Hard to say. How many have Christians stolen then re badged?

As many as the Sons of Men 😀

But seriously – surely you would know, right ?

Loving the “I celebrate the Winter Feast” retorts.

For you that claim that – how many other pagan festivals do you partake in throughout the year?

Yeah, Graham, I appear on all the X-Sphincter discussion threads don’t I.

Who mentioned being offended, McBoo(****ing hoo); that’s just something you believe you read in my post. I don’t care what you argue about, I was pointing out that this is proof that you lot can argue about stuff that simply can’t be proved either way.

And the Milk Monitor bit – you blew that out of the water when you told me to get lost. Do you know what the word irony means…

And another thread to prove that the STW Massive can argue about absolutely anything.

I can’t quite find a word to describe the majority of you but for the most part, you all need to take a long look at yourselves.

FFS…

Elf’s right, there is no recognised psychological condition that relates to the supposed Short Man Syndrome, but personally I think the word short gets misunderstood and therein lies the answer.

Your height matters not…

Snow tomorrow in the far north apparently, according to the Beeb about two minutes ago.

They hate interruption. Blocking holes and runs will annoy them no end and they will, as Brakes writes, find somewhere easier to live.

It’s the most peaceful way of dealing with them but rarely works without daily investigation of their lair area and feeding grounds.

My post was aimed at the OP, Harry, not your good self.

A lighter and a can of expanding foam would also work well…

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+1 for backbreakers as opposed to poison. I’m assuming you live in a town and not in the country but even then there are still predators that will eat them and take the poison on-board by doing so.

As far as I know and as long as you’re not a farmer, if you have an infestation the local council are obliged to step in and sort it out but I might be out of date (think payment for rat’s tails) with that info.

Jack Russell’s are good ratcatchers.

Poltergeist

Just what I was thinking. Anti-zombie Dog!

May a squadron of beautiful vaginas find their way to your crotch by day’s end.

Oh my eye, I don’t think I’ve laughed so much for a long time. Gonna have to deliver that line sometime soon.

I laugh a people like the OP & the man in his storey, that makes them more angry, which amuses me more!! & so on…

Just because you’re laughing it doesn’t make you righteous.

Grand Designs. Yeah, I think that’s what I’m thinking of.

I never understand why something that attracts water is Hygroscopic but something that deflects is Hydrophobic

I’m claustrophobic and I in no way have the urge to leap into a small space. Infact you could say that on a psychological level, the idea is repellent.

Saw this not so long ago. I think one of the comments says it all.

Dude, shut up and take my money.”

Personally, I use a small amount of citrus degreaser (Halfords own) in the bottom of either a metallic takeaway carton such as you’d get with a chinese (other greasy takeaways with accompanying containers are available) or a wide and shallow yogurt-type product container. Swill around a few times and get to work with an old toothbrush or similar. Rinse with water and dry.

A bit further than the OP – 300 yards on a brand new bike; first ride. Looked down for a second or two too long, run alongside the curb line, couldn’t recover and went over the bars and to the left knackering my elbow and wrist followed by a trip to A&E.

Bike was fine which is the important part, right…

Yeah, great torch and all – light and cheap and a big enough beam to see most of what I need to for how fast I can actually go. Thanks for the heads-up.

Probably just me as it’s the sort of thing that comes my way but I tried the mount (the mic holder type) over some rough stuff the other night and the torch managed to wobble out depsite me tightening the screw to the point where it distorted the shape of the hole. I fixed this by rolling one of the little rubber grip thingies that came with the torch into the rear groove thereby giving me a lockring of sorts.

Just a quick tip should you experience this bit of bad luck.

Sorry for the thread revival.

When I first cut mine I failed to read that part in the ‘instructions’ and the consequent movement when I grabbed the bars and pulled them around was like a ball joint. Took 20mm off and they’re fine – slammed for over three years now without any breakages.

The most frequently heard is:-

“I’ve gotta go to work on Monday…”

So frequent it’s become classical nowadays.

Fruit Pastilles…?

I always thought that’s what fibre’s for.

