Chips and curry sauce

Being a landlord myself, I am surprised no one has mentioned the many insurance policies out there that can be bought to cover tenants missing payments (yes, not read it all)?
As with any investment there is risk, though I rent due to the fact I left the UK and there’s no sense in selling due to the poor equity, so landlords should mitigate this risk by taking the relevant precautions, landlord payment protection is one of the those, heck, you can even get the tenant to pay this if required.
Renting is no different from providing any other service, I provide accommodation with all the amenities and in the condition advertised, I expect my tenants to pay as per the agreed contract, its no different from you not paying for a builder or plumber for their work.
The insurance policy is there to make sure that if the tenant is not able then this can be resolved, just like I pay housing insurance to insure that my tenant can be housed if something was to happen to my house structural, it is my legal (and I would say moral) obligation since they are paying me for services.

That’s a strawman argument
The Israelis did it
Whatever I’m riding/wearing

Going somewhere were no other visitor has been before, maybe deep in the Amazon or somewhere up in the Hindu Kush, old school Victorian explorer stuff.
Follow the old spice trail from China to Europe on a camel.
Visit Bedlam, just to see if its any different from the average town center on a Friday night?
Visit Bethlehem around Christmas, 0BC and see if any of the story is correct.
Go to a speak easy club in the 30s.

I knew I had to quit when I found VHS recordings of their act harder to find and started desperate late night eBay sessions trying to buy original copies of their scripts. Luckily with the support of friends and family I was bought back from the edge and now live a productive life, however I am always careful, knowing it only takes an accidental Christmas viewing of Miranda or My Family to slip back into this fetid, pit of comedy hell.

I once accidentally watched their film ‘Boys in blue’ while a teenager and quickly became addicted to their non-edgy wholesome family act, I soon found it wasn’t long before light entertainment just wasn’t enough and I progressed to Variety and ‘end of the pier’ comedy acts to satisfy my sick cravings, stop this filth now.

I think I may be tempted to add more turquoise…

..not enough showing

So, after 4 pages have any Muslim folk chipped in to defeat this xenophobic nonsense?

I like the patience of the guy in JY’s video, he didn’t rush in, just let the guy showboat and just waited, waited…and then bam.
I would have rushed over and headbutted him in the balls when he was doing the one handed handstand ;)

Tend to keep my personal ones for 3-4 years and usually just replace them if something cheap and reasonable comes along, work laptops every 12-16 months though.
As a rule I try to rebuild mine every 12 months i.e. full re-installation of the OS, then slowly and surely start to re-install software as I need it over the next 12 months, then repeat until I get a new one.

Has anybody noticed how this Alex Jones chap seems a little too well informed, almost as if he is involved at high level (fans the flames and leaves in my black helicopter)?

Attack is the best form of defense and you cant blame the Israelis, if history has taught them anything its don’t rely on others to protect you.
If my neighbors where Hamas, Hezbollah, Muslim Brotherhood and some of the groups that make up the Syrian rebels I would be a little jumpy too.

I’m not a misogynist, I’m all for the women’s movement.

I hate it when they just lie there!

IGMC

Peter never had any regrets in his life. I never heard him voice any regrets. He didn’t regret the fact that he lost his early facility, he didn’t regret the fact that he lost his looks, which he did quite spectacularly, he didn’t regret the fact that Dudley had gone on to fame and fortune in Hollywood. The only regret he regularly voiced was that, at the house we all shared in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1963, he’d saved David Frost from drowning.

Alan Bennett, in a documentary, Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook

I don’t understand why Israel would want to destabilise Syria, they were about to start negotiations regarding the Golan heights and that borders been very stable since 73, why would they want some Saudi sponsored nutters as neighbours instead of the very stable regime (like Jordan and Mubaraks Egypt).

Hear horror story’s all the time from the wife, family and people I work with, at first I thought it was just the Hongoness making up story’s about the mainlanders but the more time I spend out here, and see the behavior of the Chinese first hand (fake eggs and Apple stores are just the tip of the iceberg), I sadly can believe it.
My understanding is the police have reported that the corneas have been found but this is just cover to distract attention from a potential organ harvesting story breaking.

have you seen how much cash Apple has

Understand, but in theory digital content can last forever unlike books and CD’s etc but there’s lots of big companies no longer around, like IG Farban, Atari, DAF, Equitable Life, Polaroid Eric (thanks Wikipedia), in fact I would struggle to come up with a name of a company at the top of their game for 50 years is.
As far as I know there is no ‘shelf life’ on a digital purchase like other consumables, so what if Apple was to go bankrupt in 50 years time?

