dave85

Small jobs like picking rubbish in recycling sites, cleaning trains etc. You would not believe how difficult it is to get English blokes doing that work. At our place, the Poles will do damn near anything, not necessarily well or efficiently, but a lot better than the english lads. Any professional person has by definition worked hard to get where they are, whatever nationality. If they are better at the job than the other candidates, they deserve to get it. If they have learnt a job, got good at it, travelled a few thousand miles and THEN taken the trouble to learn another language, they're doing pretty f**king well in my eyes. Granted a lot of them send their money home which isnt helping our economy. Boston is an exception, you havent had fifty years in which to get used to economic migration like most of the rest of the country. I suggest you start leaning portugese, or train a few of your mates to single turnips and pull carrots and take the jobs back.

Usual thing, right wing semi-tabloid picks the one questionable thing in a huge document and proceeds to shout very loudly about it. Its not a threat to our way of life, just trying to teach kids to get along better.

I've got two watches, a knock-off copy of a chanel J12 chronograph, given to me for helping to rescue my mate and his motor from a field late one night. Its quartz, its tacky, it tells the time after a fashion and the strap is horrible, but for some reason people like it, even when I tell them its only a copy. The other is a Smiths pocket watch with an unjewelled movement and flourescent hands, a proper cold war special. Its a bit sensitive to heat variations, there's no compensation within the movement so you have to keep it in the same pocket or you start losing time Both serve a purpose: the channel is more flash than timekeeper, whereas the smiths is a bit of a companion, a constant heartbeat to check yours by.

Just imagine the compensation claim for wrongful execution!

All he's doing is using the bb as a guide to make sure the cup goes in dead square to the thread. It's surprising just how well this works on even really mangled threads. Provided you back off the other side cup before it gets too tight, it wont do any damage to the frame.

No but you manage to be a miserable drama queen about every single facet of your life. Just because that motor isnt to your tastes, you have to be snide about it. Now shut up, go and do some work and earn some money, cos that's exactly what the bloke with the saxo has done, and he has what he wants.

He's a f**king wrecker, it's that simple

Nowt to be ashamed of. Its a skill that everyone picks up differently. Also, every examiner is human and if he has had a rough day and decides he doesnt like your haircut then you wouldnt get a pass even if you paid him. I had the same examiner both times on my artic test. I had made a total hash of getting round the yard on the first attempt, but he liked the way i drove so made sure that he would be my examiner the second time, i gave a good account of myself and passed. I'm sure that having the right approach and attitude to the test got me my licence. Don't let anyone, particularly cocky sixth formers, drag you into a discussion of how many minors they got on their test. It means nothing at all. What means more is when you can take your granny to the shops and she passes no comment whatsoever on your driving, then you know you've got it cracked.

All the best people pass third time, then second and then second Altho it is much more a matter of attitude, the biggest wanker in the world could pass first and be a total fanny on the road.

Bit tatty, bit noisy, dipsomanic thirst, bloody great machine though.

It's not just the bearing cap moving around on the steerer is it? I got thoroughly fed up of the way mine moved with that stupid o-ring, so I bored it out and fitted a tapered ring like most headsets have.

Yeah it'd work, not very well though. It'd be heavier, more flimsy and more to hit.

Somebody has to be, the place might be falling apart but its a damn sight better than the other 3/4 of the world.

In England it's missing a word, in America it isnt.

Why not just agree you'll buy something that they want? Doesnt matter how much or how little it is, from a week's wages down to a few pence. This only works if you have the money in your pocket though, skint people try to do it and get in hefty debt unfortunately.

Few scots like that So many infact that there's a word for miserable scotsmen.

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You can pull them apart, but the springs are so soft that usually they get knacked putting them back in. Like Paul said, WD 40 sprayed in will do a lot, better if you can put it in a mug of diesel or paraffin and give it a good swirl around, take it out and spin it, then back in the diesel, keep going till it sounds good

Not quite so ridiculous when a) you've got nowt to compare it with, and as The Darkness eloquently pointed out, love is only a feeling.

I know its in your nature to be miserable and dismissive, but don't you ever idly wonder about silly things like that?

Through the cider visor, that looked a lot like my ex . Has she ditched the earrings yet?

That's a moronic thing to say. If you want to drive fast, piss off to a track where you can't pose a risk to my family and friends.

Having a missing finger is a bad kind of a joke