Camry Hybdrid is very nice to drive.

I thought it was a thread about this guy

Some of the islands are lifted and moved along by the sheer number of midges. A bit like the peach in James and the Giant Peach, but without the trippy qualities.

Smash up with sledge hammer, re-cement back together and have 80’s crazy paving, today.

Two years ago, I had to use hotspot shield to access any of my financial accounts due to the setup at work and home – four 100M cable lines, into a load balancing router. Each line it would appear changed its IP address a few times a second.

Needless to say, the whole Internet hated us, honey traps grabbed us every time we accessed sites, Google blocked us, banks refused to work.

So I can imagine they would block it for a change of ISP.

I think people are going a bit soft these days.

Have a look in the back of soldier of fortune magazine, you should be able to hire a merc or a hit-man from there fairly easily.

It might not get your money back, but it will certainly make you feel better.

If the disk doesn’t separate from the hub, and you look inside and see some teeth, that look like they could be hit with a cold chisel to knock around and unscrew the disk, don’t do it.

Turns out that was the ABS ring on my 300SEL and it was never right again.

Eventually separated the disc from the hub by whacking a bit of wood with a hammer.

The only way we afforded one was living in a mates house virtually rent free for two years.

That was finite so moving back overseas was the only other option for us.

You and me though Hora, we can start now it’s never too late, but I’m not receiving

5 seats, loads of room in the back, plenty of creature comforts, more practical than the naysayers would have you believe – anything muddy, bulky, bike shaped, dog shaped etc goes in the back without a moments though of any upholstery…

You forgot to say – terrifying brakes though when giving it some beans and it just doesn’t feel as if it is going to stop.

My wife wants a second, everybody else wants us to have a second, I don’t. Really I never wanted the first, but now we have her I enjoy it, but I’m a shit dad, who is never in due to work, and when I am in, I’m knackered and not up for playing.

I do have the benefit of taking her to school everyday and seeing her at school , as I am the head, so there is that plus side.

I weighed up the second kid option seriously a few months back. We can afford it, easily, but when I start to look at what the costs are, and what we will do financially in the future it is too big a risk. It’s the little things, if we want to see the family, it’s an extra seat on the plane, if we want a holiday it’s more.

I know it’s being selfish, and I see that as good enough a reason not to have another as I am selfish.

The mrs is 41 I”m 36, clocks are ticking. I feel bad saying no sometimes, but I am the one who works, she will never make anywhere near what I can. and I know how little time I spend at home already.

Eating your dead pets

Do blind dogs chase white sticks?

I smell onions for a living

At the Free Trade in Newcastle.

Don’t go to Oz if you hate insects or heat.

Or Australians

The switching off is the hardest part for me. Running a boarding school, and living on site, I very rarely get the option to just switch off. Longer holidays are about it.

Interesting – slightly different versions – Guardian is more likely to be accurate than the local news.

Released on bail more often than not means he vanishes, or joins a temple.

The road was straight in the last incident two years ago, when the driver dropped his hat and ran them over. That was worth all of 20GBP as a fine.

Thanks for the link.

I have a note2, i presume it gets the elevations from Google maps or somewhere else.

Where we are just now is touristy in the mountains for locals, it’s a top holiday spot for Bangkokians wanting a weekend away. Temperature is generally cooler and air is clean. Cool season it is a bit manic around here.

Pecking order on the road is – tour buses, local buses, cars/trucks, motorcyles, bicycles and pedestrians.

Somewhere mixed in there are overloaded trucks which sit around tour buses, cement mixers, and other lorries in that area.

Shits me up when go around corners, and I hear a truck behind, then realise that it is cutting the corner, pulling along an 8 wheeled trailer, pushing me right over to the edge.

Fantastic video

https://www.zombiesrungame.com/

Read about this yesterday, would make for a some good exercise.

There used to be a trafficmaster fitted to my dad’s carlton.

Push the button and it would say – Trafficmaster – Traffic moving freely.

That is all it ever said, ever.

Not much help, but I know the company let the license lapse on it as it was not much use.

At the start work life will be awful, and to be blunt, if it isn’t you are probably doing a shit job, I know I was after I completed a PGCE five years into teaching in the private sector.

As time progress’s it will get better, but then your risk stagnating, and getting into a rut, which is fine for some, but soul destroying for others.

So you look for further challenges, or responsibilities, which mount up and then your work life balance is out the window again.

This is my 12th year in education now, I’m in the administration side of things fully these days, in the international sector and my work-life balance is better this year than the last two years and certainly better than the early days.

To put things in perspective: When I started out in the private schools, I worked 7am-7pm 5-6 days a week. My only worry was teaching. Holidays were spent thinking about work, or working, long holidays were spent tiding up the year, and preparing for the next.

Two years ago, I was teaching a 100% timetable in a start-up school, while working as the head of secondary, preparing for accreditation and getting the school off the ground, whilst going through an economic downturn. My days were 6am-12am generally a Sat morning off to go shopping with the family. It was relentless, but needed doing.

