Done 62 on an mtb

I’m going to be the first one here to say, BULL**** !

How about your own girlfriend or wife was groped by Pervy Pete in Accounts, would you laugh and say ‘what a lad’?

I wouldn’t be particularly pleased and would probably go and have a word with him one to one, but calling the police and pressing charges, really? Sledgehammer to crack a walnut springs to mind.

Ok- a big male boss in your company gropes your balls. How would you feel?

I’d either laugh it off or tell him to F off (depending how much of an idiot he was) and then just forget about it and get on with my life. If he did it again I’d punch him in the face and would perhaps start to look for a new job. Certainly wouldn’t harbour a bitter 20 year grudge against the man though that’s for sure. Unless he becomes famous of course as I could then probably make a serious sum money out of the situation 😉

Many times the local drunken hockey girls would grab my balls while taking the glasses to the bar.
Correct Bunnyhop, not a very nice experience.

Oh I don’t know. As a red blooded male that’s the sort of thing I often dream about. Tell me, what was the name and location of the pub you worked at again?

I heard a neurologist on R4 say that the bit of skin removed by circumcision contains c 30,000 nerve endings. I personally see this operation for religious/cultural reasons as a form of abuse.

To be honest ‘whilst stirring the red paint pot’ I can’t feel any real difference before or after mine so I wouldn’t say it has any great impact. Guess the only way to be sure is to give it a go so to speak.

What I’m angry about is the way that bencooper twisted it to imply all sorts of negative things, as he has been doing for ages along with the rest of the Yes campaign. It’s constant spin and propaganda, which is really ironic since that’s one of the things people hate the establishment for…

Wouldn’t surprise me if BenCooper is a paid member of the SNP/Yes campaign, popped on this forum to drum up some support. Stranger things have happened I’m sure.

It galls me that the Yes campaign seem to be implying that you’re a traitor or not a true Scot unless you vote Yes. Anyone who tells the truth like it is or disagrees with the SNP/Yes crowd immediately gets jumped on and accused of bullying, bias or oppression (as can be seen time and time again by the Yes campaigners on this forum).

Actually the ‘True Scot’ thing couldn’t be further from the truth. The Scots I know well (okay, yes all two of them) are both voting No. They’re about the most patriotic and proud Scots you could hope to meet, but they have their eyes and ears sufficiently open to realise that there are many more opportunities, and none of the risks for Scotland by remaining part of the Union (the best of both worlds). Both are proud to also be part of the UK, although they consider themselves Scots first and foremost. I’d argue that these two Scots care far more about the future of Scotland than those blindly following their Nationalistic and Tory/English bashing agenda’s. Thankfully they are both happy to not cut their nose off, despite their face.

I don’t need someone who only got her job by an accident of birth telling me how to think, thanks

Nope, far better to be told how to think by someone who’s got (a not so) hidden agenda to become the new PM of Scotland and who got to where they are by bullying, promising the moon on a stick, and pulling the wool over peoples eyes!

I’d miss mine. I’m really quite attached to it.

Streamlined is the way forward though, a lower drag co-efficient can do wonders for performance.

Due to an ‘injury out in the field of action’ had mine done at the tender age of 25. In pain for a few weeks afterwards but now I love it, wouldn’t go back to how it was before even if I had the choice. No difference in how it performs or feels and the ladies seem to prefer it this way to the way it previously was. Nothing to worry about at all.

From the interviews I’ve heard, the Scottish know full well what they’re voting for, and are fully engaged in the process. Its people south of the border who seem to be struggling with it

You know what you’re voting for sure, but almost certainly by default what you’ll get is this total toe-rag and his odious hangers on as the head of a newly indpendant Scotland. But I suppose as you’ll be independant, at least you’ll have chosen the little s*it. He’ll be YOUR little toe-rag, just unfortunately with a lot more power to really F things up.

THIS ISN’T AN ELECTION! THIS ISN’T A VOTE FOR A PERSON, OR EVEN A POLITICAL PARTY. THIS IS A VOTE ABOUT WHETHER THE COUNTRY BECOMES INDEPENDENT, OR NOT!

