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    Trading standards made Hedgehog flavoured crisps change their name

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    If you are there on a Sunday go fo r a Sunday Brunch.

    Check on the best brunches there. I think it is the marriot but there are others that are booked up quickly. Amazing experience of gorging on food and booze.

    The ferry is cheap, worth a ride. Hihg tea at the ritz was a good laugh on kowloon and had a great view.

    Dinsey was ok, the other park would have been excellent if I enjoyed rides.

    Walking around CBD nice, I found HK island easy to navigate, and a pleasant place to be.

    Market are so so, if you have been to an Asian market before you will be underwhelmed, if you have never been to one you will love it.

    Botanical gardens were decent, never got on the vernicular railway,, but everybody said it was good.

    It is spendy though, with the the three of us staying there inc our flights for 4 nights 5 days, on a cheap flight from Mongolia, our daily cost was about 600 per day. We could have eaten cheaper, but we chose to enjoy ourselves, considering we were heading back to the cold and pollution.

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    I used to fancy myself as a hifi geek – a poor one though.

    I read and researched systems, annoyed shop assistants, in the end I managed to get a setup that I liked, had it for 15 years now, although only started using it again the last 8 after putting it in storage.

    An Exposure XX amp and B&W 602 speakers.

    Exposure XX was a grand in 1990 when it was first made, I paid 400 quid for it, and still today it is sought after and costs 400quid.

    I can’t tell the difference between a 1000 quid amp and a 10,000 quid one though. Mainly due to the night clubs that ruined my hearing – it is always cool until you get tinnitus permanently

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    Would it not just be cheaper, more enjoyable and longer lasting to just neck an E and listen to the music. It will sound fantastic, and even if it doesn’t it will sound fantastic.

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    I am lucky to have a 3.8 year old that we never discouraged from being loud.

    While watching Big Hero 6 – louder than the movie – Mummy robot friend has a fat tummy like you.

    I have a subcutaceous cycst on my head, too lazy to get it removed, anyway – I was dozing, when I got a tap on my shoulder – Daddy I’ve drawn a picture of you – I expected to see a bit of paper – but was made to turn around to see on the wall a very good drawing of me, and then “It’s got a bump like you”

    She once glued a bottle top with pva glue to her hair to have a bump like me too.

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    I often had my whisky glass n the side, but that was when Mrs Q forgot to take it out of m y hands after falling asleep with it.

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    I reckon it’d have been pretty likely you’d have ended up with that head injury anyway. I’d suggest always wearing a full facer from now on.

    I used to work in a town where an American guy used to wear a full face motorbike helmet everywhere when outside, walking.

    He was a lecturer at the local uni.

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    Could I use an induction hob to super charge a phone quicker?

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    Basis Peak – I plan to order one of these

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    Family fecal transplant is in order – Poo in this[/url] from what I understand you have to basically crap into one of these

    and then give it to someone to eat.

    I am presuming that they aren’t to scale those images.

    On a side note – I googled gel caps to find a stock photo and found this

    Wierd

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    you lot are weird, or the bit of my brain that should tune into this stuff is turned off, not sure if that’s good or bad :-s

    You remember that next time you turn around and there is a troll stood there watching you.

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    My site manager was talking to me about how slim I looked today 😳 😛 after the holidays, I mentioned making the most of the riding and told him that I had found out I don’t like riding through sugar cane fields to which he said:

    “you’ll get kidnapped, eaten by dogs or bitten by snakes don’t do it” saying that he doesn’t like me riding in the morning before it is light either as he worries about drunk drivers.

    I knew I was right to be scared.

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    It always concerned me that people could rack up real flight miles for their pilots license on MS Flight sim, or was that just an urban legend?

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    Cough now for 4 weeks, cold that wiped me out for two and made me miss my second race ever.

    Cough is irritating, and hasn’t let up, but is intermittent, then last night just before I went to sleep I remembered the precontract 3 months ago health check where the doctor said – looks like a nodule there in that chest xray come back in a few months and see if it has gone…….a great way to try and go to sleep on the night before returning to work after the holidays.

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    Couple of years back, while returning home to Wylam having been out riding around the local area, I was on my Spec Enduro, heading into Wylam on the main road.

    Ahead were a group of six roadies, fully clothed in a flock.

    I was on the home straight, so dropped into the power gears and powered on past them at full tilt towards the train line.

    As I approached the train line to pull off and go to the flat, I realised that tucked in behind me were all six roadies using my large wind defeating girth to save some energy – made me chuckle, as it did them.

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    Noise cancelling headphones may reduce the anxiety as well. the crying sound is fairly constant

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    Goto the Naadam festival in Mongolia. Then do some exploring

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    It’s just basic courtesy to do things like pat down the lip of a landing if you’ve come up short etc.

