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    Best way to identify the animal would be to taste the berries to confirm what they are.

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    There once was a man called Brant
    Who the STW massive thought was a bit of a cant
    He made bikes by day, with odd length seat stays
    And laughed all the way to the bank.

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    Ceramic shopping board? Is that the same as chopping on a tiled surface?

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    Free licenses if you can get a .edu email

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    Ford Ranger Wildcat 3.2 with decat

    Or a Toyota Tundra.

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    Did the trip when the kids were younger with tag-a-longs for the kids. They loved it, but any uphill was a nightmare as they failed to do any work at all

    Would they have done more work if they were on a tandem? Or would it have just felt a bit more stable.

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    Brexit has given me a cheap summer holiday, and a cheap october holiday.
    It will be interesting to see if it boosts tourism or was that why people voted out to stop tourism

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    ^^ I just found it odd.

    Sitting having a lunch break with some weird alternative hippy guy who lived out of his van on the Murray river out of nowhere in the conversation “Do you think Abos are the ugliest race ever, mate?” followed by “I wouldn’t ever have an Abo mate, can’t trust them”

    Initially on meeting him, he came across as a decent hippy type, quite enjoyed my work with him up until that point. Seemed well educated, just one of those sorts that drops off the grid.

    It was around then that I realised how much I had heard it in conversations, and in general life around me. Found it really disconcerting that there was this whole side of society who were so open like this.

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    things aren’t black and white

    But people would like it to be though.

    I found the 8 months I spent there a strange experience where racism was so open it was an eye opener for me.

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    I just bought a Marin Four Corners Elite on sale, couldn’t say no at the price, and I should get the VAT back when I leave the country. I think there is a medium left

    Was going to get a WTF but once I added on all the toys, it was more than the Marin

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    Kenda Kommandos just now, i did find the last pair wore quickly , but were excellent

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    I’m having an issue with markers pens just now, and whether kids should be using them or not in school. A soapbox parent is on to prove they are all bad, lots of pseudo science info being sent to me, but I have to admit that some of it is actually not bad.

    It does raise the question of whether little people, close to the floor, should be using marker pens in groups, where the heavier solvents fall to. Nowt fancy, bit of isopropol, ethanol or similar.

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    ^ Is that a double or triple?

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    On the first day of my job I had to tell four brothers that their father had been killed in a road accident.

    I had very little time to prepare for it, I was informed at the end of the day, and they were about to go home.

    I gathered staff that knew the boys well, and told them with those staff members there that new them to support them, as at that point, only having met the boys for 8 hours I couldn’t offer them the support they needed.

    A few of the people involved felt we should tell the older one first, he could tell the younger ones, but that just didn’t sit right with me. Ultimately telling the boys straight was the fairest and best thing to do for them.

    Tell them straight.

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    Years back living in 5x6m studio apartment block in Seoul we were woken up by a man trying to get into the aparmtent, banging on all the doors, at around 2am.

    He tried all the doors a few times and was making a lot of noise, I got pissed off, went out to see him about to squat and shit on the stairs.

    Grabbed the **** by the scruff of the neck, pulled him down the stairs, and chucked him out on the street. He was half being angry and half apologising, went back to bed.

    In the morning, he must have returned, shat in the entrance way stairwell, where he must have slipped into his own crap, several times, as there were shitty hand prints over the floor, what was clearly someone having sat on their own crap falling over in a big smear, shitty foot prints, and hand prints on the door.

    Nothing going upstairs, so I assume he was looking for a toilet. It was -25 so fairly chilly

    Landlord was very apologetic.

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    Can 105 be fitted to a vagabond or does it need to be mountain bike gears?

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    Safeguarding/Safer Recruitment says that we have to ask for references before interview.

    We contact the referees first with a standardised form for them to complete. Every so often I get some difficult head who refuses to use it, and either sends over a written statement, or simply says they don’t have time, can’t be arsed, etc etc. Mainly American schools that have this attitude, British ones are generally on the ball of what is needed for safer recruiting.

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    I had a weird dream last night where I had to smuggle a sizeable brown fish across a land border. I think it was a trout, and I decided in all my wisdom to plug it.

    On crossing the border, and arriving at a very tall building where I was to hand over said brown fish, I discovered that I couldn’t get it out. Much panic, as to what I needed to do, and a lot of concern as to how i was going to explain it to a hospital. I woke up before I had a solution.

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    Will it not rot if it is in direct contact with the ground?

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    I thought they were to stop shit being thrown up into the belt causing them to degrade.

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    This evening I had

    Eggs benedict with parmaham, hand made muffins
    Fancy fries with wasabi mayo and homemade ketchup
    Double chocolate brownies, with homemade ice cream, caramel snap topping
    2xDuvel 2xNest IPA 2xHoegarden

    Fantastic restaurant just next door to the house

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    There was an article a few years back which looked at something similar and a large number of people interviewed had winning the national lottery as their retirement plan.

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    Try getting it setup across a work network.

    Google drive for work fine, my one drive which I also use at home not a chance. e

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    Do you think someone has tried to smash it in and damaged the lock?

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    I always find an Angora rabbit works well for screen cleaning.

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    That is what happens when you ride a twist and go

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    Are UK focus and Fiestas not getting huge issues with the powershift gearboxes?

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    Go Aeroflot, great services, cheap, and great excess luggage fees.

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    Woodburn on the A68 going towards Jedburgh/Ottorburn pisses me off.

    They have had fancy flashing don’t speed signs put up through their village, please slow down signs etc, and yet within a few meters of entering the village there is always one or two people parked half on the pavements and half on the road outside their houses.

    Boils my piss.

    They worry about people speeding, but don’t worry about pedestrians trying to get by.

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    Where do I look for second hand child back tandems?

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    I like pudding
    I don’t like pudding
    I’m not allowed pudding

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    Just been looking at tandems again tonight, I want one for my 5 year old to go out with me. The trail abike is a bit lairy these days.

    Got to work out how to get it on a plane though.

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    Don’t let your wife stand on the screen – 300quid to swap out for a replacement unit.

    BOught a Surface 3 due to the cost for 100 quid more, now have a Pro3 with knackered screen turned off so effectively a shit laptop, but still usuable, and a Surface 3 that I use for notes in meetings.

    My favourite swanky case maker Noreve does some lovely surface and pro3 cases

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    Do it at night time,

    Get a large metal bucket, fill it with something that will burn with a big flame, attached the nest, wasps will fly into the fire and die. once you are happy they have all died, spray the nest.

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    I don’t see any issue with it, then I’m not a great considerate driver who worries about the feelings of others because I see a more efficient route home. As long as no laws are broken and it is only feelings, then what is the problem?

    Most people who would be bothered by it are only pissed off because they were either too dumb to think about it or too scared.

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    I’ve been enjoying The Bones of J.R. Jones

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    Years ago I had a gun waved at me after beeping at someone and sticking my fingers up at them. In a country where life was cheap, and a telling off from my wife, I learned to stop.

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    I understand mother **** is worse than the cpeanut word there.

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