They sent me a number of emails saying they were delayed but all of the arrived a couple of weeks ago.

Working from home that day but the reason it stood out was that I’d thrown a minor strop and got a meeting re-arranged in the City from the 7/7 to the 6/7 and travelled on the Circle line between Euston Square and Monument, so dodged it all by exactly 24 hours.

Got it on BluRay the audio was shite. Never ever said that about a film before, but when they fail with the basics then I have to mark it shit of shit. I have never ever had a Video, DVD or BluRay where I have had to adjust the volume every minute, well for this movie every 15 seconds from 10 to 50 on the TV. A basic fail from the people responsible for mixing.

@NBT I had one of those too, restricted with a small carb and a low compression engine, but dam did it handle well and that gear lever was brilliant. We used be in convoy back to the yard in the afternoon slipstreaming each other for that vital 1mph overtake.

The Viva Magnum 2.3 and the Firenza were bloody nippy cars for their day.

I suspect you are on a hiding to nothing, I will throw my oar in with the rest of the posters so far making sure that it is thrown at least 180 degrees away from you and yours just in case of any possible injury.

How many people have ascended and descended those steps since they were installed? Your argument is that due to lack of maintenance, which would mean that there was some sort of physical evidence present to reflect that claim. Are they crumbling, cracking, subsiding?

In summary there’s **** all wrong with those steps unless there is something not shown in the photo for instance a slab that is loose and wobbling when someone steps on it.

The lip is a few mm and from the picture looks no more that any escalator anywhere in the UK would introduce to that major life changing decision of should I lift up my foot or look a twit falling flat on my face..

Now if you said that a 26’r would have a major accident and a 26.5r roll over it I think you would have a major argument on your hands.

Watched it last night and thought the circuit was cr*p just too narrow hardly anywhere to try an alternate line or overtake. When all the cars are equal it has to come down to trying something risky to get into the lead and the course didn’t really allow for it.

Disclaimer I work for a mobile phone company so have unlimited 4G, but here’s my own experience with it to date and and hopefully a non biased view on the UK 4G market.

I’m mobile/homeworker and the nearest cell site to my home was upgraded to 4G about six months ago, since then I’ve used my mobile phone for tethering quite a lot and its more than good enough to support audio conf/video conf on MS Lync. Also for some customer presentations from remote webex speakers/presenters where it’s been excellent.

Whilst you have those big headline upload and download speeds the largest improvement is the fact that 4G is a data network from the outset rather than data tacked on top of a voice network, which means a huge reduction in latency so you will see a general reduced response time, things just feel more nippy.

What still has to be done is sorting out voice at the moment if you make or receive a call the phone will drop back to 3G to make the call thereby screwing up your wonderful 4G connection. It won’t be that long until there is some sort of rough consensus and VoLTE or similar comes out which sort that issue out and most likely improve battery life a bit too.

As for the question to replace broadband my own personal view is if you look at anything new to market it goes thru a number of phases, early adopter, mid adopter and so on, each with their own price points, so I’d expect that during the mature phase of 4G that there will start to be packages appearing with some hefty download limits built in.

All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 version
Catch-22

Second pendrivelinux it will either download the selected distro (decent choice) and install it to a USB with the option for the spare space on the USB for storage or do the same from a pre-downloaded distro on your hard disk.

Thought it was the typical car chase scene, but his best had to be one of his more early films back in 1998 Taxi (not the 2004 re-make thou) with the fastest Pug 406 you’ll ever see.

If you want amazing what you can do with RAW try the new dehaze feature in Lightroom or Photoshop its stunning

On a tricky bit if trail start singing to them, knocks them right out of their stride, doesn’t matter what song but the more crappy the better.

Approach it from the angle of de-constructing the base costs for producing the pic >>

Time spent at an event with the number of photos taken and edited (easy with digital but post prod takes some time) + cost of travel to said event + depreciation on equipment + website running costs + card transaction fees then divided by the subset of riders who purchase the pics, I’d guess 1 in 10 is prob a generous ratio, add in the usual taxes and business running costs, nat insurance, pension, bit of fat to cover having some time off from the business to have some hols in the year and so on. All of a sudden the price starts to look cheap.

The only way, despite the easy trail of evidence that someone posting their ill gotten gains on the internet leaves, if only the authorities could be arsed or just as much most likely have a clue if they realised how easy it can be to track someone down. Is to agree to meet said crim in a car park with a handful of readies with some mates and kick the living out of them.

