What about the money lost in 'Icelandic bank accounts' well after it was needed.
Why should I donate? when I see charity directors living like kings.
Governments, bandits etc taking their share after all expenditure is done with, how much is left per pound of donation?

I thought the bike shop at GT was partly run/owned by emma?
Was down there doing TCL stuff with a group.
Emma really gave it all ranting/spouting pish I was stealing her business.

No sympathy from me if her business goes tits up, she's made a bloody fortune out of that place.

Seen a bus clip the side of one of the fibre glass menaces recently, how I laughed at how it disintegrated.

Yes, reminds me of a couple o years back when a lorry did the exact same to a stagecoach bus(oh how I LAUGHED)

I used to 'camp' all the time until I did 'mt Keen circular' a couple o years back.
Was camping in Aboyne, was pissin raining and cold(early August) sat in tent with stove burning to stay warm, drinkin a few beers and feelin shitty.
All I kept thinking about was my mate, (who was on holiday in the lake district at the time) sitting in his caravan cosy, warm, fridge, telly, dry, cold beers, hot coffee/shower etc) sitting wi his feet up loin it.
So bought a cheapo second hander last year and has been the best money I've ever spent on doing stuff outdoors.

but he rarely troubles those that are "great" or close. He's not a Hill/Peat/Minnar/Atherton/Blenkinsop etc, etc and never will be by the looks of things.

But where were the greats today?

Some people are just bad and nothing can help or change them.

Hear, hear.
Atruly insane person will not try to hide their crimes or tell lies.

No, they are charged with upholding Law and Order. You're responsible for your own care. The only time this changes is if it is deemed necessary for the police to intervene for whatever reason, to prevent harm coming to people through unlawful actions or potentially hazardous situations. It's quite complicated. But generally, you're responsible for your own actions etc.The police aren't your personal carers. Only if there is sufficient risk from crime/danger will they be in a situation of responsibility for your safety, but they're not there as your nannies.

So the prison officers are now inmates nannies needing 1-1 24hr personal care?
And anything less than that is neglect?

So the Police have no duty of care to the general public then, unless you're stuck in one of their cells?

What about the 'duty of care' the School Janitor had towards two of the schools pupils?

M'mm, this kinda reminds me of the millions paid out to the 'slopping out' compensation mongerers a couple of years back.

Does this mean,
If I go for a walkabout/night out etc, and some chav/nutter/ned slashes me, I can then sue the Police for failing to protect me within the community?

**** off back to ya buckfast ya great skirt wearing nancy

Tis more like it tazzy, ye sound like a white lightning kinda fellow?

yer 'arrogance' an 'ignorance' is well known throughout the world,
Ye kinda liked by the Welsh, Disliked by the Scots, F'ing detested by the Irish, Spat upon by the French!
S'pose above is irrelevant when ye read first sentence.

Grunty? ye aint no scotsman(sold yer sole pish)
Auch! Get a better bite, waitin doon the burn wi a worm on a size 5 hook.

Where's all the workin class english gone?
Sick o the blue rinse brigaders.

battered the crap outa an engerlishman just cause he asked the time!

David an Goliath ya bass!
haste ye write, tae make ye feel alright.

Ah! more scottish bashing from the engerlish.
The reason Scotland still exists is because half of us are all f'ing mental.
You could never wipe us out, so settled for a flawed union instead.
Still makes me proud to be Scottish when I see the Engerlish prime minister squirm to the yanks and forget his history(how f'ing embarrassing).
Oh OBAMA, OBAMA! IT WAS THEM, NOT US, IT WAS THEM SCOTTISH PEOPLE THAT SET HIM FREE, WE WERE JUST A JUNIOR PARTY TO THEM, SO IT WAS THE SCOTS, NOT US.
(obama) It's o.k David, trade sanctions for Scotland are just around the corner.
(obama) Fancy a scotch on the rocks Dave?
(Dangerous Dave) No, but I fancy throwing rocks at the scots, because they only gave us one measly mp.
But I'll have to just settle for throwing more of the haggis munching brigade on the dole instead(giggles).

Lbs's mostly rely on low end bike stuff, it costs them far more to source quality components than your run of the mill millionaire shops wiggle/crc/evans/merlin etc.
It's similar to taking yer car to halfords/arnold shark/main dealerships to your local garage.
Some independent garages/Lbs's are great/average/poor, find one that suits you, or continue to support the mass buying outfits.

Man, these threads should be 'joined together' and be made available to read on the STW home page.

Brilliant.

Full frontal would have been even better. Just being greedy now.

oops, so good I posted it twice.

Fantastic stuff, much better than I've ever read in any mtb mag/rag.

Good going, epic stuff.

flipiddy – Member

I got Lyme a couple of years back.

Same here, really knocks u for six, knackered all the time, memory loss, weird things happening physically: numbness, arthritis syptoms, bubbling feeling of the blood.
Nhs gave me 2 weeks antibiotics, helped for a bit. Now they more or less don't want to know.
There is a docu-film called under our skin[/url] which gives a good account about how bad this disease is, and how health workers are split over the long term treatment/severity of the disease.

Thanks for the info all, think I'll head for the nevis range and do witches saturday then uplift on sunday.

