Using it once sounds like you’re trying to remove an old bb from a frame – just stick the bb in a vice and rotate the frame, or use a set of vice grips.

Not just bikes though – there’s a cinderpath near to my house. Popular with running folk. Even the sight of a jogger 50 yards away caused it to throw the rider and then hurtle off at breakneck speed. The rider had the nerve to give the joggers a bollocking.

So you’re blaming the victim? Classic STW response 😉

I picked up a Scheppach PL55 plunge saw with two 700mm rails at B&Q (Cribbs Causeway, Bristol) for £108 last weekend on a managers special (it’s not on their website).

This saw also goes by other names (Grizzlyman in the US and something else over here). They seem to have slowly sorted out all the problems people have with them online (eg, the glide strips on the rails are now at both outside edges rather than in the middle).

P-Jay – Member
As others have said, this isn’t going to be an easy ride for the Government, they’ll have a tough job whipping their own MPs unto line with it, the rest of the Commons won’t support it and neither will the Lords by the sounds of it.

It’s already been passed by the Commons – two (2) Tories voted against it.

You never know – despite being Tories, I’m even prepared to countenence, just for a fleeting moment, that maybe they’re not all nasty, sociopathic bastards who want to see working people suffer, and are maybe considering admitting that they possess a slight shred of empathy or compassion in their cold hearts, and can see that this is really a pretty nasty thing to be doing to the very people they purport to represent – Hard Working Families ™

So that’ll be the two tory MPs who voted against the bill? http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2015-09-15&number=71&showall=yes#voters

The Tories did say they wanted to make £12bn welfare cuts, they just didn’t say where they would make them (in fact I believe that they left most of the details out of their manifesto because they thought they’d be in coalition again and wouldn’t have to deliver all of it).

The only concrete detail they did give was this:

Aren’t we going to have a comedy leader in 2020 when Boris gets elected?

jambalaya – Member
The welfare cuts are a manifesto pledge on whuch the Tories where elected just 5 months ago. If the Lords seek to overturn the legislation that’s anti democratic. I have a feeling they will back down and/or the motion be defeated.

I agree, the welfare cuts were an election pledge, however specifically Cameron said they won’t cut child tax credits on more than one occasion. If the Lords can’t make politicians keep their promises, then what’s the point in the Lords?

I fully believe than a non-elected upper house is a shambles, but if that’s what we’ve got making them impotent to affect actual policy making seems even more of a shambles.

Just to back up the pilot error bit, these things do happen and I can see how they could happen more easily in a situation where there’s only one pilot.

The transcript from the CVR of Air France 447 is a good example of this and makes for some sobering reading: http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a3115/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877/%5B/url%5D

There’s a guy who I see regularly riding home from work who attempts to trackstand at every red light and normally ends up halfway across the junction before it goes green. Fair play to him for trying, but he’s been trying for about 3 years and not got any better so maybe it’s time to move on…

Oh and there’s the bloke who commutes in a full face, body armour over lycra on a hybrid. Haven’t seen the guy on the unicycle in a while though.

The problem is the wallets and the box files are both foolscap. Can you use A4 wallets and foolscap box files?

I was managing a site once where we needed a gas main moving. Medium pressure so 7 bar in a steel main, they just drilled into that too. I asked the guys working on it if they’d rerouted it first or something, but no it was still live. I asked about sparks and they pointed out that there was only gas in the pipe and no oxygen so the sparks or heat would do nothing. I spent the day as far away from it as I could!

kcal – Member
Pleasantly surprised by the 1.4l TSI in our Octavia estate..

I’d second the Octavia (estate or otherwise) 1.4TSI. Non diesel estates are relatively rare though.

@justfiveminutes – classic bit of victim blaming there. Your dog bit him, he didn’t bite your dog. The fact the airwheel is legal or not or stupid or not is irrelevant to your dog biting someone.

ads678 – Member
Now I know i could try to do the same but I just could bring the shame and ridicule onto my family!!

And with that you’ve hit the nail on the head. It’s a risk vs reward thing. You are clearly a more risk averse person than those contestants are (or are better at evaluating the risks – I think Pondo probably has it that none of these people will be that successful).

ads678 – Member
Anyone who insists on being called Lord needs a good slat hoofing! His names Allan FFS.

Actually, it’s Alan. And it’s Sir Alan to you (amazing how often the press get this wrong – he’s either Lord Sugar or Sir Alan Sugar, but never Lord Alan Sugar or Sir Sugar).

link to the data which supports that?

Also an expansionary fiscal policy =/= Keynes (not in the generally understood sense anyway)

Where have I knocked the OBR? I’m saying his current Fiscal Charter is balls, not the OBR.

yup, the use of the word “cyclical” effectively means that they can do whatever they want whenever they want as they’re defining the cycle themselves. So this is a meaningless piece of politics (economically speaking), which solely exists to stuff up the opposition by making them look bad however they react to it.

Also, when did Osborne become a supporter of Keynes? He’s been pushing deficit reduction in a period when Keynes would advocate spending. Oh, is it because his previous attempts at deficit reduction haven’t worked?

@wobbliscott – well done, you have swallowed all the tory rhetoric about how the current situation was created by the last Labour government. Instead, you could go away and look at the facts, but that would be far too difficult. This is a prime example of how Osborne is a shrewd politician.

I’m not sure they blindly walked into it, more that it was at the end of the conveyor belt they’re already on and they struggled to get enough momentum to run backwards along said conveyor belt (mainly because the last 5 years haven’t been spent screaming that the tories have made this whole story up).

