Ha… The Male MenoPorsche…

(says a bloke who keeps an MX5 for sunny days 😳 )

Done 5 days ago… And yes he seems a twunt

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/ebay-bargain-1

The world at war

The two key issues for me here are the way thie OP had to send the frame to Germany himself, and why the frame could get bent so easily without him being aware of a big hit.

The offer of Nicolai seems reasonable, and the distributors feedback here just about acceptable if not that warm.

white on red for you I think…

Rats also like eating our wiring, scurrying in the spaces between our floors, and into the cavity of the wall by my bed. They don’t need temptation. Warmth will often do.

Headfirst – The Collings & Herrin Profanity app is a slightly more modern version of this, and is quite good

A short term problem that is actually good for the economy by helping get younger people into work? and potentially good for “mid career” people by providing openings to move into – rather that job blocking which can happen when people towards the end of their career just keep working (often ineffectively) to rack up better pensions…

…given that it would take a minimum of 10 years from the end of A levels to train someone to work in my area – probably not relevant in this case.

Mid-career movements are certainly on the up, but only between comparable posts in different areas, which is a good thing, but not generally from other clinical areas.

Despite the number of Drs being trained each year going from 3000 when I qualified, to about 6000 now, the number of people who are willing to commit to a full-time career in General Practice is going down. And don’t even begin to look at the number of UK graduates who want to pursue a career in Psychiatry…

Your statement about people at the end of their career being job-blockers is probably a mite ageist. Actually they have often got tons of useful experience, most remain as up to date as the younger ones, and are usually effective, and often more committed. They just don’t want to be penalised for continuing to work.

I work for the NHS, but I am in a scheme which although not exactly money purchase, is not final salary either. My earnings each year are recorded, and then on retirement a “dynamising factor” is applied to each year. This means that the pension does reflect my life time earnings and contributions. And there is a cap on how high this can go. Because of the way that the system . Including “employers” contributions the superann currently takes 22.5% of the money paid to me by the NHS. The amount I will get in pension after 36 years working (and my training included 6 unpaid years which prevented me earning until I was 24) will probably be about 40% of my average income.

Now I know that people in private pension schemes have been repeatedly screwed over. “contribution holidays” and schemes going bust, and huge rake-offs by pensions management companies etc etc…

And I’m certainly not complaining about how much I earn or will get as a pension.

But I think SBZ is spot on to show how the public perception of NHS pensions may be rather different from the truth, just as people underestimate the average prison sentence for offences.

In my line of work there is about to be a major recruitment crisis because of the number of people who are retiring now rather than get screwed by impending changes to our pensions.

I think she’s tight. And like someone above, I can see how she manages to own 2 houses on a relatively small income.

You don’t pay half unless your name is on the mortgage and it is way too soon for that. She is getting the property after all.

Pay her a realistic rent, with a rentbook so she is protected against any claim you might have on her property. Pay by DD so you don’t have to hand her the cash. Review your intentions and the position after 6-12 months.

my 15 year old sprog blocks toilets with prize marrow sized dumps with regularity… we have had to call for help in hotels.

“The hunt for brown october”…

It’s brilliant…

except it has screwed up text entry on the NHSnet webmail browser in my iPad and I have to save messages every 100 or so characters to unfreeze it… 👿

Not sure if this was me or by brother (we were young and it was a long time ago)

Shot a bird with an air rifle – It didn’t die – and its mate came to see what was going on… I can still hear the squawks…

Not got one… But a friend has… Actually seems very pleased with it but has an impressive collection of photos of it on recovery lorries.

TJ – most people would see my workplace as public sector… Some kindness towards staff can make people work harder and more flexibly.

I think you are tilting at windmills here.

Yes we have one. And as an owner of the “business” I pay for it out of money I would otherwise get to keep. It is tax allowable as expense for us, and. (unlike a voucher or cash bonus) not a benefit the staff are taxed on. And it’s fun. It’s part of team building and morale maintenance.

I quite like it. But I’ll be skiing all day 8)

Same as people say above. I’m old so I learnt to to engine brake. But had a couple of lessons with advanced driving instructors in the last few years, and it is clear that the methods taught have changed.

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Wtf? I just pointed out that TJ is posting cliched twaddle. And is wrong. Again.

