There are so many convincing articles on the web regarding giving up the smart phone for good. I did promise myself that I would give it a go especially when my kids told me that I spend too much time on it.

I decided to root out my old Samsung qwerty phone which was the last non-smart phone I had and give it a go. It died on day 2 so I went back to the smartphone temporarily…

This was a week ago now! You can pick up a basic Nokia for less than a tenner so I’m going to give it another go!

I’m also known by my middle name, always have been due to a quirky family thing. I would prefer to go by my first name but at 33 it’s probably too late to change now.

First bike that resembled an MTB was a Townsend Topeka. First actual proper MTB was a Kona Fire Mountain, 1996 model, stil regret selling it to this day 🙁

Axles are available from Madison with an RRP of £24.99 each!

Grew up In Adlington, Lancs, currently residing in St Helens

Indonesia, hmmmm……

Yeah, it was a joke based on that but never mind…

If you like stuff like this then get on youparklikeacunt.com

Yay, what do I win?

The van is parked

wow, you had a bad experience so everybody must avoid them, seriously?

It’s not illegal in any way but parking in a space in front of someone else’s house that you haven’t personally cleared is rude and ignorant.

In normal weather conditions it doesn’t bother me in the slightest where I or anyone else parks on my street.

I clear not only my path and front of house but also two of my elderly neighbours front paths, and the mother in laws drive and path. So there!

Buy a new house, why didn’t I think of that 🙄

To be fair they do give you instructions on how to cancel the trial immediately after you sign up for it

b r – rumbled! The Mrs did it while I was at work!

MSP – to park facing down the hill would involve either turning round at the top which as the street is very narrow is virtually impossible or coming round from the other end which is a lot steeper and completely impossible!

Hora – ?

unfitgeezer – I won’t be losing any sleep over it, merely commenting on a forum, which I believe I’m entitled to do!

everyone else – thanks for the revenge ideas 🙂

Sadly our telly is an old skool deep as it is wide type! We only got a blu-ray player because it was cheaper than all the DVD players when we were looking for an new one!

Yes Cougar, scart lead indeed

Cheers Drac, I’ll have a shufty through the menus and see if anything jumps out 🙂

Exactly what sadexpunk said! Virgin are fine as long as everything is running ok but if you have to ring them you get a completely different story for each one of their people you speak to.

The player or the file Drac? Sorry I know nothing about these things!

Some interesting ideas there fellas, apart from the jizz idea!!

Anyone, no? Come on please don’t let me have to go on the AV websites, they’re scary!

It’s not dangerous, we live on a hill so it’s a beeatch to get moving from on the snow. Far easier to have tarmac under the wheels.

Pretty much yeah, it’s just easier that way……

Because it was a gift.

Update:

Spoke to Virgin and it turns out that they are throttling our connection due to abuse of their fair use policy on downloads. That’ll be the bone idle 19 year old upstairs then. Time for a stern word!!

Nissan Juke – six bloomin headlights, the top two at eye level if you are in a normal car! And they ALWAYS have them all on!

And here is the rubbish non-response I have just received from virgin media:

Thanks for your e-mail to Virgin Media about the Broadband speed.

We understand your concern.

We’ve checked your account and can see that you are not subscribed to
the 30Mb package. Your area will be ready by the end of January 2013 at
that time you will get a 20Mb speed. This is the reason you are getting
only 10Mb speed.

Thanks for providing your contact e-mail address. We can see it matches
the one already on our records.

If you’ve any other query or if you would like to get any details about
your account then, please go to http://www.virginmedia.com/contact and we’ll be
happy to help.

They obviously didn’t even bother to read my email and just sent a stock response. Nice.

Had me going for a second there!

I did look at Mediamonkey but the 30 days only of ripping unless you pay for an upgrade put me off. I like the sound of stumpy01’s suggestion of monkey and WMP.

Have tried going down the threatening to leave route with them before, they offered me nothing at all! Just got a decent quote from Sky, they only want £10 to install a phone line which we don’t currently have – BT wanted £125 upfront! Lets see what they have to say for themselves when they email back.

It may have been ‘XL’ but it was definately 30mb.

I did question them on Twitter earlier in the week about the ‘free’ upgrades coming at the same time a price increase, pure coincidence apparently 🙄

We’ve always had good service from them in the past, certainly never had any cause to complain. Well apart from them constantly refusing to give us a free Tivo box 🙂

Can’t ring them at the mo as no phone 🙁

OK, back on topic you filthy lot 🙂 Rigid forks?

Hmmm, I would never have thought to compare it to bumsex!!

Thanks for the replies so far guys, I would be converting my current geared MTB if I did go ahead as current bank manager (wife) wouldn’t possibly allow another bike 🙂

One more question – I’m not particularly fit at the moment so would I struggle massively on a ss?

I hear you brother, sold my kona to finance a rock lobster, still regret it now and that was 12 years ago. Also sold my Inbred when I was skint, gutted.

The inserts for the XM819’s are made from one of the softest metals ever and are very easy to damage when tightening up, even with the proper tool.