Fish-Finger-er

either that, or nothing beats a bit of pipe lagging. looks ghetto, but its actually useful as a purch for a couple of minutes if needed.

I love Fish, cos hes from telford, yet at 15, still hasnt got a girl pregnant. which is kinda shockin, whats even more shockin is he has a sister from telford. and i dont think shes pregnant. 2 reasons for lovin joe right there that and the fact hes gunna be gettin me some new sticker for my bike (once i tell him he is anyway)

bounty the kitchen paper u idiot, its what they use for net curtains, Kids Today, Eh?

tis a heatsink booster.a big fat beasty booster for £28

that is sexual, just needs white rim tape, and white maggie, and itll be perfect.(sorry im a tart when it comes to colour coordination i know)

new licenses, as in since when? i work for BT, and know people who have only had full licenses since august, and are still 17, and are driving the company vehicles such as transits, vivaros, etc. not even saying your wrong, as youve obiviously heard it somewhere.and may be correct for now, or from a date soon. and partz, a commercial vehicle is still a commercial vehicle, no matter what its purpose(so remember the speed limits, 50 single carriageways, 60 duel carriageways and 70 on the motorway)

in a word yes. in 2 words, not really. 2 years ago, king hubs wer the shizzle. there was nothing even at the same price or higher that could touch them. but cos they wer brilliant, there was no need to improve them, as they already where the best, and had no competition.and they havent got any worse. thing is, a lot of the kings floating round now are a couple of years old, and slightly worn to say the least.which is where a few people are starting to think kings arent that good.and theres now cheaper alternatives, but chris king aint gunna lower there prices all of a sudden, just cos theres an alternative at half the price.and there hub sales are stil relatively unaffected in the other bike disciplines due to the hope pro II etc, theres plenty of people in xc, road, bmx etc, that wont ride anything other than kings, and thatll never change, even though when on an xc bike, i dont think id feel the difference at the pedals between a king, and a deore hub.

nah its 18 now im sure of it well obiviously needs taxing and a current MOT, personally if i were gunna do this, id try an borrow a van off someone,and be named drivers on it. as a lot of vans sold on places like ebay, for peanuts, will be super unreliable. other things wen travelling in france which youll need. spare bulbs, warning triangle etc . everyone who is in the van, who will get out if its broke down, will require a fluorescent jacket(so best to carry one each). headlamp deflectors etc. wouldnt advise doing it myself.as driving abroad isnt pleasant, let alone in a vehicle your not used too(specially a van), and may not be reliable. also you sure the insurance covers you for european driving, and that youve got european break down covers. cost of a van thatd be reliable, would be £1000ish at least.insurance -£300, all the other gubbins = £200ish. plus u got the hastle of findin a van in the first place, gettin it back to urs, sticking it in your name, its gunna be expensive for a couple of days. wud probly be cheaper to buy a big old reliable car(mondeo, 406 ,vulva etc) with a towbar on it, and buy/beg/borrow a trailer tent, comfier, more reliable.more secure as far as bikes are concerned, more room to sleep. probably cheaper on the insurance, definitely cheaper in the first place, and the risk isnt as big, ur van blows up, u lost £1000, a £350 car goes bang,which its less likely too, and ur £600 trailer tent comes to a stop, then it all gets recovered home, and u can sell the trailer tent for wat u payed near enough. EDIT : or why not just get a towbar on one of ur current cars, get a smallish homemade trailer for a couple of hundred quid, will be under the weight limit of what you can tow with your licence/car, put bikes/big tent in that, stuff in the boot, and wham bam, ur away, and a trailer always comes in handy.

ive looked for similar things many a time, but gave up looking in the end,so started to try and teach myself it. stuff like removing spots, warts, freckles etc, is normally done with the pippette colour dropper, and then a 1px brush, when zoomed right in, can always blur real small areas if they look out of place. as for makin faces thinner etc, easiest way i find is to use illustrator and the pen tool in that, on a new layer to create an outline of what you want the face to look like(using the original face on the bottom layer as reference. obiviously if ur correctin a nose,use a similar technique but on a nose, then save that layer as jpeg, open it back up on top of the original in ps, lower the opacity of it, and use it as a guide whil workin on the layer underneath, to cut back the edges of the face. youll obiviously have to do something with the background,i.e either extend it, or just place the face/body on a new background. then youll be left with a face with no imperfections, of the right shape, but the shading all round the edges of the face will be wrong,which is where its down to you, as different people use different techniques,and sometimes even on different photos, the technique changes, youve either got the choice of using the pippette tool (taking the colours from the original image) and a small brush, using the burn tool, or taking the colours using the pippette tool once more, using the lassoo tool to select the area, and using a gradient to create gradual shadow. hope this helps and btw, dave, youll never be beautiful, no matter how artificially enhanced you are(altho silicone double D's wouldnt go a miss)