    When should one do this? Immediately after the event, later that day?

    If one is riding with friends does one wait for their friends to jump or fix it first so they have a perfect jump to use too?

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    The vacuum cleaner theory is that it sounds like the womb. Makes me wonder though if it is the sound of the mum cleaning they here or it just sounds like a Dyson in there.

    I could make a fortune if I could gt inside a womb for a day record the noises then make a small portable device that covers all the ranges of noises.

    The Wombinato.

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    I have spent too long today watching Monkey Dust on Youtube

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    Wear ear plugs – not a **** thing, but when you have a crying baby and your stress levels are rising quickly. you are getting snappy with each other stressing as to why the kids is crying.

    I found a pair of earplugs took the worst of the crying away, and made it bareable to walk around with our daughter for hours.

    Saying that – we drove the car once, pushed the pram a few times, and taht was about it, other wise she slept.

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    Iona is nice. I have family there still.

    Why not head up to Achmelvich (spelling incorrect) up on the north west of scotland – I remember nice beaches and roads up there, and that cool botanical gardens around there.

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    My first science technician in Mongolia name was Nemotod – with a specialism in cell biology and parasitology.

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    I entered the subway station in Seoul with a golf umbrella in my hand. By time I had travelled 100m to the train down some stairs, it had gone.

    Sadly I never found it again.

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    Two Monkey Dust in a day

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    A good time for some MOnkey Dust

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    A fatbike
    A carbon fatbike
    A titanium fatbike

    I want titanium wheels as well for some reason, but they don’t exist.

    A fancy watch – Oris preferably, too cheap to get mine fixed

    Note 4
    Fitness tracker

    Mercedes W126 Super turbodiesel conversion
    Mercedes W126 480 SEL
    Mercedes W126 2JRZ Twin turbo conversion

    Mercedes E500 1990’s

    Realistically – new laptop, this one has lines down the left hand side after falling asleep and dropping it.

    Still my scottish blood runs strong through my wallet, and none of the above will be purchased without months of pondering if it is viable, ever.

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    I used to like suse.

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    Thanks will check the mail.

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    Drunken memories of bleeding a hot combi system, and over undoing the bleed nipple and having hot jets of water shooting across the room, wallpaper and tv…..bleeding while drunk not recommended.

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    Pineapple ginger and sugar cane

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    According to some of the websites I read, that should mean the more efficient units pay for themselves within 3 years or so.

    All I need now is the proof.

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    Cheers.

    Difficulty I face here is the local suppliers want to fit the largest possible all the time, the concept of the correct sized unit mystifies them.

    A 2×2 cupboard you say. 48,000BTU is needed, a 3×4 office, 58,000BTU is needed.

    My site manager is a decent guy and has been listening to me when it has come to terminal AC unit failures and replacing them with something sensibly which has resulted in quotes for huge units of 800GBP ish dropping to 400 for a sensible option

    THat has made it viable to replace rather than repair in some instances as well. Previously because it was so high due to the most expensive unit being pushed, it was seen as more economical to repair.

    I came across some calculations on working out electrical units based on BTU and EER (some efficiency rating) and from some fag packet checks on our current units, were have an EER of around 5 where most modern units that we would fit start at least 12.

    The company that fitted the AC 20+ years ago, is still in business, which is saying something for Thailand, and may get another shot if they are sensible.

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    I have just googled her.

    Very strange, seems to be on a crusade to fight fat people. Is that more fashionable than attacking muslims

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11318743/How-to-ignore-Katie-Hopkins-forever.html

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    My Eastway CX 2.0 for 600GBP in sales.

    The Orient Mforce STi ltd edition watch for 150.

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    You have just reminded me of buying my dad a satnav there on behalf of my mum.

    On getting to the payment they insisted on taking my postcode for the warranty – i refused, saying I didn’t need to give it, I would contact Tomtom myself.

    The sales assistant insisted. I then asked him if what he was saying was that he couldn’t sell me something without my post code? Yes, that is the case.

    Fair enough, I’ll go then. He then said he would speak to his manager, manager insisted that I needed to give my postcode as well.

    I got some really cheap cable or connector and asked if they needed my postcode to buy this then, and then may have, whilst being a bit of a twunt, picked up a few dozen other things off the racks and moved them around asking the same question.

    Eventually got bored and left.

    Went to Tesco and bought the same satnav there, without giving my postcode, strangely enough, and I think I saved a fiver as well.

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    Bull guard – used it for years, it has worked for me, and I can get the liceneses from ebay for 3 years for around a tenner.

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    are bengals hard work?

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