A Gusset Hound?

I've sometimes found that CDs that don't play well on a CD player can still be ripped OK on your computer, perhaps see if you can rip it and burn a new copy.

So do you now have to re-invoice everyone you've billed for the last 3 years? How many of them do you want to work with again? 🙂

Is it something you have, to do in the HMRC are compelling you to collect vat from everyone retrospectively? or something you're now entitled to do so you're thinking why not?

For any clients that are VAT registered its ultimately no big deal, but its going to be a lot of fannying about for them, depending on how they are set up to account for VAT. They're not going to love you for it.

I think they'd at least hope for a bit of warning. Arguably its all reclaimable by them if they to are VAT registered, but its still a cash flow issue for them if it is indeed loads of money.

How did you arrive in a situation like that?

All the disadvantages of a horse without the sole advantage of being able to eat it

it's asking for trouble.

Its a WCA thread

I think you'll find it's trouble who is asking.

I remember when I did my first aid badge as a cub scout one of the things on our checklist for a first aid kit as a 2p coin. Somehow I never grasped the point of the coin was for making a phone call, and until quite recently I imagined there must be some sort of esoteric and archaic first aid procedure that required a small grubby disk of copper.

skidartist – i hope you reported the dog and the owner to the relevant authorities and the appropriate action was taken with the dog. if the owner has to carry round a first aid kit to patch up his dog's victims then there's something very wrong.

It was in the vicinity of the owners house, so they took me in and helped me get sorted out. My point (that I obviously made badly) was the dressings they happened to have were ideal and made the difference between turning back early and carrying on and having a pretty blinkin marvelous day out. I could easily have inflicted similar injuries on a ride without the dogs help and thats what made me realise how useful some decent dressings would be, as in not good-enough dressings to limp home in, but really good dressings so you can go round again.

The owners were really shaken by the whole thing, I haven't reported them although they were clear that I would be perfectly right to. But given their reaction to the event I'm confident that anything that might be achieved by making a report has already been achieved. If I had doubts I would, but on this occasion I'll use my discretion not to.

The hospitality can be a rouse. I drove from Glasgow to Boston to collect a big piece woodworking machinery with an agreed ETA of 'around lunchtime'

When I arrived with my cash, another ebayer turned up with a camera to sell. The guy buying/selling was only allowed (by his wife) to buy things on the ebay with the proceeds of things he sold.

He wanted the guy with the camera to end his auction early, so when we both arrived lunch was laid on and my ready cash was supposed to be inducement for the guy with the camera to fold and accept an offer of… exactly the amount I'd bid for the saw.

Except he wouldn't, so over the duration of the lunch our host tried to haggle the camera down anyway he could, and also tried to sell me anything in his house that wasn't bolted down -Do you need a sofa? No. A DVD player? No. A Hedge Trimmer? no. An invalid carriage with a dead battery? No. A half tonne, 3 Phase commercial washing machine? No.

It was a long lunch.

well they're nice. If you only want cheap look elsewhere (anywhere).

cheap cards are ten a penny.

(see what I did there)

What do you think teeth are for?

For biting on the stick

Do something nicer

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Also a miniature of single malt

also a stick to bite on and a hacksaw

if it's serious enough that i can't MTFU, with no first aid kit, and get home then it's too serious for me to know how to treat it.

But if its not that serious you can dress it and carry on and enjoy your ride rather than head home. Got chomped quite nastily by a dog at the weekend, was able to get it cleaned and dressed and mud proof straight away and get on and enjoy the rest of my sunday. I didn't have any kit with me but conveniently the dog owner did. I could make a bigger mess of myself without the help of a dog so a kit is going to be assembled and in with the tool kit from now on. Its funny I wouldn't ride more than a mile without sufficient tools to mend the bike and yet its always seemed OTT to carry plasters. In this instance really good ones saved a valuable riding day.

Not something you'll find all that easily in small amounts. As a cheat I've used laminate flooring in the past.

An option might be to try the sick furniture corner in Ikea, the bit near the checkout where you can buy shop-soiled and ex display stuff. Sometimes they have bundles of assorted boards and panels and you might find something that works for you there.

As a google, the term you might be looking for is 'paper overlay' for that grain effect, I sourced some Oak Paper Overlay ply for a job but the supplier would only either sell me all their stock – 85 sheets – or non at all, so I went with the laminate floor bodge as above, which worked fine for my purposes.

I'm pretty sure the gravity also causes them to overheat, which may cause temporary swelling

Thats why the sun goes all red at the horizon then – cos its hot, then gets paler as it rises and cools down.

I keep meaning to go to the horizon to see if I'll get bigger too. Tried once, but it turns out its quite a bit further away than I'd expected.

Aye – James Earl Boggins* Jones, was the voice not the actor, but I think he's also uncredited in either role. Strictly speaking -if theres no credit then he didn't do it.

Anyway its obviously not Jones, if it was Starwars would have sounded like this

*Yes really

How are we defining posh – money? manners? lineage? or do we mean folk who get out of the bath to have a wee?

I can't imagine Jesus is going to be carrying an IPAD when he comes back

Jesus goes to your school? Can't someone at least share their iPad with him?

Child birth.
Followed by the birth of horses, calf, sheep, pigs, rabbits, etc.

Busy night for the midwife!

Burn some Korans Kerrangs in their garden.

No one told me STW was inhabited by a race of nuclear super-mutantly tall inbred/456 riders

We prefer the the term 'Adult Sized'

(6'6" Inbred rider)

In my student days – stir frying left over lasagna as a breakfast sandwich filling.