The PGCE/PGDE time will be tough, when I completed mine, I set aside a year, and mentally wrote it off. There was very little down time but there was always an end in sight.

I was lazy after completing it, and was a shit teacher until I got my head together and sorted my act out. One of those was to get out of the UK again, and overseas so at least if I was going to deal with bureaucracy and bullshit, I was better paid for it.

Its a good profession to be in, there are great opportunities if you want to take them and nothing quite beats that feeling of when the kids really get something and you can see it.

I will email runkeeper and ask what is going on

Thanks folks, that has been on my mind for weeks now, I am sure that if I was climbing 1200m I would have legs like Lance Armstrong (am I allowed to say that these days?)

I converted metric to imperial.

Not UK based just now.

Runkeeper says total climb 1293m 35.1km

None is flat at all on the ride.

Avg speed 25-28km/h

It is listing -m and+m so must be overall.

Forgot to add

Runkeeper gives me 22miles 4000feet
Strave 22 miles – 777feet

Is either of these known to be inaccurate on eleveations?

120 quid Orient bargain

I have avoided opening this thread, as it cuts close too the bone for me.

I have a lot of respect for someone who can just sayoutright that he feels there is something wrong and do something about it.

I’ve switched between being down in the dumps to utterly depressed, anxious to outright paranoia for years. It comes and goes, triggered by various things, most of the time I can recognise it and look for ways to keep it at least under control so others cannot see it.

At other times, it creeps out, and I can see people recognising a change and not knowing how to deal with me.

Never told anybody that, let alone a group of beardy weirdos on the net.

Most that ‘know’ me, know me as a grumpy **** who avoids people as much as possible, the ones closer are aware that I lock myself away from people quite regularly.

I have always wondered if going down the medication route is the way to go, never brave enough to do it.

I fight back tears at times, over the weirdest random things, at other times, memories make me want to sit and cry. Part of my job is having to speak to groups of people, and there are times where I just have to cut things short as I can feel myself starting to lose it.

It is a strange old thing, and one that one day I will do something about, hopefully before it makes me. I haven’t lived anywhere in the last 15 years that has had a positive image of mental health, which is part of the problem, or an excuse.

OP well done on doing something about it. I wish I had the confidence to do that. PS your a twunt, as this has made me sit and fight back the tears again.

Always used to be older ravers as well at all the drum n bass nights I went to as a 20 year old.

A ten year break and the last time we went back, they were still there, raving away.

There is an old fella that I see most times I am out for a ride.

He is on a Tesco special, has possibly 18 gears, of which I suspect one works.

I see him going up the first hill outside the house – a 400m long climb, I see him coming down it, I see him at the national park entrance, 19 km up the road, I see him heading back from the park entrance.

I know the bike is his main mode of transport, he is late 60s, skin like leather, always in long sleeves, even in the heat and humidity. He is never breaking a sweat, never going very fast anywhere,

I know he covers 10x the km I do every week just getting around.

Orient Watches – bargain and well made.

Sacriston, Mr Nice?

Some nobber was trying to sell them at tesco tonight, riding it around the carpark then into tesco.

It will be a road kill massacre if they catch on here.

Freddy GOt Fingered – funny yet utterly terrible.

I’m lost.

Who was the person in the photo? I am presuming not either of your daughters although I can’t quite tell from OP. Now if this was STW Australia edition, I would say his name was Mr. Colt.

Niche?

Reliable, and can do a high mileage, 4wd, and a bit different.

^

That I understand

Tripster ATR?

Stuck in my head, currently working out how to import it without being bummed by customs out here.

I really want it though, cannot justify it, I could sell me current bike to fund it once I have one.

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I’ve spent three weeks reading up on cat2-3 car seats as I am unhappy with my current one – I learnt lots, that ISOFIX/Latch is only usuable up to 20kgs, that chest straps are mainly up to 18kg.

Britax and Diono do seats which will have the five point harness, secured with seat belts, and latch up to 50kg in booster mode, and 30kg in seat mode.

I never knew any of that, and my research and difficulty in buying things has allowed me to track down a Pinnacle 90 for sale in Bangkok, without having to import it, and for pretty much what the import would have cost me anyway.

Just got to order it now…………

Newcastle is full of dodgy pubs – The Burglars Dog is worth a read if you like pubs there.

Oddly places such as The Ship in Byker are now student hangouts, Ship had its own personal CCTV camera pointing at it in the late 90s/00s

The Scrog in Pottery Bank – my mate lived next to it and would never go in with me, even though he fit right in. I seem to recall the turnover of landlords being quite high due to persistent dope growing in the upper part of the pub.

Star inn at bottom of Westgate road – get shot in there, even though it only ever happened once.

Never had any bother in any of the rougher pubs, the popular shit ones though, regularly would have ‘have a go twunts’ being a bit of a hard man with me.

whats the definition of shop soiled?

Sat on by less than 100 sweaty arses, and a fecal count on the grips of less than 1000cm2.

Cheers some of the photos are down in the threads though, or most of them

I can see Arnie ok though.

Not sure what tobacco smoked meat would taste like though

Will you not end up going in circles?