It wouldn’t alter my views on abortion. It would just offend me that someone thought it acceptable to post things like that in a place where I might see them.

When I try and view it, it says “this website may damage your computer”!!!

Sounds to me like Coffeeking isn’t the only person who’s not fit to be let loose on social media…

🙄

Again coffeeking, I think you need to take a long hard look at your social skills if you think anyone would post a picture of a dead foetus for any other reason than to cause shock and distress.

coffeeking – Member
Says who?

Facebook is a “social media”, ergo, the norms of common decency and social acceptability are just as relevant as in “real life”. If your social skills prevent you from understanding acceptable social conventions (such as you don’t inflict distressing images on unsuspecting people) then perhaps you should address your shortcomings before using social media. 😉

I’d be looking at Canyon or Boardman in that price bracket…

Options / Report this photo.

Really grinds my gears when people share sh**e like that, that’s not what The Facebook is for…

The Duke Of Pork is an awesome name… I’m going to re-Christen Little Shibby as The Duke of Pork…

I did the same last week with 5 litres of garage floor paint. Luckily it was waterbased slate grey on black carpets and I got it all out by scooping with a dustpan and scraping the carpet with a wallpaper scraper, then lots of dowsing/sponging with clean water.

Amazingly, I recovered 4.75 out of the 5 litres! The only place you can tell is where it sloshed up the passenger door and went in the speaker grill.

Those clips should be standard.

I’d recommend the Dolan Prefissio. Bought one as a winter trainer and I’m really impressed with the finish and the ride is superb for an alloy frame – it really doesn’t feel uncomfortable compared to my best carbon roadframe which says a lot.

The Ribbles are rough-as-**** finish-wise and you’re limited to that awful blue finish with crappy vinyl graphics (Dolan’s are printed/painted).

Dogging is best performed in the dim glow of a car’s interior light. Barbecues and squirrel voyeurism is best performed in the environmentally irresponsible glow of metal halide it would appear.

Wrecker, there are about 20 trees… I hope you find that 20 times as upsetting 😉

Funckydoc, those are chipmunks, you sick b*****d!

Purist, thanks for the info, that’s my lunchtime reading taken care of… 😀

The level of self righteous pomposity on this forum never fails to amaze me. I just want to install some floodlights in my wood for when I’m entertaining – make it look more atmospheric and a safer place for the kids to play…

I want to watch live squirrel porn at night… It helps me achieve “satisfaction”.

Those combi systems look OK, but I have no use for a hedge trimmer. I’m a firm believer in the right tool for the job, so I’m thinking the Honda Stoner mentioned is going to be best for the type of terrain I have.
Thanks for all the input fellas, even you, nicely-trimmed-fannylion… Grrr. 😀

I like the look of that Stoner!! I don’t think it would fit down the paths of my wood though, and most of the open grassy areas are 25° inclines… I don’t fancy tumbling down to the bottom with one of those at full chat!!!

That’s one of the downsides of 2-stroke though Hamish, and having to mix your petrol… Quite like the idea of a quiet 4-stroke…

That looks good Stoner, and it’s available for £285 online which seems good value…

Are the bike-handle type brushcutters a lot better than ordinary strimmers?

I’ve just got one and whilst it’s really good for most things, it lacks the ability to get the pan “pinging” hot like you can with a gas hob for sealing/caramelising certain foods.

My ideal would be a range with 4 induction and a couple of big gas rings for wok etc.

Another vote for Green insurance – most competitive by far, £15k+ of bikes plus camera equipment insured away from home. Really good to deal with.
Plus, paid an extra 51 quid for their homestart cover – covers for sameday callout for plumbers, tree surgeons, electricians etc with no excess.

All very helpful!

Plumber, I like reading anything from fiction to news, the newspaper app will be one of the first on my list.

And obviously Tube8 ;o)

I’ll have a look through those links Z1ppy posted…

Cheers Zippy, I have Wi-Fi in my office, so no problem downloading stuff. Are there any free ebook websites like there are for Kindle users?

OK, so slightly flippant question, I got it because it was no more expensive and I wanted something for mobile browsing at home…

Tis a thing of great beauty… 😀

Wise words indeed Kevevs! I have a tendency to equate the solicitor’s bills to bikes. There’s a nice Pinarello with Zips and Dura-Ace Di2 plus a carbon Blur LT2 with XTR so far!!!

I understand that! And don’t worry, I would be very careful. But is it a tactic that’s likely to get a result, or would it just compromise the case?

I was thinking along the lines of “it’s not about the money, it’s about refusing to pay for such a poor level of service, contradicting the promises in your client care letter etc, jeopardising my home and business premises, and costing me an immeasurable amount of time and stress. I’m fully prepared to fight this in court, but if you’re prepared to apologise and write off the debt, I will consider the matter closed…”

Or am I being an idiot?