Yes but what people in Scotland need to be aware of is that the utopia of independence is going to be nothing like as rosy as this sticky little turd (and his merry band of klingons) are promising. That’s where I have a big issue with him, in that he’s totally misleading the Scottish voters on the whole independence issue. He’s like a smiling man sat in his mac in a car outside a primary school, handing out sweets and offering a lift home to small children.

But support for independent Shetland isn’t very high, and support for Shetland remaining in the UK when Scotland is independent is basically zero.

Just blown that one out of the water!

Well, if you sit around waiting for a virtuous politician who tells the truth and not want he thinks the Scottish voters want to hear to spearhead independence, you’re going to be a long time waiting.

Changed that for you 🙂

Shetlanders declaring UDI, becoming a Crown Protectorate and all becoming instant millionaires

Well they do say that Shetlanders have much more in common with the Nordic countries than they do with Scotland. If I was them then this is what I would be thinking, either that or start a campaign to stay as part of the rest of the UK in exchange for a higher percentage of oil wealth. A win/win situation.

Remember it’s not about Alex.

We’ll he’s the one making all the promises that everything will be rosy after a YES vote.

For all the accusations of Bullying and Bluster, it seems that Mr Salmond is by far the biggest culprit of all:

Alex Salmond: Meet the bully behind the mask

What a total pillock – is this who the Scots would seriously consider leading them into independence?

For all the accusations of Bullying and Bluster, it seems that Mr Salmond is by far the biggest culprit of all:

Alex Salmond: Meet the bully behind the mask

What a total pillock – is this who the Scots would seriously consider leading them into independence?

What’s the bets that Scottish TV will show the film Braveheart at primetime the night before the vote?

As for the Union Jack, just simply replace the blue parts for Scotland with green to represent Wales & Northern Ireland. So a Red, White and Green Union Jack. Looks quite nice 🙂

You certainly aren’t applying the skills as it is about making progress when safe to do so. Not speeding for the sake of it because you are better than other drivers… in your head.

No I’d be exceeding posted speed limits anyway (like probably 99% of the other people who drive), it’s just that I’ve taken a decision to improve my skills so that when I do exceed the limit (sometimes because I enjoy it) I’ll be safer doing this. The IAM, whilst providing excellent training, does not condone breaking speed limits. I’ve not kept my membership up.

Well I’m signing out of this discussion. It’s going a little of topic, partly my fault, and I don’t see what further can be gained from discussing road safety issues with some people on here seemingly so concerned about road safety and the speed of others, yet who can’t themselves see the value in extra driver training and who haven’t even been bothered to further their own driving skills since passing their test. As they say, “you can’t educate pork”.

Try doing a course were they just don’t take your money off you, play in car and give you nice certificate to remember the day but require you to achieve the required standard to become a member.

Like, the IAM advanced course perhaps? Done that, passed thank you.

I don’t work for the Police so poor troll.

White van man?

In off-piste skiing and avalanche awareness we have a saying “the mountain does not know you are an expert”

No but as a knowledgeable expert you can quite safely ski faster, with more awareness, and a greater margin of safety in a dangerous mountain environment than someone with far less training. You have an awareness of where it’s safe to push yourself and where you need to back off because the risks are greater.

I’m sorry you think I’m a cockwomble, but the likelyhood is at any given speed, because of my extra training, and to some extent the vehicle I drive then I’m probably a safer driver than you. Let me guess, did you pass your test quite a few years ago and then haven’t bothered to do anything to improve your driving skills since? Same probably applies to most others on here who are so high and mighty about speeding.

You keep telling yourself that I’ll keep clearing the mess up that people driving at high speed leave behind.

Really, well I’m sorry if that’s your experience, guessing you must work for one of the emergency services? I’d far rather the police concentrate on catching people driving badly than those who speed. I think you’ll find that lack of concentration or observation is a far bigger cause of accidents than speed. Yet the constant demon-isation of speed deludes people that they are a good, safe, drivers provided they don’t break the limit. Lazy, lazy policing.

If you can’t concentrate when you slow down then you have a MAJOR problem with your driving. You are not a good driver. You need to face up to that.

I didn’t say I can’t concentrate, I said that you’re more aware and concentrate better, with heightened senses when driving quickly and that it’s far easier to get distracted when you’re just trundling along. That’s human nature Molgrips, or are you trying to argue against a few million years of human evolution?

