I do hope maxray didn’t exercise his power and miss that goal.

edit: looks up sees he didn’t. good stuff.

oohh yes!

@SBZ,
Thanks.

If I might interrupt the squabbling…

SBZ, i’m guessing you’re a physio, can I ask your opinion? – In my simplistic view I’ve been thinking knee specialist = diagnosis and possible treatment, physio = rehab. I was going to put off going to see a private physio until after getting the results of my MRI. Is it worth seeing a physio earlier if they have diagnostic skills? Is this something all physios can do or should i be looking for a particular type or qualification? I’m not sure I would have trusted the physios i had in the past to do this but I’m possibly being unfair. Genuine question, would be grateful for your thoughts.

Finally knee injuries are easy to diagnose if the correct person is doing the assessment.

What a load of twaddle.

Guess it depends what you mean by assessment. Physical examination? and/or x-ray, MRI, arthroscopy? Took all of those to get a definite diagnosis for my first injury. I could have had a numpty specialist though.

I’ve had two similar experiences:
15 years ago partially tore the ACL in my right knee – very swollen, painful etc. 3 days later went to GP, sent to A&E, X-ray, referred to specialist, short wait of a couple of weeks, i think, for MRI. Then another short wait for arthroscopy, cant remember how long but less than a month. After follow up had a month wait for physio (this was classed as urgent), then physio for 6 months.

Currently: sprained left knee in early december, swollen, stiff and sore and not able to bear weight but not as bad as previous one. Self treated doing the RICE thing for a week, then flexing exercises from my previous physio in the second week, then gentle cycle machine, stair exercises from week 3. Think I tweaked it again stepping off a curb over Xmas as it swelled up again. treated as before but have a persistent soreness at the back of knee and around the knee cap so went to GP. Got an x-ray within 1-2 weeks, referred for an MRI with a one month wait (private clinic doing NHS work) and referred to a specialist with a potential 4 month wait. The waiting is frustrating but understandable as the referrals are triaged and I’m low priority – I can walk and cycle just can’t run, play football or snowboard :(. Ultimately I’m just hoping for a more precise diagnosis so I make sure I’m doing the most effective physio.

Sorry to go on a bit but thought it might provide some comparable experience.

It’s all still loaded in the car

Heads out for a walk around South Croydon looking for a car full of goodies…

I was thinking about something similar this morning. As a kid we had a couple of specific names for local parks where we played football, rode our bikes and stalked girls. One was the called the Gruffy and the other the Dobbins. I reckon no-one knows them by those names anymore 🙁

‘You do know this is a footpath’

‘Yes. Do you know I’m a pyschopath?’

I’m still waiting for Punxsutawney Phil to show up.

Red Mountain, British Columbia.

If you like a laid back atmosphere and awesome off-piste.

It’s a small resort but quality trumps quantity. Go to the top and take your pick in any direction of off-piste options through trees and cliffs. There’s easy access back country too on Mt Roberts, Wolf ridge and Grey mountain.

oh bollox, sniff 🙁

Well having been guilty of doing this recently when asking for views on Birmingham I guess it’s because i didn’t have a closed set of questions but was interested in inviting any bits of information that people thought might be helpful. I guess I could have phrased it ‘Tell me about..’
hmmm hang a minute
[searches for thread…]

Ha! no! I did write ‘Tell me’ not ‘Talk to me’ I’m innocent! I’m not David Brent after all. Am i? 😳

One of these 6 wheeled buggies. But couldn’t decide between the Space 1999 one:

or the Banana Splits ones:

Thinking about it now it’s a no contest. NA NA NA, NA NA-NA NA….

Not really, no. I understand what you’re saying, obviously, but all of us are much more than their job. I’m a father/friend/mountain bike rider/accountant/husband/brother/political junkie. Calling me an accountant is technically accurate but very incomplete.

Yeah, but prostitution has more of a stigma associated with it than does accountacy – so it doesn’t seem odd to me than a journalist might be more sensitive in the use of language in her particular case so as not to appear judgemental.
I wonder what the phraseology would have been had she been a banker?

Crosses Bartley Green off the list…

@Johnnywhitesox: i think we might be confused over which university campus we’re talking about. The one i mean is in the south of the city near Selly Oak, so the other side of town of Sutton Park. Not sure i’d want to commute across the centre. Quite like the idea of being near the snowdome in Tamworth though.

