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  • swiss01
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    might want to check out rose. quick look suggests they mainly do alfine/belt but i’m sure they’d make a rohloff for you

    swiss01
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    he claims not in some detail. and also to bring it on if not believing him. i still can’t see the sense of it tho. and the car thing, even by scandinavian standards, seems a bit mental.

    that said it could’ve been an elk.

    swiss01
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    part of growing up.

    my young self many moons ago. off to stonehenge. bus crash, multiple violations and then the red diesel leaked out. multiple liftings and those that got away and got to where we were going walked straight into some proper police shenanigans.

    doubtless all fat, greying and riding mtbs these days. all bar one that is and red diesel wouldn’t even register on his loony travails.

    swiss01
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    heights over water. any other type of height totally fine. show me the water tho and instant paralysing fear. doesn’t need to be that high and doesn’t need to be that much water. annoying and more than a little embarrassing.

    swiss01
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    a ‘viscous’ cat? does it leave a trail?

    swiss01
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    alfine di2 belt drive? niche!

    swiss01
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    i’m more interested to ask just what bencooper was searching for when he came across this. or what his daughter made of it. mine always liked this sort of vidiocy better tham me.

    still i’m inspired – i’m off to craftivise something about ulcerative colitis

    or maybe i’ll make one of these
    http://jimmyteens.tv/2013/06/12/how-to-cook-a-bristol-stool-tart/

    swiss01
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    i’m working this weekend and usually have much more availability during the week. am off two weeks on saturday tho so if yr up for it around then i’ll come out for a burl

    swiss01
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    see there’s me thinking it was niche and already you want to expand the range. who knew!?

    swiss01
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    just back from what can best be described as an amble/ beautiful weather. delighted i went out

    swiss01
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    ah yes, the last minute dither. it is damp and freezing here but the bike’s out and waiting for me to muster up the motivation. which i will in about five minutes and it’ll be worth it. maybe not today btu the miles i do now will set me up for next year. had a ‘fat’ winter last year and it’s taken me most of the this year to get over it. never again!

    swiss01
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    +1 for snow roads. entries may be full but roads are there all year round. tho you may not want to do it this time of year….

    swiss01
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    my favourite was the one where someone had a tree surgeon(?) cancelled resulting in a forest of punnery. can’t find the thread as yet tho

    swiss01
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    small but perfectly formed – from the linn of dee to derry lodge and surrounds with mrs swiss in july. she can’t go her bike much but when she can we make the most of the miles. loved it.

    swiss01
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    i prefer the more underplayed chopper reid approach
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFAOhjgaorg

    undoubtedly nsfw if you’ve got sound

    swiss01
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    ah yes, of course….

    swiss01
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    what are you saying hora? that if i was speaking all you’d hear was meaningless northern squiggles…?

    swiss01
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    advice taken. i have seen thru her cunning plan. she thinks if they’re in the loft i’ll forget about them…

    but, if i was to go ahead and just bin them how long would it be before i forgot/regretted it?

    swiss01
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    another vote for sweden for me. not that we’ll be doing it this year as family all away to thailand as it’s too cold..

    swiss01
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    apparently i am, and will forever be, zapp brannigan. it sickens me…
    http://www.lazy-nation.com/features/Brannigansoundboard.htm

    swiss01
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    i have two scales and a spark. they are top fun.

    swiss01
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    as i’m going out in dundee this very night i can only echo the above. the point about dundonians being down on dundee is well made which is a shame as there’s loads going on there at the moment. i am very excited about the v&a thing. plus perthshire and angus are god’s country for road cycling.

    si, i’m in perth and will happily give you a wee tour of the surrounds. age is not being kind to me at the moment so don’t be expecting heroics!

    swiss01
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    bannockburn = no unless it’s changed dramatically

    i was never the biggest fan of alloa but i shall defer to davidrussell as i haven’t really been there as such since the arrival of the railway. and civilisation

    if it was me i’d look along the hillfoots – tillicoutry/alva/dollar

    swiss01
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    just for the sake of argument – does it really work in scotland?