A mild laxative prescribed by the docs for some ‘blockages’ is something akin to sugar water. It may infact be sugar water so necking a sh!t-load of sugary sweets probably helped your lack of braking at present.

Why would you just agree with someone for the sake of it?

For some folk sex is a good enough reason.

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Eh, you sure that’s my coat ?

Flange, old boy. I do hope you’re not a gambling man…

I’ll get involved at the risk of being “torn to pieces”.

It’s a forum. Unlike the real world (although in many ways the same) you have a choice of who you interact with. This particular forum has clearly defined sections that you choose to view or not, but it is a choice.

Over-sensitive types keep trying to explain what it is about others that make them reticent but ultimately we’d all be the same if we pander to everyone’s whimsical idiosyncracies and I for one find that idea abhorent.

As far as your friend being able to ‘read’ the intention of another post (i.e. the slimy bloke thing), quite frankly it’s absolutely incredible. No, really – incredible. So many think they understand another person but we as beings have a hard enough time doing so when someone is communicating face-to-face let alone trying to glean their meaning from a few (hastily) written words.

One word – perspective.

Ed. Sorry, fat fingers.

Danke

Can someone do me a favour and give me the dimensions of the batteries that accompany this particular torch please.

I don’t think the luminosity of daylight spectrum bulbs/tubes is enough to be of therapeutic value for SAD.

I see. Everyday’s a school day and all that.

They were never used for the treatment of SAD, merely used for illuminating a room where paints were mixed.

I don’t know whether they’re still in business but I once purchased some ‘daylight’ spectrum fluorescent tubes from a company called Full Spectrum Lighting. Strikes me that it might work out cheaper to buy a few of those and fit in a standard fluorescent ballast than splashing out for a SAD light. Might be wrong though as they were more than double the price of standard tubes.

Bearing Traders or local equivalent will sell you an o ring of similar size for around 20p.

Wasps don’t like spiders anywhere near their nests so if the webs are reasonably fresh you have an old one, if not – toast it.

I’ll second the Stealth tights, very good bit of kit for a variety of conditions.

As for the winderproof, maybe these[/url] would be suitable.

I had/have a fissure. It doesn’t bother me so much these days since I’ve had surgery but when it was at its peak the thing would split everytime I’d try and put the power down when climbing. Cycling without a doubt antagonises that sort of problem.

I too had a male doc insert a sausage-sized finger when examining me. He told me to tell him if it hurt but in all honesty, when the time came to alert him, the pain was so intense I couldn’t get more than a breath out.

Tip – get a nice thin-fingered female doc to check you out.

Ben Law is the bloke you’re writing of – top woodsman and carpenter.

Definitely bloody annoying. Take last week’s installment – he’s sat outside doing a spot of cooking and (I’ll try and make this verbatim) comes out with:-

“The one ingredient that I find is essential to outdoor cooking is (and at this point, as he was on a beach, I thought he was going to come out with sand or some such crap, but no) fresh air.”

Fresh air!?

****!

£144.95 from Heinnie’s. It’d be my choice for a collectors/eye catcher/man, that feels comfortable to handle.

Same as above with a slight amount of air in the tube although I don’t worry about the talc.

You should be able to get most of the tyre on using just your fingers – about the last 8-10 inches or so remaining. I find the use of a tyre lever (held in an inverted fashion i.e. the curve facing toward the rim) helps to gently lift the last really tight bit of beading, obviously taking care not to stick the lever into the tube. Once you’ve got about half way along the last bit seems to pop on with minimal encouragement. I’ve had success this way with wire and kevlar beads.

I don’t know if tyre levers are supposed to be used like this but it seems pretty intuitive to me…

Bit of a common theme here, death or closeness to it!

Indeed. If you look closely you can see the shark welling up because Quint was willing to sacrifice himself in order to replenish all the calories he’d* burnt chasing them around the ocean and Shaw tries to tell him* this but it’s lost in his last bloody-mouthed gurgle.

*Not sure if the shark is a male or female but I’ll roll with male because the shark had a certain panache when it came to killing.

Jaws – the scene where the shark eats our Bobby.