@ aka_Boz: Bromsgrove looks like a possibility, thanks for that.

Any opinions on Wyre Forest vs Cannock for riding? I’m not familiar with either.

I thought this was going to be another 6th-former in fight with younger schoolkid thread but with a less impressive ending. Anyone know the latest on 4xjohn’s rematch?

Good luck with the recovery.

Thanks for the suggestions so far, that’s given me a few areas to look at.

If this is true/serious

Well there’s your problem right there.

you don’t have sole user licence for pedantry

🙂

I think the STW collective should really think about clubbing together for a group licence. Massive savings to be made.

I like Green and Blacks dark chocolates especially the mayan gold with orange and spices but I found their milk chocolate really disappointing, especially given the price. Give me a bar of Milka anyday.

German crisp. You would think that the nation that brought you the Bugatti Veyron, Jürgen Klinsman and 99 Luftballoons could come up with something better than paprika bloody crisps.

I love paprika crisps!!! Especially Paprika Pringles.

Lovely photo but it won’t matter how much zoom the OP has he aint going to get a picture of a clangar. They don’t live on the moon but in a little blue planet…

Apologies Cougar, my reply might have sounded a bit defensive – i think i misread the tone of your question a bit.

Well I hope you haven’t been riding in the meantime. That’s how accidents happen, people riding around without knowing what type of riding they’re riding.

That’s the second time someone’s mentioned ‘spod’. It’s something that’s endemic on Mono and almost unheard of (by me at least) outside it. I’d be curious to hear where you’ve got it from and what you think it means?

I’ve no idea where it comes from or but I can tell that in my school in the early/mid 80s we used it to describe someone who was bookish, swotty, etc like a nerd or geek I suppose. I don’t know or care whether this is its ‘correct’ meaning.

We had:

jip – short for gyppo or gypsy
phleg – same as a spod
Joey – Joey Deacon lived down the road from my school. His mate Ernie came to our prize giving day after Joey died. 🙁

I remember chinny reckon – also had a variation chinny rub.

And Horace – named after a Joey Deacon style TV character.

Moron was common at primary school – i think it was big in Grange Hill at the time.

I feel a porridge tour coming on. Artic Cloudberries at Crussh – I’ll have some of that!

I quite like the banana and honey ones from Eat. Had a right ropey one this morning from a coffee stand at East Croydon station, really runny it was. Had the runs all afternoon 🙁

it’s all been down hill from Darkman.

😀

An obvious one but I love Peter Hook basslines…

and one more…

Not driven in Spain, have you?

No I haven’t, Cyprus was scary though. And I wasn’t saying this is the case. Just trying to interprete the statistic. But i got that wrong anyway!

They mean that 22.5% of fatalities on British roads are pedestrians.

This isn’t a particularly useful stat for comparing the relative safety of pedestarians around europe. It could just mean that we have safer cars (in terms of driver/passengers safety).

ourkidsam – Member
Britain has the highest percentage of pedestrian road fatalities in Europe 22.5% of….?

I’m guessing they mean that 22.5% of road traffic accidents involving a pedestrian result in a fatality (though intuitively this seems high to me?). i.e. our accidents are more likely to be lethal than European accidents – presumably because of the greater speed involved.

Vince Hilaire.

I use mine for carrying extra cake. So i can feed the trolls on route.

Personally it would have to be the silent but epically nauseous and noxious fart i let go in a camper van on the Isle of Skye in 1995. We’d just picked up two sexy dutch hitch-hikers who then promptly got out again at the next junction. My mate still hasn’t forgiven me.

So the data about religion has limited use, and, to be frank, is something harking back to historical censuseseses (censi?).

I think it was only introduced as a question in the 1991 or 2001 Census (apart from Northern Ireland where it has a longer history.

It would make sense if the height markings are at the front – then you can check the height whilst riding by looking down between your legs (e.g. if you’re not sure if the seat post is slipping, or if you’re someone who is constantly adjusting your seat height for ups and downs). If they’re at the back you have to stop and get off to look. Lay-back bit to the back I’d have thought.

a girl i worked with dumped her bf of 5years and said ‘you never made me come once’

To which I hope he replied:
‘I never tried to’

You’re an emotional retard

Was the best I’ve been dumped with

Best? Doesn’t every woman used this line?

<goes off to google emotional awareness classes>