Sounds like she is more than happy to excercise her inner chav. I would just refund to get her out of my life. You could well be ‘right’ about everything, but it won’t stop a tosser like her from potentially bringing hassle to your door. Depends how much you need that £200?

Alternatively, if she has a husband/ partner then go round and slap him for running a loose house. Or if she is single, find the ex and slap him around for being a quitter.

Always check which thread you’re posting in!!

A massive fart, I can feel the wind making my shoulders ache.

– sleep more.

– never leave for work ‘with one in the barrel’.

What have the builders said? Are they going through their insurance or looking to pay you as goodwill?

I think njee lays out your options or issues very clearly….

At least we know where smell_it’s username comes from now.

:lol: I had already had one dirty sausage that day! I must admit I didn’t hang around long enough to inspect his knob hygiene standards.

When I was about 15 following a dodgy hot dog van lunch I was sat in a public loo crimping one off. There were a few holes in the wooden loo wall, and after hearing someone enter the next cubicle, a few moments later the entrant shoved his angry todger through one of the aforementioned hole’s. Luckily I had just finished the wiping, so whilst a little freaked, I just departed the loo and never looked back. After all, I’d already eaten.

Apparently she was pissed off because I’d ignored her a couple of weeks before and copped off with her friend

Occupational hazards of just being too damn hot, bro.

Have you ever made a sexual advance that you subsequently found out was unwanted?

I have had several turned down over the years. But these are verbal advances, I think any physical contact without getting permission is a bit 1970’s.

And if you have (assuiming you did the right thing and stop immediately)

Since for me it just involves accepting a verbal ‘no’, there isn’t much to stop. I don’t then feel a prolonged period of unwanted courting/ stalking will change the response.

do you retrospectively feel that that constituted either harassment or abuse?

No, as I just accepted an answer. But I do think if you have just initiated some unwanted physical advance without permission then yes it could be seen as harassment or abuse.

I always think asking is the best way to understand if another party is consenting.

Top guys, friendly and knowledgeable on the phone. I only use them for the obscure stuff, so can live with the price no always being ‘discount’. Often wondered how long they will last, but they keep on rolling.

The e-bike threads certainly seem to keep pulling in a crowd of regulars both for and against. Same as the the 1x and wheel size threads of old. I would think if everyone that has contributed to multiple e-bike threads, thought ‘You know what, I’m just going to let this one go’, these threads wouldn’t be the multi page throbber fest’s that they are now.

Potato klub with some bacon fat.
Some dark larger of good strength.
Some euro pop on the radio.

I don’t get drunk much at all, though I do like it occasionally. But I do like getting just a wee bit loose.

If only I had condensed my post to this :oops: but I am at present a bit loose.

If I wanted to drink something and drive later i’d probably drink water, or pop

This ^ or try and employ a different mode of transport. I love the taste of good beers and enjoy the effects of alcohol. I think drinking alcohol free beer could put confusion in my brain that these two wonderful things didn’t always come together. But takes all sorts.

you’re a wannabe roadman.

A calling I can only aspire to at my age. But I believe I is looking well peng 8)

For me it’s a bag that has both function and is also worn as a fashion accessory, by a man. I have a couple of different sizes and styles. If I had a bag solely for carrying a laptop etc, that didn’t show any consideration to how it looks then that would be just a laptop bag.

For the record, I have an unhealthy interest in looking smart, and I’m on a train so I’m happy to discuss something so boring at length.

I have a rather nice tan distressed leather satchel today, and inside;
iPad
Notebook (paper type)
Pencil and pens
Drawings for a flat I’m sorting
Tape measure
Bank card
Bottle of water
Mints
Paracetamol
Sunglasses
Cash
Keys
Hip flask (I’m a trains, planes, buses and taxis man)

Phone is in my hand :-)

Never, and whilst I enjoy a pierced wild haired bearded gent with facial tattoos as much as the next man, when I see a more everyday Joe sporting any type of piercing I just cringe.

Seems plenty of them in Manchester and Sheffield where I currently seem to be spending most of my time. My general observations are they tend to be estates kids or from the less glamorous area’s. It doesn’t seem to be a fashion that’s hitting the more middle class. I find it a very confusing mix of influences for a fashion, but it’s certainly got an anti-establishment draw for those disenfranchised teens. This generations ‘hoody’ I guess.

For the record I am all in favour of manbags, and I’m an active user. I think they can set off an outfit nicely, but maybe not as used above.

The Fat Cat[/url] cooked by your Nan style homely dinners for a fiver, with school dinner style puddings, all served with lashings of extremely good beer. I guess a lot of this depends on your definition of brilliant, but it’s in their for me.

And of course This and That.

And the palace of breakfast which is the Cafe Delight.

3 months!!! You must be dead inside.

I have a flat up near Angel, and have always enjoyed the totally fuss free Angela Curry Centre[/url]. If you want cheap, cheerful and a bit quiet, it’s grand. But I have recently had my head turned by the Delhi Grill[/url]. Directly across you can get some fine ale at the Alma.[/url]

Energy products destroy my digestive system.

