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Sav, how hard would it be to create that cardboard table as a kit? Say if you produced a run of 25, any idea what they'd be worth? Just strikes me that you've got a rather innovative and interesting product there, and it's the kinda thing that people might buy.

Yes please. More please.

I'm doing a placement year as part of my degree, which is teaching me rather a lot but it's very difficult to fit extra time in outside work. I have learnt a lot of new stuff on the job, like SVN, Watir, some basic jQuery, enhanced my Wordpress knowledge etc. Never looked at SASS/LESS because I use OO CSS anyway, which I believe kinda negates the need for them? Anyway back at uni for a year next year so I'll be pushing on learning new stuff more then, when I'm not working 9-6.

I'm talking front end dev/design. Look at any of the agencies round here I want to work for (Rckt, Hammer Design etc) and they all employ people without degrees. In the future it may prove useful, but I'm only talking of the 18-21 year olds I know. If I someone had a degree and 5 years experience as well I'm sure they'd be a better candidate. Sorry I wasn't clear, meant it in a "Where I could be right now if I hadn't gone to uni and had spent the last 5 years teaching myself" kind of way.

What is this new rule? No MOT's for pre-65 cars? Does it apply to bikes?

Went to uni, worst mistake I ever made. (Well, apart from going straight out to work after school that is). Now working in a job I'd be getting paid more to do if I'd never gone to uni and had taught myself, and I have to go back for my final year of uni in September. Not looking forward to it at all. Not saying uni is necessarily a bad choice, just avoid Sheffield Hallam at all costs and if you want to be anything in the Web Design/Development fields then you're better off teaching yourself. Everyone successful I know left school after GCSEs or A levels and taught themselves.

Not if I have anything to do with it you won't.

I went with the Gay Times newsletter.

Been so long since I picked up a bike I can't remember that excitement! Hope you enjoy it mate.

It was more along the lines of "I feel so lonely, I hate Sheffield, wish I'd gone to a real uni, just sitting here with a few bottles of cheap wine on my own. " in the angry thread, but yeh, all I heard was "Free wine". But, if you'd posted a topic about it, I'd have thought, "Wow a whole topic about being down? Bet he's gonna top himself, f**k being around that shit, free wine or no free wine."

I do agree with Tom though that Facebook is to blame for people posting more and more garbage. The happy thread for example 4 years ago held only things like, "Just passed my driving test, only 2 minors!" which lead to more people replying to say well done. Now those posts are getting lost amongst things like "Just settling down to a nice pizza with some beer and watching family guy, how lovely!", which nobody cares about. If a mate of mine passed his driving test, it makes me happy and makes me want to pat him on the bottom, whereas if he tells me he's enjoying his tea, I want to stab him in the face because I can't afford nice food. People have learnt that it's OK to sprout garbage no-one wants to read, somehow it needs managing. It makes sense to me that the level of shite needs to be controlled, but I'm not sure killing the happy/angry threads is the right way to do it though. They had a community feel to them, I'd say most people I know through trials I met because of those threads. I was in regular contact with Dan270707277007027024712570 for about a year before we actually met. I don't think we ever went on a ride together, but I have done unspeakable things to his old neighbours bedroom. If this was just a regular chit-chat area like every other forum, I doubt we'd have ever met, but the community feel that the TF chit-chat had because of those threads meant we did meet. In fact, I've never ridden with Dan, Revolver, JD, Kev, Shucksmith, Ogre and many more besides, yet I keep in touch with them all, and I'd put money on it being because of the last 6 years I've spent chatting shit to them in the happy/angry threads. Trying to chase new members by killing those threads and "livening up" chit-chat will not keep me here and in touch with those people.

Mate of mine has an R32, when he looked into it and found that depending on the cam you can get 270bhp just by changing the cams, then upto about 290bhp with a full exhaust and a remap. When I say looked into it, he went to a couple of dyno days to watch other peoples cars get dyno'd.... Yes, he's that boring.

Lol, guys who drink wine are fags.

Mmmmm precious...

There's a massively obvious way to sort every issue with TF at the moment if you ask me, it's a bit controversial though but I think things have been going downhill since the validation system was dropped. Could always just make a few more people seniors per decade instead, but I doubt that'll happen.

I could read all of the replies, but I can't really be arsed so I probably shouldn't offer my opinion. The "thread" threads make chit chat what it is. I don't want to can through 15+ titles of shit, I want to see updates to the climbing thread, the motorbike pics thread, the car pics thread, and that's about it. They create a sense of community within the trials community, which leads to other stuff that's happened in the past like the car meets or plans for motorbike meets. Now that's gone, I can't see me keeping in touch with the people on here I want to keep in touch with. Also, it's all very well saying "find a climbing forum then" for example, but I want this community, not a different one. I know lots of climbers, but I want to keep in touch with the climbers I used to ride trials with, and so on. EDIT: I realise the threads I mentioned are still there, I was just using examples.

Cheers man but the wrong bike for me and I want something requiring no work at all. I want my Dad's Bandit because he owned it from new and it's the exact one I'd buy. The K2 in red, unfaired with 14k on the clock, and it's been owned by a man who likes after his bikes better than I do. Once uni is done I'll be all over that shit. He dropped it once though but it's fine.

Lol, yeh that. Basically my Dad has a red 1200, and his mate had a go and was up for buying one, next time we saw him he had a 6. From then on we bullied him so much about where the other half of his bike had gone that he sold it and got an SV650. This was slightly more acceptable. I desperately want a decent bike at the moment but I'm lacking the £2k or so I need to buy one. My Dad offered me his 12 for that. If I had it, I'd bite his arm off for it.

Pity it's a half bike.

Well if you happen to be anywhere near Sheffield, (highly unlikely I know), I'd have a crack if you like.

That's shagged that. Could just be OS related though, you tried booting from an Ubuntu Live CD? If that works, might just be a case of reinstalling windows. If not, it could be memory related, but I dunno how to test it without just buying more RAM. Unless you have another laptop with the same type of RAM you can borrow?

Yes.

Well, should point out that I'm currently a fat f**k and have done nothing but help my girlfriend move in with me for the past month, so as a result now weigh over 190lbs. Need to sort myself out! Don't take diet advice from a fatty.

Best thing I ever found for flab burning was to go for a 15min run first thing in the morning before breakfast. Gets your metabolism going from first light so you're naturally burning more food, I think. Might have invented that but meh, I was hungry all day whilst on a bulk so I guess it was working.

Now I think about it, 123-reg has been getting some bad press on Twitter recently... Or, if you just want a basic web presence, steal a copy of Dreamweaver and get a site working for free? Most people haven't got the time to learn how to build websites or the money to pay someone like me, who has already learnt (the basics anyway).