erm, my nan got me a few corkers when she was alive,she was still under the impression that stuff like fruit was given at christmas. but she knew i didnt eat fruit, yet drank a lot of pop, so one year i was given a bottle of aldi diet coke wrapped up. another year, i also received an advent calender off her.

wasnt pete wright able to do it at one point, was on about doing his coust in a bathtub or something. but other than engineering places, some classic car restoration places or custom bike builders(motorbike) or commercial bodybuilders may be of use, chances are if they dont do it, or have a direct supplier who will do it, theyll know someone who will.

at the end of the day hes got a clean license, his vans still in one piece, hes at least a sensible nutter. seriously though its his choice, and no one has the right to give him crap for it, unless hes doing it stupidly in the middle of built up housing estates at 4pm on a saturday afternoon. one question ive always wanted to ask wayne though is, how do airevalley feel about it - you ever get bollocking's for driving a vinyled van at warp speed. understand there happy to receive the advertising on the side of the van, but at the end of the day, is your driving not possibly tarnishing there image,even though your driving in no way effects thequality of there workmanship, a local electrics company round here has had loadsa problems with people driving there vans like idiots, and the companies reputation getting tarnished. not even saying you drive like an idiot, but you must occasionally bend the rules on the speed limits. and occasionally people must see you doing it.

on the bulbs/fuses thing, then yea, its not totally essential, and i wouldnt say not being able to change one should render you carless. but as for tyres.i disagree, if you dont know how to/dont check your tyres, then i honestly dont think you should drive a car,unless you make a point of having someone else check your tyres every couple of weeks. . not on the fact you may get caught, but on the idea that your driving something, which weighs over 1000kg,is travelling at 70 mph, and has 4 bits of rubber connecting it to the floor on an area about the size of an a5 sheet of paper, if thats bald and the car in front slams on,someone walks out in front of you, it is a big deal, a lot bigger than £250 fine and 3 points. same can be said if its underinflated and blows out, or is down to the cords and blows out, even the best drivers would be hard pushed to react quick enough and in the correct way to keep a car in its current lane when travelling at 70mph. only reason im focusing on cars is because i work with them everyday, and can use real life examples, and its one of those things thats got the potential to effect others, if you dont know how to reset a trip switch in your house, then yea, its really simple to do, and a couple of minutes, and youd of been taught how to do it, but at the end of the day, u sit in the dark for 3-4 hours, doesnt really effect anyone else. but with a car,something goes wrong due to your lack of knowledge/checkin a simple thing, you could easily kill 5-10 people or be responsible for the deaths of several more.

yea i understand that, cant think when ive ever used sin cos and tan etc though since school. and sorry if it came across wrong, yes that stuff needs to be learnt, but the amount of time we spent in school going through it, an hour or 2 off that wouldnt have hurt, id still understand the lot of it, but might be able to wire a plug, or juggle with fire etc. (note i can wire a plug, was just an example, and juggling with fire, well cant see the appeal of it meself)

bongo, very similar situation except dont think ive been hurt, my longest serious relationship is 2 months, met a girl 6 weeks ago,right now, want nothing but her. she lives miles away, i could cheat on her and get away with it, but the fact of the matter is i dont want to, not cos i may get caught, because i generally dont want anyone other than her. as for gettin hurt, yea u may, and probly will, but at the end of the day, if u dont get hurt,you never experience the happy times before the hurt, which in my eyes is worth it. if i got cut off now,id be proper cut up, but id never think"hey maybe i shouldnt of bothered in the first place". jst go for it.

although i had to cut away 95% crap, youve got the idea, if it was all taught how to do basic stuff like this in schools, could see everyone being a lot more competent. and to the person that said we need to learn these things, as otherwise we may fail an exam, yes we may fail an exam, but can honestly say in the real world,there uses for this kinda stuff are very slim,unless your specializin in something which uses it, and im not sayin cut them out all together, i agree most aspects of maths are useful, but surely dropping an hour or 2 from a couple of subjects with largely irrelevant information every few weeks, and using them to boost practical life skills would be far more beneficial.