I can’t even remember how old my road morph is, but I consider it the finest MTB/ trail pump I have ever owned. The little clippy bit has long since fell off a the useless gauge doesn’t even move anymore, a bit it still pumps tires up a treat. If mine died, I would just get another.

Another 5’9.5 here of average proportions, on a 54cm caad12 with a 20mm layback seatpost, and slammed 110mm stem. Feels like it was built for me.

Rock solid, finish the ride. Respect, hard earned.

Northwind – must just be me being thick, I agreed with your point but was confused with the examples you originally used. But apologies if I didn’t get your intended point.

Not really because I was posting those to counter the 2 choices (ride an e-bike or ride a proper bike) model

You originally posted that you knew 3 riders who choose e-bikes but would not have chosen proper bike’s. So essentially choose A or B. And then subsequently introduced person 4 who choose an e-bikes to ride further and faster than they did their proper bike. So not having to choose A or B, thus supporting your point, it’s not an A or B decision. Almost like you reviewed your original post and realised the first three people had made an A or B choice, so person 4 was remembered. Either way, I agree it’s not just a choice or e-bikes or proper bike.

Even with a GPS telling me my own current speed, I don’t think I could make any accurate assessment of another rider’s speed. It would be a guess.

Edit – missed your second version of that post. Adding in that 4th person helped your point. 3 people choosing e-bikes who wouldn’t choose a proper bike, did support the two choices model.

As an aside, I can fully get with the further aspect of e-bikes, but I’m not sure I would get any personal reward from riding a power assisted bike faster than a proper bike.

couldn’t understand why he was allowed to start?

I guess, as a sportive and not a race, there is no competitive advantage. Makes it easier for the individual, but shouldn’t fuss anyone else unless you are one of those secret sportive racers who would get cross because some of the other riders were quicker than them. He had a participant number, not a race number.

I guess, I do see e-bikes as a thing on their own and not cycling as I think of it, but in a sportive who cares.

I guess it depends on your local terrain. I love road biking and I love the odd mountain bike ride. CX makes sense to me taking elements of both of those things I love, but for me combines them in to something far shitter. I raced cx through my 20’s for winter training, so have had a real stab at both that and using it for my mtb rides, but just wasn’t my bag.

There’s a culture online (and it’s very common on this forum) to brand anyone who disagrees with a generally right leaning political viewpoint as being a weak liberal or easily offended and not a proper bloke.

Guess it depends what bits you read and get vexed about. If you can understand it’s just internet forums, then it all makes sense and less steam blows from your ears.

It’s not something I could get too excited or stressed about personally for fancy dress. Real Nazi’s or extremists of any flavour trouble me more.

The fancy dress side strikes me more it’s an excercise for the thick and simple. You would get away with it some places, but not others. I saw on Facebook an old school friend and his mate’s all blacked up and dressed as Ruud Gullit for an 80’s Weekender thing at Skegness Butlin’s. Seems that was so hilarious, they tried the same thing on a weekend in London, and after some bother heeded the Police warning to head back to their hotel and change. We went to school in a small very white town, and said friends hero at school was Ruud. I still remember him walking around in the Dutch kit, so I doubt he did it with any racist intent. But he is thick and simple, and his friends seemed similar.

I didn’t get made redundant but I did 10 years as a mental health nurse assessing people that self harmed or tried to take their own lives. I loved it to be fair.
But also whilst doing this I was left a bit of cash by my gran and started investing in properties, houses, shop’s, factory units..’owt you could lease or rent really. That grew to a level that I didn’t need to be nursing, so sent my card back. I also have investments in a few businesses which has added some interest to things. It may sound odd but the nursing made me feel part of something bigger? but overall I have a far better lifestyle and most things I now do are by choice. So all good

I’m struggling to get too excited by this.

‘Are you sure it’s lighter than the South Korean team bike?’

Purple ano and yellow crud, brake booster and rim’s. So much going on for so little effect, I approve.

I admire the endeavour, and the ambition to save money on toothpaste :wink:

What’s the tyre clearance like none disc side?

I mainly race, but probably do a couple of sportives a year because people ask me if I’ll come along. Some have less appeal than others, the UK ones for me are just social ride’s with mates really, usually followed by a night out somewhere which is all good in my book.

I enjoy some of the foreign one’s a bit more; I did the gran fondo stelvio santini back in June and enjoyed that, had about 5 days out there and did other rides on other day’s. I enjoy a couple of the Norwegian sportives most year’s as I have family out there so ride/ visit them.

I know I could save a bit of money by not doing them and just riding, but the money is no fuss and there is a social element to them I like, that is different to that of training/ racing. I can’t understand why folk get so **** about them, but i guess it’s the same folk that don’t get X, where X equals any hobby anyone else does that someone wants to patronise for some insecurity or another.