@alexsimon – this is why he’s such a good politician, he’s set it up so that whatever Labour do they look bad. One of the difficulties of being in opposition. The best thing Labour can do is get as many of their MPs out and about using the line that Binners had above that giving yourself a straitjacket it fiscally irresponsible.

Economically? He never has. He just got lucky.

I’m not sure he got lucky. I’ve yet to see a positive impact of anything he’s done. If there were a positive impact he might go about promoting that rather than slagging off labour ad infinitum.

See my later update. Politically he’s a mastermind. He’s going to screw the country to get himself into power though. Which is depressing. The fact the press prop him up is also depressing.

Sorry, that should say “hasn’t got a clue what he’s doing to the economy”, he’s clearly very switched on politically.

The longer he’s chancellor the more apparent it is that Osborne hasn’t got a clue what he’s doing. Again on the radio this morning they had a Tory MP banging on about how Labour got them into this mess and the tories are getting them out of it. Anyone who has even a moderate understanding of economics know this is BS, so why the press let them get away with continuing to say unquestioned is baffling.

I’m not sure that compulsory re-testing is the answer (as people have pointed out above, it would be a bit of a knee jerk reaction), but there are significant issues with the way poor driving standards are policed and punished in this country. I’m still amazed that people can get away with having more than 12 points on a licence – with the reason being they need to drive for their work, well shouldn’t that have influenced their behaviour after they got the first 9 points?

FuzzyWuzzy – Member

I strangely quite often think about this whenever I see a really nice or really tatty work van. You can argue it both ways IMO, a really nice van could be someone who charges too much or someone that takes pride in his business (and by extension work) so invests heavily in it. Ergo someone in a tatty van could be someone just happy doing an honest days work for an honest days pay kind of thing or a cowboy that couldn’t give a crap about his business/reputation or by extension the standard of work he does. So somewhere in the middle is probably the answer

I think that was the solution we came to – not a T5 (T6 now I suppose) with all the chrome trim and 22″ alloys, but something that is rust and dent free, a couple of years old and still looks fairly smart is what’s required.

In a similar vein – how much do you care about builder’s vans? I used to do a bit of labouring for a guy who had a run of the mill couple of year old transit and then some gas fitters turned up in their brand new top of the line T5 with all the bells and whistles and a personalised plate. The guy I worked for was pretty condescending say that he wouldn’t trust a builder who turned up in such a flash van.

user-removed – Member
Fair dos, ta. I’ve asked the neighbour to get a quote – if it’s not crazy, we might just pony up the cash ourselves rather than make a claim.

there’s no benefit to not making a claim. House insurance doesn’t work like car insurance as there’s not a relationship between claims and the likelihood of making further claims (ie. your premium shouldn’t go up because you made a claim, in the same way that there’s not a no claims bonus)

I basically follow this with an aeropress. https://www.stumptowncoffee.com/brew-guides/aeropress

You were clearly no good at tetris. That’s a woeful example of van packing.

I just spent £500ish on a Chromag Rootdown. Good quality Taiwanese built steel frame. The Canadian versions built by Chris Dekerf are proper spendy though.

wwaswas – Member

Can the rest of us who’ve had to breathe all this extra crap make a claim?

I don’t think that would be successful in the UK (you could only claim for consequential loss, so if you had emphysema and could categorically prove it was caused by NoX then go for it). But I can see a class action lawsuit springing up in the states, not sure how successful it would be though.

cinnamon_girl – Member
Let’s not forget that Lord Bath banned cyclists from using estate roads that they’d enjoyed using for years.

It wasn’t Lord Bath who banned the cyclists – it was his son who now runs the commercial enterprise that is Longleat. Iirc the gripe he (the son) had was that he wanted anyone who got onto the estate to pay an entry fee and the cyclists weren’t. Unfortunately it was only ever a permissive right of way so there was little Sustrans or the local authority could do legally, but I understand the route has been reinstated after he (the son) realised (after it was pointed out) that the majority of these cyclists ate in the cafe etc.

You’re supposed to wait until after the first frost. No idea why though. Maybe it’s a rule spread by people who pick them earlier to stop other people picking them?

Roll for the Soul in Bristol do wheel building courses. Bristol is south of the M4.

Sounds to me very much like the scrote (and probably his father if the only details they had were the registration) were known to the local police.

I got cut up and verbally and physically threatened by a white van driver a couple of years ago – he hadn’t spotted the police about 200 yards up the road so after he drove off I calmly cycled up to them and gave them the reg which the officer radioed through and the response I got was that they would definitely be paying him a visit. He was arrested at 3am about a week later and then I got my day in court. Sadly he didn’t show up to receive his £800 fine, 6 points, 200hours community service and £100 victim surcharge in person. After the trial and before sentencing the magistrates were told of his long list of previous similar incidents.

wrecker – Member
developer can foot the bill for being late

The problem (for the seller, not the OP) is that the developer is never late because they never contractually agree to deliver a house by a certain date.

wwaswas – Member
I’d get the people you’re buying from to set a firm date and let them sort out what happens if the new build is’nt ready.

This. It’s a serious case of NoMFuP. It’s their mess they need to deal with it or else you don’t buy their house any more. If they want it to be your problem then I’d expect some sort of consideration as part of the deal – ie. enough money to cover any rental costs you might accrue, plus a bit extra for the inconvenience.

yup, and they moved into rented while waiting for their house to be finished. I wouldn’t have accepted anything else. I would suggest that the people up your chain need to do the same thing.