1)half the class dont listen anyway, and when it comes down to it, half the class dont listen anyway, cant see itd be taken any less seriously than a DT lesson, and if it was something that everyone learnt, as opposed to just being a lil project, im sure people would learn it, to save looking like idiots who know nothing 2)i learnt not to put my fingers in plug sockets at an early age,im guessin you did too, either that, or you got crazy hair. aint talking about teaching it to key stage 2 kids. surely at 13/14 your old enough to do that,let alone the school leaving age of 16. 3)yes they do, but how many people remember it/actually know how to do it on a car, rather than the car where there instructors pointed out what bottles what. 4) your just boasting how quick you are at maths now. and at the end of the day, not even saying it has to be taught in school, if say a 1/2/3 day course was made compulsory at 18 to learn stuff like this,along with other basic skills. would save a lot of time/moeny in the long run, and if it was say a 3 day course on basic stuff like this, as well as how to open a word document, save it, print it, change a lightbulb, some basic maths,how to lift stuff safely, and at the end a certificate was awarded, for general competence with life skills etc, would make everyone instantly safer,and more employable etc.

nah, dont mean being able to do anything, personally myself, theres very little id call someone out to do or pay someone to do out of my inability to do it(gas being the main big one), but id certainly pay people to stick in a new bathroom for me, purely cos i aint got the time. so theyd still be called on by me, whose got these skills. also i was on about wiring plugs,changing fuses, checking tyres,repairing bike punctures, i wasnt on about total house rewires, services/cambelts/brakepads etc on a car (let alone some of the more involved jobs). or indeed stuff such as fitting new forks to a bike. as if any of this stuff was to go wrong to any of us, very few people could fix it without it effecting them(i.e you go out for a ride, your forks snap, you dont carry spare forks, and the chances of u gettin some where your riding are slim, but punctures,chances are youve got the stuff, or in most cases can get patches etc from a shop in a 10 minute vacinity). not talking about people becoming jack of all trade mechanic,plastering,plumbing electricians who are corgi registered to fix their own gas boilers, but simple stuff such as i mentioned would surely make life easier and safer for everyone, and cant see it putting anyone out of a job.

something which si-man said earlier in NMC,and a topic by ilukeee linked me onto this topic. is it not slightly worrying how many people have no practical ability when it comes to the real world. most of this isnt relevant to any of us personally,as being trials riders, we learn to fix our own bikes, and therefore are semi practical,and can transfer these things over to other walks of life. heres one which i dont think well be able to appreciate, but youll understand. waynio said that some places in london charged £12-£20 for puncture repairs. now other than a lack of time/general not being bothered, cant see why people should need punctures repairing. most kids learn to ride a bike,a fair few go through cycling profficiency at school, but at no times are they really taught how to maintain bikes. its all well and good teaching them how to be able to go on bike rides with there friends safely, but if they cant repair a flat tyre when they get one. then they could be in trouble stuck 10 miles from anywhere.surely it should be taught how to repair a puncture, a 1 off, 1 hour lesson in schools would achieve this.or just a portion of cycling profficiency. go ask at school or college, how many people know how to wire a plug,or replace a fuse in a fused plug, or reset the RCD trip switches in there house. other than wiring the plug, which is semi useful, but not that essential, the other stuff is kind of a vital thing, which could be learned so quickly yet few people bother. onto motor vehicles, which in my eyes is one of the most serious, as there potentially weapons of medium scale distruction, a car going 60mph suddenly losing control, can quite easily end/ruin many lives. but how many people know/check theres cars tyre pressures, know the legal limit on tyres. had a 40 something woman in work the other day with her car, which shed had for 5000 miles, wanted us to give it a quick 5 minute check before she went on a 1000 mile 4 day trip, which is perfectly reasonable.while checking the levels under the bonnet, she asked me to show her how to top up the screen wash, and check the oil level. now in my eyes, if you cant check the oil on a car, you shouldnt be allowed to own/drive one. shed driven the car from new for 5000 miles, and hadnt even glanced at the stick once, and not knowing how to top up the screen wash, what happens when you run out when on a trip, dont think the AA cover that kind of thing. also i suspect theres a fair few others who dont know how to change a tyre, replace a bulb/fuse etc, which is still in my eyes essential, but a bit less important/stupid than the others. being someone whos relatively practical, and has been used to using power tools, working with engines,bikes, cars, etc from a young age, and just being practical enough to have a basic grasp of electrical items and the confidence to try and repair stuff myself, i have learnt all of the above, and a hell of a lot more. but is it not stupid that people dont know this stuff, yet spend about 45-50 hours of there life learning pythagoras theorem, and another 45-50 learning about triganometry?surely stuff such as i mentioned is slightly more important in the real world?? rant over. comments/feelings on this, and is anybody like this, or know anyone who is?

