Nobody?

One of these

Went from Vittoria 32c XN Pro CX or whatever their damp death tires are called to Gravel Kings in 28c and I am really impressed with them.

Haven’t had much rain here, so don’t know if they are going to spit me off on the first sign of damp road again, but they have been great on loose gravel, dirt, shit tarmac and everything in between.

I’ll do a u-turn on a fast hill again in the damp and report back on the outcome if it is similar to the vittorias or not.

I do have Kenda Kommandos for the wet season, not sure how the Gravel Kings will fair on the claggy red clay that builds up on the back roads here.

These things – death grip tires on damp tarmac.

Will be tested in similar conditions to see if it happens again

German, rholoff scwhwalbe tires

Posting while drunk…..cougar my apologies for misreading that 😳 would you like me to rant about when people try and claim that they were in the right for riding in prime position, which for me means either getting taken out by an oncoming pick up or getting smashed by a pickup in the rear?

Unfortunately Cougar, a lot of driving here is about protecting yourself.

Drive in the middle lane, you are prone to trucks pulling out without checking.

Drive in the inside lane, you wreck your car on pot holes, and risk trucks pulling in on you.

Drive in the outside lane you have to fight to keep your space.

No police doing you for tailgaiting, nobody beeping horns at you, you just do your best to keep your space, drive as safe as possible, and manage the area around you.

Edited for being a twunt

Interesting post – I drive in a manor that keeps my family safe, at times this means having to close the 2 second rule to stop someone undertaking and cutting in front, only to slam on their brakes because they have misjudged the distance.

Couldn’t get away with it in the UK, can do here.

Sounds stupid, works though, having to rag tag it with ten wheelers, large buses and every **** on the road makes it a challenge at times to keep everybody safe.

I covet the Cannondale Slate – maybe one day i will buy it, until then i just day dream.

Marathon plus – so heavy and slow they reduce any risk of aquaplaning

I sat through an h9our of The Iceaman last night, before realising I had watched it pissed before

THERMITE

It solves most neighbourly disputes

bacon

mobile artisan with a license for a local business park is the way to go

Luddites

The Internet

Today- it was moving a snake from the garden, telling her it wasn’t dangerous, Brown Kukri, and not to worry. For her Google it after getting it out of the garden to find it was, a red necked keelback.

You said it was safe!! you said it wasn’t dangerous!!!! what if it bit you!!! I never listen to her, she said it was dangerous!!

Yesterday it was managing to drop the kilo box of fresh coffee on the brown kitchen floor and my half arsed full of cold and hangover attempt to clean it up.

Monday it was missing my daughters parent teacher interview – you are in charge of the school, you should know when it is!

I think the thing that annoys us both, is that we are both fairly relaxed about different areas of life, but not always the same, so things sometimes flair up, which is always entertaining. Definite the cultural differences are the things that rattle us both, that is still after 12 years.

^ Highland park is ok.

Had to finish off a bottle of Monkey Shoulder last night, not so good.

2 pages on wine glasses. Oh my.

Safe to say drinking from posh wine glasses still causes hangovers. All i need to do now is remember to pack them away before MrsQ does turns the washing machine on and they walk themselves off the edge of the sync.

I started with Heineken, until the Paulander was cold enough to drink, then swapped, on running out I went back to Heinken, and it still tasted like shit.

Now neither of those are wines, but they still tasted pretty shit, Paulander was ok, but that is purely down to strength vs the watered down piss of Heineken, the half bottle of monkey shoulder was ok, but again, still pretty awfil.

So in short, if I drank decent booze from decent glasses it would taste decent. If I drink piss from decent glasses it will taste bad.

^ My goggles are telling me that after the lovely 8.9% ale that just about got two bottles in per glass, I should try to see if the bottle of whisky fits as well.

I have to say, I feel right posh drinking from them.

Going to hire half a dozen technical college students for the tricky corner bits.

I have around 9x45m/12 long rooms and corridors at work that are parquet floored. They are all to be done at some point in the future during upgrading and developing the mainly empty building.

Site manager wanted to get the maintenance guys to use two of their hand sanders to do the job, madness, just signed off an a 9hp Honda engined floor sander for them.

Looking forward to seeing how much damage they cause with it.

What was the OPs question?

I had a bouqeut of Frerro rochet on my desk this morning.

Strange I thought, who gave that to me, maybe one of my admin staff, maybe a student, maybe my wife had added an extra one in.

I through it on top of a bookshelf, and got the temptation of eating that chocolaty goodness away from me.

A couple of hours later – a sheepish teacher stuck his head in to ask if I had received a bouquet of Frerro Rochet. His wife had sent them to him, and they had been put on my desk by accident.

Oh how I enjoyed watching him squirm when I asked if he was sure his wife had meant them for him and not me.

Didn’t even offer me one the cheeky git.

If it is the Alfa/Fiat/GM engine one they have swirl flap issues, bar that controls them falls off and it is a hugely expensive job to fix

Easy fix – turn the flaps open and liquid steal them shut.

Don’t be worried if it starts spitting sparks out the exhaust during a drive, that will just the DPF regenerating.

Just tried to find the Young Ones clip and found this information instead.

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Ear candling — a technique that involves placing a lit, hollow, cone-shaped candle into the ear canal — can cause serious injury. Research shows that ear candling is ineffective at removing earwax and is also not an effective treatment for any other conditions

That is horrific

^ That is bacterial infection though, isn’t it which is rotten stuff.

Snot itself, fresh distilled snot, right out of the membranes that produce it. Does it smell?

I remember a young ones where they made a candle of ear wax.

Anybody up for a snot exchange to see if others does smell?

They phoned me before Christmas about something to do with one of the actors from the inbetweeners.

Red Rock Entertainment Executive Producers – Home2

I wonder who came up with this idea of calling people to loan to the film companies for big returns?

I must be a sophisticated investor to sign up. I like Special Brew, does that count?

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Shame – got some bearings off him, one of my old ones got stuck leaving the races behind, posted on here, he told me to send him the whole frame and he would sort out all the bearings as he liked a challenge.

Forgot to return the ones I bought so he fitted more, and didn’t want me to return the ones I still had.

Can’t fault that.

The net brings out the madness in us all.

Autozilla titanium

^ When I looked at OU it said for the masters level, I could use the term MA(open) but not MA, after my name, is that the case with all OU qualification?

Just signed up for an MEd distance, so have book marked this with interest.

I’m told I will need around 19 hours per week to study – My mind says well that is just 3 hours per day, reality is there goes Saturday and Sunday.

Matt,you are out of focus

Arent’t we all?

Train qualify get out.

A phd plus pgce plus maths makes the world your oyster – UWCSEA Singapore, British School of New York etc etc.

Greece might be cost effective soon

IT IS, ISN’T IT!!!!!!11