Football is briliant. For those that don't get it there are billions that do. In it's purest form, as a participation sport, you need very little outlay to get started. You don't need to spend hundreds or thousands to buy fancy specialist equipment. In fact all you have to do to get started is ask 'any chance of a game' if you see 'footballers' at it. Football has no boundaries, if you go to most places in the world football is played no matter of race, religion, height, nationality, wealth, age or sex. It can be played indoors or outdoors and the playing area can be improvised in any available space. It takes fitness, skill, knowledge, practise, courage, dedication and teamwork to progess at it.

The players that make it to the very top level don't need to have came from a privledged background or relied on sponsorship or had the best equipment available to them.

You don't like it fair enough, but billions do for a reason.

Took the words outa my mouth, this thread proves that STW is is full of middle class arrogance/ignorance.
Football is a global sport for both participating and spectating in.
And like it or lump it has always been popular mainly with the working classes.
So I can understand why the STW massive "Don't get it"

whilst taking snaps

FFS ernie, you not stuffed on all the worms?

"Singletrack Police, rise to the bait again shocker"

Ha,ha

Milkie? Sent it into Hope, they will get the hub as good as new for less than £70.
I did this with a 'bulb-hub' 2 years ago as I needed a new ratchet ring pressed in. They also decided I needed new pawls/springs, freehub/body & new bearings.
It cost me £33 for all that, hub is still going minted.

Customer care is ace.

My personal opinion, is that if you knowingly commit murder(except under exceptional circumstances) (yes I know they were only ten), and cause devastation to an innocent family(as these two have). Then you do not deserve the right to a life yourself.

*for all the do-gooders that are amongst the majority on this forum*

Sing to the tune of 'free Nelson Mandela'

freeee-eeeee jon venable-s
After all he's only 27 yrs old, has his whole life ahead of him(so did little james tho) this fella needs more counselling not locked up(again) it did'nt work the first time so why will it work now?

Waits for a barrage of hate mail!

First page of google!

Scotland has one of the highest murder rates in Europe[/url]

Scotland has highest rate of cocaine use in the world, claims United Nations study
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http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/TrendPris

Apology? go poke yersel.

What you have been fooled by is the newspapers drumming up a moral panic about crime.

Yes well I fully expected drivel like that from the likes of you.

As I said look in the mirror, point and remind yourself of the valuable contribution you give to this country.
Me? I'll keep living in the real world.

What about the venomous scum wasting valuable hospital resources who spit, assault, vomit, abuse nurses & doctors in a+e units up and down the country?

Rehabilitate? Why can't we just FUC*ING EDUCATE?
Oh that does'nt always work so rehab it is.(is re-hab not a learning curve anyways?)
Certain people will do atrocious things because they want to, it's stopping it a second time that's the problem.

TJ?

If crime has massively gone down.
Why is it the government(Scottish) is proposing to quash jail sentences of six months or less to ease the burden on overflowing jails.
Oh, and in an age when sentencing is less severe than it used to be.
Why is it that childrens homes/social work departments are bulging full?
Also what about the crime figures? do they include the amount of non reported crimes due to people disillusioned with the legal system?

You typify the majority of middle class persons on this forum.
Look in the mirror, point, and say to yourself(again)my contribution to this country is what makes it so great.

coffeeking wrote:
Parental interest in their kids is IMO possibly the biggest missing factor here, back then if you got into trouble at school you went home to a roasting and a grounding. These days parents of kids in the school go in to complain that their kid got into trouble, totally undermining the teachers and backing the kids up in their error. Its this attitude that leads to future problems.

I could'nt agree more.

Edric 64,

You should'nt have said that.
The singletrack do-gooders will be along to educate/re-habilitate you just shortly.

So what is the problem with letting immigrants flourish? Or is that another one of your "ideas"?

No problem with them flourishing legally,it's the illegal stuff I was referring to and have a problem with.
But you probably think we have a first class legal system that takes care of them just as well.

Yes al_f, no idea.
Wish I could always jump to fast conclusions like your good self.

I would only have the solution if I ruled the country, but I don't so my thoughts on the solution are meaningless here.

AL_F
and the like minded, the country loves ya.

FFS, it's time to get on with your own life everybody, the do-gooder has won.
We've allowed a drug culture to flourish, we've allowed junkies to breed like wildwire, we've allowed our police farce to spend most of their time doing paperwork, we've allowed thugs/dealers/human traffickers/paedophilia/immigrants to excel.

And if they get the Jail?
We've allowed jails to become social gatherings for future projects(whilst not playing ds, ps, wii, telly, ipods, ect.)

What are the powers that be doing about it?
still filling their own pockets cause none of it directly affects them.
This country is F*cked because most of us are a selfish lot.

It's the age of the greedy robbing the needy.
Nowt u can do about it.
Unfortunately the majority of this country are driven by wealth/greed, me? I'm happy to just be here still having happy days.
It's all corporate presets.
People who think voting conservative will change it for the better, are deluded (Or any other political monkeys for that matter).

I personally know 4 charity directors who've come from middle class houses to now living in mansions, sums this country up.

'Blower'

I hav'nt used it much for action shots( has a sports mode with AF tracking options) used it against flying sea-king very good, bought it seeing review at mtbr, here[/url]