    all thru the central belt i tend to think not. certainly there’s barely a loch you can go to that isn’t car camped all over, the laybys decorated with sacks of rubbish that people don’t want cluttering up their cars but think it’s okay someone else’s council tax pay to remove. and of course let’s not talk about the sewerage issue.

    or maybe lets. because up in the islands they need to be building chemical disposal points for those white van ‘campers’ who can’t and won’t understand that a motorhome isn’t wild camping, who seem to believe that anywhere and everywhere is a suitable place for them to park up and ‘camp’ because, obviously they’re not like those terrible people down in loch lomond/chon/rannoch etc who need banning and any island types who say different must just be inbred.

    as far as i can see the access code has meant the facilitation of the rural as service areas, playgrounds for a certain of middle class, who couldn’t care less about the environment beyond what it provides for their entertainment and nothing for the culture (or what’s left of it) that sustains it beyond their urban centred stereotypes.

    swiss01
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    but if i was tj would i argue that i wasn’t? would i use the phrase ‘ad hominem’? i miss tj.

    chakaping – you’ve almost exactly described the event

    swiss01
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    no classics yet?
    forbidden planet
    the day the earth stood still
    dark star

    or what about
    ghost in the shell
    akira

    proper sci fi (i concur with zilog)
    eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
    solaris (both versions)

    and stuff blows up
    the riddick movies
    starship troopers
    wrath of khan
    the abyss

    and nobody for zardoz? really?

    swiss01
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    i actually got some time off to do this but saw the format and not for me. was out to day and the ground’s not too bad. a few more days of rain might put paid to that tho

    swiss01
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    everything from verbal abuse to serious, serious crime. not that i can talk about it cos that would be a disciplinary matter. suffice to say every bawheid and their cousin know that hospital is the one place you can commit crime and be reasonably guaranteed to get away with it

    swiss01
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    the act of killing

    swiss01
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    …like wandering into an episode of poetry please. no bike poems tho.

    you could do worse than get jenny swann’s ten poems about bicycles which is both good and available (if it’s still in print) from candlestick press down in that there englandshire.

    or, if you’re north of the border, you could get the rather fabulous flying scot by rab wilson. if it doesn’t fulfil yr handmade, restoring bikes etc etc niche there’s something wrong with you. but buy one roncadora press thing and you’ll want more. hugh bryden – a kind of legend.

    swiss01
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    glupton, that was genuinely interesting. more of these type of threads would be great. i may even ask questions…

    swiss01
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    couple of folk i go out with have these (bar mounted) and they seemed better than my old hope visions last night

    swiss01
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    if you’re passing the bike shop in alva they, i believe, will sort you out with some route advice

    swiss01
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    if you’re stuck for stuff to go in your space come up the road and me amd mrs swiss will sort you right out!

    swiss01
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    so not medical then…

    as for your example – frankly fatuous. as i was working in hospitals 20 years ago and trying, with some lack of success, to get complementary therapies introduced the notion that any of these things would’ve been taken on board would’ve have been rare indeed.

    as for gps, well there’s good and bad but i note none of you have managed anything like a differential beyond ‘something neckish’ so really i don’t think anyone should be throwing stones in that respect.

    the ‘i know best’ model, amply demonstrated in the above, is one in which not only can clinical error thrive but also removes the person concerned from the centre of the picture in favour of the practitioner.

    patient first, ego second seems to me to be a pretty decent way to work as well as assessing the type of person looking after you.

    swiss01
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    and just in case anyone’s missing it, when i say outstanding i really, really don’t mean it

    swiss01
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    outstanding differentials the pair of you. if a fourth year medical student couldn’t do better than that, even with the history given, i’d slap them in the head.

    swiss01
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    mines are always around the 40 mark.

    swiss01
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    i had need to be discussing the modern amtiquarian just yesterday. a firm, if somewhat frustrating, favourite in our house.

    i’m reading oliver statler’s japanese inn which i’d never heard of but a mate gave me a loan of. i can now give simple explanation of the meiji restoration. hurrah!

    swiss01
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    terrible news. all the best to sfb and family

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