More recently ham, gruyere, banana and creme freiche fried eggybread sandwiches. So good I usually end up eating it standing in front of the cooker straight out of the pan.

With the canelinni / pinto / chickpeas they have a fairly neutral flavour so anything you might put in pasta (pesto for instance), or couscous (or potatos or anything) will work just as well with them

Look at couscous recipes such as tabbouleh – parsley/mint/lemon juice/spring onion – or red onion/chilli pepper/parsley/lime – just chop everything up and stir in at when the beans are cooked.

Or Couscous Nicoise – anchovies, toms, black olives, parsley , corriander, lemon, garlic and olive oil

Maybe look up recipes for hummous or fallafal, but don't bother to actually make them – just use the flavours and stir them into the beans. Falafel is garlic,coriander, cumin,onion and parsley.

EDIT -and if its just a side dish for something else and just needs a little help – Tamari Soy Sauce will work small wonders with the beans (not tried it with chickpeas)

If he doesn't know what the going rate is tell him you've consulted widely and anything more than tuppence ha'penny a quarter is daylight robbery.

If you are feeling extravagant
Auchinleck House

Any other side effects I should be looking out for?

Yes, you'll run out of anecdotes. To paraphrase Jim Jefferies, non-drinkers stories all end the same way; "…..and then I got home."

Upbeat? From this bunch of miserables? You will be lucky!

I'm Happy, and I'll……..

Book burning seems like a lot of bother, got to find a Koran for starters, I've just run out of matches….. Can't I just delete something on my Kindle?

Couldn't Pastor Terry Jones just start a facebook group? its a much more convenient way of expressing some sort of outrage about something or other and the BBC are just as likely to report on it, so it'd be win win.

The only thing remarkable about the story is the Pastor Terry Jones's church barely has a congregation, yet his unpleasantness gets a global audience and will be seen in foreign fields as in someway typical of the American population. Much in the same way of a rent-a-crowd always seem to have a flag to hand (who sells them) in Afganistan whenever a news crew happens to turn up. And we a left to assume that level of irrational hatred is just day to day there.

Not that CNN would hire local extras and hand them props for a news item, ohh no, that doesn't happen ever.

have a trawl on ebay, lots to choose from, most are selling pretty much the same thing.

pick through the wording quite carefully, make sure that the battery is actually made up of new cells, seemingly some can be made up of salvaged cells from old packs.

A thorough trawl can turn up batteries that have a few more amp/hours than standard(5200mAh instead of 4800mah) and are pretty much the same price. I got mine from a seller call BT-flash (chinese seller but shipping from a uk warehouse) works fine although my one is slightly out of shape and doesn't fit as neatly as it should.

'Made in' is a pretty vague term. The 'made in' badge relates to the country where a certain proportion of a products value is added (40% from hazy memory).

So if you get some chinese mined, chinese processed steel, made into nuts, bolts, sheets and tubes in china then you bolt something together with them, then in the uk then your product is 'Made in the UK'

With a bike for instance if you have every single one of the components manufactured in the far east, but have the wheels laced together in the uk (from tiwanese hubs, spokes, rims and nipples), then at a certain price point, that adds sufficient value to slap a 'made in the uk' on the whole bike.

To the consumer it doesn't matter where something is made, the brand's job is to match the product to the consumer's expectations, so that what we get matches out tastes and requirement, thats all buying to a brand is. That brand also needs to have sufficient oversight to make sure that what arrives in the container is what they asked for.

The people I know who've gotten into trouble with their diabetes (often, rather than the occasional misfortune or oversight on food or medication) have done so simply because they've gotten bored with the rigor needed in terms of eating and medicating. They get resentful of it all and let things go wrong almost as a way of having time off from being continually observant.

If she's managed to stay on top of the condition in the past then maybe your partner's sister simply needs cheering up or motivating. If thats not the case then maybe there is a clash between her work/circumstances/ lifestyle and the action she needs to take to manage her condition

Practical and stylish.

Who'd have thought Godwins Law would have been invoked so early in a thread about young ladies' trousers.

Great pic though, I always had my doubts about Charles Hawtrey.

Don't over-compensate for lack of sleep with coffee, use it as a jump start in the morning, but cut out tea and coffee in the afternoon and evening. If you are having trouble sleeping get up and do something distracting rather than lay in bed fretting about it. Going back to bed again an hour later is better than just lying there annoyed. Read a book or annoy the internet, but be careful no to do anything too interesting.

Also keep to the same wakeup / get up time at the weekends. If you usually have to get up at 6 on a weekday do the same at weekends, regardless of whether you've gone to bed later. You can lounge around once you're up, just be up. Otherwise your body spends the week feeling like it got up too early

Ton?

Barry White?

is their second albumen any good?

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I thought it was illegal to re-employ somebody made redundant ?

don't think so, its against the rules to make someone redundant then fill that vacated post with someone else, redundant means the post goes not the person – thats just the sack. If you want to re-recruit for that role I think you need to give first refusal to the person you gave the heave-ho to..

I actually encouraged an employer to make me redundant, so my post was secure until I told my board not to factor me in to any future developments.

EDIT – no regrets, I've never met anyone who didn't find being made redundant ultimately kick started something more rewarding.

any bigger and they don't fit through the pelvic aperture. Its natures compromise you see.

But with teeth they could make their own exit, a la Alien.

I sppose we'd all be an only child that way, but as an up side look at how much we'd all save on mothers day cards

What if the pool is on a conveyor belt?

I think the electric shocks would skew the results somewhat