I recently confessed the truth and we’re done. Ironically I lied as I was afraid to lose her. Now what I hate most is how much I’ve hurt her

What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive, however it all seems a little trivial to break up an 8 month relationship?

Oh, and…..

Portugal or southern Spain should be both accessible and pleasant weather-wise?

Chicken wings coated with Buffalo sauce.

Show them respect, treat them with dignity, welcome them as you would hope to be welcomed and yes, you’ll still get the odd whack job, but you’ll have a whole lot more people on your side

The odd whack job, well then if its only the odd one I think we would all be cool with that.

I suspect not taking a chance and actually making efforts to have an efficient and fair vetting procedure would properly be a better options, plus an effective way to remove those not deemed to be refugees would make get even more people on your side.

There are a couple of issues here, one is the perception on the number of actual immigrants/refugees entering Europe and also that that those who are not real refugees are somehow circumventing the law and staying and not being deported.
I suspect the 2nd issue is something that needs to be remedied for the first to be removed as a concern.

Sadly politics needs this problem not to be solved as the left and right feed of it.

Despite breaking my collarbone on June 1st, for this year to date:

Activity count: 101
Total dist: 2,400 km
Total elev: 63,838 m (disregard as this counts van assisted rides)
Total time: 197:22:36
Max dist: 66 km
Max elev: 2,556 m
Max time: 06:15:44

KOMs: 2
2nd places: 3
3rd places: 1
Top 5s: 15
Top 10s: 21
Top 25s: 47

Middle aged men at the wheel of a people carrier on the motorway….you can almost smell their anger and frustration at the situation.

The notion that you can somehow protect all these public spaces from a nutcase in a runaway articulated lorry is, quite frankly, absurd

You can try, bollards and barriers built into the design of the area would help. To simply accept huge risk to public safety without trying to minimise it would itself be absurd.

23 and living for the weekend, hardly shocking, I’m sure most of us were like that and it most cases it also involved recreational drugs on top of the booze.
He has a mortgage and is debt free, in the next few years he will probably have a few relationships, meet new friends and change his social circle as he gets to 30 and indeed existing friends drop by the wayside. Isn’t that what most people do?

I’m sure he actually said “Brian First, this is for Brian”

Maybe, but why “Death to trousers”?

I’m sensing some kind of Scottish Nationalism.

a dog is not just for Christmas

I have some Korean recipes that can stretch it out to the new year.

IGMC

Location: Hong Kong
Winter: Apparently

Based on the locals are wearing we are in the middle of a permafrost, otherwise its usually a pleasant 20 plus degrees or so, or riding season as we call it.

We should still help refugees

Id be struggling to think of anyone against helping refugees, it just appears that Merkals open door policy exacerbated the situation and allowed a good deed to be taken advantage off.
It also didn’t help that when she had realised what she had done she then tried to foist them on neighbouring countries!
Process the refugees near the borders of Syria, then allocate them to safe host countries.
You now have a lot of refugees mixed in with more good old fashioned economic migrants taking advantage of the situation, living in subpar accommodation and now being viewed very suspiciously by the local population, something that will lead to more of these attacks as everyone becomes more disillusioned with the status quo.
Its a horrible vicious circle with frankly no easy fix.

Puts rose tinted glasses on and looks nostalgically back to the IRA years in so much as at least they usually gave a warning and had a political leaning that was not all ‘death to the infidel’.

My uncle used to say “you either buy a 10 pound watch or a 10,000 pound watch, there is no in-between”.

Interestingly, he never owned a watch.

Franz Ferdinand all over again. Although I desperately hope not

That 2nd album was bad but not that bad.

Turkey is on the cusp of becoming a hardline theocracy in the shape of Iran, we have already seen a failed coup to try to arrest that (ala Egypt recently), its going to get worse, they have a lot of capable military and are close to Europe.

And we thought 2016 was bad.

I’m incredibly lazy, if my lBS could be paid to ride my bike I would probably pay.

Are Christmas gifts actually just pollutions of the status Quo?

That’s what I thought after I got old enough to start being fussy about the gifts.

Front: Maxxis Minion DHF 27.5 x 2.5 WT TR
Back: Maxxis Minion DHRII 27.5 x2.4 WT TR

Running on IBIS 741 rims.

Saw this Saturday night at a local IMAX cinema, thoroughly enjoyed it, possibly up there after Empire and maybe slightly ahead of A New Hope.
I think they did a good job of giving us something new but including enough references to ensure that you knew it was part of the Star Wars cannon.
CGI Tarkin and Leia wasn’t an issue to me either but the most jarring bit I found was Vadars Schwarzeneggers throw away choking line, bit strange really.
Highlights, Vadar and a corridor full of rebels, seeing some in-house Empire politics (bit like real work) and the space battle above Scarif.
Good rollicking fun.

New bike lovin on Friday afternoon though these fellas were not that bothered….

Followed by more of it today.

Just got mine, and at 5’9″ I opted for a Medium and it seems spot on for me. As noted above I have short legs and arms (30″ inseam) so that may make a difference.
50km in and loving it.

@geetee1972 Thanks for a little background on that.

On a serious note, this one always stays etched with me, I guess its what I know of the time (the great depression) but also what I do not know, what is she thinking, why are the kids hiding their faces?

I like Boobies.

Looking forward to seeing Peter Cushing again, do you thing they CGied his slippers?

Lusted after one of these as a kid, sadly got the Halfords version 🙁

Am getting one of these this year, in fact tomorrow 🙂 Yay Santa!

David Bowie for sure

Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze

Agree, great film and soon to be remade with The Rock playing Doc Savage.

Quantum of Solace is one of the best Bond films ever made, its relevant (water supply), has great action scenes right from the get-go, nice locations and generally runs along at a good pace.
Much better that the two overblown films that followed.

Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, good film bar the stupid amphitheatre bit at the end.

I’m a dead ringer for Alexis Sayles Benito Mussolini (that’s two for one) or a fat Jason Statham.

The Thin Red Line or anything by Terrence Malick (pretentious [rudeness])
Any Richard Curtis Film but lets say Love Actually
Chariots of Fire

Just spent some time in Dubai riding with a friend who lives out there, spent a day at the Hatta MTB Park then camped out in Showka for a day and a half running around the whadis and hills.
Its a tadge rocky and XC for my liking but still a nice experience.

Video, also responsible for killing the radio star

Did a pleasant 44km loop around Lantua and may have done the last 10 under after a few beers.
Relive Video
Even managed to bag a KOM but I fear that’s lasted all of Sunday before being bested this afternoon.

Im going out for a Chinese with the outlaws

Likewise, but my outlaws will also be Chinese.

Gmbn for me

+1

According to this article, the Dexys incident wasn’t a mistake.

That makes it funnier for me.
Spinal Tap is great, but this always cracks me up (alongside the Stone Henge scene):

Cracked 3 LB rims in a 6 month period, 650b AM rims, 90kg rider who likes to plough through rock gardens. Gone back to alloy.