my myspace...

yea when you put it like that, seems kinda silly, though im sure the police cant legally make you hand over your id.can make you prove your 18, but giving over an id seems a bit beyond there powers.but at the end of the day, if you can find someone to lend you their license, then if the police do a spot check(never seen the police doing that round here.) then just say you aint got one, and you wernt id'd when you came in. boom.... let the bouncers take the fall.

as said before, fake ids wont work, unless your in a total dive, in wich case, swingin out a blockbuster card will normally do the trick. couple of ideas, take your driving licence, use it, its a well known fact 59% of bouncers cant add up, so look at your picture, take the piss a bit, and let you in, cos no one whose 17 would be stupid enough to try giving them an underage driving license. on the same note, anybody who looks remotely like you, borrow there driving license. just the same colour hair will usually suffice.the picture on your driving license is very small(postage stamp size), the picture on my license is 2.5 years old, and looks nothing like me.bouncers are aware your looks change in the years your gettin old enough to go clubbing, and often once your old enough to go out, your image changes.ive given a spare id of mine to a lad who looked nothing like me.and he queud up behind me to get in, i got id'd, he got id'd no more than a minute later by the same bouncer, he totally didnt clock it.the photos are small, hard to make out, often not that high quality cos there printed on plastic, and wil generally be viewed in low light, them questioning a change in your looks is slim, and if they do, dont argue that its you,just act calm, and make some smart ass comment. i.e "yea,ive improved with age, shame they cant say the same about bouncers" chances are theyll give you some lip, then let you in. so basically either borrow anyones driving license.(passport photos arent as good, there bigger) or just use your current id(again preferably driving license, as the dob is smaller, and the chances of them pickin it up are slimmer). if not, just get one of the fit birds from work to blag it that your 18 and have lost your id.

did you hear about the the dyslexic santa in suffolk.... he kept leaving prossies under the trees. Teacher :"now paddy give me 2 days of the week that start with the letter T" Paddy : "Today and tomorrow" Teacher"ok then paddy, give me 3 fruits that start with the letter T" Paddy :"tangerine......err tomato............................and a tin of peaches" steven john and henry where sitting in a bar,discussing how theyd achieved nothing in there lives.when john suggested they all tried to get in the guiness book of records. henry said hed go in for the worlds tallest man john thought hed go in for the worlds fattest man and steven, left with little choice, went in for the worlds ugliest man. they all spent a couple of weeks preparing, before starting there arduous trek to the guiness HQ, which involved the 49a bus, 8.15 arriva trains wales to paddington, and a taxi journey.but they made it. henry walks in first, about 15 minutes later he comes out"I made it, im the worlds tallest man, yipeee" then john walks in, this time it takes a bit longer, but he comes out "I made it, im the worlds fattest man, yipeee" then it comes to stevens turn, he walks in,and 2 minutes later he walks out, looking right down in the dumps, to which henry asks "whats the matter" steven just replies "who the f*&k is Joe Maher??"

shhhh nick, at least itll be 4 vaux's off the road, which can only improve road safety only kidding, lookin good bucky, any signs of some 4 pots up front or discs on the back so you can stop as quick as you can get there.

built my bt back up tonight, so i can have a play, before i get an ashton thoughts??