He’s technically very good but it isn’t bass playing. It’s the bass equivalent of shredgeekery. Jaco, victor, Marcus etc etc all so much better and more musical.

I’ve had to deal with families of dead bikers, and car drivers who have been screwed up by being hit by bikers pulling stunts like this and dying.

Selfish and stupid. But plenty of selfish and stupid behaviour by car drivers too.

Go to the Docs.

Diabetes usually only leads to headaches if your blood sugar goes too low
This only happens if you are already diagnosed and on Insulin or some tablets.

Us quacks are no longer allowed by the GMC to give specific advice about problems on forums. But I’d consider this a legit reason for seeing a Doc.

I’m a GP. I’d check you were sure, make sure you knew the risks, then refer you… Same as if you had had kids actually…

Why would anyone wait till your contraception had failed to allow you to have the snip?

Some people seem to have a rather smug attitude towards their own relationships and kids. I suspect they are either rather early in their own journeys or whistling in the dark hoping it does happen to them.

It can and often will. Some attention to where you are currently may help. But not always.

There have always been bad relationships and marriages and affairs. The divorce rate in many places is actually going down. But if people are less willing to piss their one life away whilst showing their kids how bad it can be… That’s good… Right?

Ritual Meat Slaughter

great name for a band?

IGMC

And despite the OP being about a child – 90% of the discussion about BMI here is about adults, with the usual, often entirely fair criticisms of it being a blunt instrument. Criticisms I hear, btw, almost weekly from people with Diabetes, a BMI of > 35, and serious cake/crisp habits… and myself with BMI 28 😳

At age 10 the normal BMI range is about 14-20. We have some of the chubbiest kids in Europe. Do we want the School Nurses to ignore this?

In the OPs case, there may be very good reasons for this, and kids grow in different ways. Often chub up a bit, then stretch out at puberty. Yep, the assessment should be a bit more sophisticated, but it really is just feeding info back to parents.

TEED
Bonobo
Metronomy
Irie Method

Good things I have seen recently. The first three with albums.
I love wilco Johnson. Part of my past. Saw him a month ago. But new album. Really?

BMI normal ranges are different in children.

It isn’t just 20-25, but rather lower.

See Here for calculator

And Here for boys chart

It’s only ignorant if you don’t understand the meaning of the word ignorant…

Good luck with the launch, but after 20 years in the industry I would have thought you’d have a thicker skin and an awareness that your brand awareness might come as much from initial negative reactions as positive ones. You won’t have everyone like you or your style or your product. If you can’t deal with that, don’t look at Internet forums, or blogs, or comments etc etc.

Trouble with this free speech thing is you get to hear things you don’t like.

Cougar. Until he shows an example of a misuse that’s a moot point.

It is a perfectly correct form of punctuation called the “ellipsis”. Like a dash it has a clear usage in writing. It is useful in more conversational writing. Sorry you seem not to like it but that seems to be about you rather than modern English… 😉

Brilliant.

Peter Gabriel and Genesis neatly skewered. Some great musical jokes.

Poggy. Really??? Which planet are you on?

He’s tarnished the whole sport to an enormous extent. By being the “best” ever he became the “worst” ever.

I drive a scooby legacy with M&S tyres – which is great.

But when I lived in rural Canada and we had snow on the ground and roads (no tarmac) for 6 months a year – most people thought snow tyres more important than 4×4.

So if you have to choose fwd with snow tyres or 4×4 without – I’d take the former

Thanks chaps – glad to hear it’s not just me.

ChrisE – yep that’s what I have to do. Just a pain having to do this before sticking them in the pack as spares. I’d hope something non-Magura fitted.

I’ll try the aztecs

Danny. I’m another one with a distant but cordial relationship with my father and had 25 years without seeing him. I will feel very little When he goes I think. It really boils my piss when people tell me how I should feel or communicate. Feel what you feel. It’s ok. People with closer relationships won’t get it but that’s their problem.

This has got to be a troll, right?

It wasn’t that he just did drugs, it was the way he destroyed people around him who didn’t toe the line.

And he has done nothing for cancer research other than draw money away from charities who might fund it.

Poggy. 1/10

Dr P Snap.