Well, if I enjoy them through the traditional method online (cough) I like to pay, after all if its good (like Breaking bad or the Sopranos) you’d want more made, takes money though.

No holiday in Hong Kong, its only for you capitalists.

must get on with stuff…

Ran downstairs, grabbed the nearest sword, raised the portcullis and burst out into the street

There, fixed.

Yes Scott, but I still find it odd as the tried and trusted mace would be a far better weapon against close knit groups of multiple combatants, in your average suburban street.
I live and learn I guess.

Sorry, am I the only one who finds it a bit odd that people keep swords in their houses?

Only two, my old Gary Fisher Tassajero and my current Yeti SB66c, hope to keep it for long enough for 26″ to come back into favor.

Joey, have you ever been in a… in a Turkish prison?

Staring out of my lounge window at the airport now, give us a wave!

My office overlooks the old runway, its being turned into a cruise liner terminal now.

Would have loved to have had a chance to land in the old airport, though in fairness the new airport is really good.

its only fair to mention that the middle east was also the birthplace of… farming, writing, metullurgy, mathematics, science, cities, animal breeding etc etc

Is that actually true, I doubt all of them?

Tried a coill but I found it made climbing hard work and just couldn’t get on with it (Push Industries RC4), have since replaced a Float BV with one of the new Float X CTD and enjoying it.
Light enough, easy to set up and a pleasure to peddle.

Sorry, not read all the thread but:

A Prophet – One of the best foreign films I have seen in the last few years, incredible.

Margin Call – A take on the 2008 crash, not sure how accurate it is but a great script and cast.

And of course Bubba Ho Tep, if you have not seen this you really haven’t seen the best Elvis/Zombie mash up film ever!

Why would the west want to stop this, the longer it goes on the more fanatics die that would otherwise be targeting western/US interests (Al Qaeda one one side, Hezbollah on the other).
The Russian and Chinese also don’t want an end because its there weapons being used by most of the warring parties and hey, it just doesn’t affect them at home and although they may not get cash at the moment I am sure they are making deals to get paid some how.
Lets not also forget that Russia has its big Mediterranean navy base there and is in no mood to loose that, whilst the NATO allies would no doubt like it gone (it would probably just go to Cyprus anyway!).
I feel sorry for the vast majority of Syrians who I expect don’t want anything to to do with this bollox.

Got married in Hong Kong, simple registration and then off to a reception. We were lucky we could do that due to the feng shui, sometimes you have the registry bit and then have to wait for an appropriate time to have the reception.
Did my vows in Cantonese (wife is a local) and went through all the traditional customs such as the tea sipping ceremony and collecting the red pocket money from guests, managed to lever in one UK tradition by getting absolutely smashed at the end!
Due to the Icelandic volcano none of my UK family or guests could get there (this was two days after) and for me to get there did involve some expensive logistics as I flew the same day as the volcano struck, this kind of made it even more memorable.

Knee-pad wise I use the G Forms for lite trail stuff (with climbing) and MT500’s for when it will be a bit more ‘tasty’ although to be fair to the MT500’s I find I can wear them all day without too much trouble.

I actually prefer the G Form elbow pads to the MT500 ones so tend to wear these all the time, from trail rides to even DH park trips. Have crashed a few times and they seem to have held up well.

I ride in high humidity, were you will be covered in sweat from about 10 minutes into any ride and both G Form and MT500 still feel comfortable after a few hours riding.

Managed to avoid the thunderstorms and get some local climbing in, sadly also managed to snap my chain at the same time (luckily my 11-speed powerlinks turned up the week before).
Seems there are a few cases of XX1 chains giving up the ghost after only a few rides, maybe time to find an alternative chain to the SRAM one?

Managed to fix it and continue to enjoy the downhill bit of the Lo Fau Tau Trail.

Glengarry Glenn Ross

Yeti SB66,, 152mm travel at the back

Have a couple of the 1200 lumen ones which I bought locally for about 20GBP each, still going after 2 years with no problems.

Gotcha, gotcha and now I’m going to eat ya

Why do I feel that off all the places that Nigel Farage would be happy to be barricaded in would be a pub, it would be like a group of feminists protesting against Oliver Reed forcing him to take sanctuary in an Off-License.

Maybe have a cigarette