Everyone should be naked the way God intended – problem solved (now if someone can only prove the existence of God I win 😀

You too can look like this!!!

Mud is what mountain bikes were made for. 😀
Busfest at the weekend 5K VW vans descend on Malvern, which usually means it will bucket down. 😀

Most street fights end up being a quite short brawl, the martial arts that contain some form of grappling and close quarters techniques are more useful.

To use big spinning kicks etc you need to be very good because if you miss there’s plenty of time for the other person to attack whilst you’re gracefully pirouetting.

binners – Member

I’d definitely exempt veggie non-drinkers from any bill splitting, as they’re clearly just joyless masochists anyway, so would therefore perversely but secretly enjoy the unfairness of it all

If I ever come for a beer with you I’ll be sure to wear my best hairshirt to complete the scenario for you. 😀

Boat ride is in Speedwell not the Devil’s Arse – two separate caves.
Bull’s Head is ok for decent pub grub and right in the middle of Castleton.

+1 for Junky’s mean and grumpy bill splitting camp.

We are all veggie and hardly drink, gets a bit annoying that there is an expectation we are happy to pay the same to eat/drink about 1/3 of that consumed by the carnivorous alecarts in our family/friends.

Another reason I have no mates. 😀

@wrecker – Fjallraven for added mountain coolness.
Whattaboutthis:

Riding my ridig SS with boingy geardy weirdies – do I overtake them on climbs to keep my momentum and look like an arse only to be passed by them on the flat/decent.

I lose sleep over this and it’s why I mostly ride alone (that and having no friends anyway!)

It may even take the fire service full circle to the days of insurance fire brigades where you had to prove that you were insured before they’d put your fire out.

Increased business for Tattoo parlours as people make sure their policies are not in the burning house!!

@theotherjonv – and we expect to see the pictures please. 😀

http://www.polyvore.com/beauty_beast_costumes_for_sale/thing?id=2524059

Very true – but also, pick your battles. In the grand scheme, who really cares if your daughter goes to the shops dressed as Snow White. Actually, I miss and wish i could have those days agan, being unable to prise her out of a Disney Princess dress, now she wants Hollister and Abercrombie!!

Yup! I was accompanied on walks by Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet (2 off) and a variety of emergency services personnel – it is not compulsory for you to dress in a similar fashion but it’s a hoot if you do. 😀

Brilliant news – congratulations!

Cannot advise re adoption, but as a parent I would advise you to try to miss none of the milestones – school, concerts, sports, etc.

16 years in and loved all of it, would go round and do it all again if I could.

😀

If someone can give me a valid reason, religious or otherwise for wearing a balaclava into a bank, I’d be interested to hear it.

You may be indescribably ugly and scare small children with your fearsome countenance. There are people around here for whom that alone should be reason enough for them to wear a balaclava in public. 😀

Well I think the UK has developed by doing the exact opposite. Confronting oppression and brutality where it sees fit. Not by burying its head in the sand and ignoring the ill treatment of others. Interesting interpretation of history yo have there.

Blimey, said without a trace of irony! 😯

Sipping black Lapsang as I read this, get experimental with tea, loads of subtle flavour variations if you drink it without milk or sugar and use loose leaf tea.
Is there a, correlation between preferring tea/coffee and that of dogs/cats?

There was a case of a lorry driver being convicted on the evidence from a rear light bulb – shards of glass (tiny ones) were embedded in the filament which could only happen if the bulb had been energised, disproving the lorry driver’s claim that the car was unlit. As FM said – not sure if this is possible with LEDs.

He was ‘ard, ‘ard but fair, and he larved is dear old Mavva.

Paragliding looks brilliant, they float over our house most weekends – go enjoy and remember that big grey patch ahead could be a cloud, another paraglider or the 11.30 Boeing 777 heading into Manchester – life’s a lottery go have fun.

Blimey, I just use a pair of shoes all year round and some warm woollen socks, but I am thinking about some of those neoprene over boot type things.

The Dark Peak has some lovely boggy and wet bits to go alongside the rocky bits – ie the peaty bits and the trails that become, or are crossed by, streams in heavy rain so your feet are going to get wet.

I used to wear boots and cages aeons ago but you just end up with a big soggy lump on the end of your legs.

edit: And good luck at Uni, may see you out on the moors sometime. 😀

Still think there should be retests every 5 or 10 years (def 5 yrs over 60).
Compulsory eye test at 2 yearly intervals in order to keep your license.
Optician sends the confirmation to the DVLA and it updates the records against your license.
The bloody car is checked every year so why not test the lump of meat that’s controlling the thing?

That butcher is musseling in on this fishy thread.

British Cycling, after a LONG campaign, recently got the Government to agree to a review of the sentencing guidelines

As you say small steps, but not gaining any significant media coverage. As I said –

kicking up a stink about this in a really big way.

Should be manslaughter IMO.

Hugely frustrating there is not cycling lobby group kicking up a stink about this in a really big way.

glupton1976 – Member

This “overpowering smell of testosterone” nonsense… it really needs to stop. It’s not big and it’s not clever.

FTFY 😀

Blimey!

As an ex-motorcyclist I used to be made to remove my helmet and silk balaclava before entering most shops / bank / post offices / etc because they needed to ID me just in case, this is understandable from the perspective of the shopkeeper etc.

How you get narrow minded halfwits to see the subtle difference between that and someone wearing a niq?b or burqa is beyond me. Good luck.

If it was a green rigid singlespeed it was probably me, oh hang on I was in Greece, so must have been someone else. 😀

@Junky – suddenly feel very close to my Mum & Dad!!!

It’s weird, when both boys had their first days as the local school I was beaming from ear to ear, really happy for them. But this feels much more like the beginning of the end of a chapter in my life, happy for him but it going to leave a huge hole when one and then the other leave home.

I’ll have to start speaking to MrsCat again about things other than the kids, what the hell are we going to talk about?

Couldn’t resist sharing.

Coconut surf wax and seawater.
Damp neoprene.
Babies.

There’s a difference between educating your children not to be fobbed off with a standard answer of any kind and just accepting things, and being a PITA whining for something they want.

@Philconsequence – local garden centre seem to be stock piling these;

@Philconsequence – as a family of veggies, I shall be arming mine with a set of these:

If you get to the point where they are of an age to require

telling to bloody behave, and stop being annoying, selfish little brats

The boat may have already sailed and be steaming towards the horizon.

wrecker – Member
So they respond to a sexist video by….making a sexist video?

Awesome, would that noise be the irony whistling over your head? 😆

MSP – Member
There have been dozens if not hundreds of parody’s of blurred lines.

If they are all done with the wit and panache of this one then all credit to them, got any links?

@Bunnyhop – much easier to give in than make a stand.

Ours got a cheap and nasty mobile at 11 when they went to a school out of the village because the bus network is a bit flaky.

When they turned 14 they have each upgraded to cheap Android smartphones, eldest is 16 and happy with his.

Done loads with the NT when a teenager on Acorn Camps – mcmoonter speaks wisely, they eat stone and time.

What is the local stone, depending upon where you located are it will make all the difference in how easy/fiddly it will be.

Stone that has natural shear planes will be a squillion times easier to use than random lumps.

There’s heaps of good stuff on the internet, worth reading up on what style is local to you. It is time consuming but fab therapy.