More secure than a lot of email. In the nhs we use them a lot for urgent confidential stuff. All sorts of issues about sending patient data , even encrypted by email where multiple users need to be able to access the destination email account.

My 17 year old uses one I have – bought in Plymouth Coop in 1989

I have a John Partridge one which I still use – and was a bit upmarket from the Barbour in its day – now 21 years old

I think it started down here on the south coast, then spread out. The one in Swansea is good and swish.

The food isn’t bad, and kids like it.

Closest one, Hastings, changed name/management suddenly after rumours of some hygiene issues I think.

This could be a good one.

Person on the Internet in BS shock horror.

Next week, bears and woods, what’s that all about?

I’ll get the popcorn. But the OP has to give us names, evidence and his own name. I think we’ll be kept waiting 😉

it’s very different – but not bad.

My partner puts a PG tips strong bag… And an Earl Grey bag… And Milk in her tea, and then drinks it with the bags still in.

I’ve got used to this.

Loved the BMW 2L diesel engine, shame I hated the rest of the car.

Yes we do. The lab normal values aren’t always relevant. We do put the onus on patients to ring up to check. But we chase up anything really bad or urgent.

The spiders are good and cheap on eBay

Same here. Thanks for explaining this.

Bushes behind a marshalling point I was staffing on an overnight event.

The poo is the easy bit – it’s the paper that’s the problem…

If the allegations are true, and it must have taken something for the women to be willing to be named, he is at the very least a sleazy fat git who should not be in a position of power in a progressive party. And they probably wouldn’t be the only 4 he has tried it on with.

Sancho ?? really. So the women would have automatically slept with him if he was good looking ??

sounds like neither you or he belong in the 21st century.

We have probably all done things which aren’t illegal, or may not be provable, but which are worthy of an apology. In this case he needs to do it to prove he understands what he got wrong.

whole thing just looks lame and half-arsed.

Private and Oxbridge – but that was because North Bucks then had shocking comp schools, whilst South Bucks had decent grammars. I went over the border in to Beds, to a school which was then “direct grant” so actually about 75% of the pupils were fully paid for by the state sector and admitted on merit and potential rather than money. So, for those of you too young to know about Direct Grant schools, you can guess what happened to them…

My kids have gone to the local excellent comp and the eldest now goes across the border to a grammar school in Kent for 6th form. I cannot think of a private school within 25 miles I’d want my kids to go to. And my sons grammar school gets better results than many of them.

My brother lives where I used to, didn’t finish 6th form at the same direct grant school, became an apprentice, did really well and now he paid for his kids to go back to the same school – now fully private and more expensive.

Two friends who went to Eton, send their kids to local comps.

So – no simple answer – it depends on the local schools, the kids (for many sports you are way better in the private sector – look at our Olympians), and the dosh you can afford.

But – it is a real shame this system has developed. So many countries have better systems which ensure quality and appropriate selection and streaming, and a population who generally value education and stop their kids from sabotaging others’ ways up the ladder.

You’re either a troll or a thief
Are you really surprised at the replies?
How would you like the shop to screw you for £600, say by taking your money then going bankrupt before delivery?

CFH 😆

Sport Conrad (based in germany) often have cracking deals and deliver fast. I have had 3 pairs of skis and some avi gear from them.

I dislike most aspects of organised religion except hymns and carols.
Nothing like a good sing-song

anyone who thinks Brooker has lost it probably didn’t see Touch of Cloth series 2 last year. Different ways to skin a cat.

it just happens sometimes. Not usually linked to skill of the person doing it.

what Drac says too.

Don’t let it put you off

hmmm… SD-253 – seems unconvincing – no evidence for bias, no evidence for your assertions, just a dislike of opinions different from yours? I’d say THM is usually one of the more centre-right posters around here, and yet he doesn’t seem to agree?

So what actually is your point, other than a little light, poorly thought-out, stirring?

It’s all gone a bit smugly up its own bum.

And, the plotting isn’t brilliant. So many dumb errors in the Tube train bit last week. This week the method of death was just stupid.

Elementary, the US version, is probably better. Another English actor, but one who is acting rather than adopting a pose. And Rhys Ifans as Mycroft infinitely better than Gatiss.

Did like the drunk bit though.