I drive at high speeds for a living, yes you can pay more attention but it is not safer by a very long way.

Well Jenson Button, I disagree totally with you there. I’ve had most of my near misses at or well below the speed limit, partly because as mentioned above, it’s far easier (for anyone – not just me) to get distracted at lower speed, when you’re not quite as focused.

Sure there’s always the odd idiot who drives too fast for the conditions but by far the worst drivers I see on the road on a daily basis are the ones actually driving slowly. Often they’re the ones distracted by phone calls, texting, erratic, unconfident, indecisive, in the wrong lane, unaware of whats around them, etc.

I think you’ll find that those people who like driving fast are also normally interested in improving their driving skills, maintaining their vehicle to high standards, and normally genuinely care about the standard of their driving. A completely different mentality to the deluded ‘I don’t break the speed limit so by default I must be a safer driver’ lot on here.

you paying more attention with your heightened awareness and such is all very well and good, but that wont stop someone else doing something stupid

No it doesn’t stop other people doing stupid things, but because I’m more aware of other road users when driving quickly then I’m going to react faster and have a greater perception of what others are likely to be doing – helping to avoid an accident in the first place.

it’s about the other people you are sharing that road with, the least predictable and most variable element of the whole thing.

I think you’ll find that if you observe other motorists well there’s very little on the road that is truly ‘a surprise’. Normally it’s possible to second guess what another motorist is about to do. When you approach a situation where there’s likely to be someone doing something silly (like the junction in the video), then I’ll slow down to allow for that.

Only in terms of you being able to corner faster without siding off the road. It has no effect on your reaction times if something unexpected happens

Yes it does, as I’ve just explained, reaction times are vastly improved when you’re more aware and can almost second guess what other motorists are about to do.

I’d argue you’re talking out of your arse. Sorry that might not be very PC but it’s the truth.

Really, so you’ve been in a car with me then? Sorry I don’t recall that.

no ammount of tuned suspension or driver training is going to stop you pileing into him becasue you were going a feckload faster than he gave your awesome skilz/motor credit for.

Sorry but you must be a complete bellend if you believe that additional driver training doesn’t improve your safety. You may as well come on here and say that going to French evening class won’t help you to speak French any better 🙄

I would say both the car and bike equally at fault here. It’s pretty clear that 97mph was a risky proposition on this road given how much traffic was around and the number of junctions. That said, car driver clearly was not paying attention. 50/50 I’d say.

There was a documentary on TV a little while ago about habitual speeders. They forced them to drive at the limits and filmed the results. In many cases, they were actually worse drivers; they were bored, disengaged, frustrated and impatient, and their attention wandered.

I’m a habitual fast driver, I freely admit it. I don’t drive fast in build up areas I might add, but on an open road in light traffic, with the right conditions then yes I’ll put my foot down.

I drive fast because I enjoy driving and I enjoy the sensation of speed. Because I drive fast I bought a vehicle that accelerates, brakes, corners far better than the average so this does give an increased margin of safety when pressing on. I’ve also taken extra driver training to improve observation and car handling skills.

I notice that when I’m driving fast all senses are heightened, my observation improves, I’m planning ahead far more, I’m more alert and far more ready to react to things happening around me.

When I drive at or below the limit, just plodding along, I find my concentration decreases significantly and I’m easily distracted. I’ve had a few near misses over the years, all when driving slowly and all due to lapses in concentration or by being distracted.

So I’d argue that for me, I’m a safer driver when I’m driving at a speed appropriate for the conditions (possibly involving speeding) than when I’m sticking at or below the given speed limit. Sorry, that might not be a very PC thing to say on here but it’s just the truth.

Foaming-at-the-mouth, racist, right-wing-loon deserts one group of foaming-at-the-mouth, racist, right-wing-loons, to join even more foaming-at-the-mouth, racistier, right-wingier, loonier loons, where he feels more comfortable

At least he’s honest, he could have joined those other (in the closet) foaming-at-the-mouth, racist, right-wing-loons, New Labour!

But the problem now is this latest type of advertising is making the site very unpleasant to use on a mobile device.

This + 1. It’s not the advertising that people object to, it’s the banners and pop ups that are making the website almost completely un-useable on any mobile device.

As mobile devices are making up an ever increasing percentage of internet useage then this is something the STW team should really be quite concerned about surely? Yet they seem quite blase about the issue?

