bit more modern… two beautiful songs to the same riddim…

I could bore you all day with this stuff, you know.

YES! BEST THREAD EVER!

Arctic Monkeys second album is horribly produced in this way

Mortlake and Sheen are nice, and might be cheaper than “bigger name” places like Putney

When I used to work in a job handling lots of money, there was no substitute for hand counting. Machines were just a backup for verifying already-counted stacks of money.

(the reason I say that is that an experienced cashier will generally spot a fake note by feel as they count through them)

the bank didn’t check the notes when I paid it in.

They must at least have counted them?

I don’t understand why removing/installing 6-bolt disks is a chore.

Fair play to Hope! They’re going to replace the hub shell as a warranty job, despite the age of the hub.

I ride loads of fast swoopy forest trails that are more boring on a FS

It’s apparently the most popular proposal ever

Source?

I’m apparently a fluffy purple dragon called Colin. Fun, this.

I doubt a 1000 signs is accurate.

To be fair, only a small number need to be meddled with before they all need to be checked

This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE8a7VBnVPE

It’s pure prejudice. Hundreds of thousands of cars in the forest on any summer weekend, and they moan about a fraction of the number of bikes.

Slow up-hill accidents can be bad when falling backwards as the ground is so much lower downhill.

Welcome to my world in NORMAL crashes

Signed, 6’7″ ormondroyd 🙂

I did, but I also didn’t have a desire for exploding wheels under braking…

Premature end for me after just 15 miles. Shame as I felt great.

I use the ViewRanger buddybeacon.

Semi slicks’ll be okay then? That’s handy, I only seem to have those and some 2.5″ Bonty Big Earls

By the way, I also have the best BMI of my life (BMI ~20 at 37 years old) and I’ve never been faster on my bike, albeit that latter point probably isn’t saying much.

My girlfriend’s vegetarian so I eat mostly vegetarian stuff. Frankly it’s great, and it made me realise that meat just becomes a habit. We eat meat because, well, we eat meat. It’s not really necessary, certainly not in the quantities we eat it.

And then I stop and think about all the vast negatives of the meat industry, and the environmental and moral harm it does, and I think it’s bloody obvious that we should eat a lot less of it. And then I think about the disgusting way most meat products are produced, and I watch cans of carcinogen-contaminated horsemeat-filled products pulled out of supermarkets, and I look at the great stuff we cook at home without using all that shit, and I REALLY am glad I eat much less of it.

Some of the arguments on this thread are so daft that I hope people are trolling, but I’ve heard them enough times from non-trolls not to be convinced.

Well done to all! A fantastic result.

I don’t understand why rolling road closures would be less impacting than some dispersed cyclists on the roads after staggered starts.

but the flow of traffic will surely be more impacted upon, perhaps even more so by the choice of 3 routes as it becomes harder for drivers to find an alternative route.

Oh dear. What a shame. Perhaps people in cars might have to be a bit patient in their bid to get to the back of the next queue.

I’m tall. What size shoes should I buy?

And I don’t *want* my seat the same height as the stem. It’d be like riding a dutch city bike.

Really this thread is based on a false premise that all tall blokes are the same geometry themselves.

I’m 6’7″ yet when I sit down you’d probably not really know it from my body height. I very rarely have headroom problems in cars. Legroom, on the other hand… I couldn’t actually drive the 1st generation Clio because my left knee stopped me getting it out of first gear.

Differences in body ratios are universal across all heights, but they’re accentuated in tall men. That Trek would probably be pretty good for me… shortish reach and high saddle.

Pads bedded in a bit? Get a bit of water and grit on them and brake hard a few times.

Surly have some big sizes. Bigger Karate Monkey is mossive (I know because it fits me)

I remember the first reports popping up on Ceefax were just “Body found at home of pop singer” or something.

There always seems to be a pretence in the mainstream media that they had any clue who he was. Now they bang on (correctly) about how massively influential Nirvana where, but most hadn’t noticed it at the time.

Osbourne took a small fortune in parliamentary expenses to buy a sodding horse paddock. It’s a long scramble back to any sort of moral high ground from there.

Doesn’t it encourage drivers to aim their wheel just outside the right hand line, and thus pass too closely anyway?

He’s paying £150/week for a nice 3 bed house

Seems sensible and reasonable.

It’s “market” rents that are horribly broken, not social rents.

But you don’t mind someone who earns over £100k paying 1/2 market rent and taking the place of a low income family? Are you his special friend?

“Market rent” is an illusion.

Tory logic:

Some people, who don’t have the unassisted means to obtain shelter in our ridiculous housing market, have one more room than they could conceivably cram into: PUNISH THE SPONGERS

A man who owns outright a large house and horse paddock, each independently registered, changes around his first/second homes AND REMORTGAGES THE HOUSE AND PADDOCK so he can claim expenses from public funds to pay for them, making himself a tidy six figure sum, despite the fact that a horse paddock is NOTHING to do with his public job: Move along, nothing to see here, in fact let’s make him Chancellor

“Market rate” in housing is utterly distorted.

We’ve got a huge house price bubble, and governments will do anything they can to prop it up (e.g. offering to subsidise people’s deposits) because they’re terrified of the ramifications of large numbers of middle class baby boomers suddenly finding out much of their wealth is built on:

a) Hot air/asset overvaluation
b) A huge “trickle-up” from the younger and poorer as a result of the inflated rents and property prices they end up paying to get a roof over their head, as a result of (a).

Until housing is a proper, un-propped-up, undistorted actual market, it’s brutal to base social housing policy on “market rates”

It’s fine. Just take your time. Enjoy it.

Feels much nicer, for both. Nobody actually likes hairs in their teeth, do they?