Exactly Al, but I’ve just had a look at the SRA website and they won’t investigate poor communication, which is essentially what this case amounts to.

I rejected their offer in this afternoon’s mediation, would it be prejudicial to write to them stating that it’s not a matter of money, and I’ll give them one last chance to write the debt off otherwise I’ll fight it in court?

Just wondering how much it would cost them in fee-earner’s hours to attend court… I’m surprised they’ve not written it off by now.

Don, suspicion is nine-tenths of the law… Or something.

Another point, the format of the consent order changed in the intervening period, rendering the one I’d been given useless. I would have thought my solicitor would have been aware of this and should have taken action to chase it up before it became obsolete.

Thanks Ourman, that’s interesting advice. To be honest, it’s dragged on so long, I don’t want to embark on another expensive and lengthy legal battle – especially over £1500!

But as I said to the mediator, this isn’t about money – it would have been far easier and less costly from a personal POV to pay them off. But I simply can’t write a cheque to them, no matter how reduced. I just couldn’t allow myself to do it on principle!

Going to have a look at that website though, are they helpful in cases like this?

(and no, they didn’t discuss expiry dates and they were well aware that their servers failed between Christmas and New Year when I sent my response)

They admitted that their system went down and lost client emails. I can prove I sent it, they don’t dispute that.

They just came back an offered to halve the outstanding sum. I told them…

“See you in court”

(always wanted to say that)

This is ace, it’s a bit like Deal or No Deal! Just eaten a great big iced bun washed down with a very strong coffee…

Just waiting for that phone to ring… :o)

He kept his hand under the table during our first meeting… Pin-striped perma-tanned unctuous twunt!

It’s quite good fun this!

My argument is that I employed a reputable law firm on the basis that they would “manage” my divorce. That’s what they promised in their client care letter.

Earlier in negotiations, they chased up all unanswered letters within a week (one sometimes needs a bit of a kick up the arse when going through something as stressfull as a divorce).

They didn’t, however, send receipt of delivery letters/emails when I corresponded with them. When you write to a solicitor, they in turn write to the opposing solicitor, who writes to their client, who responds… There might be a bit of back-and-forth between them, then they write back to my solicitor, maybe a bit more to-ing and fro-ing, and then they reply to me. It can take weeks, even months. So when I didn’t hear anything for a few weeks, it didn’t strike me as odd at all.

But if I’d not responded to the single most important letter in 2 year’s of negotiations, why didn’t they chase me up? That’s my argument. Well, bit more complicated… And I suspect he has concealed tattoos… He wore a “pinky ring”. <shudder>

cynic-al – Member

Oh do tell…

OK, potted version, 2 years of expensive to-ing and fro-ing, ex’s solicitors sent a consent order (final settlement) that I basically agreed to barring a bit of minor clarification.

I emailed this to the solicitor and didn’t hear anything back until an estate agent came knocking on the door trying to put my business premises on the market!

My solicitor had ignored/lost my email, the consent order was withdrawn and I was sent back to Square One with a very impatient opponent and no solicitor.

Took me a further 6 months to recover the situation so I withheld about £1.5k payment.

He’s suing me saying I should have chased him up. I’m refusing saying that if he didn’t think I’d replied, he should have chased me up seeing as it was the single most pivotal point in 2 year’s protracted negotiations.

He did admit that they were aware that the systems failed and they lost client emails too.

On the roadsign for Ringway in Preston, someone had drawn a circle round “Ring” and written “OK, now what?”

Bloody styooooooodents.

I just bought a pair of Wharfdale Diamond 10.3 floor standers. I have a pair of 10.1 bookshelf speakers in my office which I love, so I thought the 10.3s would be a good bet for home.

I have to say, the sound quality for <£200 is amazing, noticeable better than the 10.1s for the detail in the bass.

I’m not a fan of lots of bass, but as lilesy says, you pick up every nuance of every instrument, particularly every drum beat at the lower end rather than just hearing a background thud.

Scruff, I’ve built workbenches in the past, but this stuff looks nice and tidy and isn’t expensive at all – plus, it’s orange and “Park Blue” so it matches my tools 😀

I know a man that drowned his wife in their garden pond. Should we demand tighter control of water features?

+1 for the Giant TCR. I love mine, comparable to frames costing much more…

I use them with Conti Gatorskins, no problems fitting the tyres at all.

It’s probably more a case of Schwalbe tyres being a bit snugger than others rather than the rim profile causing probs.

I’ve never been tempted with tubeless, seems an awful lot of faffing for no discernible gain in performance. And the tyre choice is very limited.