If the investigating authorities could give a toss they could request off Gumtree the IP address that posted the advert, they could then request off the ISP concerned the billing location of the IP address, or if it’s a mobile phone/device locate it to within a few metres when added to its calling patterns and address will most likely give the game away as to the owner…

West Coast would be my choice a hell of a lot less likely to find your home eroding into the sea

Was getting the same as torsoinalake earlier on, but it’s gone now, looked to be an advert for a well known UK bike store that went a bit wayward.

Did they (the police) by chance let out said crim’s address purely by accident?

Managed to spot it flying from Amsterdam to Manchester this morning at approx 24,000ft

Close ups of the drop outs are required!

Howabout something with a barking V8 in it, an Audi RS4 or a Lexus IS-F

2008/2009 ish there was big jump in prices allegedly based on the raw material costs going thru the roof due to the economic boom and the demand for them.

A few months later there was the big global economic crash thereby massively reducing the raw material costs, did the prices drop…hmmm

I’m a home worker so it’s dammed easy to let things creep and suddenly you are working 12 hour days all the time, so rule at home now is switch on at 08:30 switch off at 17:15 and 16:00 on a Friday if I can, if I’m out on the road and put in silly hours in the week I’ll agree with my boss to take a day off for TOIL soon after, whilst its most likely not a 100% accurate accounting against my hours I have the latitude for late starts and early finishes if needed, well with the agreement if I have to work extra I will so it works for me.

Some planes the engineer would crawl into the wings mid flight to top up the oil on the engines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker

Thanks all keep em coming, I’m currently compiling them all in one big list with pros cons price etc then it’ll be time for test rides and haggling.

Set off a rumour amongst the local neds/scrotes how much a drone is worth at cash convertors or any other fine emporium and sit back and watch the superior hand eye co-ordination, reflexes and raw desire of an extra few quid drive them into a feeding frenzy for any drones in the air or grounded.

He seems to be a massive confidence player, wage/contract negotiations come out and he has a dip in form which is the complete opposite to almost all players who seem to have a blinding few games at that point before settling back down.

He has a mid season dip manager sends him for some hols which isn’t the usual response from a lot of managers.

Back in 2013 he took a big dip in form, turned out later to be a court case on his mind, but a lot of players can put everything off the field out of their minds when they step on the pitch, so far he doesn’t seem to be one of those and then when you are are a cocky teenager/twenty something and you are a supposed to feel indestructible/invincible with the freshness of youth it doesn’t bode well for later in his career being a bit mentally fragile so young.

Thanks all a few more to add to my pros/cons list, luckily I’m in an area with a multitude of bike shops to visit and my face is known in most of them which is handy when it comes to negotiations.

Fatbirds

http://www.fatbirds.co.uk/59153/products/van-nicholas-the-bushnell-eccentric–140-grams.aspx

Ooh good suggestion, big fan of horst link suspension, will add to the list.

Why not hire two au pairs take in an extra three sprogs from willing parents and make a profit?

I used to work at a local ice rink and play ice hockey. My challenge on roller skates has always been resisting the urge to apply the lean angles I could easily do on ice skates, rather than ending up with a nasty bruising from rollerskates slipping away from underneath me. Also on the ice some of your falling energy is directed into sideways motion sliding along the ice, rather than the painful straight down thud on rollerskates.

But as an experiment I’m just downloading the latest (incl maps) update and will see what happens (well apart from riding the Dyfi route again so soon :-/ )

Happened to me on the Dyfi Enduro whilst it could have been the soaking it had, I’m guessing that it was the first long ride I had done after the latest firmware update as it had been faultless before then even on longer/as wet rides and as I wasn’t using it for any navigation why would some error/issue with the OSM map cause it to crash?

Pauls Cycles is always worth a look for bikes in that price range.

New pair of cleats along with the Crank Bros metal shoe shields and you’ll have plenty of scary moments trying to unclip until the cleats start to wear a bit after a few rides.

It just annoys the hell out of me that a party built on workers/unions and supposedly for the working classes chooses/has representatives that have never had the experience of earning a wage other than through politics. Yes there will be some exceptions to this, but people going from Uni straight to the corridors of power without some graft in contributing towards the GDP doesn’t seem right to me somehow for the party.

As she is out and you are not speaking to her to advise her of the barking/whimpering, how will she know that the dog is making a noise?

I know if I got a complaint from the council and the neighbour hadn’t spoken to me then I would most consider them to be bit mental.

Which of the possible candidates has actually worked for a living at some point?

My sister stood on the local City council election and she had to wait till gone 6pm today with lots recounts thru the day first of all on the general election and then on multiple wards that she has been elected.