This wasn’t an RIP thread till the first post of this page. Read it mate. You might see that the reason I took issue with him was because I and my family were nearly killed in an RTA last year. And deal withpeople who have lost family members in RTAs. There’s no simple trite answer to this issue.

Emmanuel. Agreed, but this is not new. Andoreotti was as corrupt, but just in a more old fashioned way… Mafia and Church.

emmanuel agreed re the press – eg la Repubblica and L’espresso…

But what is also quite Italian does seem to be the inertia about actually doing something about it… Bella Figura being more important than Mani Pullite…

And Italian TV really really really does suck.

There is no reasonable reason why someone who lacks an ability to read or capacity to understand where they are allowed should be on top of a 10 foot wall.

However when a local belligerent old lady put glass on the one foot high wall by a cul de sac road where kids played, the local police stopped her quickly.

I’d say it is unreasonable to booby trap a letter box, and then put a written warning on it. Kids and the confused, etc etc. I know one old bloke who is always trying to open the door of the garage he sold years ago. The owner should electrify the handle?

🙁 🙁 🙁

but right from the title – this thread was doomed to be an argument…

Yep, kids never ever put their hands through letter boxes, do they?

Take it off immediately, FFS.

So should people with enduring Mental Health issues be kept out of our sight?

Lots of people have Mental Health issues where treatment is ineffective, or unacceptable to them, or they successfully evade services.

I’d say I’d see just as many obviously… eccentric… people are obvious on the street in Paris or Rome.

TJ

ah ha…

so how exactly are we able to tell which things you are saying are seriously meant, and which ones are meant to be humorous ? Not even a 😉 to tell us, let alone anything funny in your text…

Trouble is – that tired old cliche you trotted out – I mean – even here is quite common – seems to have become a meme, something trotted out all over the interweb as substitute for thought.I’ve seen it raised repeatedly on other forums.

You do seem to be over-reacting to being challenged here. No one said you were lying – just implied you might be backtracking when your statement was challenged.

I’d get those anger issues dealt with… xxx

and the Edinburgh defense is wheeled out…

And how many cars do not have ABS now?

TJ only a day or so ago you were railing at people who made ex cathedra assertions for which they were unwilling to supply evidence…

there is an easy solution to this. Ban seat belts and fit all cars with a nice sharp spike in the middle of the steering wheel. people would either drive carefully or die quickly.

Risk compensation is a part of why this is happening – people feel so safe they take more risks – so the answer is to make them feel less safe

sad to see this ancient Clarkson-like cliche trotted out. Just think about it for a minute or two…

Look at the design of American Cars of the mid 1950s and you will see that is pretty well exactly what they did have. And then look at the death rates then in those cars, and then look at the work of Ralph Nader et al. and then you can try and prove that seat belts and/or airbags have led to an increase or even a stable risk of death-per-road-user mile, rather than being part of a safety movement which has led to a huge fall in deaths… and breathe…

Risk compensation behavior changes can occur, but in this field the overall net safety effect is still massively positive.

To declare an interest, my life was saved 18 months ago by an airbag when hit head-on by someone who had fallen asleep.

42-44 hrs a week. Spread over three 8 to 7 days and two 8 – 1 days and the odd extra bit. .

Not bitter is he? Must be everyone else’s fault.

About time too. The minute it became clear it was propofol at home it was obvious he was guilty.

A great drug used totally stupidly.

Scaredypants. Not according to Sky. Still an upgrade but worth it.

Get the 1 Tb box if you can

whenever I can. It’s a great thing to do, but just don’t get much chance these days.

It’s also a great vertical expression of a horizontal desire 😉

That’s £50 a week. How much does he need a car?

Taxis and public transport and wait till he is 21?

looked at the picture before reading the text and wondered why you kept month old tampons in it…

Driving is a privilege, not a right.

If he genuinely was a risk to others, good move…

I know what you mean. And I only live a mile away from there. But I think you have to see the geographical context. A place an Anglo-Saxon army fought the Normans. I think it is actually one of the few places where it does not carry that right wing connotation.

I embarrass my wife by dancing to the background music in DIY stores 😳

Tried one of the wireless ones, didn’t work well over a relatively short distance, despite channel changes it also interfered with lots of other stuff, and you could tell if someone was standing between the receiver and transmitter. So we ran a cable instead… much better.