But I don’t think you’d respect my advice.

Because you’re tattooed? Or because you have a rather camp way of standing on an aluminium tower? 😀

300 tops.

That looks worth a look! Cheers keaboing… 🙂

Cheers Simon, there’s lots to go at on there, but I was thinking about something like emedia’s Guitar Method, it looks quite comprehensive…

I quite fancy growing one sidey into a “monkey’s tail” that curls down along my jawline, across the chin and then up the other side of my mouth to underline my nose.

Not sure it projects the right image to my clients though… 😉

trying to win points by pedantry is sooooo ignorant

Lots of fun though… 😉

You’re exposing your ignorance there shib. That’s a bloke with Maori origins wearing a Maori tattoo.

Well let’s talk about ignorance shall we? That’s a Samoan design, NOT Maori. And his Samoan origins don’t make the design any less “hackneyed” than the a little slapper from a council estate with ass antlers sprawled across the small of her back.

That’s a cool tat.

To be completely honest, I think it looks ridiculous. The guy has a very impressive body that would look far better without some asymmetric, hackneyed clipart sprawled all over one arm!

Or maybe the number of “cats” he’s eaten…

Teardrop Tattoo = Wannabe Gangster.

You telling me that all the little rude boy scrotes that have teardrop tats have body-count? 😉

Sorry sir, the vacancy has already been filled…

shibboleth, please go away mate.

No.

If that was my son, I’d thread a rope through that nose and drag him round town behind my car.

Based on what, ohnohesback?

I suspect he’s just heard a phrase that he’s wanted to use for a while and this was almost a suitable opportunity.

Or how about…

Well I’m flooded with work and in the last 4 weeks have had 6 inquiries from small-medium house builders to work on property developments.

This is the kind of movement we need to see at ground level to start moving the economy forwards.

So yes, I think we’re climbing out, although it will be a very long and slow climb…

Economies of scale.

No such thing. Mine varies from day to day…

Usually, the list contains:

Common People – Pulp
Unchained Melody – Righteous Bothers
Jesus of Suburbia – Green Day
Bridge Over Troubled Waters – Simon & Garfunkel
Telegraph Road – Dire Straights
Reach for the Stars – S-Club 7

(Fact).

Parcels with “Wiggle” or “Chain Reaction Cycles” or “Ribble” printed on them. 😀

Driving through tunnels…

I had the cat wee smell coming from my roady shoes after wet rides this summer. Absolutely minged the house out.

I assumed it was something I’d ridden through as I never suffer from stinky feet or shoes.

Soaked them in bleachy water, rinsed and dried – seems to have cured it. They were fairly new Shimanos…

I got one of these, got shut of the wife before Anniversary 2 but I’ve still got the pen. I use it for all important documents so it’s a constant reminder never to sign anything that enters me into a legally binding partnership agreement with a woman.

NO.

Yes. Fact.

He has terrible dress sense…

I suspect one is a goat willow, one is an ash… Show leaves on a branch and some bark and that will help…

Emsz, if you ever want to move, I have a couple of spare rooms… 😉

Yeah, you can’t guarantee that you’ll get Warburtons Toastie bread with Lurpack butter. Nowt worse than doing the Walk of Shame on an empty stomach…

Shibboleth – isn’t the fourth one getting cold by the time you reach it? Surely 2 is the optimum?

I bought it for when entertaining, my ‘guests’ usually require a bite to eat the morning after, this allows me to feed them and myself in one fell swoop. Saves that guilty feeling of giving them 2 slices that have cooled whilst waiting for mine to toast, or that deep, bottomless pit of disappointment one feels eating cold toast whilst some strumpet you’ve no intention of ever seeing again tucks into gloriously warm toast.

I see where you’re coming from, but I thought long and hard about it…

I didn’t think there was much room for improvement in my breakfast routine… That was before I bought the DeLonghi Icona 4 slot toaster. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that my life will never be the same again. 4 four slices of perfectly golden browned toast in less than a minute. Amazetoast.

I have an Onkyo CR-545 and a Yamaha CRX-550, neither have wifi but both have USB ports and ipod docks.

I can’t recommend either of them highly enough – the Onkyo perhaps has the edge in terms of sound quality but the Yam gets more points for having a much nicer remote control – the Onk is a bit fiddly but fine.

Both produce sound comparable to many separate systems, certainly at lower-mid volumes which are what you tend to use in the real world.

I did mine on 11th Oct last year, so by strange coincidence, a year to the day. Forefinger on left hand, ditched bike to the left and the brake lever popped it out (pushing it towards my middle finger at the middle knuckle).

Took months before I had even 50% movement back, and even now I can only screw it up to about 90% of what it should do. I still have a noticeable bulge on the outside.

It aches a bit the morning after cold rides.

I have some Lusso Thermo that are a similar sort of thing, had them years – excellent quality for the money.

Like this

They really are only any use in minus temps, for 0-10°ish I prefer those endura FS260 roubaix knee warmers.

Just read the gubbins on the website as per Kryton’s advice, and my race bike has a 136mm SLK which I find pretty comfy, so I think I’ll take a punt on the Evo which is semi round so should suit the majority of my riding…

Cheers chaps!

I’ve just noticed that they’re all 134mm wide versions, probably going to cleave me in half… Shame, some good prices.

Face saving? Not I. I’m 100% unswerving in my opinions, which I know to be 100% correct. Fact.

I just like to patronise people sometimes… 😉

Junkyard, is English not your first language, or has someone swapped some of the keys round on your keyboard??

I really can’t be arsed trying to decipher what you’re saying which is a shame as you might have the odd good point to make. Unlikely though… 😉

Unfortunately, all every aspect of the economy is cyclical, and that includes employment. If the economy can’t support employment, you have to expect unemployment.

In an ideal world, unemployment would stimulate a contraction in the population, growth in other areas, economic migration etc, etc etc. Sadly, our benefits system stifles all these natural effects causing economic stagnation.

Ecomomics is just like Darwen, but with money rather than genes… innit.

Really how many people do you know who made that “lifestyle choice”?

There are a great many people I know in that position. I recently went on a school reunion where one guy was complaining about being unemployed. I asked him what sort of work he was after and he was quite happy to admit that he was not – he was perfectly happy having as much free time as he wanted. He figured it was a fair payoff for living on limited means.
He added me on facebook but I had to delete him after a week – all his posts about the films he was watching all day made my p*ss boil.
The final straw was when he started bragging about how he’d spent all day on the phone to sky complaining about his Sky Premier On Demand not working properly!!
When you say it took you 4 years to “recover”, it sounds to me like you “expect” a certain standard of living. Nobody should “expect” anything. To be honest, the fact that there was a safety net which allowed you to rebuild your life is a good example of how the benefits system should be used.