Ah, I see. Ae is usually too ‘rough’ for folks, now it appears Kirro isn’t smooth enough for the mincers either.

Jesus wept.

Get real, you go to a trail centre to enjoy it and have fun, to play on some features that you just don’t get on natural trails, not to have your teeth shaken out on the flats as well as the downhills.

Why do you think they piste bash the snow in the Alps? A trail centre is an artificial mountain bike piste and should be maintained properly to preserve its flow, not left to degrade (sorry, mature) – that’s what natural trails are for.

Agree that due to the pop ups and the time it takes to load, the site is now pretty much un-useable on an iPhone or tablet when away from a fast Wifi connection. That’s when I normally use the site, via 3G on the tram on the way to or from work. Don’t often bother now because its so frustrating, which kind of defeats the point in having ads I guess if I’m not seeing them any more?

Explain to me why we should take a share of your countries liabilities when you wont give my country our share of our assets?

Because the liabilities (debt) have already paid for Scotland’s roads, schools, hospitals, pensions, North Sea oil industry investment etc (assets), plus the fact that every person in Scotland receives £1,200 more in public spending than the rest of the UK’s population. Shall the UK repossess these assets if an independent Scotland fails to keep up payments, much like would happen with any other loan?

The currency options for an independent Scotland don’t look good do they?

Salmond is clutching at straws with the whole ‘we won’t pay the national debt’ card. If that’s his attempt at starting negotiations then frankly is smacked of pure desperation.

Thing is though, if Scotland do go independent, the rest of the UK is holding almost all of the trump cards around the negotiating table. Scotland (as by far the smaller, weaker party in any post YES vote negotiations) will almost surely come out with a bad deal, a very bad deal. That’s the reality I’m afraid.

Yeah, i guess the weight of my humoungus swinging pendulum of a member was just too much for my spine to cope with

Runs in the family does it?

I think the problem with Kirroghtree is that it doesen’t seem to have matured that well as a trail.

When I first rode it, around 3 months after opening it was fantastic, the best trail centre I’d ever ridden. The black really takes you out into some proper remote terrain and McMoab is unique. The surface was smooth and flowing, like a big endless roller coaster swooping through the forest.

Went back 2 years ago though with very high expectations but was disappointed that the trail has become so rough and nadgery that any real flow was impossible to attain. The only bit that really flowed any more was the final fast blue section on the approach to the car park.

Surely it’s just a maintainence issue? It could be a great trail again if it was smoothed out a bit like it was in the beginning. Keep all of the features like the slabs and drops of course, just smooth out the bits in between so you can get some proper speed and flow up between the various technical sections.

Re the people who tailgate if you drive at the speedlimit just easing off on the accelerator a tad normally makes them drop back . It does not reduce their anger but they were probably suffering some issues anyway.

Don’t condone tailgating but sometimes you get the person in front who just sits there at around 70 in the outside lane, despite the inside lane being fully clear for quite some distance, which seems to be getting particularly bad on duel carriageways these days where there’s no third lane to get past them. Are these people just inconsiderate self righteous cocks and too selfish to let a faster driver past or do these people just never use their mirrors at all? Get with it and move the **** over for ****s sake!

Any UK citizen who goes abroad to fight for ISIS should instantly forfeit their UK citizenship. You go to fight, you don’t come back to the UK, ever.

This is the only car you’d ever want . .

We just bought a Viewsonic (can’t remember model number but was DLP, 3,000 lumens) for work and although it’s a little bulky at times when taking to client meetings, the picture quality is supurb. No need for clients to even dim the boadroom lights.

Or should we stand back and allow the genocide?

That’s always the argument that’s brought up, but the fact is there’s been far more violence, genocide and human rights violations in Iraq, Afganistan etc as a result of and since the UK/US interventions there.

If we’d just left them to get on with it over the last 20-30 years, without Western ‘do good’ meddling, then these Middle East countries might have by now got the fighting mostly out of their systems and might already be several steps closer to a peaceful resolution.

Jesus, it gets worse!

A work colleague was boasting to me the other day that on his way to work his new Bluemotion Passat gave him 72mpg. He then asked what I got from my car.

I replied “21mpg, a smile, and I get laid”.