Obviously not my type of bike in terms of style of riding ‘type’ but I really like that as a design.

Trekster and I were at Ae cafe bike shop yesterday and I saw the new Trek full suss for the first time. Lush 🙂

Ah but this thread is here to prove you wrong : ) Plenty of pretty mountain bikers out there somewhere I am sure!

No because it’s “a dash” innit bro?

Given fotorat’s inability to post a pic I am not surprised he can only afford a £140 bike if he is a software consultant! 🙂

(Sorry – cheap jibe – apologies)

Maybe if you posted that pic on Mumsnet you would get a better reaction?

Maybe we will have a new generation of kids called / , n@talie and &die?

The winner was the one who googled no doubt! 😳

Ladasha!

I’m watching this tonight on More 4 but there is no nice looking lass, just a v stressed woman doing up a barn and over spending silly money and it’s v v late. I’m stressed out watching it and can’t take much more.

I’m not too sure of the actual rules of this game.

Are you saying her name starts with an l then has any number of letters and ends in an a, or is there just one leter, e.g. lia?

Do you pronounce her name Torres as he is really underscoring right now.

Well this thread has been a real mixed bag but it’s got me through the evening so far of nothing on tv until 9 when I can sit back and enjoy “The Only Way is Essex” Hurrah 🙂

Only counts if there are photos I feel 😮 Although this seems to be more readers’ wives and rides by the shape of it so far! 😯

It’s like I am back at Rock City Nottingham, Thursday night, student night, 1989 all over again in this thread 😀

it’s a “come hither” look.

I hate to shatter your illusions CG but I don’t think youth like that chap in that photo speak like they are out of a Charlotte Bronte or DH Lawrence or a Thomas Hardy novel!

Well that last picture has just killed the thread off in terms of any mojo rising brought about by lucious Kit and his two friends there! 😯

I’m not actually in one but metaphorically speaking I feel that this part of my life is like being in one yes 🙂

Bonnie Tiler if you are Scottish?

Where is he and do you know when the repeat is on? I thought the 2 I have seen have been very funny 🙂

On the contrary, I think they should be compulsory.

I think the idea is that the poor lass wears just the leggins without the shorts, but I could be wrong.

I went out today but I couldn’t find a nice leather studded belt to go with my dull-in-comparison alturas.

Essel

You should have seen where Trekster had me walking in the name of a ‘short cut’.

“I think there is a track over there. Your shoes may get a bit wet!”

Actually it wasn’t too bad really.

Well I did a biggie today with Trekster, so probably Glentrool – to the Stane from the carpark and around the loch, and then finishing with the blue route.

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Ah right – thanks for the warning – I’ll give them a ring tomorrow. Fantastic pic.

Cheers Sanny

I’ll try and find a sunny day to do the route.

Si

Elfin

Have you just been watching HG Wells “The First Men in the Moon?”

While I did quite enjoy this, from an intellectual personal point of view, it was missing four key elements. There were no cognitive psychological explanations, no explanations of consciousness, no mention of hallucinogens, and no historical reference to the great European phenomenologists.

It is interesting showing these illusions, and also interesting looking at brain scans, but the academic truth is that we do not know how the brain processes information in the brain, how we experience these consciously, what this means for science itself which is entirely dependent on consciousness and subjective experience, and how can we account for the grand qualitative transformations of consciousness and the ineffable experiences of natural plant hallucinogens.

That’s my tuppence worth. But hey, I guess it is asking too much of a programme to cover all that lot ay? 🙂

Come on Scotland!!!!!!!!!

Funnily enough I went to London a couple of weekends ago and went to the lock-up where my stuff is. I did remember when going through my CDs “I don’t remember that one” but to be honest I left the CDs there and don’t remember which one it was.

Oh what a hoot.

Ah Oh Queso all’s well that ends well.

OMG if this thread turns into Fred vs AWESOME it could go on for days

i.e. a legend in his own lunchtime vs a legend in his own lunchbox…

😯

I had an email from Professor Max Velmans, author of the book “Understanding Consciousness” today and he said he liked the line in my dissertation defining consciousness as “the tao looking back on itself.” He said that that was the fundamental theme underlying Reflexive Monism that he develops in his book. Well it made me happy 😀

Oh – did you enjoy Mabie with all its new bits?

Just the five photos! I am assuming there are so few photos as you were too busy having a good time riding to stop and take more 😀

I have been pretty gutted, as I live up here but have had a wretched cold for the last week in what has been amazing biking weather. I am thinking I should do Glentrool some time, but also have a shorter ride up around the loch planned too which may be more doable for my levels of fitness. Maybe that and then the green/blue singletrack which I have never ridden.

Glad you had a great time – it is just amazing this time of year up year if the weather is on your side.

It has been remarked on more than one occasion that my karaoke singing may not be all that it is cracked up to be but I keep on getting up on stage and belting em out 😀

I’ve been a couple of times on business. I think Riga is absolutely great and it is not as seedy as its image suggests. There are a few excellent art galleries that had some superb exhibitions when I was there, and there is a huge choice of restaurants with a range of cuisine. I have actually forgotten the name of one of the big Casino’s, but I did pretty well and came third in a poker tournament there, cheesing off some rather dodgy Russian types, but hey ho. That Casino has a great cocktail bar on the top floor of the hotel it is in, and gives a great view of the area.

The thread made me truckle tho!

How Dairy Lea-ve you in the lurch like this!

Brilliant pic storer

I’m watching Horizon too full of cosmologists getting their knickers in a twist telling us how you get something out of nothing.